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...group of convicts armed with knives and bombs made from sections of pipe captured two guards, ordered them to command the others to throw down their guns. They refused. While other guards were telephoning frantically for police and militia the two captured guards stood beleaguered in the yard and infuriated convicts were threatening to strangle them. The mutiny seemed about to succeed...
...tightly closed. In every closed space hydrocyanic gas, instantly fatal to animal life, is released.** European sanitarians have been doing that. But their methods have not exterminated every rat aboard ship. In Manhattarn they learned the necessity of diligence in tracing rat droppings to rat nests between beams, in pipe coverings, under floors, over ceilings. Into every hole into which a rat may squeeze, deadly gas must be sprayed. After fumigation the ship must be aerated, dead rats searched out. Sometimes the search reveals a hapless stowaway...
...yourself. If you are rich but less exacting, you still may have an organ but only a part-time organist to play on it. If you are of a whimsical turn and have ever pumped an oldtime church organ, you probably belong to The Guild of Former Pipe Organ Pumpers (TIME, May 25). If you go to church you may know your parish organist. Many a person goes to cinemas partly to hear the tremolos and chime-effects of the neighborhood Wurlitzer. But most people belong to none of these classes, are vague about the position of organists...
...dissected under a chapter entitled "Boiled Bosoms" with the Gann-Longworth and McLean-de Ligne feuds recounted (TIME, Dec. 15 et ante, May 13, 1929). Tittle-tattle: Bachelor Senator Tydings of Maryland playing "footie" with sedate ladies; Mrs. Trubee Davison, wife of the Assistant Secretary of War, smoking a pipe; Daisy Harriman trimming Senator Walsh's walrus-like mustache...
...four days and four nights Prince & Princess Sukhodaya heard music, watched games. Pipe Major William Campbell, proud oldtime piper to Queen Victoria at Balmoral Castle, played them a tune, recalled how he had played for the Prince's father, King Chulalongkorn. Their Majesties took many a picture; their adopted son Prince Chirasakti had two still and two cinecameras slung over his shoulders. They bought small-sized kilts, bonnets and sporrans, thought they would wait until they returned to Bangkok before putting them on. They went to concerts of old Scottish music, heard two ballad-operas. Smoking was forbidden...