Children at the Washington D.C.,Municipal Play Ground at 18th. & Kalorama Road planting a tree in memory of animals killed during World War I during "Be kind to dumb animals" week. The tree was entered on the honor roll of the American Forestry Association. April 15, 1920
On the front page of the newspapers around the country, the events in Mexico continued to make front page news as Mexico slid back into war with itself.
Also on the front page, the strike in Chicago, which we haven't been addressing, came to an end, as did a local high school student's strike.
Not on the front page of this paper, however, elevator operators were going out on strike.
This is a nearly extinct occupation, at least in the form which once existed when elevators were mechanically complicated and had to be manually stopped at floors with precision. W here they exist now, it's mostly as a courtesy of sorts, or as a form of announcing operator, a la Fran Kubelik in The Apartment.
In Braintree Massachusetts a guard and paymaster were murdered in the robbergy of a shoe company. The murder would ultimately lead to the trial, conviction and execution of anarchist Nicola Sacca and Bartolomeo Vanzetti.
Vanzetti left, Sacca, right.
The trial was tainted by the defendants' anarchism and their status as Italian immigrants and it was accordingly controversial at the time. Debates about the verdict started nearly immediately and have continued to this day with the result that its now fairly impossible to determine what their status was in regard to the crime, if any.
On this same day Irish Republicans acted to establish their own law enforcement and judicial system in the parts of Ireland they controlled or heavily contested. Ultimately, 21 of the Irish counties would come to have Republican police and judicial systems and some counties would act to recognize the Irish Republic as the sovereign rather than the crown.
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