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EVERY able-bodied man eligible for military service within the next thirty years owes it to himself, to his country, and to the shreds and patches of Western civilization to weigh carefully the problems upon which Hector Lazo throws a searchlight in "Taps." The book tells the story of a young, ardent, Hun-damning warrior, who, forced as a Secret Service man to pose as a conscientious objector, is finally persuaded by the force of his own assumed arguments and by the pleading of a wounded friend to become in all seriousness the determined kind of pacifist which...
Leaf into Local. Tooting through the night, Grand Trunk-Canadian National Railways' proud International Limited (Montreal-Chicago) was brought to an unscheduled halt near Dundas, Ont. Ahead the engine's searchlight picked out a dark jumbled mass. Walking down the tracks trainmen heard moans, screams, shouts. Farther on they saw scattered Christmas presents, a blood-spattered doll with smashed legs, a fox terrier whimpering over a man's mangled body, another body without a head. Upended on the brink of a 150ft, cliff was a wooden railroad coach with screaming people inside. From the splintered debris...
Continuing its embarrassing inquiries into the more shadowy closets of the nation's banking circles, the Senate Committee has announced itself ready to turn the searchlight on the House of Morgan. The investigation has been temporarily halted until the Senate grants additional power to the Committee. This is seems likely to do, in view of the ready support it has given so far. Washington has shown that though it may be Wall Street's mistress, love blows alternately hot and cold...
REVOLUTION : 1776 - John Hyde Preston-Harcourt, Brace ($2.90). Dramatic searchlight on schoolboy history...
...without search-warrants, police began a campaign of bursting into homes and meeting places of Communists all over Germany, ransacking them for treasonable documents which they claimed to find in quantities. Communists retorted by firing from rooftops and darkened windows on their tormentors, caused the Berlin police to create "searchlight squads." Before the week was out 26 Germans-Communists, police and Fascists-had been murdered for reasons purely political (mostly in savage side-street affrays...