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...from the Dallas jail last Labor Day after forcing his way out with a mysteriously acquired pistol and kidnapping one of his guards. Only by the sheerest luck had the police been able to recapture him the same day at Ardmore, Okla. And it was Bailey's fugitive partner, George ("Machine Gun") Kelly who last week threatened the life of Urschel and other witnesses if they testified at the trial. It was doubtless Kelly who threatened also to kidnap Peggy Ann, daughter of Governor Alf M. Landon of Kansas unless he pardoned some Bailey gangsters now in Kansas Penitentiary...
...Concord, N. H. Married. Meredith Nicholson, 66, Indiana author (The House of a Thousand Candles, The Port of Missing Men), new U. S. Minister to Paraguay (TIME, Aug. 28); and Dorothy Lannon, his longtime friend and literary associate; in Washington, D. C. Died. Clement E. Chase, 45, bridge engineer, partner of famed Bridgebuilder Ralph Modjeski; when, rocked by a gust of wind, he lost his balance and fell 120 ft. from the Delaware River Bridge; in Philadelphia. Died. Horace Brisbin Liveright, 46, Manhattan publisher and stage producer; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. A onetime bond salesman, he, with Albert Boni, formed...
Plans for the National Stock Exchange which sought a New Jersey charter were dropped, and a committee headed by Partner Howard Froelick of the big odd-lot house of De Coppet & Doremus launched a New Jersey Stock Exchange, an unincorporated association like the Big Board. President Whitney and all officials of the New York Stock Exchange promptly accepted similar positions in the New Jersey Exchange, thus branding it as official. Of the Big Board's 1,375 members all but 97 (chiefly inactive members like J. Pierpont Morgan and his son Junius) had applied for Jersey membership before...
...cinema company was stranded for a while on Mandoan territory Mandoans got their first exciting taste of civilization. Old-timers wanted no more of it. but a few progressives, led by smart San Talal, began to dream of modernizing Mandoa. Meantime in London careful young Maurice Durrant, partner in Prince's Tours, Ltd., was carving his career. He heard of Mandoa as a virgin territory for his firm, a "sphere of influence" that might be developed for England. And his ne'er-do-well brother Bill was beginning to prove a hampering embarrassment. Killing two birds...
...York Stock Exchange stopped trading long enough to hear President Whitney solemnly announce a suspension -first in more than a year. To the members assembled and to U. S. citizens young & old, the name that President Whitney uttered was associated not with banking or finance but with cowpunching. Partner John Batterson Stetson Jr. of Philadelphia's Stetson & Blackman is the son of the founder of John B. Stetson Co., whose hats were (and still are) as much a fixture of the cow country from Athabasca Landing to the Strait of Magellan as the cows themselves...