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...engrossed copy of the Guffey-Vinson Coal Control Bill sent to the President for signing, it was discovered last week that a nodding clerk had substituted an "are" for an "or." Concluding that the phrase still made sense, the Bill's Congressional handlers advised the President against sending it back to Congress for correction, urged him to sign it as was. This week he did, and nominated a seven-man National Coal Commission to administer...
...Wayne W. Baker, 27, of Yuma, Ariz. entered the Federal Bureau of Investigation as a law clerk. Recently he decided to be a G-man, so he took the Bureau's three-month training course for investigators. Having graduated, he was assigned to the bureau at Kansas City, Mo. Last week he was at work on his first important case. He and two other agents went to the post office at Topeka, hung around for three days waiting for Alfred Power (alias Gerald Lewis alias Thomas Malley), New York bank robber, to claim a package at the general delivery...
...stuck up. The robbers got away with $18,000. In Manhattan, Thomas Malley had registered a black Plymouth coupé, license 4Y-7607. That was the car in which a man had been making calls at the post office in Topeka. If he came back, the general delivery clerk was to give the tip-off to Agent Baker. On the third noon of Agent Baker's vigil, the clerk gave the signal...
Agitated telephone calls between London and British diplomatic agents in Saint-Jean-de-Luz were not made clearer by the fact that the captains of three of the stymied British freighters were named Jones. A consular clerk speeded matters considerably by naming them after their respective cargoes: Potato Jones, Ham & Egg Jones, Corn Cob Jones. Bravest of the lot, because he is part owner of his ship, was Captain David (Potato) Jones of the Marie Llewellyn. Attempting to run the blockade, he nearly ran down the British destroyer Brazen, was shepherded back to port where his cargo began to spoil...
Immediate construction of a traffic circle at the Cambridge end of the Larz Anderson bridge is proposed in a bill filed today with the clerk of the Senate by Senator Arthur F. Blanchard...