Hoover Will Deliver Address in Columbus
Ohio politics challenge Willis death prompts two weeks of campaign planning across the state. Hoover forces, united as an uninstructed delegation, anticipate a tougher Ohio fight as they back the field over Willis. Governor Donahey favors Locher for Willis seat though others oppose him.
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Columbus
Hoover
Willis
Ohio
Frank B. Willis
Commerce
Ainge
United
Theodore E. Burton
Cleveland
Dayton
Frank O. Lowden
Illinois
Charles Curtis
Kansas
Coolidge
Dawes
Charles Evans Hughes
Cyrus Locher
Donahey
Lochér
Senate
Senator Willis
United States Senate
Locher
Intensify hunt for lost boy in Los Angeles case
Los Angeles April 4. Missing for over three weeks Walter Collins ten year old boy becomes focus of a citywide police search. Investigators doubt fate, lean toward revenge motive from a letter to the mother from husband Walter J Collins a convict in Folsom Prison. A car with a body wrapped in newspapers was reported last Sunday night. witnesses described a swarthy man and a woman inquiring earlier. the mother says no ransom letters have arrived.
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Los Angeles
Walter Collins
Walter J.S. Collins
Folsom
Richard Strothers
Collins Boy
Justine Collins
British suffragist bears child without marriage stance
Sylvia Pankhurst, a militant suffragist, says marriage should not be a legal contract and explains her reasons after the birth of her son Richard Kier Pethick Pankhurst. She notes the child’s father is not English, declines to name him, and argues for changes in laws governing illegitimate offspring and succession.
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Sylvia Pankhurst
Son
London
New York World News Service
Herald
Labor Party
Miss Pankhurst
Richard Keir Pethick Pankhurst
Woodford
Essex
Richard
Kier
Keir Hardie
Pethick
Pethick Lawrence
Five men held in drug linked auto theft ring
Five men suspected of belonging to a gang that stole valuables from unattended cars and sold items for drugs were held by police. A sixth man, not tied to the ring, is held for using a lead pipe on a cane to break car locks. Details show arrests at 711 West Seventh Street and other addresses, with a cache of stolen goods found and further suspects being sought.
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Schwab and
Lutz
Richard Cook
Mills Hotel
West Fifth Street
Cook
West Seventh Street
Wilfort Whitaker
Seventh Street
Rudy Pausch
Harrison Avenue
Oscar Barnes
Carlisle Avenue
Kaiser and Frick
Harry Richards
Vine Street
Ecker
Herbert Dowling
Elm Hotel
Hijack scheme ends in gas oil mix up arrests
Johnson and Addison, two Sterling Hotel residents, try to hijack a car carrying Lyle Buse and Earl Silvermell. The jug turns out to be coal oil or gasoline, causing confusion. Both suspects are arrested after witnesses note the license plate and patrol officers close the case.
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Prohibition
Jess Johnson
Sterling Hotel
Sixth
Mound Streets
Johnson
State Prohibition Department
Tom Addison
Lyle Buse
Mellwood Avenue
Earl Silvermell
Maryland Avenue
Covington
Ohio Valley State Company
Sycamore Street
Addison
Twelfth
Jackson Streets
Moon
Green
Logan
Stargel
Hochstuhl
Cincinnati Automobile Club
Son of ex governor Cox lands in police court
James M. Cox Jr. 24 son of Ohio's former governor faced assault leaving the scene of an accident and drunken driving charges in New York. Yale student appeared without counsel with his brother in law. An adjournment to Monday was granted. He then fled the hotel area to evade photographers after a chase in which police fired many shots. He was arrested Saturday morning and fell with a cut forehead when stepping from his car.
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New York
James M. Cox, Jr
Ohio
Cox
Yale
Grand Central District
News reels sent by telephotograph from Chicago to New York
A pioneering telephotograph motion picture transmission is demonstrated in Chicago with Miss Wilma Banky’s film transmitted to New York in seven minutes. The system could deliver ten feet of news footage for $1,000, enabling fast nationwide distribution of current events to theaters.
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Chicago
New York
New York World News Service
United States
Miss Banky
Col. Lindbergh
San Francisco
Boston
Cleveland
Atlanta
St. Louis
Los Angeles
Cyclone kills 3 in midwest. heavy losses and injuries
Tornado hits Lincoln near Fayetteville Arkansas killing a 12-year-old boy and injuring several others including three women. A special medical train was dispatched. Shawnee and Wichita report extensive damage from wind hail and rain with fatalities and destroyed buildings.
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Fayetteville
Ark
Lincoln
Here
Shawnee, Okla
Affidavit charges Evans usurped Klan in 1922 power grab
Atlanta April 4 Col William Joseph Simmons founder and Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan testifies before leaving for Pittsburgh to defend in a lawsuit against five former members. He alleges Stevenson Savage and Etheridge conspired to oust him, that Evans seized control, sold Klan property including a planned University of America, and that violence rose under Evans. Simmons claims attempts were made on his life and Coburn was killed. He says he received 90000 dollars for a royalty contract after quitting in 1922.
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New York World News Service
Atlanta
Pittsburgh
Ku Klux Klan
William Joseph Simmons
Klan
Hiram Wesley Evans
Simmons
Sivans
D. C. Stephenson
Indiana
Fred L. Savage
Paul S. Etheridge
Evans
Savage
Stephenson
Dream
University of America
Capt
W. S. Coburn
Phil Fox
Dallas
Tex
Birmingham
Ala
Fox
Coburn
Palace
Col. Simmons
Capt. Coburn
Dr. Evans
Kloncillum
Inner Council
Chicago crime fight push eyes Thompson Crowe rig
The Federal Grand Jury in Chicago began examining grounds for federal involvement in the bombings and gangster murders tied to the Thompson Crowe camp. Key figures included District Attorney George E Q Johnson and prohibition agent leader George E Golding as officials face clashes over jurisdiction and polling day logistics.
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Chicago
Charles S. Deneen
John A. Swanson
Deneen
James H. Wilkerson
Johnson
George E. Q. Johnson
George E. Golding
Golding
Leonardo Juliano
Chicago Heights
Swanson
Mother Seeks Solace In Death But Rebounds
Mrs. Minerva French, 24, of 12 East Thirtieth Street, attempted suicide with six poisons last night. She survived at General Hospital, saying she survived for her two children Harry, 9, and Evelyn, 7. She described a hard life with unemployment and custody struggles after divorcing Harry’s father, Frank DeAngelo, and a brief marriage to Charles French. She vowed to continue living for her children.
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Minerva French
East Thirteenth Street
General Hospital
Harry
Evelyn
Frank DeAngelo
Charles French
French
Depew Suffers Bronchial Pneumonia Report
Chauncey M. Depew chairman of the New York Central Railroad has developed bronchial pneumonia. A bulletin from doctors Samuel W. Limbert and H. Lyman Hooker issued through Michigan Central Railroad said his condition is not immediately alarming.
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New York
Chauncey M. Depew
New York Central Railroad
Michigan Central Railroad
Samuel W. Limbert
H. Lyman Hooker
Donahey and Huffman Hurt in Ohio Accident Near East Liberty
Mrs. A. V. Donahey wife of the Governor and Mrs. James W. Huffman daughter of the Governor were injured when their auto collided with a stopped car near East Liberty Ohio. Mrs Huffman had a broken arm and Mrs Donahey was bruised. Marian Donahey and Peggy Huffman were uninjured. The party was returning from Indian Lake to Columbus. The governor's chauffeur drove the car. They were taken to a Columbus hospital after their injuries were dressed.
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Columbus
A. V. Donahey
James W. Huffman
Donahey
Public Utilities Commission
East Liberty
Huffman
Portland cadet dies in Kelly Field flying accident
Clair E. Bonner an air service cadet from Portland Oregon was killed at Kelly Field when he lost control of the aircraft he was piloting. The fatal incident occurred on April 4 as Bonner attempted a flight over San Antonio Texas. The accident ends the young cadet's training and injuries were not reported.
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Wichita
Kan
Kansas
Oklahoma
Ooonca City
Okla
Newkirk
Oklo
Topeka
San Antonio
Tex
Clair E. Bonner
Portland
Ore
Kelly Field
Six Escape Toledo Workhouse Break Window
Six prisoners escaped from the Toledo workhouse early today by breaking through a first floor window. Forty four other inmates remained in the dormitory and did not attempt to flee.
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Toledo Workhouse
Toledo
Chicago crime war drives probe of Thompson Crowe machine
The Chicago Crime Commission calls for defeat of the Thompson Crowe machine as the New York World and The Commercial Tribune reveal, in a fourth installment, an odd bookkeeping system by Mike Hughes, the city police commissioner, as windy city crime facts remain unclear.
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Chicago Crime Commission
U. S
N. Y
Chicago
Cook County
Crowe
Frank A. Loesch
Charles R. Napier
Loesch
Pennsylvania Railroad
United States
Lake Michigan
Crowe- Thompson
Yegg
Windy City
New York World
The
Commercial Tribune
Mike Hughes
Fund Raised by Borah To Purge Republican Party
Senator Borah of Idaho raises a fund to purge the Republican party of a $160,000 Continental Trading Company gift tied to Liberty bonds from Harry F. Sinclair. The fund, growing past $7,000, may be redirected to aid destitute Pennsylvania coal miners after consultations with contributors and potential leaders at the Kansas City convention.
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Borah
Republican Party
Washington
Senator Borah
Idaho
Continental Trading Company
Liberty Bonds
Harry F. Sinclair
Pennsylvania
B. F. Langworthy
Chicago Woman's City Club
Kansas City
Repub
Lican Party
Langworthy
Sinclair
Titans Fortify For 4-System Plan Across Northeast
Business leaders push a four-system network spanning Pennsylvania and New York Central lines with B and O and Nickel Plate, aiming to strengthen regional transport and logistics. Key firms and railroads commit to coordinated routes, schedules, and investments to boost commerce.
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Pennsylvania
New York Central
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Charles A. Jones
Cal. Carmi A. Thompson
Col. Thompson
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Ettelson
Virginia
Caffey
Palmer Anderson
John G. Sargent
Juliano
William Hale Thompson
Robert E. Crowe
Jacob Allen
Detroit
Chauncey Depew
Dudley Nichols
Criminal Court
Big Bill's
Inquirer
Hotel
Sherman
Laurence Stern
Avril
East
Pennsylvania Station
Baltimore & Ohio
Nickel Plate
Gould
Fisk
Vanderbilt
Lehigh Valley
Lackawanna
L. F. Loree
Delaware & Hudson
J. P. Morgan & Co
Kuhn, Loeb & Co
Loree
New York City
Harriman
I. Cc. C
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Norfolk & Western
Chesapeake & Ohio
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