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Last week the New York City Board of Aldermen added $5,000 to the $2,500 reward already offered by the New York Evening World for finding Justice Crater. Famed Lawyer Max Steuer said he would raise the money if the Aldermen could not legally do so. New York police mailed to colleagues all over the world 10,000 circulars, like those advertising criminals wanted, with Judge Crater's photograph and description prominently displayed: "Age, 41 years; height, 6 feet; weight, 185 pounds; mixed grey hair . . . thin at top, parted in middle, 'slicked' down; . . . brown eyes; false...
...Nuremberg, Communists and Fascists (National Socialist Workers party) met for a debate which terminated in a free-for-all. Spectators amused themselves by pitching beer mugs and stones into the throng, injuring 70 contestants, among them three Fascist aldermen. Police charged and dispersed the rioters with truncheons and fire hose...
...Augusta, Me., Harold D. Jennings, treasurer of Central Maine Power Co., president of the city aldermen, was fishing for smelt. A salmon ate his bait. He had no license to catch salmon, yelled to S. Sewell Webster, city clerk, nearby, to make him out a salmon-catching license, got it, hauled in his salmon...
...Hamburg and STIMMING himself, dynamic little butterball director of the N. G. L., the Europa was caught ignominiously by the current and swung directly across the stream. Forty-five minutes later, her black hull righted, the Europa slid down the Elbe and out to sea, while SUMMING, Mayor, and aldermen clinked glasses in the fashionable Restaurant Jacobs...
Whatever shoe there is in it was last week put upon the other foot by a Mrs. Annabelle Young, church worker. She petitioned New Haven's Board of Aldermen to pass an ordinance obliging all girls of New Haven over twelve years of age to wear stockings in public or court arrest. Said Worker Young: "A splendid body of students come here each year. . . . I love young people and want to protect them against themselves...