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From the Melbourne docks to the sheep farms of Walla Walla, Australia was searched. Australian detectives all summer long swarmed over foreign vessels, pried into every shipment leaving the country. Foreign police departments were asked to help. One by one reports came in. The bell was not in Tokyo, not in Canton, not in Shanghai, not in Hong Kong. Durban and Cape Town could not find it, nor could New Caledonia, Suva, Papeete, Singapore, Hawaii. Vancouver, Amsterdam and Liverpool were a blank and Manhattan Police Commissioner Bolan had no tidings...
...Near Walla Walla, Wash., one A. Snyder, Northern Pacific Railway Co. engineer, last fortnight saw a mule dead ahead between the tracks, ears laid back, eyes wide, legs braced. The brakes squealed, the mule stiffened, was catapulted off the track against a switch. The witch broke, the train ran off the rails, wrecking two cars. The mule trotted off ate grass...
...Olympia, Wash., Governor Roland H. Hartley announced that so far as he was concerned, Herbert Franklin Niccolls. 12, who shot a peace officer from behind a grocery store's pickle barrel, would remain in the Walla Walla penitentiary for the rest of his life. Denied was the petition of Father Edward J. Flanagan that the boy be released in his custody, allowed to go to Father Flanagan's home for waifs and waywards near Omaha, Neb. In making his decision public, Governor Hartley did not conceal his irritation at Father Flanagan's intercession. The priest had journeyed from Omaha...
...nine he had stolen an automobile, and tried his hand at a mail robbery. For the latter offense he was jailed 15 months, later released in the custody of his grandmother. A rural jury thought Herbert was a fairly hopeless case, felt that he should be locked up in Walla Walla penitentiary for the rest of his life...
Professor G. G. Kretchmar of Walla Walla College (Wash.) last week at San Francisco stated the Seventh-Day Adventists' present tenets as follows: "We accept the Bible as the revealed Word of God and believe that the Genesis record of a literal creation is an inspired record of a historical fact. We utterly repudiate the implication that man originated from any lower form of life. We look forward to the soon-coming of Christ, which will usher in the final restoration of nature to its original perfection...