Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seconds before flames surrounded the wreck something happened which soon made more news than the crash. Three employes of the nearby plant of North American Aviation saw an injured man in the wreck, dragged him out. The Douglas company identified the passenger as "Smithin, a mechanic." But reporters learned at Santa Monica Hospital that the man with a broken leg, wrenched back and battered head was in fact Captain Paul Chemidlin, a French military observer...
Also published last week was the news that France has just doubled an order made last year for 100 Curtiss-Wright Pursuit ships of a type already in U. S. Army use, and plans to buy perhaps 400 more planes (reportedly through financing arranged with Franklin Roosevelt's assistance...
Last week Japan's Domei news agency-as it has more than once before-triumphantly reported that the old warlord had agreed to head their Chinese Government. Next day from Wu's spokesman came his usual denial. A crafty Japanese censor at Peiping had read a telegram General Wu had sent to friends in which he said he was ready "to overcome any difficulties to secure peace." The phrase, said the spokesman, was lifted from the wire, sent to Japan where Domei converted it into an acceptance of Japan's offer...
DEATH PLAYS SOLITAIRE-R. L. Goldman- Coward-McCann ($2). News Publisher Asaph Clume and Reporter Rufus Reed again team up, crack the secret behind the shooting of a criminal lawyer. Tough, but not bogus tough...
FOUR FRIGHTENED WOMEN - George Harmon Coxe-Knopf ($2). News Photographer Kent Murdock gets seriously involved with the murder of a comic actor's exwife. Two more murders and a kidnapping before the payoff...