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...Brothers, Jewish theatre owners and musicomedy producers, once most prosperous, now bankrupt, fled Berlin in January. In the Principality of Liechtenstein last week they were ambushed by six young Germans, apparently Nazis. Alfred Rotter and his wife jumped over a cliff to death to avoid kidnapping. Franz Rotter, handcuffed, sprang from the kidnappers' car, broke his shoulder...
Five little white girls between four and eight years old disappeared from Cuban farms near Havana last week. They had no possible interest in upholding or opposing the Machado government. Havana police sprang to action. In a deserted barn near Caimito, 22 mi. from the capital, the children's dismembered bodies were found. In that barn the police also found a crude altar of stones and seashells, a hideous statue of the Goddess Chango, and 28 half-crazed Negroes, two of them with bloody robes and blunt stone axes. The most intelligible of the prisoners, one Jose Delgado, described...
...company in the Suttles Pool where oil was found at three levels. He built a large refinery at Big Spring and a pipe line to it. He bought acreage in Willbarger County-and sold a small part of it for what the whole had cost. From Texas he sprang back into Oklahoma. By 1929 he had sprung back into the boots of a 15-million-dollar...
...state' for Manchukuo. That was one of the errors of the Lytton Report. There is a certain analogy between the Japanese-Manchukuo relationship and the United States-Cuba relationship, but there is also this difference: Japan did not first conquer Manchukuo and then give it virtual independence. Manchukuo sprang into being as an independent state. As such it is not a protectorate, just a friendly nation. . . . Your country has not made the sacrifices in developing its neighbors that Japan has made in Manchuria. I question whether the United States would permit the territory contiguous to the Panama Canal...
...lavish hampers of refreshments, Mr. Clark takes himself magnificently to the polo matches and race meets which decorate Long Island summers. In winter the Clarks go to Melton Mowbray for the hunting. A friendship between Mr. Clark and the Prince of Wales-who visited them in Westbury in 1924-sprang up there one morning when Mr. Clark saw a cow struggling to get out of a fence. He threw his reins to the man nearest him. dismounted, extricated the cow, discovered that the Prince was holding his horse. If Ambrose Clark was disgruntled at the performance of Chadd...