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...Fourth Precinct desk sergeant's telephone tinkled. Those Negroes over on School Street, someone said, were at it again. It had been going on three months. Everyone else who lived around there was sick of it. A John Doe warrant was filled out and soon School Street was clanging with police patrols from six precincts. The police entered and found the old factory clean enough. There was a refectory with more than a dozen long tables and a kitchen whose iceboxes burst with pork chops, chickens, choice cuts of beef. There was a large nursery where some pickaninnies slept...
Three and one-half miles off Diamond Head, Honolulu, a motorboat carrying "Sergeant" Kahanamoku, brother of famed swimmer "Duke" Paoa Kahanamoku, and a friend, ran out of gasoline. Kahanamoku slipped into the turbulent, sharky water, grasped the bow of the motorboat and, while the friend paddled with a board, towed it in four hours to a beach near Waikiki...
...Montreal and finally to Chicago. A sad note was injected into the jubilation at Chicago when, at the Italo-American dinner, the toastmaster called the roll of Balbo's crew. Each man in turn arose to applause, answered "Present." At the end of the list the speaker called "Sergeant Ugo Quintavalle." (Sergeant Quintavalle had been killed at Amsterdam in the only mishap of the expedition.) Instantly 96 sturdy blackshirts jumped to their feet, chins held high, and chorused "Present." Also sad was the case of a lonely ground crew near Julienehaab. Greenland. For weeks they had waited there...
...from the map. Meantime he had led a quiet, model life -played polo in his youth, joined Troop A of New York's socialite 71st regiment, risen from private to captain, become an ardent marksman. (During the War. although already in military retirement, he volunteered, became a supply sergeant, later a major in the Ordnance Department.) He married Sarah Cantine Shrady, daughter of a doctor, had two children, Edwin Jr. (killed in a hunting accident, 1917) and Frank Miller Gould. In later life he became like his equally conservative sister Helen (Mrs. Finley J. Shepard) a generous charitarian, particularly...
...dikes. Down came the next led by I-PELL (Pellegrini). Then the first red group-I-DINI (Captain Baldini at the controls). Inexplicably the leading red plane smacked the water like a cannonball, somersaulted once, settled into the mud. Captain Baldini and three crewmen were fished out alive, but Sergeant Quintavalle was dead...