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...Brooklyn, last week, the telephone rang in the home of William Banks. He awoke, answered it. It was the wrong number. Had the telephone not rung, he, his wife and their five children would have died. They were all partly overcome by escaping gas. Banks opened windows, telephoned police, thanked inept telephone operators...
...that instant shadowy figures sprang from the shrubbery. Two grenades hurtled through the air, fell beside the car. When they did not explode, a fusillade of shots rang out. Lieut. Gudinas, the aide, fell, mortally wounded as he shielded Professor Valdemaras with his own body. The small grandnephew was shot in the stomach. A passing young girl was hit in the leg. "Furthermore," wired an agitated Lithuanian correspondent, "one of the bullets penetrated Mme. Valdemaras' clock...
...Canton, Ohio, Don R. Mellett, young editor of James M. Cox's Canton News, was shot down in his back yard one evening as he was putting his car away. It was vengeance from the underworld, against which Mellett had been crusading in his newspaper. The journalistic world rang with the news. The U. S. press was not content that two of Editor Mellett's murderers should be given life sentences and two condemned to 20 years in prison. At the suggestion of a journalist, Editor & Publisher, trade weekly of the Press, started a campaign...
...welkin rang in proverbial style at Gerry's Landing up the Charles yesterday evening as final preparations for the tornadic CRIMSON-Lampoon regatta, scheduled for 2.30 o'clock this afternoon, were completed. Merwomen prinked, pollywogs warbled, as two specially designed Gloucester herring chasers were launched with solomn rites on the star-flecked upper reaches of the local stream...
...Singleton, England, the school bell rang for recess. The fat boy, aged six, was jammed in his desk, could not rise. When the village carpenter had sawed the desk off him, recess was almost gone...