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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, is charged with four others in a conspiracy complaint; illness has kept her from court all week. The warrant is now ready and waits only on her doctor, while the lawyer for Kenneth Ormiston, the former Angelus Temple radio operator who has dropped from sight, offers to surrender him if he is granted immunity.
ContextJack Dempsey, heavyweight champion since 1919, is due to defend his title against Gene Tunney in Philadelphia on Thursday night. His former manager Jack Kearns, with whom he split acrimoniously, has now sued in New Jersey for an accounting of every dollar Dempsey earned under their three-year contract, and a vice chancellor has put the champion's property in a temporary receiver's hands days before the bout.
As printed: LOS ANGELES MAN IN AMATEUR GOLF LEAD BY ONE HOLE
ContextThe national amateur championship at Baltusrol in Short Hills, New Jersey, ended in a 36-hole final between Bobby Jones of Atlanta, twice defending champion and winner of the British and American opens this summer, and George Von Elm of California, whom Jones had beaten in the last two championships. Ten thousand spectators followed them.
ContextCapt. René Fonck, the French ace with more victories than any other Allied airman in the war, waits at Westbury on Long Island to fly nonstop to Paris with three companions in a big three-motored Sikorsky biplane, with a $25,000 prize for the first crossing. Weather — including a tropical hurricane — has pushed the hop-off back once more, and a message from a former commander in Paris has raised the question of who gives the order to go.
ContextCounty Judge W. F. Bryant of Cedar County, Nebraska, 75 years old and fourteen years on the bench, has been sentencing liquor law violators to bread and water. Critics call the diet cruel, so he proposes to find out for himself, beginning Monday morning.
Mrs. McPherson is to be taken to municipal court Monday if her physician pronounces her fit — she may preach at Angelus Temple tonight — while Judge Bryant begins his five days of bread and water and Dempsey is ordered before the vice chancellor Tuesday.
