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Last week Deputy Sheriff Roy Smith, fat, officious, went to the De King home with the warrant. It was 9 p. m. De King refused to let him in. Smith went away, returned before midnight with three more deputies. They surrounded the house, threw mustard bombs, rushed the door. De King was clubbed into unconsciousness. Lillian De King, his wife, was at a telephone, screaming "Help! Help!" over the wire to their lawyer. Deputy Sheriff Smith fired a shotgun loaded with slugs point- blank into her abdomen. She wilted to the floor, dead. Gerald De King, 12-year...
Winston won both the drop kicking and kicking off contests yesterday, beating C. O. Newhardt '31 and J. W. Potter '30 in each of these respectively. In the forward pass receiving competition R. S. Ogden '31 proved to be the most adept at snaring the forwards that Coach Casey threw. Nathaniel Warner '30 captain-elect of the University wrestling team, won the center passing contest for accuracy. Newhardt captured honors for linemen by winning the coming out of the line competition...
Thornton Niven ("Bridge of San Luis Rey") Wilder threw light upon his past work, and perhaps suggested the nature of future accomplishment, when he announced last week to fiction-conscious Bostonians that: "Literature is the orchestration of platitudes...
Insistent has been the rumor of a merger between Radio Corp. of America and Western Union Telegraph Co. Presidents of both companies have admitted "conversations." denied merger plans. Last week it became apparent that at least one current merger denial was supported by the facts. Abruptly, R.C.A. threw down the gage of battle to Western Union and announced the birth of R.C.A. Communications, Inc., to compete directly with U.S. telegraph companies...
Certainly much larger is the yet unfound meteorite which ripped into northeastern Arizona an unknown number of years ago and formed Meteor Crater (also called Coon Butte) about two miles east of Canyon Diablo. That meteorite ploughed a circular hole 4,000 ft. in diameter. 600 ft. deep, and threw up a rim 150 ft. above the surrounding plain. For years miners have been trying to locate its buried mass, for the sake of its iron and nickel...