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...veterans' business councilors. It was making loans as low as $10 to members of 4-H Clubs. It had lent $1,500 to Joe Szabo, clothing operator, who in four years boomed it into a $1,500,000-a-year business. Vyrl Coppersmith, farm boy of Chino, had got $250, bought himself two steers...
...meat in Los Angeles (as in San Francisco and Rhode Island) to alleviate suffering, started criminal action against black markets wherever they could be found. Also California prison officials got State permission to graze cattle in Palomar State Park, the meat to go to Folsom, San Quentin and Chino prisons. Quipped the Los Angeles Times: "How to obtain plenty of meat-become a convict...
...dying patient proved more than young Dr. Joseph Martin Swindt could bear. Like many a conscientious general practitioner, he believed he had made a faulty diagnosis. He never wanted to be a doctor, anyhow. He wanted to be a writer. Sombrely, Dr. Martin got into a bus at Chino, Calif., east of Los Angeles, traveled 500 miles to a seashore inn north of San Francisco. And there, before poisoning himself, he wrote a long "thesis on death" to his wife and two young sons at home. The "thesis" lay beside his body when it was discovered last week. Excerpt: "Surely...
When Mrs. Eleanor Maher of Oakland, Calif, went out of her house, she left her crippled aunt, Miss Charlotte Parker, 65, alone with her two dogs: Bootsie, a very old bulldog, and Chino, an 18-months-old thoroughbred chowchow. Presently Miss Parker grasped her cane and started to rise from her chair to go into the back yard. Suddenly Chino snapped at her hand. Then he went mad, knocked her down, started gnawing at her. Bootsie was too infirm to be of any help. But Miss Parker's shrieks aroused the neighbors, who called the police. When a patrolman...
Japanese Deputies sat up and beamed as Mr. Hirota went on to make what is, if accurate, a most important disclosure. "The Chinese Government," he announced, "not only has indicated its concurrence with all our views but proposed recently to open negotiations on Chino-Japanese rapprochement along the lines stated above." His Excellency also announced that if China should now sign on the dotted line Japan would "extend to her our moral and material support for her advancement." Added he: "We sincerely hope to smooth the progress of the newly established Commonwealth of the Philip-pines." In the largest World...