NY Gov. Al Smith attends a private dinner in his honor at the Hotel Statler in Buffalo. After Erie County Democrats give, like, 15 speeches in a row about how he needs to run for re-election, Smith says he doesn’t wanna and it would damage his health and it’s bad to act like only one person can lead the party, and...
He adds that of course if the State Convention nominates him anyway (on Sept. 28 for a Nov. 2 election day), he’ll just have to suck it up.
One Frank Power (not his real name, it will come out) claims to have in his possession the body of Lord Kitchener, whose ship was torpedoed in 1916. The alleged corpse was allegedly recovered by an alleged Norwegian fisherman. “Power” has brought a coffin from Norway to London.
The Supreme Lodge of the Knights of Pythias rejects a proposal to help lepers in the Philippines.
In a letter to the League of Nations, Italy defends its accord with Britain establishing “zones of influence” in Abyssinia, echoing Britain’s earlier letter to the League in saying that the agreement was for Abyssinia’s good and certainly wouldn’t violate its rights. Neither country explain why they negotiated in secret from the world in general and Abyssinia in particular.
Lawsuits between Gen. Erich Ludendorff and his banker, Dr. Borchardt of the, ahem, Sinner Banking House, lay bare some top-shelf tax evasion on the general’s side. General L accuses his banker of keeping some of the money he moved offshore (if Switzerland counts as offshore) and the banker responds that the general was asking him to do illegal things and wanted his account hidden under someone else’s name. This all might give impetus to the left’s demand that Ludey be stripped of his pension.
Italy is preventing Italians from touristing abroad. Even Swiss women married to Italian men are not being allowed to visit their relatives.
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