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...headquarters in New York City felt the pinch of shame. This sanctum of super-sleuths had been entered by stealth and pilfered with profit. Almost worse, two detectives of the city police force succeeded where the Federal men had failed, snagged a Negro porter who, they claimed, confessed the theft. The loot: two expensive miniature cameras, a telephoto lens. The accused: Charles Beverly Grayson, a WPA porter who had once worked at the Federal Court House, New York headquarters...
Last week the Government charged a wharf superintendent with theft of 232 tons of U.S. molasses, counted up 27,000 food prosecutions since rationing began. Scotland Yard puzzled over four blackout murders in eight days, searched vainly for a lone suspect, monocled, mysterious "Dr. Trevor...
Informed sources were unable to account for the theft, although they pointed out that the only possible motive for the act might be publicity for Lampy's parody of "Time" which recently appeared on the newsstands...
...Theft. In Torrance, Calif., county supervisors found out that thieves had stolen an unused, million-dollar glass factory-building, machinery, raw materials-piece by piece...
...London with Hollywood Veteran Anna May Wong, and it appeared briefly in Manhattan.) It tells of a teahouse girl who marries a mandarin, only to fall afoul of his jealous No. 1 wife.This witch poisons the mandarin, bribes a judge to convict the girl of the murder and the theft of her own baby. At length she is rescued by a reforming young Emperor, who as a prince had met and loved...