The Archive · 1938

Police Seeking Hirsch

The police are now on the trail of @ certain Solomon Hirsch, bodyguard and killer of Flegenheimer. The authorities are also on the lookout for Little Harry Wolf and John Cooney, members of once-powerful Fiegenheimer crime organization.

The formation of a Blue Ribbon Jury is taking up the whole of today and actual cour proceedings will therefore have to walt. The people tw form the special Jury will be selected from out of 1,400 people, all good reputation.

The court procedure may cause extremely important political repereussions for the Democrat Party's or~ finization in New York State. "Tammany Hall" controlled the New York elections until very recently and has lately been making rear, efforts to regain its leading position.

Dire effects are expected, however, since Hines is a leading member of the Democrat Party in New York, having been in its ranks since 1911.

New York, Aug. 15.

Britain's crack luxury' liner, the Queen Mary, has recaptured the Blue Riband of the Atlantic, which she won a year ago and then lost again to the French liner Normandie.

After Smashing the Normandie's record for the westbound crossing of the Atlantic last week, the Queen Mary completed the eastbound crossing yesterday 85 minutes quicker than the Normandie's record eastbound crossing. Her average speed for the crossing ws Knots, compared with

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