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In Richmond, Va., General W. McK. Evans received a letter from Marshal Henri Petain declining an honorary brigadier generalship, asking to be enrolled as a private in the ranks of the Army of Northern Virginia, United Confederate Veterans.
Sanctioned by Joliet,Ill. Penitentiary officials was a proposed high school correspondence course for inmates, to be conducted by Prisoners Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb.
Said onetime Film Actress Norma Talmadge, wife of Film Producer Joseph M. Schenck, denying reports that she had guaranteed the agreement of her vaudeville partner George Jessel to pay $100,000 to his recently divorced wife: ''With Mr. Jessel's ability to earn $10,000 a week, it seems ridiculous that anyone should be asked to guarantee a paltry $100,000 property settlement."
Lectured Merchant Edward Albert Filene at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge. Mass.): "This is a foolish and futile depression. It could have been prevented and would have been prevented if it had been approached from a fact-finding, engineering standpoint, rather than from the old, ox-age traditional way of thinking."
Into the news once more came the name of Russell T. Sherwood, the shadowy accountant who disappeared in October 1931 after being subpenaed for questioning about his knowledge of the affairs of New York City's Mayor James John Walker. Fortnight ago, it was learned, Accountant Sherwood had appeared in Winston-Salem, N. C. where he retained an accountant named Cardis Walker, gave him power of attorney to investigate the $60,000 to $80,000 liens filed against him by the U. S. Government for alleged failure to file income taxes from 1926 to 1930. Accountant Sherwood told Accountant Walker that his disappearance had at first been voluntary. But last June, as the Democratic National Convention opened in Chicago, he found himself prisoner on a ranch in northern New Mexico, owned by "powerful New York political and commercial interests." Accountant Sherwood said he was kept under armed guard, his automobile keys and personal property confiscated. Last October he gained the aid of a part-Mexican woman who lived on the ranch. They got a guard drunk, seized his gun, acquired an automobile, escaped. Sherwood said he would go to Canada, then to Europe where ousted Mayor Walker is living on the Riviera with his friend Betty Compton.