Sawedoff Shotguns Scatter Rum Carriers
Atlantic City June 16 A volley from coast guards using sawed off shotguns scattered a small fleet of rum smugglers’ power boats. Captain Louis Smith said none were hit and the flotilla did not return fire. Lightning revealed the boats as they fled Absecon inlet and a pursuit followed before they escaped.
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Atlantic City
United States Coast Guards
Louis Smith
Coast Guards
Absecon Inlet
Youthful Bandits Rob The Diamond Broker In LA
Two youthful unmasked bandits robbed Max Light, a diamond broker, on the ninth floor of a downtown Los Angeles office building. Ernest Allen was with Light when the attack began. one bandit struck Light with a revolver butt, sending him unconscious. Initial value reported at fifty thousand dollars, later reduced to about thirty thousand.
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Los Angeles
Max Light
Light
Ernest Allen
Blind Youth Given Highest Of Honors
Herbert Geisler an 18 year old blind student at John Marshall high school in Chicago will graduate next Thursday with top honors. He posted a 97 percent average over four years, the highest for any graduate at the school, earning the World Memorial Scholarship of 2000 at the University of Chicago. He credited his sister Carol, 24, who acts as his eyes at night.
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Chicago
Herber Geisler
John Marshall High School
University of Chicago
Carol
Herbert
Poor Farmers Rally Over Grafters In Idaho Charge
C P Cosgriff of Twin Falls told Yellowstone Trail manager in Butte that a Roberts Idaho farmer charged his party $30 for a bed for three after extorting $50 for pulling their car from a mud hole. He said the costs were inflated beyond prior times and mocked the price as gouging.
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Roberts
Idaho
C. P. Cosgriff
Twin Falls
Joseph Drestal
Butte
Cosgriff
Pittsburg Oil Tanks Fire Traps Firemen in Flames
In Pittsburg Atlantic Refining yards a collapsing tank and several explosions trapped firemen amid a sea of burning oil. No firefighters are missing and over twenty were injured and taken to hospitals from burns and shock. The blaze prompted a city wide general alarm. lightning started the prior night’s fire.
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Pittsburg
Atlantic
Second Big Purse Is Handed To Champion
In Great Falls on June 16 the Jack Dempsey Tom Gibbons heavyweight title purse was boosted by a $100,000 draft paid to Jack Kearns, securing the July Fourth Shelby fight. Shelby Mayor Jim Johnson and Great Falls businessmen raised the funds, with Dan Tracey as executive head and Fred Searls as assistant treasurer enforcing tight control of the arrangement.
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Great Falls
Jack Dempsey
Tom Gibbons
Jack Kearns
Dempsey
Shelby
Kearns
George H. Stanton
Stanton Trust & Savings Bank
Tom O'Rourke
Polo Grounds Athletic Club
New York
Tex Rickard
Jim Johnson
Johnson
American Legion Committee
Stanton
Dan Tracey
Fred R. Searls
Great Falls National Bank
Johnson and
Loy J. Molumby
Tracey
Harding Trip Highlights Yellowstone Yosemite Tours
President Harding and party planned to visit Yellowstone June 30 and Yosemite on the return from Alaska, viewing Old Faithful and Giant geyser. They will stay at Mammoth Hot Springs and Old Faithful Inn, with lunches near Grand Canyon of Yellowstone and Glacier Point, and a Yosemite stay at El Portal July 29 before Glacier Point.
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Washington
Yellowstone Park
Yosemite Valley
Harding
Alaska
Yellowstone
Yosemite
Yellowstone National Park
Roosevelt
Arthur
Gardiner
Mammoth Hot Springs
Old Faithful Inn
Geyser Basin
Park Rangers
Old Faithful
West Thumb
Lake Yellowstone
Grand Canyon
Yosemite National Park
California
el Portal
Glacier Point
Rangers
National Park Service of the Interior Department
Prohibition Raid Ends in Death in San Francisco
Federal agents serving warrants on a Mission district butcher shop were led next door by a smell of liquor to Ramona Artuffo home where a struggle ended with her husband Ramona Artuffo fatally shot. Agent Thomas Warren and Earl Miller were wounded and later released as acting in self defense. Police and prohibition officials found a large still and cared for Artuffo’s children Ramona and Nino as the couple who live nomadic lives across Montana are described in a separate note.
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San Francisco
Prohibition Enforcement
Mission District
Ramona Artuffo
Artuffo
Thomas A. Warren
Warren
Earl H. Miller
Miller
Samuel F. Rutter
California
Memories Of Early Days Are In Butte
Bill Bennett and Eloise Bennett roam Montana for the U S Bureau of Biological Survey hunting predatory animals like wolves coyotes and bobcats. The couple camps at Pauley Williams ranch near Deer Lodge on a cooperative predatory animal eradication campaign with government funding splitting salaries with local stockmen.
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Butte
Bill Bennett
Eloise Bennett
Montana
United States Bureau of Biological Survey
Bill
Billy
Pauley & Williams
Deer Lodge
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Sawedoff
Patterson Undertaking Co
Big Timber
Mont
J. A. Lowry & CO
Grand Hotel
Motor Inn
Seiberling
National Board of Fire Underwriters
Montan
Uncle Sam
Ramona
Nino
Bennetts
Bennett
West Gallatin
Montana State College
Seiberling Cords
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