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...traffic jams developed so the priests blessed every half-hour. After the last mass suppliants fol lowed the pastor, Rev. John Joseph Mahon, and another priest outdoors for the blessing of a special new shrine for motorists. The shrine is a chromium-plated Cadillac radiator frame set in a rock garden. A chromium-plated cross surmounts the radiator-cap and a St. Christo pher medal supplants the Cadillac insignia. A bulletin board replaces the radiator grid...
...Oklahoma. As a delegate to the constitutional convention, as a governor of the State and as one of its delegates to four national conventions, as the publisher of a great newspaper and as a city, community and State builder, Governor Haskell's name towers like a giant rock rises in gigantic majesty which carries a sense of security in matters clear to the heart of every patriot...
...late city crowds. General Italo Balbo, who had been caught in a traffic jam while trying to reach the field, waved from his car as they shot by. At the Hotel Roosevelt a physician found Post's condition good, noted that his hand was steady as a rock...
Died. John Markle, 74, retired coal tycoon, Manhattan charitarian; of heart disease; in Manhattan. Starting with Pennsylvania anthracite properties inherited from his father, he bought up adjacent flooded mines, built the huge Jeddo Tunnel through three miles of rock to drain them. During the 1902 strike he fiercely called on President Roosevelt for Federal troops to subdue the United Mine Workers under John Mitchell. Disgruntled by the settlement of the strike, he gave up active supervision of his properties, moved to Manhattan. In 1907 he went totally blind, later recovered the use of his left eye. Good friend...
...Match Co. (later merged with Diamond Match), became president of Manhattan's Bowling Green Trust Co. (later merged with Equitable Trust) and stuck for years to his own railroad interests. He became president and chairman of the St. Louis Southwestern. When he sold it in 1925 to the Rock Island (which was later forced by the I. C. C. to turn it over to the Kansas City Southern) the last Gould railroad disappeared from the map. Meantime he had led a quiet, model life -played polo in his youth, joined Troop A of New York's socialite 71st...