Former Attorney Gen. Harry Daugherty is arrested, along with former Alien Property Custodian Thomas W. Miller (in charge of property seized during the War) and former RNC dude John King, for defrauding the US over the management of alien property. Not for literally defrauding the government, but because their taking large “commissions” from a Swiss company to which they transferred $7m from the German-owned American Metal Company constitutes defrauding the government of their honest, unbiased judgment. Daugherty says “I have nothing to fear.”
British Home Sec. Sir William Joynson-Hicks (Jix to his friends, if any) appeals for 30,000 more volunteer special constables to maintain safety/break the General Strike™. And the government announces to members of the military that “any action which they may find it necessary to take in an earnest endeavor (!) to aid the civil power will receive, both now and afterward, the full support of his Majesty’s Government.”
The British government claims that the transport and railway workers’ unions are threatening the British food supplies. The Churchill-edited British Gazette says so. It’s not true, of course. The unions are also not attempting to overthrow the government, nor are they run by anarchists & Communists, as Churchill and many other Tories seem to think.
However, the Gazette does get worked up about all the wild rumors doing the rounds (at least the wild rumors it isn’t starting itself), such as that a couple of cops were killed or an omnibus was thrown into the Thames.
Nathan Leopold Jr., of Leopold n’ Loeb fame, refuses the kind offer of some prisoners making an escape after they kill a deputy warden at Stateville Prison, or at least that’s what he’ll be claiming. Leopold was in the solitary wing at the time for stealing some sugar from the kitchen, and was handcuffed in a standing position.
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