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...Arco-Vally who in 1919 assassinated the then Socialist Premier of Bavaria but was set free in 1927, said candidly last week that he now intends to assassinate Chancellor Adolf Hitler. Just before the Chancellor arrived by plane in Munich-traditional Fascist headquarters -the Count was placed in a cell, still firmly maintaining that he will assassinate Herr Hitler. Just after the Chancellor left for Berlin, Munich's Police Chief claimed to have prevented an attack on Handsome Adolf's life by three men who deposited three hand grenades and some ammunition near the Chancellor's Munich...
Last week, sitting always at Chairman Norbeck's right, Mr. Pecora put on the show. His the right to question; Mr. Mitchell's the duty to answer no more no less than suited Mr. Pecora-and Senator Brookhart darkly hinted that a jail cell was ready if the banker balked. Banker Mitchell proceeded to say enough to damn himself to the satisfaction of the Committee, Mr. Pecora and a large part of the U. S. people by the following admissions...
Meanwhile big-eyed mop-haired Joe Zangara sat in his high Miami cell rubbing his aching stomach and repeating: "If I could eat, I no kill anybody." He appeared without remorse, explaining that his animosity ran against Mr. Roosevelt only as President-elect, not as an individual. Police investigation revealed the following case history...
Walter Winchell, New York Mirror colyumist, had just filed his "On Broadway" from the Miami Western Union office when a messenger dashed in with the news from the park. Winchell sprinted straight to the jail where he talked his way up to the cell block and eavesdropped on the sheriff's examination of Zangara. He wired the Mirror that night that Zangara "gave every indication of being crazy...
...narrative concerns a young betting clerk who volunteers, in a moment of national crisis, to die in the name of "Anonymous Ireland." Put into a cell with the leader of the rebellion, he discovers that the leader is not a man, but a woman in disguise. The resulting complications destroy the happiness which he had found in the prospect of sacrifice; when he is released instead of being shot, readjustment is impossible, and leads him at the end of the book to a situation of deliberately chosen incongruity...