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...murdered in front of an eastside Manhattan cafeteria. In his pocket was found a printed invocation: St. Joseph, Patron Of A Happy Death, Protect Me. ¶The body of John Franzione, who with four companions killed a detective last July and later squealed on them, was found on a Bronx refuse heap. ¶Two detectives followed two gunmen into a saloon on Lexington Avenue. The gunmen held the place up, shot it out with the detectives. Fatalities: Gunman Albert Checchia and Detective Christopher W. Shueing, whose father received the Congressional Medal of Honor for rescue work when the Steamer General...
...Bronx, N. Y., Rose McMahon, 14, was given 25?, told that she might go to a cinema. Overjoyed, she danced about, shrilled "Whoopee!" Her somnolent father, Thomas McMahon, bade her be still. Again she crowed. Savage, wrathful, Thomas McMahon sprang up, tripped, fell headlong into a china closet, cut his throat, fractured his skull, died...
Biggest and busiest of U. S. District Attorneyships in the land is that of Manhattan & The Bronx (technically known as the Southern District of New York). This office, empty since Charles Henry Tuttle resigned in September to make his vain race as New York's Republican nominee for Governor, has caused President Hoover much political tribulation. His personal friends urged one candidate while professional Republican politicians urged another for the appointment. Last week the deadlock was broken when the Hoover candidate withdrew and the President, with the goodwill of all sides, appointed a third man as U. S. District...
...flinty length is skewered by two sets of tubes, its flat back mounted by three great overhead structures. The tubes all duck under the East River, bore deep into Brooklyn. One is run by Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Corp. The other, a two-pronged affair stretching to The Bronx, is controlled by Interborough Rapid Transit Co. which also operates the elevated lines. New York City owns the tunnels and tracks, rents them under long-term leases to the operating companies...
Officials of The Bronx Zoo, New York City, last week made their annual measurement of Khartoum, world's biggest captive elephant. They used a special elephant-gauge designed for surveying fractious elephants at a distance. Khartoum, although he ate 91,250 lb. of hay last year, had gained only one quarter-inch. This brings him to 10 ft. 84 in., one half-inch short of the world's elephant record for all time held by the late Jumbo, famed Victorian elephant...