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...Canada flogging by birch or by 'the cat' also is in-flicted." Chairman George Woodward Wickersham of the President's Law Enforcement Commission, now preparing its report at Washington, wrote that in a paper read for him last week before the American Prison Association at Louisville, Ky. He concluded: "A careful inquiry . . . may well be made to determine the desirability of employing [flogging] in the war against banditry and racketeers...
...irresistibly toward some modification of our banking structure. . . . We cannot stem the tide of economic events by passing hostile resolutions or by mere appeals for still more legislation. . . ." And there was irony too in the fact that head of the resolutions committee was Max B. Nahm of Bowling Green, Ky., who last year was an eloquent orator against branchbanking...
...Central R. R. of New Jersey, dragged a piece of pork across their trail to prevent being followed by hounds, waited for a train to come by. A switch engine backed across the spikes, its crew removed them, preventing disastrous derailment of a Newark-New York express. In Louisville, Ky., small Charlie Bradshaw found a sack of paperhanger's paste powder, took it home, dumped it into his mother's flour can. Biscuits made from the flour caused Charlie, his parents, his brother to be violently ill. His 15-months-old sister was expected...
...orange monoplane last week swooped down on the coal-mining district around Providence, Webster County, Ky. and dropped nine crude dynamite bombs. Five exploded, cast columns of rock and dirt in the air, did no other damage...
Meanwhile, 60 State troopers and neighboring police arrived to stand guard over Cameron. From Camp Knox, Ky., where the Indiana National Guard was encamped, two companies were ordered to Marion...