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Died. Wilmarth Ickes, 37, son of the late Mrs. Harold Le Clair Ickes and the University of California's Historian James Westfall Thompson, her first husband; by his own hand (revolver); in Winnetka, Ill. In Woburn, Mass, the Secretary of the Interior's other foster son, Robert H. Ickes, 23, was acquitted of driving while under the influence of liquor...
Sued. The City of Chicago; by John Ickes, 63, brother of Secretary of the Interior Harold Le Clair Ickes; for $31,125 in salary, $9,337 in interest, $11,000 in raises, accrued between 1926 and 1932 during which period he was removed from his job as chief clerk of the City's special assessment division for "political reasons...
...veterans voiced annoyance when 20-year-old Robert Harold Ickes, son of Federal Public Works Administrator Harold Le Clair Ickes, after graduation from Lake Forest (Ill.) College, appeared in Medford, Mass, with a letter from his father which landed him a $29-a-week job as an inspection clerk on a $3,000,000 PWA sewer project...
...evening last week some 25 people were crowded into the provincial liquor store of Sarnia, Ont., just across the St. Clair River from Port Huron, Mich. Into the shop stepped two holdup men, one small and wizened, the other masked with a black silk handkerchief. Both waved revolvers, made the customers line up face to the wall while the larger bandit climbed the wire partition to the cashier's drawer, scooped up the cash, climbed back again, ordering all the customers to file into the liquor room. What happened next was best described by one Jack Cosley...
...Alexander Preston Shaw, 57, of New Orleans, is editor of the Southwestern Christian Advocate. Most Methodist bishops look alike, with their white faces, firm jaws, thin lips. Bishop Shaw is physically unique in that he is a Negro. He is to succeed retiring Negro Bishop Matthew Wesley Clair of Covington...