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...Mayor 'Sanitary Kelly' because he's so pure, clean and wholesome. He goes to church on Sunday. . . . BUT he was chief engineer of the infamous $1,000,000 bridle path . . . was never brought to trial so he didn't have to go to jail. . . . 'Sanitary Kelly' will never finish his term as mayor." The Chicago police, on orders from City Hall, ferreted out all available copies of the Mangan pamphlet, destroyed them while Chicago sniggered. Last week's tax disclosures did not help Mayor Kelly's already poor standing with President Roosevelt...
From 96½ lb. the weight of Mahatma Gandhi dropped to 93¼ lb. last week as he began one more "fast unto death" in Yerovda jail to force from the British Raj greater freedom to propagandize on behalf of India's "Untouchables." Alarmed when Faster Gandhi developed acute kidney trouble. Viceroy Earl Willingdon had him removed to a hospital, also released Mrs. Gandhi from jail to permit her to attend her husband...
...Vallabhai Jhaverbhai Patel is not in a sanatorium in Vienna but in a cell in Yerovda jail where he was Mahatma's companion before the latter's release...
...automobile one midnight last week, sped down a lonely back road toward Birmingham. His prisoners were Dan Pippen, 18, A. T. Harden, 16, and Elmore Clark, 28, indicted for the murder of a white girl. Sheriff Shamblin had heard that a mob was planning to break into the Tuscaloosa jail and lynch them next day. As he drove along, two carloads of armed men overtook him, demanded his prisoners. Sheriff Shamblin turned them over to the lynchers who disappeared into the night. Next day the bodies of two of the Negroes were found underneath a tree near Woodstock, handcuffed together...
...thief. But in Minnesota and many another State, the fence can plead ignorance. Thus for years Fence Connolly did a land-office business. He was finally nabbed by U. S. postal authorities in 1931, given a 15-year sentence, but while awaiting the outcome of an appeal died in jail...