POLITICAL NOTES: Politicules

Elections, like tornadoes, cause strange happenings among molecules of the body politic.

> In Wichita Falls, Tex., Rev. J. Frank ("Killer") Norris, Baptist parson who shot and killed a parishioner last year "in self defense," harangued for Hoover in the municipal hall. Some one threw a gas bomb. The meeting dissolved.

> The evening after Virginia had gone Republican, students of the University of Virginia burned an effigy of "Religious Intolerance." They creped their campus statue of Thomas Jefferson and inscribed it:

"To the Memory of

Jeffersonian Democracy

and

Religious Freedom

in

Virginia...

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