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John Hamilton, 35, bandit, whom Dillinger helped to escape from the Indiana State Prison last September. Month later Hamilton returned the favor by delivering Dillinger from the jail in Lima, Ohio, killing a sheriff. The pair robbed banks, shot policemen with precise criminal skill...
...Police arrested over 300 men and women found in Communist quarters. Of the first no tried, five proved to be aliens without proper admission papers or with criminal records, were sent to Angel Island for deportation. Some 20 U. S. citizens with criminal records were sentenced to jail up to 90 days as vagrants. Others were released with warnings...
...office to which he was elected in 1932. According to the State court, Langer was disqualified because in Federal Court last month he had been convicted of conspiracy to defraud the U. S. out of $179.50 in relief funds, had been fined $10.000, sentenced to 18 months in jail (TIME, June 25). Before he was ousted Governor Langer declared martial law, summoned a special session of the Legislature...
...Greatest Gamble (RKO) is a picture to perplex the Legion of Decency. Scrupulously clean in the matter of major morals, it advertises such minor vices as breaking jail, roulette and spilling water on the table cloth. Philip Eden (Richard Dix), hero of His Greatest Gamble, is, he says, a "half-mad cavalier who lights his cigaret on the stars and throws the stars away." By way of corroboration. he kidnaps his 10-year-old daughter from his estranged wife (Erin O'Brien-Moore); whisks her along the coast of France on a 30-day inspection of gambling casinos; ties...
...tempered, idealistic Marlen Edwin Pew. At 56, with a thoroughgoing newshawk's career behind him, Marlen Pew speaks of his experience as "the most wonderful, glamorous, satisfying adventure that any man could desire." He helped organize the United Press, edited the Philadelphia News-Post and proudly went to jail for criminal libel because of a political exposé. His last newspaper position was as general manager of Hearst's International News Service...