Nationalist forces seize Nanking and Chinkiang amid Shanghai revolt
Investigators link the Fitch murder to a Reading garage. Harry Turney, 27, is jailed as a key witness after detectives tie a scrubbing broom with blood stains to a hidden scene of a slaying. Shots heard near the garage and a car seen leaving after dawn support the case.
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Nanking
Chinkiang
Shanghai
Fitch
Harold H
Gus) Fitch
Cooper Avenue
Reading
Harry Turney
Market Avenue
Turney
Joseph Schaefer
Clem Light
Schaefer
Herman E. Kleine
August J. Beckman
Light
Woman Says Man Was Sentenced by Perjury
Marie Jackson 27 pleads guilty to perjury that sent Conda Dabney 26 to life for a murder he did not commit. A second man, Charlie Williams 25, a Free Point miner, is now charged with murder in a warrant after her confession implicating him in the killing of Mrs. Lelia Hicks Cole, who vanished in December 1924.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harlan, Ky
Marie Jackson
Conda Dabney
Charlie Williams
Free Point
Jackson
Williams
Lelia Hicks Cole
Dabney
Miss Jackson
Mary Vickery
City Market to Open on Hospital Site at Twelfth Street
City Council approved a new daily farmers market on the old city hospital grounds at Twelfth street and Central avenue. The market will operate daily except Sundays and holidays with a rental of fifty cents per vehicle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Old City Hospital
Twelfth Street
Central Avenue
City Planning Commission
Eighth Street
Col. Sherrill
Alfred Bettman
Frederick W. Hinkle
Planning Commission
General Repair Shop Plans Considered by Street Railway
Cincinnati Street Railway Company plans a new general repair shop to cost over $500000 for maintaining street cars. Hudson Biery said the project will be reviewed by directors soon and a site will be chosen for a centrally located plant. Officials stress the shop will handle repairs and maintenance only, not manufacturing, to reduce costs and improve service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati Street Railway Company
Hudson Biery
Biery
Street Railway Company
Cincinnati Car Company
Nicaraguan Arms Purchase From U.S. War Department
The Diaz government of Nicaragua bought 3000 Krag rifles, 200 Browning machine guns, and 3,000,000 rounds of ammunition from the U S War Department for 217 718 dollars, with notes due in monthly installments. The sale, under contract since 1927, was described as urgently needed to maintain law and order and to suppress revolutionary activity threatening Nicaragua and foreigners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Nicaragua
American War Department
State Department
United States War Department
United States
Obregon
Mexico
de la Huerta
Night club liquor ban upheld by U S appeals court
Chicago reports that the U S Circuit Court of Appeals ordered the closure of Al Tearney's Town Club Friar's Inn and Moulin Rouge for one year for patrons bringing in and consuming their own liquor. The ruling interprets kept liquor as any liquor kept in violation of the prohibition law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
United States Circuit Court of
al Tearney
Alschuler
Anderson
Page
Murder Indictments in Slayers Case
New York reports indictments of Henry Judd Gray and Ruth Snyder for the murder of Albert Snyder in Queens Village. Gray confesses to a former classmate that he lied, admitting guilt, as alibi schemes collapse. The pair face arraignment before Judge Stephen Callaghan.
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Gray
Albert Snyder
Henry Judd Gray
Ruth Snyder
Stephen Callaghan
Judd Gray
Syracuse
Queens Village
House of Cards
Newcombe
Haddon
Haddon Gray
Don Juan Leaves Two Wives in United States
Gus tavo de Medina former Chancellor of the Spanish Embassy fled to parts unknown with two American women who say they married him within four months Kathrina Van Rensselaer sought an annulment in Maryland after learning of a Spanish wife while Miss Dorothy Brumback filed for divorce in Peoria saying she wed in December and spent one week as his wife Embassy officials deny any connection between de Medina and the mission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York World News Service
Washington
Gustavo de Medina
Kathrina van Rensselaer
de Medina
Chestertown
Spain
Second Youths Body Recovered From Lake Michigan
Chicago March 23 A second boy's body washed ashore at Gary Indiana from Lake Michigan today, lending support to a drowning theory for three boys. Andrew Skubelek 11 was found yesterday. he and brothers John 15 and Walter Wojcik had been missing since Saturday after reportedly being in a boat on the lake.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Fireworks at Ford Libel Trial Involve Sapiro and Jury
Detroit March 23. Tense sessions in Aaron Sapiro’s 1,000,000 libel suit against Henry Ford featured repeated displays of temper and a push to amend the declaration to 141 alleged libels. Gallagher read back issues of the Dearborn Independent while Sapiro advised. Ford’s appearance as a witness was pushed to next week and rulings barred third party letters and certain letters from entering evidence.
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FORD
Sapiro
Detroit
Aaron Sapiro
Henry Ford
William Henry Gallagher
Ford Owned
Dearborn
Gallagher
Reading
William J. Cameron
Dearborn Independent
Fred L. Black
Fred M. Raymond
Cording
Harry H. Dunn
Berkeley
Cal
A. C. Cherry
Yakima
Wash
Northwest Hay Growers’ Association
Raymond
Independent
Dunn
Robert Morgan
Father Cannot Spank Daughter Twenty, Court Rules
New York court denies a father's right to spank his twenty year old daughter Ruth in a special sessions case. Abraham Lincoln Eglington bond broker is fined fifty dollars after conviction for assault he paid the fine and said he would appeal. He admitted turning his daughter over his knee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Court of Special Sessions
Abraham Lincoln Eglington
Houck to Return to Washington in Wife’s Death Case
Albany Oregon March 23 Dr Knute Houck detained here in connection with the finding of his wife body in the Potomac River at Washington D C will return to the capital as arrangements are made with Washington officials Dr Dean Crowell cousin of Houck said today Houck wishes mystery of his wife death be cleared up and local authorities have wired Washington for instructions or officers to accompany him.
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Albany
Ore
Knute Houck
Potomac River
Washington, D. C
Washington
Dean Crowell
Houck
Canton
Hornell
N. Y
Gallinger Hospital
Walter Reed Hospital
Baltimore
Mary Houck
LaCrosse
Wis
Madison
Oregon
Anacostia Bridge
Navy Yard
Body of Mrs. Gladys Houck found in Potomac near navy yard
The missing wife of Dr. Knute H. Houck is found in the Potomac River near Washington Navy Yard. Coroner reports no violence. husband sought for questioning as investigators review three theories of her disappearance.
South Carolina House Sustains Rich ards Veto on Sunday Law Liberalization
The South Carolina House of Representatives upheld Governor Richards's veto of the bill to liberalize Sunday observance laws, keeping the stricter state policy in place.
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Columbia
S. C
Secretly Married Sister Seeks Annulment in Haste
The court heard that Elizabeth Wessel Green 20 of 3669 Grovedale Ave wed Willard Green secretly on November 6 1926 in Alexandria Ky less than a day after their meeting. The annulment was granted because she was under legal age at the time. The case linked to Margaret Wessel Fitch whose husband Harold Fitch was murdered on Cooper Avenue.
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Hurley
Common Pleas Court
Elizabeth Wessel Green
Grovedale Avenue
Margaret Wessel Fitch
Harold H. Fitch
Cooper Avenue
Green
Willard Green
Vine and
Nixon Streets
California
Alexandria
Hamilton
Widow and Son Pay 700 Workers One Hundred Dollars
James J. Storrow Sr. died March 13 1936 and his widow and son completed a $100 distribution to each of the 700 firm employees. The move followed the late partner’s wish and was carried out in New York on March 23.
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New York
James J. Storrow
Lee, Higginson & Co
James J. Storrow, Jr
Stesrew
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Rendezvous
Miner
County Board
Mason Towle
Eighth District
Vine Street
Corryville
Finance Committee
Seventh
Eighth
Slayer
America
Diaz
U. S
War Department
Amer
Icans
Revolu
Augustus N. Hand
Josephine Mahone
Ali Rosenberg
China
Land of Celestials
Isabel
Hough
Preston
Noa
Pai Tsung-Hsi
Yangtse River
Tientsin
Yangtse
Commercial Tribune
Commercial Square
Cincinnati
Don Juan
U.S
Eglington
Hell
Mate
Potomac
Gladys Houck
Washington Navy Yard
District Attorney’s
Knute H. Houck
St. Elizabeth’s Hospital
Oddie
Rep
Nev
Coolidge
Work
Interior Department
Fice
Nevada
Secret Valley
Senate
Hawthorne
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