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Under his now unlimited powers as Realmleader, Adolf Hitler prepared last week to give the Fatherland a penal code sharply revised ''to conform with Nazi ideals of jurisprudence...
...neighboring islands, but most are on Komodo. Komodo is a volcanic island 22 mi. long and 12 mi. wide, covered with bleak, crumbling mountains, grassy plains, thick jungle. Besides dragon lizards it supports many a deer, boar, water buffalo, bird, snake, insect and a miserable Dutch penal colony. The lizards claw out great caves in the mountains, roam down to prey on deer, boar and smaller animals. They walk with bodies well off the ground, can run fast, swim, stand on their hind legs like dinosaurs. They are keen-eyed, keen-eared, highly emotional. Angered, they hiss like boilers. Frightened...
...news to read in their papers. Dissatisfied with the results of the famed Reichstag Fire trial in which all but one of the five defendants were acquitted, the Nazi government announced the establishment of a new "People's Court" to take all cases of high treason from the penal division of the Supreme Court...
...Chairman of Arkansas' Penal Board went to the farm, talked to the men-mules, tried pulling one of the cotton planters. He decided that Superintendent Stedman was right, it was no harder than usual farm work. But Arkansas' Governor Futrell felt differently. If draft work was not a cruel and unusual punishment, it was, he decided, at least too conspicuous. He ordered it stopped...
Meantime diplomats were buzzing in Washington, in Athens and in Ankara on the bare uplands of Asia Minor. U. S. Ambassador Skinner was pressing a request that the Turks arrest Mr. Insull under Article IX of the Turkish penal code permitting the detention of foreigners accused in their countries of crimes not of a political or military nature. A cablegram was delivered from Greek Foreign Minister Maximos protesting the detention of the Maiotis. Turkish Foreign Minister Tewfik Bey and confrères considered: Should they oblige the U. S. or should they offend Greece? It was not a difficult question...