Beach to face three witnesses in slaying case
Willis Beach, a Vineland poultry raiser, will be brought to state police barracks to face three witnesses who saw a blue sedan near the scene of Dr. William Lillienda lls death. Mrs. Lilliendahl, widow of the physician, describes Beach as a family friend and offers a new theory that drug addicts treated by the doctor might be responsible.
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Hammonton
N. J
Atlantic County
Willis Beach
Vineland Poulty
State Slice
William Lilliendal
Beach
Margaret Lilliendah
Lilliendahls
Navy Reorganization Plan Prompted Magruder Action
Secretary Wilbur ordered Rear Admiral Magruder to submit any navy reorganization plan he may have to Washington after two articles published without prior review. Magruder denied having such a plan and said it would need many officers and long clerical work to prepare. The two articles published did not outline a reform proposal.
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Washington
Wilbur
Magruder
Navy
Department
Philadelphia
Philadelphia Navy Yard
Navy Department
Reward Offered for Bomb Maker in Monongah Mine Attack
Fairmont West Virginia September 26 a five thousand dollar reward was offered by the Consolidation Coal company for information leading to arrest and conviction of the persons who attempted to destroy Monongah mine number 62 by high explosive on September 16. The state of West Virginia will pay 1060 dollars per a circular signed by Major R KE O Connor. Sheriff John C Rigins said he arranged a conference with Prosecuting Attorney M W Ogden to seek a Marion county reward from the county.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fairmont
W. Va
Consolidation Coal Company
Monongah
Thomas G. Fear
West Virginia
R. KE. O'Connor
Department of Public Safety
John C. Rigeins
Marion County
M. W. Ogden
Attempted Escape During Bank Robbery Case in Blountsville
Blountsville Tennessee September 26 a youth arrested at Singeport June Tuesday on a charge of obtaining 1500 dollars from a bank. While his attorney read a motion to quash the indictment the youth made an unsuccessful attempt to escape from the courtroom. a deputy sheriff seized him at the door. The quash motion was overruled and jury selection began.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blountsville
Tenn
Jones
Singeport
Armed Men Seize City Payroll in Los Angeles Heist
Two armed men wearing eyeshades seized the Los Angeles water bureau payroll of 85000 dollars and kidnapped guard Fred Kimple. They bound three employees with rubber balls and straps, then escaped after the payroll release. The guard was dumped ten miles east of the city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
City Water Bureau
Bureau
Fred Kimple
Mayor Names Wife City Comptroller in Family Move
Indianapolis Sept 26 Mayor John T Duvall appointed his wife as city comptroller in a move to keep the mayoralty in the family if he resigns or is removed after a corruption conviction He is not resigning but the appointment makes his wife the first woman to hold the post She will donate her $4000 salary to charity The comptroller vacancy followed Claude F Johnsons request to return to the police force Detected changes included Jerry Kinney being replaced as chief of detectives with Johnson reassigned to that post
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Indianapolis
John T. Duvall
Duvall
Claude F. Johnson
Johnson
Board of Safety
Jerry Kinney
State Kiwanians Hold Convention
Martinsburg W Va Sept 26 Five hundred Kiwanians from 35 of 36 clubs gathered for the eighth annual two day convention. Roe Fulkerson editor Kiwanis Magazine likened Kiwanis to the Associated Press promoting unity and constructive community service. Delegates toured Harper's Ferry and Civil War battlefields before resuming business with officers elected and the 192% convention site chosen. Governor Gore urged a permanent road program with 35 million bonds expected next year to link broken stretches and speed travel reducing gasoline and auto taxes in the future.
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Martinsburg
W. Va
Roe Fulkerson
Washington
Kiwanis Magazine
Harper's Ferry
Charles Town
Shepardstown
Shepparde College
Antietam
Sharpsburg
Maryland
Howard M. Gore
Lichtenstein Devastated as Rhine Flood Drowns Towns
Lichtenstein, the world’s smallest nation, nearly obliterated by historic flood. Rhine overflow bursts a 5,000 foot dam, submerging Schaan and Gamprin, drowning firefighters, halting rail and telegraph, Lake Constance up fifteen feet threatening Vorarlberg. Innsbruck cut off as bridges fail and boulders block roads.
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Innebruck
Austria
Lichtenstein
Rhine
Switzerland
Schaan
Lake Constance
Innnebruck
Innsbruck
Steinach
Gechnitzs
Rameberg
Bregenz
Chasseur
Gamprin
Lichtenstein Fire Brigade
Vorarlberg
Bangs
Feldrich
Carinthia
Arsa
Should Lillian Gish Talk Court Decides
Los Angeles September 26 The superior court took under advisement whether Lillian Gish must answer a show cause order in the 5 million suit by Charles H Duell. Duell claims breach of contract and desertion for joining a rival company. Gish argues constitutional rights and cites New York disposition of the case.
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Los Angeles
Lillian Gish
Charles H. Duell
Duell
Miss Gish
California
New York
Anxiety over Koennecke fate after long flight
London reports no news from Angora to Basra about German flier Lieut Otto Koennecke or his plane Germagia. Fear grows that another air tragedy may have occurred while over a largely desert and thinly populated route with limited communication. A wireless on board offered hope, but inquiries in Constantinople Basra and Baghdad reveal no word.
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London
Berlin
Otto Koennecke
Angora
Turkey
Basra
Iraq
Constantinople
Bagdad
Cold Wave Brings Snow as It Moves Eastward Across Plains
A fast moving cold wave from the Rocky Mountain region brings snow flurries to Colorado Wyoming and western Kansas with rain frost forecast across Wisconsin Minnesota South Dakota and Iowa. Temperatures near freezing expected in Nebraska and Kansas while Denver reports thawing after an early season snowstorm.
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Kansas City
Rocky Mountain
Colorado
Wyoming
Kanées
South Dakota
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Iowa
Nebraska
Kansas
Denver
Weather Bureau
Preachers Named Heir to Fortune for Beckley Area Disappeared
In Huntington WV, ministers shuffle for next year’s Methodist Episcopal conference in Charleston. The Beckley district sees multiple assignments, while New York reports Reynolds Airways heir Richard J. Reynolds, 21, disappeared after leaving a nightclub with a woman, a yellow Rolls Royce found wrecked near Chicken Point, Nassau County police alerted to a possible murder.
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Beckley
The
Methodist Episcopal Church
Charleston
Decision
New York
New York Times
Richard J. Reynolds
Reynolds Airwavs, Inc
Winston-Salem
N. C
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
Grand Central Station
St. Louis
Reynolds
Chicken Point
L. L. Boone
Nassau County
New York Tonight
Damage claims filed over submarine 8 51 sinking deaths
Widows and dependents of 28 officers and crew members seek 1 777 000 in damages from the government in Brooklyn federal court, alleging the submarine 8 51 was unseaworthy when it sailed and 33 lives were lost after the City of Rome rammed it off Block Bland on September 25, 1925. Captain John H. Diehl of the City of Rome was indicted by a federal grand jury. Similar suits were brought in Manhattan against Ocean Steamship Company, owners of the City of Rome, for negligence.
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New York
United States District Court
Broosly
City of Rome
Block Bland
Suba
John H. Diehl
United States
Manhattan
Ocean Steamship Company
Ciy of
Rome
Ashes of Moscow AP correspondent scattered over city
Walter C. Whiffen, longtime Moscow correspondent for the Associated Press, is remembered as his ashes are scattered over the city in a flower covered urn. A Russian colleague, N. Kotoff, released the ashes from an airplane at about 500 feet over Moscow.
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Mosco
Walter C. Whiffen
Moscow
Associated Press
N. Kotoff
Income tax receipts forecast for September fall short
Treasury predicts September income tax payments will total about 445 million dollars, lifting quarterly receipts to roughly 517.4 million. This marks a 15 million dollar drop from the same three months last fiscal year, with Mellon attributing most of the decline to reduced back-tax collections after a peak in July and August of last year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Treasury
Mellon
National Day Law Section Held Invalid
Federal Judge J. W. Woodrough ruled part of national prohibition law unconstitutional in Omaha Nebraska. The ruling stops a court from fining or jailing without jury trial if an injunction is violated in the Cunningham case where a request was made to restrain boycott or illicit activity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Omaha
Nebr
J. W. Woodrough
Fred Cunningham
Cunningham
Strike Declared Over Negro Enrollment at Emerson High
Gary Indiana September 26 Emerson high school football squad and 600 students walked out to protest 24 negro students enrolling in classes. Officials failed to bar enrollment and police stood by to avert clashes among students and guardians.
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Gary
Ind
Emerson High School
Wages Special Day Law Taxes Debate on Enforcement
Washington reports Senator Edge of New Jersey, a Republican, discusses funding a real enforcement program for the Volstead Act via a universal grocery tax. He says enforcement would cost about a billion dollars and face deadly challenges, urging action only if the public back home demands it.
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Edge
Washington
Renator Edge
New Jersey
Congress
Three Arrested in Raleigh County Fatal Shooting
Raleigh county officers arrested Dail Atkine Aubrey Jones and Bud Atkins for the murder of Ernest Bragg 22 and the felonious shooting of Charles Bragg 4. Charles is hospitalized in critical condition after being wounded at the Bragg school house amid reportedly drunken brawl.
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Raleigh County
Dail Atkine
Aubrey Jones
Bud Atkins
Ernest Bragg
Charles Bragg
Bragg School House
Mercer and
Summere County
Hinton Hospital
Isaiah Kidd
Bragg
Bragg Brothers
Mazard Bragg
Abraham
Richmond
Beckley
Hinton
Day Offcier Resigns After Threats In West Virginia
W A West chief deputy prohibition agent in Charleston resigns after charges of drunkenness and conduct unbecoming an officer. Commissioner Rosa Wells accepted the resignation and will decide who leads state enforcement in Kanawha and surrounding counties. West had threatened counter charges and claimed innocence.
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Charleston
W. Va
W. A West
Rosa Wells
Wells
Kanawha
Roane
Jackson
Sloe
Agen
Negro to face slaying charge in Gallipolis
Jatkaon Ohio Sept 26 Ead De Peppers a Negro will be moved from Jackson county jail to Gallipolis Thursday to stand trial for the murder of Mrs Florence Buck Juck a 37 year old postmistress at Grimm s Landing West Virginia Investigations say Peppers a 21 year old porter at the Mark Central hotel attacked and killed her while she was a hotel guest.
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Jatkaon
Ohio
Eadde Peppers
Jackson County
Gallipolie
Florence Juck
Grimm's Landing
W Va
Chillicothe
Prion
Peppera
Buck
Mark Central
Galliopolis
Peppers
Trial of Booze Agent for Piracy Postponed
Miami r S ept 26 A postponed hearing on piracy charges against Charles H Neele former prohibition agent alleged by the Bahamian government to have assisted in the capture of a rum runner in British waters as an unauthorized coast guard crew member Ensign Hi Wahs Fort Lauderdale coast guard base commander testified Neele was aboard as pilot Hahn denied Neele took any liquor and said confiscated cargo records show all cargo was brought to port
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Miami
Fla
Charles H. Neele
Coast Guard
Hi. Uwahs
Fort Lauderdale Coset
Hahn
Neale
Earthquake Estimated Damage in Creemia Reaches 23 Million Rubles
A preliminary loss estimate from the Creemia quake puts property damage at 23,000,000 rubles about 16,000,000 dollars. Initial figures indicate extensive destruction across the region with significant rebuilding needs ahead.
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Moscow
Cremea
Four Die In Weekend Auto Wreck Toll
The report notes four dead from a weekend traffic crash and details a parole petition filed by Russell Dunn of Somerset County. Dunn, already sentenced to six months in state prison for attempting to sell a pint of whiskey at a county picnic, argues the sentence is harsh given his slender profits.
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Baltimore
Russell Dunn
Somerset County
Commissioner Parish
Dunn
Bluefield Church Seeks Host for Holston Conference
Trinity Methodist church in Bluefield plans to bid for the 1925 Holston conference with Knoxville’s Magnolia Avenue church also likely to bid. The 1927 annual meeting will open at 9 am in Knoxville with Bishop Horace N. DuBose presiding.
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Trinity Methodist Church
Holston
D. Lane
Bluefield
Central Methodist Church
Knoxville
Magnolia Avenue Methodist Church
Horace N. DuBose
Nashville
Tennessee
Jackson
Long
Welch Man To Preach At Holston Conference Opener
Knoxville prepares for the 104th Holston annual conference of the Southern Methodists with over 500 delegates expected. Opening Wednesday features a pre conference sermon by Rev G Moreland of La Follette and an address by Rev Dr T D Ellie of Louisville. Bishop H M Dubose of Nashville will preside as the event runs to October 3 with a larger lay delegation than before.
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Holston
Protests Call Propaganda Over Dempsey Tunney Outcome
Chicago reports protest by Illinois State Athletic Commission chairman John Riselmer against Leon Flynn manager of Jack Dempsey. He says protests aim to keep a Dempsey Tunney rematch alive and that Dempsey’s protest about the knockout decision is unfounded.
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Chicago
John Riselmer
Illinois State Athletic Commission
Leon Flynn
Jack Dempsey
Gene Tunney
Dempsey
Harry
Tansey
Kilheimer
Lemypsry
Righeimer
Flynn
Dempvy
Tempsey
Plyua
Infants Die in West Virginia Auto Crashes
A series of weekend crashes in Mercer McDowell and Raleigh counties killed four people and injured more than a dozen. Ethel Cole 23 of Raleigh county Marjorie Harris 12 of Raleigh county Virgie Adams 2 and Myrtle Adams 1 month of Cherokee McDowell county died when a Beech Run road wreck overturned. Maymie Adams and Weedeline Harris were among the injured.
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Mercer
McDowell
Raleigh
Ethel Cole
Jumping
Branch
Raleegh County
Marjorie Harris
Coal Ridge
Virgie Adams
Myrtle Adams
Cherokee
McDowell County
Maymie Adams
W. Va
Weedeline Harris
Ken
Mies Cole
Beech Run
Hinton
Beckley
Meadows
Cooper Hospital
Beckley-Princeton
Marjorie Harrie
Wadeline Harris
Memorial Hospital
Princeton
Klan seeks injunction against governor and attorney general
Toveka Kansas September 26 The Ku Klux Klan filed in federal court today for an injunction restraining Governor Paul and Attorney General William A Smith from enforcing an old state order. The action challenges a ban long upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court and seeks to prevent its enforcement.
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Toveka
Kan
Ku Klux Klan
Paule
William A. Smith
United States
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