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...watch and pocketed it, I realized they were highwaymen. Then he felt in my pocket and took out a roll of American bills [$200]. . . . When the bandits had finished with me, I walked ahead and saw Skewes Saunders, an Englishman who had previously been knocked unconscious when he resisted search. I noticed one bandit behind a tree about 75 yd. from my car and another behind a rock nearby, both with rifles pointed on us. ... I became resigned to the situation." Aboard a launch on his way to the Chesapeake Bay fishing grounds off Solomons Island, Md., Ohio...
...operatives was originally drafted for the Democratic platform, though the plank was finally whittled down to an innocuous statement about narrowing the spread between producer and consumer prices. In Scribner's, Secretary of Agriculture Wallace lately suggested cooperation as the answer to the title of his article, "The Search For An American Way." Elaborating an a book called Whose Constitution? published last week, Secretary Wallace declared: "Producer cooperatives are not enough. . . . The co-operative way of life must pervade the community, and this means there must be consumer co-operatives as well. ..." Referring to industrial cooperatives, Iowa...
...called at Devil's Island, sailed out again without papers. Few days later, again out of supplies, the little tub appeared at Georgetown, anchored four miles off the beach. Primed to nab the outlawed craft, port authorities sent U. S. Pilot Art Williams, in Guiana after an air search for Paul Redfern, to fly over her. When Williams reported she was indeed the Girl Pat, a police launch set out to arrest her. As it drew alongside, the Girl Pat's doughty crew of four appeared at the rail stripped for a fight. Shouted Captain George Black Osborne...
...Bloomsburg, Pa., for a firemen's convention, John Sukaloski soiled his only suit, sent it to be cleaned, forgot the cleaner's name. Garbed in his landlady's clothing, he went in search of his suit, followed a gay convention parade, was astonished to win a $5 prize as the best female impersonator...
Belgium's young King Leopold last week entered the third week of his search for a Premier. He had lost a good one in able, young Premier Paul van Zeeland when the Belgian elections made the Socialists, instead of van Zeeland's Catholics, the Chamber of Deputies' biggest party. Van Zeeland's men had lost many seats to the Rexists, wild, new, Catholic-Fascist party of young Léon Degrelle. When van Zeeland resigned, he precipitated a partisan brawl among the National Union parties (Catholics, Christian Democrats, Liberals and Socialists) who had supported his effective...