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Vanishing American. In Albuquerque, Police Chief Pat O'Grady was mortified when a woman whom he held for investi gation as an alien was found to be a Pueblo squaw...
...deportation to Rumania, she marched into a Chicago court, changed her story, insisted she betrayed Dillinger. In return, said Tipstress Sage Melvin Purvis, then chief Chicago investigator of the Department of Justic promised to sidetrack deportation proceedings against her. While Director J. Edgar Hoover of the Division of Invest gation denied any such deal, the Chicago judge granted a temporary writ to prevent her deportation...
...course with blind-flying instruments. Engineering Officer Wright had 71 other instruments to read. Weather reports were received every 20 minutes, position reports transmitted every half-hour. The ship flew steadily at 6,000 ft. above a heavy layer of clouds, blotting out the ocean. As night fell Navi gation Officer Noonan made a dozen trips to the aft observation hatch to ''shoot the stars." At midnight the men shared a supper of special self-heating foods. No one slept in the comfortable after-cabin berths. All night the four Hornets droned...
...persistent Washington rumor of last week was that President Roosevelt had been nagged into canceling the airmail contracts by Senators Black and McKellar who felt the airmail investi- gation was about to expire for lack of public attention unless the White House acted dramati-cally...
Chargé d'Affaires Légation Impériale de Perse Washington...