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...foggy morning last week 17 convicts and two guards trudged out to a timber patch on a prison farm near Crockett, Tex. Suddenly Convict Joe Palmer dived head-first into a brushpile, came up with a .45 automatic in his hand. While he blazed at the guards two more convicts scooped two more guns out of the brush. Somewhere behind a barn a horn honked steadily. Out of rank weeds edging a ditch two men rose, splattered machine gun and pistol bullets around the wounded guards as five prisoners scrambled toward the honking horn. Fugitives and deliverers then roared...
John Bamber Hickam '36, of Galveston, Texas, has been awarded the Jacob Wendell Scholarship, one of the leading undergraduate honors at the University, it was announced yesterday. Hickam prepared at the Western High School in Washington, D. C., but his home is at Fort Crockett, in Galveston where his father is an officer in the United States Air Corps. He ended his Freshman year in the highest group of the rank list, and is now specializing in Bio-Chemical Sciences in preparation for the study of medicine after graduation...
Eleven women are entered so far in th four classes. In the Ladies Singles are Betty Howe, Hasel Crockett, Betty Lincoln, Louise Maguire, and Henrietta Young. F. H. Edwards and W. White are in the Narrow Compromise race; Polly Mitchell in the Broad Comp; and H. Armitage, H. Hubbard, and J. Osborn are entered in the Wherry Race. Each race will have to have at least four or five entrants to make it worth running...
...Austin, Annah Blood, Beatrice Cohen, Hazel Crockett, Alice Dickson, Margaret Fish, Elizabeth Fisher, Louise Fielding, Sylvia Greenfield, Joan Henning, Betty Howe, Elizabeth Lincoln, Eisa Marlow, Polly Mittel, Eleanor Ovaus, Mignonne Politz, Ruth Rubinsky, Florence Usher, Helen Savage and Henrietta Young...
...Amateur Air Pilots' Association who left Long Island Aviation Country Club in cavalcade three days before the meet began, only two?George Mallory Pynchon Jr. and Paula Lind? arrived on the opening day. The others were scattered, fogbound, between Sarasota, Fla. and Richmond, Va. Twenty attack planes from Fort Crockett, Tex., were still at Tallahassee on the second day of the races. A Boiling Field contingent was turned back by fog over South Carolina, When better weather seemed likely the races were extended an extra day to permit weather-bound emigrants to arrive in time for some of the sport...