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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...never laid eyes on the man they think is God, is a sizable group in California. These Divinites claim to number 100,000, one-quarter of them white. In Los Angeles last week, G-men were delving into affairs of the local "kingdom." In his Harlem and Kingston, N. Y. headquarters small, brown Father Divine, despite his claim that he is not responsible for his out-of-town followers, was plainly worried - all because able Reporter Johnston Davis ("Jack") Kerkhoff of the New York Journal had dug up a lurid story about the brown "God's" chief West Coast...
...passengers presently encountered an aged recluse named Thomas Lyman who revealed that they were near Port Jervis, N. Y., 60 miles from Newark. He helped them to town, where a rescue safari promptly organized, found the rest of the plane's company gathered around a fire rather enjoying their lark...
When erstwhile "Public Rat No. 1'' Merle Vandenbush robbed the Northern Westchester Bank in Katonah, N. Y. (pop. 1.500) last February, he put three employes and two customers behind the open grill gate of the vault. Two wrecks later, shortly before the captured Vandenbush was sentenced to Sing Sing, another gang held up the bank, again put staff and customers in the vault. Had the robbers in either case closed the vault's steel door on their victims, they would have suffocated. Last week, forehanded President Edward Fielder had the vault of his well-rifled bank fitted...
...extracted a 4% discount on canned soups and vegetables from Maryland's Colonel Albanus Phillips; how A. & P. got 3% off on sardines from R. J. Peacock Canning Co. in Lubec, Me.; how it got a 3% allowance on canned cherries from an Alton, N. Y. packer. Not only did the Commission suspect discrimination: it looked as if A. & P. had merely substituted a 3% or 4% discount for the old 3% or 4% brokerage allowance it used to ask and receive. Under the new law a seller may not pay a buyer a commission in any form whatever...
...Hornell. N. Y., Negro Chef Louis Sight asked Patrolman C. Kenneth Conley to let him look at his blackjack. Chef Sight snapped it inquisitively, knocked himself...