Father Confesses Killing Two Sons by Canal Gimmick
Indiana Harbor foundry worker George Chisholm alias George Smith, 36, admitted he killed his sons George Jr 9 Edgar 7 and attempted to kill himself after luring them to the Indiana Harbor Ship Canal with a promise to see their grandmother. He said he bound them with wire and placed a plank over the canal, then led them to walk and jump in. Police note discrepancies in his story and he cried at the morgue while viewing the bodies.
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Indiana Harbor
Ind
Indiana Harbor Ship Canal
George Chisholm
George Smith
Montreal
Chicago
Chisholm
Smith
George, Jr
Edgar
Robert
England
George
Ship Canal
Canal
Calumet City
Canada
Kroger Weds Mrs. Maher in Palm Beach Ceremony
Bernard H. Kroger, 68, retired Cincinnati philanthropist, marries Alice Farrington Maher, 34, in Bethesda-by-the-Sea Episcopal Church Palm Beach. The wedding, announced after a dinner by Mrs. Rudolph Homan, followed by a motor tour of the Florida West Coast. The couple plans May June in Cincinnati and later time abroad with Thomas E. Campbell.
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Kroger Grocery and Baking Company
North
Middle West
Winter Colony
Kroger
Navy panel backs 274 million shipbuilding program
The House Naval Committee approved a 274 million dollar plan to build fifteen eight inch gun cruisers and one aircraft carrier within three years. The report argues the expansion would round out U S naval strength to protect global interests and maintain peace, noting even with the new ships the U S would still trail Britain.
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Washington
House
Naval Committee
Andrew
Rep
Mass
Representaive McClintic
Dem
Okla
Great Britain
Jellicoe
Four Americans Die After Jail Break Fails on Mexican Border
Four Americans, alleged jail breakers, were shot and killed by Mexican officials on the Ensenada Tijuana highway after escaping Ensenada jail. Names reported: Elton Morehouse Russell E Tanner E Kirby and Lawrence Thompson. Tanner Kirby and Thompson were deserters from the United States Army. Morehouse was a discharged soldier.
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Calexico
Cal
Ensenada-Tijuana
Alphonso Pellegrin
Rodriguez
Mexicali
International Boundary Line
Pellegrin
Elton Morehouse
Russell E. Tanner
E. Kirby
Lawrence Thompson
Tanner
Kirby
Thompson
United States
Presidio of
Monterey
Morehouse
Ensenada
Tijuana
Stunt flyer dies after parachute fails over Greenwood
Spider Burns, 27, of St. Louis, aerial stunt performer, was killed when his parachute failed to open after leaping from a plane at 1,400 feet. Several thousand spectators witnessed the accident in Greenwood. The plane was piloted by Jess Windham of Memphis. Burns was a full blood Cherokee Indian.
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Greenwood
Miss
Burns
St. Louis
Jess Windham
Memphis
Sergt York Welcomes 12 Pound Son and Haig Letter
Nashville report notes Alvin C. York, WWI hero, father of a 12 pound son named Sam Houston York and recipient of a praise letter from Marshal Haig. York has sold business interests to oversee a mountain children’s school project. Haig letter commends leadership in war used for peace.
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Nashville
Tenn
Marshal Haig
Alvin C. York
Bemersyde
St. Boswells
Scotland
York
Sam Houston York
Grave exhumation starts in Chicago widows will forgery case
The body of Mrs. Mary Alice Dickinson is to be exhumed Monday as part of inquiries into alleged natural death and a forged will leaving most of her $100000 estate to nieces Miss Grace Johnson and Miss Margaret Johnson Davies. Coroner orders exhumation after claims a physician planned painless death. other relatives deny.
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Chicago
Mary Alice Dickinson
John Dickinson
Wall Street
Board of Trade
Grace Johnson
Margaret Johnson Davies
Evanston
Oscar Wolff
Henry Johnson
Kathryn J. Kane
Los Angeles
Mussolini Warns On Tyrol Press Clamp In Italian Reply
Premier Mussolini defended Italian Tyrol policy and warned that fifteen German language newspapers in Bolzano would be suppressed if Austria or foreign powers again interfere. He said insolent speeches fuel anti Italian bitterness and insisted on safety of 42 million Italians. He spoke calmly and said future notes would be unnecessary as facts would speak.
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Tyrol
Mussolini
Austria
Rome
Seipel
Upper Adige
Italy
Fuller
Massachusetts
Sacco- Vanzetti
Brenner Pass
Illinoisan Convicted in Pleasant Valley Schoolhouse Bombing
Hiram Reed of Mossville Illinois was found guilty by a jury of bombing the Pleasant Valley schoolhouse injuring teacher Miss Iola Bradford. Conviction carries one to twenty years with a new trial set for March 17. Reed showed no emotion as the verdict was read.
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Ottawa
Hiram Reed
Mossville
Ill
Pleasant Valley
Iola Bradford
Reed
Hiberty
Hiram
Russell O. Hanson
Daughter Slayer Gets Life For Child’s Murder
In Vanceburg Kentucky Robert H Pitts was found guilty of willful murder of his three year old daughter Mary Magdalene and sentenced to life imprisonment. A separate trial for his former housekeeper Mrs Marie Frazier ended with life imprisonment after a guilty plea. The jury added without mercy to the verdict against Pitts and the two defendants faced charges of beating and abusing the child until death.
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Vanceburg
Robert H. Pitts
Mary Magdalene
Pitts
Marie Frazier
Birth Fraud Case Entangles Michigan Executive Kin
Detroit reports a four year old child at center of a disputed birth certificate claiming he is the son of Myron L. Boyer, son of Burroughs Adding Machine exec Joseph Boyer. State Attorney General orders full inquiry into fraud risks and inheritance loss of 5 million dollars. Immigration officials consider visa for the child via Windsor to avoid deportation until the investigation ends. Myron Boyer sues to erase the birth record while Mrs Boyer admits faking the birth and vows to stay with the child regardless.
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Detroit
Myron L. Boyer
Joseph Boyer
Burroughs Adding Machine Company
Wilbur M. Brucker
Brucker
Harry M. Metcalf
Canada
John L. Zurbrick
Immigration
Zurbrick
Boyer
United States
Windsor
Myron Boyer
Union Passenger Terminals Work to Begin July 1
Engineers announce construction on the Union Passenger Terminals will start around July 1. Seven corps of engineers have worked months with Cincinnati Union Terminal Company staff drafting plans to transform the area between the river, Harrison Avenue, Lincoln Park and State Avenue. The project aims to relocate freight tracks and create a passenger terminal, with several streets vacated or redirected to connect to Central Parkway and President Square.
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Union
Corps of Engineers
Cincinnati Union Terminal Company
Harrison Avenue
Lincoln Park
State Avenue
Front Street
Harriet
Baltimore & Ohio
Big Four Railroad
Storrs Station
Harriet Street
Sixth Street
Mill Creek
Evans Street
Perrin Street
South Street
Eighth Street
West Street
Ninth Street
McLean Avenue
Highth Street
Richmond
Court Streets
President Square
Court Street
Central Parkway
Heiress Weds Cowboy Harness Maker Plans Western Ranch Home
Mrs. Kenneth Wilson Glaze, nee Barbara Monell of New York society, married Feb 21 to Colorado Springs harness maker Glaze. They plan to move to a ranch east of Colorado Springs within two months, with no honeymoon. Glaze, 27, six feet tall, described as Western romantic. mother approved.
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New York
Glaze
Newport
Colorado
Illinois
Colorado Springs
Plan to stage charity concert with Prince Joachiam cancelled
The International Dental Health Foundation for Children announced it canceled all negotiations for a March 13 charity concert at the Metropolitan Opera House with Prince Joachiam Albrecht after disputes with manager Paul Sydow. The wireless message cited demands for expenses and unpaid revenues, lack of written agreement, and tickets printed without prices.
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New York
International Dental Health Foundation For Children, Inc
Prince Joachiam Albrecht
Kaiser of
Germany
United States
Louise C. Ball
Majestic
Paul Sydow
Metropolitan Opera House
Sydow
Sydon
Remochats Put Leaders in Rage for Nomination
Senator Walsh of Montana enters Democratic presidential field with McAdoo backing and Roman Catholic ties while dry cause noted. Hoover and rivals push for White House. convention season nears as primary rallies intensify across states with Reed campaigning Pacific coast and Smith staking Idaho delegates.
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Washington
Thomas J. Walsh
Montana
William C. McAdoo
Gov. Smith
New York
Smith
Teapot Dome
Reed
Missouri
California
Kansas City
Houstott
White House
Hitchcock
Nebraska
Walsh
Herbert Hoover
Frank O. Lowden
Watson
Indiana
Willis
Ohio
Curtis
Kansas
Norris
Hoover
Paciffic Coast
Gov
Albany
George
Georgia
Hull
Tennessee
Robinson
Arkansas
Harrison
Mississippi
Ritchie
Maryland
Donahey
Idaho
McAdoo
Connecticut
Democratic Organization
Michigan
Miners feud shocks Pa district as four leaders slain
In Pittston and surrounding towns a deadly feud within the United Mineworkers escalates as four insurgent leaders are murdered and a fifth wounded. The dispute centers on contract mining, with Italian contractors blamed. a Colliery No 6 reopening aims to quell violence while unions and operators seek an accord amid broad unrest in the northern anthracite fields.
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New York World News Service
Pittson
Railroad Street
United Mineworkers of America
Pennsylvania Coal Company
The
United Mineworkers
Anthracite Conciliation Board
Scranton
Alexander Campbell
Rinaldo Cappellini
Itlian
Campbell
Cappellini
Senate Oil Prosecutor heads to Democratic melee in Houston
Senate Oil Prosecutor will join a heated Democratic contest in Houston Texas as campaign plans unfold and key figures mobilize for the primary fight.
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Senate
Smithsonian Proposes Label Change If Wright Donates Plane
Smithsonian Secretary C G Abbot offers to change the Langley machine label at the National Museum if Orville Wright donates the Kitty Hawk plane to the museum. Abbot cites Wrights wish to place the 1903 aircraft in a U S National Museum and seeks a fair hearing and terms.
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Smithsonian
Langley
Orville Wright
Washington
Wright Bros
Kitty Hawk
S. C
Smithsonian Institution
C. G. Abbot
Wright
British National Museum
Abbot
United States National Museum
United States
National Museum
National Valhalla of Aeronautics
Joseph S. Ames
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore
David W. Taylor
United States Navy
United States National Advisory Committee For Aeronautics
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