Word: barrels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Olympia, Wash., Governor Roland H. Hartley announced that so far as he was concerned, Herbert Franklin Niccolls. 12, who shot a peace officer from behind a grocery store's pickle barrel, would remain in the Walla Walla penitentiary for the rest of his life. Denied was the petition of Father Edward J. Flanagan that the boy be released in his custody, allowed to go to Father Flanagan's home for waifs and waywards near Omaha, Neb. In making his decision public, Governor Hartley did not conceal his irritation at Father Flanagan's intercession. The priest had journeyed from Omaha...
...night last August a peaked 12-year-old named Herbert Niccolls broke into a grocery store at Asotin, in southeastern Washington. Sheriff John L. Wormell, 72, went into the store after him. From his hiding place behind a pickle barrel, Herbert Niccolls shot & killed the aged officer. At his trial it was brought out the boy's father was in a hospital for the criminally insane. Already Herbert was something of a criminal prodigy: at nine he had stolen an automobile, and tried his hand at a mail robbery. For the latter offense he was jailed 15 months, later...
...Oklahoma favors a Murray candidacy. This month the Tulsa World said of its Governor: "He has a tricky mind and a cunning appeal. Like a jackass braying into an empty rain barrel, he mistakes the sound and fury for wisdom and profundity. He encourages and agitates unrest and class hatred. We apologize for having supported him. To go with him further is like walking through a slaughter house to an open grave...
...frigate tied up at Washington Navy Yard. He went poking down into her bilge where officers had to use flashlights, emerged with his grey felt hat battered out of shape by low beams. In the centre of the gun-deck President Hoover stopped to gaze at a brassbound barrel marked: GROG TUB. Commander Louis Gulliver explained that from it used to come the sailors' daily ration of a half-pint of strong drink. The President nodded, passed on silently...
Other commodities to share in the jubilation included rubber, coffee, cocoa, wool tops, hides. Sugar failed to advance, however, and hogs continued in a rut. Mid-Continent oil prices rose 15^ a barrel to 85^; in many sections of the country gasoline was upped...