Legionnaires Open Convention To Hear Coolidge Speech
Neb Oct 5 colorfully opened the seventh annual American Legion convention in Omaha. President Coolidge and Mrs Coolidge attend their 20th wedding anniversary service before addressing the gathering Tuesday. Alvin Owsley leads efforts to endorse Mitchell for separate air service department. Mitchell friends object to his absence from the guest list. General Frank Tines lauds Veterans Bureau work as its top achievement.
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Omara
Neb
American Legion
James A. Crain
Uum
Army of Democracy
France
OMA Ct
Veterans Bureau
Frank Thines
William Mitchell
Navy
Legion
Junius Peyser
Mitchell
Alvin Owsley
Texas
Congress
Department of the Air Service
Coolidge
Omaha
Washington
Diamond Broker Robbed of Gems in New York
New York Oct 5 Israel Chertow a diamond broker rushed into the office of Ben Arin Kouma at 132 Essex Street shouting that he had been robbed of unset diamonds worth 12000. He had left a diamond with Kaufman for cleaning and on calling for it in the hallway was attacked and robbed.
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New York
Israel Chertow
Dimond
Ben'arin Kou
Essex St
Chertow
Madison St
Kaufman
Cole's Counsel Claim Insanity in Ormond Killing
Richmond County court hears defense evidence in W B Cole murder case. Defense contends Cole shot W W Ormond in self defense and while insane last August, alleging intimate relations between Ormond and Cole's daughter.
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Cole
Richmond County
Rockingham
N. C
W. B. Cole
W. W. Ormond
Sane
Ormond
Birmingham Vigilantes Run Aground In Murder Charge
In Birmingham Alabama three youths Vincent Calvert 18 John Ryland 18 and Ben Williams 22 are jailed on first degree murder charges after a mistaken target. A shot fired at an auto believed to carry a courting couple killed six month old Agnes Lorraine Creel. Calvert admits firing the shot.
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Vincent Calvert
John Ryland
Ben Williams
Birmingham
Ala
Ryland
Agnes Lorraine Creel
Calvert
Truck Man Dies Under Load of Sand
In Brooklyn on October 5 John Toomey aged 19 from Mamaroneck fell from the top of a hopper while filling his automobile truck with sand. The hopper clogged and he was buried beneath a pile of sand and suffocated.
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Brooklyn
John Toomey
Boston Post Road
Mamaroneck
Experts to Combat Moron Menace in Senate Plan
A Senate Health Committee in Chicago on October 5 appointed a panel of experts to survey the Moron menace and propose legislative measures. The plan envisions mapping a strategy that may include confinement and treatment for potential criminals.
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Chicago
Senate Health Committee
Memorial fund drive planned for Woodrow Wilson university
Washington October 5 A drive to raise 5 500 000 for a memorial to Woodrow Wilson was launched by the National Woodrow Wilson Memorial Association. The contemplated memorial is to be a university on the outskirts of Washington.
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Washington
Woodrow Wilson
Esterday
National Woodow Wilson Memorial Association
Youth Drowns in Fountain at Virginia Country Home
Two year old Henry W. Shockley Jr. fell into a large gold fish fountain at a country home near Charlottesville while his parents were at dinner Sunday. He drowned before his plight was found.
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Charlottesville
Here
Henry W. Shockley, Jr
Short session of county commissioners adjourns after hour
County commissioners adjourned after about an hour with no major business. Bills were paid easily from a well supplied treasury as no financial aid requests appeared. Dr. J W Chambliss reported good county health, and Charles Wheatley announced Plains road paving will finish by November 1, leaving one mile to go.
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J. W. Chambliss
Health Board
Charles Wheatley
Plains
Judge Moses Wright Dies in Rome Circuit Court Judge
Rome Ga Oct 5 Judge Moses Wright of the Rome circuit Superior Court died in a local hospital after a long illness. A prominent Georgia jurist he had been active in civic political circles and at the bar. He was attended by Dr Howard Kelly of Baltimore who rushed to Rome after other physicians gave up hope. Funeral arrangements not yet made.
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Rome
Moses Wright
Superior Court
Georgia Jurists
Howard Kelly
Baltimore
Judge Wright
Newport
R. I
S. S
John Chittenden
New York
Century
Monarch
Newport Harbor
Naval Training Station
Air Mail Service Waste of Money Stirs Chicago Tribune
Chicago dated October 5 reports a New York dispatch saying recent experiments prove the air mail link between Chicago and New York is a waste of time and money. The bold conclusion from the tests questions the value of the service and may influence future postal policy decisions.
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Chicago Tribune Today
New York
Chicago
New York Perfume Dealers Secure Bulgarian Attar Output
New York perfume dealers have bought nearly all this year's Bulgarian attar of rose from Kazanlik and Karlova districts. The total price runs to several million dollars with an average price around 890 dollars per kilogram.
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Sofia
New York
Kazanlik
Karlova
Condition report of banks called Washington
The Comptroller General of Currency today issued a call on all national banks to report their car at the close of business for Monday September 28.
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Washington, T
Comptroller General of Currency
Sub Sank Near Naval Bases No Equipment
New London Conn Oct 5 Rear Admiral Christy in charge of recovering the 28 men who perished aboard the submarine S 51 reported weather and sea conditions too rough for diving today. Sharks encountered by divers added to the peril as attempts to hoist the sunken vessel failed.
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New London
Conn
Christy
Sioux City man charged in razor attack on wife
Frank Dragoo of Sioux City Iowa is jailed in Tampa on a charge of slashing his wife’s throat with a razor and then attempting suicide in the same way. Mrs Dragoo is reported in critical condition. The couple had been estranged, a daughter told police. The alleged attack occurred at the daughter’s home.
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Tampa
Flia
Frank Dragoo
Sioux City
Towa
Family row nets collegian in jail
Yonkers New York October 5 a college graduate John McGrath forty five of 75 Ravine Avenue Yonkers faced Yonkers City Court with a one year sentence in jail hanging over him but he and his wife Catherine refused to live peaceably and he was sent away for six months by Judge David Garfinkel after a domestic dispute case.
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Yonkers
N. J
John McGrath
Ravine Ave
Catherine McGrath
David Garfinkel
Yonkers City Court
Silk shirt color sparks Yonkers petty theft arrest
New York October 5. Thomas Oles wore a silk shirt that allegedly attracted a roommate Stephen Yasko to steal it. Yasko, 30, of Yonkers was arrested yesterday for petty theft.
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New York
Thomas Oles
Stephen Yasko
Elim St
Yonkers
Six Children Die In Dormitory Fire At Mission
Lewiston Idaho Oct 5 Six children perished in a blaze that swept the boys dormitory at a Catholic mission on the Nez Perces Indian reservation. The fire, likely from a lamp explosion, trapped 31 boys aged five to fourteen as sisters and staff fought to save lives, with the sixth victim found near the scene last night. MARQUETTE Mich Oct 5 Mrs Sunlin and three children perished in Isabelle home fire. ORLANDO Fla Oct 5 One dead and one fatally injured as a southbound passenger train collided with a freight at Eau Gallie. A crew member remained missing while several passengers were shaken but not seriously hurt.
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Lewiston
Idaho
Aire
Nez Perces
St. Joseph’s
Marquette, Mich
Charles Sunlin
Isabelle
Orlando
Fla
Florida East Coast Railroad
Eau Gallie
New Traffic Markers Installed In Street Center
New traffic markers arrive and will be installed immediately by Engineer Walker. Signs indicate right and left turns and boulevard directions with a central red light for night visibility. Reflective red glass markers will be used at other sites as prep work continues on white way posts and lamp connections. The project progresses rapidly toward lamp installation on the first block once wiring completes.
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Walker
Napier Execution Delayed by Court in Crisp County
In Cordele on October 5 the execution of Bunse Napier, convicted of criminal assault on a young girl and sentenced to die, was automatically delayed as a new trial hearing was set for October 10 by Judge P.D. Crum. Napier had been moved to the state farm for the execution but was later brought to Bibb county jail in Macon after rumors of mob violence followed the appeal.
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Cordele
Bunse Napier
Crisp County
PD. A. R. Crum
Napier
State Farm
Bibb County
Macon
Rural Folk Start Clean Up Campaign in Georgia
Georgia country districts launch a "clean-up and paint-up" campaign aimed at improving homes and yards as thousands of tourists move south. Farm development agencies back the effort to attract visitors and keep communities tidy, with editor John G. Herring urging widespread use of brooms hoes and paint brushes.
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Atlanta
Georgia
John G. Herring
Tifton
Daily Gazette
Aig
Georgia Woman Kills Boarder In Self Defense
Marietta Georgia October five Mrs W M Carson of Gilmore is jailed charged with shooting and killing Tommy Brown Jr twenty three a boarder in her home The coroner s inquest heard Brown left Saturday and returned Sunday drunk and threatening her life She shot him It was said Brown had a license to marry Mrs Carson s daughter and the ceremony was to be performed by a minister who refused due to Brown s living wife.
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Brown
Marietta
W. M. Carson
Gilmore
Tommy Brown
Carson
Georgian killed near St. Petersburg
Joel White of St Petersburg and formerly Barnesville Ga was instantly killed when his automobile, driven alone, turned over near Gandy bridge in heavy rain, possibly due to skidding. He was a former Barnesville resident.
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Tampa
Fla
Joel White
St. Petersburg
Barnesville
Gandy Bridge
Two Houston Central trains collide head on in Bryan yard
Twenty passengers and three trainmen were injured when the Sunbeam No 13 collided with train No 16 in Bryan yards. The Sunbeam, behind schedule, crashed into the standing southbound train. Pilots were crushed and baggage, express and dining cars badly damaged amid order confusion.
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Bryan
Tex
Houston and
Texas Central Railroad
Sunbeam
Houston
Mitchell On Carpet Today
Col William Mitchell of the army air service reports to the inspector generals office at the war department as disciplinary proceedings begin. He could not attend the American Legion National Convention sessions and is to receive copies of proposed charges tied to his San Antonio statements that sparked the aviation injury case.
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Washington
William Mitchell
Army Air Service
Inspector Generals Office
War Department
Mitchell
Amerite Legion’s
George A. Nugent
Inspector General’s Office
Nugent
San Antonio
Delegates Open Security Pact Talks in Locarno
A conference of allied and German statesmen met in Locarno Switzerland to discuss conclusions on the security pact. Sessions are in the Peace Palace court room on the second floor as the talks begin.
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Locarno
Switz
We Court
Peace Palace
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