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Investigator Roche thought Lynch had been kidnapped by the gang formerly headed by Fred ("Killer") Burke of St. Louis, where the kidnapping business is so highly developed that socialites leave their expensive cars in their garages and go to parties in inconspicuous small cars. Kidnapped this year in St. Louis were strapping Dr. Isaac Dee Kelley Jr. (TIME, May 11) and Adolphus Busch Orthwein. 13, grandson of President August A. Busch of Anheuser-Busch. Inc. (TIME, Jan. 12). Kidnapped near Chicago four months ago was a gambler named James Hackett, whose seizure Investigator Roche blamed on the Burke gang. Hackett...
...more from me. I am going to get busy in this Legion business when I get out where I won't get in wrong when I say things. I am going [to Pennsylvania] tomorrow and tell those soldiers if they don't go out and lick that gang in Philadelphia I'll throw this uniform of mine...
...Porra. Early one morning firing broke out in Havana itself. Havana householders and U. S. reporters stayed prudently in their beds. It was difficult to learn fust what had happened. Most reliable reports said that a group of revolutionary sympathizers had been waylaid by a gang of the "Porra" and shot. Only one body was found. The "Porra" ranks high among the various things for which Cubans curse Gerardo Machado. It is a band of criminals who have been pardoned, let out of jail and armed to help put down the revolution. Cubans spoke of the "Porra" last week...
Oliver Hardy's father was an Atlanta, Ga. politician. Oliver was graduated from the University of Georgia Law School but preferred to sing for his living. He went into cinema from vaudeville, joined the Hal Roach (Our Gang) company in 1926. In 1927, he stopped using the nickname "Babe," changed to Oliver for numerological reasons. In 1927, also, he met Stan Laurel. They formed an immediate partnership, now have a song about it: "Ham & Eggs, Salt & Pepper, Bread & Butter, Laurel & Hardy, United we stand-divided we flop...
...Recent history of the Free State is blackened by murders as bad as ever blackened the history of any country, but the Government is determined to hold the murder gang in check. ... It is likely that provision will be made for the establishment of a special tribunal to try certain cases, this body to be vested with powers to impose a capital sentence...