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More than 200 congratulatory letters and telegrams from all over the country have been received during the past two days by James A. Delacey, manager of Dunster House bookshop, the remission of whose jail sentence for selling a copy of D. H. Lawrence's "Lady Chatterly's Lover" in Superior Criminal Court at East Cambridge last week has attracted nation wide interest, and more messages are arriving at his office hourly...
Judge James H. Sisk, of Cambridge, who tried the proprietor of the Dunster House Bookshop for selling an "indecent" book and imposed a jail sentence of thirty days and a fine of $500 has remitted the prison sentence. This was the famous case in which the prosecuting attorney and the judge united to condemn the dishonest and provocative methods by which the Watch and Ward Society procured its evidence. The highest court of the state had just affirmed, as a matter of law, the verdict; but the trial judge will find Cambridge opinion, as well as that of other cities...
Oklahoma last week added to the list of 1930 lynchings. At the Chickasha jail, hundreds of mobsters besieged the guards of black Henry Argo, attacker of white Mrs. George W. Skinner and her child. During successive rushes the mob fired the jail, smoked out many of its defenders. A sniper climbed to Argo's cell, shot him in the head. Husband Skinner broke in and stabbed the prostrate body. Argo was smuggled as dead into a hearse, driven to an Oklahoma City hospital before he died...
...Houston the Brotherhood had on file in the U. S. court a petition that Henry Morris Lull, executive vice president of the road, George Stewart Waid, general manager, and John Givens Torain, assistant to Mr. Waid, had violated the provisions of the injunction and therefore should be sent to jail until they purged themselves of contempt. The Brotherhood alleged these S. P. officials had failed to dissolve the company union and to cease interference with brotherhood affairs, as Judge Hutcheson had ordered. Filed last February, this petition, by joint agreement, was held in abeyance until the Supreme Court should rule...
...actual title of the Communist Party used to be "The Workers' Party," was recently changed to "The Communist Party, U. S. A." Leader: William Z. Foster, now in jail (TIME, April 21). Organ: The Daily Worker. In Manhattan on March 6th last Mr. Foster said: "Charges have been made that this meeting tomorrow [which resulted in his arrest] has been called by the Communist International in Russia. Well it has? what are you going to do about...