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...margin no wider than desirable, the U. S. last week escaped a replica (with variations) of the Sacco-Vanzetti case. In the Bronx (outlying borough of New York City) a jury acquitted one Calogero Greco and one Donate Carillo of the murders of one Joseph Carisi and one Nicholas Amoroso last Memorial Day. The Messrs. Carisi and Amoroso, members of the Fascist League of America, had been on their way to join Fascist comrades in a parade. The Messrs. Greco and Carillo, hot antiFascists, were alleged to have set upon them at the foot of an elevated railway staircase...
...margin no wider than desirable, the U. S. last week escaped a replica (with variations) of the Sacco-Vanzetti case. In the Bronx (outlying borough of New York City) a jury acquitted one Calogero Greco and one Donate Carillo of the murders of one Joseph Carisi and one Nicholas Amoroso last Memorial Day. The Messrs. Carisi and Amoroso, members of the Fascist League of America, had been on their way to join Fascist comrades in a parade. The Messrs. Greco and Carillo, hot antiFascists, were alleged to have set upon them at the foot of an elevated railway staircase...
Miss Eloysa Levine, nine-year-old daughter of New York-Paris Flight-Backer Charles Levine, patriotically christened the Wright-Bellanca monoplane Columbia, (TIME, May 2) with a tepid bottle of ginger ale. Afterwards, laughing, she climbed into the Columbia with her friend Grace Jonas, Superintendent John Carisi and Pilot Clarence D. Chamberlin for a ride. As the plane took off, a bolt was sheared in the shock absorbers, crippling the landing dolly, meaning disaster 99 out of a 100 cases...
...gripped onlookers watched airmen rush into the air with seven planes to warn Chamberlin. Flying beside him, they held out wheels to signal his trouble. For 50 minutes the Levines, horrified, watched the plane circle hopelessly about, followed by an ambulance ready to pick up the bodies. They saw Carisi climb over the edge, struggle vainly, hanging head down, to fix the buckled wheel. Pilot Chamberlin. wrapped the children in blankets to save the shock of a crash. Then he slowly swooped down, ten feet from the ground flattened into a pancake stall, 'tail downwards. A wing dragged along...
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