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Sheriff W. B. Cahoon of Jacksonville last week arrested Fred O. Eberhardt, publisher of the Tallahassee Florida State News, longtime Carlton critic, Henry Halseman, professional bondsman and Frank Rawls, onetime convict. The charge: conspiracy to kill Florida's Governor Doyle E. Carlton...
Last week's Mooney-Billings developments: the justices of the California Supreme Court convened in Folsom Prison to re-examine Convict Billings...
Loudest Voice. Matthew Woll, third vice president of the American Federation of Labor, raised the loudest voice in favor of an embargo against all Soviet goods. Claiming to represent 500,000 workmen as the head of the Wage Earners Protective Association, he talked of invoking a similar embargo against convict-made goods from Fascist Italy. His language became so intemperate that William Green, president of the A. F. of L., was forced to disavow him as a spokesman for that organization...
...ports, had blocked 68 others in transit. Big U.S. Business, the Soviet's good friend, hustled to Washington. Representatives of Amtorg, International Paper and the foreign shipping companies fairly swept Mr. Lowman off his feet with categorical denials that any of Russia's 1929 pulpwood had been produced by convict labor. Soviet officials in charge of the Russian Export Trust cabled that the pulpwood workers were free "to leave any time at their own will," that they were paid a set scale of wages and were in no sense convicts or prisoners. Witnesses belittled Russian imports as an economic menace...
Embargo Off. Impressed, Assistant Secretary Lowman decided that the Treasury had "gone off half-cocked." He revoked his pulpwood embargo. He admitted that the evidence "was conflicting and inconclusive . . . and not sufficient to establish the fact that the pulpwood was produced by convict labor...