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Crestfallen out of Yerovda Gaol last week came the two "Indian Moderates" whom Viceroy Baron Irwin commissioned last July to seek a compromise with Mahatma Gandhi. These emissaries-Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru and Mr. Jayakar-have visited all the principal Gandhite leaders in gaol, especially the potent Pandits Motilal Nehru and Jawarhalal Nehru (father & son) sometimes called "the brains of the Gandhi movement." After a final conference last week in Yerovda Gaol, disgruntled Sir Tej and Mr. Jayakar were forced to admit that they had failed. By six weeks of zealous effort they had brought Viceroy and Mahatma not into...
Died. Alfred Day Payne, Amarillo (Tex.) lawyer, who a month ago con- fessed that he had intentionally murdered his wife by hiding a bomb in her automobile (TIME, Aug. 11); by his own hand, when he exploded a vial of nitroglycerin in his cell at the Potter County gaol in Amarillo...
...arrests had been made by the Bureau, 3,828 of the prisoners being held for trial. Because of justices' vacations in July, Prohibition cases on Federal Court dockets had increased from 22,173 to 22,497. The average Prohibition violator sentenced in July received 152.6 days in gaol, his average fine was $199.59. Precisely 1,339,277 gal. of beer and 111,-672 gal. of "spirits" were confiscated; also 724 automobiles, 11 boats, 1,963 stills, 12,353 fermenters...
...waiter in the Paris nightclub Chez Florence spilled hot gravy down the back of Dagmar Godowsky, cinemactress, daughter of Pianist Leopold Godowsky. When Mile Godowsky screamed her Argentinian escort rose, destroyed a bottle of champagne over the waiter's head, went to gaol...
...York, Herbert Hoover saw a Negro knock another Negro down. Going to help the stricken party, Herbert Hoover was arrested with the two belligerents, taken to gaol. Negro Hoover was exonerated, freed...