Saunders Indicted in Fraud Charge Over Stock Sale
Ex-CEO Clarence Saunders, once a $3 million financier and head of Piggly Wiggly, faces six counts in a true bill alleging fraudulent use of the mails in a stock promotion after his 1923 NYSE coup. Stock bought at about $55 fell to $12 and later hovered near $20. He is expected to seek bond.
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St. Louis
Clarence Saunders
Piggly Wiggly Stores, Inc
Memphis
Iem
Saunders
Piggly Wiggly Head
Tock
Piggly Wiggly
New York Stock Exchange
Piggly-Wiggly Investment Company
New York Stock Exchange Board
Saunders Regrets Fifth Encounter With Burch in Fight
Clarence Saunders former Piggly Wiggly president said he regrets his fifth clash with John C. Burch secretary of the same chain. Saunders spoke after learning of his indictment in St Louis for allegedly using maids to defraud. He claimed Burch had no part in the indictment.
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Saunders
Burch
Associated Press
Memphis
Tenn
Clarence Saunders
Piggly-Wiggsly Corporation
St. Louis
John C. Burch
Piggly-Wiggly Corporation
Lawrenceburg tragedy ends in double misbelief shooting
In Lawrenceburg Kentucky on February 20 Roger Phillips 25 shot himself after firing at his rival Harriett Burns 15 and Forrest Hahn 22 as they left a basketball game at the Christian Church gym. Phillips believed he had killed the rival and the girl. Both Burns and Hahn survived uninjured.
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Associated Press
Lawrenceburg
Roger Phillips
Phillips
Lawrenceburg Christian Church Gymnasium
Harriett Burns
Forrest Hahn
Hahn
Waterman Announces Colorado Senate Bid
Charles W. Waterman of Denver announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination to the United States Senate from Colorado. He is general counsel of the President's Oil Board. The announcement came in Washington on February 20.
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Waterman
Associated Press
Washington
Charles W. Waterman
Denver
President's Oil Board
United
Colorado
Prospective tenants respond to four room apartment ad
Local man advertised a four room rental and, after contacting The Commercial Tribune Classified Ads, several prospective tenants located the unit within two days. The prompt Classified service aims to connect landlords with suitable renters quickly. Betty Bell is available to assist with writing ads over the phone.
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The
Commercial Tribune
Shock over daughter’s wedding kills 102 year old mother
In Durham North Carolina on February 20 shock and displeasure at the marriage of her seventy five year old daughter is cited as the cause of death for Mrs White aged 102 at her McDowell County home. The funeral followed as the daughter and her husband began a bridal trip to Arkansas.
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New York World News Service
Durham
N. Cc
White
McDowell County
G.S. Justice
Tragedy in Troy as Mrs Nesbitt slain at home
Police probe the murder of Mrs Frances Frank Nesbitt at her Troy Ohio residence. Husband Jacob Nesbitt, a Dayton native, is questioned as investigators seek transient suspects. Both OSU graduates known for sports prowess. death ruled by a fractured skull with no sign of robbery.
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Troy
Dayton
Frances Frank Nesbitt
Hance
Nesbitt
Charles Drake
Yesteray
Frances Nesbitt noted for Ohio State athletics
Mrs Frances Nesbitt 25 was killed at Troy yesterday. While at Ohio State University she played tennis and basketball, earned a BA in 1921, and belonged to no sorority. Her husband Jacob Nesbitt, a 1923 BS in business graduate, also attended the university and played football before withdrawing for studies.
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Jacob Nesbitt
Nesbitt
HITS EFFECT OF DRY LAW AS PROBLEM IN COLLEGES
Mrs. Maxwell Hall Elliott, president of the Hunter College Alumni Association, says prohibition creates a serious college problem. She notes students imitate older peers drinking at clubs and social events and sneak to cars between dances for prohibited beverages.
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New York World News Service
New York
Maxwell Hall Elliott
Hunter College Alumni Association
College
Naonal Democratic Club
Elliott
Thee
Harvard
Perry
Two Cities Join In Frantic Hunt For Mad Killer
Omaha and Council Bluffs police lead a tense joint manhunt for a elusive sniper using a 22 caliber rifle or automatic pistol. A third victim fights for life as officers cordon rail yards and patrol neighborhoods while residents fear renewed attacks and churches report quiet.
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Mad Killer
Omaha
Neb
Council Bluffs
William McDevitt
Johnson
McDevitt
Mysterious Omaha sniper terrifies city with seven day reign
Omaha Neb feb 20 a silent killer roams the city firing from a long pistol leaving empty shells as its only trace. The madman has killed two and wounded another while terror spreads across theaters stores churches and transit as residents stay indoors and police search for a 30 year old man in a leather coat using a silenced firearm.
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New York World News Service
Omaha
Neb
Thompson-Belden
People’s Church
Chicago
St. Louis
Kansas City
Johnson
Suspension Bridge Owners Contest State Authority Over Toll Investigation
The Covington and Cincinnati Bridge Company sued in U S District Court at Covington to stop a Kentucky legislative committee from probing its books to lower tolls. Named defendants include Rep Harry J Meyers and other lawmakers. A three judge FRFrankfort hearing was set for Wednesday.
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Kentucky
Harry J. Meyers
Covington
Phil Ryan
Newport
D. C. Jones
Harlan County
L. C. Littrell
Owenton
O. V. Brown
Owensboro
Cc. C. Longmeter
State Senate
Bridge Company
Legislative Committee
Longmeier
Shelly D. Rouse
United States
Cochran
District of
Maysville
Mooreman
Dawson
Frankfort
Rouse
Executive Department of the State
Fields
Daugherty
Supreme Court of the United States
Senate
Pittsburgh Teen Defies Odds After Diving Accident
Sixteen year old Rody P. Marshall Jr. of Pittsburgh, paralyzed since an August Narragansett Pier dive, shows signs of recovery. Doctors mark progress as he gains finger movement and is seen by Dr. Acheson Stewart, while his mother’s prayers and steadfast bedside devotion accompany the cautious optimism.
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New York World News Service
Pittsburgh
Rody P. Marshall, Jr
Rody P. Marshall
Narragansett Pier
R. I
Aed
Soeeaven
Rody
Acheson Stewart
Portrait of Washington Found in Lombard Attic
A last portrait of George Washington, said to be the only mathematically exact likeness, was recovered from a trunk in the Lombard Illinois home of G W S Philip. Made in 1798 by St Memim using a pantograph the copper etching original pantograph was found. The Chicago Historical Society was shown the value of the find.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Ill
G. W. S. Philip
George ‘Washington
St. Memim
Chicago Historical Society
Federal padlock sought for Brevoort Hotel in New York
Prohibition padlock proceedings were started against the Brevoort Hotel on Lower Fifth Avenue. United States Attorney Emory R. Buckner sought closure of the entire building, noting two women agents bought liquor in the hotel restaurant.
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Associated Press
New York
Lower Fifth Avenue
Emory R. Buckner
United States
Buckner
Elks’ Cluba
Countess Cathcart Faces Deportation Case In New York
The Countess Cathcart arrives to appear in Federal Court Tuesday over U S immigration admittance in a drama labeled Ashes. Judge Goddard allows her to testify in person as defense lawyers challenge the government case amid questions of moral turpitude and acts versus crimes.
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Goddard
Countess
New York World News Service
New York
Countess Cathcart
United States
Earl Carroll
Ellis Island
Hays
Buckner
Washington
Cathcart
London
Africa
Four Die and Six Hurt in Series of Fires
Authorities recount a series of blazes leaving four dead and six injured as firefighting crews battled multiple fires in East St. Louis and Greenville, S C. Victims reportedly included a man and two children trapped in a flaming boarding house as hoteliers reported casualties among guests and residents.
Millionaire sportsman Pearson dead in hotel fire
Frederick Beverly Pearson age 30, a wealthy sportsman, burned to death in a Claridge Hotel room after an evening of drinking and cabarets. Companion John Hogshead escaped. inquest cites a lit cigarette as the fire source. Pearson, son of the late Walter B. Pearson, left $2 million trust.
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Chicago
Frederick Beverly Pearson
Claridge
John H.hogshead
Pearson
Hogshead
Walter B. Pearson
Standard Screw Company
Ellen Pearson
Ae Young Pearson
Gladys Sams Pearson
Two Guests Missing in East St. Louis Hotel Fire
Fire destroyed the Arnold Hotel north wing in East St. Louis Illinois injuring three men and leaving two guests missing Bailey L Cato 40 Dawson Springs Kentucky and H L Cole 62 formerly of Springfield Illinois among the absent. Harry B Darling 45 East St. Louis News Review editor was hurt while lowering himself on a rope from the third floor. Most guests escaped by rope or ladders as firemen fought the blaze.
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East ST. Louis
Ill
Arnold Hotel
Bailey L. Cato
Dawson Springs
Illinois Central Railroad
H. L. Cole
Springfield
Harry B. Darling
East St. Louis News-Review
Wallace Calvin
Chicago
William B. Dever
Terre Haute
Ind
Fire at Greenville boarding house kills four, injures several
A blaze at Mrs. C. I. Smith’s boarding house in Greenville, South Carolina, results in the deaths of Russell Hamby and two children Evelyn and Earl Smith. Margaret Smith escapes by leaping from a second story window. Five others injured, including Mrs. Smith and three unidentified women.
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Hamby
Robbers Hit W. H. Smith Jewelry Store in Cleveland
Two men robbed the W. H. Smith jewelry store in Cleveland after tying up the owner and his wife. They fled with about $1,000 as a neighbor exchanged gunfire, and a 15 year old girl alerted a passerby who fired at the robbers. The pair escaped on foot. police chased but did not catch them.
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Cleveland
W. H. Smith
Smith
Mary
Everett Kauffman
Kauffman
Fourth nun dies of fumes in hospital tragedy
Dickinson North Dakota February 20 death today claimed Sister Theocara as the fourth victim of the St Joseph Hospital poison fume tragedy. Another sister remains in critical condition. The sisters fell ill after inspecting a new wing. doctors believe fumes from a wood stain paralyzed respiration.
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Dickinson
N. D
Theocara
St. Joseph Hospital
Beer offer to Congress may decide intoxicating value
Schlitz Brewing Company sent a telegram to Representative John P. Hill of Maryland offering to supply a case of real beer to each member of Congress before de alcoholization. Hill argued in a recent debate with Representative Blanton of Texas that pre prohibition beer was not intoxicating. If allowed, the brewery will ship a case to each member of Congress.
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Milwaukee
Wis
The
Schlitz Brewing Company
John P. Hill
Maryland
Congress
Hill
Blanton
Texas
Con
Daughter in New Orleans Poisoning Case Faces Trial
In New Orleans, Verdia Bussey, five, lies dying as police prepare to exhume her father and two siblings after a series of deaths in the family over eleven months. Mrs. Lawrence Bussey, 23, is jailed while authorities test for poisoning. The child says the mother forced bread with soap. the family’s deaths were previously attributed to natural causes. Life insurance of $3,000 was disclosed.
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New Orleans
Lawrence Bussey
Bussey
Clarence
Esther
Troops Deployed to Avert Lynch Threat in Mississippi
Jackson Mississippi February 20. Company M 155th Infantry Mississippi National Guard ordered to immediate duty to protect Harold Jackson and James Favre after arrest in the slayings of Federal agents W M Mingee and J A McLemore whose bodies were found near Picayune. Governor directed deployment after sheriffs across three counties reported open threats of lynching.
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Jackson, Miss
155Th Infantry
Mississippi National Guard
Gulfport
Harold Jackson
James Favre
Two Men Confess Ties to Mingee Murder in Picayune
In Picayune Mississippi Deputy Sheriffs report Jesse Favre and Buck Jackson confessed complicity in the murder of W. M. Mingee. Favre says Jackson did the shooting and names other men who are being sought in connection with the case.
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Picayune
Miss
Jesse Favre
Buck” Jackson
W. M. Mingee
Favre
Jackson
Visions of Klondike seen in Canadian gold rush
Toronto reports enthusiasm for Red Lake district discoveries in Northwestern Ontario with a spring water route rush expected. Claims have sold up to 60 000 dollars. Major C J A Cunningham Dunlop returns with word of a large vein of visible gold. The region lies 1200 miles NW of Toronto, 50 miles east of Manitoba, 140 miles from the nearest railway, reached by dog teams.
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Hartleybury
Ontario
Red Lake
Toronto
Manitoba
Hudson
Canadian National Railways
North Country
Farmer and Wife Found Dead in Leesville Tragedy
Neighbors entered the home of C. M. Jackson at Leesville to discover Jackson shot dead his wife also slain and their daughter 37 mortally wounded by an ax blow. Police believe a double murder followed by the killer's self-inflicted death.
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Leesville
N. C
C. M. Jackson
Jackson
Whisky Ring Bust Seizes Samples in Hotel Raid
State jury finds fifteen distilleries involved in an oil whisky ring. Hotel suite samples of whisky confiscated reveal a large illicit operation run by conspirators.
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Ohio
Five arrested in Chicago in raid on national wine and whisky ring
Police seized books and records in a hotel raid tying five men to a nationwide liquor distribution ring. Louis Cello of New York Morris Kominske of Brooklyn and George Maypole a Chicago clerk were among the arrests. materials indicate Roma Wine Company links to sacramental wine shipments from San Francisco to New York and on to Midwest cities.
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Chicago
Louis Cello
New York
Morris Kominske
Brooklyn
George Maypole
Baltimore & Ohio Raiilroad
Cello
Roma Wine Company
San Francisco
New York City
Roma
Pacific Coast
Panama Canal
Ring
Ring of rum by Philadelphia magnates cited by grand jury
Cleveland report details a nationwide conspiracy to violate the Eighteenth Amendment led by four Philadelphia millionaires with 30 associates controlling 75 percent of U S alcohol business. Fifteen distilleries produced about $1,000,000 weekly. output sold to wholesalers for $140,000,000 annually and retailing at 10 to 20 dollars a gallon.
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Cleveland
Bonings
San Diego
Providence
New York
Boston
Atlantic City
Baltimore
Newark
Philadelphia
Chicago
Treasury Department
Washington
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Wall Street
Ring
Grand Jury
Internal Revenue Officers
United States
Pennsylvania
Maryland
Kentucky
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Betty Bell
Ohio State University
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Lady Cathcart
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H. C. Pierce
Carmania
Aptain Pierce
Buffalo
Lord Craven
Greenville, S. C
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