At the National Cemetery in Brooklyn, infantry with machine guns ward off onlookers as the grave of Navy Messman James Jones is dug up, because it supposedly has the Romanov crown jewels in it. It does not.
France fines the Ruhr town of Gelsenkirchen 100 million marks, which is the equivalent of some money, after German police clash with French gendarmes. Gelsenkirchen is refusing to pay. The French also arrest the mayor (burgomaster) of Essen.
Given the King Tutankhamun thing, British MP William Leach inquires whether Egyptian citizens have asked if they can ransack the tombs of British monarchs in Westminster Abbey. And H. Rider Haggard wants the mummies left where they were found – after being examined and photographed and whatnot – and the tomb sealed with concrete.
The South Carolina House of Representatives rejects a bill banning the wearing of masks, 83-24. “The vote was preceded by a debate, in which the Ku Klux Klan was heatedly attacked and defended.”
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