Word: murders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...living with a man named Grover. Invited to return to Pocahontas to shed some light on the matter, Mrs. Hebner did so. Last week the coroner's jury to whom she told her tale, scarcely knew whether to be more bewildered by it as a denial of murder, or as a confession of more escapades than they had dreamed existed...
Boats. Since 1935 Alaska's $46,000,000-a-year salmon-fishing industry, which depends on salmon spawned in Alaskan rivers and caught as they return from the sea to the rivers to breed, has yelled bloody murder about Japanese fishermen operating offshore. When the Japanese Government subsidized a three-year "salmon survey" of the Bering Sea in 1935, Alaska fishermen maintained that Japanese boats were trawling with heavy nets in all seasons, would soon exhaust the grounds. Japan retorted variously that she was investigating the possibility of floating canneries, that her nationals were not invading U. S. waters...
After hearing three lessons, lasting less than 15 minutes, on the advantages of conservation, students swung sharply in favor of Government control of farming. After a five-minute paper on murder, a group swung in favor of capital punishment. After reading a speech by Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins advocating social insurance, the students favored it much more strongly than before...
...BEFORE I WAKE-Sherwood King - Simon & Schuster ($2). The chauffeur of a rich Long Island lawyer, involved in a murder conspiracy, finds himself on trial for the murder of a man he did not kill. Plot: clever; style: swift, spare...
...double bill is excellent for those who have not yet seen "A Slight Case of Murder," now in its second run. Full of uproariously funny murders, lovable gangsters, Damon Runyon's English, and bad, bad beer, this finds Edward G. Robinson at his best...