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With only a small delay Statesman Stimson despatched instructions to the U. S. Embassy at Havana to inquire into Mr. Barlow's arrest, to discover if "his surroundings were bearable." Before this order could reach Havana, Mr. Barlow was out of jail...
...County Sheriff Oscar Adkins and his deputies rushed the strikers. Stones flew. Pates were cracked. Noses bled. Sheriff Adkins swore out 148 warrants for "riot, insurrection and rebellion against the constituted authority of the State of North Carolina." After 74 strikers and their leaders had been arrested, the county jail was filled. More troopers came to town. Minor dynamitings occurred in the mills. A Labor Day parade was banned by the county commissioners and the mill owners moved to evict 230 families of strikers from company homes...
...official news organs Pravda (Truth) and Isvestia (News) announced categorically that China had accepted Soviet terms for settlement of the present crisis-provoked when the Chinese Government deported high Soviet officials of the Chinese Eastern Railway (owned by Russia, jointly operated by China and Russia) and clapped into jail as "dangerous propagandists" numerous subordinate Soviet employes of the line (TIME, July...
Among the deepest of the sleepers last week, was the chairman of a great oil company who slept the sleep of the just, weary from his pharmaceutical labors in the dispensary of the Federal jail in Washington, D. C. Not only the cloistered seclusion of prison walls but trust in his company's progress protected his rest. For, while Harry F. Sinclair slept and while he worked, plans were going forward for enlarging his company's outlets...
Producers Outlets. Prairie Oil & Gas Co., once part of the extinct Standard Oil, a large producer (but not a retailer), of oil in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Wyoming was last week reported about to merge with Sinclair, thereby acquiring a retailing agency. From jail, Chairman Sinclair admitted "through a friend" that engineers were surveying the properties of both companies, but added happily, "I have no intention of retiring from the oil business...