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...Four men entered Pana, Ill. early one morning last week, ate a good breakfast and then drove on to First National Bank. There they forced the janitor who was washing windows to let them in by a rear door. While one robber directed operations with a submachine gun, another made the assistant cashier open the vault. Having packed $27,600 into two suitcases, the robbers fled. Suspected was Desperado John Dillinger...
Died. Thomas A. Holt, 38, University of Michigan "human rabbit"; by his own hand (hanging) after murdering his wife; near Imlay City, Mich. Nine years ago "Human Rabbit" Holt offered to commit suicide, sell his body to the University of Michigan for experimentation. Instead he was made janitor, later consented to live in a glass cage, undergo feeding experiments conducted by Michigan's Dr. Louis Harry Newburgh...
...down, startled parents learned of a teacher so self-conscious that she had poked a chair-leg into a boy's eye and twisted it ''to distract attention of the class" from herself. Another had sat furred and hatted in a warm room complaining that the janitor was trying to freeze her. Several had commuted to work from suburban White Plains' Bloomingdale Hospital for mental ailments...
...McNamara, seized the smouldering piece of furniture and hurled the mattress out of the window. As soon as it reached the ground, the mattress started to blaze, and after several buckets of water had failed to quench the flames, the day was saved by the appearance of the janitor with a fire extinguisher. The damage was pronounced negligible...
Driven out by her former protector, the janitor of Harvard Hall, Sarah, Yard eat and mouser extraordinary, is now anticipating a blessed event under the sponsorship of the Stoughton janitor. Sarah has been biologically different of late and a brood of kittens is expected within the next two weeks. Her former protector drove her out, not desiring the confusion and flurry always attendant up on childbirth. The Stoughton janitor, however, a farsighted and economically-minded man, has plans in store for the brood. He will expect them to earn their unkeep by being rented out for mousing throughout the Yard...