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...nucleus, Walter W. Waters resigned his command. Infected by the parliamentary goings-on at Chicago, the idle veterans decided to hold a convention, elect a commander-in-chief. While this agitation was in the air, Commander Waters staged a coup d'état. He and his erstwhile "staff" drove out to muddy Anacostia in the Waters "official car." Mounting a shack, he harangued his audience into re-electing him commander by acclaim. Then he returned to B. E. F. headquarters on 11th Street, Southeast, posted sentries as a precaution against a counter coup by his political enemies. That night...
Jurado, though, was by no means the only man to watch. Walter Hagen, who used to have the biggest galleries in golf, had the biggest gallery again for his second round last week. Too proud of his appearance to wear glasses (which he probably needs), Hagen putted badly, drove well, made a left-handed recovery shot with a right-handed niblick, stayed in the running with 148 for the first two rounds. So did his partner, Wiffy Cox, who, when he failed to hole easy putts, threw away his ball and then his putter. Swart, cocky little Gene Sarazen, back...
...leading with his right. Schmeling likes to let his opponents work hard in the early rounds, cut them down slowly when they are tired. In the eighth round against Sharkey, he began to increase his pace as his admirers expected. Blocking punches with his gloves and el bows, he drove Sharkey around the ring crowded him into the corners, smashed short punches to the side of his jaw. Shar key's left eye became swollen, discolored. Schmeling had a cut lip. In the ninth round then the tenth and the eleventh, it looked as though Sharkey were tiring...
...Agency, Mo. Jim Gidden, 88, pained by the second toe on his right foot, put his foot on a board, drove nails between the toes to hold them apart, poised a putty knife in the first joint of the pained toe, hit the knife with a hammer. After treatment by a doctor, Jim Gidden put the right second toe in a jar of salt water...
...Baltimore, Mrs. Annie Aubel, 55, drove a health officer from her door crying "God won't let you in!" Soon came police. While Son Paul Aubel, 30, gabbled "God knows all about this!", they pried, peered, hunted about the house. On a couch they found the body of crippled Son Grant Aubel, 26, and a diary explaining that he died April 4, would arise June 24. Mrs. Aubel and Son Paul said they had given the cripple no food since March 20, "because the Lord told us to starve him to drive out the devils." Gibbered Paul Aubel...