Word: bandit
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...devotee of the cartoon strip "Radio Patrol" in the New York American is one Harry Millstine, a resident of Queens Borough. Because he works in a filling station, Reader Millstine was professionally interested one day last week in a "Radio Patrol" sequence which depicted a gasoline vendor foiling a bandit by drenching him with the fuel hose...
Agent Baker stepped up, drew his gun and ordered Alfred Power to put up his hands. Blam! A bullet struck Agent Baker in the back, he spun around to face the bandit's unnoticed companion, Robert Suhay, began to fire. Another bullet struck him in the chest, two in the legs. He crumpled. An innocent bystander, hit in the foot, flopped under a writing table beside a scared little Negro woman. Twenty rounds were exchanged before the two bandits fled, vanished...
Disguised in turn as an Indian healer, a Persian Dervish, a Pathan, Burton escaped five bandit raids, performed the complicated Moslem rituals letter-perfect (a slip-up meant being crucified), did not return to England to capitalize on his fame or to refute a new assortment of rumors that he had robbed a Cairo post office and murdered an Arab who saw through his disguise. Instead he headed an expedition into unmapped Somaliland. succeeded where five previous attempts had failed in reaching Harar, saved himself by a feat of flattery from being killed. On another expedition into Somaliland...
...muddling through in northwest China last week was more a case of bloodling through. For the past five years China has had a compact, mobile, self-styled "Red State"-a vast semi-bandit group of Chinese Communists under able native Red generals, propagandists and administrators who in 1931 had established a Provisional Government in a large splotch of China some 200 miles in diameter, perilously close to the Chinese Government at Nanking (see map). This Red State today can be roughly compared to those of such old-time Asiatic nomad conquerors as Genghis Khan, whose traveling bureaucrats pitched their tents...
Eleven prosperous Chinese, arriving in Nanking from Sian, said: "Conditions are deteriorating. Hundreds if not thousands of people have thought it best to leave Sian, even through the bandit-infested countryside and in bitter cold...