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After these preliminaries the divisions were divided into two corps for a two-day battle. In taxicabs camouflaged with boughs of trees, some of the troops advanced to battle. On Hill 300 a regular sergeant from the First Division captured a major and four lieutenants quietly studying maps. Most serious fighting took place when a company of Vermont boys ambushed a company of regulars and fired point blank into them. A valiant Vermonter went to port arms and demanded, according to the rules of sham battle, that a regular in an exposed position surrender. The regular made a pass with...
...Franklin Roosevelt's two-day vacation at Hyde Park enabled him to: 1)) speak to his youngest son, John, who had just jumped a $10 bail after having been arrested for driving 54 m. p. h. in Irvington, N. Y.; 2) congratulate his next youngest son. Franklin Jr., on his 21st birthday; 3) see his wife who motored down for the birthday celebration from Campobello Island, N. B. where she had spent three weeks in profound silence...
...Attorney Dickinson had gone from New York to Detroit to investigate a young woman's claim against the $40,000,000 Yawkey (lumber) estate. After four days' search, Detroit police produced William Schweitzer, underworldling, and three dance-hall girls who told of having been with Lawyer Dickinson on a two-day drinking party culminating in a hold-up and the shooting...
With a large list of entrants, the annual University Handicap Track Meet will get under way on Monday at Soldiers Field when the hurdles event starts off a two-day program. Many of the stars of the 1934 meet will be back for this winter's competition, with such men as Dick Brayton and Bob Playfair standing a strong chance of repeating their victories of a year...
...fact that most of them are "tourist countries." The mere fact that a Gold Conference had been called roused old fears, caused the gold currencies to dip last week. But the Conference, convened in pessimism, got straight to business and put through that business in an exceedingly snappy two-day session...