The news, as printed onThursday, September 16, 1926
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As printed: CHECKS FOR $29,000 ARE INTRODUCED IN DAUGHERTY'S TRIAL
ContextHarry M. Daugherty, Attorney General under President Harding, and Thomas W. Miller, the former alien property custodian, are on trial in New York on a charge of conspiring to defraud the Government over the release of seized German assets. Prosecutors today offered three checks totaling $29,143.75 signed by the late Republican national committeeman John T. King, which they say were a split of the fee paid by metal magnate Richard Merton for 'rushing' his claim.
As printed: FOLLOWERS RIOT AS AIMEE GETS READY FOR JAIL
ContextAimee Semple McPherson, the Los Angeles radio evangelist who vanished from a beach in May and reappeared in Mexico in June saying she had been kidnapped, has been under investigation over reports she was in fact at a Carmel cottage with her former radio operator. From her pulpit at Angelus Temple she now says she has given up trying to prove the kidnapping and will submit to arrest 'like a good Christian' — and her crowd grew unruly enough that riot squads were called.
As printed: Fear Is Expressed However, That Weather Conditions May Now Halt Activities For This Year.
ContextCapt. René Fonck, the French ace credited with more victories than any other Allied airman in the war, is at Westbury on Long Island preparing to fly to Paris with three companions in a huge three-motored Sikorsky biplane — a nonstop New York–Paris crossing nobody has yet made, with a $25,000 prize waiting. This morning a gasoline leak of ten gallons an hour sent the machine back into its hangar, and with the season closing, some fear the start may be put off past this year.
As printed: Gives Advice to Girls as She and Hubby Face Trial.
ContextEmma Catherine Jenkins, 21, of Louisville and her husband Nelson, 22, married two weeks, were found asleep at 2 a.m. in a parked automobile on East Washington Street that police say was stolen at New Albany. Both are held in the city jail as fugitives, and the bride has counsel for other young women.
Sikorsky's men work through the night on the leaking tank so Fonck can lift off for Paris in the morning, and Clements carries his Indiana writ before the Pennsylvania boxing commission.
