Word: arsons
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...carry on there until June. Meantime State police and constables guarded the school property. The fires (loss $300,000) had both been started in windward corners of basements. Not only that: within the past few weeks five other fires had been discovered, snuffed out in time. Clearly it was arson, with suspicion pointing at a discharged school employe...
Living Shields, Boiling Oil. Before German Democracy could thus be downed this week, the Hitler Cabinet had to launch last week a juggernaut of super-suppressive measures & decrees for which they needed an excuse. What excuse could be better than the colossal act of arson which had just sent a $1,500,000 fire roaring through the Reichstag Building (TIME, March 6) gutting completely the brown oak Reichstag Chamber and ruining its great dome of gilded copper and glass...
...sober and mad while drunk, gulps down a bottle of gin and opens the door of a room which contains a criminal lunatic who tries to cut off Melvyn Douglas's head with a carving knife. Good shot: the criminal lunatic (Brember Wells) boasting that he knows more arson than anyone else in the world while he prepares to brighten up the old dark house by setting fire to it and its inhabitants...
Died. Sam Edwards, 72, Cincinnati hermit, onetime carpenter; in Cincinnati. He was the last surviving member of the 1884 Cincinnati jury which by returning the lenient verdict of manslaughter against Murderer William Berner, roused Cincinnati citizens into storming the jail, plunged Cincinnati into three high days of murder, arson and pillage in which 50 were killed, hundreds injured, millions of dollars worth of property destroyed...
...stolid Germans stabbing each other Unter den Linden (TIME, July 11) seemed more newsworthy to most U. S. citizens than 400 armed rebels who over-powered the garrison of Trujillo, most important city of northern Peru, last week, murdered the Mayor, looted banks & mansions, committed wholesale arson. Zooming up from Lima, Peru's capital, seven bombing planes first dropped demands that the rebels surrender, then bombed them until they fled...