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...British-French military mission was on its way to Moscow to try to conclude a three-way alliance with the U. S. S. R., another British mission was reported heading for Danzig. No one knew anything about it, except that its leader was a certain Professor Riley, and that it was vaguely economic. In Tallinn, Estonia, a reporter of the Swedish Aftonbladet credited the mysterious Professor Riley with a startling declaration: "In Britain we are by no means convinced of the vital necessity of Danzig for Poland. . . . The Commission has undertaken its trip under Government inspiration. I'm convinced...
...Professor Riley? Guesses began to fly: perhaps he was Durham University's eminent Chemist Harry Lister Riley (no; reporters found him vacationing in Northumberland); a Government bigwig, sent, as Lord Runciman was to Czecho-Slovakia in August 1938, to find that the disputed area wasn't worth squabbling over (Downing Street denied it); a personal emissary of Neville Chamberlain's sent behind his own Government's back to pave the way for a second Munich agreement; perhaps just a crank...
Other recorded voices of yesterday: Kaiser Franz Josef, Queen Victoria, Woodrow Wilson, Mark Twain, Henry Morton Stanley, President Taft, William Jennings Bryan, Rear-Admiral Peary, Ellen Terry, James Whitcomb Riley, Vice-President (to President McKinley) Garret A. Hobart. Hobbyist Vincent is now searching for a known recording of the voice of Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen, famed uxoricide...
...Cody jail one night, when Deputy Sheriff Noah Riley took Earl Durand's supper to his cell, the huge, hairy youth picked him up like a puppy, took his keys, grabbed a rifle, forced the deputy to drive him to the Durand ranch. Under-Sheriff D. M. Baker and Marshal Charles E. Lewis followed. Earl Durand dropped them dead in their tracks with just three shots from his rifle, one wasted. Then he clubbed Deputy Riley unconscious, made his father put up provisions, headed for the snowy mountains...
...races on Bert Baroni's Top Row, Johnny Longden has been in great demand. A contract rider for the famed Wheatley Stable until two months ago, he is now under contract to Don Cameron, trainer for the stables of Mrs. John Hertz, Vera Bragg and J. Shirley Riley, at $17,000 a year-highest salary of any U. S. jockey...