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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1920
Page
2
Joseph, a youth from Missouri, is held on a $5,000 bond after a train robbery involving the Sian bandits. The arrest follows the incident, with authorities outlining charges and potential penalties.
A 19 year old, Dick Smythe of St Joseph Missouri, was arrested by federal officers on charges of being an accessory after the fact in a train robbery near Chicago by Horace Walton. Smythe allegedly visited Walton in Chicago, took money, fled through an alley, and traveled to Kansas City before reaching St Joseph where he was arraigned and sent to jail on $5,000 bond. He denied knowledge of Walton’s crimes.
Extensive dispatches summarize postwar shifts and crises including Italy's cabinet turmoil after Nitti, League of Nations activity in Rome, Polish fronts near Kiev, Trotsky's call against Poland, French troop withdrawals from Frankfort, and Swiss approval of league membership. Reports note Wilson's interior secretary Payne, coal car shortages, labor finance debates, and rising fuel concerns amid global tensions.
Twelve men died and three wounded in Matewan as police and miners clash with Baldwin Felts detectives sent to evict workers. Mayor Tes terman reportedly shot by Albert Felts, Felts killed by Sid Hadfield, sparking a wider gunfight. State troopers ordered to restore order as bodies and wounded are moved to Williamson and Welch.
Paris aviators and aeronauts plan a around the world air derby within latitude bounds from the fifteenth to sixtieth parallels. The winner is the flyer with the longest distance, start point optional, one year to finish, and aircraft including airplanes dirigibles and balloons are eligible. Louis D Beaumont leads the coordinating commission with the Aero Club of America and talks with the International Aeronautic Federation as the event mobilizes.
In 1919 strikes caused large wage losses, cited by Francis H. Sisson of Guaranty Trust Co at a National Association of Manufacturers convention. He warned low price ideology could worsen credit control effects and urged resource conservation to safeguard the economy. Also notes an Army Navy pay bill passage and an executive offering two racing schooners Meteor IV and V for sale at 350000 and 200000 respectively.
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