Bulgaria is said to be rife with fighting, assassinations, and plundering, but who knows since the government imposed censorship and cut off all communications with the outside world. It’s afraid the church bombing was the signal for the start of a revolution. Martial law is declared, and house-to-house searches commence in Sofia. One theory: this is all about Yugoslavia trying to absorb Bulgaria. But there many other conspiracy theories making the rounds. The leaders of the Bulgarian Agrarian National Union, which probably doesn’t rhyme so delightfully in Bulgarian, supposedly disappeared days before the explosion. Bulgaria asks the Powers to allow it to increase the size of its army, which is limited by the Neuilly peace treaty to 30,000, and to lend Bulgaria some planes so they can bomb Communists.
The National Bureau of Information and Education protests to Pennsylvania Gov. Gifford Pinchot against the planned execution of William Cavalier, now 15 but 14 when convicted of murdering his grandmother.
Grand Dragon D.C. Stephenson and 2 others are indicted for 1st degree murder of Madge Oberholtzer (the 1st-degree part is that they didn’t get her to a doctor after she took poison after D.C. raped her).
The NYT says that Jews in Eastern European countries are stuck there, given the limited capacity of Palestine and the US’s immigration quotas. So Jews and their Polish, Russian, Lithuanian, Latvian and Romanian neighbors “must make up their minds to live together.”
The French Federation of Aeronautics bans women pilots and demands that Adrienne Bolland return her license. She tells them to suck it.
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