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Lingle. Chief Freeman also testified in support of the belief that Lingle and Zuta were enemies. He said he had talked to Zuta last summer on the Criminal Courts building steps. As Zuta left him, Lingle approached and said, laughing: "See that guy? Hell get his. . . . That bird has double-crossed too many guys and he's going to get bumped...
...Vandalia, Ohio, three Ohio men and a Texas boy tied ahead of 962 other contestants, with 97 birds out of 100, for the country's most important trapshooting championship - the Grand American Handicap. The men, taut-faced, middleaged, were J. L. Scott and Dan Casey of Toledo and Lawrence Crampton of Dayton. The boy, least nervous of the four, was Alfred Rufus King Jr. of Wichita Falls, son of famed Marksman Rufus A. King, 1921 winner of the Governor's cup. Short and slender for his 14 years, he looked out of place beside his competitors as they...
...iron constitution, General Wu Ti-chen went to Mukden to give a few parties for Chang, to make a final attempt to win him permanently to the Nationalist government. Smart Son Chang enjoyed the parties. At Wu's expense they ate bushels of fresh red caviar, gallons of bird's nest soup, mountains of sharks' fins, plovers' eggs, washed down by more gallons of champagne. Platoons of sing-song girls were imported. Merchants ransacked their storehouses for jewels, brocades and rare jades, with General Wu always footing the bill...
Prompted perhaps by England's assuming part of the insurance risk on Cunard Line's fast new trans-Atlantic liner (TIME, Aug. 11), Louis Rollin, France's Minister of Mercantile Marine, took steps last week to make the French Rooster still more of a seagoing bird. When the Chambre des Députés opens in October he will present two bills calculated to encourage the construction of fast commercial vessels and relieve shipyard unemployment...
...successful of recent War plays, was revived last week in Manhattan with a cast recruited from U. S. and Canadian road companies. Critics found the show still convincing but missed the deft mumming, of the original troupe. Only actor who set out to create a character for himself: Richard Bird as Captain Stanhope...