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...Supreme Court last week decided a legal case between Kentucky Whip and Collar Co. and Illinois Central Railroad. The company, which makes horse collars and harness with convict labor at Kentucky's Eddyville penitentiary, was seeking legal authority to make the railroad accept 25 shipments of horse collars & harness which it had refused. But the issue at stake was far bigger than it looked. The railroad's refusal was based on the Ashurst-Sumners Act, passed in 1935, forbidding the shipment of convict-made goods into states which forbid its sale...
This week the Nation's newsstands blossomed with 400,000 copies of a picture publication which, in red letters against a blue field, proclaimed itself as Look, The Monthly Picture Magazine. Also on the cover, a convict, Franklin Roosevelt, an actress and an x-ray of a woman's legs fought for attention with a large portrait of Germany's General Goring bottle-feed-ing his lion...
...rainy day by a bandit with tear-gas bombs; the warped, animal hatred of the crowd watching Eddie being taken from the courtroom; the bullfrogs croaking in the pond outside the little inn from which, upon his wedding night, he is tossed out for being an ex-convict; a demonstration of the "electric eye" which detects metal objects upon prison visitors; Eddie and Joan talking through the visitors' grill in the death house; the preparations for a transfusion to save Eddie's life so that he can be electrocuted. For such things and the craftsmanship of Screen Writers...
...police into action, nearly stopped the illegal traffic which in New York City alone amounted to 400,000 tons per year. But at its source the flow of stolen coal continues unabated. Law officers have declined to arrest the 'leggers, grand juries to indict them, petit juries to convict them. And Governor Earle, like Governor Pinchot before him, has refused every demand by coal operators for armed intervention...
Last week, the State had Queen Helen on trial for grand theft, soliciting a bribe and conspiracy. Her co-defendants were Convict Weinblatt and easy-going Pete Werner. Most damaging testimony was offered by the trio's accuser, Gertrude Davey, proprietor of Hollywood's Lon Chancy Jr. Cafe. Red-haired Mrs. Davey told of going to Pete Werner's law office and paying Queen Helen a $250 installment of the $500 she was told it would cost to recover her revoked liquor license from the State Board of Equalization. Queen Helen, she said, boasted that she controlled...