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Hero of the skirmish was the clerk of the court. Carefully balancing a heavy glass inkwell, he watched for an opportunity, let fly. It caught Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera under the temple, stopped the riot. Thirty-seven Fascists in the courtroom were arrested. Fascist Primo de Rivera was hurried to a clinic to have his head patched, then put back in his cell to cool off for five months more...
...Fascist Primo de Rivera is a lawyer, so he defended himself, wearing the black cap and fluttering gown of a Spanish barrister. Arguments were unavailing. Judges listened patiently, then slapped a five-month additional sentence on him for his pistols...
Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera seemed stunned for a moment, then suddenly let out a roar like a wounded bull. He took his cap and flung it straight over the head of the presiding judge at the figure of Justice on the wall, tore off his gown and stamped on it. "Bastards!" he screamed, "Bastards! Up Spain! There is no more justice in this country...
...plaster statuet of Justice went sail ing through the air, crashed against the wall. Like prudent woodchucks the three judges ducked, shouting orders to clear the court. All over the courtroom Fascists and police were mixing it up. Furious Primo de Rivera kicked impotently at the panels of the bench itself, swept off files of papers...
...After one look at Haynes's powerful 6-ft. frame, a glance at his record of fights on the Pacific Coast, Moran retired as a matchmaker, became Haynes's manager. Since then, Haynes has had 14 fights, won ten of them by knockouts. Joe Louis knocked out Primo Camera in six rounds. Haynes did it in three last March. On the ground that this performance was worth repeating with more ballyhoo, Haynes and Camera were rematched. Last week, after Haynes had been carefully studied by boxing experts, photographed with Champion Braddock feeling his muscles, pronounced better than Louis...