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...Government since Oct. 3 upon the officials who authorized the expenditures; 3) postulated that, since the Brazilian Congress ceased to exist Oct. 3, whatever it has done since was never done at all-i. e. all laws passed since the fatal date are void; 4) failed to disgorge from prison one Horton Hoover (no relation). U. S. aviator arrested on a charge which remained indefinite last week. The fact that Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson recognized the Revolutionary Government while the Consul General in Sao Paulo was still struggling vainly to secure Horton Hoover's release...
...business of which he is ashamed; Dr. Bichler, blind, surly old peasant, who rules Bavaria from behind the scenes; Communist Kaspar Pröckl, bitter and untidy engineer who serves Reindl and cannot hate him successfully; Johanna Krain, friend of Krüger, who champions him, marries him in prison out of pity; Jacques Tüverlin, artist-spectator of the tragicomedy; Landholzer. madman or genius, who has escaped from the world into an asylum. So carefully, logically, adroitly has Feuchtwanger marshaled the army of his characters that their individual stories move together like an orderly procession; you seem to see the movement...
...Prisons. Foresighted persons suppose that criminals will soon learn to use airplanes as an aid to prison breaks. Unless actually caught in an overt criminal act, a pilot would be liable only for violation of the Federal regulations against low flying (minimum, 1,000 ft. over cities, or towns or congested areas; 500 ft. elsewhere) and the dropping of objects from aircraft (maximum penalty: $500 fine and revocation of license). Last week the Aeronautics Branch of the Department of Commerce considered the problem "unofficially" presented to it by a recent conference of prison wardens at Columbus, Ohio. Possible solution: creation...
...great coffee city of Sao Paulo, capital of that state, more newspapers were sacked and a "Bastille" fell. In this building, the dread Cambucy prison, the mob found what were said to be "man whips" and "wooden instruments of torture." Soon mobsters ignited the infamous prison (after setting free all prisoners), cheered while it burned...
Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, youthful Chicagoans who murdered young Bobby Franks "for a thrill" in 1923, were ordered to hard labor in Illinois' state prison, Leopold for the first time since his incarceration. They have never seen each other in prison. Leopold was secretary to the prison chaplain at Statesville Penitentiary. He was transferred to the workshop because he had violated regulations concerning the delivery of official prison messages. Loeb was put to work again for an unnamed offense. Twice Leo- pold has been placed in solitary confine ment for cooking in his cell. Other times...