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...Washington the House of Representatives passed a series of Senate anti-crime bills, including one providing 25 years in jail for robbing a Federal Reserve member bank. Then on their own initiative indignant Representatives passed another bill, authorizing the Attorney General to offer $25,000 reward for the capture of public enemies dead or alive...
...Negro woman fell on her knees. Another walked up to her, slapped her hard. "Get yourself up from there, you crazy lunatic. That big fat bum ain't wuth praying for. He done beat me out of my life's savings." When Garvey got out of jail, he was shipped back to his native Jamaica as an undesirable alien. Every time he got himself elected to something in Jamaica, he somehow got himself jailed for something else. Harlem Negroes took his Universal Negro Improvement Association away from him by default and he founded another. When that went bankrupt...
Hard Labor for all "atrocity mongers" who publish in Germany or abroad "false or grossly distorted statements" on conditions in the Reich. About the mildest sentence the People's Court can inflict is one month in jail for publishers, printers or booksellers who make, distribute or keep in stock, even unwittingly, treasonable publications. The People's Court was not organized in time last week to handle the 48 Hamburg Communists, members of the so-called "Red Navy" who conducted periodical raids on the Red Eagle Hotel, Nazi headquarters in Hamburg, during 1932 and 1933. A summary court sentenced...
...stake than a duel between a pimp named Albrecht Hoehler and a brown-shirted street fighter named Horst Wessel for the favor of a harlot. Eight people received sentences up to six years at hard labor. Albrecht Hoehler, who confessed firing the fatal shots, died very suddenly in jail last year immediately after the Nazis took over the government. Most of the rest have completed their terms. A new trial with three new defendants will be held as soon as the People's Court is organized. The defendants, all Communists, are Peter Stoll, tailor; Solly Einstein, painter; Hans Ziegler...
Last year Ibn Saud sent a mission to Yemen to settle the boundary dispute peaceably. Yahya the Imam pleaded illness as an excuse for not seeing them, then clapped the delegation into jail and sent an armed force into Asir under the former Idrissi...