Neck-and-Neck Presidential Preference Races Reported
Reports from Ohio New Jersey and Massachusetts detail clos e races for Harding Wood and Johnson with varying delegate allocations. Ohio shows Harding narrowly ahead as returns come in while New Jersey trends toward Wood and Johnson. Massachusetts delegates remain unpledged with McCall showing in Revere.
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Wood
Johnson
New Jersey
Harding
Ohio
New York
Senator Johnson
Lodge
Bhe
O'Connell
General Wood
McCall
Hoover
Revere
Girl Choked to Death at Own Bidding Noted in Confession
Vera Schneider a 19 year old telephone operator was found dead on a porch in Pontiac Michigan. Allen Best 24 alleged confessed to Prosecutor Gillespie that she asked him to kill her saying she was tired of life. He claimed he used knotted handkerchiefs as a noose and left.
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Pontiac
Mich
Vera Schneider
Allen Best
Gillespie
Moore Pickford summons issued in Nevada divorce case
In Minden Nevada Judge Langan ordered service by publication for six weeks in a Gardnerville paper since Mary Pickford and Owen Moore are not in the state to be served in the suit to set aside the divorce decree. The Hollywood based parties will challenge publication service as insufficient.
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Minden
Mary Pickford
Owen Moore
Nevada
Miss Pickford
Langan
Gardnerville
Hollywood
California
Gladys M. Moore
Gladys M. Fairbanks
U S Chamber to Probe Russian Trade Question
Atlantic City April 28 The board of directors of the United States Chamber of Commerce authorized a commission to travel to Europe to study the chance of resuming trade relations between the United States and Russia.
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U.S
Associated Press
Atlantic City
United States
Comrce
Europe
Casper Chamber of Commerce Names New Secretary
Charles B. Stafford, newly chosen permanent secretary of the Casper Chamber of Commerce, will arrive in Casper tomorrow from St. Cloud Minnesota. He comes highly recommended as an expert in chamber work and will spend the week becoming acquainted with the office and meeting John R. Kneebone of the American City Bureau who has led since March. Kneebone and his wife depart Saturday.
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Charles B. Stafford
Casper Chamber of Commerce
Casper
St. Cloud
Minn
Stafford
Chamber of Commerce
John R. Kneebone
American City Bureau
Former Casper Man Given Two Wives by Divorce Annulment
Denver report details J G Nicholas, former Casper hotel manager, who obtained a divorce from Emma Bennett Nicholas in 1917 and an annulment in 1918. He then married Minnie Mefford in 1918 while living in Casper, leading to two wives in Denver society.
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Casper
Denver
Colo
J. G. Nicholas
Savoy
Midwest
Nevada
Thiglé
Nicholas
Nicholas No. 1
Miss Mefford
Denmark Hotel
Seventeenth and
Welton Streets
Seventeenth
Broadway
Mary Pickford
Giant steel merger eyed with $200 million capital
United Press reports a proposed steel merger among Bethlehem, Midvale, Lackawanna and several independents. The deal envisions a total capital of about $200 million and is under consideration in New York on April 28.
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United Press
New York
Bethlehem
Midvale
Lackawanna
Massacre Report Alleges Japanese in Siberia Annihilated
An official Japanese foreign office statement claims Japanese guards and hundreds of residents including the consul were killed in the Nikolayevsk district of eastern Siberia. The report notes Russia's warships and munitions moved in as relief efforts faced delays. Japanese forces dispatched a relief expedition on April 22 but reported difficulties reaching the district.
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Associated Preas
Washington
Nokolaevsk
Siberia
Japanese Foreign Office
Ete
Ore
Japan
Ware
Flour Prices at Peak Say Big Miller Authorities
Minneapolis reports flour prices have reached their peak according to milling authorities. A relief in truck and car shortages is expected to allow grain dealers to move millions of bushels of wheat stored in elevators. Flour has topped 15.90 dollars per barrel in cars and lots, the highest price this year.
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United Press
Minneapolis
Minn
French Occupation to End After German Withdrawal
Paris April 28 Premier Millerand announced after the San Remo supreme council meeting that Frankfort and Dornstadt territories would be evacuated by the French as soon as the allied covenants have established that German armed forces over the 1919 August convention limits had been withdrawn.
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Sult
Supreme Council
San Remo
Frankfort
Dornestadt
Rebels Claim Chihuahua City Seized as Mexican Revolt Spreads
Reports from El Paso and border towns say Chihuahua City fell to Obregonist forces with fighting limited. Carranza loyalists report mutiny and defections across northwest Mexico while rebels seize Cuautla and push in Morelos.
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United Press
EL Paso
Altho
Carranza
Chihuahua City
Juarez
Rebels Capture Alvarado Town On Gulf Coast
Mexican rebels seized the town of Alvarado on the Gulf coast south of Vera Cruz, according to an official report. Fighting also raged between Carrangistas and rebela in Tampico as Vera Cruz federal troops were rushed by boat to aid General Murguia who is pressed by Gomez and Pelaez forces.
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United Press
San Antonio
Carrangistas
Rebela
Tampico
Vera Crus Federals
Murgula
Murguia
Gomez
Pelaez
Gulf Coast
Washington
Mondey Cap
Alvarado
Vera Crus
Mazatlan Faces Revolutionary Attack Report Unconfirmed
Unconfirmed report from Agua Prieta says Mazatlan in Sinaloa is under attack by revolutionary forces led by Gen. Flores, with details not yet verified by military headquarters.
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Agua Prieta
Mazatlan
Sinaloa
Pacific
Mexico
Flores
Juarez Business Leaders Move Funds to El Paso
Leading business institutions of Juarez transferred their money to El Paso as a precaution against a potential government change. Mr and Mrs G K Leigh of St Paul Minnesota are visiting with Mrs George Hughes, Leighs sister.
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EL Paso
Juarez
G. K. Leigh
St. Paul, Minn
Vishing
George Hughes
Mra
Leigh
Prosecution Details Jennings Killing in Cordillo Trial
Four witnesses testified at the John Cordillo trial in Cheyenne about the corpse location the car’s position and wounds. Evidence included a blood stained repair bill bank slips and bullet holes in the car suggesting shots from behind Jennings as he sat at the wheel with no tracks seen after the car stopped.
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the Tribune
Cheyenne
Wyo
John Cordillo
E. C. Benson
Frank Delo
Jennings
Benson
Ben Bellamy
Cordillo
Rt. M. Leake
Leake
Patterson
Bellamy
Laula O'Donnell
Exoneration in Fatal East Second Street Accident
George A. Carter Western Union messenger died from head fractures after being struck by a Maxwell car driven by W H O Keefe on East Second Street. Coroner's jury exonerated the driver, finding the youth attempted to cross the street too closely, with funeral plans pending relatives' word.
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George A. Carter
Western Union
William H. O'Keefe
East Second Street
A. H. Carter
Midweat
Perry A. Morris
W. H. O'Keefe
George Carter
Second Street
Beach
W. F. Shaffer
W. D. Rhoades
Ororge Stilphen
Sugar shipments resume as Mexican sugar returns to US
Nogales Arizona April 28 Three hundred carloads of Mexican sugar refined in Sonora will be released for sale in the United States as the return to the United States is now being allowed.
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Associated Press
Nogales
Ariz
Sonora
United States
Rehearing Sought in Steel Trust Case
The federal government asked the Supreme Court to rehear the dissolution suit against United States Steel Corporation. The request was submitted from Washington on April 23 and reported by Associated Press.
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Steel Trust
Associated Preau
Washington
Supreme Court
United States Steel Corporation
Divorce Granted Over Spirit Love Case in Chicago
Chicago April 26. Mrs Lillian P Clayton won a divorce today citing a spirit love cause. She said her husband wrote her love letters to another woman in 1916 and then joined with W Glover’s wife. Glover died recently, and Clayton cited “Death changed my love” as part of the emotional backdrop.
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Chicago
Lillian P. Clayton
Annette
Band
Robert CC
Senate approves amendment to develop naval land reserves
Washington April 2 an amendment to the naval bill drafted to develop naval land reserves chiefly in California was approved by the Senate.
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Ualied Preas
Washington
Ornia
Senate
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