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...France, after much pressure by British Ambassador Sir George Clerk upon the Quai d'Orsay, Premier Pierre Laval guardedly repeated the ambiguous pledge he gave last autumn in such terms that London papers last week gave their readers to understand that M. Laval had said France will join England in the fight if Mussolini should do anything silly...
Thus warned, the Nobel Committee considered another Carl, Sweden's Prince Carl, who had been active in Swedish Red Cross work during the World War in Siberia and lately in Ethiopia. This stopgap fell through when a clerk discovered that Prince Carl's name had been submitted a few days after the deadline. Suddenly the Committee realized it was not obliged to name anybody, having in the past skipped four War years and four years since. Lamely last week it announced there would be no 1935 Nobel Peace Prize award because "with war raging in Africa, Anglo-Italian...
...nine members of the Court leaned forward fascinated. Seldom does the high court have the opportunity of studying a crime of violence. The late Jeff Bowers, hardware clerk, found four years ago mysteriously shot in a Washington store, provided such a case. For if Jeff Bowers committed suicide, that was all there was to it; but if he was killed in the line of duty, Widow Bonnie Bowers had a legal claim for compensation. From Mrs. Bowers' lawyer the Justices learned that there were no recognizable fingerprints on the gun and presumably Jeff Bowers could not have wiped them...
...finally had got the Mayor. Up before a secret party court he was hauled, charged with high crime: not bribery, not corruption in office, but buying articles for his own use from a Jewish department store. The evidence against him: two cancelled checks, spotted by a snooping Nazi bank clerk...
Acquitted. Robert M. ("Bob") Sweitzer, 67, potent Chicago Democrat, longtime (1910-34) Cook County Clerk; of criminal responsibility for a $414,129 shortage in his official accounts discovered by his successor as County Clerk (TIME, June 17); by a Criminal Court jury; in Chicago. Still promising to make good his shortage as soon as his own auditors could check his accounts, Democrat Sweitzer moved to regain the County Treasurership from which he was ousted last summer when, after promising immediate restoration of most of his shortage, he failed to produce a cent...