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...raided a little blue-timbered white house at St. Jean-de-Luz, had captured the two sallow youths and a large store of arms and ammunition fresh from U. S. factories. They confessed, and one more plot to restore long-jawed Alfonso XIII to the throne of Spain was bud-nipped...
...shadow of Stone Mountain Memorial, Bud Jaban and two companions were riding in a wagon pulled by two horses. Along came an automobile, crashed into the wagon. When the dust cleared Bud Jaban was sitting on the far horse, his companions had been thrown through the side of a house, the near horse was sitting in the wagon. A buckle struck a passerby, knocked him down a 30-ft. bank. Two others ran to help, stumbled, one breaking two ribs, the other cutting his face. The automobile driver started his car, drove away...
...Bill Nertney, 18-year-old apprentice jockey: two races (on A. W. Abott's Gay Bird, A. C. Schwartz's Flag Trick) and four second places in one day; at the autumn meeting at Pimlico, Md. A brilliant new "find" of Trainer J. H. ("Bud") Stotler, Jockey Nertney has ridden 60 winners since June. On the last day of the Pimlico meeting he fell, sustained a concussion of the brain...
...Gutter swore he had won $40,000 from Capone; Harry Belford, better known as "Hickory Slim, the Dice Guy," $25,000. Other bookmakers got smaller amounts. Altogether Snorkey's fondness for playing the Caponies seemed to have cost him some $200.000. Snorkey smirked, did not seem ashamed. One Bud Gentry breezed up on the stand, recalled that Prizefighters Sharkey & Stribling and Mrs. Tex Rickard had been Capone's guests in Florida, said that at the end of the 1929 racing season he had won $110.-000 from Snorkey. He could not remember any of the horses Snorkey...
...unfortunate killer is one John Allen (Edward Pawley), steel worker atop a skyscraper. He looks down pityingly on the "flies" beneath. Then he descends, marries a taxi-dancer (Blyth Daly), becomes a fly himself. Up high again, he resents things said about his wife by his good friend Bud Clark (Preston Foster) and in an argument Bud falls to his death. John loses his nerve, cannot climb, lives on money another man gives his wife. Then he wins $262, repays her, kills her to cleanse his soul. As he is on his way up the skyscraper again the Law overtakes...