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...sudden West Indian hurricane and tidal wave smote the south shore of Santo Domingo, drove the U. S. S. Memphis, 14,500-ton cruiser anchored in the harbor, up on the rocks where she remains to this day. Live steam from broken pipes made below-decks an inferno. Last week at the White House President Hoover conferred the Navy's Medal of Honor upon Commander Claud Ashton Jones, the Memphis' senior engineer, for his heroism 16 years ago in evacuating the injured from her engine room...
...back in price in the meantime. They recall the famed boom of 1927 when prices zoomed from 12½¢ a pound to 24¢, most of the rise occurring in August and September. In 1921 an unexpectedly short crop of less than 9,000,000 bales combined with a sudden demand from textile mills (which were leading the way out of the post-War slump) shot cotton up 10¢ a pound in six weeks...
...play in the sectional qualifying round for one of the 14 places in the New York District. His putting was wobbly, his irons erratic. His 152, eight over par for two rounds, left him tied with six other professionals for the last two places in the 14. In a "sudden death" playoff, John Golden and two Turnesa brothers won the last three places with birdie threes on the first hole. Sarazen's birdie three on the third hole came too late to put him in the list of qualifiers unless one of them, possibly Charley Lacey, his assistant...
What saved the Atlantic City meeting from being altogether colorless and routine was a sudden A. F. of L. interest in unionized racketeering. Before the council, by Investigator Edward F. McGrady, was laid the specific case of President Sam Kaplan of Motion Picture Machine Operators Union Local 306, New York City. The council referred the Kaplan matter to President William C. Elliott of the International Association of Theatrical Stage Employes who promised "special attention immediately." Then easy-going William Green, A. F. of L. president, came out with a public statement which, for him, sounded like a trumpet blast...
...said at first that Thomas Bat'a's private plane had collided with a chimney of his plant, but when the mist cleared the chimney was seen to be unscarred. Some other cause produced the crash, the muffled explosion, the sudden burst of flame amid which died both Thomas Bat'a and an ace pilot who had flown him successfully around the whole of India...