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...revolutionary change in the classification of types of work to be done by patrolmen" constitutes the crucial recommendation for the improvement of the Boston police department made by the Harvard Crime Survey in its volume, "Police Administration in Boston," which is published by the Harvard University Press this week. The book is the work of Leonard V. Harrison, of New York, N. Y., a police expert of many years standing...
...once from Kansas City. Bridges and highway junctions were barricaded and guarded. State patrolmen scooted up & down all main roads. A National Guard plane, fitted with a two-way radio and a machine gun, was sent from St. Louis. Yet through this massed force of the Law, Floyd and his two companions filtered northward to Minnesota, only to cut back into Iowa, and down to Missouri. Near Mexico, Mo., a salesman reported that he had been forced at gun's point to push a stalled car in which he was sure sat Floyd. A few miles south 25 peace...
...days later a mob of 500 disgruntled "Islamites" roared up in front of police headquarters. "Get along," said five patrolmen...
...black mongrel dog adrift on an ice cake in the Delaware River. He did not know how the dog had come there, but he knew how to get it off. That was what Philadelphia's Harbor Patrol was for. Four miles downstream the police boat Blankenburg, with 17 patrolmen aboard, put out to the rescue. An hour's churning through the ice-choked river brought it abreast of the derelict. Glowing with humane sentiments, Patrolman Edward Corliss crawled out on the ice. The dog snapped and snarled. Rescuer Corliss toppled into the freezing Delaware. His 16 comrades made...
...Goldsboro, one Gene Roberts, newshawk, promoted a Hoovercart Rodeo as a publicity stunt. Goldsboro entertained its biggest crowd since William Jennings Bryan spoke there 34 years ago. Some 400 Hoovercarts paraded through the town. Streets were jammed. Goldsboro's police and four State highway patrolmen could not untangle the traffic jam. Filling stations did their best day's business in many a month?selling hay. Angry politicians had newsreel photographers barred, pleaded with Newshawk Roberts to publicize the carts as Depression Chariots. It was too late. Signs on the carts proclaimed: HOOVER GOT MY MULE, THE SPIRIT OF HOOVER...