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Oklahoma last week added to the list of 1930 lynchings. At the Chickasha jail, hundreds of mobsters besieged the guards of black Henry Argo, attacker of white Mrs. George W. Skinner and her child. During successive rushes the mob fired the jail, smoked out many of its defenders. A sniper climbed to Argo's cell, shot him in the head. Husband Skinner broke in and stabbed the prostrate body. Argo was smuggled as dead into a hearse, driven to an Oklahoma City hospital before he died...
...Lost Patrol (British). There was material for a masterpiece in the situation of these eleven soldiers on the Sahara desert. They had been riding under sealed orders to an unknown destination. A sniper kills their lieutenant and the Arabs steal their horses. Nothing can save them from dying or being shot down on the colorless sand, under the sun like a furnace door, and die they do, one by one-an artist, a vaudeville trouper, a farmer, a clerk, a wagon driver, a prizefighter, an evangelist. Their reactions to the death sentence and the way in which the sentence...
...years ago, stores, theatres ard even churches in Omaha were closed and darkened after nightfall for fear of the "phantom sniper," a creature who, invisible for nearly two weeks, moved through the evening streets firing a silent pistol at whatever human targets took his fancy in the house windows or under streetlights. A contractor was first to die. Then a doctor was slain in his office. A railroad detective was riddled in the freight yards. A bullet smashed past a girl at a drugstore counter. The "phantom" also went shooting in Council Bluffs, Iowa, across the Missouri River. His weapon...
...being shelled by the counter-barrage of our own allies. The cupoia has evidently been mistaken for the alcove of enemy sniper-philologists. The barrage is mainly giant hugos. Thus far none of these has taken affect, but my men are on the point of mutiny from another reason. Those tiny diabolical maupaasants and balance, of short range but exquisite torturing power, even to the most hardened bibliophile, are driving them to the point of madness. . . . I am planning this bluebook in the hands of my sleekest section...
...crown the anti-Yaqui campaign of the week, came news that War Minister Amaro was seriously wounded by a reputed Yaqui sniper near Ocotlan- though in other despatches he who sniped was said to be a mutinied Mexican trooper...