Word: jails
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...dawn broke, 2,000 bluejackets and Marines, under the orders of Admiral Richard Henry Leigh-who had been shaken out of his Long Beach apartment but went back to bed as the shocks continued-patrolled the Long Beach area. At Long Beach, Marines guarded prisoners taken from the tottering jail. Only one arrest for looting was reported. People were still scratching desperately in the rubble for their missing and dead...
Mayor Epigmenio Guzman neither paid nor received a call, but he knew his duty. To the Norfolk he sent a polite wire expressing his desolation at his inability to chat with the Hon. Reginald Aylmer Ranfurly Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax. Reason: polite Mayor Guzman was in jail charged with murder...
...assassination was Brigadier Antonio Ainciart, head of the national police, who put in a busy morning chasing reporters and smashing cameras. In the suburbs police stopped a green automobile containing three passengers and a sawed-off shotgun. They were arrested. Havanans expect the prisoners to develop suicidal tendencies in jail...
...Eager to catch a Red, several of the new "auxiliary police'' stormed the apartment of Dr. Lily Keith, Berlin representative of the Moscow Izvestia, while she telephoned the Soviet Ambassador. Bursting in. the "auxiliaries" ransacked Dr. Keith's rooms for two hours, dragged her off to jail. After the Soviet Government had officially demanded Correspondent Keith's release, she was turned loose. Meanwhile more than 350 German Communists (including Reichstag Deputies) were jailed and Berlin police boasted that if Professor Albert Einstein should return from California they could arrest him since he had once supported Communism...
...saying, both drew their daggers, bared their stomachs, made clumsy efforts to commit harakiri. Pouncing police grabbed both bunglers before they had much harmed themselves, bundled them off to jail, announced, "they will both recover." Meanwhile a party of friends of the two men (whose names police kept secret) were busy with a hunger strike against the income tax evasions, had not eaten for more than a week...