Word: cars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dodge Jr., a onetime U. S. Prohibition agent, of conspiring with Imogene Remus, his wife, to get his money and his life. Mrs. Remus and Dodge were paramours, Remus said. So, the morning Mrs. Remus started for court to press her divorce suit, George Remus drove alongside her car in a Cincinnati park, chased her across the grass, shot her dead. He was allowed to act as his own lawyer in his murder trial. The trial became a disorderly farce. The jury acquitted him on the ground of temporary insanity. Committed to the asylum, Remus successfully appealed in Allen County...
Driving with his wife and sister, Secretary of the Navy Curtis Dwight Wilbur noted a brawl along a highway near Washington, D. C. He leaped from his car, sprinted to the scene of action, separated three Negro caddies of the Congressional Club. But his arrival was too late to prevent the fracturing of one little Negro's skull by a bigger Negro with a stick. Secretary Wilbur rushed the injured lad to the Congressional Club for medical attention...
Elected. Merlin A. Cudlip, 31, for five years secretary of the Packard Motor Car Co.; to be also vice president. In November 1918, soon after his graduation from the University of Michigan, he entered the Packard company as a clerk...
Died. Col. Charles Clifton, 74, automobile pioneer, board chairman of the Pierce Arrow Motor Car Co. for 14 years (1912-26) president of the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce; in Buffalo...
Packard is Packard. An automobile left Tsingtao last week for Peking and points west-the points being vague oases in the bandit-infested, scantily charted Gobi desert. Camels and asses had crossed it before, but never a stock touring car. The leader of the expedition is Mark L. Moody, head of the Packard Motor Agency of Shanghai. He and his companions plan to hunt bear, elk, antelope; to meet and visit Scientist Roy Chapman Andrews somewhere in the Gobi