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Immediately the kidnappers, who had their victims bound and blindfolded in a dirty farmhouse, while they fiddled with a radio, learned that they had to reckon with Missouri's mightiest, most belligerent, most implacable man. Without further attempt to collect ransom they hastily bundled Mrs. Donnelly and the chauffeur into an automobile, turned them loose on a suburban road where police found them.
Exulted red-faced, white-thatched "Jim" Reed: "Now all we need to crown this is a hanging."*
Two hours before the Princeton Triangle Club show, Spanish Blades, was scheduled to begin in Montclair. N.J., the truck containing costumes and make-up was stolen, presumably by belligerents in a truckmen's feud. On the insistence of an audience which refused to be put off, the clubmen went on with their show, scored a smashing hit with their trousered chorus "girls," stubble-chinned "leading ladies," undisguised blond "Spaniards."
Mrs. Clarence C. Dill, wife of the U. S. Senator from Washington, famed 20 years ago as the suffraget "General" Rosalie Gardiner Jones, asked a New York court to compel a division of her family's rich holdings on Long Island, New York, Arkansas and Washington, left by her father the late Oliver Livingston Jones. Co-executors protested that none of the parcels would be sold profitably because of the Depression. To that Mrs. Dill replied the property at Cold Spring Harbor, L. I. could easily be sold at a profit because Cold Spring is a "millionaire colony'' and "millionaires have not suffered from the Depression." She added: "The estate is easily worth $4,000,000."
Perturbed by a lack of pockets, Representative Ruth Bryan Owen of Florida invented a knapsack to contain briefs, bills and other necessities. To make it harmonize with feminine attire, she hung it from one shoulder by a strap with a silver buckle.
As an inducement to time payment purchasers of second hand automobiles at 25% to 50% discount, Studebaker Sales Co. in Chicago, offered to give away from 10 to 100 shares of common stocks including Allegheny Corp., Grigsby-Grunow Co., Wabash Railway Co., Remington Rand Inc., Curtiss Wright, Armour "A", R. K. 0. Corp., Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paid & Pacific Railroad.
Upon Pullman Co. the Mexican Government levied a fine of 50,000 pesos (some $20,000). Last October, it was charged, Mexican Foreign Minister Genaro Estrada boarded a train at Monterey to return to Mexico City, found two Americans in a drawing room he had reserved and paid for. They refused to surrender it. Foreign Minister Estrada & wife slept in berths.