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Secondly, the Portuguese cracked down on the refugees who have been funneled through Lisbon from all Europe since the start of World War II. By a new law, refugees who do not have visas or immediate steamship or plane reservations must go to prison, pay for their keep (50? to $1.50 a day) while they are there. Stated reason for this decree was to keep wealthy refugees from buying up food supplies, creating a shortage, but it would also isolate fifth columnists disguised as fugitives from Hitler...
...drastic sentence of the court-martial was back in Pensacola, approved by the President. Both officers were dismissed from the service. Both were sentenced to penal terms at hard labor: Brown to serve two years, Thompson one. Under guard of Marines, the disgraced officers set out for the naval prison at Portsmouth...
...only seagoing woman engineer ran the engine room singlehanded, haloed with escaping steam and showered with black fuel oil. So George VI presented the Most. Excellent Order of the British Empire to gaunt, nerveless Victoria Drummond, 42. a British Fascist Oswald Mosley, interned in London's Brixton Prison, began taking German lessons. / / Antanas Smefona, self-exiled President of Lithuania, discovered living with his wife in a log cabin near Benton Harbor, Mich., is still ecstatic over America's good roads and standard of living. / / Private Hank Greenberg shone in close order drill and calisthenics, won a promotion...
...last three weeks were spent in a Dijon military prison, a really tough stretch of solitary confinement, with 15 minutes a day in a tiny courtyard, no talking or smoking. But the joke was, concluded Allen, rather on the Germans than himself. In jail he talked to prisoners from Occupied France, Belgium and Holland, politicians, priests, officers, newspapermen, German deserters, an aristocrat or two, who told him much more about Occupied France than he ever could have got outside...
...Shepherd of the Hills (Paramount) is homespun Harry Carey, who returns to his Ozark mountain home after a long prison term and proceeds to restore the feuding hillbillies to their once kindly ways. Pictorially superb, the Technicolored film suffers from its endless moralizing and Cloud-Cuckoo language. Shown at Branson, Mo., in the heart of the Ozarks, it so stirred one native that he picketed the local cinema with a placard: UNFAIR TO LOCAL CHARACTERS...