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...towns and villages of America's race-prejudiced Southern States began today. Terrified by the outbreak of lynching following the condonation of mob violence by Governor Rolph of California, America's vast population of colored folk are hurriedly leaving their homes and setting off in their second-hand cars and old farm wagons for-they know not where. So electric is the atmosphere, so certain is a further outbreak of lynching, that the Negro dare not stay in one place...
...field was the 400-acre potato patch of Farmer John Erickson of Waupaca, Wis. The plane was a second-hand crate owned and flown by George Parker, 22-year-old student at Northwestern University. Pilot Parker's job was to stir up the cold air which settles in the lowland, thus save the potatoes from frost. If he brings Farmer Erickson's crop through to harvest unblighted. Pilot Parker will collect $400, enough to send him back to college this autumn. If frost strikes, Parker gets nothing...
Most starting will be the realization that furniture has gone up 40 per cent. Second-hand stores about the square are forced to charge higher prices, being classed in the upholsterers group. Pressing prices have also taken a large jump. Every valeteria on the square is united under the NRA, and has advanced prices up to 50 per cent. For example, to press a three piece suit each week cost the student from $10 to $12 last year, where as the new codified prfee...
Last year Mrs. Abbott was awarded temporary maintenance of $300 a month, use of their 11-room house on the South Side, the Pierce-Arrow, Arthur the chauffeur and Rosalee the maid. Publisher Abbott was permitted to keep the Rolls Royce which, he has confided to friends, he bought second-hand to set at rest the gossip of competing Negro papers that the Defender was on the rocks...
...government of square-jawed little Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss continued to oppose the relentless growth of Hitlerism in Austria last week. Fortnight ago came that decree so familiar to the last years of republican Germany: a ban on the wearing of political uniforms. Austrian Nazis promptly rushed to second-hand clothing shops and bought up all the old silk hats in sight, on the assumption that there could be no law against the wearing of a Cylinder, emblem of bourgeois respectability. For a few happy hours Viennese Nazis flaunted battered toppers above their sport suits until green-coated police pounced...