Butte Market Week and Circus Open With Big Turnout
Visitors arrived as a weather front blew through butte last night for Market Week and the Bagdad Shriners circus. The parade and grounds drew hundreds from across the state with plans for a full week of bands, floats, and entertainment. Rain dampened some events but crowds and business boomed as trolley clowns announced the evening fun and preparations for a 10 day schedule including a Bohunkus parade and a grand street pageant. Opened with morning crowds and continued amid showers, the opening night set the tone for a busy festival.
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Butte
Bagdad Shriners
Chamber of Commerce
Tannerville
Montana
Shriners
Cosgrave Firm in Peace Refusal
In the Dail Eireann, labor leader Tom Johnson urged compromise with Eamon de Valera, proposing a one month halt to cards and arrests to ease the arms issue without weakening the government. President Cosgrave refused to concede, saying irregulars would only accept peace with guaranteed political life, which the government would not guarantee, and would not withdraw soldiers.
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Associated Press
Dublin
Dail Eireann Today
Tom Johnson
Eamon de Valera
Cosgrave
Postmaster General Urges Party Solidarity Amid Factions
The Postmaster General addresses the Republican ranks calling for unity against blocs and fragmented factions. He warns of divisions that could undermine the party’s standing and urges cohesive action to present a united front ahead of forthcoming contests.
New predicts early federal tax reduction at Mansfield event
Postmaster General Harry S. New told Mansfield crowds that a division in Republican ranks exists but unity will prevail. He linked the administration's success to hints of an early tax cut if customs receipts stay strong and a treasury surplus forms, while noting Democratic leaders debate the League of Nations as a campaign issue.
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Associated Press
Mansfield
Ohio
Harry S. New
Harding
New
John Sherman
Mr. New
Democratic Party
Justice Clark
Wilson Democracy
League of Nations
Hitchcock
League
William J. Bryan
View Of Man's Leg May Incite Crime Says Censor Body
New York May 10 The appeal division ordered the state motion picture commission to review its order to delete scenes showing a man’s leg in a Pathe Exchange film The commission said exposed legs would tend to incite crime The studio argued there is no difference between male and female leg exposure and appealed the ruling
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Associated Press
New York
New York State
Supreme Court of the Commonwealth
State
Motion Picture Commission
Pathe Exchange, Inc
Movie Corporation
Eli T. Hosmer
People
Red Delegate at Lausanne Shot Down by Assassin
At Lausanne on May 10 M Vorovsky, a Bolshevik delegate from Soviet Russia, was shot dead at the Hotel Cecil. Two Russian lieutenants, Hermann Ahrens and J Didwil kowski, were wounded. The assassin, Maurice Alexander Conrad, a Swiss resident, claimed vengeance for Bolshevik terror as he was seized after the attack.
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RED
Lausanne
Associated Press
M. Vorovsky
Russia
Hermann Ahrens
Berlin
J. Didwilkowski
Vorovsky
Maurice Alexander Conrad
Grizons
Cecil
Ahrens
Conradi
Workers lining up to campaign for new highway
Citizens of Butte push a $35,000 fund to advance the federal paving project on Montana street and Holmes avenue. Committees formed to interview abutting property owners and automobile owners, with drive chiefs and a joint committee coordinating plans. Officials note strong support and readiness to subscribe as funds are gathered. a California proposal was discussed but deemed insufficient without cost details and government guidance.
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Butte
Montana Street
Holmes Avenue
John D. Wilson
S. Slemons
Edward Bolever
Fred
James H. Rowe
Butte Grill
California
Gemmell
Lyrch
Three Are Killed In Wreck Of Auto
In Cincinnati Ohio on May 10 a southbound Baltimore and Ohio passenger train struck an automobile carrying seven from a Hartwell family. Five children survived. the mother and two children died instantly. the father suffered a broken back.
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Associated Press
Cincinnati
Ohio
Hartwell
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Auto Wreck Probed as Blame Hinted on Truck Driver
In Butte a fatal collision on Harrison avenue near the Four Mile house killed Steve des Jardins, 48, and sent eight others, including four children, to hospital with two in critical condition. Coroner John Murphy and sheriff investigators weigh manslaughter charges as witnesses describe the Ford truck as possibly drunk. The driver Ernest Maempe and passenger James Tonkin dispute intoxication but admit drinking prior to the crash. Continued on Page 2.
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Steve Des Jardins
Howard Avenue
Harrison Avenue
Four-Mile
John ©. Murphy
Butte
Matt Teppo
James Tonkin
Ernest Maempe
Des Jardins
Maempe
Tonkin
Teppo
Murphy
Jack Duggan
Northwestern Student Vanishes After Class Rush
Leighton Mount a Northwestern University student who disappeared after a September 1921 class rush testified via friend Doris Fuchs before the grand jury and discussed his plan to vanish the night of the rush. Authorities later found a skeleton under an Evanston pier, believed to be Mount, and Fuchs now suspects hazing was involved.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Leighton Mount
Northwestern University
Doris Fuchs
Mount
Evanston
Fuchs
Leighton
Court Orders Sale Of Irish Securities In New York
Securities valued at 2,000,000 claimed by the Irish Free State and Wamona de Valera were ordered sold by Supreme Court Judge O Malley. Proceeds to be converted into U S government issues pending ownership decision. The securities are part of 10,000,000 the Irish republic had when the Free State was organized.
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Associated Press
New York
Whipping Boss Bill Passes Legislature
Tallahassee Florida May 10 The lower house approved a bill already passed by the senate to try Walter Higginbotham, alleged whipping boss, in a district of the state other than Tabert's county. Debate included a denunciation by Rep B C Smith of the investigating committee.
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Associated Press
Tallahassee
Fla
Senate
Walter Higginbotham
Martin Tabert
Higginbotham
B. C. Smith
Tabert
Putnam Lumber Company
Farley named new shipping board chairman at White House
Edward P. Farley of Chicago, former vice president of the Emergency Fleet Corporation, will succeed Albert D. Lasker as chairman of the Shipping Board on June 12. Farley, born in Madison, Wisconsin, and educated at the University of Wisconsin, has led the Lincoln Mills Paper Company and previously headed liquidation for the Emergency Fleet Corporation.
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Emergency Fleet Corporation
Albert D. Lasker
Associated Press
Washington
Edward P. Farley
Chicago
Shipping Board
White House
Lasker
Farley
Fr. Farley
Madison
Wis
University of Wisconsin
Edward P. Farley Company
Lincoln Mills Paper Company
New York Italians Escape Blackhand Threats
Salvatore Varotta and his wife with four children were hidden by detectives in New York after killers from the Blackhand swore to kill them. A policeman had guarded the family for two years, and Johnny Varotta, scarred from burns, had reconstructive facial treatment funded by wealthy women to avoid recognition.
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Associated Press
New York
Salvatore Varotta
Blackhand
Varottas
Johnny Varotta
Fire at Hughes McKie well claims many lives
Coriscana Texas May 10 Fire at the Hughes McKie well rages with 15 000 barrels of oil and 3 000 000 cubic feet of gas feeding flames. Six bodies lie in the fire cone and officials fear the toll will reach 18 as witnesses report missing and perished onlookers.
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Associated Press
Corsicana
Texas
Dewitt Watkins
Jim Ball
American will negotiate for train captives
Personal confidant of military leaders volunteers to visit lair of Suchow brigands at Paotuku to negotiate the fate of captives.
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Paotuku
Youth Leads Desperadoes Peking Bandit Negotiations
Roy Anderson, a seasoned American adviser to Chinese military leaders, plans to visit Paotuku near Linching to negotiate freedom for Shanghai to Peking express captives held by Sun Wu Sun Yie Yao. He will bring food for captives as brigands face scarcities while factions fight for control of ransom operations.
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Associated Press
Peking
Roy Anderson
Paotuku
Anderson
Linching
Yissien
Shantung Province
Sun Wu
Su Yie-Yao
Ministry of Communications
Fire at Vernon plants kills worker and causes $150,000 damage
A gasoline explosion at Gorham Engineering in Los Angeles area Vernon started a blaze that killed 22 year old Alfred Parvin and caused about $150,000 in damage. The fire spread to six 50,000 gallon tanks at Pacific American Petroleum, but responders confined it to the tanks and nearby structures.
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Associated Press
Los Angeles
Cal
Gorham Engineering Company
Pacific American Petroleum Company
Alfred Parvin
Gorham
Vernon
Pacific American Company
Gorham Company
Hula dancer testifies to improper advances by cult leader in Shiloh pantry
Levina Johnson Hegner, 20, a House of David dancer from St. Joseph, tells a special grand jury that Benjamin Purnell, 60, leader of the colony, made improper advances last July in Shiloh’s pantry. She fled the colony two weeks ago and is under guard as investigators pursue other members.
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Associated Press
ST. Joseph
Mich
House of David
Benjamin Purnell
Shiloh
Purnell
Levina Johnson Hegner
Sip
the&St. Joseph City Hall
Harry Dingeman
Hegner
Benjamin
Violet Tulek
Parnell
EU Park
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