Word: maile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...barrel, Herbert Niccolls shot & killed the aged officer. At his trial it was brought out the boy's father was in a hospital for the criminally insane. Already Herbert was something of a criminal prodigy: at nine he had stolen an automobile, and tried his hand at a mail robbery. For the latter offense he was jailed 15 months, later released in the custody of his grandmother. A rural jury thought Herbert was a fairly hopeless case, felt that he should be locked up in Walla Walla penitentiary for the rest of his life...
...Next day more. Fortunately he had sufficient money to surrender his pastorate, raise his daughter and two sons, and devote himself entirely to his Save-a-Life League. Cases which a country rest might cure he takes to his 21-room home at Hastings-on-Hudson, north of Manhattan. Mail inquiries he refers to League contacts in Boston, Chicago, San Francisco. Very soon Chicago will have a formal agency, like Manhattan's tan's. At 64, Dr. Warren believes he has saved at least 25,000 lives...
From the first of the year until last week only eight airmail pilots were killed in crashes. Within five clays last week another died and one saved himself. As usual, the mail was saved...
...fell upon two unoccupied automobiles. Floating earthward Pilot Melvin Garlow of Pennsylvania Airlines got his 'chute fouled on a cornice of the building. He cut himself loose, reached the ground with only a sprained ankle. Before accepting aid, Pilot Garlow crawled into his wrecked plane, made sure his mail was safe...
...Salt Lake City, while a blinding snowstorm raged, the airport radioman heard the voice of Pilot Norman W. Potter, flying up from Oakland with the night transcontinental mail: "Eight miles north of Grantsville. Heavy snow. All O. K." He heard no more; Pilot Potter did not bring the mail in. Next day a searching party found him dead in the wreckage of his plane, under eight inches of snow, only ten miles from the Salt Lake airport. His mail cargo, scattered about, was recovered. Pilot Potter's death was the second in United Air Lines' five years operation...