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Gunnery is Admiral Backhouse's specialty and his favorite yarn is about a retired gunner's mate who dozed off and let his evening newspaper fall against the red-hot kitchen stove. "Fire!'" screamed his wife as the paper blazed. Waking up with a start, the mate rammed the family cat into the oven, banged the door and roared, "Ready, Sir." Though the United Kingdom never heard last week that whimsical Admiral Backhouse & Home Fleet had sailed for Gibraltar, the fact of their arrival finally appeared tucked quietly away in London papers, while world headlines were screaming "WAR!" from Chicago...
...Raleigh, N. C., just before he was electrocuted for murder, Sidney Etheridge, 45, Wartime machine-gunner against the Hindenburg Line, gave his recipe for enjoying Hell: "The first thing is to boil your black cat. You get your pot and go into the woods. Just as you get ready to boil your cat, a wind will come through the woods and bow down the limbs of trees and sweep the ground clean for a place for the pot. After you boil the black cat, you pull the bones, every one of them, between your teeth. But first the wind blows...
...Wartime gunner in the 5th Canadian Siege Battery, Dr. Bonnell has held pastorates in Prince Edward Island, St. John, N. B. and Winnipeg where during the past six years he received 1,000 persons into Westminster United Church, drew overflow audiences in two lecture halls adjoining his church. Last year Dr. Bonnell was the youngest man ever to receive a D.D. from his alma mater, Dalhousie University in Halifax. Two sermons at Fifth Avenue Church one Sunday last month were enough to earn Dr. Bonnell the call, which involves $10,000 a year, a three-month vacation and "the equivalent...
Field Marshal George Francis Milne, Baron Milne of Salonika and of Rubislaw, Governor and Constable of His Majesty's Tower of London, Master Gunner of St. James's Park, returning to England with his wife and his daughter from a tour of Australia, landed one icy day at Vancouver, B. C. He tried to get an eastbound train, found Canadian railways buried by snowslides, torn by washouts. Vastly annoyed, Lord Milne, wife & daughter took a train which veered south across the U. S. border, stopped at Seattle. Shortly newshawks came, bothered them with questions. Snapped His Lordship...
Bruno Richard Hauptmann was born at Kamenz, Germany, served as a machine-gunner in a Saxon regiment during the War. In 1919 he was sentenced to five years imprisonment for theft. Released in 1923, he was again arrested for theft, escaped while waiting trial. That same year he arrived in the U. S. as a stowaway on a German liner. Deported, he stowed away again on another ship later in the year. He managed to get ashore, find work as a carpenter in New Jersey and New York. He married in 1925. His Bronx neighbors knew him only for thrift...