Chicago narcotic raid taps national drug trade network
Federal and city officials battled a feared Chinese tong war as Col Will Gray Beach and agents were jailed over narcotic investigations in Chinatown Chicago. Reserve squads increased, while officials denied a $250000 narcotics cache was revealed, despite claims of damaging admissions.
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Chicago
United States
Will Gray Beach
Chinatown
Patrick Roche
Internal Revenue Bureau
Beach
Forestry Bill Becomes Law In Georgia
Atlanta August 12 Governor Walker will sign the forestry administrative act creating a Georgia board of forestry. The board includes the Governor Secretary of State State Geologist Director of Expansion at the State College of Agriculture and five citizens. Members are appointed by the Governor with geographic considerations. Meanwhile House appropriation subcommittee members work through about 100 special appropriation bills totaling around 12.5 million dollars.
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Atlanta
Govenor Walker
Senate
Georgia
State College of Agriculture
House
Largest rattlesnake killed near Norman Park
A seven foot long rattlesnake with eighteen rattles, the largest seen in years, was shot crossing the road by a Tifton Moultrie bus driver about three miles north of Norman Park, MOULTRIE. Rattlers contribute to several US snakebite deaths annually.
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Moultrie
United State
Thhe
Tifton-Moultrie
Norman Park
Evicted mother gives birth on roadside near Phoenix
Chicago August 12. Anne Cooper 19 was evicted from her home by a constable and gave birth on the roadside in Phoenix, southwest of Chicago. The baby died within hours. mother in serious condition. Physicians cite exposure and premature birth induced by the pistol seen in the constable’s hands. Coroner to be asked for an inquest.
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Chicago
Anne Cooper
Phoenix
Bill to Limit Ad Valorem Tax Rate of Counties
Atlanta Aug 12 The legislature considers a measure by Representative Miller Muscogee to cap county ad valorem rates at seventeen mills He argues it will raise property valuations and state revenue while presenting a favorable image to home seekers by keeping tax rates low
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Atlanta
Miller
Muscogee
Mr. Miller
Search for missing Douglas boy Cleo Brown urged
Douglas August 12. Mrs Major Brown asks press help to locate Cleo Roberts Brown a thirteen year old boy who vanished from Douglas public schools on November 7 last year. He is described as fair skinned large for his age with light hair bluish gray eyes a scar over the left eye and a large scar near the hairline above the right eye.
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Douglas
Cleo Roberts Brown
Douglas Public
Major Brown
Cleo
Germans Fight For France In Morocco In Rumor
Berlin experts claim about 12 000 to 15 000 German subjects serve France in the Moroccan campaign against Abd el Krim. They note article 179 of the Versailles treaty allowed entry into the French foreign region despite a German ban and cite recruitment during 1922 1923 for comfortable wages and adventurous service.
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Berlin
France
Abd el Krim
Morocco
Germany
Grist
Farmer Back On Feet Again Prosperity Smiles On Agriculture
Secretary of Agriculture William M Jardine reports to Washington that the American farmer is slowly recovering from postwar slump. After eight weeks touring farming regions he sees a fairly good season ahead, with higher purchasing power for farm products at 90 percent of prewar levels. Continued on Page Three.
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Washington
William M. Jardine
Body found in burned straw stack near Carlisle Iowa
Relatives of missing girls were asked to view the body of a young woman found in ashes of a straw stack burned on July 24. Investigators found a butterfly inscribed glass brooch and evidence suggests the woman was killed and placed in the hay stack via automobile. Death caused by skull fractures.
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Carlisle
Iowa
Weeks Likely Resign Post As War Secretary
Washington August 12 renewed indications that Secretary Weeks will retire as head of the War Department and preparations to present to the President the qualifications of possible successors. Names mentioned include Work, Secretary of the Interior, and New, Postmaster General. Swampscott Massachusetts August 12 Weeks hints he may not return in fall after a conference with President Coolidge. He left his residence for the first time since illness and drove to White Court for a brief social visit with the President.
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Washington
Weeks
War Department
Work
Interior
New
Swampscott
Mass
Coolidge
White Court
Savannah River Bridge Opening Planned for October 7
President Coolidge and governors of Florida Georgia South Carolina and North Carolina plus the secretary of war are invited to attend the formal opening of the Savannah river highway bridge on October 7. A large committee is arranging the celebration likely including a monster barbecue mimic warfare by land sea and air forces a governors ball and a grand parade. The bridge opened to traffic on July 23 linking coastal regions of South Carolina and Georgia.
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Savannah
Coolidge
Florida
Georgia
South Carolina
North Carolina
Secretary of War
Savannah River Highway
Army
Prohibition Officers Stay in Atlanta Despite HQ Move
Prohibition officers to direct enforcement in North Georgia will be retained in Atlanta even as district headquarters shift from the area to Charlotte under the government reorganization.
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Atlanta
Georgia
Prohibition Forces
Charlotte
Sunday Dance Law Fails To Stop Tybeeies
Savannah reports the Georgia General Assembly Sunday dancing ban failing to curb activity at Durden and Powers pavilion. Walter C. Hardridge, Savannah solicitor general, awaits official notice to pursue indictments from a Grand Jury meeting next Monday, as revelers resume dancing to jazzy blues amid speculation of visitors from Atlanta including Representative Peacock.
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Savannah
Georgia General Assembly
Durden and Powers
Walter C. Hardridge
State of
Georgia
Atlanta
Durden and Power Dancing
Wage Fight for McCray Pardon
A large campaign to win clemency for Warren T. McCray former Indiana governor serving ten years in Atlanta federal penitentiary for mail fraud began in Washington. A pardon petition was presented to the Attorney General along with over 200 supporting letters from 14 governors jurors bankers lawmakers and ministers.
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Washington
Warren T. McCray
Indiana
Atlanta Federal
Sergent
Department of Justice
McCray
Foster Voted No on Hughes County Bill in Atlanta
Senator Albert Foster of the 28th voted against the Hughes county bill after a five minute period for remarks. Senator Walter Hendrix of the 35th described Foster’s window gesture and birding oration as the humorous moment amid the roll call. Foster’s vote stood as he delivered a speech about pretty little birds before the final tally.
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Atlanta
Walter Hendrix
Albert Foster
Hendrix
Hughes County
Foster
McClatchey
Man confesses to theft in juvenile court scene
In St Louis a man named Thomas B. Hoyt told an officer he stole 12000 dollars from Piggly Wiggly in New Orleans five years earlier and fled. He was arrested and held pending further information about his account.
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ST. Louis
Thomas B. Hoyt
Piggly Wiggly Corporation
New Orleans
Foyt
Ennis Enters Georgia Governor Race With Woolgathering Hopes
Atlanta August reports J Howard Ennis of Milledgeville enters the Georgia gubernatorial race as a leading contender. Rumors place W Cecil Neill, speaker of the House, and George M Napier, attorney general, in the mix. J J Brown at agriculture is noncommittal amid broader post assembly announcements.
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Atlanta
J. Howard Ennis
Milledgivelle
Ment
Georgia Senate
W. Cecil Neill
House of Representatives
Columbus
Georgia
Neil
Ennis
Chattahoochee
George M. Napier
Walker
J. J. Brown
Brown
Congress
Georgia players compete in annual city checker tournament
Your Move Atlanta reports Georgia checker players will gather at the railroad Y M C A from August 15 14 15 to contest the state championship. Macon Columbus Thomasville and others enter twenty five of the best players aiming to dethrone Atlanta sharks.
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Atlanta
Georgia Checker
Railroad Y. M. C. A
Macon
Columbus
Thomasville
Atlanta “Sharks
Oxford honors Atlanta alumnus with Harvard scholarship
Honored in Atlanta on August 12, Oxford University England conferred first honors upon Benjamin J. Jones Jr an Atlanta Boys High School alumnus. Jones earned a four year Harvard scholarship after graduating in 1917 and won medals at Harvard while serving as president of the debating council in his junior year. He is returning home after receiving his degree from the Oxford school of science.
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Atlanta
Oxford University
England
Benjamin J. Jones
Jones
Harvard
Oxford School of Science
Jail Dress Not Correct For Court
Berlin August 12 A convict Bern ard Pulkowsky serving a term escaped to buy better clothes after a request for leave was refused. He returned to court in sartorially fine attire carrying himself with pride and was later convicted of stolen goods, receiving ten months at hard labor.
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Berlin
Bernard Pulkowsky
Pulkowsky
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Excelsior Springs
U. S
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Jardine
Secretary of Agriculture
Larry Boardman
Prohibition
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Ennis’ Hat
W. C. Neill
Napier
Toga
Oxford
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