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...white Rolls-Royce, exuding posters, drove up before Strangeways Jail last week, somebody heaved a rock through one of the windows. Attempting to speak, Violet Van der Elst was booed down. "How would you like your daughter to be cut in little pieces?" shrilled an inquisitive voice. Sweet Violet again tried to speak. "Aw, get out!" roared the crowd. Police hustled her away, charged her with "driving through a crowd in a manner likely to endanger life and limb." She was held in $250 bail. Meantime, inside the jail the black flag was run up and the lifeless body...
...Chicago, Keeshin set about filing joint tariff schedules with six railroads as the result of an alliance agreed upon fortnight ago for truck-rail freight service, such as Keeshin started with the Rock Island line in 1934. About June 8, the railroads will begin picking up loaded Keeshin trailers on flat cars, carrying them by rail to their destination, where Keeshin tractors will make final delivery. The six: Baltimore & Ohio; Reading; Central of New Jersey; Alton; Rock Island; Chicago Great Western...
...matronly woman with a school of multi-colored children. A matronly woman came by with some brown and some white and some dirty children. I mean some of them were cute; but one was a brat! She threw stones at me; I mean she actually picked up a rock and let it go for all she was worth; and it hit me behind the ear. Behind the ear it hit me; and then the little sissy ran. I mean she hid behind the matron's skirts. It's a damn good thing. I mean I was mad would have spanked...
...Hero Parker's heroics rated the Medal of Honor. On July 18, 1918, the 28th infantry of the A.E.F.'s First division found itself in a tough frontline sector near Soissons. Between it and a troop of French Colonials on its left was a jutting mound and rock quarry from which a nest of German machine guns spat a relentless enfilade fire. Seeing that the U. S. flank would soon be shredded to bits, Lieutenant Parker ordered his platoon and a group of wandering, disorganized French Colonials to follow him up the hill. Few minutes later Lieutenant Parker...
...shot him dead. Prospector Voiss was bundled off to jail in San Francisco, indicted for murder. Psychiatrists examined him, ad judged him insane. To police Peter Voiss burst out: "To the crazy house I will not go. It's as if a boy passed you and threw a rock, then passed again and threw an other and another...