The Senate Naval Affairs Committee criticizes former Navy Secretary Josephus Daniels and, especially, former Assistant Secretary Franklin Delano Roosevelt for using sailors in undercover sting operations in Newport, Rhode Island, in which they fucked townie men. The NYT is a little shy about printing the details, but it wouldn’t have been hard to figure out what “performed upon them immoral acts” meant. FDR complains that he was never called to testify before the report was issued, despite promises. He denies that the undercover sailor-rentboys were under his direct supervision and claims it was quite late before he learned that they “used highly improper and revolting methods in getting evidence.” He says people are “tired of partisan discussion of dead history,” which was as lame an argument then as it is now.
The Philadelphia Police Dept tests tear gas out on 200 cops. Who volunteered, I hasten to add. In the test, the cops are instructed to attempt to arrest 6 men who have 150 tear-gas bombs; they fail to do so. The inventor of this particular gas, a Maj. Stephen Delanoy of the Army’s Chemical Warfare Division, tells them beforehand that it’s “absolutely not dangerous” but not to swallow too much. During the test, “a rotund policeman spectator unintentionally sat down on a loaded grenade that had slipped into the side lines. His weight exploded the missile” and sent him flying into a pond, more proof, if more proof were needed, that life in the 1920s was EXACTLY as it was portrayed in silent films.
Edmund Downey, editor of the Waterford (Ireland) News, is bound over, and may face a 6-month prison term for referring to Northern Ireland PM Sir James Craig’s return from London as “The Carrion Crow on the Wing.” The judge says the fact that he lifted that phrase from former Chief Irish Secretary Augustine Birrell is no excuse.
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