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...Martial Type No. 2. Star defendant was tall, ash-blond Harold E. Dahl, 28, of Champaign, Ill., a mercenary who enlisted with the Leftists for a promised $1,500 a week, was shot down into a nest of Moorish troops while on a bombing raid three months ago. Because Flyer Dahl was the first U. S. aviator known to have been caught alive, because his blonde wife, Edith, crooner on the French Riviera, had sent a photograph of herself to El Caudillo so toothsome that staff officers had passed it about for several days before presenting it to their very...
...Espinosa acted as prosecutor. As judges, a Colonel Frederico Acosta and four captains sat behind their swords at a long table: Defendant Dahl wore a new suit for the occasion, brought to him by his attorney's Bolivian wife. Testimony of the defense centred on the fact that Flyer Dahl believed that he was to be merely an instructor, not an actual fighter, that of the prosecution that though he had gone once to France since joining the Leftists, he returned voluntarily to rejoin their army. For two days the trial continued, then came the verdict: death. Scarcely...
Hearing the news, Singer Edith Dahl wept for joy in Cannes, tried to decide which of two Hollywood contracts she should accept. At the last instant she turned down an offer of British Long-Distance Flyer James Mollison, who was sued for divorce last week by his equidistant flying wife Amy Johnson Mollison, to fly her to Salamanca, hurried to Paris to await her husband before returning with him to Hollywood...
...contract in his pocket guaranteeing to pay for property lost while searching the Arctic for Commander Sigismund Levanevsky and his five companions, missing since their last faint wireless message flashed out August 13 as they were descending with one dead motor somewhere near the 48th meridian. No charge did Flyer Mattern make for his personal services because the same commander and the same crew rescued him from the Siberian Arctic four years...
...little Victor plant in Chicago Heights after his father-in-law had acquired it in payment of a debt, incorporated it in 1902. Losing regularly at first, he persuaded Cornelius Vanderbilt, President John R. Hegemen of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. and Banker William A. Read to "take a flyer" with $150,000. They never had cause to regret the move-business picked up in 1907, and with the War Victor left its competitors behind. In 1920 it expanded by building a second plant in West Nashville, near Tennessee's phosphate rock quarries. Until then the standard means of extracting...