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Thus with all solemnity last week Britain cocked the loaded gun Ramsay MacDonald had been given against the trial of six Metropolitan-Vickers engineers for sabotage and espionage. The engineers' sentences were light: acquittal for one, banishment for three, prison terms of two and three years for Engineers MacDonald and Thornton, respectively, whose amazing confessions were never properly explained during the trial (TIME, April 24). Therefore the gun was not fired at once, but it was carefully aimed...
...Ramsay MacDonald: When the trial ends, a verdict of Guilty will almost certainly be pronounced, a verdict that will flame in every Soviet newspaper, BUT this verdict may be appealed to the Presidium of the Union Central Executive Committee which has the power to transmute death or prison sentences to deportation from Russia-IF the British embargo is not proclaimed and a new trade agreement is signed...
...were Abilio and Ramiro Valdes Daussa, sons of Treasury Paymaster Francisco Valdes Leon. Their crime was hiding explosives in their home. Letting the Negroes shoot them down was perfectly legal under Cuba's ingenious ley de fuga (law of flight) which allows police -including the Porra-to kill prisoners "attempting to escape." Reports quickly circulated that Father Valdes Leon had committed suicide in his cell. This was denied by Prison Supervisor Ambrosio Diaz Galup...
...Sing Sing Prison, the lilies on the chapel's altar at Easter services had been grown by Convict Owen ("Owney") Madden, famed Manhattan beer baron...
There is no plot that the reviewer could discover in "Hi-de-ho." A very pleasing devil was running about and his domain seemed to be peopled with most agreeable dancers and singers. The most extravagantly successful act of the show was a prison orchestration by Bruce Johnson's Washboard Serenaders. The positively incredible way this group could make music go mad almost drove the audience into a frenzy. Your reviewer distinctly counted three women who actually jumped at least six inches out of their seats during one of the rendition. Also peppy was Sandy and his band. While scientific...