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...Freehold, N. J., Joseph J. Schwark, new Democratic warden, reported to Harold Height, new Democratic sheriff, on disconcerting conditions in the Monmouth County jail. Of the 90 prisoners, 35 had electric cookers, sauce pans, broilers, cutlery & napery in their cells. They all entertained guests at any hour of day or night, kept late hours, gave parties at whim. Prisoners George Parker, Elijah Thompson, John Leddy, Charles High, John Walling were absent. (Later the night keeper found Parker who "when we counted them in the cells, was in the kitchen. When we counted them in the kitchen, Parker...
...contradictory cables from Allahabad and Delhi raised once more the issue of competence. Who is competent to speak for India? Mr. Ganhdi continued to squat in Yerovda Jail last week, "during His Majesty's pleasure." At the Conference in London sat no representative of Mr. Gandhi's Indian Nationalist Party and not even a Prince or Maharaja of importance. True, the Aga Khan was there but he is the merest British puppet and the head of no Indian state. The Labor Party of Great Britain declined, some weeks ago. to sit in at the Conference because the present...
Last week Geneva, "City of Peace," looked like home to Chile's delegation at the League of Nations. An editor was in jail, placards were up on the street corners warning crowds not to congregate, machine gun squads patroled the streets, an angry city attended the funeral of eleven citizens shot dead (43 were wounded) in the worst riot Switzerland has seen in nearly a generation...
Sabrina has been hidden in the jail at Litchfield, Conn., in the Connecticut River, in a safety deposit vault, in a farmer's dung heap. Once a plucky Non Sabrina Man forged a receipt to get her out of an express office in Springfield. Mass. Sabrina has been taken to Europe. Sabrina Men are supposed to show the statue once or twice a year, announcing it beforehand so that students may turn out at night with torches. Sabrina is shown briefly in an automobile which speeds away at once, with other automobiles in hot pursuit. The even classes have held...