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...pulled a little more than half a length ahead of the shell of the Thames Rowing Club (London) to win the most important rowing event of the IXth Olympiad. Followed a U.S. victory in the majority of the water events, with Martha Norelius, Albina Ossipowitch, Helen Meany, George Kojac, Pete Desjardines, John Weissmuller as kingpins...
...Killing. Powder-Horn Pete (Wallace Beery) and Dead-Eye Dan (Raymond Hatton) of the Ozark Mountains are hired by the Hicks family to kill all the Beagles. Thinking that the Beagles are four-legged animals, Pete and Dan slap thighs in joyful anticipation of easy slaughter. But the Beagles are a family of two-legged humans. The problem is finally solved without bloodshed when one little Beagle girl (Mary Brian) marries a Hicks boy. Here & there, a laugh ensues. . . . Paramount advertises the film as the last of the Beery-Hatton comedies...
Another Negro, one Pete Chester, had killed Policeman P. P, Jones of Houston last year. Chester was sentenced to death, but got a retrial this spring before District Judge C. T. Harper, who had himself just been acquitted of killing a man in a roadside row. Judge Harper's lawyer argued Chester's case before Judge Harper and the Negro got off with a sentence of four years. Because of the lightness of this sentence, the Houston police force was restive after Detective Davis' death...
...with her husband and two terriers. When she knocked, no one answered, no small dog ran barking and sniffing to the threshold. When she forced an entrance, she found Aaron Lutkin dead, asphyxiated by the gas which he had purposely turned on. Beside him lay the terriers, Jennie and Pete, dead also...
...mosquitoes where the Coolidges are vacationing because it's above the 3,500-foot elevation (TIME, June 20, p. 5, last col.). There's a big grizzly mounted and some pictures in the Smithsonian Institution that prove it. The pictures show where the bear was killed by Pete Peterson, Cascade mountains, elevation, 7,000. The pictures also show on the grizzly, not 15 minutes dead, FLIES-LOTS OF 'EM. Farther east you go, the worse the flies are. As for mosquitoes, they are one of the joy-killers in mountain climbing. They will be found right...