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From Pernambuco, Brazil, last week came word that Virgilino Ferreira da Silva. 34, "the John Dillinger of Brazil,'' had been shot in a brawl and died of his wounds. Better known as Lampedo (the lamp post), Brazil's John Dillinger has shot his way through back-country towns and ranches for 15 years. Two hundred Federal troops with machine guns and airplane scouts were unable to catch Lampeao, who delighted the country folk from time to time by free distribution of all the beer in town and by pulling out sheriffs' beards, hair by hair...
...Brazil's Dillinger was somewhat more striking in appearance than his U. S. prototype. He wrore a bright red sombrero, glittering horn-rimmed spectacles and a gold & silver studded cartridge belt that held four rows of cartridges and was too wide for him ever to bend at the waist...
...Shields & Co., won low gross with a 73. Only tip-top Manhattan bondmen enjoy the Sleepy Hollow jamboree but the. Bond Club's annual publication - the " Bawl Street Journal-is sold in every important financial city in the land and is even ordered from Europe, China, Brazil. Written largely by bankers, brokers and their employes and printed on the presses of its famed prototype, the Wall Street Journal, the Bawl Street Journal is regarded as the most expert parody in the publishing field. Founder Robert A. Bould began having fun with the sedate Wall Street Journal and its advertisers...
Maxine de Shone, tall statuesque burlesque queen now appearing in "Hazel Nuts from Brazil" at the Park, smiled upon the reporter, and he wilted. Pirouetting upon her heel, the girl with the golden voice winked at her boy friend, and announced herself ready to tell all about her private life...
...long (since 1931) and so uneventfully has the Graf Zeppelin flown its schedule between Germany and Brazil that it is no longer news. Front-page news will be the launching this year of the LZ-129, world's largest dirigible (6,720,000 cu. ft.), now nearly complete at Friedrichshafen, Germany. Awaiting only the installation of its four big diesel engines and the equipping of navigating rooms and living quarters, LZ-129 will carry on where the Graf leaves off, warming the heart of futuristic President Vargas...