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...bootleg liquor, Watts turned out banknotes so perfect they fooled tellers. In the last four years it was estimated he had circulated about $1,000,000 in bogus bills, including a $20 note with which Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau fooled his underlings (TIME, Sept. 9). ¶In Newark, N. J. police headquarters, a telephone rang and a man's voice said: "I've just killed three men. Come and get me." Police sped to the address he gave, found four slug-riddled corpses. After investigation they concluded that Charles Geary, angry because an aunt had left...
...Good Humor is a diminutive brick of ice cream coated with chocolate or coconut and frozen onto a stick. It is sold on roadsides in and about New York. Chicago, Los Angeles, Washington, Miami, Tulsa, Detroit, Newark, Dallas and New Haven by young men with bright smiles. The young men have either neat white trucks or dry-ice boxes...
...freezing morning last January a 23-year-old unmarried girl in Newark, N. J. told her mother she had cramps, locked herself in her room, and unattended, gave birth to a 5-lb. baby. While in labor the girl screamed so loudly that her father heard. He broke in her bedroom door. Believing that the baby was dead and to avoid family disgrace, he picked it up, went outside, dug a foot-deep hole in the frozen earth, placed the naked infant in the grave, covered it with dirt...
...counteract the setback to air travel caused by the deaths of Will Rogers and Wiley Post, Arthur Brisbane hopped off from Newark on his first transcontinental flight. From Cleveland he wrote, ''The stewardess-hostess-trained nurse, who is here to take care of you, has perfect teeth, very fine yellow-grey eyes and a green dress." Said he upon landing at San Francisco, ''Flying is reading the country by the page while land travel is spelling out the letters...
...gossips thought they knew the answer: the General, his appetite for public life whetted, hankers for a Cabinet post, thinks the President will recognize that one good turn deserves another. His term in New York expires Oct. 1. Significant was this dialog between a reporter and the General at Newark Airport...