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Pilot June's group returns to base from Edsel Ford range; repts discovery of extensive territory
Vice Adm G K Chetwode says they are best fighters
Predicts Lehman victory
Catholicism of P E faith, at general convention
Gale along Pacific Northwest coast; 12 killed; other damage
1934Donald McIntyre, New Zealand opera singer[†]
Sir Donald Conroy McIntyre is an operatic bass-baritone from New Zealand.
1934Pretty Boy Floyd, American gangster (born 1904)[†]
Charles Arthur Floyd, nicknamed Pretty Boy Floyd, was an American bank robber. He operated in the West and Central states, and his criminal exploits gained widespread press coverage in the 1930s. He was seen positively by the public because, during robberies, he burned mortgage documents, freeing many people from their debts. He was pursued and killed by a group of Bureau of Investigation agents led by Melvin Purvis. Historians have speculated as to which officers were at the event, but accounts document that local officers Robert "Pete" Pyle and George Curran were present at his fatal shooting and also at his embalming. Floyd has continued to be a familiar figure in American popular culture, sometimes seen as notorious, other times portrayed as a tragic figure, even a victim of the hard times of the Great Depression in the United States. Floyd is viewed by many as a prime example of a real life anti-hero.
1934In East Liverpool, Ohio, FBI agents shoot and kill notorious bank robber Pretty Boy Floyd.[†]
East Liverpool is a city in Columbiana County, Ohio, United States. The population was 9,958 at the 2020 census. It lies along the Ohio River at the intersection of Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia about 30 miles (48 km) from both Pittsburgh and Youngstown. The city is most notable for its pottery industry, which was at one time the largest in the US.