14 people have died of a highly lethal strain of smallpox in D.C. since the start of the year. Government employees are being asked to get the vaccine. Pres. and Mrs. Coolidge are believed to have done so. So there are picketers outside government buildings with signs saying that hundreds have been “murdered by vaccines.”
British Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill continues to defend his budget in Parliament, making himself no friends on the Labour side by suggesting unions should discourage “the dole habit.”
Ohio Gov. Vic Donahey (D) vetoes the alliterative Buchanan Bible Bill, which is backed by the alliterative Ku Klux Klan and would have required mandatory daily Bible-reading (of at least 10 verses) in public schools and for 4th-graders to memorize the 10 Commandments. Donahey’s veto message mentions religious freedom and the US & Ohio constitutions, but points out that local school boards can just ignore that shit and mandate Bible-reading.
Field Marshal Hindenburg will take his presidential oath in civilian dress after all.
NYC Police Commissioner Richard Enright, responding to remarks by Harold Aron, chair of the Republican Publicity Committee, denies that the murder rate in the city has increased substantially since Mayor Hylan appointed him in 1918 and denounces people (Republicans) who claim the NYPD is inefficient, saying they’re greater foes to society than the criminals. He says there haven’t been 1,900 murders, there were only 1,747 (he doesn’t count accidental or justifiable homicides or infanticide). He blames the recent increase on the Tong War and bootlegger contretemps. He criticizes juries who acquit criminals because “their confessions under certain circumstances cannot be used against them”.
Don Okle resigns as an undercover federal Prohibition agent in San Francisco because his job entailed taking 50 drinks a day on average “to obtain evidence.”
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