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...Olympia, Wash., Governor Roland H. Hartley announced that so far as he was concerned, Herbert Franklin Niccolls. 12, who shot a peace officer from behind a grocery store's pickle barrel, would remain in the Walla Walla penitentiary for the rest of his life. Denied was the petition of Father Edward J. Flanagan that the boy be released in his custody, allowed to go to Father Flanagan's home for waifs and waywards near Omaha, Neb. In making his decision public, Governor Hartley did not conceal his irritation at Father Flanagan's intercession. The priest had journeyed from Omaha...
...Temple of Zeus at Olympia," Professor Chase, Fogg Large Room...
...Olympia and Uptown--"Bad Girl", with Sally Eilers and James Dunn...
...side: WE WANT BEER. That had become the rallying cry for a large element in the convention after President Hoover had made a flying trip to Detroit to shame the Legion out of asking for immediate payment in full of its adjusted service certificates (TIME, Sept. 28). At Olympia Arena the resolutions committee placed before the 1,415 delegates a measure asking for a submission of the Prohibition question to State referenda. Hitherto the Legion's Dry element has blocked similar measures by raising a point of order, declaring that Prohibition is not the Legion's business. This...
...with him. So anxious was the President to avoid being caught up and delayed by Legion ceremonies that he had the Baltimore & Ohio R. R. slow up the train as it neared Detroit. With hardly a moment to spare, he arrived shortly after 11 a. m., drove immediately to Olympia Arena through yowling crowds, stepped up on the rostrum and with many a decisive shake of his square head gravely told the American Legion what he expected of it. Excerpts...