National Affairs: Miscellaneous Mentions: Dec. 7, 1925

Senator Smoot, Mormon Elder, in his office at Washington, picked up a glass in one hand and a bottle of mineral water in the other. The bottle slipped. He caught it with the hand holding the glass. Glass and bottle fractured. Three of his fingers required surgery. John W. Langley, Representative from Kentucky, Chairman of the Public Buildings Committee, convicted for conspiracy to violate the Volstead Act and sentenced to two years in Atlanta, is to be relieved of his post as Chairman of the

Committee, according to plans made last week by his...

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