North Dakota Gov. Arthur Sorlie (D) appoints Gerald (pronounced with a hard G, I’m informed) Nye, editor of the The Fryburg Pioneer, to the unexpired US Senate term of Edwin Ladd, who died in June. Nye’s a Dem., Ladd was an R. Also, it’s unclear whether the governor actually has the authority to make this appointment, so Republicans in the Senate are threatening not to seat Nye.
D. C. Stephenson, former grand dragon of the Indiana Ku Klux Klan, is convicted of 2nd degree murder for the death of Madge Oberholtzer, who took poison after his sexual assault on her and who he then kept from medical care. He is sentenced to 20 years, which is odd because I know he served more than that (and more still after he broke his parole). Surprisingly, his 2 bodyguards are acquitted.
A British submarine is declared lost after a Swedish ship bumps into it, with 69 members lost (stop sniggering). There’s a growing movement in Britain to ban the things altogether.
The NYT Sunday Book Review reviews the translation of Karel Čapek’s 1922 novel Krakatit about an engineer on the run after inventing an explosive that could end all life. I haven’t read it, but the Times reviewer seems confused as hell by a work of science fiction (to use an anachronistic term).
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