Police Chief James Davis, who figured in the Gordon Northcott "Changeling" case, says he’s stepping down to protect his pension.

A United Press story datelined Berlin says without elaborating that "many" German Jews have committed suicide over fears of more Nazi terrorism before the "martyr’s funeral" of Ernst von Rath. A Nazi diplomat serving in Paris, Rath was killed by Herschel Grynszpan, a Polish Jew. 

"Hundreds of thousands of Jews have ‘disappeared’ from every town of any size, swelling the total of arrests to an estimated 50,000 [that’s what it says–lrh], including many prominent and wealthy Jews held as ‘hostages,’ " the UP story says.