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Last week they caught Pat Mc-Dermott. He had been residing in a "luxurious" flat in Cleveland, equipped with a motor car and servant, and taking the air only at night. Detective Ora Slater, working under Prosecutor C. B. McClintock of Stark County, played upon the consciences of Pat McDermott's brothers until they agreed to lure him to Twin Rocks. Pa., by publishing news that his aged mother was dying. Mr. McDermott went to Twin Rocks and was given a week by his brothers to make a case for himself. Then the relatives sent for Detective Slater and ushered...
...trees were left standing in the Prado. Half the windows in the city were broken; many roofs blown away; several ships sunk in the harbor. The horses at the track-had run off through the ruins of their stables. The windows of the Havana Automobile Co. and the Ford Motor Branch were blown in. Camp Columbia had vanished. Ambulance surgeons began making up a death list;* truly the hurricane, blowing cone-shaped out of the West Indies, had done its work. And in the middle of Havana the American monument lay on its face...
...third major Paris-to-London airway accident* in six months, but with no casualties. No cause was assigned for the motor trouble save that the ship was newly built and evidently insufficiently tested...
Shahinsha Reza Shah Pahlavi of Persia: "I, heavily guarded as usual, made a motor tour of inspection through the province of Man-zandaran, last week. I barely escaped death when one of my automobiles, loaded; with munitions, blew up. Eight of my officers were destroyed. I, whose title is 'The King of Kings Reza King Pahlavi' rode serenely...
Died. Harry H. Bassett, 51, president of the Buick Motor Co., vice president and director of General Motors Corp.; at the American Hospital in Neuilly, France, of double bronchial pneumonia. He had gone to Paris for the International Automobile Salon...