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...conviction of Joseph Gemma, 40, for "stealing a railroad in broad daylight." A Superior court jury found the operator of Joe's Auto Salvage Co. and a gang of men had pilfered 250 tons of New Haven rails worth $3,800 from an abandoned stretch of the Harrisville-Woonsocket R. R. in northern Rhode Island last summer...
...named Walter E. O'Hara, a fast-witted, hot-tempered Irishman with enterprise and gall. He and some friends, including Providence's Judge James E. Dooley, onetime president of the Canadian-American Hockey League, bought the 130 acres on which the track is built from an oldtime Woonsocket saloonkeeper named John F. Letendre for $150,000. Promoter O'Hara gets $75,000 a year as managing director of the track, holds 142,000 of the 350,000 shares of common stock which are its only outstanding obligations. Two years ago, the original 28 stockholders...
...recipients are Fraser Neiman, 3G., of Cambridge, Mass.; William K. Chandler, Instructor in English and Tutor; Carleton Green, 5G., of Troy, N. Y.; George M. Kahrl, of Mt. Vernon, O., Ph.D. Harvard '36; Edward C. Peple, 4G., of Richmond, Va., and Ralph M. Wardle, 3G., of Woonsocket...
Anna Turkel was Anna Turkel. Her father was an Austrian immigrant who settled in Woonsocket. R.I. and begat eight children. Anna, the eldest, was determined to be a singer and Father Turkel was equally determined that she should never change her name. Anna made sure-fire copy because she was once a sweetmeat seller at the Metropolitan Opera House where she listened constantly to such singers as Lucrezia Bori, Rosa Ponselle, Maria Jeritza. In Europe she did well by the name of Turkel. But Chicago last week found her cold and immature...
When the shouting died that night the Assembly had granted none of the Governor's requests. Voluntarily mills at Woonsocket, Saylesville and four other trouble spots closed and the Governor started a Communist round-up on his own authority. Though Federal troops were reported mobilizing in New York and New England, President Roosevelt at Hyde Park appeared to be in no rush to send them to Rhode Island...