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Handle Dept. In Westport, Conn., Howard Gagg married Matilda Jester. In Camp Kilmer, N.J., the Army returned a pistol confiscated from C. E. Outlaw of Guntown, Miss...
Died. Mary Emma Woolley, 84, women's-rights pioneer, longtime fighter for peace through disarmament, longtime (1900-'37) president of Mount Holyoke College; after long illness; in Westport, N.Y. Herbert Hoover rewarded her crusading by making her the only woman delegate to the 1932 Geneva Disarmament Conference. Massive, energetic Miss Woolley strode into the job with confidence ("Women rush in where diplomats fear to tread," said she), came back just as discouraged as the male delegates. When a man succeeded her at Mount Holyoke, shocked Miss Woolley never set foot on the campus again...
William H. Banaka, of 1201 E. 59th St., Kansan City, a graduate of the Westport High School...
...Connecticut. He got a parking ticket; but that was fixed when it was discovered who he was-a guest of the city of Derby. Then he shot off toward Manhattan. A state trooper, who said it had taken him eight miles to catch up, stopped Randolph outside Westport, pinched him for doing 80. Trial...
Back in Kansas City he dropped in at Eddie Jacobson's Westport Men's Wear Shop, examined the stock expertly, bought 18 pairs of size 11 socks. To Eddie, who hadn't won a pot in the poker game, he chuckled: "I thought you'd need this sale, after what we did to you last night." Then, recalling the dark day in 1922 when they had gone bankrupt, he asked, "How's business, anyhow...