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As printed: Briand and Stresemann, at League Assembly, Solemnly Agree Never to War Again
ContextGermany was admitted to the League of Nations at Geneva on Tuesday, unanimously, after being shut out since the League's founding in 1920. Today her delegation took its seats in the assembly hall, and Foreign Ministers Gustav Stresemann and Aristide Briand — whose countries were at war eight years ago — spoke in turn.
As printed: German Metal Magnate, at Daugherty Conspiracy Trial, Relates Payment by Former Alien Property Custodian.
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 German metal magnate Richard Merton, the government's star witness, testified today about the checks Miller handed him and about the percentage he agreed to pay the late Republican committeeman John T. King, whom the prosecution says pulled the strings.
As printed: Hall Vestryman and Girl Admit Being at Murder Scene
ContextThe Rev. Edward W. Hall of New Brunswick and Mrs. Eleanor Mills, a singer in his choir, were found shot dead under a crab apple tree on an abandoned farm in September 1922; nobody was ever convicted, and New Jersey authorities reopened the case this summer. Ralph V. Gorsline, a vestryman of Mr. Hall's church who had denied all knowledge for four years, was questioned for more than twenty-four hours and now says he was in a nearby lane that night with a choir singer and heard shots and screams.
As printed: MOB SCENES IN ATHENS CAUSE MANY DEATHS
ContextGeneral Theodoros Pangalos seized power in Greece last year and was himself ousted last month by General Georgios Kondylis; the Republican guard, raised as Pangalos's own corps, has refused orders to disband. Athens dispatches, heavily censored, report hours of street fighting yesterday, an armored car seized by crowds, and the mutineers finally hoisting a white flag.
ContextStorms of equinoctial fury have swept central Indiana and Illinois for the third time in ten days, before a region from Ohio to Nebraska had recovered from last week's water. Seven are dead, Terre Haute faces its worst conditions since the disaster of 1913, and clearing skies today offer the first hope that the peak has passed.
Richard Merton stays under examination in the Daugherty and Miller conspiracy trial, and the Somerville authorities press their questioning of the Hall-Mills witnesses.
