Bank Robbery Plot Foiled by Sweetheart Phone Call
New York World News Service reports that a bank scheme to stage a fake robbery at the National Butchers and Drovers Bank was foiled after a phone call from a teller's sweetheart. Three bank employees and a depositor were arrested and held on grand larceny charges, with bail set at $20,000 each for hearings.
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New York World News Service
New York
National Butchers and Drovers’ Bank
Robert Sherwood
McQuade
William Peters
Mr. Sherwood
Maria
Louis Hoerber
Brooklyn
William Hartman
Harlem
State Senate
Raymond Rapport
Washington Heights
Robert Feinstein
Lew Tendler
Pugilist
Guardian Dress Company
Sherwood
Peters
Hartmanad
Hartman
Louie
Hoerber
Feinstein
Deathbed confession links ex convict to Batavia murder case
Oscar Otto Johnson also known as Peter Lind Carlson confessed to the Batavia double murder on December 12 and to two New York slayings. He led a dual life as a carpenter by day and burglar at night, and died from a patrolman’s gunshot after a struggle. He left a two-room Joliet apartment with a Bible inscribed to Carlson. County pays burial.
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Johnson
Peter Lind Carlson
Dr. Jekyll
Mr. Hyde
Batavia
Jeske
New York
Chicago
Carpenter
Carlson
Jeskes
Joliet
Aurora
Kankakee
Galesburg
Happy Jeske
Mr. Carlson
North
Collins Street
Springfield youth gunman siege ends with capture after riot
Clinton Hollingsworth, 20, barricaded in his Springfield home after wounding his father, killed two men and wounded two others in a three hour standoff. An ambulance driver and a citizen were among the dead. police and 200 civilians fought the man as three C O D packages opened afterward revealed several automatic revolvers.
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Associated Press
Springfield
Clinton Hollingsworth
John Hollingsworth
Joseph O. Hartung
Franklin
Hollingsworth
George Stapp
R. E. Snow
Hendrickson
Barbara La Marr dies after nervous breakdown in Altadena
Barbara La Marr motion picture actress died at her Altadena home this afternoon from complications after a nervous breakdown. Born in Richmond Virginia, she rose to fame after stage work at seven and film stardom under Rex Ingram, later embroiled in multiple marriages and a notable blackmail case involving attorney Herman L. Roth.
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Altadena
Cal
Barbara la Marr
Miss la Marr
W. W. Watson
Com Pictures
New York
Rha
Richmond
Siren
Jack Lytelle
Lawrence Converse
Phil Ainsworth
Bernard Deeley
Jack Dougherty
California
Rhea Watson
Los Angeles
Anita Stewart
Rex Ingram
Kirby found guilty in sixth trial for mail fraud
Josiah Kirby founder of the defunct Cleveland Discount Company is found guilty on fourteen counts of mail fraud after forty hours of deliberation. He is jailed pending a grand jury probe into alleged jury tampering related to his five prior federal trials. Sentence likely after the investigation with possible minimum five and maximum seventy years and a $14000 fine.
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Cleveland
Josiah Kirby
Cleveland Discount Company
Killits
Kirby
Federal
Kirby Mable
Bus Convictan
Westenhaver
Jones
Grand Jury
A. E. Bernstein
United States
Miles E. Evans
Plus Ultra completes perilous 1402 mile leg to Fernando de Noronha
Spanish seaplane Plus Ultra under Commander Franco lands off Fernando de Noronha after a fifteen hour flight from Cape Verde. The voyage total reached 3,305 miles with two crew changes to extend fuel. The team plans to resume from Fernando de Noronha to Pernambuco early Monday.
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Fernando DO Noronha
Brazil
Ultra
Franco
Concepsion Bay
Pernambuco
Ribeiro Do Infierno Bay
Porto Praya
Cape Verde Islands
Plus Ultra
Alfonso
Las Palmas
Canary Islands
Duran
Spanish Military Air Service
de Alda
Pablo Rada
Palos
Spain
Columbus
Fernando de Noronha
Jardine’s Order Shocks Chicago Grain Pit
The Board of Trade and Chicago grain men were jolted when Secretary Jardine ordered traders to report all grain trades over 500000 bushels to the Department of Agriculture. Arthur Cutten moved his operations to Winnipeg, citing the new regulation as hampering market freedom. Traders warned the rule could ruin big longs and shorts and voiced concerns over safeguards and enforcement.
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New York World News Service
Chicago
Board of Trade
Secretary of Agriculture
Jardine
Department of Agriculture
Arthur Cutten
Winnipeg Exchange
Cutten
Mr. Cutten
Congress
Sheriff Witt Acquitted in Beer Conspiracy Trial
Richard B. Witt sheriff of Hamilton County was found not guilty of conspiring to violate the national prohibition act. The two day trial in Judge Hickenlooper's federal court drew a large, jubilant crowd as the verdict was read after 1 hour 40 minutes of deliberation. Witt thanked supporters and said he would sleep tonight.
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Sheriff Witt
Josiah Kirby
Hickenlooper
Richard B. Witt
Hamilton County
Federal Court
Harry Rabe
Rabe
Mr. Rabe
Coeas
Dick Witt
Haveth
United States District Attorney
A. Lee Beaty
Harry Abrams
Beaty
Going Into Business with Classified Ads
Advertisement promotes Commercial Tribune Classified Ads for business setups. It highlights classifications like Business Opportunities Stores and Offices Office Supplies Business Service and Situations Wanted as real help for new entrepreneurs.
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Commercial Tribune
Nine More Ships in Distress as Atlantic Hurricane Rages On
The storm continues to lash the Atlantic with nine more ships sent to distress. Rescued Antinoe crew aboard the President Roosevelt praised Captain Fried for weathering the gale as Queenstown received an ovation for the ship and crew.
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Atlantic
New York
Joseph Wilson Cochran
Paris
President Roosevelt
Associated Press
Fried
Roosevelt
Palm Beach
Fla
Lariston
Antinoe
Queenstown
France
Ward Forms 2 Billion Dollar Bakery Combination
William Ward advances a plan to create Ward Food Products Corporation with 20 million shares and a potential 2 billion capitalization, aiming to merge bakeries and control the entire bakery food chain. Profits after dividends may fund welfare for American children, a charitable directive tied to common stock profits. Officials tried to keep the filing secret as details emerged.
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New York World News Service
New York
Tax Commissioner
Baltimore
William B. Ward
Ward Food Products Corporation
Sabath
Illinois
Sach Good Trust
Saba
Mr. Ward
Third rail car mishap noted on Rock Island near Colfax
Des Moines reports the third such accident in U S railway history occurred on the Rock Island near Colfax Iowa a meat car jumped tracks and rolled down an embankment without derailing others brakes set and crew recoupled unaware the car remained in the ditch Newton was reached after a westbound crew reported the incident. The two prior cases occurred on the Union Pacific near Grand Island Nebraska twenty years ago and on the Great Northern between Butte and Helena Montana in July 1922.
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Associated Press
Des Moinds
Rock Island Lines
Colfax
D. A. Abbott
Newton
Union Pacific
Grand Island
Neb
Butte
Helena
Mont
Great Northern
Lockland Man Dies After Dinner Poisoning Mystery
Earl Schafer an 81 year old contracting carpenter from 227 Central Avenue Lockland died fifty minutes after being found unconscious in his bedroom. Physicians cite poisoning as the cause and an autopsy was approved by his wife. The family denies suicide and says he had no troubles. He leaves a widow and son.
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Central Avenue
Lockland
Earl Schafer
General Hospital
A. M. Vorhis
Dunn Street
Schafer
Spies Target U S Navy Officers in Mediterranean
Paris dispatch reports United States naval officers in the Mediterranean squadron faced espionage in Toulon. French Secret Service alerted that American ships were ordered to leave Riviera ports and women spies, including Marthe Moreuil and Andree Lefeuvre, operated near officers.
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Arno
Dosah-Fleurot
New York World News Service
Paris
Mediterranean
Toulon
la Presse
Riviera
Mathilde
Lolotte
Marthe Moreuil
Andree Lefebvre
We Pub. Co’ Te
Mine Proposals Voted Down in Pennsylvania Coal Talks
In Philadelphia on January 30 miners and operators adjourned after both latest plans were rejected. The six month industrial dispute affects 158,000 workers and 600 square miles in northeastern Pennsylvania with no immediate sign of settlement as they head home.
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Associated Press
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Bellevue-Stratford
Four Killed and Four Hurt as Train Hits Auto in Indiana
Evansville Indiana January 30 Dolph Parker 35 a farmer his wife Loan and another woman Robinson were killed and four others injured two of them probably fatally when a freight train on the Southern Railroad crashed into an automobile at a crossing in English Indiana The Parkers daughter and a boy named Ferguson may not live The car occupants were returning from a motion picture show.
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Evansville
Ind
Dolph Parker
Farmer
Loan
Robinson
Southern Railroad
English
Parkers
Ferguson
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