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News of the kidnapping was withheld for four days while futile efforts were made to locate the 225-pound athlete through various racetrack touts and sporting men who were named as satisfactory intermediaries in a coded newspaper advertisement...
Scarcely 24 hours later, during the race, Spangler's sleek Miller speedster bounced over Driver Malcolm Fox's car, went hurtling into the racetrack wall. The impact flung Spangler and his mechanic on their faces against the brick causeway. Crushed beyond recognition, Spangler died in a hospital. His mechanic was killed almost immediately...
...like all the Dictators before him, was kicked out, came back legally elected in 1931. His most recent puncture occurred last March when he was shot through the chest by one Jose Melgar. Until last week Luis M. Sanchez Cerro had been shot just 16 times. At Santa Beatriz racetrack last week he had just finished reviewing 20,000 young recruits for Peru's undeclared war with Colombia when up stepped a little man in black and shot him through the heart. Pandemonium. Aides, police, guards lining the way, all opened fire at once. Two soldiers were killed...
...horsey Manhattan broker, aftef being repeatedly eluded, seized the Rolls-Royce coupe of John Barry Ryan, eccentric son of the late Financier Thomas Fortune Ryan, in part satisfaction of a judgment of $37,353.46 obtained by Mr. Emanuel for rent on a piece of la>nd near Belmont Park racetrack where Mr. Ryan had thought of starting a racing stable. The Pennsylvania Railroad last week sued Mr. Ryan for $6,000 for parking charges on his private car in its Long Island city yards. Minnesota's Representative Francis Henry Shoemaker, truculent Farmer-Laborite, listened for three nights to revelry...
Later in the week three students met in a house at Marianao, Havana suburb where Oriental Park racetrack is located. A raid by secret police resulted in their deaths. The youths sold their lives dearly, killing three policemen...