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Barnstormer. Roy ("Jack Dare") Ahearn, famed barnstormer, parachute jumper and stuntflyer, head of the Red Wing Flying Circus, took a French Albert parasol monoplane aloft over Teterboro, N. J. At 4,000 ft. he dove the tiny craft in an attempted outside loop. The plane's 40-h. p. motor would not pull out of it. Four times Pilot Ahearn climbed slowly back to make another try. On the final attempt he threw the throttle open, held the plane's nose down longer than before. The wing tore loose, fluttered away. Un- checked, the fuselage bored down into the earth...
...killer. A grand jury indicted Frank Foster, arrested in Los Angeles as onetime owner of the "belly gun" with which Lingle was shot. The same day, detectives arrested one Jack Zuta, Moran-Aiello gangster, suspected instigator of the murder. Soon released, Zuta was being given "safe conduct" through the loop district in a detective lieutenant's car, when three men opened fire on him. A street car motorman was killed. While the detective fought it out with the assailants, Zuta fled, unhurt, to hide from police and gunmen alike...
...with the Wisconsin Central R. R. for which he became passenger traffic manager while still in his 20's. At that point he turned his back on railroading, entered the millinery firm of Stumer, Rosenthal & Eckstein. Following interests have been real estate, particularly in Chicago's loop, where he is part owner of several office-buildings; the Continental Illinois Bank & Trust Co., of which he is a director; publishing (he founded The Red Book in 1903 and The Blue Book shortly after; sold both last year); and chain drugstores (Buck & Raynor chain, sold to Liggett...
...world. For he feels that only a wanderer can show a good Bostonian the beauties of the local scene. The Vagabond has no birthplace and no local pride, and so he has been able to show the Woolworth Building to New Yorkers, Independence Hall to Philadelphians, and the Loop to the inhabitants of our Western metropolis. And similarly he will not forget to teach Bay Staters to browse beside their far-sung rocks and rills...
...height of the blizzard. In the New York Central yards, 200 men tussled with half-crazed lions, tigers, monkeys, elephants, camels. Menagerie fatalities: two monkeys, two cockatoos, a springbok. Hearses never reached cemeteries. Big employers like Illinois Sell Telephone. Western Union, Western Electric, hired whole floors in Loop (downtown) hotels to house their snow-bound workers. Motoring to the Illinois State Farm at Vandalia with five prisoners, two deputy sheriffs were engulfed by drifts, had to borrow money from one prisoner to carry the penal party through by rail...