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...days later, 200 miles away near Douglas, Ariz., a band of 20 Apaches were caught "rustling" cattle. They battled white ranchers from ambush. Five Apaches were killed, one rancher was wounded...
Once Mrs. Dugan was a cabaret entertainer in Juneau, Alaska. In 1927 she was a housekeeper for an aged rancher at Tucson, Ariz. Apparently hoping to get his property, she murdered him, buried his body in a shallow grave, fled in his automobile. She was accused of murder only after she had spent a year in a New York prison for stealing...
...light planes, the Barling NB3, same ship in which the late Urban Dite-man, Montana rancher, insisted on undertaking another unsuccessful trans-Atlantic passage, was most efficient, highly airworthy. The GeeBee, a newcomer from Springfield, Mass., has full releasable controls so that the pilot need not beat his student unconscious if he "freezes" to them...
Living above a cigar store is only one of President Hipölito Irigoyen's minor idiosyncrasies. Aged 76, he looks about 60. He quit law school as a young man to become a cattle rancher, became independently wealthy before entering politics. Twice elected President (1916 & 1928) he is today virtual dictator of the Argentine. Because of his beef income, he gives his salary to charity. He has been aptly called a "Radical Autocrat...
...filled eyes-is that of Patrick Sullivan, born on St. Patrick's Day 64 years ago in County Cork, Ireland. Governor Emerson of Wyoming appointed him to the Warren vacancy. Since 1917 he has been Wyoming's Republican National Committeeman. Like his predecessor a wealthy sheep rancher, Senator Sullivan grew up with the West, prospered with its oil. He lives at Casper in the State's finest mansion. Plain, bighearted, full of fight or banter, Irishman Sullivan was undisturbed by reports that the Senate might question his right to membership because of a quirk juggled into...