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...last, softspoken, pale, bloodless, Felix Dzerzhinsky found that he had bled the enemies of Bolshevism whiter than his own prison-bleached forehead. He became convinced that the "Cheka" was no longer needed, saw to it that several of his incurably bloodthirsty agents were quietly murdered, "for the ultimate good and safety of the state," and focused his own sleepless energies on the economic problems of Soviet government...
...Leavenworth Prison, Kan., Dr. Frederick Albert Cook, mendacious near-discoverer (1908) of the North Pole, busies himself with needlework while serving a term for oil-stock fraud...
...West New York, N. J., one Paul Bethamen, weaver, husband, father, awoke in a room he had never seen before. It had bars. It was a prison cell...
...great Phoetzensee Prison at Berlin one Fritz Gabriel, famed criminal, kissed his wife...
California had several interesting little situations going on at once. Governor Richardson was fighting to have one E. A. ("Big Hutch") Hutchings, Los Angeles bunko man, sent back to San Quentin to finish a prison term from which he was strangely paroled at a secret meeting of the prison directors last year. Up in the Imperial Valley they were investigating the fate of large public sums belonging to the county irrigation bureau. Property owners in Los Angeles sued the city and various contractors for alleged cost-boosting on harborside improvements...