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...amuck, ravaged the straggling town, left it blackened, hollow, crisp. Disconsolate, penniless, young Potter Palmer stood in the ashes of his home. Suddenly, where was Bertha? Bertha had borrowed a buggy, careened into a nearby village, wired New York for an extension of credit. New York agreed, and-phoenix-like-Chicago and the Potter Palmers soared together...
Rode forth the Tenno, clad as a Field Marshal, in his great Louis XIV enclosed carriage, emblazoned with the 16 petaled Imperial Chrysanthemum, surmounted by a great golden Phoenix-symbol of inextinguishable Radiance...
Missing-between San Diego, Calif., and Phoenix, Ariz.-one Nominee for Vice President of the U. S. His name was Benjamin Gitlow. He was a Communist-six feet high, a 200-pounder with black hair, swart skin, bright black eyes, long fingers, very large feet, round shoulders. His friends suspected a Klannish plot, or strong-arm work by the American Legion, which had warned him not to visit Phoenix. William O'Brien, candidate of the Workers' (Communist) Party for Governor of Arizona, began searching small-town jails through the Southwest. Suspicion pointed to El Paso, in the western...
...that is definitely known thus far is that Gitlow, on a campaign tour of the West was scheduled to speak at Phoenix, Arizona, but that when his train arived there bands of Klansmen and members of the American Legion prevented his descending, and that when he was due to speak at Tuscon he could not be found...
Communists charge that he was forcibly removed at Phoenix, and after a severe beating, taken to the Phoenix jail. When their posses were about to locate him, he was transferred to Nogales on the border. A wire from the Chief of Police of Nogales to Federal Officers in Washington. D. C., States that Gitlow is being held, but names no charge against...