The news, as printed onThursday, September 9, 1926

As printed: TRIAL OF DAUGHERTY IS UNDER WAY

ContextHarry M. Daugherty, Attorney General under Harding until he resigned in 1924, and Thomas W. Miller, the former Alien Property Custodian, are charged with conspiring to defraud the government over the release of $7,000,000 from seized American Metals Company property. The government's chief witness, the German metal magnate Richard Merton, took the stand today and swore that the Swiss company he fronted was owned by German firms — which, District Attorney Buckner argues, made the refund illegal quite apart from the $441,000 in alleged bribes.

As printed: GEORGIA FOR WORLD COURT

ContextGeorgia Democrats voted yesterday, and in the one-party South the primary decides the seat. Senator Walter F. George, who backs American adherence to the World Court at The Hague, was returned by a sweeping margin over Chief Justice Richard B. Russell of the state Supreme Court, with the dry crusader W. D. Upshaw also beaten.

As printed: Girl Defeats Clerk Who Discharged Her

ContextWisconsin's primaries were held Tuesday, and in Dane County a small score was settled. Selma Fjelstad, discharged as deputy county clerk on the ground that she lacked initiative, ran against the clerk who fired her.