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Before dissolving on Aug. 4, the Dial Eireann took the precaution of passing a Public Safety bill, empowering the Free State Government to hold in prison its 12,000 political prisoners...
Most people considered Jack Johnson a cooked coon when the doors of Leavenworth Prison closed behind him. Not so Johnson. He has signed articles to fight Erminio Spalla, Italian champion who aroused Premier Mussolini to ecstatic eulogy, in Newark during the latter part of August. Owing to Johnson's age and his criminal activities, it is doubtful whether the authorities will countenance the bout...
...Vigoroux, after the first hearings, asked for a trial by jury, and was remanded to prison to await the criminal court...
...Angeles, 27 members of the Industrial Workers of the World were convicted of criminal syndicalism and sentenced to from one to 14 years in San Quentin prison. Seventeen other " wobblies," as the I. W. W. are known, had previously been convicted...
...Legislative Assembly at Calcutta asked for the immediate release of Mahatma Gandhi from prison. The Government of India refused, saying it was unwise to release such a dangerous agitator prior to the completion of his sentence...