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...handed a paper-apparently a petition-to a soldier guard. Then he stepped back, whipped out a revolver, fired two shots at the Chancellor. Doughty little Dollfuss staggered, then calmly walked to his automobile. Surgeons found one bullet in his shirt where it had bounced off a rib. The other had only scratched his arm. Safe and sound at home, the Chancellor prepared to make a radio broadcast that night. Meanwhile his assailant, an ex-soldier named Rudolph Dertil who had been ousted from the Army as a Nazi agitator, explained: "I wanted to show that Dollfuss is unable...
...duck shot, was received in the left side at not more than two or three feet distance from the muzzle of the piece, . . . carrying away by its force the integuments more than the size of the palm of a man's hand; blowing off and fracturing the sixth rib . . . , fracturing the fifth, rupturing the lower portion of the left lobe of the lung and lacerating the stomach by a spicule of the rib that was blown through its coat; landing the charge, wadding, fire in among the fractured ribs and lacerated muscles and integuments and burning the clothing...
...LOOSE RIB-Austen Allen-Kinsey ($2). Mr. Ferring, tycoon of crime, murders cleverly, leaves many false clues, and finally escapes the Yard...
UNDER THE FIFTH RIB-C. E. M. Joad-Dutton ($3.75). Autobiography of a belligerent British professor...
...French Line, was severely wounded when his host's shotgun went off accidentally. Carried from the field through swamps and thickets on a litter of branches and gunnysacks, he was taken to a Savannah hospital where it was found that the charge had blown away part of a rib and collarbone, lodged 100 pellets in a lung. He was expected to recover...