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Near Aurora, Ill. L. W. Talbot, driving a truckload of piglets to the Chicago stockyards, had to stop when the road was blanketed by a cloud of smoke from peat fires. Behind him came another truckload of pigs driven by Ellis Johnson, who drove into the smoke, smashed into the rear of Talbot's truck. Behind Johnson came a string of five automobiles. One by one they disappeared in the smoke cloud, each ramming the car ahead. Eighth in line was Elmer Reiser who, suspecting a holdup, swung into the left lane and sped ahead. He smashed into...
...Manhattan, Albert Mailloux and George Beauchamp delivered a truckload of shirts to Dresswell Shirts, Inc. As they waited for the store to open, a coupe drew up behind them, then sped away. Mailloux smelled smoke, ran to the rear of the truck, found a sizzling bomb planted in the shirts. He grabbed it, hurled it to the sidewalk. It landed at the feet of Bystander Bernard Witt, exploded, blew him into the air, broke...
There were plenty of other split pates in Germany last Sunday. In Ketschdorf, near Breslau. a squadron of regular cavalry was called out to capture a band of 150 Communists who had barricaded themselves in an inn after waylaying a truckload of Nazis. There were brawls in Berlin, Cologne, Munich. The situation was serious enough for both Chancellor von Papen and Adolf Hitler to go out to East Neudeck and confer earnestly with President Paul von Hindenburg. First reports were that martial law was about to be declared throughout Germany. Correspondents waited but no announcement appeared. Another story was generally...
...Lubbock, Tex., Herbert D. Bell swapped a truckload of beans for three months room & board at Texas Technological College...
...peddling, specified only the "manufacture and transportation of beer for beverage purposes in the Chicago area on a large scale." Brought to light were 5.000 separate offenses, the unit of manufacture for each offense being one 1,500 gal. vat of beer, the unit of transportation one 30-bbl. truckload...