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Such an attitude could only mean that Major Fey considers the Nazis down but not out in Austria. The fact that he remained Minister of Interior after thrice in effect calling Chancellor Schuschnigg a liar was significant. Finally Austrians noticed that although the actual slayer of Dollfuss and the Nazi gang leader were promptly hanged fortnight ago, President Wilhelm Miklas of Austria commuted to life imprisonment last week the death sentence of another Nazi. Said Chancellor Schuschnigg: "Few if any more of the remaining Nazi prisoners will be hanged...
...CAROLINE BUNDY- Alice Campbell-Farrar & Rinehart ($2). An errant swindler renews the search for the Holy Grail, with murder by the way. THOSE SEVEN ALIBIS-Charles G. Booth -Morrow ($2). The evil smile of a marble face changes a curio shop to a dueling ground; seven suspects for a slayer...
...excellent meals before him for several days previous, offer him brandy & cigarets at dawn and finally for the ornate Garde Républicaine to salute the condemned as he walks from the police van to death. All these amenities were offered last week to Paul Gorgulov. Russian slayer of the President of the Republic, Paul Doumer (TIME...
...Dorothy Mysza Pollak, 26, who shot her husband in the -eye. Recalling the devastating satire in Maurine Watkins' play Chicago, in which blonde Roxie Hart was in a somewhat similar plight, Chicago newspapers took satire into their own hands, tagged Mrs. Pollak as "Chicago's most beautiful slayer...
...Wilmington, N. C., Deputy Sheriff T. Hargrove studied and studied to solve the murder of Richard Lacewell, a Negro found shot to death. He remembered a detective story sleuth who deduced his man from the picture of the slayer that the dead man's eyeballs had retained. Sleuth Hargrove photographed the dead man's eyes, enlarged the photographs, beheld a likeness of another Negro, one Tyman Graham. Confirming science, Suspect Graham confessed. Said Sleuth Hargrove: "Knowledge is power," not knowing that the human eyeball retains in death no picture whatever...