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As printed: CAVALRY MEETS PARTY AT FT. MYER HEIGHTS
ContextMarie is the queen of Rumania and a granddaughter of Queen Victoria, touring America with her son Prince Nicholas and her daughter Princess Ileana. Arlington National Cemetery, across the Potomac from Washington beside the Army post at Fort Myer, holds the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier dedicated in 1921 to an unidentified American killed in the World War; Mount Vernon, George Washington's home and burial place farther down the Virginia shore, is kept by the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association.
As printed: New Jersey Agencies Move for Better Enforcement of Law
ContextLast Thursday a mail truck was held up at Elizabeth, N. J., with machine gun fire; a postal employee was killed and the robbers escaped. A. Harry Moore is governor of New Jersey and Major Mark O. Kimberling a senior officer of the state police, a force created five years ago.
ContextAimee Semple McPherson is the pastor of Angelus Temple in Los Angeles who vanished from a Southern California beach in May and reappeared in June at Douglas, Arizona, saying she had been kidnapped; Minnie Kennedy is her mother and Kenneth Ormiston was the temple's radio operator. A preliminary hearing in municipal court decides only whether the evidence is enough to hold the accused for trial.
As printed: TERROR BANDITS OF SAN FRANCISCO HELD BY POLICE; ONE SHOT
ContextSan Francisco police had been hunting two gunmen since a pair of nights of holdups and shootings in the city earlier this month. The dispatch beneath it concerns Postmaster General Harry S. New, head of the Post Office Department, and the mail truck robbery at Elizabeth, N. J., last week.
As printed: Iowa State Prisoner Is Forcibly Ejected From Institution By Guards
ContextFort Madison is the seat of the Iowa state penitentiary. Under the good-time laws of the day, a prisoner's term was shortened month by month for good behavior, and he was released when the reduced term ran out.
In Los Angeles the defense begins its testimony once the State's handwriting expert steps down, and word is awaited from the sanitarium outside Chicago.
