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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1922
Page
2
President consults fifteen governors on prohibition enforcement citing 4000 federal officers, lax state laws, and lenient judges while Harding plans a follow up conference. Senate fights ship subsidy, Nicaragua policy debated, and Germany reparations loom as Harvey and Morgan weigh loans. Angora and Dardanelles talks thread through Paris negotiations.
Ge John M Parker of Louisiana vows to crush the Ku Klux Klan in his state and orders a National Guard company to Mer Rouge and Bastrop in Morehouse parish to await orders. The area has Klan activity linked to the Mer Rouge kidnapping case from last August, where five residents were abducted and two men, Maj Watt Daniels and Thomas Fletcher Richards, remain missing. Rumors swirl of bodies found, while others say residents petitioned for relief from Klan oppression. In White Sulphur Springs Parker seeks wider support. President Harding hosts 15 governors to press for Volstead Act enforcement. Governor Ritchie of Maryland condemns Prohibition as federal overreach, urging states to handle temperance per local will.
Massachusetts voters rejected moving picture censorship amid anti coercion sentiment and concerns about censor boards misprisions. The State Journal notes the danger of censorship while recounting Connell and Lukens bank robbery in Sunol Cheyenne County Nebraska with life sentences and later commutation.
James Francis Connell, serving a life sentence for a bank robbery causing two posse deaths, will remain in the Nebraska Penitentiary as the current pardon board refuses clemency. His mother, Mrs. Connell of LaCrosse Kansas, voiced grief and sought intercession from Secretary of State D M Annaberry. Attorney General Davis offered no hope of clemency before the board, which will end its term January 4th and be replaced by state officers.[Note: summary condensed from OCR text.]
A compilation quotes various aphorisms and wry maxims about education, social behavior, popularity, money, diplomacy, charity, and motives. The passage references a Boston Transcript attribution and weaves unrelated observations into a miscued editorial fragment.
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