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Score--Harvard 7, Noble and Greenough 0. Goals--First period: Bacon (9.15), Pruyn (11.00). Second period: Pruyn (3.15), Holmes (9.55). Third period: Penalties (Baxter) (5.12), Lincoln (Glasson) (8.60). Baxter (11.13). Penalties--Baxter (tripping), Cort (handling the puck). Referees--Mooney and Hughes. Time--one 15-minute and two 12-minute periods...
...Received from Attorney General Mitchell a report made by a subcommittee of the Wickersham Commission on the Mooney-Billings case. Its conclusions: 1) "There was never any scientific attempt made either by the police or prosecution to discover the perpetrators of the crime"; 2) "there were flagrant violations of the statutory law of California by both police and prosecution"; 3) "witnesses were coached ... to a degree that approached subornation of perjury...
...Government is kinder to philately than the U. S.* When the post office closed at 6 p. m. people were yet unserved. Postmaster William M. Mooney announced that anyone who came back next day could still have the cancellation dated Jan. 1 if he liked. It was the heaviest commemorative stamp sale in the history of the Post Office Department...
...Pausing from his potato-peeling in San Quentin prison, Thomas Mooney said that he was convinced that Governor James ("Sunny Jim") Rolph Jr. of California would not grant him the pardon for which Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker of New York went 3,000 mi. to beg last month. "Not a chance," said Prisoner Mooney, on the eve of his sixteenth Christmas behind bars since he and Warren K. Billings were convicted of bombing San Francisco's 1916 Preparedness Day parade. "Powers of business and politics will dictate Governor Rolph's decision. ... It looks as though I would...
...Last week Prisoner Mooney accepted honorary chairmanship of an "international workers' counter-Olympic meet" to be held at Chicago this year. Sponsored by the International Labor Defense, the meet is calculated to boycott the Los Angeles Olympics because Los Angeles is in California and California holds Mooney prisoner...