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...calling Negroes "mister." And as an instructor in FERA's adult education service, he had been mixing Karl Marx with the ABC's. He was quoted as saying he was willing, if share croppers were not fed, to "lynch every plantation owner in Poinsett County." Clapped into jail, he was speedily brought to trial, convicted of "anarchy." He has taken an appeal...
What to Do? Just before the Rodgers trial the AAA dispatched red-headed Mary Connor Myers, a Boston lawyer who helped the Department of Justice jail Al Capone, to Arkansas to see what all the trouble was about. Last week she reported to Washington. It was announced that the written part of her report was confidential, and the oral part was for the ears of Chester Davis alone. The United Press said: "Mrs. Myers, it was understood, uncovered contract violations which caused cruel hardships to part of the farm population. She found share croppers straggling along the highways, homeless...
Unfortunately, Grant Mitchell, the clever detective, is not allowed to jail the latest beauty in "One Exciting Adventure." This time it is Binnie Barnes and she is addicted to stealing jewelry solely for pleasure. Nevertheless she is quite attractive and next time Mr. Mitchell may really catch...
...Paris court found Charles A. L. Audry, nephew of France's onetime Premier Gaston Doumergue, guilty of swindling, gave him a suspended sentence of 26 months in jail. For the same deal onetime Minister of Commerce Louis Serre paid a fine of $250 and two accomplices were jailed. Swindlers Audry, Serre & friends sold $1,980,000 worth of stock which had been entrusted to them, fooled the owners by paying false dividends...
...grey-bearded rabbi, proved that the rabbi was brother to Russia's Commissar for Foreign Affairs Maxim Maximovitch Litvinoff. For 100 zlotys ($1,900) Rabbi Yankel Vallach talked. His brother, said he, was born Meyer Moses Vallach, was a pious Jew until Tsarist police clapped him into jail. There he met Bolsheviks Kamenev and Zinoviev, turned Communist, atheist. Released, he was made the fat-salaried manager of a sugar factory. He almost forgot his Communism but police jailed him again for helping his old friends. After that he met Lenin and Trotsky, directed Russian terrorists from England until...