Prohibition Agents Debated as Legal Officials Weigh In
California officials consider delaying the presidents order to use state and local police as federal prohibition agents amid criticism. Attorney General Sargent rules the move legal, while Senator Robinson denounces the action as a grave error and a blow to prohibition.
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San Francisco
City and County Board of Supervisors
Ned M. Green
California
Tod
Lincoln C. Andrews
Prohibition
Washington
Coolidge
Sargent
Senate
Robinson
Four Prisoners Killed by Guards in Arkansas Farm Break
Four Tucker State Farm inmates were shot and killed by two guards during a jailbreak attempt near Pine Bluff Arkansas on May 24. The convicts Will Bishop John Birchfield Benny Casey and Boyd Jewell were among the so-called hard gang. The break was the twelfth at the farm in a year with guards firing from horse and ground after a signal. Bodies sent to England Arkansas for examination.
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Pine Bluff
Ark
State Farm
Tucker
Will Bishop
Jack Wade
John Birchfield
Benny Casey
Boyd Jewell
Dee Horton
Horton
England
Baron Beaverbrook captured by amateur detective in Philadelphia
A young Atlantic City visitor helped trap the famed con man known as Baron Beaverbrook. Police in Philadelphia held him on larceny charges and possible extradition after a long record of escapes and aliases. Witnesses describe a dramatic arrest and a confession to a wide crime spree.
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New York
Atlantic City
Philadelphia
Baron Beaverbrook
London
Detroit
Chicago
St. Louis
San Francisco
William A. Ruenzler
New York Edison Company
Ray
Burken
Wood
Ruenzler
Curtin
Coal Crisis Warns Industry Amid Global Convention
J F Callbreath, secretary of the American Mining Congress, warns the coal industry faces bankruptcy from cutthroat competition and high taxes as 2,500 operators gather in Cincinnati for a convention. A $1,000,000 coal equipment exposition runs with foreign visitors studying U.S. mining advances.
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Secretary of
American Mining Congress
J. F. Callbreath
Washington, D. C
Gibson
Callbreath
Cincinnati
Music Hall
Congress
United States
England
Germany
Belgium
Canada
Pittsburgh Coal Company
Indiana
Illinois
Ohio
Chicago
U. S
Tornado skirted city as leaders push Prohibition reform
Cleveland dry leaders form a 200 member committee to push an Ohio referendum on modifying the Volstead act. Benedict Crowell chairs. June rally planned with W. H. Slayton as speaker. A separate Chicago drive targets padlocking cafes for serving patrons with flasks. A tornado near Cincinnati circling Norwood causes minor damage but heavy rain and street flooding follow.
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Ohio
Cleveland
Maurice Maschke
Benedict Crowell
Pennsylvania
George C. Southwell
Dry Maintenance League
Dry Forces
Crowell
W. H. Slayton
Philadelphia
National Association Against Prohibition
Arl
Southwell
Ustomers
Chicago
Friar’s Inn
al Tearney’s Town Club
Moulin Rouge Cafe
Geiger
Milwaukee
Cincinnati
Norwood
Pleasant Ridge
Kennedy Heights
Federal Building
Supreme Court Rules Bootleggers Not Required to File Records
The Supreme Court ruled that bootleggers are not obligated to provide sales records to the government. In Pennsylvania cases involving Katz, Senn, and Hovsenaln the court held that prohibitions on selling intoxicating liquor apply only to permit holders. The decision sustains quashed indictments for conspiracy to violate whisky sales laws and flags upcoming rearguments on automobile seizures in liquor transport cases.
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Supreme Court
Washington
Prohibition Enforcement
Pennsylvania
Justice Stone
Jacob Katz
George Senn
Diggeen Hovsenaln
Stewart Distilling
Alabama
Garth Motor Company
State of Washington
Port Gardner Investment Company
Joyce Hawley to testify in Earl Carroll perjury trial
New York reporters note Joyce Hawley reputed bath tub girl at Earl Carroll birthday party will testify tomorrow as Carroll resumes his perjury trial. He is accused of lying to grand juries about guests being served liquor while Hawley sat undraped in a tub of wine at the theater party.
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Lillian
Fechter
Mr. Fix
Sre
Mr. Fechter
New York
Joyce Hawley
Earl Carroll
Carroll
Miss Hawley
Lurid New York Bank Robbery Ends in Subway Chase
In New York a two man armed robbery at a grocery triggers a wild pursuit through streets and a subway. A 19 year old, John Montani, is arrested on multiple assault charges after being tackled on the tracks. Five year old Shirley Linderman and Mrs May Ferguson are hospitalized with injuries.
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New York World News Service
New York
Mansfield
John Montani
Montani
Shirley Linderman
Mt. Sinai Hospital
Mt. Sinai
May Ferguson
Kentucky Clubs Call for Free Action at National Convention
At Atlantic City the General Federation of Women’s Clubs opens its eighteenth biennial convention with Kentucky delegates opposing federation binding on child labor and welfare policies. Louisville representatives seek independence from a proposed resolution on the Eighteen Amendment and the Volstead Act, while denying earlier reports. A kickoff dinner honored New Jersey and Pennsylvania hostesses as Mrs. Joh Dickinson, federation president, spoke.
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New York World News Service
Atlantic City
N. J
Louisville
General Federation of Women’s Clubs
Kentucky
Ambassador Hotel
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
M. G. Till
Philadelphia
H. H. Clark
Joh Dickinson
Federation
Fireman Leaps From Three-Story Ladder to Save Mother and Baby
In Harlem a fireman climbs a swaying ladder to a third floor window where a mother and child are trapped. He makes a perilous leap through smoke to grab the grating, enters the room, and passes the mother to a colleague. He repeats the act to rescue the baby as flames rage.
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Mother
Babe
New York
Harlem
Revielle
Reilly
Reviello
Regielle
Women to discuss laws and home life at Atlantic City convention
The General Federation of Women's Clubs opens its Eighteenth Biennial Convention in Atlantic City with 10 000 women gathering to shape a federal education department and home life reforms. Expected topics include education, honest merchandising, civil service expansion, child labor amendments, and uniform marriage and divorce laws.
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Atlantic City
N. J
General Federation of Women’s Clubs
John D. Sherman
Federal
Department of Education
Motorist Waves to Passing Autoists In Vain as Wife Perishes
New York report details a fatal Long Island accident near Riverhead before dawn. Robert Bertschy released from the wreckage after a 30-foot ford. his wife Charlotte died trapped beneath the car as he pleaded for help.
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New York World News Service
New York
Long Island
Riverhead
Robert Bertschy
Bertschys
Bertschy
Students Burn East Stands After Riot at MSU
Students at Michigan State College returned from Lansing where they fought police and firemen who tried to stop a bonfire near the Capitol. Tonight they burned the east stands of the athletic field in celebration of their first baseball victory over the University of Michigan in eleven years.
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Lansing
Mich
Michigan State College
East Lansing
Michigan State
Michigan
Capitol
University of Michigan
Two Rooms or Four Ads Boost Quick Rentals
Classified rental ads by Mr. Lee Roth at 3111 Hackberry street drew rapid tenants for two and four room suites. Call Ad Taker at Canal 6300 to rent rooms, houses or apartments without delay. Commercial Tribune Canal 6300.
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Commercial Tribune
Lee Roth
Hackberry Street
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Lord Beaverbrook
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Curtain
Lillian K. Fix
Hamilton County
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Lillian Fix Fechter
R. S. Kinney
Kinney
Anti-Saloon League
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Vare
Minneapolis
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William S. Vare
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