Gitlow Free Speech Case Upheld by Supreme Court
The Supreme Court ruled 7 to 2 that Benjamin Gitlow’s conviction under New York’s criminal anarchy law did not infringe constitutional rights. The majority held the statute valid to punish advocating force, while Justices Holmes and Brandeis dissented, arguing the danger test should apply to curb incitement.
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Associated Press
Washington
Supreme Court
Benjamin Gitlow
New York
Socialist Party
Sanford
Gitlow
Holmes and Brandeis
Gitlow Sentenced to Ten Years at Sing Sing Prison
Benjamin Gitlow lost his Supreme Court appeal and received a sentence of five to ten years at hard labor for criminal anarchy stemming from a 1920 manifesto in a radical Socialist magazine. He had repeatedly been released on court orders and engaged in politics, with petitions for pardon under consideration by Governor Smith after ACLU involvement.
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Workingmen’s League
Sing Sing
Supreme Court
The
American Civil Liberties Union
Gitlow
Smith
Army Aviator Killed as Cadet Hurt in Crash
In San Antonio Texas Lieutenant E L Sears Jr Brooks Field instructor died when a Brooks Field instruction ship crashed. Cadet Roy A Strickland suffered a broken arm and cuts after the plane nosedived from about 500 feet. Witnesses reported the aircraft entered a nose dive.
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San’ Antonio
Tex
E.L. Sears, Jr
Brooks
Manila
P. I
Roy A
You Might If Your Home Were Advertised Today
Classifieds announce a fast, convenient and profitable method to sell homes under Houses for Sale. Prospects are reached quickly through targeted ad placement.
Hartford Man Ends Life in Baby Carriage Slide
Philip Bonifant aged 40 placed himself in a large baby carriage on Maple Hill New Britain and rolled downhill firing two bullets into his head. The carriage struck a pole and he died instantly. His wife chased after him and found the wrecked carriage and his body. She then wheeled him back to a neighbor's house and collapsed.
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New York World News Service
Hartford
Conn
Maple Hill
New Britain
Philip Bonifaht
Wrest
Father of Suspect Held in Ohio Double Slaying
William Morrison, 55, is held on a technical charge of suspicion after his son James Morrison, 27, and daughter-in-law Irene Morrison, 23, were found shot dead in their Wheelersburg area home. A two year old child, Liza Isabela, survived with minor injuries as relatives report hearing two shots and a scream.
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Portsmouth
William Morrison
James Morrison
Irene Morrison
Wheelersburg
Dunham
Liza Isabela
A. J. Caldwell
Michael Morrison
Morrison
Fowler
Allies Reagh Aghard On Pact With Berlin
Britain, France, and Belgium move toward a Western frontiers pact with Germany and a guaranteed military aid pledge to France and Belgium. Briand and Chamberlain present a broad, frank accord with tentative League of Nations involvement and possible arbitration by Hague or League machinery.
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Geneva
Germany
Aristide Briand
France
Austen Chamberlain
Britain
Briand
Chamberlain
Downing Street
Hague
Poland
Czecho-Slovakia
League
N. Y
Death of Cincinnati builder Kinney at 57
Frank H. Kinney president of Cincinnati Builders Supply and Hyde Park Lumber, died after a stroke at his office on Main Street. He lived at 3633 Zumstein avenue Hyde Park and leaves a widow, three daughters and a son. Kinney helped found Hyde Park and held multiple local roles including Village Solicitor and director of local banks. Funeral plans pending with burial at Spring Grove Cemetery.
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Frank H. Kinney
Cincinnati Builders’ Supply Company
Hyde Park Lumber Company
Good Samaritan Hospital
Main Street
Mr. Kirbey
Zumstein Avenue
Hyde Park
Kansas City
Cincinnati
Morningside
Kinney
Hyde Park Savings Bank
Hyde Park Building Association
Martha Kinney
Myers Y. Cooper
Emma Kinney
Ethel
Sarah
Ruth Kinney
Myers Kinney
Ethel Kinney
Robert CC. Walker
Pine Grove Avenue
Spring Grove Cemetery
Radium expert Dr Edwin E Leman dies after radium exposure
East Orange New Jersey June 8 A martyr to science Dr Edwin E Leman radium expert died at home after thirteen years studying radium. He suffered weakness since 1911 and collapsed three weeks ago after transfusions failed to restore his blood. He helped recover pure radium from ore and added to the world’s small store of 150 grams.
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East Orange
N. J
Edwin E. Leman
University of Chicago
Leman
Dr. Leman
Dog Brings Help After Gas Escape at Store Owner’s Home
A white fox terrier belonging to Mrs. Pearl E. Herman, 42, alarmed by a gas leak at her Harrison avenue confectionery rear room, whined until neighbors and the Fire Department arrived. The dog’s alert saved her life twice in a week, as she lay unconscious on the floor. Mrs. Herman has said divorce and loneliness led to suicide attempts.
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Pearl E. Herman
Drought Song Prohibited Then Showers Ended Heat Wave
In Kensett Arkansas on June 8 after the City Council banned public singing of the drought song "Taint Gonna Rain No More" the long heat wave broke with good showers. Temperature fell nearly 40 degrees.
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Kensett, Ark
Here
Miners Entombed After Blast at West Kentucky Mine
A mine explosion at West Kentucky Coal Company's Mine No 9 in Sturgis Kentucky left five bodies recovered and twelve miners still entombed, seven of them white. Authorities reported dense gas pockets and ongoing rescue efforts as crowds gathered. The blast occurred about 8 am in Entry No 1, deep underground, with about 130 men underground at the time.
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Sturgis
West Kentucky Coal Company
A. F. Dean
C. Beard
Liston Merritt
W. L. Williams
United States
Evansville
Ind
Carpenter cuts gate at rail crossing in narrow escape
Edward Thornton, a Toledo carpenter, used a saw to remove eight feet of a lowered Oakdale avenue crossing gate on the New York Central line. He crossed the tracks before the Twentieth Century Limited sections passed, was arrested for malicious destruction of property, and caused a milkman to back away as a second train neared.
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Associated Press
Toledo
Edward Thornton
Carpenter
Oakdale Avenue
New York Central Railroad
Thornton
Twentieth Century Limited
Earthquake Damages Churches Near Bogota Colombia
A strong quake yesterday damaged buildings especially churches north and south of Bogota with Ibague and Tolima reporting greater impact. Bogota saw little loss of life and was less affected than nearby regions.
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Bogota
Columbia
Ibague
Tolima
Seven Die in Sofia Street Fights and Dynamos Explode
Sofia dispatch reports seven killed in city street clashes including a parliament member and hundreds injured. A peasant party leader’s home was dynamited amid the unrest in the Bulgarian capital.
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Associated Press
Berlin
Sofia
Montag Morgen
Stewart Shillito Dies at 68 After Illness at Home
Stewart Shillito president of the John Shillito Company dies at his home 240 East Auburn Avenue after a two week illness. He had neuritis and a sling on his right arm, his five children at his bedside, and earlier tonsil surgery failed to remove the poison. He was born December 25, 1856 in Cincinnati and educated at Chickering Institute Exeter Academy and Harvard, later leading Harvard clubs and the Cincinnati Harvard Club.
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Stewart Shillito
John Shillito
Mr. Shillito
Shillito
Charles, Buck
William, Mithoefer
Dr. Mithoefer
Cincinnati
Mary Wallace Shillito
Chickering Institute
Exeter Academy
Exeter
N. H
Harvard University
Harvard
Harvard Club
Associated Harvard Clubs
United States
Wallace
Kellogg Warns Against Propaganda at Norse-American Centennial
Secretary of State Kellogg, at the Norse-American Centennial in Minneapolis, warned that foreign influence funds revolutionary propaganda against the U S constitution. He praised Norwegian immigrants and urged Americans to uphold the founding principles, including an impartial judiciary and bill of rights, against tampering.
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Associated Press
State Fair Grounds
Minn
Kellogg
Coolidge
Minnesota
Senate
Northwest
Farmer-Labor
la Follette
Coal car wreck near Peru kills nine workers near Converse
At Converse Indiana near Peru, a Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad coaled maintenance crew of 30 was struck when two coal cars overturned. Nine died, five were seriously injured, and several others were injured as crews recovered bodies and treated the wounded at Marion and Wabash hospitals.
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Peru
Ind
Severn
Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad
Converse
Marion
Wabash
William O. McMinn
D. W. Nichols
Marion A. Mathias
W. Reily
R. Mills
H. Woodford
J. Thomas
George Panagiotelis
Edward Brandt
George Keil
Lockland
Tony Bray
Steubenville
Governor Smith’s Cigar Denatured for Throat Healing
Governor Smith appeared at the State Capitol after returning from New York on June 3 smoking a cigar treated to remove nicotine to protect his throat. He reported full recovery of his voice as he spoke at the capitol, while Minnesota’s Norse American Centennial celebration drew a large crowd at the State Fair Grounds and a windstorm, with several fainting attendees, while President Coolidge praised Norwegian immigrants during the event.
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Albamt
MS. Y
Smith
New York
Minnesota State Fair Grounds
Coolidge
Rto
Northwest
Henrik Shipstead
Minnesota
Senate
Kellogs
United States
St. Paul
Kellogg
State House
Washington
Abraham Lincoln
Shakespeare
Palestine
Holy Land
Norway
America
Tme
Concord
Lexington
U. S. General Chamberlaine Killed in Paris Traffic Crash
Brig. Gen. William Chamberlaine, chief of Railway Artillery for U S forces at Belleau Wood and St Mihiel, was killed in Paris when his taxicab crashed with a tramcar at Boulevard Raspail and Rue de Rennes. He died at a hospital a few minutes after the collision. Born in Virginia in 1871.
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Arno Dosch-Fleurot
New York World News Service
Paris
William Chamberlaine
Belleau Wood
St. Mihiel
Boulevard Raspail
Rue de Rennes
General Chamberlaine
Virginia
N. Y. World News Service
N. Y. World) Press Pub. Co
Boy Dies of Lockjaw From Foot Bruise
Earl Bullock a 10 year old of 206 Williams street Lockland died at General Hospital from tetanus caused by a stone bruise suffered barefoot two weeks earlier. His mother Mrs White had taken him to Kentucky to visit relatives before he fell ill. Doctors said infection likely came from a fragment lodged in the boy's foot.
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Earl Bullock
Williams Street
Lockland
General Hospital
Mary White
Kentucky
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