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Chase Salmon Osborn used to be not Georgia's but Michigan's Governor, in 1911 and 1912. He rose to that office from the comparatively humble positions of postmaster at Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. (1889-93), then Michigan game & fish warden, then commissioner of railroads, then regent of the University of Michigan. What made Michiganders admire him much was his great feat as a mining engineer-the discovery of the Moose Mountain iron range in Canada. Brawny, brainy, he made a good public servant-Georgia's claim to Chase Salmon Osborn is that he usually winters near...
Last week it was announced that the vestry would seek the aid of the diocese, go into the civil courts, if necessary, in the effort to have its wish respected. Concurrently Arthur W. Sullivan, senior warden of the church, general manager of the sales department of the Tidewater Oil Co., explained why the Rev. Black was so thoroughly undesired...
...having. The convicts returned the fire with their one gun, injuring only one attacker. Seeing that they needed heavier weapons to batter in the cellhouse doors, police and militia withdrew to await the arrival of tanks, airplanes, one-pounders. Snipers watched the cellhouse windows the rest of the afternoon. Warden Smith, who safely left and returned to his office after dark, warned the prisoners that he could flood the cellhouse and drown them all. He offered to let them march out in peaceable surrender. They refused...
...dawn, Warden Smith's telephone rang. "The men want to come out," said a voice, "especially the men who are not in on this. If we surrender will you guarantee to punish only the leaders and that none of us will be beaten, abused or starved...
...Warden Smith promised...