Word: killinger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week portions of two hemispheres were stirred by rumors of a big U. S. gangland war. Prospective war zone: the operative territory of famed Racketeer Jack ("Legs") Diamond. This territory begins in Brooklyn, N. Y., where henchmen of Diamond and Charles ("Vannie") Higgins are blamed for periodic battles with...
For eight years natives of Zululand, Union of South Africa, have been killing off wild animals to protect themselves from sleeping sickness. The slaughter has threatened some African animals with extinction. Dr. William Reid Blair, director of the New York Zoological Park, sent a protesting cable last week to C...
The tsetse fly, carrier of sleeping sickness, chiefly attacks antelope and zebra. Since domestic cattle run loose in South Africa, they come in contact with wild animals, are in turn infected. Natives seeing a wild herd fire indiscriminately, shoot many healthy animals. Last year 20,000 zebras, kudu, buffalo, inyala...
Prime question of the week was: "Who could have wanted to kill Buckley?" Such was his popularity among hundreds of Detroiters for whom he obtained jobs during last winter's depression, and among an increasing radio audience, that his home was deluged with flowers, more than 100,000 viewed...
Charles Bowles, who remains Detroit's Mayor at least until the special election in September, called the killing "a terrible thing," braced himself for a campaign of vindication. He abolished his central vice squad in the police department, started a round of speakeasy raids. Meantime his Commissioner of Public...