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Catching Pigs A thought to remember, Marx said, “Remove one freedom per generation and soon you will have no freedom and no one will have noticed.” There was a chemistry professor in a large college that had some exchange students in the class. One day while the class was in the lab, the professor noticed one young man, an exchange student, who kept rubbing his back and stretching as if his back hurt. The professor asked the young man what was the matter. The student told him he had a bullet lodged in his back. He had been shot while fighting communists in his native country who were trying to overthrow his country’s government and install a new communist regime. In the midst of his story, he looked at the professor and asked a strange question. He asked: “Do you know how to catch wild pigs?” The professor thought it was a joke and asked for the punch line. The young man said that it was no joke. “You catch wild pigs by finding a suitable place in the woods and putting corn on the ground. The pigs find it and begin to come every day to eat the free food.” “When they are used to coming every day, you put a fence down one side of the place where they are used to coming. When they get used to the fence, they begin to eat the corn again and you put up another side of the fence.” “They get used to that and start to eat again. You continue until you have all four sides of the fence up with a gate in the last side.” “The pigs, which are used to the free corn, start to come through the gate to eat that free corn again. You then slam the gate on them and catch the whole herd.” “Suddenly the wild pigs have lost their freedom. They run around and around inside the fence, but they are caught. Soon they go back to eating the free corn. They are so used to it that they have forgot-
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ten how to forage in the woods for themselves, so they accept their captivity.” The young man then told the professor that is exactly what he sees happening in America. The government keeps pushing us toward Communism/Socialism and keeps spreading the free corn out in the form of programs such as supplemental income, tax credit for unearned income, tax exemptions, tobacco subsidies, dairy subsidies, payments not to plant crops (CRP), welfare entitlements, medicine, drugs, etc., while we continually lose our freedoms, just a little at a time as the government forces us to participate in many of these programs whether or not we want to. One should always remember two truths: There is no such thing as a free lunch, and you can never hire someone to provide a service for you cheaper than you can do it yourself. If you see that all of this wonderful government “help” is a problem confronting the future of the American Republic, you might want to share this with your friends. If you think the free ride is essential to your way of life, then you will probably not share this. But, God help us all when the gate slams shut!
“The problems we face today are there because the people who work for a living are now outnumbered by those that vote for a living.”
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WE’VE CROSSED THE TIPPING POINT
Most Americans now receive gov’t. benefits By Merrill Matthews Obamacare has pushed us over the entitlements tipping point. In 2011 some 49.2 percent of U.S. households received benefits from one or more government programs—about 151 million out of an estimated 306.8 million Americans—according to U.S. Census Bureau data released last October. Currently, around 6 million to 7 million Americans who have signed up for Obamacare are receiving taxpayerprovided subsidies (though the administration’s numbers cannot be trusted, it’s all we have to work with). There are another 3 million who have signed up for Medicaid. That means some 10 million Americans—or a total of about 161 million— are now getting government subsidies (though the final number might be somewhat lower since some may have been receiving benefits already). Thus, perhaps 52 percent of U.S. households—more than half—now receive benefits from the government, thanks to President Obama. And Mr.
Entitlement is just getting started. If Obamacare is not repealed millions more will join the swelling rolls of those dependent on government handouts. Conservatives have long dreaded the day when the U.S. crossed the halfway mark because of all the implications for individual and fiscal responsibility. As Benjamin Franklin reportedly said, “When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.” They learned that from the 2008 election and turned out in big numbers again in 2012. It’s not that all of those Americans are “takers,” as former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney suggested. Some 42 million are seniors receiving Social Security and Medicare. They aren’t getting something for free; they faithfully paid into the system for decades with the expectation that they would be getting it back at retirement. And they deserve every
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penny they get—or may not get if Social Security or Medicare has to cut benefits. But attitudes can change once people are on the receiving end of benefits, even if they are owed those benefits. Seniors who support limited government and fiscal responsibility— in short, the exact opposite of Obama’s policies—become very protective of their benefits. And that makes change difficult. The bigger issue is the public at large. Conservatives worked so hard to repeal Obamacare over the past few years because once the taxpayerprovided subsidies started to flow, millions would embrace the entitlement and repeal would be very tough. Especially when the media start running stories about people losing their coverage because of heartless Republicans changing the law—although forcing millions to lose their coverage because of Obamacare didn’t stop liberals.
They knew if they were able to ride out the Obamacare rollout storm, the law would likely be here to stay. Franklin D. Roosevelt captured this mentality when he observed: “We put those payroll contributions there so as to give contributors a legal, moral and political right to collect their pensions.… With those taxes in there, no damn politician can ever scrap my social security program.” And no politicians have; indeed, they have only grown the program over the years. The country has crossed the entitlement tipping point. The only hope is to try to transition some of these programs, primarily Social Security but also Medicare, into personal retirement accounts. They would, over time, be better funded, actually belong to the worker or retiree, and, perhaps most importantly, they would take millions of Americans off the government benefits roll.
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Kennedy killer denied freedom
Sirhan Sirhan, who is serving a life sentence in prison for the June 1968 assassination of U.S. presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, failed to persuade a federal judge to set him free because he was innocent of the crime. In a January decision, U.S. District Judge Beverly Reid O’Connell in Los Angeles said Sirhan “failed to meet the showing required for actual innocence” that might excuse his having failed to seek his freedom sooner in federal court. Sirhan had filed his petition for habeas corpus, which could have resulted in his freedom, in May 2000. William Pepper, a lawyer for Sirhan, did not immediately respond on Tuesday to requests for comment. Sirhan, now 70, was wrestled to the ground with a gun in his hand after Kennedy was shot on June 5, 1968, at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, shortly after Kennedy won the California Democratic presidential primary. Kennedy died the next day. The defendant was sentenced to death in 1969, but his sentence was commuted to life in prison after California banned the death penalty. Sirhan was last denied parole in 2011, and is being housed in a state prison in San Diego. His next parole “suitability” hearing will be held by March 2, 2016, a spokesman for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said. In seeking Sirhan’s freedom, de-
fense lawyers argued that he had not been physically in position to fire the fatal shot, and that a second shooter and gun may have been responsible. The judge, however, said Sirhan’s case was not strong enough. “Though petitioner advances a number of theories regarding the events of June 5, 1968, petitioner does not dispute that he fired eight rounds of gunfire in the kitchen pantry of the Ambassador Hotel,” O’Connell wrote. “Petitioner does not show that it is more likely than not that no juror, acting reasonably, would have found him guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.” In rejecting Sirhan’s bid for freedom, O’Connell accepted an August 2013 recommendation by U.S. Magistrate Judge Andrew Wistrich. Kennedy was a U.S. senator from New York when he died at age 42. His older brother John F. Kennedy, the former U.S. president, was 46 when he was assassinated in November 1963. The case is Sirhan v Galaza et al, U.S. District Court, Central District of California, No. 00-05686.
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Lyndon B. Johnson 36th President of the U.S. Served from Nov. 22, 1963 to Jan. 20, 1969
“The noblest search is the search for excellence.” – Johnson
Hubert Humphrey 38th Vice President of the U.S. Served from Jan. 20, 1965 to Jan. 20, 1969
World Events
North Vietnam and spends 5-1/2 years in prison • Six-Day War — Arab • Soccer riot in Sivas, forces attack Israel beginTurkey kills 41 ning the Yom Kippur War • The tanker “Torrey when Arab forces were Canyon” runs aground on defeated and Israel took rocks off Land’s End, U.S., possession of additional • Interracial marriage is declared causing an ecological diterritory constitutional by the Supreme Court saster • Pirate radio stations in the “Loving v. Virginia” case and • Nuclear Space Weapin the U.K. were outlawed barred Virginia and by imons Treaty is • Earthquake in Caraplication other states from ratified by cas, Venezuela kills 240 John McCain making interracial marriage world powers • Foot and Mouth a crime epidemic in Britain is the • The 25th Amendment to U.S. News worst this century and the governthe Constitution is ratified • Race riots break ment issued additional guidelines to which deals with succession out in a number of cithelp stop the spread of the disease to the Presidency ies including Cleveland, including stopping all horse racing • Thurgood Marshall beLoving v. Virginia Newark and Detroit • Presidential hopeful U.S. Navy comes first black justice on pilot John McCain is shot down over the Supreme Court • Muhammad Ali is stripped of his heavyweight title for refusing induction into Army
• President Johnson asks for 6% increase on taxes to support the Vietnam War • Tens of thousands Vietnam War protesters march in Washington, D.C.
Popular Culture
• Evel Knievel jumps his motorcycle over 16 cars lined up in a row • Beatles release “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” • Elvis Presley marries Priscilla • Carroll Shelby Mustang GT500 Fastback released
Movies
• The Dirty Dozen • You Only Live Twice • Casino Royale • A Man for All Seasons • Thoroughly Modern Millie • To Sir, With Love • Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?
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BORN THIS YEAR: Will Ferrell, actor. Above left: Julia Roberts, actress; Vin Diesel, actor; Pam Anderson, actress; Kurt Cobain, musician
TV shows
• Bonanza • The Red Skelton Hour • The Andy Griffith Show • The Lucy Show • The Jackie Gleason Show • Green Acres • Daktari • Bewitched • Beverly Hillbillies • Gomer Pyle, USMC
• Income per year ........ $7,300 • Minimum wage ............ $1.40 • New house ............. $14,250 • Monthly rent .................. $125 • New car ..................... $2,750 • Gallon of gas ................... 33¢ • Dozen eggs .................. $1.10 • Gallon of milk ............... $1.03 • Loaf of bread ................... 22¢ • First-class stamp ............... 5¢ • Movie ticket .................. $1.25
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• “To Sir With Love,” Lulu • “The Letter,” Box Tops • “Ode to Billie Joe,” Bobby Gentry • “Windy,” Association • “I’m A Believer,” Monkees • “Light My Fire,” Doors • “Happy Together,” Turtles • “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You,” Frankie Valli
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VA chief lied, said he was Special Forces By Matt Cantor
Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald last year took over a department facing no small amount of scandal—and now he’s stirred up controversy of his own. It started when he was being taped by CBS while speaking with a homeless veteran in Los Angeles, the Huffington Postreports. The man said he’d been in special forces, to which the former Procter & Gamble CEO, who’s a military veteran himself, said, “Special forces? What years? I was in special forces!” But he wasn’t: He spent most of his service in the 82nd
Airborne Division. “I have no excuse,” McDonald tells the Huffington Post. “I was not in special forces.” In a statement to the Military Times, McDonald notes that the comment was “inaccurate, and I apologize to anyone that was offended by my misstatement. I have great respect for those who have served our nation in special forces.” He explained the situation to the Huffington Post: “I reacted spontaneously and I reacted wrongly” to the man saying he had been in special forces. He says he had “no intent in any way to describe my record any different than it is.” The White House says it takes McDonald
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By John Johnson “at his word.” But just last week, the Military Times notes, McDonald said on Meet the Press that 60 VA employees had recently been let go over the hospital scandal; he then walked back the claim, saying just eight had been fired.
U.S. offers record bounty for a hacker By Rob Quinn The FBI is offering a record-breaking $3 million reward for information leading to the arrest of a Russian hacker accused of infecting up to a million computers with software that stole passwords and sucked at least $100 million out of bank accounts. Evgeniy Mikhailovich Bogachev, whose online aliases include “lucky12345″ and “slavic,” is accused of running what the FBI calls a “tightly knit gang of cybercriminals” that created a botnet called “GameOver Zeus,” Ars Technica reports. The FBI’s wanted poster lists more than a dozen charges against him,
including racketeering, identity theft, fraud, and money laundering. The previous biggest reward for a cybercriminal was the $1 million offered for Romanian eBay scammerNicolae Popescu, reports Vocativ. Bogachev and his gang were also behind the “Cryptolocker” ransomware that held files on a user’s computer hostage until they paid up, authorities say. “Although we were able to significantly disrupt the GameOver Zeus and Cryptolocker criminal enterprise, we have not yet brought Bogachev himself to justice,” a Justice Department spokeswoman says.
Bogachev is believed to still be in Russia, and even with the reward, it may be hard to arrest him because there is no extradition treaty with the U.S., reports the BBC. (Another hacker says he was busted after using his cat’s name as his password.)
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People who got a subsidy from ObamaCare to help pay for their health insurance are getting a notso-pleasant surprise on their taxes: H&R Block reports that 52% of people who got subsidies have to pay back a chunk of that money to the government.
The average payback is $530, equating to a 17% drop in returns, reports the Hill. The main reason for the payback? Filers’ 2014 income came in higher than expected, and thus the subsidies they received were too high. “It’s costing taxpayers a large percentage of their refund—a refund many of them count on to pay household expenses,” say H&R Block VP Mark Ciaramitaro. The figures are based on only the first six weeks of the filing season and could change. On the upside, about 38% of ObamaCare filers found out they were getting an average credit of $366 because their subsidies were too low, reports Forbes. So far, the average penalty for those without health insurance is $172, and Forbes thinks many filers who learn of the penalty will take advantage of a new special enrollment period (from March 15 to April 30) put into place for just that reason.
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REPORT WARNS USING SAME PHONE FOR WORK, PLAY COULD EXPOSE COMPANY TO HACKERS
Your dating app could bring down the entire office By Jenn Gidman As if online dating weren’t fraught with enoughpitfalls, an IBM study published yesterday found that 26 of 41 popular Android dating apps, or 63%, had “medium to severe” security vulnerabilities that could leave users open to hacks, Reuters reports. And almost half of the companies reviewed for the report had workers who tapped into such apps—and then used the same phone at work, opening up their employers to cyberissues as well. “Your contacts list … your stored images. [Hackers] can actually also potentially access features on the device—so your camera, your microphone, even your GPS location,” says the security intelligence director of IBM Security, per CBS New York. How likely (and incredibly creepy) is that? The report reveals 73% of top dating apps can tell your past and present GPS locations, while 34% can get into your camera. Which means, on a not-so-romantic front, that hackers can possibly stalk your daily activity, scroll
through images, and even take over your dating profile, IBM’s Security Intelligence notes. And if the electronic intruders can hijack your camera and mic, they can potentially spy on business meetings and access sensitive company data on your phone. IBM says it doesn’t want to discourage people from using the apps, but it preaches some common-sense tips: Don’t give out too much personal info on dating sites, don’t ignore the security updates and patches your phone occasionally asks you to make, and mix up your passwords for all online accounts and email addresses. (Maybe this informational STD app will keep hackers away.)
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Fairy tale beginning
“Daddy,” a little girl asked her father, “do all fairy tales begin with ‘Once upon a time’? “ “No, sweetheart,” he answered. “Some begin with ‘If I am elected.’”
“Make me one with everything.” says the Buddhist to the tofu hot dog vendor. Then, after getting his tofu hot dog, the Buddhist hands the vendor a twenty dollar bill. The vendor takes the money and begins helping the next customer. The Buddhist looks puzzled and asks the vendor, “Where is my change?” The vendor replies, “Change comes from within.”
Just for Laughs Family tradition
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A man wants to cook a fancy meal for his wife, so he makes his mother’s recipe for beef roast. Before putting the roast into the oven, he cuts off the end. His wife asks him why he did that. “I dunno,” he says. “My mom always did that. I think it has to do with the meat cooking more evenly.” “But that’s a very expensive cut of meat,” says the wife, “and you just threw away a good piece of it!” So they call the mother. The son asks, “Mom, when you make beef roast, why do you always cut off the end?” “I’m not sure,” she says. “My mother always did that. I think it was a superstition she had from the old country.” So they call the grandmother. “Grandma, when you made beef roast, why did you always cut off the end?” “This probably isn’t a problem for you,” she replies, “but my pan was very small.”
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Serious negotiator
The maid asked for a raise, and the wife was upset. She asked, “Now, Helen, why do you think you deserve a pay increase?” Helen: “There are three reasons. The first is that I iron better than you.” Wife: “Who said that?” Helen: “Your husband.” Wife: “Oh.” Helen: “The second reason is that I am a better cook than you.” Wife: “Who said that?” Helen: “Your husband.” Wife: “Oh.” Helen: “The third reason is that I am
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better at sex than you.” Wife: “Did my husband say that as well?” Helen: “No, the gardener did.” Wife: “So, how much do you want?”
Financial transparency
A man is getting into the shower just as his wife is finishing up her shower when the doorbell rings. The wife quickly wraps herself in a towel and runs downstairs. When she opens the door, there stands Bob, the next door neighbor. Before she says a word, Bob says, “I’ll give you $800 to drop that towel.” After thinking for a moment, the woman drops her towel and stands naked in front of Bob. After a few seconds, Bob hands her $800 dollars and leaves. The woman wraps back up in the towel and goes back upstairs. When she gets to the bathroom, her husband asks,… “Who was that?” “It was Bob the next door neighbor,” she replies. “Great!” the husband says, “Did he say anything about the $800 he owes me?”
Know your job
A priest offered a lift to a Nun. She got in and crossed her legs, forcing her gown to reveal a leg. The priest nearly had an accident. After controlling the car, he stealthily slid his hand up her leg. The nun said,”Father, remember Psalm 129?” The priest removed his hand. But,changing gears, he let his hand slide up her leg again. The nun once again said, “Father, remember
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Psalm 129?” The priest apologized “Sorry sister but the flesh is weak.” Arriving at the convent, the nun went on her way. On his arrival at the church, the priest rushed to look up Psalm 129. It said, “Go forth and seek, further up, you will find glory.” Moral of the story: If you are not well informed in your job, you might miss a great opportunity.
Word play
A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing well.
Reverse psychology
Just some advice for newly married men. You have been drinking with friends, it’s 2 am and you want to enter your house quietly so as not to waken your beloved. As you near home you cut the car lights, turn off the engine and coast up to your house. Close the car door very quietly. Close the front door very quietly and tiptoe up to the bedroom. Just as you are about to get in bed, she turns over and yells “where the hell have you been till 2 am?” Yours has been a misguided approach. You should instead leave the car lights on bright, gun the engine, and squeal to a halt in front of the house. Slam the door to the car. Slam the door to the house, and stomp up the stairs singing “I’m in the mood for love.” I guarantee she will pretend to be asleep.
SUDOKU The rules to play Sudoku are quite simple. Fill in the blanks so that each row, each column, and each of the nine 3x3 grids contain one instance of each of the numbers 1 through 9.
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10 things you may not know about By Evan Andrews
including experienced stickup men “Handsome” Harry Pierpont, criminal. Businesses even used him as Charles Makley and an unsanctioned celebrity endorsement. John Hamilton—to Upon learning that the car-loving outget the drop on their law drove their automobile, one Hudson guards and escape. The dealership hung a banner reading, “Dilltiming couldn’t have inger Chooses the 1934 Hudson For His been better. Dillinger Personal Use.” When the robber later had been arrested at a switched to a Ford, the company printed ? ow Kn u Did Yo girlfriend’s house only brochures saying, “Will they catch John in ath de r’s linge Shortly after John Dil a few days before, and Dillinger? Not until they get him out of sts ca r ste pla d lde July 1934, several mo was languishing in jail a Ford V8!” I FB s face. were taken of his lifeles 7. Dillinger underwent facial reconin Lima, Ohio. On Ocdis ly ud pro er Director J. Edgar Hoov tober 12, the newly structive surgery to hide his identity. By tou s sk ma ath de se played one of the liberated Pierpont late-May1934, Dillinger’s reputation— t of his career. e his office for the res sid and two other men and his easily recognizable mug—was 2. He Born in Indianapolis, John waltzed in the front beginning to catch up to him. He’d been spent door and busted him out, gunning down shot in the leg during a shootout with most of Dillinger, the Tommy gunagents from the FBI (then known as the his adult life in prison. In September the county sheriff in the process. wielding gangster, robbed at 4. He robbed police stations. While Division of Investigation) in late March, 1924, a 21-year-old Dillinger was sent to least a dozen banks and led prison after being nabbed in a botched most criminals stayed as far away from and had only narrowly escaped an ampolice and federal agents on robbery on an elderly grocer. The young lawmen as possible, Dillinger was will- bush by G-Men at a resort in Wisconsin hood spent the next eight and a half ing to march right into their headquar- a month later. Desperate to change his a yearlong chase across the years doing time with some of the Mid- ters with gun in hand. Shortly after be- appearance, he paid $5,000 to enlist the Midwest before being gunned most hardened convicts and get- ing sprung from jail in October 1933, services of Wilhelm Loeser and Harold down outside a Chicago movie west’s ting a comprehensive education in the Dillinger and his band carried out a Bernard Cassidy, a pair of underworld theater in July 1934. Below, tricks of the criminal trade. Only days pair of audacious heists on the police plastic surgeons. After anaesthetizing learn 10 surprising facts about after winning parole in May 1933, a stations at Auburn and Peru, Indiana. Dillinger with ether, the doctors gave thoroughly unrehabilitated Dillinger As bewildered deputies looked on, the the gangster a rudimentary facelift, rethe short and infamous life hooked up with an Indianapolis gang gangsters emptied their gun cabinets moved several moles and scars, filled in of the man the authorities and committed a series of grocery store of Thompson submachine guns, shot- his famous cleft chin and used chemibranded “Public Enemy No. and restaurant stickups. He graduated guns, rifles, tear gas guns, bullet proof cals to burn off his fingerprints. The 1.” to bank robbery a few weeks later, kick- vests and more than a dozen pistols. The procedure proved excruciating, and 1. Dillinger served in the Navy. Dill- ing off the yearlong crime spree that crooks immediately put the arsenal to Dillinger was decidedly unsatisfied with inger began his criminal career at the would make him the nation’s most want- use committing a wave of bank heists the results. Upon looking in the mirror, he supposedly exclaimed, “Hell, I don’t that left two police officers dead. tender age of 20, when he boosted a car ed gangster. 5. Dillinger was a nationwide celebri- look any different than I did!” near Mooresville, Indiana and went on a 3. Dillinger helped bust his fellow 9. The federal government spent joyride through Indianapolis. Confront- gang members of out of jail. Dillinger ty. Dillinger’s famous robberies and geted and nearly gunned down by police, committed a string of high profile heists aways saw his face splashed across news- more money trying to catch him than he he decided to enlist in the U.S. Navy to during the summer of 1933, but he was papers and newsreels as much as some stole. Dillinger and his gang robbed at escape arrest. Dillinger later spent a desperate to reunite with some of his Hollywood stars. An Indianapolis lottery least a dozen banks and netted a total few months shoveling coal aboard the old prison buddies to form an ace bank on when he would be captured proved loot of around $500,000 (roughly $7 milbattleship Utah, but the future gangster robbing gang. That September, he began so popular it had to be shut down, and lion in modern day currency), but his didn’t take well to military discipline. plotting to break his would-be accom- his father was offered a small fortune to take paled in comparison to the amount He was repeatedly censured for insub- plices out of the Indiana State Prison do public speaking engagements. When of money the FBI spent trying to catch ordination and going AWOL, and spent at Michigan City. Dillinger conspired Dillinger and his gang were arrested in him. According to the Associated Press, several days in solitary confinement be- to have three .38 pistols hidden in a Tucson, Arizona, scores of people filed the nascent government agency racked fore finally deserting for good in Decem- crate of thread bound for the jail’s shirt through the city jailhouse just for the up a tab of some $2 million on the manber 1923. making factory, allowing 10 convicts— opportunity to lay eyes on the dashing hunt. For advertising information, call (858) 537-2280 • advertising@militarypress.com March 1, 2015 THE MILITARY PRESS 11
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