Indictment Effort Focuses on Shepherd in McClintock Case
Chicago March 15 Four witnesses prepared to testify before the grand jury to press for indictment of William D Shepherd foster father and heir and amid inquiries involving Miss Isabelle Pope the McClintock fortune and the typhoid death of the heir McClintock's body had been exhumed examinations ruled typhoid as cause Witnesses include Dr George Fosberg Dr Charles Farman John P Marchand and Chief Justice Harry A Olson Shepherd denies involvement and awaits grand jury decision expected by Wednesday
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Chicago
William D. Shepherd
William N. McClintock
Robert E. Crowe
John J. Healy
John Lee
Miss
Isabelle Pope
Los Angeles
McClintock
George E. Fosberg
Charles CC. Farman
National University of Sciences
John P. Marchand
University
Harry A. Olson
Municipal Court
Miss Pope
Young McClintock
Judge Olson
Shepherd
Faiman’'s University
Marchand
Connor
Crowe
Dr. Faiman
D. Theodore Pryor
Henry PD
Cambridge
Toronto
Faiman
Jaugene O'Connor
Savage
Marchard
Earl Clark
Hewitt
O’connor
Olson
Legion Post Protests Gagging of Karoly
New York World News Service reports the Willard Straight American Legion Post protests to Secretary Kellogg over continuing gagging of Count Michael Karolyi Hungary's first President. The post disputes former Secretary Hughes on free speech, calling the stance a technical defense of unwarranted war powers.
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New York World News Service
New York
Willard Straight
American Legion Post Today
Kellogg
Michael Kar Olyi
Post
Hughes
Hungary
State Department
Bandits Bind Wound Watchman in $10,000 Gem Theft
Three armed robbers looted the Straus Schram mail order jewel house in Chicago. They bound a black watchman and shot him, then dressed his wound and apologized. The men obtained bandages and disinfectants from the company hospital and bound the watchman to a mattress on the second floor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Straus & Schram
France Will Not Issue Gold Franc Amid Budget Show of Strength
Paris March 15 The Herriot government rejects a gold franc for international use despite Bank of France support. A balanced single budget is stressed to prove financial soundness while advancing no moves toward devaluation. The plan traces to preserve stability and avoid ordinary measures.
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New York World News Service
Paris
France
Herriot
Bank of France
Senate
Europe
World News Service
N. Y. World) Press Pub. Co
Germany to join League on equal terms amid neutrality debates
Berlin accepts the League of Nations basis for negotiation and will join at the next session. Germany seeks neutrality in punitive actions, but the League reminds that its military limits must be observed. She hopes to secure equality at the council while pursuing national interests.
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Berlin
Germany
League of Nations
League
Reich
Russia
Poland
N. Y. World News Service
N. Y. World) Press Pub. Co
African Virus Tossed in Fire at Washington
East African scientist journeyed 9000 miles to have hog blood with a dread virus incinerated by Dr. John R. Mohler of the Bureau of Animal Industry. A Swiss virus specimen faced the same fate. Congress has allocated 75000 dollars for international study as Mohler cites past outbreaks linked to French-origin virus.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
Bureau of Animal Industry
Bureau
John R. Mohler
Mohler
Congress
China
France
Riot disrupts Abramovitz talk leaves 15 hurt in Chicago
A riot at Garrick Theater during a lecture by R. Abramovitz led to at least fifteen injuries as police used clubs and blackjacks. Max Lerner, 30, was arrested as he allegedly directed hecklers. Police patrolled Randolph Street while crowds dispersed.
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Chicago
Garrick Theater
R. Abramovitz
Russia
Randolph Street
Loop Rialto
Abramovitz
Max Lerner
Pursuers Closing In On 10 Armed Convicts Who Fled Prison Camp
Ten white prisoners escaped from Parchman prison farm near Clarksdale Mississippi as guards were set to escort them to supper. The fugitives seized pistols from guards, fled in two cars toward Drew, and were later believed tracked in woods with a posse forming to recapture. One escapee listed is L O Nixon, serving a life sentence for murder.
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Associated Press
Clarksdale
Miss
Parchman
Drew
L. O. Nixon
Vicksburg
J. M. Gilbert
British Ship Abadesa Grounded Near Hebrides Lighthouse
Lloyds wireless from Seaforth Station reports the British steamer Abadesa of 4,229 tons net ashore on rocks by the Hebrides lighthouse. The vessel left Montevideo on February 17 bound for Liverpool.
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Associated Press
Lloyd’s Today
Seaforth
Hebrides Islands
Abadesa
Montevideo
Uruguay
Liverpool
Inquiry Into Mellon Tax Reduction On Steamship Firm
The Couzens Committee will resume its inquiry into the Atlantic, Gulf and West Indies Steamship Company tax reduction of about 7.3 million dollars approved by Secretary Mellon. Records show Mellon personally approved a 2.6 million dollar settlement when the claim was nearly 9.9 million. The panel will examine why Treasury waived 7.3 million without Shipping Board consultation amid questions of fraud and stock value changes.
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Citizens Committee
Mellon
A.G.W.1. Steamship Company
New York World News Service
Washington
Bureau of Internal Revenue
Couzens Committee
Atlantic, Gulf and West Indies Steamship Company
Couzens
Ernst
Senate
Michigan
Watson
Indiana
Kentucky
Jones
New Mexico
King
Utah
City
United States Shipping Board
Treasury Department
Shipping Board
Internal Revenue Bureau
Department of Justice
Atlantic, Gulf and West Indies Corporation
United States Court of Claims
Atlantic Gulf Oil Corporation
Atlantic, Gulf and West Indies Company
West Indies Company
Big Mama Bulldog Nurs es Baby Tigers in Macon Hotel Room
In Macon Georgia on March 15 two baby tigers born yesterday in a local circus winter quarters were being mothered by a large bulldog. An animal trainer placed the dog with her two puppies and the two tiger cubs in a hotel room to calm the cubs and prevent danger from the mother tiger.
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Big Mamma
Macon
Fortune grows for Charles Garland estate despite losses
The American Fund for Public Service reports the $900000 inheritance grew to $1200000 by June 30 1924 despite large expenditures. Gifts total $117782 and loans $26738 funded labor publications education and defense groups including New York Leader Federated Press and the Minne sota Daily Star while the fund aided ACLU free speech cases.
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New York
Charles Garland
Massachusetts
Wall Street
American Fund For Public Service
Garland
New York Leader
Federated Press
Minnesota Daily Star
The
Oklahoma Leader
Seattle Union’ Record
Polish Peoples’ Publishing Company
Labor Defense Council
General Defense Committee
Chicago
American Civil Liberties Union
Killed and wounded in Berlin police clash at red demonstration
One man died and three injured as police confronted a Communist demonstration in Neu Kolm a suburb of Berlin. The Halle clash Friday night left seven dead, including two women, in a separate confrontation between Communists and police.
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Berlin
Neukolm
Halle
Hallie
Hunger strike by 75 Communists at Fuhlsbuttel prison
Seventy five Communist inmates at the Fuhlsbuttel penitentiary in Hamburg have initiated a hunger strike. They are imprisoned for political offenses.
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Hamburg
Fuhlsbuttel
Poisonings in Medina County Family Home Alarm Cleveland Probe
Prosecutor Joseph A. Seymour shifts investigation to Cleveland as he anticipates an arrest within forty eight hours in the Gienke family poisonings. Nurse Rose Kohli reports illness after coffee served in the blue and white pot linked to the deaths of Sophie Hazel and Fred Gienke. Marie Gienke and Rudolph Gienke remain seriously ill alongside Rose Adams.
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Cleveland, CO
Mareh
Fred. Gienke
Lillian
Sophie Hazel
Valley City
Joseph A. Seymour
Medina County
Rose Kohli
Seymour
Gienke
Hazel
Kohli
Gienkes
Gienied
Elyria
Marie
Rudolph
Rose Adams
McCoy Jury Remains Deadlocked After Third Day
In Los Angeles on March 15 the jury in the Kid McCoy robbery and assault case entered its third day of deliberations without reaching a verdict. The panel of ten men and two women pressed on after dinner, with Superior Judge Charles Crail instructing them to continue until they reach a verdict in the shooting affray tied to Theresa Mors, whom McCoy was accused of killing last year.
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Associated Press
Los Angeles
Kid McCoy
Theresa Mors
Charles Crail
Government to Seek Tax Reductions and Penalty Pushback
The government plans to reduce taxes for fiscal year 1926 with a target of a $300 million to $400 million cut while applying penalties for delinquents starting tonight at 2 AM. Chairman Green of the Ways and Means Committee said the plan aims to lower the maximum surtax to 25 percent and push new legislation through for the next year.
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Washington
Green
House
Ways and Means Committee
Congress
Treasury
Mellon
Rehhinra
Washington Eyes Second Arms Conference Plans In Formative Stage
President Coolidge weighs a second arms conference with Kellogg after Europe’s rethink. Geneva’s report and Austen Chamberlain’s attack shape views as France’s security and naval limits test the protocol. Britain pursues a five cruiser yearly program over a decade.
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New York World News Service
Washington
Coolidge
Kellogg
Europe
League Council
Assembly
Whh
Geneva
Hugh Gibson
Switzerland
Austen Chamberlain
France
White House
Britain
Starving Wolves Besiege Vilna Near Edmonton
Vancouver based dispatch reports a large pack of starving wolves surrounding Vilna a settlement northeast of Edmonton Alberta. The RCMP in Winnipeg received the wolves reports and residents were urged to avoid night travel as fear grew. A sleigh party returning from a dance was chased by twenty wolves, men using gun butts to deter the attackers until the wolves withdrew near Vilna.
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Associated Press
Vancouver
B. C
Vilna
Edmonton
Alberta
Vancouver Sun
Winnipeg
Manitoba
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Warren's Nomination Battle Tests Constitutional Limits
Washington reports Charles Beecher Warren faces rejection as Attorney General a second time. Republicans and Democrats clash over recess appointments and the president's power to fill vacancies, awaiting a Senate vote amid planned opposition and possible prolonged session.
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Washington
Charles Beecher Warren
Warren
Senate
Coolidge
Butler
Goff
West Virginia
Shorth
California
Cunning
Iowa
Borah
Walsh
Montana
Heflin
Alabama
Paulina to Receive $1000 and Interest on Her Wedding Day
A $1000 bank account was opened in the name of Miss Paulina Longworth daughter of Representative Longworth of Ohio and Mrs Alice Roosevelt. The principal and accrued interest will be hers on her wedding day per Mrs Marshall Field of Chicago who presented the check after her birth.
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Paulina Longworth
Representative Longworth
Ohio
Alice Roosevelt
Longworth
Marshall Field
Chicago
War Honors Accor ded Transfer Of 250 Million
Four armored cars with machine guns and armed guards escorted $250 million in securities in transit from Metropolitan Trust to Chatham and Phenix National Bank. Tomorrow the banks will merge to form the Chatham Phenix National Bank and Trust Company.
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Associated Press
New York
Metropolitan Trust Company
Equitable
Chatham and Phenix National Bank
Singer
Chatham Phenix National Bank and Trust Company
Cache of liquor found in cemetery near Charleston
State agents uncovered a cache valued over 30000 dollars buried in a graveyard near Charleston. Four thousand two hundred seventy six quarts of champagne and imported whiskies were sealed in burlap bags. No claimant appeared despite hours of surveillance.
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Charleston
Louis Seelbach Sr in Serious Condition at Louisville Hotel
Louis Seelbach Sr a 72 year old prominent hotel owner in Louisville is in serious condition at his hotel apartment after a year long illness. Earlier reports of his death were incorrect.
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Louis Seelbach, SR
Louisville
Mr Seelbach
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