The Press: Whoosh!

A devotee of the cartoon strip "Radio Patrol" in the New York American is one Harry Millstine, a resident of Queens Borough. Because he works in a filling station, Reader Millstine was professionally interested one day last week in a "Radio Patrol" sequence which depicted a gasoline vendor foiling a bandit by drenching him with the fuel hose.

A few hours later, a hold-up man entered Harry Millstine's station, took the cash register's contents, tersely commanded the attendant to wait on a customer who happened to drive up. Mindful of what he had seen...

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