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...Refining, Electric Bond & Share. Last month socialite Senora Mariana de la Torre Mendoza became the first woman ever arraigned before a Cuban court martial. She, her son Dr. Igacio Mendoza and a nephew, were charged with conspiracy to assassinate on June 10, by means of a 6-lb. dynamite bomb, General Gerardo Machado y Morales, President of Cuba...
According to Havana police, the 6 Ib. of dynamite were placed at a street-corner which the President was scheduled to pass in his automobile. An electric cable ran from the bomb to a magneto detonator some distance away. A gardener noticed the wire, called police. They hid near the detonator. A swank motor car drove up. Out stepped Dr. Igacio Mendoza and two other young men-about-town, one his cousin. All were arrested. Just then the President's car appeared. Recognizing the young men. General Machado alighted smiling, insisted on shaking hands with them all, exclaiming...
Five stories below Wall Street are the vaults of the U. S. Assay Office. How they protect the gold stored within them is a closely guarded secret. Since the bomb explosion of 1920, which occurred while the building was being erected, the Assay Office has allowed no visitors within its portals, no customers behind its desks...
Long before the spider has been assassinated with a gas bomb the mystery of The Web has been punctured by several large, jagged holes and the cast, following pointed suggestions from the audience, has decided to make the rest as funny as possible. As Playwright Herendeen probably told himself when he wrote it, there is no reason why The Web should not do well as a cinema...
After that the Army and carabineers joined in arresting Col. Grove and 500 Communist demonstrators on whom they pounced in the streets of Santiago. But what about the Air Force? When a bomb ing plane bore down on the Presidential Palace, General Moreno and his officers looked anxious. Suddenly the plane zoomed in salute. "Hurrah!" exulted brave Col. Bravo. "Take your partners ? the dance begins...