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As printed: COUNTRY GIRL IS STILLMAN'S CHOICE
ContextJames A. Stillman is a New York banker whose divorce suit against his wife, tried earlier in the decade, drew wide newspaper attention and named a Canadian guide, Fred Beauvais, as co-respondent; 'Bud' is their son, a Princeton senior.
As printed: DEFENSE SUMS UP IN DAUGHERTY CASE
ContextHarry M. Daugherty was Attorney General under President Harding and Thomas W. Miller the alien property custodian, the official who held property seized from enemy nationals during the World War under the Trading with the Enemy Act, including shares of the American Metal Company. A summation is the closing speech a lawyer makes to the jury before it is sent out to deliberate; Max D. Steuer is Daugherty's counsel and William Rand is Miller's.
As printed: ORMISTON IS REPORTED IN ST. LOUIS
ContextAimee Semple McPherson is the evangelist of Angelus Temple in Los Angeles, who vanished from a Santa Monica beach in May and reappeared in June at Douglas, Arizona, saying she had been kidnapped; Kenneth G. Ormiston was the Temple's radio operator and Mrs. Minnie Kennedy is the evangelist's mother. A preliminary hearing is where a judge decides whether the evidence is enough to hold the accused for trial, and Asa Keyes is the district attorney of Los Angeles County.
As printed: N. J. AFTER HALL CASE SLEUTH
ContextThe Rev. Edward Wheeler Hall and choir singer Eleanor Mills were found shot in a lane near New Brunswick, New Jersey, in September 1922; the case was reopened this summer and the minister's widow, Mrs. Frances Stevens Hall, her brothers Willie and Henry Stevens, and their cousin Henry Carpender now face murder charges. Extradition is the surrender of a person by one state to another for trial, a question here for Alfred E. Smith, governor of New York, to decide.
The fifth game comes at Sportsman's Park, with Sherdel pitching for the Cardinals against Pennock of the Yankees.