Flight at Hand Lands Safe After Honolulu Arrival
Ernest L. Smith and Emory B. Bronte, California flyers from Oakland, reached Wheeler Field near Honolulu after a forced Molokai landing due to lack of gasoline. Army planes met and saluted them, with crowds cheering as they disembarked.
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Honolulu
Ernest L. Smith
Emory B. Bronte
California
Oakland
Cal
Hawaii
Wheeler Field
Molokai
Army
Diamond Head
Wheeler Field Guns
Smith
Bronte
Pas
Water main break halts four Cincinnati streetcar lines
A water main break at Madison road and Cohoon street disrupted Oakley Madison Road Madisonville and Milford streetcar service for over an hour and delayed about 10 000 residents. Fire crews pumped water from a manhole while workers located and fixed the break, leaving residents without water until repairs finished.
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Madison Road
Cinnamon Street
Hudson Biery
Cincinnati Street Railway Company
Oakley
Madisonville
Milford
Biery
Water Works Department
Cohoon Street
Indiana Klan Leader Spent Large Sums for Governor Nomination
A letter attributed to D. C. Stephenson Grand Dragon of the Klan claims he spent $73 216 for Ed Jacksons Indiana 1924 gubernatorial bid. The stenographer Ivy Dickinson who drafted his letters is missing since the Madison Oberholtzer murder trial. Jackson denied further comment and awaited a formal statement.
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New York World News Service
Indianapolis
D. C
Jackson
Stephenson
Madge Oberholtzer
Ivy Dickinson
Walb
la Follette
Holt
Marshal Seizes His Own Auto in Whisky Case
Leslie Becker of Cleves Ohio was arrested by Marshal Balser on transporting whisky. The marshal, who had bought Becker’s car, confiscated the vehicle after discovering five gallons of whisky in the car. Becker faces arraignment before U S Commissioner Smith as the case is handed to Federal Prohibition Agent S E Davis.
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Leslie Becker
Cleves
Marshal Balser
Becker
Cincinnati
S. E. Davis
Prohibition
United States
Smith
Ex-Pol police chief may know fate in trial today
Canton Ohio July 15 The first degree murder trial of Seramus A Lengel for the slaying of Canton editor Don R Mellett nears verdict after opening arguments. Prosecutor Harter says Lengel neither planned the killing nor acted alone linking him to underworld plots. defence contends lack of direct participation.
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Polige Ghict
Lengel
Mellett
Canton
Seramus A. Lengel
Don R. Mellett
Canton Police Department
Henry W. Harter
Police
Underworld
Louis Mazer
Ben Rudner
Harter
Floyd Streitenberger
North Industry
Streitenberger
Blind Pig raid shocks Gallipolis courthouse
Federal agents raid Gallia County Courthouse uncovering a blind pig. Courthouse janitor C Canterbury arrested for liquor possession as officers seize 150 bottles and half gallon moonshine containers. Sheriff Russell aided the operation amid rumors of bootlegging from the courthouse.
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Gallipolis
Ohio
Gallia County
C. Canterbury
Russell
Gallia
County
Strange payment for blank paper at filling station
Lewis Klusmann reports a motorist exchanged four five-dollar bills for an envelope containing blank paper at his Hackberry Madison Road filling station. The driver and a woman asked for a twenty-one bill, settled with four fives, then sped off after Klusmann handed over the envelope.
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Lewis Klusmann
Madison Road
Klusmann
Hackberry
Madison Roads
Lower California Quakes Route People From Homes
A series of brief but strong earthquakes hit Calexico at 6:02 p.m. lasting about twenty seconds. Residents rushed into the streets but no damage was reported, though it was the heaviest shock since January when earthquakes damaged over half a million dollars in property.
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Calexico
Cal
Widow Club Secretary Charged With Embezzling Funds
Mrs. Ida J. Borth 45 secretary of the Widows and Widowers Social Club in Cleveland was arraigned on embezzlement charges for taking 1702.10 dollars from the club. She was held in bail of 4300 dollars. The warrant was sworn by club president William C. Weigel. Borth also heads a downtown business concern.
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Cleveland
Ida J. Borth
Widows and Widowers’ Social Club
William C. Weigel
Borth
Plotter of Kinsman’s Death Seeks Spare Life in Letter
Clyde Reese Bachelor, executed by electric chair, left a letter to Gov. Graves asking that Hays Leonard, his co-defendant in the murder of Bachelor’s father-in-law, be spared the death penalty. Bachelor faulted Leonard as a low mentality tool and urged commutation to life imprisonment for Leonard as he faced execution.
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Kinsman
Montgomery
Ala
Clyde Reese Bachelor
Graves
Hays Leonard
Bachelor
Leonard
Mystery marks return of will to millions
The will of Valentine Christ, a wealthy recluse, valued at about 25 million dollars, vanished from Cleveland Probate Court yesterday and reappeared today. An attorney for heir John Christ had requested access, triggering the discovery. A photostatic copy had been made before it left the files.
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Geneva
United States
Great Britain
Tokyo
London
New York World News Service
Japan
Washington
Cleveland
Valentine Christ
John Christ
Eastman Joins Calendar Reform Effort in Thirteen Month Plan
The Merchants' Association committee led by Clement M. Biddle meets with George Eastman of Rochester to study calendar reform. The plan proposes a thirteen month year by combining the last two weeks of June with the first two of July, claiming potential savings of 30 million dollars annually in the United States.
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New York World News Service
New York
Merchants’ Association
Clement M. Biddle
George Eastman
Rochester
United States
Nippon Open to Returning Home Without Pact
Tokyo signals willingness to abandon talks if parley stalls. Envoys face a standstill as capitals refuse further concessions, leaving a possible exit from the barrier dispute.
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Nippon
Dwyer and Cohran Ordered to Start 2 Year Terms
William B. Dwyer once dubbed king of bootleggers and his associate Edward C. Cohran must begin two year prison sentences after a denial of a probation bid. Judge Mack ruled against parole and ordered surrender to the U S Marshal for transport to Atlanta. Dwyer led a vast rum syndicate and faced conspiracy charges under liquor and customs laws.
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New York
William B. Dwyer
Edward C. Cohran
Mack
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
United States
Atlanta
Dwyer
Cohran
Torrid Wave in East Claims Sixty Lives
A prolonged heat wave across the Eastern states pushes daily death toll toward sixty. Cities report temperatures in the upper 80s to 90s with high humidity and few cooling effects from storms. Resorts overflow as hundreds of thousands seek relief at beaches and country retreats.
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New York
Weather Bureau
Philadelphia
Boston
Riots in Vienna Amid Palace of Justice Fire
Violent street fighting in Vienna after acquittals of former soldiers. Key sites including the Palace of Justice were set ablaze and looted while police and volunteers struggled to control a death toll rising to dozens with hundreds wounded. A broader strike and mass demonstrations followed as clashes spread.
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Vienna
Japan
Honolulu
Howling Horde
Europe
Turin
Palace of Justice
London
Seipel
Austria
Berlin
Legation
Schallendorf
Ringstrasse
University
Mts
Red Cross
Ken Planet
Gasing
Od the
Polnen
Gaiamn
Partner Kills Wealthy Broker in Office Dispute
Frederick A. Stern a 40 year old broker and manager of the Rothschild Mortgage and Finance Company was shot four times by his business partner Jacob Goldstein 56 in a dispute over finances at the company offices. A bloody hammer lay nearby as Goldstein awaited police arrival.
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Los Angeles
Frederick A. Stern
Rothschild Mortgage and Finance Company
Jacob Goldstein
Goldstein
Stern
Movie Star Wife Sues Bert Lytell for Divorce
Claire Windsor, film star, files for divorce from Bert Lytell alleging mental cruelty and jealousy. She cites his frequent absence from home and a $300 telegraphic payment to another woman. Windsor says she is a wife left with little companionship. The couple dined with Edwin Carewe and his wife before a theater outing.
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Los Angeles
Claire Windsor
Bert Lytell
Lytell
Edwin Carewe
Decimo Club halted in membership sale by court injunction
New York Supreme Court Justice Mac Crate in Brooklyn issued a temporary injunction restraining further sale of Decimo Club memberships, headquarters in Manhattan, after the state attorney general alleged $1,020,000 in initiation fees from 61,000 members. The club, with branches across the country, faces a July 26 show cause hearing to continue the injunction pending trial.
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New York World News Service
New York
Ottinger
Supreme Court
MacCrate
Brooklyn
Decimo Club
Manhattan
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Portland
Seattle
Tacoma
Spokane
Salt Lake City
Denver
Omaha
Minneapolis
Chicago
Detroit
Cleveland
Akron
Youngstown
Dayton
Columbus
Pittsburgh
Philadelphia
Kansas City
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Albin E. Johnson
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CANAL
Adtaker
Eastman
America
Britain
New England
Hester Prynne
Constantine
Bosporus
Neal O’hara
Jos Nals
the Commercial Tribune
Reign of Terror
Associated Press
St. Louis
Buffalo
Jersey City
Milwaukee
Baltimore
Hugo B. Monjar
Apasco Purchase and Sales Corporation
J. D. Webster
Decimo
Apasco, Corporation
B. S. Pease
Nicholas Selvaggi
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