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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...picking over a lakefront dump found the dissected body of a young white woman, wrapped in butcher's paper. From its condition it had apparently been kept on ice for some time before being buried on the dump. While police were examining this find, morbid onlookers discovered, 100 ft. away, parts of another, older cadaver, apparently a Negro's. Cleveland's police declared the crimes to be jobs No. 12 and No. 13 of "The Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run" (a title conferred by Cleveland newspapers). The mysterious murderer is believed to have murdered at least five...
...together, clear the land of present slum buildings, if any. When any owner buys his land back, WPAsters will pull down the collapsible houses and put them up on another $1 plot, a job that can be completed in 24 hours. The up-&-down houses will be small (32 ft. by 20 ft.), have modern kitchens and bathrooms, but no gadgets. Declared enthusiastic Promoter Hall: "Our project is the only one in the world which will rehouse the same family in the same location at the same rent at no cost to the taxpayer...
...whose radio-controlled plane has completed 160 landings without a hand on the controls; Major Edwin R. Page, in whose laboratories engines with 3,000 h.p. in a single unit soon will be on test; Major George W. Goddard, whose color cameras capable of making pictures at 15,000 ft. altitude and 200 m.p.h. are revolutionizing air reconnaissance. In the army arsenal at Springfield, Mass., is Consulting Engineer John C. Garand, whose semiautomatic, 30-round-per-minute shoulder rifle will, by its increased firepower, vastly affect infantry practice (and increase the hazards of the U. S. and all armies...
...ft. statue of Washington carved by the late Sculptor Lorado Taft, which for 29 years had ignominiously squatted "in the mud" in Seattle, Wash., was upped to a 27-ft. pedestal near University of Washington's Henry Art Gallery. Found under Washington's feet were three undignified objects: a whiskey bottle cap, a punctured balloon, and a bemired note to "Dear Harry." The note: "Hiya, egg. . . . What have you been doing lately? Do you still go on those long walks like we used to? 'Bye, you snow bat.* Can you read this? If I thought you could...
...While a large gallery gaped and tittered, Actress Lawrence stepped up to the tee of the 184-yd. eighth, removed her shoes, borrowed a spoon, took a healthy swat at the ball. It fell short. She took another, got closer. The third ball plopped on the green, rolled 5 ft. 6 in. from the cup. Asked her handicap. Golfer Lawrence explained: "My handicap is the ball...