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...formed in Austria, after Dollfuss' assassination, by the late Chancellor's treacherous Minister to Italy. Dr. Anton Rintelen who sought to commit suicide when the insurrection failed. Dr. Rintelen was convalescent last week and Director Apold was supposed to know something about an attempt by Nazis to kidnap Rintelen out of his hospital ''because he knows too much." This attempt Vienna police foiled in time's nick. Last week Director Apold, who may yet hang with Dr. Rintelen, made not the smallest protest as the Government confiscated $70,000 worth of his goods, in effect...
Lester M. Gillis, alias George ("Baby Face") Nelson, 25, second-in-command of the Dillinger gang. Robbery put Gillis in Joliet in 1931. Last January he helped kidnap Edward G. Bremer in St. Paul. In April he killed a Federal agent while the Dillinger gang was shooting its way out of the Little Bohemia roadhouse in Wisconsin. The U. S. will...
...cinema and vaudeville offers made to his kidnap-recovered daughter, June Robles, Fernando Robles said: "I plan to accept one of the offers and take $1,500 of the proceeds and set it aside as a reward for the capture of the kidnappers...
Reports were broadcast last night that members of the Yale Record, in retaliation for the theft of the Bulldog were plotting to kidnap Hanfstaengl on his way to Cambridge.Cut Courtesy of the Boston Post.Nazi Official In 1909 and Today...
...prize fights. He always wore high-heeled polished boots (he bought his first pair of shoes last year for $13.87). His administration was nationally criticized in 1932 when he refused to pardon famed Convict Tom Mooney, and in 1933 when he declared he would pardon the lynchers of the kidnap-murderers of Brooke Hart if they were arrested (TIME, Dec. 4). Frank F. Merriam succeeds him as Governor...