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...soccer game between Danish and Viennese teams on Denmark's Constitution Day (June 5) the crowd bombarded German soldiers with rocks and bottles. Result: Minister of Justice Harald Petersen was forced to resign; 60 Danes drew long prison terms. The Nazis charge Danish prisoners two kroner a day board & keep, and if they can't pay it, the Government must...
Charges: he "frequently went to prison camps of Fulton County with pardons already signed and asked to see prisoners whom he did not know and who did not know him. . . . Henry Wilburn was serving a life sentence for murder. . . . Wilburn said [to Chandler] the warden had $50 of his and he would be glad to pay that much. This was acceptable to Chandler." The jury reported: "Henry Wilburn, the one who was serving life for murder, is free today at a cost of $50 [paid] to the Governor's chauffeur...
After 21 years in Sing Sing, Warden Lewis E. Lawes this week announced that, like most of the prison's inmates, he now wanted to retire, "to devote myself to many causes which have long interested me." Among them will be more sound books (20,000 Years in Sing Sing) and articles on penology, perhaps a university job, social-service work among boys...
Humane boss of the most famed prison in the U.S., Lawes said with proper pride, when asked how his 2,500 inmates felt about his retirement: "Some of them will probably feel bad." Some famous Lawes charges: City Editor Charles E. Chapin, Richard C. Whitney, Nazi Fritz Kuhn, Tammany's Jimmy Hines...
...conscious humor of the week was furnished by beetle-browed little Foreign Vice Commissar Solomon Lozovsky, that colorful Old Bolshevik who holds the record of having escaped from prison more times than any living Communist. New Spokesman for the U.S.S.R., in a press conference he referred to the "shocking fact" that Albania had declared war on the Soviet Union. This step, said he, was taken under the direction of "Italy's Al Capone, known as Mussolini." As for the German claims of mighty victories, said Funnyman Lozovsky, "they remind me of the story of the hunter who shouted...