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Died. "Big" Arthur Callen, of Philadelphia, veteran racketeer; in West Philadelphia; shot with six soft-nosed bullets by an unidentified gunman. Racketeer Callen who usually wore a bullet-proof vest and travelled in an armored car, was apparently spotted* before dawn, defenseless. In his apartment police found a rifle with silencer, a shot gun, an acetylene torch, nitroglycerine, six pair of canvas gloves and opium equipment...
...that Barbara had merely been duping him. So much did this evidence of duplicity infuriate the upright fellow that he straightway became drunk and stole into the night with Paula. She took him to an unsavory rooming house, where a blue-chinned bootlegger appeared. Boyd sampled his wares and found them unpalatable. When the bootlegger asked for pay, Boyd refused. A tussle ensued. The bootlegger produced a revolver. Paula snatched a convenient bottle and felled him. Then while Boyd dropped in a drunken stupor over the bootlegger's corpse, guilty Paula crept away...
MURDER AT BRATTOX GRANGE-John Rhode-Dodd, Mead ($2). When Sir Hector Davidson was found dead with a metal file driven through his heart, only one person was seriously suspected, Guy Davidson, the heir. First the police charged Guy with the murder; then even Dr. Priestley, famed criminologist whom Guy summoned, found sufficient circumstantial evidence to make the prosecution think it had a clear case. However, by calmly assuming the guilt, Guy was able, on a technicality, to go free. Afterward Dr. Priestley, discovering how the murder really happened, forebore to reveal his knowledge to the State. The story differs...
INFIDELS AND HERETICS, An Agnostic's Anthology-Clarence Darrow & Wallace Rice-Stratford ($3). "Agnostic" in the title is used broadly enough so that all tones from the lightest treble of skepticism to the deepest bass of atheism are to be found in this collection of short thoughts. Some of the contributors, willing or unwilling, are Poets Whitman, Byron, Job, Swinburne, Prosaists Santayana, Nietzsche, Plato, the Huxleys, Clarence S. Darrow. The collection cannot be called exhaustive since so many other "anti-religionaries" are absent-notably Voltaire...
When in the middle of the week Candidate Reid and his 48 competitors entered the Edison plant for their official reception, they found speakers' platforms, microphones, chairs, benches. Pale, a little nervous, the boys sat down. Spectators commented on the normalcy and healthfulness of their appearance, were amused as they recognized the drawl of the south, the slur of the west. Ranging in age from 15 to 21, the boys had come from all classes, from farms, towns, cities. There was the son of the Czecho-Slovakian consul at Pittsburgh, the son of a bishop, a boy brought...