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Each Estonian condemned to death at Tallinn has been led out into the nearby forest by eight soldiers and there shot, always in a different part of the forest. To give condemned Estonians a choice, President Päts decreed last week as follows: "One hour before the scheduled time of the execution, the condemned shall be taken to a death cell, where the state prosecutor will read the death sentence and ask the prisoner whether he is willing to commit suicide. If the answer is in the affirmative, the prosecutor will hand the condemned a glass of poison...
Estonians abroad were profoundly shocked by this decree, not because President Päts had authorized suicide but because he had authorized hanging. "Astounding! Incredible!'' they cried. "We have never heard of anyone being hanged in Estonia. They are always shot in the forest...
...Presser, Cleveland, O.; Arthur W. Todd, Cleveland Heights, O.; Edwin McG. Warner, Geneva, O.; Sidney S. Alexander, Forest City, Pa.; Howard S. Derrickson, Darby, Pa.; Edward H.H. Jasen, Stroudsburg, Pa.; John S. Lang, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Rupert M. Smith, Bethayres, Pa.; Irving G. Shaffer, Reading, Pa.; George F. Tittmann, West Chester, Pa.; George D. Zimmerman, Reading, Pa.; Joseph A. Hindle, Providence, R.I.; George Cantor, Bennington, Vt.; Charles E. Tuttle, Jr., Rutland, Vt.; Lemuel Bowden, Jr.; Norfolk, Va.; Donald W. Davis, Jr., Williamsburg, Va.; John H. Gilbert, Milwaukee, Wis.; Lorne Rickert, Kitchener, Ont., Canada; Phillipe Dur, Toronto, Ont., Canada; Frederic C. Bartter...
...said to have sent the five men to France with forged passports to murder the King. Petrus Kalemen was to try in Marseilles, the others in Paris. Following confessions by Raitch and Posposil, French police picked up one Sylvester Mathy after he had hid for days in the Forest of Fontainebleau, living on roots & herbs. They sought three other suspects-a mysterious young girl known as Marie Vjoudroch whose duty was to carry suitcases of small arms to the assassins, and two men. All Europe exploded in a few days of mutual recrimination. Because the murder weapons were German made...
...Odlum differed from most of his Wall Street elders in that he made fortunes while they were losing them. He concluded that the logical person to run a swank women's specialty shop was a woman. His wife was no swankier than he (they live simply in suburban Forest Hills, prefer Utah to Europe for vacationing), but after she wrote a report for him on the basis of a month's inspection of the store, "Tenney" Odlum was installed as a special adviser. One of the first things she did was to move the millinery department down...