Last month Western Union was sued for $3,600,000 on the ground that under an obscure New Jersey statute of 1877 the company had participated in a lottery by transmitting chain telegrams. Last week in Chelsea, Mass. Western Union was cited for contempt of court because it accepted and transmitted two messages which protested the arrest of an obscure playactor and an allegedly suspicious character, thus offending the dignity of a district judge.
Last May one Richard Frey was arrested and charged with using profane language in a Chelsea performance of Clifford Odets' Waiting for...
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