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From then on the trails of both parties converged and became bloody. A dead nightwatchman surrounded by cartridge shells bore evidence that the second band had passed through Chetopa, Kans. after leaving Pleasanton. When the Wood car was swapped for another next day at Siloam Springs, Ark., a gunfight with peace officers took place. One convict group marched into the Bank of Chelsea (Okla.), ran out with $2,500 in cash under a barrage from officers and townsfolk. One of the convicts, Lewis Bechtel, was captured while eating at a farm house near Dripping Springs, Okla. Another, Frank Sawyer...
Born. To Edna Bes,. 33, English actress (There's Always Juliet), and Herbert Marshall, 43, film actor: a daughter; in London. To her first husband, Seymour Beard, Edna Best bore twin sons...
Each plant was nearly two feet high and bore flowers almost two inches in diameter. Most of the 300 species of clover have triple leaves, like the shamrock. There are "lucky" four-leaf freaks, and rare five- and seven-leaf varieties. The Thompson specimens have seven leaves normally, which grow on long, eight-inch stems...
...Alameda from the Jockey Club to the Plaza de Armas. Chileans grew round-eyed as they passed, line after line, 10,000 strong, to the music of 24 bands. Most of the units wore blue overalls with overseas caps and belts, country regiments were in khaki or grey. None bore arms, but newspapers learned that the Fascist White Guard had collected $360,000 from its members and spent it on tanks, field guns, rifles, revolvers, trucks, planes and hospital supplies...
...side he took his master's degree at Oberlin. His call to Western Reserve as assistant professor of political science resulted largely from his reputation for using the library. That summer he married Eve Dall (no kin to the President's son-in-law), who bore him twin sons, now aged 8. At Western Reserve he is still well remembered as the professor who required his classes to read the New Republic when that polite journal of parlor liberalism was considered Red. In 1919-20 crime suddenly engulfed Cleveland. Professor Moley resigned from Western Reserve to take charge...