CONNECTICUT: The lower house of the Legislature defeated a bill to legalize Sunday football and baseball by 139 to 86. The vote was nonpartisan.
FLORIDA: The investigation of the Florida peonage system whereby convict laborers are flogged by " whipping-bosses " has revealed incidents fully as brutal and gruesome as any of the tortures employed during the Middle Ages. The press is unanimous in its agreement that it is one of the darkest blots on civilization in America. This system, whereby convicts are delivered under contract to turpentine camps at $20 a head profit...
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