Kirby asserts could have met obligations in twenty four hours
Josiah Kirby, founder and former head of the Cleveland Discount Company, testifies in his embezzlement trial that he could have met any obligation within twenty four hours. He explains stock swaps with George Fix and asserts the company owed him $500,000 rather than him owing $1,500,000.
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Cleveland
Josiah Kirby
Cleveland Discount Company
Kirby
Eagleson
George L .Fix
Higley
Randolh Y. McCray
McCray
Murphy’s Wife Sues Postal Worker for Alimony Again
In New York on June 19 Patrick J Murphy a postal employee was made defendant in his wife’s 33rd suit in 25 years. Mrs Murphy seeks alimony pending separation with the couple separated sixteen years. Murphy said he planned to hire a lawyer by year end as decision is reserved.
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New York
Patrick J. Murphy
Albert B.fall
Mammoth Company
Kennedy
Wryoming
Sinclair
Albert D. Walton
United States
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Harding
Navy Department
Interior Department
Congress
Navy
J. W. Zevely
Senate
Continental Trading Company of
Toronto
H. S. Osler
Midwest Oil Company
Sinclair Crude Oil Purchasing Company
Prairie Oil Company
A. E. Humphreys
Denby
Fall
Secretary of the Interior
the Navy
Roosevelt
J. K. Robinson
Navy Engineering
E. C. Finney
Teapot Dome
Executive Branch
Night air mail service planned between New York and Chicago
New plans announce overnight air mail between New York and Chicago starting July 1 with daily flights except weekends. Mail departs New York at 8 p m for Chicago and 9 30 p m from Hadley Field New Jersey arrives Chicago morning and returns, with pilots, planes, and emergency fields detailed.
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New York World News Service
New York
Chicago
Hadley Field
New Brunswick
N. J
New York Post Office
Cleveland
Air Mail
Bellefonte
Bryan
Complex battle for La Follette leadership in Wisconsin politics
Senate power shifts loom after La Follette death as factions argue succession. Ladd Frazier Shipstead and Norris are discussed as potential leaders while Kenyon is courted, but many resist returning to the Senate. The fight hinges on Blaine election timing and the balance with regular Republicans and Brookhart’s fate.
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New York World News Service
Washington
la Follette
Senate
Ladd
Frazier
Republican Party
Shipstead
Minnesota
Borah
Charles Beecher Warren
Kenyon
Iowa
Chamber
Norris
Nebraska
Blaine
Lenroot
Warren
Brookhart
Ernst
Kentucky
United States
World Court
Brandegee
Lodge
McCormick
Plans to extend overnight air mail from Chicago to Cincinnati
Postmaster Arthur L. Behymer and the Chamber of Commerce plan to push overnight air mail service beyond New York and Chicago to Cincinnati starting July 1. If successful, nightly mail planes would run between Cincinnati and Cleveland and connect with the New York Chicago route, aiding late mail deposits by local firms.
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Chicago
New York
Arthur L. Behymer
Chamber of Commerce
Cincinnati
Behymer
Here
Cleveland
Faked Navy Recruitment Story Exposed by Tribune
The Commercial Tribune apologizes for front page talk of a Kentucky girl joining the Navy to be with her sweetheart on the Asiatic fleet. The tale was a hoax by a Cincinnati impersonator using a Navy recruitment office to gain publicity.
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The
Commercial Tribune
Kentucky
United States Navy
Orient
Navy
Cincinnati
United States
France urged to rush help for Morocco front
Paris June 19 The parliamentary commission urged haste in sending re-enforcements to Morocco as Premier Painleve gains solid support from the Chamber of Deputies excluding Communists A broad offensive may follow in days Parliament backed Morroccan policy 525 to 32 and the government aims to restore France's prestige while postponing action against Communist relations with Abd el Krim
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Associated Press
Paris
Morocco
Chamber of Deputies
Painleve
M. Painleve
France
Abd-el-Krim
New York Murderer Pleads Guilty To Second Degree Murder
Charles Muller pleads guilty to second degree murder for the June 6 office shooting that killed Thomas Lonsdale Leeming a wealthy importer. Judge Rosalsky sentences him to twenty years to life and criticizes the parole system. Muller offered conflicting motives, including a claimed inheritance dispute and extortion attempts, but authorities doubt both explanations.
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New York World News Service
New York
Charles Muller
Thomas Lonsdale Leeming
Leeming
Rosalsky
Banton
Dineen
Muller
William Hayward
United States
James Marshall
World News Service
Plots Death of Wife Ends in Fatal Misidentification
In Chicago Charles Hemmerle, abandoned by wife Jennie, planned to kill her. He shot Mrs. Rose Girard at her home, then wounded his wife and killed himself. Mrs. Hemmerle survived with a minor arm wound.
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New York World News Service
Chicago
Charles Hemmerle
Jennie
Rose Girard
Amundsen North Pole expedition reunion drama unfolds
Oslo reports from June reveal Dagbladet detailing how Amundsen's party endured weeks on ice as Dietrichsen and Omdahl were saved from drowning by Lincoln Ellsworth. The Sjoeliv cutter ferried them to King's Bay with Amundsen and Risser-Larsen aboard.
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Oslo
Dagbladet
Amundsen
King’s Bay
Leif Dietrichsen
Oskar Omdahl
Lincoln Ellsworth
Hjalmar Risser-Larsen
Sjoeliv
Nils Wollan
Huggle Bay
Spitzbergen
Andren
Wollan
Kings Bay
Heimdal
Dane Island
Hobby
Associated Press
Coal Company
Wellman’s Bay
Amundsen Boys
Stewart Edward White Killed Leopard With Bare Hands in Africa
Stewart Edward White, noted author and hunter, killed a leopard with his bare hands to save two arrow-bearers during an expedition in East Africa near Tanganyika. He was clawed on the right shoulder and arm but survived, with the natives in serious condition. The expedition headed by Dr Saxton Pope of California and Dr Arthur H Young began in New York on March 7.
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Stewart Edward White
Leopard
East Africa
Saxton Pope
New York World News Service
Nairobi
British East Africa
Tanganyika
White
Mr. White
N. Y
New York
Africa
University of California
Arthur H. Young
Drunken Motorist Sentenced to Ten Consecutive Sundays
A. W. McCall of Miami was sentenced to ten days in jail for reckless driving while intoxicated. Judge C. T. Hoffman ordered the sentence served on ten consecutive Sundays from now until August 23 to avoid harming his family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miami
Fla
A. W. McCall
C. T. Hoffman
Defense Tears Into Testimony In Shepherd Trial
Chicago June 19 The Shepherd defense opens its case with plans to rest on Monday after four witnesses, as the state rests its cross examination of Farman. The defense attacks Farman's credibility and presents notes and testimony about the will and McClintock's estate, while outlining plans to impeach Faiman's reliability.
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Chicago
William Darling Shepherd
Thomas J. Lynch
Cook County
Charles C. Farman
Shepherd
William Nelson McClintock
Farman
National University of Sciences
Arthur T. Conway
Leavenworth
Kan
Faiman
William Scott Stewart
Conway
John P. Marchand
Marchand
Stoll & Shepherd
Hits
Eva Peterson
Isabelle Pope
Billy McClintock
McClintock
W. J. Mitchell
Stewart
Robert E. Crowe
George Fosberg
Crowe Shepherd
Earl Clark
Louis Kless
Robert White
Paris Dressmaker Found Guilty in Sister Murder Trial
Anna Levasser, a Paris dressmaker, was convicted of murdering her sister Anais after Anais begged to die due to terminal illness. Levasser received a two year imprisonment after confessing to firing multiple shots to end her sister's suffering. She described the death scene and said she acted to avenge the eviction and harm caused by the landlord rather than for self harm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Anna Levasser
Anais
Anna
Coolidge Opposes U S Involvement in European Security Pact
President Coolidge states the United States cannot join a European security pact proposed by France and supported by Germany. He maintains a long standing policy against such engagements and says no exception should be made. The issue arose after French notes suggested U S participation if possible.
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New York World News Service
Washington
Coolidge
United States
France
White House
Europe
Germany
Maine Governor Frees Arctic Territory Claim for MacMillan
Governor Ralph Brewster of Maine ordered Donald B. MacMillan to claim any polar territories he discovers for Maine as he sails for the Arctic tomorrow. The action authorizes territorial claims in the polar region by the state.
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Earl Ee Polar Land
The
Associated Press
Sarrese
Ralph
Brewster of
Maine
Donald B. MacMillan
Arctic
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Harry F. Sinclair
America
Wyo
Mammoth Oil Company
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