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...last week the Justice Department got a tip that Nelson, who had been hunted in the Chicago area for some six weeks, was heading for a house near suburban Barrington, Ill. Two by two. in fast new Hudsons. agents of the Department's Chicago division rolled out for the chase. Together went pleasant, round-faced Inspector Samuel P. Cowley, 35, and clean-cut Herman E. Hollis, 28. Both were graduates of Washington law schools, both participants in the catching & killing of Dillinger. Cowley had also been in at the death of Charles ("Pretty Boy") Floyd (TIME, Oct. 29). Hollis...
...sang the Marseillaise in protest against Premier Flandin's decision to unpeg the French internal price of wheat. After the farmers had dispersed grumbling, the Government announced that within three months the price of wheat will be gradually unpegged, and French farmers will be obliged to report the area they intend to sow in wheat to the State which may curb any farmer who seems likely to raise over 100 quintals (367 bushels...
Even the 55-year-old squabble between Bolivia and Paraguay over the Gran Chaco must end some day. Last week it looked as if Paraguay, with one-third the population, one-eighth the area and one-twelfth the wealth of big Bolivia, had a chance to win. A combination of dumb Bolivian politics and smart Paraguayan tactics had lured Bolivia into making a terrible mistake...
Calamity Relief. "In the fall of 1931, came the Great Yangtze flood which affected an area of 70,000 square miles inhabited by 25,000,000 people. Something like 140,000 persons were drowned and crops worth $900,000,000 lost. To meet this calamity a National Flood Relief Commission was established to furnish relief to those suffering from the flood, and to provide for the repair of the broken dykes, and the building of them upon such a higher, larger, and stronger scale, that future floods might be prevented. Much foreign financial aid was sent to China at this...
...When I first surveyed the flooded area,' he says, 'I felt that the dykes could not possibly be repaired before the next flood season. But it was done within six months, and by Chinese engineers. There was not a foreigner in the lot. . . . These dykes of ours were many of them 140 feet broad at the base and 30 feet broad at the top and they were 30 to 50 feet high. . . . At one time we had 1,400,000 of people working on the main river dykes. The amount of dirt used would put a dyke around the earth...