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editors fined FOR CONTEMPT Fditor And Editorial Writer Os Cleveland Press Draw Jail Sentence Cleveland, July 17.-OJ.R)—Louis B. Sel!lf r, editor of the Cleveland Press. , Carlton Matson. the paper’s chief editorial writer, were found guilty of contempt of court today by Common Pleas Judge Frederick P. Walther. Each of the two journalists was sentenced by Judge Walther to serve 30 days in jail and was fined SSOO. Previously to handing down its decision, the court overruled a defense motion for dismissal of the citation. Defense counsel Immediately after the court sentenced the newspapermen began action to appeal the judgment to a higher court. The newspaper men were held accountable by the judge for contempt of his own court because their paper carried a series of editorials criticising the judge’s action in granting the owners of Thistledown race track here an injunction restraining the sheriff of the county from interfering with the race program. Newton D. Baker, former secretary of war. argued in behalf of the defendents that the editorials were not contemptuous because they criticized] a past performance of the court and | defended passionately the right of the! press to criticise public officials. Judge Walther, in announcing his' decision, held that the editorials had' not only obstructed justice, but had I attempted to bring the court into ridicule and disrepute. The court contended that the race track case still was pending at the time the editorials appeared and that even if the case had not been pend-| ing the court had a perfect right to punish for contempt. The judge also held that the court has the inherent power to determine the character of actions punishable by contempt, and that such acts only had to be construed as obstructing justice. The editorials criticised the court’s action in issuing an injunction restraining the sheriff from interfering with racing operations at Thistledown track here “if the same be not in violation of the laws of Ohio." Defying the injunction, characterized by assistant county prosecutor P. L. A. Leighley as “not worth thei paper it was written on," Sheriff E. J. Hanratty proceeded to make arrests and close up the track. —— ... ,o — . I Twelve Banks In South Florida Fail To Open Tallahassee, Fla.. July 17 —(UP) — Twelve banks with deposits totaling approximately $40,000,000 failed to open tor business in south Florida today, today, following runs on the institutions yesterday. Announcement of the closings was made by the state comptroller hereThe announcement said, the runs which caused the closings were started “entirely without reason". Ericson Grave Believed Found In MassachusettsProvincetown, Mass., July 17 —(UP) — The grave of Leif Ericson famed explorer of nearly a thousand years ago. is located beneath her home here Mrs Nancy \V. Paine Smith, historian, believes. According to Mrs. Smith, history shows that in 1004 Ericson and his crew were attacked by Indians in Boston Harbor and the explorer was mortally wounded by a poisoned arrow. His dying request, she says, was to be buried at the place where their boat had been repaired, which was Pro vincetown. Belief that the remains of the explorer rest under her home was strengthened recently when she discovered an ancient stonewall of Scandinavian architecture nearby, she said. 42 Believed Lost In Ship Disaster Santiago, Chile, July 17.—(U.KForty two members of a crew of 43 were believed today to have lost their lives in a sea disaster off the Chilean ■ coastal city of San Antonio, where | ’he Chilean naval transport Abtao < sank in a violent storm. Official information was still lacking today, other than that one of the midshipmen had been rescued by the steamer Imperial, which rushed to the rescue at the receipt of S.O.S. calls. Undon, July 17.—(U.R>— A private message received in London is print-! ml by the Star today reporting that the North German Lloyd steamer Derffinger went aground off Siang-ung-Tau. A United States destroyer took 42 passengers ashore and a United States gunboat took off the crew. The holds of the Derfflinger are reported filled with water. The United States gunboat is reported standing by. - ' ■ —o — SOCIALIST LEADER HURT t Milwaukee, Wis„ July 17.—((j.R)— Victor L. Berger, socialist leader and former congressman, was in a serious condition in a hospital here today after an accident in which he was knocked down by a street car.

Otis Wells To Serve Sentence On Penal Farm Committment papers were Issued today for Otis Wells, who was fined $lO nml costs, amounting to s4ll. mid'seefenced to serve lit) days on the state penal farm, when he pleaded guilty in city court Monday night, to a charge of public toxication. Wells was arrested Saturday night. He will be taken to the ponal farm within the next few days. —____ 0 ___ WALTHER LEAGUE NAMES OFFICERS (CONTINUED I HOM PAGE ONBI torium of Schick hall. W. F. Washerman was chairman and E. T. Woellerlng, secretary. The. executive workers met in the dining room, of Concordia college with Rev. Erwin Ummach of Chicago, executive secretary, presiding.

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