A coffee-house waiter in Budapest leaves a suicide note saying that the reasons for his suicide and the persons involved in it are explained by a crossword puzzle he has constructed. The police can’t solve it.
After the violent police attacks on textile factory strikers in Clifton & Passaic, New Jersey yesterday, they are now wearing Great War trench helmets and gas masks. Reporters, who after having $3,500 worth of camera equipment destroyed by the fuzz yesterday, are now taking pictures and newsreel footage from planes and armored cars (the type banks use). But the police have dialed down their thuggery. Edward Moore, who claims to have invented a “centrifugal riot gun,” which he invented at the end of the war and can shoot 4,000 rounds per minute, helpfully offers it to Passaic.
Federal Judge J.C. Hutchison (Houston) condemns Prohibition agents buying liquor for informants in sting operations: “Prohibition agents have no right to fill a man’s skin with liquor just to make a case.”
The Lord Chamberlain, Britain’s theatrical censor, orders changes in Vera, Countess Cathcart’s play Ashes at the request of Lord Craven’s friends, because it’s a theatre roman à clef (if that’s the term I’m looking for) based on their affair. Following Lord Cromer’s orders, the play’s location has been changed from South Africa, the words “lover” and “mistress” deleted, and the name of the Lord Craven character changed from “Rayhaven.” There will be a New York production next month, which will not have these alterations (it will close after 8 performances).
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