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Today Baron & Baroness Shidehara delight chiefly in their smart sons, Michitaro (29), Shigeo (26), and in their unassuming, rock-gardened week-end home at Kamakura on the eastern tip of crescent-shaped Sagami Bay. On the western tip, thrillingly visible to the loyal Shideharas. is the summer home of the sublime Emperor Hirohito, 125th descendant of the Sun Goddess...
...bowels of a coal mine. A miner, one Aukstock Cotter, had been caught by the arms in the collapse of a corridor's slate roof. With an automobile jack his comrades had pried one arm free, but to free the other would topple down a mass of rock, kill the trapped man. Dr. Davis lay down and inched his way alongside the sufferer and, like an automobile mechanic unjointing a brake rod, amputated the pinned...
Edward Laton Fuller, 27, was elected president of International Salt Co. of Scranton, succeeding his father, the late Mortimer Bartine Fuller. Milo M. Belding, former vice president, was made chairman. International is the world's largest salt producer, supplies about 25% of the U. S. consumption of rock and evaporated salt. During the first half of this year International earned (before Federal taxes) $399,000 against $322,000 in 1930's corresponding period...
Many a directorate met last week and the main talk of most was what to do about their quarterly dividend. Out of few meetings came any joyous tidings. Three big railroads passed their common dividends: Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific ; Maine Central; Lehigh Valley. Two other great systems. New York Central and New York, New Haven & Hartford, cut their quarterly payment from $1.50 to $1 (lowest New York Central rate since 1889). Southern Railroad directors, following earlier decision, discussed no common dividends, ordered none...
...Clarabut's death was reported in the newspaper Susan's faith was once more made firm. It was a shock when just before her wedding to Pell she discovered Clarabut was alive after all. But Susan decided not to let her Career founder on such a little rock, went ahead with...