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Weiss was fully disabled by a blow to the chin before sixty bullets left the revolvers of armed bodyguards to pepper his body. From all reports he could have been tied up, taken to jail, and given a fair trial. Courts act quickly in such cases. This is what happened to Zangara, the would-be assassin of President Roosevelt, and to the slayers of Garfield and McKinley; yet the scene in the Louisiana state capitol resembled the settling of accounts between rival gangs...
According to the new law, no one may buy or offer to buy potatoes which are not packed in closed containers approved by the Secretary of Agriculture and bearing proper Government stamps. Penalty: $1,000 fine; for a second offense, a year in jail, an additional $1,000 fine or both. No farmer, under the same penalty, may sell potatoes without such containers and stamps. No farmer can get the necessary official stamps unless he 1) pays a tax of 45¢ a bushel, or 2) receives tax-exemption stamps from the Secretary of Agriculture. No farmer can get tax-exemption...
...Germans. Searched to the skin, one turned out to be a walking bundle of banknotes. When he was identified as Herr Friedrich Weber, correspondent in Rumania of Realmleader Hitler's personal newsorgan, Volkischer Beobachter ("People's Observer"), the King's police clapped him instantly into jail, convinced that they had caught the Nazi Pay-Off Man, then expelled him from Rumania...
...Chaps kissed his wife in England on Aug. 10, told her he was going to Ethiopia, and left her to take care of the children in his Amroth Castle, South Wales. This was once the country seat of Lord Kylsant, also a beefy John Bull, who went to jail for his irregularities as chairman of the Royal Mail (TIME, Nov. 16, 1931 et ante). There today Fat Chaps is respected as Mr. Francis M. Rickett, velvet-capped Master of Foxhounds of the swank Craven Hunt in Berkshire. The local lords and squires who hunt with him know nothing about...
...Japan's garrison and division commanders away under a public cloud of suspicion. Still the darkest of current Japanese Army secrets remained the reason why General Nagata, Director of Military Affairs, was run through the chest by Army Swordsmanship Instructor Colonel Aizawa (TIME, Aug. 26), who sat in jail last week purse-lipped. In general Japan's scrappy little war machine suffers from chronic super-patriotism in the lower ranks, jampacked with zealots who imagine that their generals are too soft and that Japan's current Premier, whoever he may be, must be a pacifist hireling...