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...charged his brother with assault. He said that one hot summer day when he had been sewing an eyeshade for his weakened eyes, Capt. Fred Nutter had come into their room, put a calendar in the window to spoil the light, then whacked him with a monkey wrench. Capt. Edgar Nutter angrily insisted that his brother was too "bossy," that he should be safely jailed before he killed someone with the shoe-hammers and wrenches which he habitually used for weapons...
Capt. Fred Nutter, 86, seemed less angry than reproachful. He admitted he had whacked his brother with a wrench. But first, said he, Capt. Edgar Nutter had attacked him with a slop-bucket. "Self-defense. . . . He's younger than me," said Capt. Fred Nutter. He added that his brother had been "spoiled," that "it's a damn lie, everything he said...
...against the hooded sky. Hurrying across fields to a lonely road he found a car in flames. In the car were the incinerated bodies of Thomas Wheatley, Harry Lore, Vivian Gold, Anna May Harrison. On the running board, fenders, bumpers of the car were splashes of blood. A bloody wrench lay in the road. Officers who removed the bodies after the fire had died found two bullet holes in Lore, discovered the skulls of the other three had been beaten in. All had been gasoline-soaked. Lore's watch had stopped...
...comics, here plays a small-town boy so superstitious that on the thirteenth of every month he wants to stay in bed clutching a rabbit's foot. After long and laughable complications he is seen at the picture's climax entering a racketeer's headquarters armed with a monkey wrench to rescue the beautiful kidnapped daughter of a rich lawyer. There is more fun in The Gang Buster than its plot would indicate. Oakie is good and so is William Boyd as Gangster Mike Slade. Best shot: Wynne Gibson as a gangster's moll sending innocent Oakie out to telephone...
...hunter as companion, Pilot Clyde Ice shot a coyote, landed, tossed the animal into the cockpit. As the plane flew on again the coyote revived, started fighting its captors. The ship spun crazily while Pilot Ice turned to help his friend. He ended the battle with a monkey-wrench - favorite weapon of airmen for subduing rambunctious passengers and panic-stricken pupils.* Pilot Ice got back to his controls just in time to prevent a crash...