Word: crempa
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Dates: during 1935-1935
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...high-tension line through a colony of Poles at Scotch Plains. Some Poles squeezed fancy prices from P. S. C. for their land or permission to string wires across it. But one of them, a small truck gardener and U. S. Army veteran named John Crempa, was against the wires at any price. One crisp morning last week some 2,000 of his neighbors and their fellow Poles from nearby cities swarmed to John Crempa's house for the funeral of his wife, Sophie, who had been shot by a deputy sheriff (TIME, Oct. 7). For a mile...
...last week the alert New York Evening Journal beat its rivals to the street by more than one hour with pictures of Sophie Crempa's funeral (see p. 16). Because an hour is more than 60 minutes-as time is reckoned by afternoon newspapers, the Journal's scoop was noteworthy. Its secret was to be found on the roof of the huge East River plant which houses both of William Randolph Hearst's New York newspapers...
...cooing Hearstlings. The birds can fly 50 m.p.h. with a 2-oz. payload, are used within a 50-mi. radius. Film negatives and copy written on onionskin paper are placed in aluminum capsules, fastened to the birds' backs with elastic. The Journal used 20 pigeons on the Crempa story, finds them useful in covering ship-news, trials, sports, outlying murders. From ships at Quarantine, 14 miles away, the Journal gets pictures of incoming celebrities in twelve minutes. Rival papers must wait two hours until the ship docks...
...sheriff found himself unable to make the arrest. The entire Polish community of Scotch Plains joined the conspiracy to warn Crempa of the approach of the sheriff's officers. The sheriff disguised his men as a surveying party. The ruse worked but the neighbors, armed with brooms, rakes and stones, tore Crempa out of the hands of the deputy sheriffs. Crempa sat alertly at a second-floor window of his neat, brown-shingled house, watching the approaches and doing home piecework for another tailor. His son took a job in a riding academy. Crempa's plump, brisk Wife...
...addition to his contempt order he had two new warrants, one calling for the arrest of John Crempa for malicious mischief, another for Mrs. Crempa's arrest on charges of assaulting sheriff's officers (during the surveying party ruckus). It was easy to pick up John Crempa's son on a contempt charge last week at the riding academy. The next afternoon the sheriff sent eight deputies to seize the bodies of John and Sophie Crempa. As usual the Crempa grounds were deserted, the house looked vacant, the blinds were down. The posse's commander...