Poust Takes New Office In De Kalb County
Cassius Poust of Sycamore is named first assistant district attorney under George E. Q. Johnson in Chicago. He succeeds John E. Northup and will serve federal cases while maintaining residence in Sycamore. The move elevates a long DeKalb County record and could touch Chicago gang prosecutions and liquor traffic cases.
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Cassius Poust
Sycamore
DeKalb County
George E. Q. Johnson
Chicago
Poust
the Chronicle
Washington, D. C
John E. Northup
John Swanson
DeKalb
Ientine
Perkins Named Chairman of Reparations Deliveries Committee
Paris reports the conference appointed Thomas Nelson Perkins, Boston lawyer, as chairman of a new committee to study German deliveries in kind and their share of annuities. The plenary session reviewed a five member plan for future German payments, with adjournment until Owen D. Young calls another session.
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Paris
U.S
Thomas Nelson Perkins
Boston
Perkins
Dawes Reparations Commission
Census Report To Be Released Next Week
A church census report will not be available for at least another week. The remaining 200 workers will be reviewed a week from today at the DeKabib Ministerial Association meeting. District canvassing continues and completion is anticipated early this week. An interim notice will announce the finalized report.
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DeKabib Ministerial Association
Death Toll Rises From Illinois Woman's College Fire
Augmented fatalities from the campus blaze in Jacksonville Illinois increase to three with the death of Winifred Wackerle matron of eighteen years. Earlier victims include Sarah Eleanor Thompson librarian aged 56 and Eugenie Norman co-ed Jasper Ind who died leaping from a balcony. Several of the original sixteen injured remain in critical condition.
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Jacksonville
Ill
O.R
Illinois Woman's College
Winifred Wackerle
Sarah Eleanor Thompson
Eugenie Norman
Jasper
Ind
Miss Thompson
Final week session marks key votes in Congress
Washington reports detail a decisive House approval of the second deficiency bill carrying 2.99 million for prohibition enforcement, while a separate measure totals 194.5 million for general appropriations sent to the Senate. The Jones bill proposing five years in prison and a 10 000 fine for violators also moved forward.
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Washington
U.P
House
Senate
House Judiciary Committee
Graham
James A. Reed
Missouri
William S. Vare
Pennsylvania
Reed
Vare
Missourian
Congress
Edge
Nicaragua
Panama Canal
Coolidge-Mellon
Pat Neff
Texas
Railway Board
Breac
Radio Commission
Capone gang suspected in north side massacre
Chicago police weigh Capone influence as the Feb 14 killings are probed. Investigators pursue links to Moran and rival gangs while Capone leads from Miami, and new theories focus on Capone’s inner circle and potential challenges to his dominance.
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Chicago
Scarface
al Capone
North Side
Egan Gang
St. Louis
Old Valley Gang
Capone
Miami
Fla
George Moran
Gas Leak Found At Fifth Street Corner
The Winds Northern Utilities reports a gas leak at the corner of Fifth Street and Lincoln Highway. Repair work began this morning as crews locate a small-diameter pipe amid difficult ground conditions and lingering gas odors.
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Fifth Street
Northern Utilities
Lincoln Highway
South Fourth Street
City Primary Set Two Weeks Ahead of April Election
Voters will go to the polls in two weeks to choose nominees for the city election in April. The mayoral race features former mayor J B Lindstrom and Harold S Cates. One alderman from each of five wards plus a city treasurer, clerk and police magistrate will be nominated.
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J. B. Lindstrom
Harold S. Cates
Court Acts To Keep Radical Men In Places
Madison Wisconsin February 25 At tempts to oust four LaFollette Progressives from public office in Wisconsin failed today when Judge S B Schein of Dane County Superior Court overruled Arthur R Barry's recommendations for criminal action Barry investigated the campaign expenditures of Congressman Joseph D Beck La Follette candidate for governor Lieutenant Gov Henry A Huber Secretary of State Theodore Dammann and Attorney General John W Reynolds before making his recommendations to the court
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Madison
Wis
Wisconsin
Schein
Dan County Superior Court
Arthur R. Barry
Barry
Joseph D. Beck
la Follette
Unsettled Weather With Rain Snow Likely in Illinois
For Tlinois unsettled tonight and Tuesday with rain or snow. Possibly heavy snow in extreme north portion. Colder tonight in west and central portions and south and central portions Tuesday.
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Tlinois
Peace pact rumor stirs debate on Franco Belgian alliance
Paris reported the 1920 Franco Belgian agreement was a defense cooperation pact, with the foreign office dismissing a published secret text as incorrect. Amsterdam coverage cited broad discussion on Europe's defensive line and the Utrecht Dagblad publication of alleged eight articles.
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Paris
Belgum
France
Foreign Office
Holland
League of Nations
League
Amsterdam
Belgium
Europe
Utrecht
Denver Woman Faces Jury In Murder Trial
Denver nurse Farice King, 35, stands trial for the murder of Denver policeman Robert K. Evans in a hospital room last November. Defense says she was insane due to love mania. prosecutors seek death. King appeared in west side court as jury selection began.
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Denver
Colo
U.P
Farice King
Robert K. Evans
West Side Court
Evans
Miss King
New Infection Focus Found in Marshal Foch Lungs
Paris reports doctors identified a new lung congestion site in Marshal Foch today. A temperature rise to 99.94 degrees and a rapid pulse of 92 prompted a five-physician consultation scheduled for tomorrow.
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Foch
Paris
U.P
Marshal Foch
Vincennes Honors Clark Hero with Fort Sackville Recall
Vincennes Indiana February 25 A Iola grain elevator at Fort Sackville site will be wrecked at 1 30 pm today as President Coolidge presses a button in Washington Led by Purdue University band Governor Harry G Leslie and party arrive from Indianapolis with delegations from Illinois Ohio Kentucky Officials plan te deum in St Xavier Cathedral and tours of Harrison home legislative hall and library A pageant by Thomas Wood Stevens and a colonial costume ball mark the day The surrender of Fort Sackville to Clark is celebrated with a memorial approved by Congress including scenes from Virginia Kansas and Vincennes and the career of Clark.
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Vincennes
Ind
Iola
Old Fort Sackville
Calvin Coolidge
Washington, D.e
Purdue University
Harry G. Leslie
General Assembly
Indianapolis
Illinois
Ohio
Kentucky
Old Northwest
Fort Sackville
Clark
Northwest Territory
Cathedral of St. Xavier
Francis Gavish
Col Haury
Harrison
William Henry Harrison
James Church
Cleveland
Virginia
Kaskaskia
Congress
Death Investigated After Oklahoma Co‑ed Poisoning
In Stillwater at Oklahoma A and M, 19 year old Pauline Pruitt died after swallowing poison following a date with Claude Poole, football star and student government president. Authorities found no clear motive and suspect she may have swallowed the poison thinking it was medicine.
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University Stillwater
Oklahoma
Pauline Pruitt
Lindbergh in Mexico Hints at Wedding Plans
Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh refused to reveal his wedding date in Cuernavaca while visiting Ambassador Dwight Morrow's home. He said he might speak later and gave cautious replies to questions as he joined fiancé Anne Morrow after arriving from Eagle Pass, Texas. The couple’s romance sparked speculation of a forthcoming marriage and a honeymoon itinerary by air.
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Cuernavaca
Mex
Charles A. Lindbergh
Dwight Morrow
Col. Lindbergh
Lindbergh
Lone Eagle
Morrows
Anne Morrow
Mexico City
Eagle Pass
Tex
Anne Spencer Morrow
Col
Mounstain
Wichita
Alan Dawson
Fred Hibbard
Ambassador Mor
Miss Morrow
Former Justice Thompson Files Petitions In Court
Floyd E. Thompson, ex justice of the state supreme court and former gubernatorial candidate, filed three certiorari petitions with the court clerk. Thompson now works with the Poppenhusen Johnson Thompson firm in Chicago after his defeat in the race.
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Thompson
Springfeld
Ill
Floyd E. Thompson
State Supreme Court
Poppenhusen, Johnson, Thompson
Chicago
Large Friday Night Raids Arrest 33 in Sterling and Rock Falls
County and city officers led raids on nineteen locations in Sterling and Rock Falls Friday night. They seized over 300 gallons of whiskey and other alcohols. Twenty of the 33 arrested were sent to Morrison jail by chartered bus for prosecution under state prohibition law.
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Sterling
Rock Falls
Morrison
Dempsey Fired Upon at Miami Beach Home
Former boxing champion Jack Dempsey reported being shot at by an unidentified intruder late today at the Chicagoan Harry Moir’s home in Miami Beach where Nance had been living. He described waking to a voice and a gunshot as the assailant fled, with two men later stationed to guard him.
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Shanghai
China
I R
Chang Tsung-Chang
Shantung
Chefoo
Chang
Chu Yu-Pu
Nanking
Chefo
Tsinan
Lui Chen-Nien
Lut Chen-Nien
Peking
Pai Chung-Hat
Aew
Miami Beach
Jack Dempsey
Harry Moir
Chicago
Nance
Jack
New York Heart Report
New York
Vincent Treanor
Aperts
Mixmix Beach
Jack Denpsey
Frank Moir
Dempsey
Ds Ae
Steve Hannagan
Madison Square Garden
Fitzsimmons
Moir
Joe
Former Herrin Officials Sentenced in Prohibition Case
Four Herrin Illinois officials, tried in federal court for conspiring to violate the national prohibition act, face prison terms. Former Mayor Marshall McCormack receives two years and a $2,000 fine. John Stamm gets eighteen months and $1,000. Elmer McCormack one year and $500. Alvin Misker turns state's evidence, testifying to a $50 monthly kickback. McCormack’s “cork screw” remark references a ceremonial ornate corkscrew given during a salesmen convention.
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East St. Louis
Til
U.P
Herrin
Ill
Marshall McCormack
Leavenworth
Kas
McCormack
Cork-Screw
Alvin Misker
Fred L. Wham
Oren Coleman
Williamson County
Misker
John Stamm
Elmer McCormack
Stamm
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Mexico
Coronel
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