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Tear gas was used, four officers were injured, twelve marchers were locked up, several banners demanding "Freedom for the Scottsboro Boys" were torn down and confiscated when Washington police drove 100 demonstrators of the International Labor Defense off the Capitol Plaza one forenoon last week. Undisturbed by the tumult outside, inside the Capitol in the shadowy chambers of the Supreme Court nine old white men reviewed the case of seven young Negroes convicted at Scottsboro, Ala., spring before last, of raping two white girl hoboes in a box car. Political libertarians called the death sentences "legal lynching," but Alabama...
...Forenoon...
...rigorous testflight for Navy inspectors. From her dock at Akron she flew to Cincinnati, thence along the Ohio River to Louisville. By night she flew west across Indiana and Illinois and made a surprise visit over St. Louis just before midnight. Early next morning she crossed Chicago, spent the forenoon idling along the shore of Lake Michigan. Thence to Milwaukee, and back to Chicago in the afternoon to thrill the crowds at the Yale-Chicago football game before heading east for Akron. Next day Rear Admiral George C. Day, chief of the Navy Board of Inspection & Survey, recommended that...
...into the setting sun at the St. John airport and partially blinded by the glare. Miss Nichols overshot the field, nosed over, badly damaged the landing gear of her plane, escaped serious injury. But flyers and their fates held scant concern for St. John that day. For in the forenoon fire broke out on the town's busy waterfront, swept through blocks of piers and grain elevators, destroyed the Canadian Pacific steamer Empress and several harbor craft, was checked shortly before Pilot Nichols' plane arrived. Estimated loss...
...Sports on Soldiers Field or boating on the Charles River, or sightseeing trips to Concord and Lexington or Wayside Inn during forenoon...