Whittemore Found Guilty of First Degree Murder
Richard Reese Whittemore is convicted of first degree murder for the killing of guard Robert H. Holtman at Maryland State Penitentiary. The jury carries no mercy recommendation and the judge will likely sentence next week, possibly Monday, while Whittemore’s wife faints in court.
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Whittemore
Arthur N. Chamberlin
New York World News Service
Baltimore
Richard Reese Whittemore
Robert H. Holtman
Maryland State Penitentiary
Holtman
Eugene O'Dunne
Edgar Allen Poe
J. Harry Bauer
Bauer
O’'Dunne
Herbert R. O'Connor
Rowland Kk. Adams
J. Bernard Wells
O’connor
Mr. O'Connor
Wells
Adams
Maryland
O’dunne
War Frauds Bureau to End July 1
Washington May 21. Attorney General Sargent will abolish the War Frauds Bureau of the Justice Department on July 1 and shift remaining work to the Court of Claims division. The bureau, created by Daugherty, failed to secure many convictions and faced questions about its purpose and costs. Some officials praise its overpayments recoveries, while others note many cases were accounting in nature and could have been handled by the War Department. The Chemical Foundation suit remains pending in the Supreme Court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York World News Service
Washington
Sargent
Department of Justice
Court of Claims
Daugherty
Justice Department
Bureau
War Department
Department
Chemical Foundation
Supreme Court
Coolidge order to use state police as federal prohibition officers
President Coolidge issued a May 8 order authorizing state, county and municipal police to serve as federal prohibition officers. It spurred Senate opposition with constitutional attacks from Goff King and Bruce. The plan aims to create joint operations across jurisdictions and permit enforcement beyond local lines. Bruce criticized the move as improper and questioned legal authority under the Volstead act while Walsh defended its constitutionality citing Wilson regulations as precedent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Coolidge
Treasury
Senate
Bruce
Dem
White House
Andrews
DoMar
Jones
Goff
Rep
W. Va
King
Utah
Senate Judiciary Committee
Walsh
Mont
Judiciary Committee
Wilson
New York
Maryland
United States
The Desire for a Home in the Classified Ad Series
The Desire for a Home discusses man's quest for shelter from caveman days to now. The new historical ad series on the progress of the home appears in The Commercial Tribune as Number 3 in this issue. Phone your Classified Ad for the Sunday issue early.
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The
Commercial Tribune
Boston Cardinal Receives Crown of Italy Honor
William O Connell of the Archdiocese of Boston was notified that he received the Order of the Grand Cross of the Crown of Italy. Marquis Ferrante, Italian Consul, delivered the notification and praised his service to Italy and humanity.
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Boston
William O'Connell
Archdiocese of
Italy
Marquis Ferrante
Mrs. Fletcher Defends Mediums Before House Panel
Mrs. Duncan A. Fletcher wife of Florida Senator Fletcher testified to a House committee defending spiritualism and fortune telling whileOpposing parts of a medium regulation bill She described twenty five years as an investigator and recounted seance experiences and messages she attributed to friends in the invisible world.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York World News Service
Washington
Duncan A. Fletcher
Senator Fletcher
Florida
House
Fletcher
Bathtub party details enter federal court in Carroll case
Federal Judge Goddard hears testimony on Earl Carrolls bathtub party as two Daily Mirror staffers Philip A Payne and Arthur F Irwin testify. Payne recounts Carroll's request for publicity and a post party phone call about denying the story. Witnesses describe Carrolls taunting remarks about stunts and publicity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newly
York
Earl Carroll
Goddard
The
Daily Mirror
Philip A. Payne
Arthur F. Irwin
Herbert C. Smythe
Carroll
Payne
Smyth
Mirror
Bath Scene With Girl In Wine Tub Stuns Stage Crowd
The piece features a girl in negligee entering a tub of wine on stage as guests sit in orchestra seats. Carroll stands by the central tub while the scene unfolds, with the dramatized bath gradually drawing toward a continuation on the second page.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Payne
Carroll
Is Hynicka In or Out as Primary Looms in Cincinnati
An independent faction questions whether Rudolph K. Hynicka will remain as head of the Hamilton County Republican Central Committee or step down before the August primary. Capt. Victor Heintz led the anti Hynickite movement, with a battle royal anticipated in August and efforts to energize voters across the party.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hynicka
Republican Party
Cincinnati Club
Hamilton County
Republican Central Committee
Sixth Ward
Victor Heintz
Citizens’ Republican Committee
Central Committee
Mr. Hynicka
Ohio
Gilbert Bettman
Hol-Poli
R. K. Hynicka
Miriam Wright Seeks Shelter After Wright Divorce Withdrawal
In Madison on May 21 Miriam Noel Wright said she will return to Taliesin Wisconsin with no money or place to go after Frank Lloyd Wright withdrew his divorce suit. She described an impossible situation and planned to seek protection at the Taliesin home amid their severed romance and Wright resuming his work. Wright, questioned on the matter, noted his commitment to his craft and potential travel to Tokyo.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York World News Service
Madison
Wis
Miriam Noel Wright
Taliesin
Wisconsin River
Spring Green
Frank Lloyd Wright
Wright
Tokyo
Maman Bortwick Cheney
Wilbur approves Williams finding in court martial
Secretary Wilbur approved the Marine Corps Col Alexander Williams court martial sentence in San Diego. Williams loses four numbers on the promotion list, is relieved from arrest, and restored to duty at an unnamed post. The case followed complaints by Brig Gen Smethey Butler that Williams indulged in cocktails at a San Diego hotel after a Williams dinner party for Butler. The charge and conviction noted he was under the influence on March 6 and incapacitated his duties.
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Washington
Wilbur
Alexander Williams
Marine Corps
San Diego
Williams
Col. Williams
Smethey Butler
Gen. Butler
Col Williams
Child's scream foils attack on Plum Street
Edna Renshaw, 13, was seized from behind on Plum Street near Afin Street and dragged toward darkness on her way home from the Children's Home. She escaped with injuries and later described the attack to police as two men and a frightened escape.
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Plum Street
Afin Street
Moore Street
Edna Renshaw
Central Parkway
James Renshaw
Two Y
Farm Relief Policy Battle and Illinois Grand Jury News
In Joliet Illinois the Will County Grand Jury summons Governor Len Small to testify as part of a probe into prison conditions. Colvin and Jenkins testify about pardons parole. Chicago gangland activity and the Frank McErlane extradition case also figure in the day’s disclosures.
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Joliet
Ill
Will County
Len Small
Will Colvin
Division of Pardons and Paroles
Colvin
Chicago
Chauncey Jenkins
State Welfare Department
Jenkins
John L. Whitman
Whitman
the Grand
Carlstrom
Cook County
Frank Gremaldi
Scarface al
Caponi
William McSwiggin
Gremaldi
Michael Carrozzo
Henry Barrett Chamberlin
Chicago Crime Commission
Frank McErlane
Indiana
Missing Evangelist Aimee McPherson Seen With Stranger at Beach
Santa Monica detectives pursue a new lead after Mrs S Oberman says a man nicknamed Danny spoke with evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson at the water edge before her disappearance. McPherson, in a green bathing suit, swam twenty minutes then vanished as followers renewed beach searches.
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Los Angeles
Aimee Semple McPherson
Santa Monica
S. Oberman
Venice
Strand
Lieut. M. O. Barnard
Culver City
Santa Monica Bay
Farmers reels from Haugen bill defeat in House vote
The Haugen price stabilization bill failed 212 to 167 in the House after a day of parliamentary wrangles. Ag committee moves and Aswell's compromise measure were discussed as leaders sought a path for farm relief amid party lines and mounting uproar.
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Washington
House
Tilson
Agricultural Committee
Representative Aswell
Louisiana
Jardine
Madden
Applcations
Agriculture Committee
Mapes
Rep
Mich
Aswell
Longworth
Haugen
Murphy
Fulmer
S. C
Oldfield
Arkansas
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
Republican “Party
Coolidge
Parole Suggested for Ex-Sheriff Don Chafin over Prohibition Saloon
Don Chafin once Logan County West Virginia sheriff now in Atlanta Federal Penitentiary faces parole consideration after a parole board recommended clemency. He was convicted of conspiring to violate prohibition laws by running a saloon at Barnabas West Virginia and failed to win relief from the Supreme Court.
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Washington
Don Chafin
Logan County
W. Va
Atlanta Federal Penitentiary
Chafin
Barnabas
Supreme Court
Moses Avoided Leap Year Avers Report to League of Nations
Geneva May 21 Moses arranged a Pentacostal eighth day to place the extra day from the fifty two week year. Charles F Marvin head of the US Weather Bureau is cited by the International Fixed Calendar League as authority. The League studying calendar reform was also informed Moses inserted a leap week into each twenty eighth year period instead of leap days.
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Moses
League OF Nations
Geneva
Charles F. Marvin
United States Weather Bureau
Perriod
Third Richmond County murder claimed by Mansfield shooting
Pedro Rodirijis, 35, died at General Hospital in Mansfield after a shooting incident. This marks the third homicide in Richmond County this month.
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Mansfield
General Hospital
Pedro Rodirijis
Richmond County
Deputy Sheriffs Raid Elmwood Gambling Den
A raiding squad led by Fred Sperber found gambling in progress at Seibert's Hotel rear room in Elmwood last night. Three men Frank Hildebrandt J W Weddington and Warner Tyree were cited for possible grand jury action while other Elmwood venues found no gambling activity.
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Elmwood
Fred Sperber
Seibert
Main Avenue
Sperber
Frank Hildebrandt
J. W Weddington
Warner Tyree
McMicken Avenue
John Marks
Doyle
Frank Nolte
Mr. Sperber
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House Committee of
Benjamin Franklin
George Washington
Seer
Joyce Hawley
Rudolph K. Hynicka
Miriam Wright
Architect
Husband
Orient
Cheney
Miriam Noel
Taliesin Wedson Bridge
Miriame Noel
Miriam
Baraboo
Imperial Hotel
Royal Architect of
Japan
John A. Dawson
Front
Washington Streets
Newport
Dawson
Ohio River
Louisville & Nashville Railroad
Jiggs
Si Woich
Charles Panel
East Front Street
Panel
Helen Dawson
John W. Dawson
Central Avenue
John
Small
PROM
Illinois
Grand Jury
Danny Micoing
Ity
Cork
John Dawson
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