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Rats leave a sinking ship, but in the smoldering wreckage of the British airship R-101 a host of rats was found swarming soon after the crash at Beauvais, France. Rats like the banana oil smell and taste of the "dope" (cellulose acetate or cellulose nitrate) used for coating aircraft fabrics. Question before the crash court of inquiry in London this week: Were the rats in the wreckage French rats or were they British stowaways in the R-101, had they gnawed a freshly doped balloonet of hydrogen until the gas leaked...
Manhattan police last week arrested nine men for selling narcotics, chiefly heroin, on the streets. The arrests indicated that a "dope ring" had parceled out the island to pedlers, whose sales aggregated $100,000 weekly. A few days before these arrests the police discovered the ring's arsenal-guns and other murderous .instruments in an apartment two blocks from sociologically famed Henry Street Settlement in the lower East Side. The weapons were used to destroy poachers who sneaked into allotted narcotic districts...
Died. William E. Swift, 35, son of Louis Franklin Swift, Chicago meat- packer; by his own hand with a revolver in Dr. Edward Spencer Cowles's Park Avenue sanitarium for rich neurasthenics, dope-fiends and alcoholics (TIME, June 9), on the same floor where Actress Jeanne Eagels died in convulsions (TIME, Oct. 14). He had been under Dr. Cowles's care for eight months. Some hours before the suicide Swift's nurse saw the revolver strapped to his arm, told Dr. Cowles. Dr. Cowles instructed the weapon be removed when Swift fell asleep. Dr. Charles Norris...
...Listen Harry, I like your face. Let me give you a hot tip: lay off Chicago and the money hungry reporters. No one man will ever realize just how big it is, so lay off. . . . They'll make a monkey out of you. No matter what dope you give that grand jury, the boys will prove you're a liar and a faker. You'll get a trimming...
...mile, and distance-medley relay teams will also be entered by Harvard. For the first time in 16 years the Penn four-mile relay team rules favorite to win the event at this annual carnival, a prophecy that should put the Harvard runners on their mettle to upset the dope. Besides the relay team, Lawson Robertson, coach of the Pennsylvania team is bringing to the meet the greatest collection of milers he has had since taking up the coaching reins 15 years ago. In the mile Indiana has a veteran combination, but Cobb and Hallowell should prove dangerous. Butler College...