Word: los
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week immigration inspectors in Los Angeles heard that ten Chinese immigration-law evaders were being smuggled over the Mexican border in airplanes. Hastening to the Eagle airport, landing field near Los Angeles, they hid in the weeds and bushes, waiting. Toward dawn three airplanes arrived. Before the first to land had come to a full stop, officials ran forward with drawn guns. According to their version, the aviator attempted to take to the air, whereupon they fired, killed the aviator, captured the two other pilots, found no Chinese. In the running gear of the planes were tangled bunches...
...since Queen Marie of Rumania crossed the land has there been such a transcontinental spectacle in the U. S. One hundred leather-lunged, semi-nude runners jog out of Los Angeles. Judges, timekeepers, trainers, newspapermen, wives, best girls, small brothers jostle along behind the joggers in an enormous motor cavalcade...
...Chihuahua, Mexico, whose sandals go clump-hua-clump-hua. . . . They sit in ditches and catch their breath. They sleep in haystacks, hotels, Hupmobiles. They suck lemons, swallow dry toast, regird their loins and start jog-jog-jogging again. Only the fools sprint. It is 3,000 miles from Los Angeles to Manhattan, where a $25,000 prize, fat vaudeville contracts and the plaudits of a multitude await the first super-marathoner to stagger across the finish line within 100 days of the starting pistol crack...
Married. Rev. Dr. Charles Henry Parkhurst, 85, potent reformer; to Mrs. Eleanor Marx, 65, onetime companion of the first Mrs. Parkhurst; in Los Angeles. As president of the Society for the Prevention of Crime, in 1891 he instigated the Lexow investigation of the New York Police Department. Richard Croker fled to Europe; Tammany Hall was defeated in the following election; Theodore Roosevelt was appointed Police Commissioner...
Died. Frank Chaney, 76, father of famed Cinemactor Lon Chaney; in Los Angeles...