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...students have been granted fellowships for 1934-35. James Jackson Cabot Fellowships have been given to John C. Snyder 3M of Pasadena, California; and Henry S. Bennett 2M of Tottori, Japan. John R. Mote 3M of Tucson, Arizona has been named to receive the George Cheyne Shattuck Memorial Fellowship; and Dale G. Friend 3M of Missouri Valley, Iowa is the recipient of the Charles Eliot Ware Memorial Fellowship. The John Ware Memorial Fellowship has been granted to Philip F. Partington 3M of East Orange, New Jersey...
...shoot my way out," sneered Desperado John Dillinger when after his ignominious capture in Tucson, Ariz., he was brought back to Indiana and locked up in Crown Point's jail to be tried for murder (TIME, Feb. 5). Sheriff Lillian Holley, mistress of Crown Point's escape-proof jail, also made a promise: "I know he's a bad baby and a jailbreaker but I can handle him." The sheriff meant to keep her promise, but Dillinger's promise was a shrewd piece of bluff. For weeks he sat in his cell doing nothing but whittle...
Sheriff Holley distractedly cried to badgering newshawks: "If I ever see John Dillinger, I'll shoot him dead with my own pistol. This is too ridiculous to talk about." Meantime three of Dillinger's confederates, arrested with him at Tucson and waiting in jail at Lima, Ohio, heard of his escape, speedily dressed in their best clothes so as to be ready when he came to deliver them...
Last week when the Congress Hotel burned in Tucson, Ariz. Fireman John Freeman was given a $50 tip for lugging out heavy suitcases for several "wealthy Easterners." Next afternoon, thumbing through a detective magazine in the firehouse, he stared at likenesses of two of the generous strangers. Minutes later Tucson police started a manhunt for John Dillinger and his gang who week before had looted the First National Bank of East Chicago (TIME...