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...Transcontinental Bendix Trophy Race which raises the curtain. This year's Bendix race, starting from Floyd Bennett Field, N. Y., was a battle between the builders who divided highest honors last year-Z. D. Granville and Wedell-Williams. Granville of Springfield, Mass, is famed for his fat Gee Bee in which Jimmy Doolittle made a world record of 294 m.p.h. Wedell-Williams is a unique combination consisting of one-eyed, tousle-mopped "Jimmy" Wedell, 33, Texas bartender's son, onetime barnstormer; and rich, suave, happy-go-lucky Harry Palmerton Williams, son of the late Louisiana cypress tycoon Frank...
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...Iowa, Bannery Shay Jr., protected by netting over his head and long gloves, set out to shoo a swarm of bees from a tree. A limb of the tree broke, carried the swarm to the ground. The queen bee, followed by others, crept up Shay's trouser-leg. He yanked the top of his trousers away from his middle, stood stock-still. The bees saw daylight, crawled out, buzzed away without stinging Bannery Shay...
...Like a bee on a bear's nose, the Communist Party is a little group of 3,200.000 from all Russia's 164,000,000. Last week the bee smartly stung the bear, with the most ambitious Government decree in history. It divided all Russia into three Zones. Zone No. 1 includes all Russia's ticklish spots: the big cities, big industrial centres, a 62-mi. strip along the western border and the chief cities along the eastern border. In these, the hide and the vital organs of Russia, only certified loyalists may live. "Undesirable...
...Inez, Ky., John Mills choked his mother to death in a religious ceremony, went to jail. During the Grand Jury examination local politicians made electioneering speeches, witnesses left hearings to attend a medicine show, swap animals at a mule trading bee. During the trial witnesses absented themselves, mooned about town to "chaw the rag with, the folks," jurors chatted with friends, waved greetings. Presiding Judge J. F. Bailey spent an hour charging the jury, mentioned the case at hand in but one sentence, reprimanded one juror for hobnobbing. After deliberation the jury last week returned a verdict of guilty, sent...