Word: benton
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...simply, at the moment of least alarm, tragedy overtook U. S. Army flyers sent to loop a sister continent. Major Herbert A. Dargue and his relief pilot, Lieut. Innis C. Whitehead leaped free and their parachutes saved them. Captain Clinton F. Woolsey fell free too late. Lieut. John W. Benton burned, his cremation starting in midair. South America's good will, which the Army flight had been planned to stimulate, turned to pity, horror...
With the imprisonment of Charles Birger, the two gangs which have for ten months terrorized the district in and around Williamson County, Ill.-"Bloody Williamson," ill-famed for Herrin killings-are leaderless. Birger himself captained one gang; now he plays pinochle with himself in a jail cell at Benton, Ill., while eight armed deputies patrol the corridors. The other faction, led by the three Shelton brothers, also "mourns leaders' absence," for recently, Carl, Earl and Bernie Shelton entered Leavenworth Penitentiary, began 25-year sentences for robbing U.S. mails in Collinsville, Ill., on Jan. 27, 1925. Perhaps there...
...BENTON...
...backfield positions was apparent in this drill, when Hoben was placed at right halfback, instead of Foote, who held down the post yesterday. Bunnell, Noble and Kline completed the regular quartet, while the line was the same that started against Princeton. Scott and Fishwick were the ends, Richards and Benton, the tackles. Sturhahn and Webster, the guards, and Look, the center...
...line-up was Scott and Fishwick, ends: Richards and Benton, tackles: Sturhahn and Webster, guards; Look, center: Bunnell, quarterback: Noble, Foate, and Klein, backs. During the signals some of these men were changed, Hoben going in at halfback and Hiskok in one of the guard positions. Vander grift, who has been out of the game through injury for several weeks, was again in uniform today and may get in the Harvard game for a few minutes...