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...Fortescue and her son-in-law hired able legal counsel, refused to make any statement. Because Hawaiians milled menacingly about the city jail, the three defendants were turned over to the Navy for safekeeping aboard the U. S. S. Alton. The Navy Department ordered that Lieut. Massie and Seaman Lord should not be released to civil authorities unless it was so directed. Should civil authorities demand custody of Mrs. Fortescue the Navy would be without jurisdiction...
Raids. With St. Gandhi and most of the important Nationalist leaders in jail (.TIME, Jan.11). Viceroy Lord Willingdon stiffened his repressive ordinances still further. Picketing British shops was already a crime. Last week special judges were empowered to pass any sentence including sentence of death on persons convicted of violating the emergency ordinances. Sentence may be passed in the absence of the defendant; only the substance of the evidence need be recorded. In Calcutta alone over 60 raids were made on Nationalist offices. Other raids v.ere made in Delhi. At the village of Sayadla in the Surat district, Mrs. Kasturbai...
Ladies of the Big House (Paramount). Almost every program picture contains at least one new idea. In this one the idea is a jail break by women, executed in rough & ready fashion. One prisoner secretes a pair of wire clippers under her pillow. The heroine (Sylvia Sidney) helps her snip at a fence which separates the prison yard from a bay. The jailbreak fails, but since Sylvia Sidney is unjustly imprisoned she gets out before the picture ends. The plot framework which surrounds the prison scenes is diverting and well constructed, but basically improbable. It has to do with...
...highly charged with spurious excitement. Best shot: Sylvia Sidney and Gene Raymond allowed to see each other for a moment in the jail, so that a news-photographer can snap their hysterical embrace...
...editors do not print in their columns wild and derogatory letters signed by fictitious names without first ascertaining the identity of the writers. Because in at least one such case he was not shrewd, Editor John Wesley Mapoles of the Hopewell (Va.) News last week found himself sharing a jail cell with a prominent Hopewell bootlegger...