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Show . 'I'HE Race to the ~~ Result Tbe old story or the race to the crossing Is told agalo wltb graphic details In this photograph. (N. C.) meet car and a railroad trala catted It .a tie.; Forty-three persons were InJured. JOURNAL Thursday, April9, 1931 How Avalanche Swallowed French Town A Charlotte SCetles and Persons iit the Current News Sllently, but remorselessly, a mountain of mud swept down the mountainside In the Bauges district of France recer.tly, and destroyed two villages with Its tremendous, Irresistible force. The house In the foreground was carL'Ied away, with only the roof of the structure remaining. The onslaught of mud traveled at a rate of 200 feet ao hour and caused terrified vllla~:ers to flee from their homes. Where Death Took Great Football Coach 1-Aclmlral Plunkett, World war l~der, burled 'at Arllngton. 2-rtree men escaped wlth minor lnjnrles .,.._ .tldl blpltlpe crashed Into an artificial mountahl a~ " . scenic resort n'ear Portland, Ore- 8-Demetre Burllllaun, wbo baa jut been dismissed as governor of the Bank or- Rumania. Knotty Problem for the. Court A father who DDPIDI)' glaat, and lone as he remains judge. Tbe boy Is 8 pounds. asks the court to prevent his son frQm becoming an a r..tother who doesn't care how la~ge ~er son grows, so healthy and bright, leave the decision to a Los Angeles Edwa.;d Roome, fourteen, over six feet tall and weighs · CONFESSES MURDER Mlcht11!l .Burke, sixteen-year-old high Bchool boy of St. Joseph, Mo., Is charged with committing 100 burglarIes, and has admitted the killing of one mao. FAMOUS FINANCIER Elinor Smith's Plane 'After.. Crash Wreckage of the plane In which Knute Rockne and seven others lost their lives near Emporia, Kan. Inset, Knute Rockne- Ice forming on the wings is said to have been the cause of the accident. HE'S OLDEST MASON Holy Man Studies Whlle He Rests Josiah Stahl of Van Buren, Ark .• can boast of being the oldest living Mason In the world. Mr. Stahl Is ninety-nine years old, and joined the fraternity when twenty-one. WEARS IRON MASK Mahatma Unndhl, Nationalist leader of India, studying while be reclines OIJ his bed In the home of Doctor Ansari In old Deihl. The Nationalist leader 'fo'as a guest of the latter during the Interviews between the viceroy and Gandhi. Getting Used to the Gas Masks lllbntasve. tror.lilan, governor of the Si-nk of England, who Is vlaltlna lv &ie tJnlted States. Moraaa, tbe Ploa .... 'l'he Natiupal Electric light t.eM· clatlun aa.vs that the first private I'& dence lighted by electricity was that of J. Plerpflnt Moi'J{8n. a director of the Edison Electric Ulumlnatln& com e» tt7 . riL or Frank Hogan, one of the tru8tles who will wear the Iron miUlk behind home plate tor the New York Olanta thfa season. - Be Ia one of the reguars and has been putting In some stltr iprlna training. Old A-ric- Fallllil~ Tbe ltoosevelt tamtty In Amerl<'8 races Ita dest'ent to <'laes Marteoozen '/au Roeenvelt. who eame from Hoi •aDd to ew Am•erilam 1D 1849. To belp soldiers at Fort Wayne, Alich.. het.'CIIIIe lll"Cuatomed to weBrlq gas masks, omcera bave Inaugurated a nnvt-1 tmlnlna pnlleJ. Tbe meo are required to wear tbe masks whiiP playlna vurh•UR ammes so that they Jllll7 be familiar with the limitations caused by thP wurtlmc.o safeguard& Tbe pbotopapb 1lh an Incident durlDa a K&n•e ..r tmRPhaiL |