A District Court judge rules in favor of the government in cancelling naval oil leases granted by Interior Sec. Albert Fall in 1922 to Edward Doheny’s companies in Elk Hills and the contract for construction of oil storage facilities at Pearl Harbor, citing Fall and Doheny’s “fraud and conspiracy.” Judge McCormick also rules that Pres. Harding’s transfer of the Elk Hills and Teapot Dome reserves from the Dept of the Navy to Interior was illegal. He also notes that... someone... tore Fall’s signature from the note for the $100,000 “loan” from Doheny so that, if someone else got hold of the note, Fall wouldn’t be legally obligated to repay it.
German Defense Minister Otto Gessler insists that Germany “is disarmed. Germany cannot wage war. Germany is not preparing secretly for war.” It is, though. Oddly, he admits that in the past Germany broke the Versailles Treaty by enlisting excess numbers of military recruits and manufacturing excess munitions, but says they aren’t doing that now. He notes that the increase in size of European militaries – half a million more soldiers than in 1914, even with the limits on Germany, Austria & Bulgaria – “deprives disarmament demands of their moral basis.” He reassures everyone: “Germans are not the kind of people who can secretly prepare for war – they are too poor and too talkative.” Color me reassured.
Vienna University is closed for 5 days (including the weekend) because of Hakenkreuzler (Nazi) students attacking Jewish Socialist students and women students with bobbed hair. The Jewish students have been fighting back, not sure about the bobbed-hair ones.
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Tom Lee, referred to as a negro, even a “swarthy Memphis negro,” 3 times in a two-paragraph article, saved 32 people when a steamer sank in the Mississippi River. The Memphis News-Scimitar brought him to the White House. Do we want to see a photo? Sure, why not.
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