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...Sudbury, Ont., one Aarvo Vaara, Editor of the Finnish-Canadian news organ Vapaus was fined $1,000 and sentenced to six months in jail for printing a tirade in which he compared the "misery of the working class" to the comforts surrounding George...
...from taking office as President of the U. S." Three days later they were arraigned, placed under $10,000 bail, which they could not raise. Then the prosecutor, Assistant U. S. Attorney Louis S. Joel, delayed the hearing while he looked for "missing" witnesses. The trio remained in jail while Mr. Hoover was received in Miami, while he proceeded to Belle Isle, while he embarked on a fishing trip...
Federal Judge Fred L. Wham requested, last week, that Sheriff Sam Good of Ogle County, Ill., appear before him. Sheriff Good was charged with allowing one Barney Kessel, convicted Chicago easyspeaker, to be absent from jail on 40 occasions during a 60-day sentence...
...completely understood the highly complex method of transferring Reparations "in kind" from Germany to the Allies. Last week Parisian gendarmes clapped M. Pollier into jail. People' said he had used his unusual knowledge to cheat the French Government out of some 80,000,000 francs worth of German sugar paid as Reparations in kind...
Promptly John Blymyer's two assistants were tried. John Curry was found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment. Wilbert Hess was found guilty and sentenced to spend from ten to twenty years in jail...