Search America's historic newspaper pages from 1756-1963 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities external link and the Library of Congress. Learn more
Image provided by: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library, Urbana, IL
Newspaper Page Text
NOON EDITION NOON EDITION r THE DAY BOOK An Adless Daily Newspaper, N. D. Cochran, ssgggas Tel. Monroe 353. Editor and Publisher. ,!S Automatic 51-422. 500 South Peoria St. 398 By Mail, 50 Cents a Month. VOL. 3, NO. 87 Chicago, Saturday, Jan. 10, 1914 ONE CENT ACTION THAT WILL HELP WRONGED I0LDIER STARTED BY TUMULTY President Wilson's Secretary Takes Steps to Reopen Case of Private Clarence L. George, Who Was-Sent to Federal Pen for Hinting in Letter That Army Life Was Not Pleasant. BY GILSON GARDNER Washington, Jan. 10'. Believing that a year's imprisonment in the fed eral penitentiary at hard labor is too severe a punishment for writing a let ter suggesting that army life is not pleasant, Joe Tumulty, secretary to the president, has taken steps to reopen the case of Private Clarence L. George. -George, a first-class private mthe Signal Corps,, offended his imme diate' superiors by writing a letter to Tumulty which the latter never saw, but which through routine channels found its way back to the army post where George was serving, and was used as a basis for general court marjtial pproceedings against him. He was' charged' with "conduct-to the: prejudice of good order and military discipline," was dishonorably discharged with the. forfeiture of all pay and' allowances, and sentenced to imprison ment for, ope year at hard labor. He is now at Fort Leavenworth peni-( tentiary in 'Kansas, and has already served four months of his term. t Tumulty never heard of the Private George case until he-saw, the stQry published in this correspondence. The War Department refused your cor respondent the, full record in the case on the ground that it did not desire the facts printed in the'newspapers. When his attention was brought to the case, Secretary Tumulty felt that-he had been unwittingly responsible Tim the' harsh Sentence imposed on this soldier and called on the War Deparjp