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...April 1925, Frederick Albert Cook, M.D., polar explorer, mountain climber, oil stock promoter, entered the U.S. penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kan., became convict No. 23,118, began to serve a 14-year sentence. Not for the doubt that had been cast upon his story of "discovering" the North Pole was he convicted, but for using the U.S. mails to defraud...
...white, one informal and black. White: Chairman, William Cameron Forbes, onetime Governor General of the Philippines; Henry Prather Fletcher, one-time Ambassador to Italy; Elie Vezina of Rhode Island, Papally beknighted newsman; James Kerney, editor of the Trenton (N. J.) Times; William Allen White, Editor of the Emporia (Kan.) Gazette. Black: Mr. Hoover appointed an informal, independent commission headed by Robert Russa Moton, President of Tuskegee Institute, to make an exhaustive survey of Haitian education...
...lola, Kan., Ira Sutton, hotel clerk, wrote in succession on his register the names of three salesmen for a refrigerator company, a Mr. Coldsnow, a Mr. Winter, a Mr. Coldiron...
...Federal Penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kan. supper begins promptly at 3:10 p. m. Reason: the institution is so overcrowded that eating must start early to get the last convict fed before bedtime. To remedy this and many another condition of convict-herding, which goaded U. S. prisoners to riotous fury last year, the House of Representatives last week approved a batch of bills to start President Hoover's $7,000,000 prison reform program. Among other things they provided...
Martin Johnson, 45, ran away from his home in Independence, Kan., when he was 14. He worked for a while as bellhop in a Chicago hotel, worked his way East and then to Liverpool on a cattle boat. Coming back from England on a U. S. liner as a stowaway the next year, he read in an outdated magazine about the trip around the world in a 40-foot boat that Jack London was planning to take. London's cook had quit. Johnson applied by letter for the job. London wired Johnson: "Can you cook? Salary $25 a month, also...