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...fabric. But they might have struck machinery, caused disaster. Had the Los Angeles been inflated with inflammable hydrogen instead of inert helium, she might have blown up. And anyway, it is not proper to shoot at the U. S. Navy's one and only big dirigible. Carpenter Merton Hankins, the lilliputian gunner, was arrested. Last week he was tried for assault with attempt to kill...
...heard him make his admission. It was just a "lark" for him, he said. He and four other New Jerseyites had been shooting at a target in one of their back yards. They drank some New Jersey stuff and decided to go hunting deer. They sighted the Los Angeles. Merton Hankins wanted a ride. He waved his hands. He shouted. He jumped up and down. He turned capers. Lieutenant Commander Herbert V. Wiley of the Los Angeles paid no heed, so Merton Hankins fired his shotgun at the ship, he said, "just to attract attention...
...jury found Merton Hankins not guilty of assault, evidently because his reputation as a larkster was well established. Two years ago, when the Flatbrook Valley Club refused to let him fish in its privately stocked trout pools, near Newton, N. J., Jokester Hankins opened the dam, let out the water, killed most of the fish. For that he was fined...
Engaged. Glenn Hunter, actor of boy-parts (Merton of the Movies, Young Woodley, Spring is Here); to one Babe Egan, vaudeville violinist, leader of a female orchestra (Hollywood Redheads), daughter of a Mr. & Mrs. Jack Egan of Portland, Ore. Immediately following the announcement, Miss Egan sailed for Europe, Actor Hunter remained in Manhattan...
...following article, the last of a series of six, was written for the Crimson by Andrew Vincent Corry '26, a Rhodes Scholar, now in his second year at Merton College, Oxford...