Brakeman Death Sparks West Texas Train Fight
In Roundup near Santa Fe line, brakeman Kerry Redden and conductor J S Vaughan were attacked during a conflict with two hoboes aboard freight train No. 933. Redden died, Vaughan was wounded but survived. Suspects captured. authorities hold them in Lubbock county jail. Redden hailed from Herrin Illinois. Vaughan from Slaton. Police and surgeons tended the victims at Lubbock sanitarium.
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Slaton
Bettween
Santa Fe
Staten
Kerry Redden
J. S. Vaugan
Kedden
Herrin
Hil
Vaughn
Clovis-Lubbock
Redden
Lubbock Sanitarium
J. .F. Anton
Santa Ire
Lubbock
Rix’s
Undertakers
Dodd
Roundup
Lubbock County
States Move to Ban Human Gland Barter Laws
Two states Michigan and California propose laws to prohibit gland transplantation amid public debates on the morality of trading human glands. Noted figures including Mrs. Gene Stratton Porter advocate varying views, while the Rev Dr Mark A Matthews denounces selling body parts as morally wrong.
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Minois
California
Victor D. Lespinasse
Harold McCormick
Chicago
Irving Bacon
Atlantic City
Daily News
NEA Service
Gene Stratton Porter
Rome City
Ind
Mark A. Matthews
General Assembly
Presbyterian Church
First Presbyterian Church
Seattle
Wash
Mary Wade Dennett
Voluntary Parenthood League
Harold F. McCormick
Gland Transplant Debate Amid Moral and Legal Hearings
A heated argument unfolds over gland operations with Dr Thomas W Edgar defending the practice as lawful and real. Critics denounce gland transplantation as immoral and repulsive, urging virtue and legality. The exchange continues on page three.
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Thomas W. Edgar
Irving Bacon
Frazier Gains Ground in North Dakota Senate Race
Grand Forks readers learn that Linn J. Frazier has narrowed United States Senator Porter J. McCumber’s lead in North Dakota’s primary returns. By Associated Press, early tallies show Frazier within about five hundred dollars.
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Grand Parks
United States
Porter J. McCumber
Linn J. Frazier
Fargo
N. 10
Lynn J. Frazier
Artisan
North Dakota
Leaders summoned to appear in conference at Washington today
Chicago, June 29. A federal Transportation Act backed conference was summoned to avert a rail strike by 400000 shopmen and possibly half a million railroad workers. Union leaders and railroad executives were called to appear before the labor board as the strike vote lingered, with wage and over time rules at stake and a potential nationwide traffic tie up looming.
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Washington
Chicago
United States Railroad Board
Labor Board
Transportation Act
Miia Wotter
Ben W. Hooper
Federal Railway Tribunals
United States
Congress
Republic
Free Staters seize Dublin Four Courts in key assault
In Dublin the Four Courts come under a Free State assault led by Brigadier General Daley. Heavy artillery and machine gun fire breach gates as 80 attackers climb the south wall, with three rebels killed and ten wounded. Twenty two surrender. Rory O Connor and 160 men retreat to a corner barricaded corner of the court.
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London
Times
Dublin
Four Courts
Daley
Liffey
Grafton Street
Rory O'Connor
Traynor
Explosion injures seven at Kansas City restaurant
June 2 report from Kansas City says seven people were injured in an explosion at a restaurant at 8th and Troost. Six were taken to hospital but later sent home as doctors said injuries were slight. victims include five men and one woman.
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Associated Pre- Kansas Civ
8Th and
Troost Avenue
General Hospital
Klansman Found Guilty of Assault in Kern County
John R. itelle former exalted cyclops of the Taft California Ku Klux Klan was found guilty of assaulting Dr. Dwight R. Mason of Taft by beating him with ropes after more than four hours of jury deliberation in Kern County Superior Court.
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Associated Press
Bakersfield
Cal
John R. Itelle
Cyclops
Taft, California
Ku Klux Klan
Dwight R. Mason
Taft
Kern County Superior Court
Railway Executives Defy Labor Board Demand
Chicago June 29 The association of Railway Executives declares disobedience to labor unions by refusing to accede to demands described as ordered by the American Federation of Labor. They argue the United States Labor Board, created by statute, holds government authority and must be obeyed.
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Association of Railways
Labor Board
United States
Associated Press
Chicago
United States Labor Board
Association of Railway Executives
B. M. Jewell
American Federation of Labor
Jewell
Congress
Secrecy Shrouds Troop Movement In West Virginia
Charleston June 20. Company D West Virginia National Guard with three officers and fifty men was ordered mobilized shortly before midnight. A government conference with Governor Morgan and Adjutant General Charnock was under way as officials offered no details. Secretary Jens V. Sullivan said there may be information later.
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Associated Press
Charleston
W. Va
West Virginia National Guard
Morgan
Charnock
Jens V. Sullivan
Harding to Open Meeting on Mine Strike
Washington reports that all principals in the coal strikes have accepted President Harding’s Saturday conference to resume mine work. The two unsettled points are the employer and union representatives and the postmeeting procedure plan. Davis and Hoover expected to represent the government in immediate negotiations.
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Associated Press
Washington
Miners Union
Harding
Commerce and Labor Departments
Davia
Hoover
Baseball News Read Daily News for West Texas League
The Daily News provides premier coverage of West Texas League results with box scores published daily. It blankets the Panhandle each morning and offers news on American National Texas and West Texas leagues for the remainder of the season.
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Daily News
Panhandle
West Texas
Daily News Today
Neff urged to attend meeting on Orient Road
Texas representatives Hudspeth and Jones wired Governor Neff and Railroad Commission chairman Allison Mayfield urging attendance at the July 12 meeting to prevent the Orient Railroad's abandonment. The move follows Interstate Commerce Commission calls to state governors to bring a railroad official to save the line from Wichita through Oklahoma to Texas. President Harding sent Robert A. Jackson’s postmaster nomination for Chillicothe, Texas to the Senate.
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Dail News
Washington
Hudspeth and Jones
Texas
Neff
Allison Mayfield
Texas Railroad Commission
Orient Railroad
Interstate Commerce
Meyer
Allen
Kansas
Robinson
Oklahoma
Railroad Commission
Earch State
Wichita
Kans
Harding
Senate
Robert A. Jackson
Chillicothe
Governor Neff Skips Washington Conference on KC MO Orient Line
In Austin on June 29 Governor Neff announced he will not attend the July 12 conference in Washington called by Interstate Commerce Commission Chairman McCord to discuss possible suspension of operations of the Kansas City Mexico and Orient railroad. He informed Chairman Allison Mayfield of the state railroad commission after receiving McCord’s message.
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Associated Press
Austin
Texas
Neff
Washington
McCord
Interstate Commerce Commission
Kansas City, Mexico and Orient Railroad
Allison Mayfield
State Railroad Commission
Racing official's death shocks Reno crowd
Theon Wing, Reno racing secretary and judge, was shot and killed today by jockey Archie Ziegler who then killed himself in a barn. Wing, a famed Western racing secretary and San Francisco newspaper man, had come to Reno two weeks ago to officiate at the meeting.
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Associated Press
Reno
Theon Wing
Archie Ziezler
Ziegler
Wing
West
San Franscisco
West Must Cope Without Meeting Mr Harding
Washington reports President Harding will miss Alaska on his delayed trip and will be unable to campaign for ship subsidy. He accepts the need to stay in Washington through the summer recess as Congress debates tariff, bonus, and subsidy measures, planning to rely on public opinion instead. The White House expresses deep disappointment over postponement and the hot season schedule.
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West
MR. Harding
Washington
Pacific
Harding
Mississippi
White House
Alaska
House
Senate
Ert
Acquitted Oklahoma veteran says his conscience clear
Earl Gordon, a disabled veteran and ex-soldier classmate of Beckham Cobb at Oklahoma A and M College, was acquitted by a district court in Sillwater on a murder charge. He said he acted as any man would and expressed remorse only for the act. Crowds cheered as jurors announced their verdict after two ballots.
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Associated Press
Sillwater
Okla
Earl Gordon
Beckham Cobb
Birmingham
Ala
Oklahoma A
M. College
Gordon
Thad
Cobb
College
Bertie Sue Cobb
Mexican Oil Region Crisis Eases After Rebel Raids
Overnight dispatches from Tampico alter the Mexican oil region situation. Rebel leader Gorozave and his men left Aguada camp of Cortez Oil Company after a 24 hour stay. Rebels seized Pecera camp of Lacorna Company with about six Americans among 85 held, and demanded 9000 pesos with a July 2 deadline.United States pressured Mexican authorities to protect Americans and capture bandits tied to A. Bruce Bielaski’s escape.
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Washington
State Department
Tampico
Aguada
Pecera
Lacorna Company
Chas. G. Summerlin
Mexico City
Three Year Hunt Ends as Coburn Is Arrested in Canada
Montreal June 29 A three year search for Edward Coburn wanted in Hale Center Texas on a charge of obtaining $45 000 by false pretenses ended when he was imprisoned as a fugitive from justice He is alleged to have defrauded A W Lohman of Wheatland Ohio of the money and will appear Friday before Judge Choquette extradition commissioner
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Montreal
Edward Coburn
Hale Center
Texas
Coburn
A. W. Lohman
Wheatland
Ohio
Choquette
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Harold M’cormick
Frazier
M'Cumber
Grand Forks, N. D
O'Connor
Cay
Hamman
U.S. Board
RAIL
Orient Road
Bascom N. Timmons
Gordon Freed
Mexico
Canada
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