Crime Through Time Nabbed

CHICAGO, Ill.: After nearly being killed by rival gangster, John Torrio has ceded control of the country's largest illegal bootlegging operation to Al Capone (center left), putting him in charge of countless speakeasies that rake in about a hundred million dollars a year. Prohibition is the law of the land—and that means no trading, purchasing, making, or drinking liquor. The government has vowed to catch Capone in the act—but so far he has remained untouchable!

With orders from the new head of the FBI, J. Edger Hoover, agents confiscate and destroy all the liquor they can track down—but criminals are getting better at hiding it.

NEW YORK, N.Y.: Mrs. Ida H. Ubrusk succumbed to terror last nigh while watching the illusionist Harry Houdini perform his famous escape act, The Water Torture Cell. Mr. Houdini's feet were licked in stocks and he was lowered headfirst into a glass box filled with water. The top of the box was shut and padlocked. No sooner was the curtain drawn between the audience and Mr. Houdini, than Mrs. Ubrusk screamed and fainted dead away. Just moments later, the curtain was pulled back, and the audience could see Mr. Houdini. He had escaped and was safe and sound!

DAYTON, Tenn.: The famous lawyer Clarence Darrow (left) defended John Scopes, a science teacher from Tennessee, in what has become known as the Scopes “Monkey” Trial. Scopes was charged with breaking the law when he taught the theory of evolution to his students. Many predict that the state supreme court will release Scopes.

MOUNT WILSON, Calif.: Scientist Edwin P. Hubble recently made a startling discovery. While working at the Mount Wilson Observatory, Hubble proved that there are countless galaxies other than our own Milky Way out there in space—and many of them are millions of light-years away!

CHEYENNE, Wyo.: It's only been five years since women were given the right to vote by the Nineteenth Amendment. However, they are already making great strides in politics. Voters have just elected Nellie Tayloe Ross to be the governor of Wyoming, making her the first female governor in the United States. Women voters and politicians are working hard to make sure that their voices are heard as they help to shape the future of our country!

This rollicking story about a fast-times-loving bootlegger living in New York isn't selling so well. Maybe people are too busy cracking open illegal champagne to crack a book.

This collection of stories is Hemingway's first book published in the United States. Short sentences, small vocabulary—but very powerful! We predict this author will write a very bright future for himself.

Hitler should have stuck with his original title—Four and a Half Years Against Lew, Stupidity, and Cowardice. The last four words sum up this overly complicated, poorly written work.

WASHINGTON, D.C.: Colonel Sherrell, Superintendent of Public Buildings and Grounds, has issued and order that women at Washington bathing beaches may not wear bathing suits that are more than six inches above the knee. Here, Bill Norton, the bathing beach policeman, is measuring an unnamed woman's suit to make sure she is in compliance with the new rule.

PRO: people should definitely convert to Spiritualism. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (right), author and creator of the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, is a Spiritualist. He believes that there is no heaven and hell, that a person's soul or spirit survives death, and that we can contact these spirits. And Doyle is not alone. Today, there are hundreds of spiritualists across the country.

CON: Spiritualism is one big fake. Doyle is a great writer, but he's blinded by his desire to contact his son, who died in the Great War, and desperately wants to believe there's a way to talk to him. The famous medium Margaret Fox admitted that she and her sister were fakes. At séances, they cracked their toes to make raping sounds. Houdini continues to unmask fakes at séances, but Doyle refuses to see the truth.

The latest music craze is jazz—and no one is more responsible than Louis Armstrong. He's currently leading two bands, the Hot Five and the Hot Seven.

ASK DR. NOITALL

Dear Dr. Noitall,
How can I give my words some zip?
Signed,
Dull at Parties

Dear Dull,

All the fun people are using the latest 1920s code! Just add -ski or -avouz to any word in a sentence. For example, “Would you like to order the squid-avouz?” When answering a question, be sure to use the same form, such as “Not on your life-avouz!”

Looking to roar some more?

Give this Roaring Twenties lingo a try!

Darb: Great

Flyboy: An airplane pilot

Let's ankle: Let's walk

Swanky: Good or elegant

You're the cat's pajamas: You're terrific

WHAT A PIP!

New York, N.Y.: In June, Walter Pipp, who played first base for the New York Yankees, took a day off because he had a headache— and one can only imagine that his headache has got-ten a lot worse! Pipp was replaced in the lineup by Lou Gehrig, who has not missed a game since.

NOME, Alaska: In late January, diphtheria struck the children of this small town of 1,500. The hospital in Anchorage had the medicine that could save their lives, but it was almost 900 miles away. A train could transport the medicine to Nenana, but that left 674 miles to go. The rivers were frozen, the snow-covered road was impassable, and the only two airplanes in Alaska were in storage for the winter.

It was decided that dogsled teams would relay the medicine from Nenana to Nome. With gale-force winds and temperatures reaching 40 degrees below zero, the mission seemed to be doomed. But after 127.5 hours, a 13-dog sled team led by canine Balto reached Nome with the life-saving medicine. Now, thereis talk that teams will gather in years to come to honor this feat, per-haps with an annual dogsled race to be called the Iditarod.

ASK DR.NOITALL

“What should one do if trapped in the wildrness with nothing but a telegrab device and an empty canteen?“

You will be glad that you live in these modern times.Just this year,the distress signal SAVE OUR SOULS,or SOS for short,has been introduced.SOS was chosen because it is easy to tap out in morse code(just three dots,three dashes,and three dots).Tap it out,take a seat on your canteen,and wait for help.

Want to look like a well-to-do lady? then be sure to cover every-thing but your face and hands!

Dont that long skirt,pull that corser tight arount your waist,and pile that hair on top of your head!

Men who want to dress down can leave the top hats at home.A brown business suit and tie is good for just about any occasion.But don't forget your soft felt or straw hat!

LONDON—American Frank Lahm wom the world's first international balloon race.Lahm flew 402.2 miles from paris,France,to Flying Dales,England,beating out fifteen competitors from six different countries.

CHICAGO—Our sports reporter in the field predicts that teams from the same city will take part in the third world series.According to this prediction,the Chicago White Sox of the American League willdo battle with the Chicago Cubs of the National League.

DO NOT PANIC

When you go to the movie theater to see the very first animated flim, remember that the rolling eyes and the cigar smoke are cartoons—not real. Recently when people visited the nickelodeons to see the Great Train Robbery,many thought the bullets were real.Well,just as no bullets were flying off the screen then,no eyes will roll into the audience now. So stay seated and enjoy the show.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Good news for nature lovers!President Theodore Roosevelt—the rugged outdoorsman who inspired a toymaker to create the teddy bear—is currently inspiring campers and sightseers acrossthe country.On june 8,he will sign the national Monuments Act to establish the first 18National Monuments,including the Grand Canyon!

NEWYORK—The Automatic Entertainer is here! The first jukebox that lets you preselect What you want to heart in now being produced in the UnitedStates.

Add Clemens von parquet to the list of Austrians Who have transformed the world!This year,he introduced the term allergyto describe the physical reaction(which can range from sneezing to death)caused by different substances that only affect certain people.parquet joins Karl Landsteiner,who discovered each person has one of at least three different blood types:A,B, or O,and Dr.Sigmund Freud,Who invented psychoanalysis.

Marie Curie,the first women to a win a Nobel prize,was spoted at a recent dinner to in honor of physicist Albert Einstein's 27th birthday on March 14.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP)—A massive 30-second-long earthquake struck San Francisco at 5:13 AM on April 18,1906. This powerful quake and its after-shocks destroyed much of the city. Broken gas lines helped feed a raging fire that burned for four days, reducing the center of San Francisco to ashess. More than 1,000 people lost their lives.

WILL DREYFUS GO FREE?

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PARIS—It's been twelve years since French army captain Alfred Dreyfus was convicted of treason for spying. Today, thanks to handwriting comparison and other detective work,he might be cleared of all wrongdoing.

Yes, there are now hundreds of miles of track running across this great land of ours, but the trains that run along them do not interest a certain group of mysterious figures. About a year ago, they stole an entire station building from the Central Railroad of New Jersey and no trace has been found. Recently, yet another building was crected — and has disappeared just as mysteriously!

At a recent rally,Helen Keller demanded rights for those less fortunate. In 1882, an illness struck Miss Keller, making her deaf and blind before the age of two. Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, also taught the deaf, and he introduced Annie Sullivan to Miss Keller. Miss Sullivan became Miss Keller's teacher, lifelong friend, and interpreter while she attended college, Miss Keller graduated from Radeliffe in 1904, and has become a leader in the fight for the rights of the disabled.

PEACE OF MIND

Lawyer Mohandas K. Gandhi began a campaign of non-violent resistance to protest the treatment of Indians in South Africa.

BATTLE CREEK, Mich.— This year, W.K. Kellogg opened the Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company. Toasted cereal flakes were an accidental invention at the health spa run by W.K.'s brother, J. H. Kellogg. Word has it the two brothers are no longer speaking because J. H. doesn't approve of W. K's adding sugar to the product.