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Somebody aboard a speeding railway train near Dusseldorf fired random shots at pedestrians, hit none. Gerresheim police picked up a dead bicyclist, said he had been killed "apparently by shots fired aimlessly by passengers on a tram...
Ruthless Davila. Though genial by nature, President Davila realized that if he is not to fall a second time stern measures must be taken. When railway and other strikes broke out in sympathy with Col. Grove the new Davila Government sent soldiers to run some of the trains, suspended other service. Despatches smuggled past the censor purporting to tell of counterrevolutions in various parts of Chile were firmly, officially denied, and that was that...
Premier again last week. M. Venizelos was able to inform the Chamber that funds have been obtained at last to tide Greece over her immediate financial crisis. The money was found by transferring to a French syndicate the Greek State Railways, a delicate deal. Skimming over the details as only he can skim, Premier Venizelos spoke of "improved service" to be expected under the French management. Germany, who once dreamed of owning a Berlin-to-Bagdad railway, angrily accused France last week of scheming to buy control of railways dominating the Balkans, called the Greek deal a step toward realizing...
Colyumist Sidney Skolsky of the New York Daily News revealed that four streetcars in Scranton, Pa. are painted dark ivory with blue trim, bear the legend "Designed by Florenz Ziegfeld." Officials of the railway explained that the innovation grew out of a magazine article by Showman Ziegfeld criticizing the drabness of streetcars. Later, at a trolleyman's conference in Manhattan Showman Ziegfeld was invited to submit color schemes, of which the ivory & blue was accepted...
...England and Wales, where suicides' occupations are registered, analysis indicates that hotel and pub keepers are most susceptible to suicide. Next come chemists, druggists, lawyers, doctors, insurance solicitors, shopkeepers. Least susceptible are locomotive engineers, clergymen, railway guards, insurance office workers, printers, iron workers...