Peak of Crime Wave Marks Possible Postwar Decline
The American Bar Association committee says the worldwide crime wave peaked after the war and may fall now. It urges federal crime statistics, tighter gun controls, quick grand juries, criminal reform, jail reform, a federal crime against revolutionary advocacy, and prison labor pay to keep families from becoming public charges. Hearings in Washington Chicago Joliet New York involved judges, reformers, criminologists, and lawyers.
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Washington
American Bar Association
United States
Itate
San Francisco
War Department
Chicago
Illinois
Illinois State Prison
Joliet
New York City
Ancient Egyptian tombs reveal royal purge boosting stable rule
Excavations at Abydos uncover First Dynasty tombs with 60 70 skeletons and 80 skulls placed with grains of wheat for the dead. Lively evidence suggests courtiers were killed at a king’s death to secure long reigns. Ivory lions copper tools and a hermit’s cave photograph are noted discoveries.
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Petrie
Abydos
Egypt
Deckhand Quits Over Jungle Menagerie On Hansa
Johann Schultz an American citizen of German birth resigns as deckhand on the steamship Hansa arriving at Pier 86. He cites seasick gibbons and valeting elephants among his reasons and notes the cargo includes eight elephants, dangerous snakes and apes, with jungle crates consigned to Louis Ruhe.
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New York
Johann Schultz
Hansa
Pier 86
North River
Burma
Mr. Schultz
Jack Schultz
Louis Ruhe
Ruhe
Louis J. Beck
America
Mr. Beck
Andrew Myers
Mr. Ruhe
Albert Mees
Dress bought in England used as burial shroud in Tennessee
Mrs. Eliza Keast of Macedonia Ta. was buried in a dress she bought 37 years ago in Cromwell England. She had kept the gown since her visit and requested it serve as her burial shroud upon returning home.
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Macedonia
Eliza Keast
England
Cromwell
Sheriff’s Honor System Nets Five Prisoner Escapes
Sheriff Seth Orndorff of El Paso Texas tested an honor system by moving twelve unshackled prisoners from jail to work on a road for four hours with a pledge of pardon if they behaved. Five escaped before noon, prompting an immediate abort of the experiment.
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Seth Orndorff
FE Paso
Tex
Historic cottonwood gallows tree felled in Goshen
The old cottonwood near Goshen in Middletown N Y once used as a gallows for Claudius Smith the bandit and murderer was cut down due to unsafe condition after being protected for years at great village expense.
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Middletown
N. Y
Goshen
Claudius Smith
Railway Unions Issue Ultimatum Against Rail Executives
An ultimatum issued by the railway employees to railroad executives warns that unless wages are kept at current levels and operations restored under prior rules a nationwide walkout will be sanctioned. The message cites a 1,000,000-strong union vote in favor of strike action with effective orders due July 1 and potential labor board changes. Representative Burke introduced a House resolution urging reversal of July 1 railroad wage reductions.
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Chicago
T. Dewitt Cuyler
Association of
Railway Executives
B. M. Jewell
Railway Employees’ Department
American Federation of Labor
Pullman Company
United States Railway Labor Board
Mr. Jewell
Washington
Burke
Pennsylvania
House
Congress
United States Railroad Labor Board
Boost Price of Gas Again in Chicago
Chicago June 29 advances of 1 cent a gallon in refined oil products were announced. Gasoline price at filling stations rises to 25 cents, up 1 cent from the current price and 5 cents from last year. The rise is blamed on higher crude oil costs and the closing of smaller refineries.
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Chicago
Harding Statement on Herrin Disorder Described
Washington, June 20. An administration reply on the Herrin disorders quotes the president: murder is murder wherever committed and there is no extenuation. The message emphasizes firm action against lawlessness and upholds justice in the Herrin affair.
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Washington
Herrin JL
Belfast Deaths and Fires Reported After Fighting
Mrs Isabell Mc Keown died after being wounded in the fighting in Belfast. Several incendiary fires followed with bombs used in the destruction of a pawn shop, signaling continued violence in the city on June 28.
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Belfast
Isabell McKeown
Lumberman Falls to Death in Chicago Hotel Window
Frank G. Owens, thirty six, a wealthy Medford Oregon lumberman, died after falling from a fifth floor window in room 10 at the Congress Hotel. He was rushed to St Luke’s hospital in a taxicab but died en route.
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Chicago
Frank G. Owens
Medford
Ore
Congress Hotel
St. Luke’s Hospital
Capper Proposes New Grain Exchange Regulation Bill
Senator Capper of Kansas introduces a new bill to regulate future grain trading, aligning with the Supreme Court ruling that the current act is partly inoperative. The measure centers on interstate commerce power, creates defined contract markets, and admits farmers' co operatives to exchanges. Violations carry up to $10,000 fine and one year imprisonment.
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Supreme Court
Secretary of Agriculture
Boards of Trade
Capper
Wisconsin seeks Supreme Court action over Lake Michigan water
Wisconsin obtains permission to file an original bill against Illinois and the Chicago sanitary district in a bid to stop the diversion of Lake Michigan water. The state argues the level of the Great Lakes is lowered by the canal and seeks injunctions to limit withdrawals to 4 167 cubic feet per second. The Chicago district disputes the appeal, noting a 1920 injunction limits diversions and directs sewage treatment improvements, including a $7 million Calumet plant. A congressional bill would authorize compensating works on the St. Clair and Niagara rivers to offset the drain.
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Isconsin
Supreme Court
Illinois
Sanitary District of
Chicago
Wisconsin
Landis
United States Court of Appeals
Calumet
Sanitary District
St. Clair
Niagara
Lake Michigan
Chicago Sanitary District
Air policing urged after Lincoln Memorial incident
Secretary Weeks and other officials push for a code of air rules of the road to curb sight seeing over public gatherings. A reserve army officer depicted as the offending Lincoln memorial pilot may lose his commission without court martial as Congress weighs new aviation regulations.
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Lincoln Memorial
Harding
Weeks
War Department
Congress
Army
Navy
Yorktown
Department
Flag from Eiffel Tower shown as symbol of US wartime alliance
President Harding accepted a flag displayed beside France’s tricolor on the Eiffel Tower during America’s entry into World War I. Amb Jussrand of France presented it, honoring the Union of Large French Associations for National Growth. The flag later featured at the Marne victory celebration in Paris and will be kept in the National Museum.
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America
Harding
Jusserand
France
Eiffel Tower
Marne
Trocadero Palace
Paris
National Museum
White House
Secretary of War
General Pershing
Army
Marine Corps
John Paul Jones
Quiberon
M. Jusserand
Ambassador Jusserand
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American Bar Association Committee
Sergt
Rollin B. Collins
Milwaukee
London
Hinders Petrie
University
United States Bureau of Standards
Paul R. Heyl
Lyman J. Briggs
American Philosophical Society
Sheriff's Honor System
Jewell
Rail Labor Board
Herrin
Grain Bill
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