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Juan Corominas, spokesman for the Spanish Left, threw the meeting into an uproar by charging that "Germany and Italy, by their intervention in Spain, are trying to grab advantageous positions for themselves." This drew howls from the Italians. The presiding officer banged with his gavel, reprimanded Corominas with the admonition that the Union takes no stand on political conflicts. The Spanish delegate hotly replied that he was not taking sides, he was simply stating facts...
...gone the "Queen Bee'' one better. According to the Air Corps, an old single-motored Fokker had taken off from Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio, with three men aboard, climbed to some 2,500 ft. where one of the men cut in the Sperry gyropilot and threw a mysterious switch. Then all three men leaned back with folded arms while the plane flew ten miles to Patterson Field and made a perfect landing, controlled not by a ground operator but solely by its own ability to follow a radio beam...
...Charles Dempsey climbed onto a train. Just before the train reached Summit. N. J., Mr. Dempsey anxiously confided to the conductor that he could not remember whether he had turned off the electric iron in his apartment. As the train slowed down to pass through Summit, the conductor threw off a note to the stationmaster. The stationmaster telegraphed to the Union City Police Department which broadcast to a radio car. The radio police entered Mr. Dempsey's apartment, found that he had indeed turned off the iron...
...Hollywood, Mrs. Ida Hoag ran a doll hospital, manufactured and repaired dolls, had a collection containing dolls more than 50 years old. While she was curling a doll's wig, it caught fire. Hastily she threw it aside. It landed in a pile of wigs waiting to be curled. They flared up. Mrs. Hoag started rescuing her dolls, screaming, "save my babies!" Hurried to a hospital where she was treated for severe burns. Mrs. Hoag returned to the wreckage of her building, grieved over the charred arms, legs, heads, torsos of dolls. Wailed she: "Oh, my poor, poor babies...
Still undaunted, Walker tried to go back to Nicaragua, was arrested as he landed. His last try was an expedition to the Bay Islands, off Honduras. Meeting bad luck from the start, cornered finally by a landing party from a British battleship, Walker threw away his chance to get back to the U. S. when he proclaimed himself the leading citizen of Nicaragua. Protesting to the "civilized world" on the injustice done him by the British, "the gray-eyed man of destiny" spent the six days before he faced a firing squad in meditation and prayer...