South Carolina Bishop Shot by Retired Clergyman Then Dies
Charleston reports the Rt Rev William A Guerry bishop of South Carolina shot by Rev J H Woodward in the diocese headquarters private office. Woodward then killed himself. A $50 check to Woodward was found. Guerry remains unconscious with surgery done to remove a bullet. Woodward previously attacked Guerry over race issues and retired after a prior incident.
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Charleston
S. C
William A. Guerry
South Carolina
Protestant Episcopal Church
J. H. Woodward
Diocesean
Guerry
Woodward
Henrietta P. Jervey
Bishop Guerry
Bluffton
St. Mark’s Episcopal Church
Brunswick
Darien
Clarendon County
Florence
Marion
Darlington
University of the South Sewanee
Spirit of Jenny Lind Guiding Berkeley Soprano
Miss Edna Lister of Berkeley Cal aspiring coloratura soprano claims to be the spiritual first cousin of Jenny Lind and expects grand opera soon. She says the Swedish nightingale appears to her daily and that Jenny promised operatic success years ago in Tacoma Washington. Lister recounts hard work including summer work in a lumber camp to resume music studies.
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Edna Lister
Berkeley
Cal
Jenny Lind
Nightingale
Miss Lister
Charles Parker Boyd
Jenny Dinc
Tacoma
Washington
Edna
the Shade
Jenny
Plane leaps 17 hours ahead across date line
The Southern Cross flight from Honolulu to Suva Fiji Islands crossed the international date line near its destination. The plane went from seven hours behind Eastern Time to seventeen hours ahead, making it Tuesday afternoon aboard while it had been Monday afternoon moments earlier.
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New York
Southern Cross
Honolulu
Suva
Fiji Islands
Hawaii
Pfaff Dies at 70 Former Cincinnati Official and Confectioner
Frank L. Pfaff a confectioner and banking vice president and longtime Democratic reform leader died at 70 in Allendale after two years of illness from a stroke. He helped lead Cincinnati politics in 1905 and later served on county projects and confectioners groups. He leaves wife Mrs Smith and another daughter Mrs Miller a sister Mrs Weinke and brother Frederick G. Pfaff. Funeral plans were to be announced.
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Frank L. Pfaff
Columbia Bank and Savings Company
Cincinnati
George Edward Smith
Allendale
Pfaff
Judson Harmon
G. A. R. Hall
West Sixth Street
Madison
Wis
Buhr & Wendte
Pioneer Candy Manufacturers
Buhr, Pfaff & Co
National Confectioners’ Association
Common Pleas Court
New County
Hamilton County
Smith
Max Miller
William Weinke
Frederick G. Pfaff
No Trace Found As Italia Search Shifts Focus
Rome reports ice cutter L Braganza found no trace of the Italia near Mossel Bay. Norwegian and Russian efforts gain hope while Savoia 55 seaplane plans Arctic departure. PM 18 awaits Italia location to rescue survivors. Maj. Tombesi possibly the navigator aboard. Unconfirmed SOS and sighting reports circulate.
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New York World News Service
Rome
Mossel Bay
Maj
Tombesi
Nobile
Siberian
N. Y
World News Service
Bossism Tops Chicago Bar Association Vote in Heat of Campaign
Chicago voters backed machine backed candidates for six Superior Court seats as the coalition of two parties defeated the Bar Association juggernaut. One incident occurred in the Bloody Twentieth with Harry M Hockstein found armed as precinct captain and bodyguard to Judge Morris Eller, a target of the Crime Commission.
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The
Commercial Tribune
Chicago
Crowe-Thompson
Superior Court
Bar Association
Octavus Granady
Harry M Hockstein
Hockstein
Morris Eller
Stockstejin
Judge Eller
Crime Commission
Special Grand Jury to Probe Chicago Election Frauds
A special grand jury was chosen to investigate Chicago election frauds and violence, including murders and bombings. Foreman F Edson White of Armour & Co and prosecutor Frank Loesch lead the inquiry directed by Attorney General Oscar Carlstrom, tracing back to 1926. The probe will examine crime political links and outrages affecting candidacies amid Republican faction tensions.
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Armour Company
Chicago
F. Edson White
Armour & Co
William V. Brothers
Criminal Court
Frank J. Loesch
Chicago Crime Commission
Oscar Carlstrom
Cook County
Loesch
Robert E. Crowe
Grand
Octavius Granady
Diamond Joe” Esposito
Charles S. Deneen
Granady
Morris Eller
Ward
Crowe-Mayor
Thompson Group
Deneen
Tax lien names Blackmer in Teapot Dome era case
Income taxes and penalties totaling 8.498 million dollars were assessed against Henry M. Blackmer the Denver oil operator now in exile in France. Writs of attachment in Denver and New York followed as a special grand jury was convened to consider indictment linked to Continental Trading Company profits tied to the Teapot Dome affair.
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Denver
Henry M. Blackmer
France
Blackmer
New York City
Continental Trading Company
United States
Doheny-Fall
Supreme Court rules wire tapping lawful for crime data
The U S Supreme Court, by a 5 to 4 vote, holds evidence from tapping telephone wires admissible in federal criminal prosecutions. Chief Justice Taft for the majority says Fourth Amendment guards homes not telephone lines. dissenters denounce the ruling as eroding personal privacy. The decision centers on three Washington cases involving Roy Olmsted and others amid a major prohibition operation.
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U. S. Supreme Court
Taft
Washington
Supreme Court
State of Washington
Roy Olmsted
Holmes
Brandeis
Butler
Stone
Scotland
British Columbia
Seattle
Congress
Nice
Kean and Frelinghuysen Each Spent 50,000 in New Jersey Race
In the New Jersey Republican Senate contest, Hamilton F. Kean and Joseph 8. Frelinghuysen each reported 50,000 for their campaigns with expenditures near that amount. Kean testified he received no outside contributions and denied paying 200,000 to Enoch Johnson. Frelinghuysen’s manager confirmed funds from his own purse and total spending of 48,744.97.
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Washington
Hamilton F. Kean
Joseph
Frelinghuysen
New Jersey
Reed Campaign Funds Committee
John Scott
Essex County
Kean
B. Duncan McClare
Cliffside
Enoch Johnson
Atlantic County
Dentist and wife beaten by robber near Chagrin Falls
Dr Samuel W Hatch 52 a Cleveland dentist and his wife 35 were beaten and thrown from their car by a robber near Chagrin Falls while offering a lift. They wandered to a Russell farmhouse then to Huron Road Hospital where they remained unconscious for hours. The thief took only a $10 check and about $6 in change.
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Cleveland
Samuel W. Hatch
Huron Road Hospital
Chagrin Falls
Hatch
Russell
Sulzer Denies Knowledge of Smith Campaign Expenditures
William Sulzer former Governor of New York told the Senate Campaign Funds investigating committee he had no personal knowledge of expenses in Gov Smiths presidential race or for any candidate. A described $25,000 transfer to obtain delegates in a sagebrush state was dismissed as a hypothetical misinterpretation by Sulzer and Miller.
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Smith
Washington
Senate
William Sulzer
New York
Gov. Smith
Sulzer
Olaf R. Miller
Albany
Sagebrush
Miller
Hammill Leads in Iowa Gubernatorial Nominations
Des Moines reports 317 of 2,450 precincts in Iowa give Hammill 28,215 votes, Bowman 11,227, Skromme 4,961, Anderson 3,291 for the Republican gubernatorial nomination.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Hammill
Bowman
Skromme
Anderson
Hartzell's Son Speaks On Bishop Attack And Vigilante Metaphor
Dr. J Culver Hartzell son of Rt Rev J C Hartzell 86 says the attack on his father Bishop Hartzell at Christ Hospital highlights perceived state of law and order. The bishop with a fractured thigh and multiple injuries is expected to remain in hospital about seven weeks. Doctors report his condition improving but visitors remain barred. Kellogg wired condolences and condemned the violence.
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California
J. Culver Hartzell
J. C. Hartzell
Methodist Episcopal
Christ Hospital
Hartzell
Bishop Hartzell
E. W. Mitchell
David Tucker
John Harvey Kellogg
Battle Creek, Mich
Hoover Picks Up Eleven Votes at Kansas City
Hoover defeats opponents by ruling in his favor as eleven votes shift the outcome in Kansas City.
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Hoover
Kansas City
Teeman
Hoover Gains 11 Votes as Republican Committee Hearings Open
In Kansas City June 4 Hoover supporters sweep early convention contests. The National Committee votes to place all nine Hoover pledged Florida delegates on the temporary roll and considers dethroning long time Florida committeeman George Bean. Florida's slate contests and leadership changes loom as the committee moves to referee factional disputes.
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Kansas City
Herbert Hoover
National Committee
Florida
Llorida
George W. Bean
Bean
Convention
Hoover
Glen B. Skipper
Miami
South
Train Bomb Kills China Governor in Manchuria
A Mukden report claims Wu Chun Sheng governor of Heilunkiang Province died from injuries after a bomb hit Marshal Chan Tso Lin’s train. Mo Teh Hun and the ex-dictator were injured. guards and two train cars were destroyed. Japanese sources note anti Japanese sentiment and violence amid the incident.
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Peking
China
Mukden
Wu Chun-Sheng
Heilunkiang
Chan Tso-Lin
Mo Teh-Hun
Agriculture and Commerce
Marshal Chang
Belgian flyers set new air endurance record at Tirlemont
Adjutant Louis Croos and Sergt Pilot Victor Broenen landed at Tirlemont after sixty hours eight minutes aloft, surpassing the Americans Haldeman and Stinson and Italians Ferrarin and Del Prete. The record may be semi official due to midflight refueling.
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Brussels
Louis Croos
Sergt
Victor Broenen
Tirlemont
Haldeman
Stinson
Ferrarin
Delprete
Ohio to form State Department of Aviation and regulate air travel
Ohio legislators announce plan to create a State Department of Aviation to register pilots planes and airports. A joint Aviation Legislative Committee surveys sites in Lunken Cleveland Columbus Dayton and other cities and backs rules of the air. They seek empowered county land deals for airports and warn against overregulation hindering progress.
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State Department of Aviation
Ohio
Joint Aviation Legislative Committee
Lunken
Cleveland
Columbus
Dayton
Middletown
Hamilton
Portsmouth
David S. Ingalls
Lloyd D. Bower
W.D. Emmons
Akron
Miles S. Kuhn
Earle L. Johnson
Paynesville
Chamber of Commerce
Ingalls
Department of Commerce
Two City Stenographers Quit Over Dictating Machines
Two women stenographers in the City Solicitor's office, Miss Katherine Fallon and Mrs. Harriet Peel, announced their resignations effective next Saturday. They object to dictating machines, saying the devices impair speed and cause headaches and neuralgia from foot pedal use. Fallon has served fourteen years and Peel eighteen.
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John D. Ellis
Katherine Fallon
Harriet Peel
Fallon
Peel
Chicago Girl Chosen Beauty Queen of United States
Miss Ella Van Huesen of Chicago was selected from thirty two entrants as the Beauty Queen of the United States at the third annual International Pageant of Pulchritude held in Galveston Texas on June 4. The event named her the top title among competitors from across the nation.
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Galveston
Tex
Ella van Huesen
Chicago
United States
Southern Cross Lands At Suva After Pacific Flight
The trans Pacific monoplane Southern Cross landed in Suva Fiji at 2 30 PM local after a 34 hour 33 minute flight from Kauai Hawaii 3138 miles away. The Australian American crew led by Kingsford Smith faced storms and long oceanic risks before reaching the South Seas.
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Suva
Southern Cross
Kauai Island
Hawaii
Pacific Coast
Kingsford-Smith
Charles Ulm
Harry W. Lyon
James Warner
Brisbane
Australia
California
South Seas
Fiji
Albert Park
James’ Warner
Fiji Islands
Canton
Enderbury
Phoenix Group
Barking
Oakland
Cal
Pacific
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Fijis
Carolina
Bishop
Hank L. Peate
Ea-Vige
Italia
Bossism
Crowe
Bosom
ING. O. P. Rage
New Yorker
Republican Jury
Florida National
Coolidge
Commerce
Georgia
Capt
Department For Aviation
U. S
South Otha
Airmen
Wheeler Field
Lulu
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