Fall deposition sought in Teapot Dome case despite illness
In Washington, attorney Dan Thew Wright to depose former Interior Secretary Albert B. Fall at his El Paso home on March 29 to support Harry F. Sinclair’s defense in the Teapot Dome conspiracy. The session, limited to brief talks, will be private and read in court later if permitted.
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Washington
Albert B. Fall
Harry F. Sinclair
Jennings Bailey
District of Columbia Supreme Court
Sinclair
Fall
Teapot Dome
el Paso
Tex
Daniel Thew Wright
M. B. Bull
EF Paso
Atlee Pomerone
Owen J. Roberts
Wright
George P. Hoover
Yeapot Dome
Justice Bailey
Ragland
New Mexico
Big Jim Morton Denied Freedom by Ohio Court of Appeals
The Franklin County Court of Appeals refused a habeas corpus writ for Morton the Cleveland bank robber. The court ruled the Ohio Board of Clemency issued a conditional release ending with no final release, allowing retaking if Morton remained in the state. Morton had been paroled to Michigan for Detroit trial and returned to Ohio Penitentiary.
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Columbus
Franklin County Court of Appeals
Big Jim
Morton
Cleveland
Ohio
Allread
Fernelding
Kunkle
Michigan
Detroit
Board of Clemency
Manicurist Seeks 5000 Dollars Over Kiss Stolen
Beulah Bentler, 19, of Norwood, files a damages suit against Charles H. Leggett in Madisonville alleging he forcibly kissed her during a March 8 visit to his barber parlor at 5007 Whetsel Avenue. She seeks 5000 dollars to restore harmony and claims he also pressed smoking and drinking.
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Charles H. Leggett
Whetsel Avenue
Madisonville
Beulah Bentler
Quatman Avenue
Norwood
Leggett
Experts foresee reduced federal tax cut amid budget limits
Washington officials debate a possible 180 to 200 million tax reduction this session as Congress faces large appropriations for flood relief and other programs. Treasury says receipts meet estimates but appropriations exceed them, while White House warns against overreach and Mellon signals cautious optimism about tax relief this year.
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Washington
Congress
Treasury
Coolidge
Senate
White House
Capitol
Mellon
Stock prices surge on New York Stock Exchange
Prices of memberships rose to a record $350000 as total NYSE sales topped 2.0 million shares for the third straight Saturday. General Motors gained $4.75 to a new high near $192 while several other heavyweights like Du Pont and US Cast Iron Pipe posted near record climbs amid cautious profit taking and strong trading.
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New York
New York Stock Exchange
General Motors
SaJes
John J. Raskob
Hudson Motors
Hupp Motors
Packard
du Pont
United States
American Locomotive
American Snuff
Sears-Roebuck
Osborne Bank President Ends His Life Amid Shortage Concerns
Frank Denman, president of the First National Bank of Osborne, shot himself at his home as three national bank examiners prepared to visit. The bank, with about 300000 in deposits, closed after a brief run following discovered irregularities estimated between 8000 and 10000. The examiners said Denman could not or would not explain the discrepancy, but the bank otherwise appeared sound.
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Osborne
Kan
National Bank
Frank Denman
First National Bank of
Denman
Firms, Exibitors Face Conspiracy Charge in Film Dispute
The U S District Attorney filed a Sherman act conspiracy complaint against eleven major film companies and the Chicago Exhibitors Association for withholding films under wage disputes. Defendants include Metro Goldwyn Mayer Paramount Famous Players Lasky First National Universal United Artists Fox Pathe Film Booking Office Vitagraph Columbia and Renown. Penalties include up to two years in prison and penalties for individuals and firms.
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Chicago
Government Today
United States District Attorney
Chicago Exhibitors’ Association
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Paramount- Famous Players-Lasky
First National
Universal
United Artists
Fox
Pathe
Film Booking Office
Vitagraph
Columbia
Renown
Six Mysterious Killings Form Defense in Wife Slaying
At a preliminary hearing in Glathee Kansas Dr S Oliver Netherton faces murder charges for killing his wife on February 24. His defense cites a 45 year pattern of family deaths linked to an earlier cousin and two unidentified men seen near the Netherton home. The chief witness is Bertha Strahl of Lawrence, tied to multiple Strahl family slayings including Dode, Roll, Colbert, Arthur, and Sean Strahl in Illinois Iowa South Dakota and California.
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Awilda Molleson
Netherton
Brady
Bertha Strahl
Lawrence
Kan
Dode Strahl
Deadwood
Roll Strahl
Dode
Extra
Colbert Strahl
Roll
Arthur Strahl
Chicago
Sean Muir
Los Angeles
Bomb Explosion Triggers Panic Near Lexington Ave Station
An explosion believed to be a bomb rocked a vacant shop near the Lexington Avenue subway at Fifty first Street in New York causing extensive damage and public fright. A cigar shop and a cleaning establishment above felt the blast while two people were knocked down but not seriously injured. The Lexington Avenue station and nearby Loews Theater and Beverly Hotel were affected as crowds rushed outside and police responded, with no major subway disruption.
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New York
Lexington Avenue
Fifty-first Street
Loew’s Theater
Beverly Hotel
East Side
Murder Trail To Penitentiary Probes Riley Slaying
Detective James Fuller and Campbell County Prosecutor Roger L Neff Jr sailed to Atlanta to enlist a crew to reopen the murder investigation of Louis C Riley an Erlanger Ky automobile salesman found shot on the Licking pike south of Newport on February 1 1927 A Cincinnati tip sparked the trip amid bootleg war theories and a potential motive involving liquor running from Detroit The victim's car was later found abandoned in Newport with possible suspects tied to rival bootleggers and a Cincinnati woman connected to the tip
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James Fuller
Newport
Roger L. Neff, Jr
Campbell County
Atlanta
Louis C. Riley
Erlanger
Licking Pike
Cincinnati
Fuller
Neff
Riley
Detroit
Automobile Company
Hughes
Robinson Robinson Fights Over Campaign Lies in Senate
In a noisy Saturday session Senator Robinson of Indiana and Senator Tydings of Maryland sparred over his remark that Gov. Smith and his allies peddled "campaign lies" about the oil scandal. Robinson withdrew the phrase and substituted misrepresentations, while Senate leaders urged restraint as Fess cautioned against violating rules. The exchange touched on the Jackson appointment and ongoing naval oil reserve probes.
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Washington
Congress
Robinson
Indiana
Gov
Smith
New York
Sinclair
Teapot Dome
Tydings
Maryland
Fess
Senate
Gov. Jackson
Curtis
Kansas
Walsh
Montana
Naval Oil Reserve Leases
Gov. Smith
Nye
The
Alleged Kirby Privileges To Be Subject Of Report
A confidential report will be sent to Federal Judge Killits in Toledo on alleged privileges for Josiah Kirby, ex Cleveland Discount Co president, at Atlanta Federal Penitentiary by A U S Attorney Donald C Van Buren. Van Buren returned from Atlanta but declined to release findings. Kirby is serving seven and a half years for mail fraud and jury fixing.
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Cleveland, O
John M. Killits
Toledo
Josiah Kirby
Cleveland Discount Company
Atlanta
Donald C. van Buren
United States
van Buren
Kirby
Jones State Of Health Given As Fair After Operation
Ralph H. Jones president of the Ralph H. Jones Company Advertising Agency was in fair condition at Good Samaritan Hospital after undergoing a serious operation Friday.
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Ralph H. Jones
Ralph H. Jones Company
Good Samaritan Hospital
Jones
Two Ohioans Die in Plane Crash Near Chillicothe
Chillicothe O March 24 Wallace Goldsberry 32 and Everet Depew 30 both of this city were killed this afternoon when Goldsberrys airplane nose-dived from a low altitude near Hopetown two miles north of here. Goldsberry was the pilot and owner. Depew was a painter and student aviator who had just taken off from the farm where the crash occurred minutes earlier.
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Chillicothe
Wallace Goldsberry
Everet Depew
Goldsberry
Hopetown
Here
Depew
Parachutists Safe After Plane Wires Snap Over Quincy
Parachute jumps from 3000 feet over Quincy end with both aviators uninjured. Lieut Walter C. Greene of Atlantic City and Lieut Samuel Caldwell of Providence escaped serious harm after the plane's control wires snapped. The wreckage damaged a chimney, struck another house, and the fuselage landed in a backyard.
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Quincy
Mass
Walter C. Greene
Atlantic City
Samuel Caldwell
Providence
French critic recalls jazz roots in French heritage
Fortunat Strowski, eminent French author, claims jazz is old French music grafted by Mississippi Black musicians. He visited the United States and found echoes of Normandy, Picardy and Poitou tunes in jazz, noting rhythm without melody and urging French critics to beware judging American taste.
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M. Strowski
South
Paris
Fortunat Strowski
America
The
Institute of France
United States
Normandy
Picardy
Poiton
Mississippi Basin
Lindbergh Extends Flights to Ambassadors Under New Rules
Col Charles A Lindbergh will pilot an aerial taxicab again on Monday with new regulations. He may carry ambassadors ministers and heads of legations plus two companions from each party while limiting passengers from Congress to kin. He ferried about 850 passengers in three days and today carried over 1300 in 29 flights. He will retain discretion on further travel dates.
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Washington
Charles A. Lindbergh
Congress
Lindbergh
Dwight Davis
Cynthia
LaGuardia
New York
Col. Lindbergh
Lindy
Bolling Field
Mexican highwaymen rob travelers near Mexico City
A band of about fifty highwaymen seized a pay car carrying fifty thousand dollars on the Puebla route near Mexico City. They robbed four autos and eleven buses, wounded two guards, and fled into the hills. Mexican federal troops hunted the gang while Ambassador Morrow’s party was reported safe.
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Mexico City
Puebla
National Highways’ Commission
Jesse James
Popocatepetl
Dwight W. Morrow
William Dawson
Genaro Estrada
Morrow
Foreign Office
Britain pushes new limits on capital ships at disarmament talks
At Geneva March 24 delegates report Britain proposing to cut future battleship size from 35 000 to under 30 000 tons and reduce main guns from 16 to 13 1/2 inches while extending life of existing capital ships from 20 to 26 years. The Preparatory Disarmament Committee adjourns after adopting the security pact draft and deferring Russian and German proposals.
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Geneva
Switzerland
Lord Cushendun
Great Britain
Jonkheer Loudon
Holland
Security Committee
Litvinoff
Falls to death taking canoe from building window
Albert Wescott, 19, of Dayton, Ky., was killed when a rope broke while he helped lower a canoe from a third floor window at 1135 Third Avenue. The rope end entangled him as Louis Burnett, 19, watched and later rushed him to Speers Hospital, where he died. Burnett survived. Wescott's skull fracture was ruled the cause.
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Albert Wescott
Dayton
Third Avenue
Speers Hospital
Louis Burnett
Fourth Avenue
Wescott
Burnett
Hanly
George Wescott
Frank
Lawrence
George Wescott, Jr
Merne Krell
Howard and Krell
Admits murdering wife but pleads not guilty
Arthur Battelle, 40, a Grove City painter salesman, confessed to beating his wife to death with a hammer in their Grove City home. He pleaded not guilty to a first degree murder charge, was bound over to the grand jury without bond, and was arrested in Columbus after seeking shelter. He reportedly admitted the killing after a domestic argument.
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Grove City
Arthur Battelle
Irvin Demorest
Battelle
Columbus
Friends
Franklin County Prosecutor’s Office
Plague of grasshoppers feared in Southern New South Wales
An Evening News dispatch reports a major grasshopper invasion approaching Southern New South Wales. The advance guard is twenty miles ahead, with swarms extending ten miles, rapidly consuming an abundant grass crop.
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London
Evening News
Sydney
New South Wales
Lone Robber Holds 19 at Bay Escapes With 60 in Clifton Store
A lone thief threatened nineteen shoppers and staff at a Clifton Kentucky chain store on Seventeenth Street and Park Avenue around 8 pm He emptied two cash registers taking 60 dollars before slipping away likely in a nearby car. Police Chief Chester Herfurth and Officer Siddell responded after the escape.
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Campbell
Kenton
Seventeenth Street
Park Avenue
Clifton
Joseph Seissinger
Sec
Chester Herfurth
Herfurth
Sidell
Ohio Woman Aged 106 Dies In Cleveland
Mrs. Mary Uher aged 106 dies in Cleveland today. A native of Bohemia she came to the city fifty seven years ago.
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Ohio
Cleveland
Mary Uher
Bohemia
Gold Note promoter sentenced to long prison terms
Clarence A. Cochran and associates were convicted of using the mails to defraud Northwest investors of more than $2,000,000. Cochran received twenty years, with Andrew E. Nelson and Edward J. Ritter also given twenty-year terms. Other defendants drew ten to five year sentences, and a thirty-day stay of execution was granted to allow appeals.
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Anton Schiblen
George Rocheford
A. F. Meyer
Louis Tobias
Richard O. Naegle
William Kruschel
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la Guardia
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