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...decrees passed, uniformed Prussian police pounced last week on five relatives of pouchy-eyed old Philipp Scheidemann, the Socialist who proclaimed the German Republic in 1918, served as its first Chancellor and recently fled to Czechoslovakia. On no charge whatever the five relatives were locked up in a Nazi prison camp. Refusing to reveal their names, police said their sex was "predominantly male." They will be held, it was explained, because Herr Scheidemann recently wrote an article for the New York Times in which he asked: "Will the world tolerate in the centre of Europe the domination of political adventurers...
...charged with "holding back fresh meat and vegetables until they spoiled" and generally conspiring to give the Moscow Restaurant Trust an evil, stinking name. After five days five culprits, including Soup Saboteur Oshkin Mikkhail, were sentenced to "the highest form of social protection-death by shooting." Six accomplices got prison terms of from 18 months to eight years, one was acquitted. Russia faced a grave food shortage last winter at the time Oshkin was supposed to have been most active. The food supply in all large Russian cities is better now. Since Soviet executions take place in complete secrecy Moscow...
...took the jury, old friends since Dec. 12, 1932, overnight to reach a verdict. All defendants were convicted on all counts. It took Judge Woolsey one hour to pass sentence. Defendant Goebel got five years in prison, was fined $41,000. Irene Flautt got four years, same fine. Her sister was not fined, was ordered imprisoned a year and one day. All the rest were fined $41,000 each, committed to prison for from two to four years...
...attracted him far less than penology, the penitentiary, sociology. Returning to Philadelphia to practice his new profession he threw himself into works of public welfare, became a trustee of Eastern Penitentiary. He even arranged to serve a voluntary term in a cell to get a real taste of prison life, but when newshawks discovered the scheme he abandoned it. For three years he worked as assistant district attorney of Philadelphia county, invariably drawing the toughest cases which his chief thought were hopeless...
...jail for a crime that she committed long before. Cinema stories by Anita Loos, of which this is one and Hold Your Man another, have a way of starting bravely and curdling into fatigued sentimentality. Lawyer Mannering marries a girl of his own class while Mary is in prison. She gets out in time to save his life again, this time by shooting her old friend Leo. A jury finds her guilty of murder and Lawyer Mannering has to intercede to save her life. A familiar melodrama done in an expensive and sometimes ingenious manner, Midnight Mary is distinguished...