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...Since the middle of November, three Negroes have been killed, two others have been severely beaten and a material witness to two of these affairs has been run out of town. The two who were beaten are now in jail, one of them under indictment for assault and battery...
...decision did not release other thousands now in jail serving Federal Prohibition sentences imposed before Repeal...
...complaints of the Soviet manager of the Chinese Eastern Railway spanning Japan's puppet State of Manchukuo. The manager, Comrade Julius Rudy, had counted up to 280 armed attacks by "Manchukuans" on his Soviet railway guards before Manchukuo authorities clapped six Soviet officials of the Chinese Eastern into jail at Harbin where they still languished last week. Since that time Russia's negotiations to sell its $200,000,000 equity in the Chinese Eastern to Manchukuo have completely collapsed. "All wise governments should watch the Far East with the greatest vigilance," wrote M. Herriot. "The question...
...wavered in his loyalty, blue-eyed, square-jawed Major Emil Fey, Vice Chancellor. From the Dollfuss office went forth a new pronunciamento announcing that "Nazi terrorism has become so barbarous that the Government's patience is at an end." Thereupon Major Fey was given new powers to jail judges, police, city or federal authorities suspected of Nazi sympathies...
...unpleasant doings in a cornbin. In All of Me she is a patrician girl, selfishly in love with a young engineer (Fredric March). Her association with a petty crook (George Raft) and his mistress causes her to be a bigger and better person. Raft steals a handbag, goes to jail, kills a guard escaping from Manhattan's Welfare Island, swims across the East River, rescues his mistress from a reformatory and commits suicide by jumping out of a hotelroom window. These activities suggest to the heroine of All of Me that the least she can do for her engineer...