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THREE NICE LITTLE FIRESIDE PETS
WHEN THEY WERE STILL FRIENDS
Strange pets are quite the fashion, but It Isn't often anyone picks skunks as Miss Nellie Peterson of
Crete, III., has done. Here she is feeding three of a litter of eight young skunks which come to her door
every ninht for "dinner." (Associated Press Photo
HURRICANE BATTERS DOWN GIANT BIMINI PALMS
Charles Bickford, motion picture actor, was attacked by a large
African lion during the filming of a scene at, Hollywood and was
severely bitten on the back and neck and clawed about the body.
Bickford and the lion are shown before the attack. (Associated Press
Photo)
BRITAIN, TOO, PLAYS AT WAR
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Thousands of ex-servlee men gathered at St. Louis for the 17th annual convention of the American
Legion., Above are shown the three winners of the drumming contest: (left to right) James Whltelay,
Miami, Fla., first; Emll Ote, Old Orchard, Me., second; Harold R. Todd, Chicago, third. Delegates from
the legion's 57 departments are pictured at the opening business session. More than 600 resolutions, In
cluding one calling for Immediate cash payment of the bonus, faced the delegates. (Associated Press
Photos)
Slant palm trees that had withstood a half century of tropical storms were torn from'the ground
by a' 150 mile hurricane that smashed Its way through the fishing camp at Blmlnl In the Bahamas.
(Associated. Rress Photo)
Wearing gas masks, soldiers attached to Great Britain's Royal Artillery are shown "somewhere In
Hampshire" as they manned the 18-pound guns during England's recent war games. Tree branches
were used as temporary camouflage. Fifty thousand men took part In these maneuvers. (Associsted
Press Photo)
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PRINCE OF WALES ON HIKE
This Is no wandering holy man exhorting his followers, but Ed
ward, Albert, Christian, George, Andrew, Patrick, David, the Prlr.ee
of Wales and heir to Britain's throne, resting on his pole after a hike
In shorts. The scene Is at the Island of Corsica where the prince and
his aompanlons on pleasure Jaunt were pictured. (Associated Press
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YOUTH DESCRIBES FATAL MEAL
Thomas J. Mooney, carving a life sentence for conviction of the 1910 8an Francisco Preparedness
Day bombing outrage, left San Quentln Prison temporarily for the third time to attend a hearing ord
ered by the California supreme Court on his application for a habeas corpus writ. This picture, taken as
he left the prison, shows Mooney (center right). Warden James Holohan (center left) and two prison
guards. (Associated Press Photnt . 4
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Leroy Drake, 19-year-old student, who assertedly confessed poison
ing his aunt and uncle, Mr, and Mrs. Henry Steinhuer, at Los Angeles
and then sinking their bodies In the ocean In an automobile, is
shown (right) explaining to officers how he administered tne faiai
dose by placing it In their coffee. Left to right: Nathan Freedman.
attorney; Detective Lieutenants Slope and Bridgeman of th Los
Angeles police and Drake. (Associated Press Photol
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Bruised and waterlogged, the
body of Margaret Wllm (above),
Colorado College co-ed, waa found
In shallow waters of Cheyenne
creek at Colorado Springs. Police
questioned Kenneth Garrett, eol
lege athlete and her escort at a
dinner party the evening preceding
her death. (Associated Prees Photo)
In Kidnap Net
Five thousand tone of roaring rock burled the tracks of the famous Niagara Gorge scenic railroad
two miles below Niagara Falls, N. V. It waa near the etart of the whirlpool rapids. In the background
Is the lower bridge over the rlvtr, Associated Prsss Photo)
Casslus M. McDonald, 52, aa
engineer, wae arreeted by federal
officers at his Detroit home on a
charge he arranged for exchange
of $72,000 of the $200,000 ransom
paid kidnapers of Edward G. Brem
er, St. Paul banker, In 15M. He
wae held under $100,000 bend for
hearing October S. McDonald wae
previously Indicted for harboring
Alvln Karpte, rsputed kidnap gang
leader. .(Associated Preea Phote)
SENATOR M'ADOO AND HIS BRIDE
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William Gibbe McAdoo, 71-year-old California Senator, la shown
with hla bride, the former Miss Doris Cross, 25, of San Diego, Calif,
after their marriage at the home of McAdoo'e son-in-law at Washing
ton, D, C. (Associatsd Press Photo)
BORAH TALKS WITH FARMERS
Senator William E. Borah of Idaho abandoned hla cares over world
affaire to meet with farmers of hie home atate and talk over their
. problems with them at a machinery exhibition near Nampa, Idaho.
Borah has been mentioned aa a possible Republican presidential can-
. dldaje In 1935. (Associated Press Photo)
LEASHED GIRL'S PARENTS HELD
Eight-year-old Jean Lareen (right) waa taken to a hospital and her
stepmother, Mrs. Vivian Larsen (left), and father, Nlele Lareen, were
Jailed after Chicago police found the child bound hand and foot,
emaciated and poorly clad In the bathroom of the Larsen home. Offi
cers said Mrs. Larsen declared shs tied the child up to break her pf
lommon child ailment (Aesociated Press Photo)