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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1924
Page
1
A collage of jokes and jibes on politics and society from a 1920s column. References to the Prince of Wales in America, La Follette, Wheeler, and Hughes mix with quips about Brazil, Boston disaster, and bootleggers. John W. Davis praises Al Smith amid partisan theatre.
Chicago July 22 Jacob Franks father of Robert Franks the boy kidnapped and murdered by Leopold and Loeb will testify as the first witness when the state opens its evidence in the impending hearing before Chief Justice Caverly. State's Attorney Crowe announced that 74 witnesses will be called and served sub poenas tonight. The hearing will cover the murder as the defense argues insanity with alienists to follow while the state contends only extenuating circumstances may be shown if sanity is in issue.
Detroit July 22 Signs posted in Henry Ford plants shops and offices warn that any employee found with an alcoholic odor on the breath will be separated from pay immediately. The notice cites the eighteenth amendment as part of the fundamental law and pledges enforcement to the letter.
Dr Henry Louis Smith president of the Washington and the university at Lexington Virginia was injured in an automobile crash near Rock Springs Wyoming last Friday He remained semiconscious at Wyoming General Hospital though doctors said his brain concussion was clearing Opel Smith his 15 year old son suffered a fractured clavicle and severe cuts and was improving The family was en route to Rock Springs after touring Yellowstone when their car plunged 15 feet over an embankment while passing another vehicle. they were brought to Rock Springs by a passerby.
Chicago delegates at a national beauty shop owners convention declared the bob doomed and urged a new look with multiple transformers and swirls in varied tints. Synthetic lips are said to be discarded as soft tinted skin becomes fashionable.
Laurene Sheldon aged 1, her brother Donald 3, and sister Genevieve 6 died when a tent home at Lake Cora near Paw Paw Michigan burned. The children, from South Bend Indiana, were staying at the resort with parents Mr. and Mrs. John Sheldon. The fire destroyed the tent housing the family.
Special to The Washington Post Atlantic City November 22 officers say a months old murder on a British steamer Genevieve exposed life aboard Rum Row. Sailors endured ostracism and boredom trading small goods with shore craft until a brawl turned deadly seaman Robert Pike was killed and later hidden in a sack. Coast Guard Captain John Holdzkom recalls crew mischief including ferrying luxuries to the Genevieve and even ferrying twelve women aboard.
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Villa in Fenway will become a public museum run by seven trustees. A $100,000 endowment funds upkeep with excess to Harvard if the trustees alter exhibitions. Relatives and servants receive gifts, while public bequests go to Boston institutions. Pablo Casals leaves a rare cello. Trustees must hold annual memorials, and surplus funds after five years go to Boston hospitals.
President Coolidge will not tour the country but will deliver his acceptance speech in August and dedicate a monument in October. He plans no Labor Day address and will rely on limited public appearances, administration acts, and radio to shape the campaign with two regional speakers bureaus ready to mobilize after Labor Day.
A mob stormed the Pulaski county jail at Villa Ridge after two Black men held in the Daisy Wilson murder were taken from custody. Sheriff I J Hudson fled with the suspects to Murphysboro as deputies armed with riot guns tried to quell the crowd. Illinois Central agents had earlier arrested the men at Mounds. Gov. Small ordered Company K to mobilize and proceed to Mound City to restore order.
Lester Dickins, 38, of 902 D Street Southeast, underwent a rare facial reconstruction at Casualty hospital. A section of thigh muscle was transplanted to his cheek to repair a depression from injuries sustained May 28, 1923 when a heavy chain struck him while he worked on a barge for the Columbia Granite and Dredging Company.
Attorney General Stone said the department will vigorously resist any move to modify the consent decree against the Big Five Chicago packers. He ordered officials to hold the ground gained and fight any attempt to reopen the proceedings, preserving the government’s position as in the Wilson era.
Edna Adams, 24, beauty prize winner from Atlantic City, left a farewell note blaming unrequited love for a youth named Charles H. Haley, 19, a Philadelphia college student living with his parents in Atlantic City. Haley says there was friendship but no serious romance. The incident occurred in her apartment by chloroform. Archbishop Curley urges all Catholics to use The Manual of Prayura.
Berlin reports William Hohenzollern former German emperor invests about 26000 dollars to back Urania, a film firm run at the prompting of his son Prince August Wilhelm. The first production Parsifal will retell the Wagner tale with propaganda favoring royalty.
Gov J F Hinkle granted a pardon to Carl C Magee editor of the Albuquerque State Tribune who had been convicted of contempt of court in Las Vegas New Mexico and sentenced to three months in jail for editorials critical of the court The governor noted Magee signed a pardon application and said the next step would depend on Magee's counsel if the Las Vegas sheriff refused to honor the pardon.
The city endured 89 degree heat with humidity described as a heat blanket over Washington. A thunderstorm failed to significantly ease the conditions. Marie Saunders of 1749 S Street NW died from the heat as weather observers noted heavy clouds trapping moisture.
Winchester England July 22 Lord Ashburton's youngest daughter Violet Alma Madeline Baring died from injuries after horseback riding. She was the stepdaughter of Lady Ashburton formerly Frances Donnelly of New York. Previously Frances Belmont, she joined the Florodora sextet and later acted with Sir Charles Hawtrey.
London June 22. In the Dawes reparations framework the American Ambassador Kellogg is mediating amid a German loan case. French demands for loan safeguards clash with American financiers plans, while Belgium’s Theunis and five Dawes committee experts weigh sanctions and defaults. Kellogg’s proposal tempers risk by linking sanctions to a Dawes advisory panel.
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