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Died. Henry F. Sanborn, 44, general eastern agent of the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Co., of bullet wounds in the heart inflicted by an unknown murderer; in Queens, N. Y. His body was found buried in a shallow grave 100 yd. off the Long Island Motor Parkway by berry pickers who saw his shoe sticking out of the ground. Police could establish no motive for the crime. They held his fiancee, a young Swedish interpreter, for questioning, and asked European police to question Bancroft Mitchell, son of onetime Attorney General William D. Mitchell. Just before sailing for France, Mitchell...
...labor policies and monopolistic tendencies of Mellon companies he looks with ill-concealed hatred, does not think to pry closely into the real causes of Andrew Mellon's success. Between the lines of his book these things appear: Mellon's willingness to back the right (but unknown) young men with substantial capital; Mellon's policy of lending to others for their ventures but never borrowing for Mellon ventures - building Mellon companies by plowing back profits decade after decade; Mellon's uncanny judgment as banker, as promoter, above all as investor...
...some miracle this amazing collection survived in nearly perfect condition, the only collection of its kind in the world. Last year its owner, granddaughter of one of Napoleon's secretaries, sold it to an unknown buyer...
...Vienna night-life and go on with them to Munich. There they get into a Nazi shooting scrape and are befriended by a doctor who is also a famed airman and the inventor of a mystery plane. He invites them to accompany him on his trial flight to an unknown destination. Amid much municipal fuss they take off at dusk, fly all night in an ecstatic frame of mind. Carlotta and the Irishman are convinced they are flying to heaven. Next morning they land on a rainy field which the Irishman recognizes only too well as his bedraggled native land...
...promised to build a U. S. navy "second to NONE"(see col. 3). A destroyer whizzed the President to the U. S. S. Indianapolis, waiting in U. S. waters off Eastport. Drums ruffled, trumpets flourished, a salute gun barked 21 times and the seagoing President went rolling into the unknown as far as the nation was concerned for three days. No newshawks were aboard to report the hourly doings of Mr. Roosevelt, nor of his familiar Louis McHenry Howe, nor of Henry Morgenthau of the Farm Credit Administration, nor of Franklin Jr. and a lucky Groton friend. Not even...