Gun battles erupt in hospital as McErlane survives
Chicago report details Frank McErlane, feared gangster, fighting three assailants in his hospital room at the German Deaconess hospital. Bullets ripped his plaster cast, but he refused to name attackers, while police investigate how the wounded man concealed a pistol. Separate item notes Pal Perconti found buried in a quicklime grave near a barn after missing person report.
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Chicago
Frank McErlane
Garde” Heer
Zanester
McFrlane
Han
Lee
Erlane
Bridewell Hospital
McErlane
Tillism Fe
Notorjester
Charles Miller
Joe Fallon
John Fivan
Brisewell
Fighd Pelton
Fran
Fallon
Caky
Ind
Pal Perconti
Perconti
Here
Joseph
Joliet
Nomination Postponed Until Monday
Elks club members gathered last night to nominate new officers but postponed the business to Monday. March nine business matters were discussed and the Monday meeting is expected to be well attended with the nominating process completed promptly.
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The
Elks Club
Dinos
Tti
Unsettled and Colder Tonight in Minvis Region
Forecast calls for unsettled conditions and much colder air tonight with showers spreading east and to the extreme south portion of Gon tonight. Wednesday looks similarly unsettled with continued cold temperatures and scattered showers.
Wild Horses Injure Two In Runaway Near Taylorville
Taylorville Feb 25 two men Le Roy Richman and Charles Lemons suffered minor injuries after a wagon pulled by a team of runaway horses struck their automobile. The horses were killed and the wagon tongue pierced the car windshield. Podschi owner of the wagon was uninjured. Roy Vance of Peoria driven the other vehicle involved.
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Taylorville
UPM
LeRoy Richman
Charles Lemons
Here
Pascuo Podschi
Near Here
Roy Vance
Peoria
Podschi
Naturalized citizens welcomed at DeKalb courthouse ceremony
Six applicants were granted U S citizenship in DeKalb with Judge W J Fulton presiding. Recipients included Vincent Warfield Hillquist of Sycamore Anna Nellie Gramm of Kingston Preda Welas of DeKalb Stemond Loeille Erickson of Malta Richard Joseph Merriman of Genoa and Thomas Limbring of Argins Greece. One applicant was deferred for lack of knowledge of laws.
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United States
W. J. Fulton
Circuit Court
DeKalb County Court House
Kelley
Methodist Church of
Vincent Warfield Hillquist
Sycamore
Arbo
Sweden
New York City
Andy Anderson
Genoa
Anna Nellie Gramm
Kingston
Canada
Noyes Ming
Moa Gate
Norway
L. L. Smith
L. Rubuck
Preda Welas
DeKalb
Untermosbach
Germany
New York
Walter Jetael
Frank A Ziegler
Stemond Loeille Erickson
Malta
Tyelberg
Chara Quinno
Albert Vesta
Richard Joseph Merriman
Castle Pollard
Ireland
Boston
Mass
James E. Coffey
Michael T. Dewan
Thomas Limbring
Argins
Greece
Pete Stavakas
Cosring
Steleides
Prince of Wales to Film Lions at Maasai Reserve
The Prince of Wales travels by car to the Maasai Reserve in Nairobi Kenya Colony Africa for a motion picture record of the reserve. The excursion is noted as showcasing the variety of game in the area.
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Nairobi
Kenya
Colony
Africa
U.P
Prince of Wales
Masai Reserve
DeKalb County Veterans Form Non-Partisan League
Ex service men in DeKalb County organize the DeKalb County Service Men’s Non-Partisan League to support veterans interests. A March 10 meeting will report a constitution. 30 delegates from across the county attended with leaders including De Estin Pasley and A K Stiles.
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de Estin Pasley
Constitution Committee
DeKalb County League
DeKalb
Sycamore
Sandwich
A. K. Stiles
Latham Cxsue
Starris Fisk
Short Life For Cabinet Anticipated
Paris February 2 Premier Camille Chautemps faced a tense chamber as he sought a confidence vote for his left wing government. His program mirrored the late Andre Tardieu administration and deputies questioned the cabinet’s timing amid London naval conference talks. The chamber showed hostility from right and center, suggesting only a slim leftist majority.
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Paria
U.rl
Camille Chautemps
Chautemps
Andre Tardieu
London
Chamber of Deputies
Sunday In Moscow Reported by News Writer Keen
United Press Europe vice president Ed L Keen reports from Moscow on Sunday under the Soviet regime. He notes contrasts of anti religious policy with church life and factory activity, observing 1500 churches still functioning despite a pro atheism drive.
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Moscow
Ed L. Keen
United Press For Europe
Russia
Keen
Red Army
St Simon
Ivan the Terrible
Gulture
Red Square
DeKalb Rural Fire Truck Drive Nears Completion
The push to buy a new rural fire truck for DeKalb area nears its end with over two thirds of the goal met. Noncontributing residents may pay for services after the truck starts, while donors receive the benefit of economy and free service.
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DeKalb
Sycamore
Com
Self Styled Murderer Is Judged Sane
Texas Jim Baker the self-proclaimed killer of eleven victims by poison and gun was declared legally sane after police interrogations. He welcomed the finding in his Tombs prison cell, amid hints he might be demented, as physicians confirmed his mental normalcy.
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New York
U.P
Texas
Jim Baker
Baker
Bakerlein
Tombs Prison
Perry M. Lichtenstein
Tombs
Otto H. Schultze
Crain
Reckless driver blamed for Kenosha wreck killing eleven
In Kenosha Wisconsin investigators blame Norman E Shinners 21 for causing the North Shore electric train crash by trying to beat a crossing. A coroner s jury continued as W B Hall motorman may recover. Eleven killed and more than 100 injured as trains collided at the crossing.
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Kenosha
Wis
U.ri
Norman E. Shinners
North Shore
W. B. Hall
A. B. Schmitz
Shinners
Frank Tomczak
Congress Delays Bills As Lawmakers Seek Speech and Games
Washington notes House members slow to push new laws amid Hoover retrenchment. Several appropriation bills linger in committees while a bus regulation measure and a veterans hospital bill move forward. Immigration limits, rivers and harbors plans, and flood control funding face delays as investigations begin. Banking panel launches inquiry into branch banking with no immediate bill expected.
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Hoover
Senate
District of Columbia
Navy
Legislative
Interstate Commerce Committee
Mexico
Canada
Immigration Committee
Rivers and Harbors Committee
Flood Control Committee
Mississippi Valley
Dominican Rebels Win and Vasquez Resigns in Dominican Revolt
Reports from Santo Domingo and Port au Prince describe a Dominican Republic uprising disrupting Horacio Vasquez’s government. Rebels seize Monte Cristi fortress and Dajabon police, prompting Vasquez to resign and seek refuge. his wife at the American legation. Americans report border firing and economic distress from bad sugar and coffee profits.
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Haiti
U.R
Horacio Vasquez
Dominican Republic
Santiago de Los Caballeros
Tobacco
Republic
Dajabon
Santo Domingo
Monte Cristi
Vasquez
Dry Raiders Arrested After Tulsa Liquor Raid Shooting
Two farmers, George Lewis and Lawrence Morgan, were critically injured in a liquor raid shooting near Tulsa. Prohibition agent W F Wolverton said he fired after a pistol was seized during the raid and a woman broke liquor bottles. Three federal agents were taken into custody.
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Tulsa
Okla
O.R
Prohibition
Here
W. F. Wolverton
United States Marshals
George Lewis
Lawrence Morgan
Wolverton
Lewis
De Kalb Payroll Survey Seeks Monthly Payroll Peaks
Secretary Glen Reynolds of the Chamber of Commerce conducts a confidential survey to determine De Kalb monthly payroll totals and peak labor months. The 1927 estimate of about 300000 per month is being rechecked across manufacturing, mercantile firms, schools, and other activities over the past three years.
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Chamber of Commerce
DeKalb
Glen Reynolds
Reynolds
Students Urge Mexico Break With Nicaragua Government
In Mexico City on February 25 the seventh national students congress endorsed a resolution calling for Mexico to sever ties with President Josn Moncada’s Nicaragua regime. The move followed a lengthy appeal from Augustina Sandino, the Nicaraguan rebel leader, who urged action against U S influence in Latin America. Sandino, in the capital since Ortiz Rubio’s inauguration, seeks funds to resume guerrilla warfare and planned to travel to Merida before a Central American tour.
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Mexico
Nicaragua
Mexico City
U P
Josn Moncada
National Students’ Congress
Augustina Sandino
Sanding
United A
Latin America
Pascual Ortiz Rubio
Merida
Yucatan
Central America
United States
Tom Shows Are Extinct On the American Stage
Belmont Mass Feb 25 The Equity Association announced no company is playing Uncle Tom's Cabin in the United States for the first time in 78 years Little Eva Cordelia Howard recalls the 1852 premiere in Troy New York and notes later bloodhound melodrama was added to productions but predicts another company will tour with bloodhounds and all
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Mass
U.R
Eva
Heaven
New York
Actors’ Equity Association
United States
Boston
Equity
Cordelia Howard
Little Eva
Old Museum of
Troy
N. Y
Eliza
Simon Legree
Emmeline
Cassey
Legree
Wheat Ends Rally After Late Jump on Chicago Market
Chicago wheat prices closed higher after a volatile day as March wheat finished at $1.04, up from the day's low, amid late buying from Japan and short covering. Reports say farm board officials were cautious, while lawmakers signalled potential aid to stabilize the market.
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Chicago Board of Trade
Japan
Farm Board
Legge
Federal Farm Board
Board of Trade
Middle West
America
Kansas City
Duluth
Alexander Lezec
Wheat, Stabilization Corporation
Efrain Cooperative
John Vesekey
Southwest Wheat Growers’ Association
Wheat Advisory Committee
Federal Agricultural Marketing Act
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George Vose
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