Murderous Decker family dispute ends in murder verdict
Virgil Decker, 19, found guilty of murder in the first degree in the death of Leroy Lovett. Jury deliberated under three hours and sentenced Decker to life imprisonment. Other Decker family members await trial for alleged involvement in the plan to impersonate Virgil and claim a $24,000 life insurance. Confessions cited by the state are limited to Virgil alone.
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Waranw
Ind
Virgil Deck
Leroy Lovett
Hoe
Young Decker
Decker
Lovett
Bourbon
Virgil Decker
Samuel Lovett
Elkhart
Leroy
Calvin
Fred Decker
Lyilin Decker
Young Lovett
Virgil
Tippecanoe River
Allroad
Bodies Recovered From Snow in Utah Mining District
Bodies of Herbert Waterworth and Frank Taylor, workers at Alta Superior Mining Co, were recovered after eight months entombed in White Pine snow near Salt Lake City. They were buried in a snowslide while trying to leave the district last October as avalanches are common in the Little Cottonwood area.
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Salt Lake City
Utah
Herbert Waterworth
Frank Taylor
Alta Superior Mining Company
Salit Lake
Little Cottonwood
White Pine Cafton
Union Leaders Fined in Chicago Bomb Conspiracy Case
Edward Graves international vice president and Toy Hull business agent of a Chicago upholsterers local were sentenced to prison terms from one to five years and fined $2,000 each after being convicted of conspiring to injure property during a strike in which bombs were thrown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Edward Graves
Toy Hull
London Desk Calls End to Irish Reprisals
The Daily Mail reports the government instructs Irish authorities to cease reprisals. It notes that with increased military forces, authorities will exercise full authority to quell outrages and riots.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Londone
Ireland
Matc
Woman Plunges Thirteen Stories in Chicago Tragedy
Miss Allee R Murphy, 87, died after diving or falling from the Stock Tex change building thirteenth floor. She crashed through a skylight into a fourth floor office. Investigators could not determine if the death was accidental or intentional.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Allee R. Murphy
Stock Texchange
Vallee
Wulclan
Denby Invited to Frontier Show at Cheyenne
Representative Mondell of Wyoming urged Interior Secretary Fall and Navy Secretary Denby to attend the Cheyenne frontier show on their planned tours this year. The invitation aims to fit their travel to the frontier event en route.
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Washington
Representative Mondell
Wyoming
Interior Fall
Navy Denby
Cheyenne
Ouly
Fall
Alawka
Denby
Mondell
German defense chief refuses to withdraw forces in Upper Silesia
General Von Hoefer in Breslau says Germany will not recall self defense troops. He argues past German experience justifies protection of lives and property and warns withdrawal is impossible. Dr. Schamer in London protests the Interallied ultimatum as a breach of the peace treaty and endangering Germans in Upper Silesia.
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Union News Metrie
Berlin
von Hoefer
Upper Silesia
Vossiche Zeitting
Breslau
Ted Tapatch
Upper Siteain
London
Dr. Sthamer
Great Britain
Marquis Curzon
Stillman Case Blocked by New York Court Order
Defense counsel for Anne A. Stillman blocked hearings in the Stillman divorce case scheduled for Poughkeepsie. Judge Keogh in New Rochelle ordered Referee D C Gleason to show cause why hearings should not be postponed while Brennan argues he had only seventy two hours to review the case begun by James A. Stillman.
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New York
Stillman
Poughkeepsie
John Brennan
Anne A. Stillman
Supreme Court
Keogh
New Rochelle
D. C. Gleason
Brennan
Wage cuts sought by Chicago packers across the nation
Chicago packers petitioned Federal Judge Samuel Alschuler for a five cent an hour wage reduction for all hourly paid packing house employees with proportional cuts for price workers. The measure would affect about 60 000 workers nationwide and requests a full hearing before June 19 with retroactive application to that date.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Chicago Packers
Samuel Alschuler
Dream Picture Painted from Dream in Peoria Exhibit
Mrs William Hinley Smith displayed a painting titled Dream Picture at a Peoria art exhibit. She said the autumn landscape scene was created in under two and a half hours after waking from a dream in which she watched an artist sketch the valley view.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peoria
Ill
William Hinley Smith
Siith
Mountain Valley
Sinith
Anti Cigarette Law Takes Effect in Salt Lake City
Utah's anti cigarette law enacted by the last legislature became effective Monday. Tobacco store shelves emptied of cigarettes and newspapers carried no cigarette advertisements. The measure bans smoking in public places and prohibits giving away selling exchanging or bartering cigarettes.
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Salt Lake City
Utah
Los Angeles Mayor Race Sees Cryer Lead With 44,746 Votes
In Los Angeles 610 of 736 precincts reported George BE Cryer leading with 44 746 votes and incumbent Meredith P Snyder trailing with 30 070 votes in the mayoral race Cryer's victory was conceded by Snyder's camp Prohibition enforcement ordinance tied to the Volstead Act was not approved or defeated in the report
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Los Angeles
Calif
George BE
Cryer
Meredith P. Snyder
Lhe
Snyder
Oregon Veterans Get $15 Monthly World War Bonus Plan
Boldiere Get Benua Portland Oregon aid for ex service men includes a $15 monthly bonus for each World War month served with a real estate loan option up to $4 000. Approved by the Oregon veterans by about 7 to 1 margin in nearly all counties. A legislative proposal for physical examinations of both sexes seeking marriage licenses was deferred.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portland
Ore
Oregon Vetera
Peace theme dominates Harding commencement address
President Harding at American University graduation highlights world peace through sovereign states not a world super power. He praises Canadian American harmony, calls for lasting justice, and urges graduates to restore stability as global turmoil tests security.
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Washington
Harding
American University
N. W. Rowell
K. C
Toronto
North America
J. J. Jusserand
J. W. Hamilton
Rowell
United States
Canada
British Try to End Strike in London Talks
Conferences continue at the height of labor in an effort to settle the wage dispute in the cotton manufacturing and engineering trades.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Taxicab War in Chicago Ends in Mass Arrests and Slayings
A two day taxicab war in Chicago leaves one dead and several injured as drivers clash. Police arrest twenty five drivers on a technical charge of operating without a cab stand license, with a feud erupting between rival companies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Delvars
Fireman Drowned In Denver Train Wreck
A Burlington Chicago train crashed through a flood weakened Platte river bridge near Union Colorado. Fireman Elmer Snedeker drowned after being swept away while engineer George A. Fouts saved many by stopping the train. Two passengers were slightly hurt and several suffered shock as cars sank. The accident route ran from Billings Montana to Denver via Alliance Nebraska and Omaha.
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Denver
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
Platte River
Union
Colo
Elmer
Snedeker
George A. Fouts
Fouts
Union Pacific
Burlington
Billings
Mont
Sheridan
Wye
Alliance
Neb
Omaha
Ehair
Boy Sacrifices Life Saving Chum at Reservoir
Mandan North Carolina pays tribute to 11 year old Walter Kuehne who died while trying to rescue his friend Rudolph Yaeger who sank during a swim in the reservoir. He exhausted himself diving for the boy and passed away before aid arrived.
Doctors Back Harding Policy At Medical Association Meeting
A memorial to the House of Delegates of the AW Medical Association endorsed President Harding’s welfare program. The document praised coordination of public health social security soldier rehabilitation child protection and Americanization. Dr Hubert Work of Pueblo was the presenting officer. The memorial was referred to a committee for report.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Harding
Calamity warning from meat packers head
Thomas B H Wilson president of the Institute of American Meat Packers warns Congress that the industry cannot endure months more of stress and calls for careful legislation. He opposes the Norris bill as too broad and dangerous, urging a single supervisory agency approach to solve public and industry problems.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union News Service
Chicago
Thomas BH. Wilson
Institute of American Meat Packers
Congress
Department of Agriculture
U. S. Plans Cattle Loans in Treasury Proposal
Treasury officials consider a plan to provide credit facilities for cattle raisers without new legislation. It would offer quick relief to cattlemen and avoid War Finance Corporation action, which requires congressional authority, by enabling loans through an alternative arrangement to the 50 million dollar industry support proposal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Treasury
Federal Board
War Finance Corporation
Stolen Gas Scheme Ends In Death In Springfield
Gustave Astankewitz, 50, allegedly tried to tap a gas main to steal gas for an illicit still found in his cellar. He was asphyxiated in a ditch from the cellar to the street. Neighbors smelled escaping gas and found the body. a gas mask lay nearby.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfield
Ill
Gustave Astankewitz
Astankewitz
Kansas to harvest ten million acres of wheat this year
J C Mohler secretary of the State Board of Agriculture estimates Kansas will harvest about 10 000 000 acres of wheat this year, about 900 000 more than the board’s May 20 projection based on March 1 incomplete assessors returns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas
Topeka
Kan
J. C. Mohler
State Board of Agriculture
Mexico increases export oil tax to fund foreign debt
Petroleum companies operating in Mexico will pay an average 25 percent rise in export taxes on their products starting July 1 under a decree by President Obregon. The higher levy is expected to yield over 80 million pesos annually for debt payments, with funds dedicated to reducing the foreign debt.
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Mexico City
Mexico
Obregon
Wyoming Brief News Notes from All Regions
Western Newspaper Union reports a busy Wyoming slate from Cheyenne to Casper. Frontier Days events at Cheyenne July 26–29 are planned as Mie Medicine Bow forest service seeks hundreds of thousands of young fish for Brooklyn Lake and nearby streams. Notable incidents include Lyman Peck killed in Casper after a motorcycle collision, a nitroglycerin truck explosion near Bonneville killing Nelson A Glass and Howard Glass, a drowning of Pat Washut after water shutoff at Ranchester, and the shooting death of Jim Ladas at Casper cafe with suspect Nick Camets in custody. Laramie county hosts two major summer gatherings with a farm bureau picnic in Archer and a Burns fair, while a dangerous dehorning incident saved John Cates from a bull near Gillette. The Rocky Mountain Highway Association forms in Laramie to map a Denver to Yellowstone route. Rasmus Mickelson, pioneer rancher, dies in Salt Lake City aged 62. Other notes include baseball trade Kinney treated for tonsillitis in Laramie, Lovell bond election delays from Attorney General Walls, and a Cheyenne man Samuel Underwood fatally shooting Miss Margaret Grier before taking his own life.
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Mie
Medicine Bow Forest Service
Brooklyn Lake
Saratoga
Lyman Peck
Casper
Peck
New York
Howard Glass
K. C. Glass
St. Cloud
Minn
Nelson
Thermopolis
Bonneville
Pat Washut
Joseph Washut
Laramie County
Farm Bureau
Bureau
Archer
Burns
Douglas
John Cates
Gillette
Cates
Rocky Mountain Highway Association
Laramie
P. O. Spencer
Lander
Wyo
H. A. Edmonds
Fort Collins
Colo
Stanley Edwards
Roche
Kinney
Hitt
Scottsbluff
W. L. Walls
Lovell
L. A. Bowman
Bonding House
Samuel A. Underwood
Cheyenne
Margaret Grier
William $8
Grier
Miss Grier
Lieut
A. A. Conard
Fifteenth
United States Cavalry
Fort
D. A
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Jim Ladas
Burlington Café
Nick Camets
Ladas
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