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...Communists, flattered at drawing White House fire, gladly took all credit for the Washington disturbance.* Most impartial observers, however, doubted if the rioting could be really attributed to them. John Pace was in jail at the time and his handful of Red followers were not identified as actively participating in the fracas...
...rebellion by eight members who object to his methods. Local 306 has also been charged with operating the forbidden "permit system" whereby President Kap lan allows operators outside the union to work in return for 20% of their wages. His strongarm man, one Greenberg, has served a six-month jail sentence for as sault...
Other squads went to police headquarters and arrested Police President Albert Grzenski and his chief assistants, Vice President Bernhard Weiss and Major Heimannsberg, and marched them off to Moabit Jail charged with conspiring against the new government. They were later released. Communist headquarters were raided, a half-dozen newspapers were temporarily suppressed...
...Cincinnati, Judge Samuel W. Bell was disturbed by the hammering of an electrician outside his courtroom. Ordering him sent in, irate Judge Bell sentenced Electrician Ray Burke to five days in jail for "disturbing the peace...
Sheriff John Stevens, fat and fiftyish, led the petty thieves to the jail courtyard, fastened their hands over their heads to the jail's window bars. They wore their shirts as the lash cracked down across their backs. Sheriff Stevens puffed and panted. One whip was broken, then an other. A blacksnake whip finished the job. The Brothers Wynn, heads bent but not painfully hurt, walked away through a crowd of gaping country folk who had gone to Millersburg to witness Ohio's first public whipping in more than half a century. Questioned as to his legal authority...