Word: maile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weeks ago one Herbert Hyman Hornstein, highbrowed Brown University graduate in the class of 1932, was arrested in Los Angeles. He had passed a $20 bill recognized as part of $129,000 stolen from a U.S. mail truck in Fall River, Mass, last Jan. 23. Herbert Hornstein's talk set U.S. postal inspectors on the trail of Carl Rettich and his suave, handsome henchman, Andino Merola. One day last fortnight they followed the pair from Providence to Worcester, Mass., lost them there. That night Andino Merola's corpse was found filled with bullets beside a road near Wrentham...
...feet hacked off, gold tooth knocked out, scars sliced away. Most hopeful were they of pinning on the Rettich gang the great $428,000 armored truck robbery in Brooklyn last summer (TIME, Sept. 3), Day by day grew the list of crimes of which the gang was suspected: a mail truck robbery of $100,000 in Warren, Ohio; another of $51,000 in Butler, Pa.; an American Railway Express truck robbery of $10,000 in Perth Amboy, N. J.; three Massachusetts bank robberies totaling $51,500; a $200,000 jewel robbery in Magnolia. Mass, last summer; the O'Connell...
...twisted his knee. Starving, he killed a dog, ate it. became deathly sick. Two days later he reeled into an Eskimo village where trappers from Baker Lake found him. First thing Adventurer Irwin wanted last week was a telegraph blank. Said he: "I guess Mother is worried about me. Mail has been a bit uncertain...
...Pilot Carmichael will probably go the Air Mail Fliers' Medal, first awarded to Northwest Airlines' Mai Freeburg in 1932 for a similar feat...
...over the other stages of the far-flung air-way-to Midway and Wake Islands, Guam, Manila and China. When the pioneer work is done-possibly by late sum-mer-Glenn Martin's huge Clipper No. 7 will inaugurate regular scheduled commercial service over the airway, first with mail only, eventually with passengers...