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...prisoner when he emerged. The Warden informed newsmen that Capone had had scrambled eggs for breakfast. This fact was flashed over the country. From Harrisburg came word that Governor Fisher had signed the necessary papers for Capone's release at 11:07 a.m., that a special courier was carrying them to the penitentiary. A rumor spread that an airplane awaited Capone at Camden...
Rebels were rising in the back country. That morning a wireless message had come through that revolutionists had captured the city of Santiago de los Caballeros, were advancing on the capital. Minister Curtis ordered Courier Cabot to Santiago de los Caballeros to find out what the leaders of the revolution wanted. One hundred and nine miles and a mountain range with peaks 10,000 feet high separate the city of Santo Domingo from Santiago de los Caballeros. The road, fortunately for Courier Cabot, has been recently improved. Disregarding possible bandits, sharpshooters, expecting every instant to strike a battle in full...
Open rebellion was declared fortnight ago by a group under the leadership of "Supreme Chief" Rafael Estrella Urena. It was to him that Courier Cabot raced...
...their barracks, the invasion of Santo Domingo city began. Two thousand revolutionists, mostly farmers in blue overalls with rifles slung from their shoulders, sauntered into town. Citizens cheered half-heartedly from the curbstones. Back from Santiago de los Caballeros came the mud-spattered runabout coupe, and seated beside Courier Cabot was "Supreme Chief" Urena. On his head, a slouch hat, from the pocket of his flannel shirt protruded a fountain pen, from his shoulder hung a broad-bladed sword, its handle ivory-inlaid. U. S. Minister Curtis ran over from his legation. Ensued a weighty conference at the Presidential mansion...
With his major international problem thus well in hand, M. Maniu turned reluctantly to a pile of documents just brought by special courier from the Rumanian Legation at Berlin, dealing with the ab normality of Count Alexander von Hochberg, fiance of Princess Ileana of Rumania (TIME...