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...motorcade of 50 cars without licenses the 200 took Oliver Moore 15 mi. to his home in Wilson County, there strung him from a tree. As his body twisted and writhed, all shot at it until he was dead; first lynchee in North Carolina since 1921, twelfth...
...richest man in Maryland (he was insured for $750,000), he could easily afford to indulge his hobbies, chief among which was traveling by airplane. In his private planes, with two pilots whom he originally borrowed from Royal Dutch Air lines in 1927, he flew approximately 130,000 mi. in all parts of the world...
...capital it was in Chicago last week for the ten-day period of the National Air Races. Airmen & aircraft from all parts of the land were congregated in the city proper and at Curtiss-Reynolds Airport, Glenview, 16 mi. northwest of the Loop...
...balloon, an elaborate affair, measured 97 ft. from the top of the bag (wt. 1˝ tons) to the bottom of the two-decked basket. It was rigged with drag ropes and sails, by which Andree was confident the prevailing south winds would blow it over the Pole, 700 mi. away...
Lights burned all night last week in the decorative Malibu Beach cottage of soul-saving Aimee Semple McPherson. In Los Angeles, 15 mi. away, squads of the faithful?praying in two-hour shifts?sent up a rustle of Hosannahs into the shadowy vault of the $2,000,000 Angelus Temple, musnud of the Four-Square Gospel Church. Temple attaches, hired huskies and Four-Square laity thronged through the flower-decked beach bungalow. Newshawks excluded from the premises even reported having seen a handsome, black-mustached gentleman attired in flowered pyjamas. Although her life has been more melodramatic than that...