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...Naval Academy, was transferred to the Pacific Fleet at Manila. He drove across the U. S. to Seattle. There he put an advertisement in the newspapers to sell his car. An unsmiling 63-year-old woman named Mary Eleanor Smith and her crippled son, Earl, answered the advertisement. James Bassett drove out to their house. Mrs. Smith engaged him in conversation while Earl hobbled up behind and hit him over the head with a hammer. Then they cut him into pieces, burned part, buried part, and scattered his teeth up and down the road...
Thus, last week in the Washington State Penitentiary at Walla Walla, Mary Eleanor Smith told the story. The murder of James Bassett was the most celebrated West Coast crime of the 1920's. Mrs. Smith and her son Earl were picked up in Oakland, Calif, in Bassett's car. The fragmentary corpse was never found though much excavation was done about Mrs. Smith's premises. The trial of Mrs. Smith was the first in the U. S. in which the prosecution used the lie-detector and "truth serum." Mrs. Smith and Earl, who were rather simple people...
Married. Anne Ferelith Bowes-Lyon, 20, niece of England's Queen Elizabeth; and Viscount Anson, 25, son & heir of the Earl of Lichfield; in London, by the Archbishop of Canterbury. On hand were Queen Elizabeth, Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret Rose...
JOURNEY TO MANAOS-Earl P. Hanson -Reynal & Hitchcock...
...into Congress to do so. This it does by adding to their local campaign chests, writing speeches for them, and helping to publicize their campaigns. The Committee, soon to be enlarged, currently has a staff of three secretaries, two statisticians and two newspapermen, operating under Executive Secretary Earl Venable. Running it calls for craftiness, energy and a head for vote-getting detail, three qualities for which Joseph William Martin Jr., however little his name has appeared in the headlines, is pre-eminent in his party. In 1936, the abysmal failure of Republican strategy was nowhere better demonstrated than...