Word: hold-up
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...Collins (alias Chester Howard), 27 got out of San Quentin Prison last month after doing a stretch for a payroll hold-up in San Diego. Last week in Reno, Nev. he ran across two former pals who were with him on the San Diego job. They urged him to join them in a new robbery. He said he was going straight. To fortify his soul he attended evening services at the Reno Baptist Church...
...direct trade with the Gold Coast, went to Manhattan to set up another trading company, and when he is done he will set up a third in Holland. Meanwhile, supervision of the cocoa burning is left to an organization with the name of the Gold Coast and Nigeria Hold-Up Committee...
...flier at rum-running results in the confiscation of his boat, the loss of an arm. So the way is paved to the last, most desperate venture of all-an attempt to provide a getaway, in a borrowed boat, for a quartet of bank robbers fleeing from a hold-up at Key West. Morgan's previous forays had been characterized by double-dealing on the part of all concerned, but in this one the cards are on the table: he knows that unless he kills them first the four will most certainly kill him, as soon...
...Children of Strangers is a beautiful, chaste mulatto girl named Famie. Trouble begins when she spies on a red-headed white camper across the river, is seduced by him, but keeps going back. Her romance ends when the sheriff kills her lover, who is wanted for a Texas hold-up murder. After her redheaded, white baby is born she marries the conscience-stricken cousin who tipped off the sheriff after following her one night. But the child is the only thing she has any thought for. Until he is 13 she is still bathing him like a baby. Later...
...hours later, a hold-up man entered Harry Millstine's station, took the cash register's contents, tersely commanded the attendant to wait on a customer who happened to drive up. Mindful of what he had seen in "Radio Patrol," Millstine turned on his pump, the robber looming suspiciously over him. The pump began to click and the measuring bell had pinged once when Millstine suddenly wheeled around. Whoosh! went the acrid stream of gasoline, in good funnypaper style, squarely between the bandit's eyes. When he got them clear again, he was in jail...