Greece replies to Italy’s ultimatum. It agrees to the apology for the assassination of Enrico Tellini & co. and the memorial service, but refuses to let the Italian military attaché take part in the investigation, to commit to the death penalty for the unknown perpetrators, or to pay an indemnity, calling those conditions “humiliating.” Which is rather the point. A lot of people are comparing them to the Austrian ultimatum to Serbia in 1914.
In Naples and Milan, Fascisti attack the Greek consulates. Demonstrations throughout Italy chant “Down with Greece.”
The Klan tries to hold a meeting in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, but it’s broken up by 6,000 Perth Amboyhoovians, who are in turn attacked by police and firemen. Some kluxers wind up holed up in the Town Hall overnight, afraid to leave. When they do try to leave, the crowd overturns their car and beats the snot out of them. A cop prevents one kluxer being dropped down a manhole.
Michigan bans masks. You know, like the Klan wear.
The farming & livestock business of Warren McCray, governor of the ku kluxiest state, Indiana, is going bankrupt (not literally bankrupt; farmers in Indiana can’t be forced into bankruptcy). He blames the general state of the agricultural sector but also mutters something about blackmail. He says it’s a private matter and the public shouldn’t be especially interested in it. In the coming months he will try to restore his fortune through fraud and blackmail, as is the custom. He will take out loans from the State Ag Board and coerce banks into giving him other loans by threatening to withdraw state funds from them; he’ll offer forged promissory notes as collateral. He’ll will wind up in prison in 1924 after the Klan, with which he has been at odds, digs all this up.
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Still more proof that silent movies were documentaries.
At Gimbel’s.
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