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...court Prosecutor Vernon Ferguson of Los Angeles, assisted by Prosecutor John J. McMahon of San Francisco, set forth the charges on which he expected to send the defendants to jail. Two years ago, cried Prosecutor Ferguson, Reginald L. Rankin, a onetime Washington lumberman, conceived the idea of a great businesslike abortaria chain to accommodate the thousands of California, Oregon and Washington women who wished to avoid the logical result of conception. First step was to make a deal with a skilled operator, Dr. George Eliot Watts of Los Angeles, graduate of the University of Oregon Medical School...
Tall, bald, genial President Alexander was a lumberman's son, studied forestry in the U. S. and Germany, worked in the woods in Wisconsin and Oregon, where he once walked out on strike with IWWorkers. He married a lumberman's daughter, still has big lumber and paper interests. Until last year Ben Alexander ran Masonite from Wausau, Wis., his home town. There he gave the city an airport, was rated First Citizen, bore the distinction of having installed the first home bar in Wausau. Now Ben Alexander lives in Chicago's Drake Towers with his dark, slim...
...Peterson) are battling a diphtheria epidemic under adverse circumstances. It is the dead of Canadian winter. Wires have broken down. The village of Moosetown is cut off from the world. There is almost no serum left. The doctor's nephew, summoned by one of the doctor's lumberman patients with a homemade radio, arrives by plane with...
Pete was thought to be the bastard of Old Man Bayliss, soundly-hated lumber tycoon who ground his workers' faces in the sawdust and worse. Pete was even suspected of being Bayliss' spy. When a lumberman was killed because of faulty machinery, Pete, who was handy, came in for a thoroughly popular licking. Pete took it and said nothing, but when he had proved his paternity he went on to show his brotherhood by joining the workers fight against Boss Bayliss. Mario, the Filipino who had beaten Pete, was almost killed by vigilantes. But the organization...
...time for the Mendieta speech over COCO 16 men with submachine guns and pistols shot the radio tubes and equipment of station CMQ to blazes for a $40,000 loss. At about the same time Nicolas Castano Padilla, 66-year-old Havana banker, importer, sugar mill owner and lumberman, was kidnapped and held for $300,000 ransom. At once 4,500 Cuban police and soldiers and 300 secret service agents were let loose upon Havana to catch the kidnappers, and amid seething turmoil the opposition demanded for perhaps the dozenth time that President Mendieta resign...