Large liquor deals alleged in Ohio Prohibition trial
Major Roy A. Haynes testified he knew of large withdrawals by the Armand Drug Co and signed the original liquor permit. J E Russell, Copeland, Barnett and eight others face conspiracy charges. Higgins, a Youngstown broker, testifies amid objections as court warns against self incrimination.
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Cleveland, O
Armand Drug Company
Roy A. Haynes
J. E. Russell
Ohio
Merle B. Copeland
Warren Barnett
Russell
Copeland
Barnett
Columbus
Major Haynes
Peter J. Higgins
Youngstown
Higgins
Westenhaver
Westenhaven
Samuel
Abe Ungerleider
Harry A. Grossberg
S. Ungerleider & Co
Cleveland
Grossberg
Dyer
A. E. Bernstein
United States
Frank Norwood
Leota Merz
Norwalk
Armand
Charles Horner
Horner
Norwood
William Day
Armand Company
Day
Mr. Day
Mother Gives Baby Pistol as Plaything Fatal
James Cody, a boarder, told police that a sixteen month old girl was given an automatic pistol as a toy by Celia Rose. When the baby cried, Rose allegedly handed the pistol to the child and a single shot killed her. Cody was the sole witness.
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Associated Press
Chicago
James Cody
Celia Rose
Cody
Liquor raid ends in suicide after failed arrest
Detectives Yearson and Fallon tried to arrest Matthew Geppert in a billiard room at 2101 West Eighth street for violating prohibition. Geppert killed himself with a gunshot to the temple when asked to accompany them, leaving a widow and several children. His son Albert blamed despondency over an illness and noted prior arrests. Geppert had operated local billiard rooms since Prohibition began.
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Matthew Geppert
Bridgetown Pike
Geppert
Yearson
Fallon
West Eighth Street
Price Hill
General Hospital
Albert Geppert
Eighth and
Burns Streets
Albert
Interurban Crash Near Cassville Injures Eight
Two Union Traction Company interurbans collide head on near Cassville Indiana five miles north of Kokomo. Eight injured include Philip King Dorchester Mass concussion Emma Staley Peru Ind back injury Gustave Clinton Indianapolis skull fracture and more. Damaged cars burned with investigation by company officials and Public Service Commission.
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Kokomo, Inc
Union Traction Company
Cassville
Here
Alfonte
Ind
Peru
H. Myers
G. W. Rosecrans
Indianapolis
George M. Alexand
H. H. Hull
Irwin C. Dehaven
Kirby Confesses Slaying Hayward Girl in Maine
Harry A. Kirby told County Attorney Southard that he murdered Miss Aida Hayward at Lake Maranacook near Winthrop on May 19 after shooting her aunt Mrs. Emma Towns and setting the Hayward cottage fire. He said intoxication caused the acts and that he took the younger woman to the Gray cottage before returning to kill her the next day.
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Augusta
Harry A. Kirby
Southard
Aida Hayward
Emma Towns
Hayward
Lake Maranacook
Winthrop
Kirby
Gray Cottage
Mayward
Peace and defense mingle in Coolidge Naval Academy address
President Coolidge urged peace through reason and faith in citizens to bear defense burdens as 438 United States Naval Academy graduates received diplomas. He called the navy an instrument of righteousness and stressed readiness, urging service to country with moral unity.
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Anapolis
Harry E. Hubbard
Baltimore
Louis McC. Nulton
Academy
Wilbur
Ritchie
Maryland
Navy
Nurton
Washington
Everett Sanders
Adolphus Andrews
Mystery of Arthur Frazier case in France ends in verdict
A Federal Court jury in Minneapolis found that Arthur Frazier, Sioux Indian soldier, died in France from a German shell and that Arthur Lopez-Frazier is an impostor. The trial questioned his identity as the son of Charles and Hannah Frazier and settled his eligibility for government insurance from 1918 to 1925 totaling 4,427.50.
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Associated Press
Minneapolis
Minn
Arthur Frazier
France
Arthur Lopez-Frazier
Frazier
Charlies Frazier
United States Veterans’ Bureau
Arthur Lopez
Arthur
J. W. Molyneaux
Charles and
Hannah Frazier
Courage to Live as Individual Americans Warned of Tyranny
New York June 3. Dr Nicholas Murray Butler urged graduates at Columbia University to resist fanaticism and enforce personal courage against mob rule and state laws he said suppress individuality and free thought. He cited Tennessee and Indiana actions and criticized majority rule in personal conduct. He warned laws can erode respect for law and promote law breaking.
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Nicholas Murray Butler
Columbia University
N. M. Butler
Boston
Tennessee
Indiana
Columbus
Martin H. Fischer
University of Cincinnati
Ohio Hospital Association
Dr. Fischer
Discredit Story: Boy Believed Alive in Kidnap Case
New Jersey State Police dispute a couple over the fate of six year old Blakeley Coughlin taken five years ago from Norris town Pa. A life term prisoner in Philadelphia con fession linked the boy to a lover of Augusto Pasquale who claims the child is alive in hiding between Summit and Plainfield. Police plan to summon two outside witnesses to view the boy.
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New York World News Service
Trenton
N. J
Norristown
George H. Coughlin
Coughlin
Schuykill River
Pasquale
the Crank
Weeks in critical condition shows slight but definite improvement
Boston June 3 Secretary of War John W Weeks who underwent gallstone surgery last Thursday has passed a satisfactory day as doctors report a slight but definite improvement. The bulletin notes normal temperature and a pulse of 88 though overall condition remains critical. A later bulletin says no material change through the evening but he rests more comfortably with stable pulse and temperature.
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Associated Press
Boston
John W. Weeks
Daniel Fiske
Jones
F. Gorham Brigham
Weeks
O’cro
London
Franklin C. Gowan
Leghorn
Italy
Gowan
Philadelphia
George W. Wickersham
Padua
Genoa
Anzio
Rome
Carlo Albert Square
Chiano
Fascisti
Free-Masong
Independent Republican Party
Milan Guistizma
United States
State Department
N. Y. World News Service
N. Y. World
Press Pub. Co
Arson convict in Bailey-Fahey coal tipple fire
John Billy former secretary of the Wendell Local United Mine Workers was sentenced to three years in the West Virginia State Penitentiary by Judge Warren B. Kittle after a March guilty verdict for setting the Bailey-Fahey coal tipple on fire.
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Associate Press
Grafton
W. Va
John Billy
Wendel
United Mineworkers
West Virginia State Penitentiary
Warren B. Kittle
Bailey-Fahey
Two Boys Drown While Swimming In Ohio Rivers
Luther Haney age 15 of Batavia Ohio drowned in the East Fork of the Little Miami River after swimming on a full stomach. He was a novice swimmer and cramps seized him. A second body,Escoe McKay 19 a B and O railroad telegraph operator at Griffin Ohio, was found downstream near Mt Hope road and may be his fate.
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Luther Haney
Batavia
Little Miami
Haney
A. C. Christopher
Milford
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Griffin
McKay
Mt. Hope Road
Spades
Ind
Shanghai Strikes Escalate as Foreign Forces Guard City
Shanghai faces an exceptionally serious strike with thousands of workers at cotton mills and shops closed in the international settlement. American and Italian bluejackets landed to guard power and light, as British ships prepare to arrive. casualties include a U.S. volunteer wounded and foreigners attacked during clashes.
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Washington
Shanghai
State Department
Cunningham
International
Shanghai Cotton Mills
International Settlement
T. G. McMartin
McMartin
Wilbur
Kellogg
Pease
Navy Department
Elcano
Villalobos
Penguin
Pope
Trux- St Pillsbury
Stewart
Asheville
Associated Press
Eee
School Boy Drowns in Miami and Erie Canal
Valentin Reed a 16 year old student at Catholic High School from 933 South Fourteenth street Hamilton Ohio drowned in the Miami and Erie Canal at the end of Hamilton avenue after leaving home to visit friends and swim. His clothes were found at 8pm and the body at 10pm.
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Miami and Erie Canal
The
Commercial Tribune
Hamilton
Valentine Reed
South Fourteenth Street
Hamilton Avenue
Reed
William A. Reed
Bootlegger Steinberg Sentenced for Tax Evasion and Perjury
Charles Steinberg former liquor dealer and disbarred attorney received five years in prison and a $10000 fine after pleading guilty to defrauding the government of 460000 in 1921 with perjury. Judge Knox ordered four years for perjury in Atlanta and one year for tax evasion in Essex County Jail. The case marked a landmark pursuit of illicit income tax under 1921 statutes.
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New York World News Service
New York
Charles Steinberg
Knox
Atlanta
Essex County
Steinberg
United States
Buckner
American vice consul beaten by Italian fascists
Omaha Neb June 3 Scores of race fans sought cover as two cyclone shaped clouds with strong winds approached the Ak Sar Ben grandstands fighting rain. The crowd scattered and lay in the mud as a deluge struck, amid memories of the 1913 cyclone and its deadly toll.
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Omaha
Neb
Heat and storms bring casualties across the Midwest
Severe weather from Los Angeles to the Atlantic caused heavy damage and casualties. Tornadoes and floods killed several in Iowa Adair and Nebraska areas, with five dead near Minneapolis. Chicago and New York reported heat fatalities as heat waves eased by rains that followed.
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Chicago
Los Angeles
Atlantic Seaboard
Middle West
St. Joseph
Minneapolis
Minn
Iowa
Adair
Nebraska
Mississippi
Charles F. Hylander
William Wrigley, Jr. Company
R. M. Browner
Rochester
N. Y
New York City
Philadelphia
Detroit
Michigan
Columbus
Seek Murderer By Teeth Marks
Coroner's jury finds Mrs. Belle Owen 55 shot by an unknown man in Oak Park home after intruder struggle. Husband George F. Owen reports one assailant bitten, both fled through a window. fingerprints and a bitten finger aid investigation. money left in desk untouched.
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Belle Owen
Associated Press
Chicago
Oak Park
George F. Owen
Owen
Margaret Boyle
Minister Held in Misusing Mails in Cleveland Case
Rev. Albert Sidney Gregg a publicist and Union president was arrested in the Federal Building on charges of using mails to circulate an anonymous obscene circular accusing Grace Episcopal Church pastor Rev. William C. Hicks of misconduct with a woman parishioner. Broker George W. Stone named in charges. Gregg admits authorship and claims the piece was for public good. bond set at $5 000 for June 12 preliminary hearing.
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Cleveland
Albert Sidney Gregg
American Civic Reform Union
William C. Hicks
Grace Episcopal Church
Gregg
George W. Stone
Hicks
Stone
Jane Doe
Monahen Bond
Yeatman seeks another four year term as municipal judge
Judge W Meredith Yeatman announces candidacy for re election as Municipal Judge of Cincinnati for a new four year term. He notes eleven and a half years in office and multiple prior four year terms with large majorities. Yeatman cites need for experienced officials to handle enforcement of city ordinances.
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W. Meredith Yeatman
Cincinnati
Yeatman
Colorado Klan Leader Held For Income Tax Quiz
Dr. John G. Locke Grand Dragon of the Colorado Realm of the Ku Klux Klan was taken into custody by a United States Marshal under a court order issued for his appearance in an investigation of federal income tax returns. Attorney J. H. Brown was ejected from the courtroom when he pressed for bail.
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Associated Press
Denver
Col
John G. Locke
Colorado
Ku Klux Klan
United States
J. H. Brown
Locke
J. F. Symes
Dr. Locke
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Columbia
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Charles Fiske
Central New York
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