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As printed: BODIES OF 16 MINERS TAKEN FROM WORKINGS
ContextA gas explosion tore through West mine No. 29 of the Superior Smokeless Coal Company at Tahona, in eastern Oklahoma's coal country, on Friday morning, shortly after the day shift went down. Rescue crews have worked without a break since; the last man still missing, M. K. Hise, was dug from under fallen timbers this afternoon, closing the count at sixteen dead.
As printed: GERMANY WILL GET SEAT AT TABLE ON LEAGUE OF NATIONS
ContextGermany has been shut out of the League of Nations since its founding, and was promised a permanent council seat at Locarno last year, but the plan collapsed in March when Spain, Poland and Brazil demanded permanent seats of their own. The council has now voted a seat for Germany alone and rejected Spain's petition, leaving Madrid weighing whether to quit the League altogether.
ContextThe Senate agreed in January to join the Permanent Court of International Justice at The Hague, but only with five reservations, and jurists for thirty-eight of the forty-eight signatories have spent the week at Geneva deciding whether to accept them. Four have passed on first reading, along with half of the fifth; the rest — that no advisory opinion touching American interests be given without United States consent — now goes to a committee, with the conference adjourned until the assembly meets.
ContextThe Rev. Vincent D. Warren, a Catholic priest of Norfolk, was seized Wednesday night by some twenty-eight white-robed and hooded men as he sat in an automobile beside a highway near Princess Anne Courthouse. The Klan, at the height of its strength and openly hostile to Catholics, is the obvious suspicion; Father Warren has now formally asked the circuit judge for a special grand jury, and says he believes he could identify at least one of his abductors.
As printed: EKERN HAS EDGE IN RACE FOR THE GOVERNORSHIP
ContextWisconsin Republicans vote Tuesday in a primary that pits Governor John J. Blaine, a La Follette Progressive, against Senator Irving L. Lenroot for the senatorial nomination, with Attorney General Herman L. Ekern and Secretary of State Fred R. Zimmerman running neck and neck for governor. Lenroot has campaigned into all but three counties and is answering a charge that he took $20,000 to help presidential ambitions in 1920.
