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...about his new job.) No. 23 droned on, over Ohio and Indiana farmlands, true on its course of blinking beacons and whining radio signals. At 8:46 p. m. the ground station at Chicago heard the pilot's laconic "Okay.". . . A few minutes later country folk near Chesterton, Ind., 50 mi. southeast of Chicago, were frightened by a terrific explosion overhead. They ran from their houses to see No. 23 gyrating crazily in the sky. its tail broken off. With its cabin lights ablaze, the plane spun to earth, whipped off the tops of a clump of trees, crashed...
...radio station in Gary, Ind. boomed out one night last week: "Here we are, folks, right on the scene of a gigantic man hunt. The troops are tramping through the field on the trail of the convicts. Listen closely, folks, listen to that deadly patter of lead." Bang! Bang! Bang...
Federal Court in Chicago issued a temporary injunction against withdrawals from the Harris Trust & Savings Bank account of a Greek named Constantine S. Eftax. One Gus Lowry of Sullivan, Ind. charged that Eftax is really Samuel Insull, fugitive utilities magnate; that he deposited $1,000,000 in securities and gold bullion before he fled to Greece, draws $150 to $400 weekly interest on it. Lowry declared that "Eftax" recently tried to get $50,000 in gold out of the U. S., that the account should be appropriated for Insull stockholders. Harris Trust replied that the account amounts to only...
...Cook is not insane. People who have known him for years will tell you so. He was born Lopez, orphaned young, raised by relatives in Evansville, Ind. He still talks a lot about Evansville. In his current offering he fondly remembers an uncle who did not pour his maple syrup on pancakes, but cut the cakes up, poured them on the maple syrup. He has trouped with medicine shows, carnivals, burlesque shows and in vaudeville. He considers his first professional engagement the act which he did with his late brother Leo in 1907. He was 17. The act was called...
...Pico, Calif. Last month he got $1,000 for eight jumps at the California State Fair at Sacramento. On he went to Chicago for the International Air Races, spent the whole sum on four new 'chutes. Following the races he attended a party at the South Bend, Ind. home of Vincent Bendix (automobile and airplane parts). Another guest, Charles T. Otto, offered to fly him and a girl friend back across Lake Michigan's tip to Chicago in an autogiro. The 'giro never reached shore...