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...changed his name, on orders from Washington, to Peter Hansen. As Hansen, he secured, in an as-yet-unexplained manner, papers from the U. S. District Court in Detroit, Mich., committing him to the Atlanta Penitentiary for a liquor law violation which he had not committed. Warden John W. Snook received him as any other prisoner...
Immediately "Convict Hansen" began to snoop on Warden Snook, to send out secret reports on the prison to Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, Assistant Attorney General in charge of U. S. penal institutions (as well as of Prohibition prosecutions). Finally he was transferred to Leavenworth Penitentiary, and thence released on Mrs. Willebrandt's orders...
...prostrate on, its belly. Within, its crew perspired and waited. Divers descended, hoses were screwed to newly installed valves in the submarine's side, cool air invaded the sunken fish. Soon, afterward the divers attached air hoses to the ballast tanks of the vessel; then, cocking a snook through the heavy glass ports at those within, the divers rose to the surface. Great eddies began to surge from the ballast tanks as the water was forced out. Ten minutes later the submarine gave a lurch and floated aloft...
Engaged. Henry H. Ogden, Los Angeles aviation instructor, U. S. Army round-the-world flyer (1924); to Ulela Snook of Hollywood...
...appeared that Producer Carroll would soon have the opportunity of meeting Warden Snook once more. Owing to alleged "privileges" tendered to distinguished sojourners at Atlanta penitentiary, an investigation was being started last week, by a congressional committee. It was known that delectable Dorothy Knapp had vis ited Producer Carroll during his duress and that she had lunched at the home of Warden Snook. Both Producer Carroll and Performer Knapp would probably be called as witnesses in the forthcoming investigation...