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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1924
Page
22
The article reports claims by a religious leader that reform through legislation is unattainable, urging restoration of certain freedoms. It mentions Judge Rutherford and a critical view of social changes, noting rising drunkenness and moral concerns. The text shows garbled OCR but preserves the core assertion and key names.
Fragmentary report notes a Mast Man Club dinner attended by three individuals. OCR text is garbled with stray letters and numbers, but implies an event at a local venue with sparse details and no clear outcomes or participant names.
The defense argued for life imprisonment for Leopold and Loeb after they pled guilty to murder. Clarence Darrow defended them while noting wealth and public opinion as factors. Prosecutor Crowe promised to prove sanity and seek the death penalty.
Mayor Kendrick wavers over conference with Gen Smedley Butler. Ministers urge Butler retention. city officials, clergy and residents push to keep Butler as director of public safety. The mayor silent upon return from Atlantic City as pressure mounts.
Eight month old infant of Mr and Mrs Clarence Smith died after being thrown from a car in a collision while the mother hurried to Spartanburg to see her dying father. The crash occurred near Greenville on July 21 as the vehicle struck another machine.
Thirty six grain companies in the Northwest propose selling their holdings including 1962 country elevators in Minnesota North and South Dakota and Montana to the American Farm Bureau Federation. They also seek a $4,000,000 working capital from a new Illinois corporation to take over five large Chicago grain firms and related properties valued around $120,000,000.
Special to the Washington Post New York July 21 Mrs Mike mother of seventeen families of kittens added 99 in all to Brooklyn's feline population died of poisoning today. She tasted a poisoned biscuit in the main post office to catch rats and was found curled in a heap. Crepe hung on the post office bulletin board, then Mrs Mike was laid to rest in a cloth sized casket. Interment took place in the back yard where a headstone marks the grave.
Valley Stream proprietor George Hoffman was said by family to die of fright after two prohibition agents arrested him at the Hoffman inn. The agents asked about whisky and Hoffman later fainted, dying Saturday, with physicians attributing the shock to apoplexy. He formerly managed a Manhattan cafe on West Forty second Street.
Navy ships designated to safeguard the passage of Army air fliers from foreign shores to the Labrador coast will be in position by August 1 to render aid in emergencies. Departure from England before that date is not expected despite reports.
The 600 pound woman from Ansonia and Bristol 4 whose funeral was held yesterday weighed over 600 pounds and was buried in a 430 pound casket the heaviest ever used. The burial took place from a Main street building with ten pallbearers moving the casket 199 feet to the grave and needing rests. Death reportedly followed a long illness.
West Palm Beach July 21. Mrs. Croker widow of Richard Croker former Tammany leader named defendant in a 750000 damage suit filed by alarmists associated with Richard Croker groups in New York City. She is said to be en route to file and serve summons and will probably be delayed until her turn on the first rule day when she may answer. Executors of the estate of Richard Croker are also involved in the case.
In New York on July 21 Dunan War president of the Ritz Carlton Hot 7 Company, Vice President Friel Ker, and treasurer John Watts pleaded not guilty to muttering a public offense through violations of the Volstead Act. They faced trial July 2 with bail set at 1904 each. The Ritz Carlton raid led to charges filed by U.S. Attorney Hayward. Two hotel waiter captains discharged after the raid pleaded guilty to possessing liquor. Edwin Goodmar, a patron, pleaded guilty through counsel and was fined 200.
The government formally turned over a tract near Anuadilla where Columbus first landed in 1493. The site will be developed as a park with a Columbus monument planned by the Knights of Columbus in the United States, marking the discoverer of America.
Federal Judge Paul To MarCormick schedules the opening of the government case against Pan American interests for cancellation of naval air reserve leases in the Rik Hills district. The October date, lower than September 2 proposed, follows defense pushes and questions of authority and fraud in intra ts and leases. Trial heating in Los Angeles to be set in November, with further court action postponed until after related cases in Trinity and Liehnourts.
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