Shepherd murder trial ends two hour session with probes on germs
Chicago June 13 legal fight continues in Shepherd murder trial as nine witnesses testify. Defense losses include expunging Gehling testimony while the court weighs cross examination of Dr Amante Rongetti. Evidence highlights secret lab, impoverished status and future wealth expectations. Jurors gain liberty breaks as wedding witnesses occur nearby.
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Chicago
Shepherd
William Scott Stewart
Thomas J. Lynch
William Nelson McClintock
Dartmouth University
William Darling
Stewart
Amante Rongetti
Ashland Boulevard Hospital
Rongetti
Charles C. Farman
Billy McCliptock
Emma Nelson McClintock
McClintock
Robert E. Crowe
Jerome Mattllo
Indianapolis
Ind
Louis Sbarbaro
Matillo
Texas
Crowe
Lincoln Park
Billy McClintock
Isabelle Pope
Dudley Pope
Virginia Buell
Pope
Edward Lootweiler
Billy
Bullets Fly as Family Move Sparks Tragic House Fire
Wallace Sayre 22 returns to his father Alfred Sayre's home in Charleston West Virginia to find new residents R W Harvey living there. Harvey shoots Sayre four times in the legs. Ernest Anderson hears the disturbance and falls from a roof, breaking both arms while his younger brother sustains a broken leg.
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New York World News Service
Charleston
Wallace Sayre
Marshall College
Huntington
Alfred Sayre
R. W. Harvey
Harvey
Sayre
Ernest Anderson
Death of Mt. Auburn High School catcher linked to earlier blow
Ralph Schulte a 16 year old Woodward High School baseball catcher died after drowning in Chester Park lake while three boys tried to revive him. He reportedly suffered a head injury from a thrown ball two weeks earlier and had undergone violet ray treatment after partial paralysis.
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Ralph Schulte
Walker Street
Mt. Auburn
Woodward
Chester Park Lake
Schulte
Thomas Broadwell
Vine Street
Robert Miller
Edinburgh Terrace
Ridgewood Avenue
Winton Place
W. W. Astler
Wyoming
Outlook Athletic Club
General Hospital
Violet Ray
Joseph F. Schulte
Funny visit to Sing Sing ends in awe for girl
May Bittle seven and her mother toured Sing Sing Prison to visit George Bittle a Buffalo taxi driver sentenced to death for the murder of jewelry clerk Gus Eller on May 10 The girl stared in wonder at the heavy visiting cage and the death house surroundings as she spoke of first grade life with a keeper.
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New York World News Service
Ossining
N. Y
May Bittle
Sing Sing
George Bittle
Buffalo
Bfus Eller
May
Bittle
Deathhouse
Bandits Shoot Oil Seller in Columbus Hold Up
Police and deputies hunt two white bandits after they robbed a Columbus filling station and killed Frank Wentz, 50, who was visiting the attendant Archie Loveberry. The two fled on foot from a car with Ohio license 11,010.
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Columbus
Frank Wentz
Wentz
Archie Loveberry
Loveberry
Ohio
Klan Dragon jailed in income tax case
Enver June 13 Federal Judge Symes jailed Dr. J. G. Locke Grand Dragon of the Colorado Ku Klux Klan for contempt of court after he failed to produce 1913 to 1924 records in a federal income tax hearing. He was taken to the county jail and detained until records are produced.
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Associated Press
ENVER
Symes
J. G. Locke
Colorado Ku Klux Klan
Miners Loot and Fire Sets Cape Breton Town Afire
Looting and arson by striking miners hit stores around Glace Bay and Sydney mines as night of destruction followed a day of quiet. Company stores at Dominion No 1 2 3 and Grace Bay No 2 were looted or burned while residents aided fire crews and militia prepared to restore order. Damages estimated up to 300000 with no immediate police control.
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Sydney
British Empire Steel Corporation
Cape Breton
Glace Bay
Dominion
Toronto
New Waterford
William Connors
John MacVarish
Rory D. McNeil
Dominion No. 1
Grace Bay
Halifax
Basil Curry
Attorney General's Department
Steel
New Aberdeen
Troops Sent to Cape Breton Disorder Scene
Toronto dispatch reports 300 Royal troops left by special train for the Cape Breton strike area this afternoon fully equipped for active service. The force includes the Royal Canadian Dragoons and Royal Canadian Regiment from Niagara-on-the-Lake.
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Toronto
Cape Breton
Royal Canadian Dragoons
Royal Canadian Regiment
Niagara-on-the-Lake
Union Men Join Police To Aid in Keeping Order
Fifty members of the United Mine Workers of America were sworn in as Special Constables to patrol New Waterford streets during the strike at British Empire Steel Corp. Five thousand miners attended William Davis's funeral after he was shot by a steel corporation policeman during Thursday's rioting. The militia and provincial police under Lt. Col. W. H. P. Elkin remained at the steel plant in Sydney tonight.
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Associated Press
New Waterford
Nova Scotia
United Mine Workers of America
W. H. P. Elkin
Sydney
Radio eye lets officials view distant objects by beam
Washington June 13. An apparatus by which people may see movable objects miles away via radio was demonstrated by C Francis Jenkins. The test showed a cross on a screen produced from a beam of light through a light sensitive cell at a naval station. The device uses a revolving disc and mirrors to break images into flashes, creating continuous action on the screen. Secretary Wilbur and others watched the image movingly.
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Associated Press
Washington
C. Francis Jenkins
Wilbur
George M. Burgess
Bureau of Standards
Uip
Lady Darwin Sees Humans Making Monkeys of Themselves
New York reports Lady Darwin daughter in law of Charles Darwin, originator of evolution theory, said in New York that men are beginning to make monkeys of themselves amid the Scopes trial debate. She sailed later today on the Cunard liner Caronia for England.
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New York
Lady Darwin
Charles Darwin
John T. Scopes
Tennessee
Darwin
Cunard
Caronia
England
Miner Trapped Days as Rescue Continues at Baltic Mine
In Grassville California the Baltic mine tunnel holds Robert Hill trapped since Thursday. Rescue chief Robert Bedford reports Hill alive, cold and hungry, with debris about ten feet from rescuers. Air pipe comms enabled Hill to speak.
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Grassville
Cal
Robert Hill
Baltic
Alta Combination
Robert Bedford
Hill
Bill’ Daley
Daley
Solidar
Italy Demands Pay in Execution in Kabul Case
Rome reports Italy demands Afghan public apology and £7,000 indemnity for the June 2 execution of Italian engineer Davio Piperno. Mussolini insists on a Kabul regret, Afghan minister visit to the legation, and homage to the Italian flag plus repayment of prior blood money.
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Associated Press
Rome
Afghanistan
Davio Piperno
Mussolini
Kabul
Piperno
Italy
Fire Sweeps Paducah Lumber Firm and Cooperage
A midnight blaze in Paducah, Kentucky, sent all city fire apparatus except one unit to the Paducah Lumber and Manufacturing plant, with the fire spreading to Paducah Cooperage Company. A torrential dawn rain failed to halt the flames, with damages to lumber storage and mills expected to exceed 150000 dollars, while Cooperage damage remains unestimated.
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Paducah
Paducah Lumber and Manufacturing Plant
Paducah Cooperage Company
Eleventh Street
Cooperage Company
Tank Robbers Kill Policeman Four Captured
Bank robbers attack a bank as patrolmen respond to an alarm triggered by a banker. Four robbers are captured after a hold up. clerks are forced to lie on the vault floor during the incident.
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Detroit
Central Savings Bank
Chene Street
Harper Avenue
Polceman
Casimir Kaliszewski
Anthony Antonesolowski
Arthur Machus
Chicago
Stanley Wykowski
Stanley Podulski
John Podulski
Machus
Wykowski
Michael Szafran
Kaliszewski
Joseph Campau Avenue
Bank of Detroit
Fort Street
West End Avenue
Gang war in Chicago ends with police deaths and gang leader slain
Chicago roared with a two mile car chase and a deadly pistol battle as gangsters faced off with detectives. Officer William Sweeney killed Michael Genna and pursued two captured gunmen alias Scalice and Ammalino amid a citywide roundup.
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Chicago
Collins
William Sweeney
Angelo Genna
Michael Genna
Genna
Bis
Harold Olson
Charles Walsh
Michael Conway
Sweeney
John Sceali
Scalice
Albert Ammalino
Conway
Indorses War
William E. Dever
Dion O’barney
O’banion
Robert E. Crowe
Miracle Man Goes to Paris
Paris dispatch reports Beziat a southern France figure seeking to prove to savants that a secret universal force can cure disease. He has local fame for miracles claimed to straighten spines restore sight and make paralyzed men walk. He speaks of a space source of life to power cures and vows to demonstrate his powers to researchers.
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Paris
France
N. Y. World News Service
N.Y. World
Press Pub. Co
Wilhelm dreams of a constitutional German monarchy
Dr. Friedrich W. Mewes, once Kaiser Wilhelm’s adjutant, in New York on a business trip, says the former ruler hopes Germany someday has a constitutional crown with limited powers like King George. He doubts another monarchy will arise if the republic lasts a decade. The Kaiser lives modestly at Breslau and longs to visit America.
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New York
Kaiser Wilhelm
Germany
England
Friedrich W. Mewes
Dr. Mewes
Breslau
Kaiser
America
Reservations to World Court Plan Advocated by Mrs McCormick
Mrs Medill McCormick urged more reservations to American World Court participation. She criticized existing provisions as insufficient to separate the court from the League of Nations and urged equal voting, ending advisory opinions, and avoiding entanglement with the league.
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Coolidge
McCormick
Chicago
Medill McCormick
United States
Ilinois
Senate
League of Nations
World Court
Republican National Administration
Republican National Committee
Illinois
League
Court
British Empire
Bank Messenger Slain in France
In Paris on June 13 a bank messenger’s body was found crammed into a cupboard at the home of Dr Bougrat, a Marseilles physician. The victim had disappeared three months earlier while collecting about 1600 dollars. Detectives linked the doctor to the crime after a bad check led them to his residence and a strange odor aided the search.
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Arno Dosch-Fleurot
New York World News Service
Paris
Marseilles
Bougrat
Legion of Honor
N.Y
Mother to Take Babe to Prison Under Prohibition Order
Governor Donahey refused a pardon for Mrs. Mary Demos of Dover after a liquor sale conviction. She must accompany her three month old baby to the Marysville Reformatory while six other children are placed with neighbors and appointed guardians. The governor found her a repeated violator and willing to aid bootleggers.
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Associated Press
Columbus
Mary Demos
Dover
Marysville
P. J. Robert
Donahey
Demol
Robert
Della Shafer
D W. Gerber
F. H. Waldron
Demos
Reformatory
Riots Break Out at Kiu-Kiang Wreck British Japanese Residences
A Shanghai dispatch reports serious rioting at Kiu-Kiang on the Yangtze. British and Japanese consulates were wrecked and set on fire, looters plundered foreign properties, and Japanese shipping offices burned. Chinese troops and a naval landing restored order. Kiu-Kiang lies about 142 miles from Hankow and has a 60 000 population.
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Associated Press
London
Shanghai
Daily Express
Kiu-Kiang
Nisshin Kisen Kaisha
Butterfield & Swire
Yangtze
Hankow
Thousands of Canton Troops Surge Across River After Victory
Cantonese forces under Bolshevist officers surged across the river pursuing the Yunnanese, seizing Canton with 2,000 troops landing at Tungshan. The attack led to widespread looting, mob violence, and executions as civilians suffered amid the city’s fall.
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Canton
Associated Press
Kwangtung
Cantonesse
Tungshan
Six Missionaries to Sail for China Amid Riots
Six Episcopal Church missionaries four women and two men prepare to depart for Hankow China after attending the second annual conference of outgoing missionaries in New York City They plan to depart once the conference ends despite dispatches stating rioting in the region. Named are Charlotte C Anderson Hazel F Gosline Pauline Hill Margaret Roberts David R Haupt and A C Lichtenberger.
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New York World News Service
New York
Hankow
China
Episcopal Church
Mission House
Hankow City
Charlotte C. Anderson
Chicago
Hazel F. Gosline
Baltimore
Tornado Hits Hayfield Minn Wipes Out Village Section
Rochester Minn June 13 Most of Hayfield residential area and the entire business section were wiped out by a tornado this afternoon. No one was seriously hurt though many were cut or bruised by flying glass and timber.
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Associated Press
Rochester
Minn
Hayfield
Philadelphia Prohibition Agents Dismissed in Shake-Up
On June 13 nine federal prohibition agents were dismissed in Philadelphia bringing the two day total to thirteen. Eight were discharged on orders from Washington and one who resigned yesterday quit after reconsideration. A Washington telegram said the dismissals were for the good of the service.
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Philadelphia
Washington
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