Word: reds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...night month ago the S. S. District of Columbia, ancient sidewheeler of the Norfolk & Washington Steamboat Co., chuffed down the quiet Potomac on its regular overnight run from Washington to Norfolk. About midnight a ''red-faced'' man stepped up to the deserted refreshment counter and ordered a bottle of beer. Just as he was served, a lean, bespectacled, elderly man, whose grey head was topped with a brown beret, sauntered up beside him. Because they seemed to be total strangers, the clerk was surprised when the red-faced man handed his beer over...
...cabin which the man in the beret had occupied was found empty, in violent disorder, its washstand and the catwalk outside its open, window bloodstained. On the floor were shattered glasses, a wrist watch, its metal band wrenched and broken, and a nickel. No one could place his red-faced friend, but purser's records identified the missing man as Charles F. Keene. His disappearance was apparently the first drama in Mr. Keene's life. He had lived with his wife in a modest residential hotel in Washington, had a son who had graduated from Annapolis. Once...
...this was mysterious enough, but it looked as if the man with the red face was the missing link and that with his capture all could be explained. Three days after Keene's body was found, into the police station he walked-and out again, as free as ever. If anything, his story only made the Potomac Mystery more mysterious...
...with the red face said he was James Starkey, 53, civil engineer with the Resettlement Administration and lifelong friend of Keene. He had not known the latter was going to be on the boat when he took it on Government business, had run into him on deck. He said he found Keene moody, evasive, had worried about him. This apparently accounted for the clerk's difficulty in understanding the relationship. When Keene had disappeared for a few hours and Starkey had questioned him, Starkey quoted his reply: "I've been in my stateroom talking over my deal." With...
...crews go to Red Top tomorrow and they will row there in the afternoon, and from then on twice daily until the races. The combination crews will race Thursday afternoon, June 24, while the other three will face the Elis on the next...