Arbuckle Blackmail Plot Denial Hits Grand Jury
Alfred Semnacher, witness for the prosecution in Fatty Arbuckle’s murder case, denies conspiring to extort money. District Attorney Brady recalls Dominguez and Brennan to testify as grand jury sessions end without action. Semnacher threatens defamation suit while Arbuckle defense asserts blackmail motives influenced his arrest.
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San Francisco
Alfred Semnacher
Scoe
Fatty) Arbuckle
Virginia Rappe
Frank Dominguez
Arbucke
Matthew Brady
Semnacher
Los Angeles
Dominguez
Roscoe C
Rank Dominguez
Matthew A. Brady
Brady
Chas. H., Brennan
Milton Mahon
Bambina Delmont
Arbuckle
Miss Rappe
Cye
Lazarus
Chicago bootleg arrest probe halts further raids
Federal authorities questioned about a score of officers and citizens as six arrests were made. U S district attorney Clyne said no more arrests until a solid case is proven. Officers face charges of confiscating whiskey and extortion linked to liquor deals.
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Chicago
Charles Fitmorris
Charles F. Clyne
United States
Clyne
Fitzmorris
Friendships Renewed On Battle Lines At G A R Encampment
Indianapolis hosts the fifty fifth annual Grand Army of the Republic encampment as about 6000 veterans arrive. Governor Warren T. McCray Mayor Charles W Jewett and state officials welcome the guests at the state house while delegates from 44 departments register.
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Indianapolis
Grand Army of the Republic
State House
Warren T. McCray
Charles W. Jewett
Grand Army
Conference on Unemployment Organized by President
President Harding calls national conference to craft an employment program not draining the treasury. Hoover chairs with ten committees to study unemployment data, emergency measures, and restoration of commerce, aiming to place work for all as the economy recovers.
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Washington
Harding
United States
Hoover
National Treasury
Harry S. Robinson
Los Angeles
Julius Barnes
Duluth
S. M. Lindsay
New York
Mr.Robinson
W. H. Stackhouse
Springfield
Ohio
Day of carnival for robbers in New York
In New York a dramatic bank and rail cash heist ended with three men attacking a Grand Central cashier and attempting to seize thousands of dollars. A pistol duel ensued as bystanders witnessed bullets scattering through the corridor while a suspect was captured. The loot was not taken.
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New York
Grand Central Station
New York, New Haven and Hartford
Rail unions expect strike after wage cut vote
Chicago September 26 Leaders of the Big Four Brotherhoods and rail unions say ballots show strong support for a general strike rather than accept wage reductions. Trainmen vote and pending railway labor board actions may shape the outcome as craft unions already approved walkouts.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Big Four Brotherhoods
The
Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen
James Murdock
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Order of Railway Conductors
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and
Fouginemen
Switchmen’s Union of North America
United States Railroad Labor Board
W. G. Lee
Page Wight
Tax Revision Bill Read In Senate
The tax revision bill was read in the senate today but formal consideration was deferred until tomorrow. Action may depend on the Democratic caucus stance toward peace treaties with Germany Austria and Hungary and whether treaties are ratified quickly.
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Washington
Senate
Germany
Austria
Hungary
Penroge
Finance Committee
Job-for-jobless fight reaches White House
Urbain Ledoux pressed President Harding in Washington to reveal war profiteers wealth and urged a public appeal or a fifty percent tax of profits to fund relief for the unemployed. Harding reportedly doubted legal authority to disclose figures and said a public appeal would require dire necessity.
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Urbain Ledoux
Harding
Washington
White House
Ledoux
Income Tax Division
The
Treasury
Protests Innocence As McCoy Given Life Sentence
Williamson West Virginia September 26 J C McCoy protested his innocence to the end in the murder case of Harry C Staton at Sprigg on May 12 He was sentenced by Judge Dey to life imprisonment at Moundsville after being found guilty in circuit court last week.
Wilson keeps eight hour day amid illness anniversary
Washington observes the second anniversary of Woodrow Wilson's illness as he maintains an eight hour routine for sleep work and recreation. He rises around seven, handles mails with Mrs. Wilson, oversees personal work in the library, and stays active with calisthenics and occasional drives. He receives guests at dinner and ends evenings in family activity, reading or writing.
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Associated Press
Washington
Woodrow Wilson
White House
Wilson
Congress
Mr. Wilson
Grace
Potomac River
Debate in United Mine Workers over Kansas strike cases
In Indianapolis on September 26 the United Mine Workers convened with demands for a vote on two Kansas strike cases ignored by Vice President Philip Murray. Disorder flared as Howat supporters pressed for a final decision, while Mother Jones urged continued action and Congress to act against private armies.
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Mother Jones
United Mine Workers
Kansas
Indianapolis
United Mine Workers of America
Philip Murray
Alexander Howat
Union
William Green
International
Frank Farrington
Illinois
Gomer Davis
Coulterville
Howat
West Virginia
Congress
Senate Resumes Treaty Warfare Over German Peace
The Senate reopened warfare over the German peace treaty with about a dozen senators in opposition. Senator Williams of Mississippi joined the anti side, citing Allied desertion. Democratic leaders planned a meeting. Republicans split, with Lodge urging ratification and Borah opposing.
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Washington
Senate
Williams
Mississippi
Foreign Relations Committee
Underwood
Alabama
Hitchcock
Nebraska
Lodge
Massassachusetts
Borah
Idaho
Brandagee
Connecticut
Lenroot
Wisconsin
St Albans Unit Approved for Federal Service
Charleston Sept. 26. St Albans Kanawha county another unit in the re organization of the West Virginia national guard when its company was approved and accepted for federal service at an inspection Sunday afternoon by Colonel Fr S Shaw of the regular army.
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Charleston
W. Va
St. Albans
Kanawha County
West Virginia National Guard
Fr. S. Shaw
Regular Army
Roosevelt Ends Push for New Executive Mansion
A typewritten manuscript shown to the Roosevelt Memorial Association reveals Theodore Roosevelt halted agitation for a new White House near the Soldiers’ Home site in Washington. The note, penned for the president and Mrs. Roosevelt at Oyster Bay, includes his line that the president should reside in the historic White House under all circumstances.
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New York
Theodore Roosevelt
Washington
Roosevelt Memorial Association
Association
Charles Moore
National Commission of Fine Arts
Division of Manuscripts
Congressional Library of Washington
Four Kingston Children Die in Trolley Electrocution
Four Kingston schoolchildren were killed when a Plymouth and Boston Street Railway trolley pole came off a car, broke the feed wire, and electrocuted them as they leaped from the moving vehicle. Nine others were sheltered by the motorman, who restrained the group until the current was cut, while a fire burned on the car. Names of the deceased include Natalie Robins, Richard Sloan, Ruth Mills, and Jennie Boresch.
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Kingston
Mass
Plymouth and Boston Street Railway Company
Natalie Robins
Alton A. Robbins
Richard Sloan
Kine
Louis Sloan
Ruth Mills
Arthur BE. Wallace
Jennie Boresch
Frank Boresch
Conspiracy to Furnish Arms to Ireland Charged
George Gordon Rooke a Georgetown graduate and arms dealer was arrested in New York on a charge of participating in a conspiracy to furnish subjects of the British empire in Ireland with arms and ammunition. The case links him to 495 automatic machine guns seized aboard the Steamship East Side at Hoboken last June and to a conspiracy dating from November 19, 1920.
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New York
Ireland
George Gordon Rooke
Georgetown University
Federal District Court
Rooke
Sixteenth Street
Washington, D. C
East Side
Hoboken
N. J
COGAL HEAD WATER WORKS SUGGESTS NG PLAN FOR RELIEF
Bluefield Water Works chief William McCarthy tells the city board the public service commission order is impracticable and the company cannot fund required improvements or accept a 16 percent rate hike. He hints city purchase of the plant at 500000 may be the only path, with an engineer drafting a new permanent plan.
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City of
Bluefield
William McCarthy
Bluefield Water Works and Improvement Company
West Virginia Public Service Commission
McCarthy
Thaa
Public Service Commission
Val
Abolition Check Off System Asked In Federal Suit
Huntington West Virginia September 26 A federal court injunction is sought to stop United Mine Workers interference in Williamson and Thacker fields and to abolish the check-off system. The Borderland Coal Corporation files the petition on behalf of 63 operators and companies. identical action had been filed in Indianapolis last Friday.
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Huntington
W. Va
United Mine Workers
Williamson and Thacker Fields
Borderland Coal Corporation
Indianapolis
Free Speech Emphasized in Chicago Tribune Libel Fight
Chicago judge weighs whether the city can pursue a 10 million libel suit against the Tribune. Closing pleas argued dual municipal capacity and private liability, while defense warned against stripping the city of governance. Both sides stressed free speech rights.
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Chicago
Marty M. Fisher
Chicago Tribune
Chester E. Cleveland
Weymouth Kirkland
Tribune
Illinois
Kirkland
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Fatty Arbuckle
Arthur Beardslee
Revel
Democratic Caucus
St. Albans Company
Teddy
Aghadl
Plymouth and
Boston Street Railway Company
Cogal Head
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