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...Last week Prince Nicholas and his lady, whose name is Mme Jana Lucia Deletz, climbed into the Prince's car again and eloped. Hours later a telephone call came through to a lady-in-waiting at the royal palace from the little village of Tohan near Buzeu, 125 mi. away...
...First white correspondent to reach General Ma was small, dark, alert Fred Kuh (pronounced "coo") who had dashed 6,000 mi. overland from Berlin where he is Bureau manager for United Press. In crossing the entire breadth of Russia, passing the Soviet frontier, coming on to Tsitsihar, experienced Correspondent Kuh saw no evidence of Red Army troop movements or war preparation of any kind by the Soviet Union...
...Fanatic Mussulmen killed General Charles George ("Chinese") Gordon in 1885; the late great Lord Horatio Herbert Kitchener subdued them, captured the city of Omdurman. Young Dr. Giffen was there. After pacifying the country, the British temporarily barred missionaries. Dr. Giffen and his wife left Omdurman, found a tribe 400 mi. to the south called the Shullaks. ''They were all over six feet, and the only people I ever had to look up to, always. We had considerable difficulties with the language at first. . . . Tribal custom called for the removal of the four front teeth of all adults. Consequently...
...last week with Peggy Salaman, 19, attractive London debutante, and Pilot Gordon Store who set Miss Salaman's Puss Moth monoplane Good Hope down upon the new Municipal Airdrome at Cape Town, South Africa, five and one half days after leaving Lympne, Kent, England. The flight (7,000 mi.) beat by more than a day the record set last April by the late Lieut. Commander George Pearson Glen Kidston. Pilot Store found it necessary to refute assertions in the London press that Miss Salaman (whose baggage consisted of a revolver and an evening dress) was too inexperienced...
Railroad men realized that Mr. James's hammer blows brought an end to an epoch that was slow in closing?the Building Period. Next year when trains run over Great Northern-Western Pacific's new 200-mi. link, no other important construction will be underway. Some 249.000 mi. of track serve the LJ. S. well, perhaps too well. Future changes will be in the construction of systems rather than lines ?construction through financial liaisons; links completed with the signing of checks and the endorsement of stock certificates rather than the pounding of spikes...