Aimee Semple McPherson Disappearance Sparks Venice Theories
Investigators pursue several theories about the evangelist's disappearance as supporters gather at Angelus Temple. Witnesses report possible sightings at the Beach Hotel and in a Los Angeles bound car. Coast Guard divers search Santa Monica Bay while police note threats linked to her anti saloon stance. Mrs McPherson's mother and daughter assist in services as the search continues.
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Los Angeles
Aimee Semple McPherson
Angelus Temple
Santa Monica
M. O. Barnard
Culver City
Mrs. McPherson
Beach Hotel
Venice
Aimee
Minnie Kennedy
McPherson
Baldwin Plan D Ejected by British Miners
British miners reject Baldwin Plan D as pressure mounts against policy. John L. Balderston reports on the industrial dispute and political fallout shaping labor and government responses.
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Baldwin
New Railway Labor Measure Faces Strong Opposition
London reports delegates of the Miners Federation reject Premier Baldwin's plan for peace in coal, insisting on no wage cuts or shorter workday. Government may seek neutral arbitration under Reading, with debates due as Parliament meets on June 1.
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New York World News Service
London
Miners Federation Today
Premier Baldwin
Baldwin
Marquess of Reading
House of Commons
Lloyd George
Labor
Earl of Oxford and
Asquith
John Simon
N. Y. World News Service
N. Y. World) Press Pub. Co
United States
Railway Labor Board
Reed Deneen and Bayard Bolt Campaign Inquiry Group
Senator Reed of Missouri plans to include the Anti Saloon League contributions in the slush fund probe. The Dawes five member committee unraveled after Dawes’ replacement and Pawlen Ware Pepper Pinchot primaries. Senator Deneen of Illinois recalls his role as secretary of the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee and expects Chicago HQ oversight.
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Charles Michelson
New York World News Service
Washington
Senator Reed
Missouri
Anti-Saloon League
Slush Fund
Senate
Pennsylvania
Dawes
Reed
Senator Deneen
Illinois
Chicago
Bayard
Dem
Missourian
Fernald
Maine
Goff
West Virginia
Senator King
Utah
la Follette
King
Wets
Ciry
Judiciary
Mellon
Vare
the Treasury
Pennsylvania Reed
Fisher
Two convict murders linked to Banner mines exposed
Jefferson County grand jury revealed two brutal convict slayings at Banner convict mines twenty miles west of Birmingham. A straw boss allegedly beat and crushed one inmate. another, known as Hot Shot, was dragged to death behind a coal trip. False death certificates were filed with the State Prison Board.
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Birmingham
Ala
James Knox
Jefferson County Grand
Banner
Davis
Fiat Top
Knox
Banner Mines
Alabama Byproducts Company
Charles R. Davis
Camator ends life in office at Columbus
May 20. D C Badger former Mayor of Columbus and Congressman and former Judge of Franklin County Common Pleas killed himself in his law office while to be questioned about possible perjury in Fayette County. An investigation follows tied to George Schumaker who admitted false testimony at Homer Hudson’s trial. Capt Victor Heintz named for Republican leadership, Rudolph Hynicka steps down as Sixth Ward chief.
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Columbus
D. C. Badger
Franklin County Common Pleas Court
John J. Chester
Fayette County
Washington, D. H
George Schumaker
Homer Hudson
Schumaker
Hudson
Rufus Hudson
Badger
Washington
H. Schumaker
Nolle
Victor Heintz
Ohio
Congress
Hamilton County
Rudolph K. Hynicka
Sixth Ward
Ohio State
National Republican Committee
Republican Party
Capt. Heintz
Hynicka
P. Lincoln Mitchell
Powel Crosley, Jr
Arthur Nash
B. H. Kroger
Edgar F. Friedlander
I. D. Mumby
Heintz
Captain Betts Freed By Bandits In Yunnan
U S Army Captain Thomas J Betts, attached to the American Legation in Peking, was released by the bandits who had held him captive in Yunnan Province since May 17.
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Peking
Thomas J. Betts
United States Army
Yunnan Province
Senate Rejects Aubrey Boyles for U S Attorney Post
The Senate voted 52 to 22 to reject Aubrey Boyles's nomination for another term as United States Attorney for Southern Alabama. The action followed a three hour executive session amid opposition over his enforcement methods. The Justice Department also dismissed Joseph Johns, an assistant to Boyles, to promote harmony in the district attorney's office.
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Washington
Senate
Aubrey Boyles
United States
Alabama
Boyles
Underwood and Heflin
Dems
Ala
Alabama Bar Association
Wayne B. Wheeler
Anti-Saloon League
Department of Justice
Joseph Johns
Johns
Mrs McPherson S Campaign Stir Rochester In 1921
Aimee Semple McPherson drew large crowds to three weeks of evangelistic meetings in Rochester in November 1921. Ministers and doctors split on her claims with physicians noting cures as psychotherapy or mental influence while a Rochester judge and several ministers endorsed the campaign.
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Rochester
Mrs McPherson Seen as Missing In California
Mrs Aimee McPherson once Miss Aimee Kennedy of Salford Dereham Township was widely known in Woodstock Ontario. The article notes she may have been drowned or murdered at Ocean Park in California. She and her mother traveled to the United States after winning a popularity contest and later married Robert Semple McPherson, conducting evangelistic campaigns in multiple countries.
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McPherson
Woodstock
Ontario
Aimee McPherson
Ocean Park
Cal
Aimee Kennedy
Salford
Dereham Township
Ingersoll Collegiate Institute
St. Lawrence
Quebec
Canada
United States
Australia
England
Scott Is Sane to Face Gallows in Illinois Case
Chicago reports state that Atty. Gen. Carlstrom asked the Springfield office to send Russell Scott's full record to Chicago. If alienists found him sane, a legal precedent could allow returning him here for execution, a first in Illinois history. Scott has been confined for insanity after three near-miss attempts at the gallows.
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Chicago
Carlstrom
Springfield
Russell Scott
Scott
Illinois
C. H. Jenkins
State Department of Public Welfare
Cott
Chester Insane Asylum
One to Die by Gas. Other Gets Life Term
State Board of Pardons orders Stanko Jukich to die by lethal gas tomorrow in Carson City. John H. Randolph, also condemned to die, is commuted to life imprisonment for killing his elderly mother.
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State Prison
Carson City
State Board of Pardons
Stanko Jukich
John H. Randolph
Jukich
Randolph
Bathtub party witness testifies at Hart Carroll trial
New York May 20 A producer faces perjury charges tied to a grand jury probe of a Hart Carroll Theater party. Arthur Irwin of the Daily Mirror testified he drank from a bathtub filled with liquid described as tasting like champagne at the February 22 event. Other figures named included Countess Cathcart Harry K Thaw Conde Nast and Irvin Cobb among guests amid disputed liquor claims.
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New York
Hart Carroll
Arthur Irwin
The
Daily Mirror
Carroll
William Eddrington
Joyce Hawley
Cathcart
Ellis Island
Harry K. Thaw
Grand Jury
Conde Nast
Irvin Cobb
Miss Hawley
Woman Found Guilty of Murder in Marshal Knapp Case
Anna Clay Roberson of Hopkinsville, 25, was convicted of second degree murder in Judge Darby's court for the February 27 killing of Marshal Henry Knapp at Addyston Ohio. Jury deliberated five hours. sentence to be set tomorrow. Clarence Warner, serving a life term, testified for the state.
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Anna Clay- Roberson
Negress
Hopkinsville
Darby
Henry Knapp
Addyston
Clarence Warner
State
Roberson
Warner
Knapp
Louis Schneider
George Kearns
Defiance Youth Fatally Wounds Cousin Then Shoots Self
In Defiance Ohio on May 20, Don Smith shot his 19 year old cousin Miss Gladys Shock five times after a dispute with her mother over their friendship. Shock survived, while Smith wounded himself, likely fatally.
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Don Smith
Gladys Shock
Miss Shock
Man Claims Identity as Lost Charlie Ross in Charlotte Tale
Julius C. Dellinger of Denver North Carolina believes he is the kidnapped Charlie Ross and plans to leave for New York with Mrs. P. C. Starr of New York who accepts him as the boy. Dellinger uses different names but bears birth marks linked to Charlie Ross and says McHale and a Piedmont kin took the Ross child to North Carolina. He seeks to confirm his identity for his many children rather than any Ross estate.
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New York World News Service
Charlotte
N. C
Julius C. Dellinger
Denver
Charlie Ross
Philadelphia
New York
P. C. Starr
Dellinger
Piedmont
S. C
Ross
Julius Coleman
Clews
Germantown
McHale
Iredell County
Gaffney
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Strand
Ward
Hynickaree
Cincinnati
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George B. Cox
Cox
Herrmann
Thaw
Cobb
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