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As printed: MAIL BANDITS OF NEW JERSEY MAKE A CLEAN GETAWAY
ContextElizabeth is a city in northern New Jersey, a few miles from the wooded Watchung ridge that runs west and north of it; Somerville lies beyond. State troopers, created as a force five years earlier, worked with local police and volunteers, and Major Mark O. Kimberling is a senior officer; A. Harry Moore is governor of New Jersey.
As printed: Only 300 Escape; Explosion of War Cargo Kills Many
ContextChina is divided among rival military governors; Sun Chuan-fang rules five eastern provinces and is fighting the Cantonese armies of the Kuomintang, which marched north this summer. Kiukiang is a Yangtze river port in Kiangsi province.
ContextMarie is the queen of Rumania and a granddaughter of Queen Victoria; she is crossing with her children Prince Nicholas and Princess Ileana. James J. Walker is mayor of New York, and Grover Whalen heads the city's committee on welcoming distinguished visitors.
As printed: Diver Walks Five Miles Across Bottom of Hampton Roads in 3 Hours
ContextHampton Roads is the broad harbor where the James River meets Chesapeake Bay, with Old Point Comfort on one shore and the Norfolk naval base on the other. A diver of this era worked in a canvas suit with a weighted helmet, fed air by hose from a boat above.
Queen Marie lands in New York, where Mayor Walker will receive her at the city hall, and in Jeffersonville a new suit over a schoolgirl's knickers awaits its hearing next week.
