Conspiracy Alleged Family Held In Jail Awaiting Trial
Virgil Decker, a 19 year old farmer, was found guilty of first degree murder in the death of Leroy Lovett and sentenced to life in prison. The case centers on a suspected plot by the Decker family to kill Lovett, stage a double, and claim $24 000 life insurance. Other Decker relatives remain jailed awaiting trial as confessions are read.
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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 Near Salt Lake
Bodies of Herbert Waterworth and Frank Taylor of Alta Superior Mining Company were recovered after eight months entombed in snow at White Pine, thirty miles from Salt Lake City. They were buried during a snowslide while attempting to depart the district last October. The Little Cottonwood area, including White Pine canyon, is known for avalanches.
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Salt Lake City
Utah
Herbert Waterworth
Frank Taylor
Alta Superior Mining Company
Salit Lake
Little Cottonwood
White Pine Cafton
Union Heads Fined After Chicago Bomb Plot Conviction
Edward Graves international vice president and Toy Hull business agent of a Chicago upholsterers local were sentenced to one to five years in prison and fined 2000 dollars each after conviction for conspiracy to injure property during a strike in which bombs were thrown.
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Chicago
Edward Graves
Toy Hull
End Reprisals Directive in Ireland Report
The Daily Mail says the government instructed Irish authorities to cease reprisals while noting that rising military forces will be deployed to quell outrages and riots with full authority. The report highlights heightened security measures in Ireland.
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Londone
Ireland
Matc
Woman Plunges Thirteen Floors in Chicago Building
Miss Allee R Murphy, 87, died when she leaped or fell from the Stock Tex change building’s thirteenth floor. She crashed through a skylight to an office on the fourth floor. Authorities could not determine if the fall was accident or self inflicted.
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Chicago
Allee R. Murphy
Stock Texchange
Vallee
Wulclan
Denby Invited to Frontier Show at Cheyenne
Rep Mondell of Wyoming urged Interior Secretary Fall and Navy Secretary Denby to attend the Cheyenne frontier show on their travels this year. Fall plans Alaska trip and Denby a tour to the rear count, with arrangements to allow attendance on the way West.
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Washington
Representative Mondell
Wyoming
Interior Fall
Navy Denby
Cheyenne
Ouly
Fall
Alawka
Denby
Mondell
Envoy Lodges Protest Over Upper Silesia Action
Berlin reports General Von Hoefer rejects recall of German defense forces in Upper Silesia saying neither the power nor the will exists to withdraw. He cites soldierly duty and warns withdrawal would be impossible. Dr. Sthamer in London files note to Curzon calling Interallied threats a grave breach of the peace treaty and warns civil war risk. The note cites an ultimatum expiring in twelve hours and Polish insurgents barred from reoccupying evacuated areas since June 3.
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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 Hearings Shift to New Rochelle
In the Stillman divorce case defense blocked hearings set for Poughkeepsie. John Brennan, attorney for Mrs Anne A Stillman, secured from Supreme Court Justice Keogh in New Rochelle an order requiring Referee D C Gleason to show cause why further hearings should not be postponed. Brennan said he had only seventy two hours as counsel and needed time to study the case filed 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
Chicago Packers Seek 5 Cent Wage Cut Across Nation
Chicago packers filed a petition with Federal Judge Samuel Alschuler asking a wage reduction of 5 cents an hour for all hourly paid packing house employees and proportional cuts for price workers. The move would affect about 60,000 workers nationwide and requests a full hearing before June 19 with retroactive effect to that date.
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Chicago
Chicago Packers
Samuel Alschuler
Dream Picture painted from a dream in Peoria exhibit
In Peoria Illinois Mrs William Hin ley Smith displayed a dream inspired painting titled Dream Picture. The artist said she completed the autumn landscape in under two and a half hours after waking from the dream and described the scene as unlike any she had seen before.
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Peoria
Ill
William Hinley Smith
Siith
Mountain Valley
Sinith
Anti Cigarette Law Takes Effect In Salt Lake City
Utah's anti cigarette law, passed by the last Legislature, became effective Monday. Public places are defined to prevent smoking and the law prohibits giving away selling exchanging or bartering cigarettes. Tobacco stores cleared their shelves and newspapers carried no cigarette advertisements.
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Salt Lake City
Utah
Los Angeles Mayor Election Sees Cryer Win Narrowly
Returns from most precincts in Los Angeles show George B. Cryer leading with 44,746 votes to incumbent Meredith P. Snyder's 30,070. Snyder's managers conceded Cryer's mayoral victory. A proposed prohibition enforcement ordinance based on the Volstead Act was defeated.
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Los Angeles
Calif
George BE
Cryer
Meredith P. Snyder
Lhe
Snyder
Veterans bonus plan passes in Oregon vote
Boldiere Get Benua Portland Oregon reports ex service members to receive a $15 monthly World War I bonus per month served or a real estate loan up to $4,000. The Oregon veterans approved the plan by about nine to one margin as returns from most counties came in. A bill for mandatory physicals for marriage license seekers was deferred.
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Portland
Ore
Oregon Vetera
World Peace Topic Dominates Commencement Talk
President Harding at American University commencement frames world peace as a goal to be achieved by sovereign states without a world super power. He praises U S and Canada for peaceful dispute settlements and urges graduates to dedicate themselves to restoring stability amid global iconoclasm.
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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 Talks Aim to End Strike in London
Conferences continue as authorities seek settlement of wage dispute in cotton manufacturing and engineering trades amid ongoing labor debates.
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London
Taxicab War in Chicago Ends with Slayings and Arrests
A two day taxicab war in Chicago leaves one man dead and several injured as numerous shootings and wrecked cabs occur. Police arrest delvars and twenty five drivers on related charges including operating without cab stand licenses amid a feud between rival companies.
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Chicago
Delvars
Fireman Drowned As Train Plunges Through Flooded Bridge
A Chicago Burlington & Quincy passenger train crashed through a flood weakened Platte River bridge near Union Colorado. Fireman Elmer Snedeker was killed after being swept away. engineer George A. Fouts saved many by stopping the train and aiding passengers. Two rear coach passengers were slightly hurt and several others suffered shocks as crews freed cars from the river. The Burlington line runs from Billings Montana to Denver via Sheridan and Alliance with multiple cars continued to Omaha and Denver.
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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 Drowns After Saving Playmate at Reservoir
Mandan North Carolina news reports 11 year old Walter Kuehne lost his life while trying to rescue his chum Rudolph Yaeger who sank during a swim. Kuehne drowned after diving repeatedly to reach his playmate before rescuers could assist.
Doctors Back Harding Policy Memorial Endorsed by AWMA
A memorial endorsing President Harding's welfare policy including public health social security soldier rehabilitation child protection and Americanization was submitted to the house of delegates at the AW Medical Association annual convention. Dr Hubert Work of Pueblo was president elect and presented the memorial which was referred to a committee for report.
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Boston
Harding
PREDICTS BIG CALAMITY OVER MEAT PACKERS
Thomas B H Wilson president of the Institute of American Meat Packers told Congress that the meat and livestock industry faces a calamity unless legislation emerges. He opposes the Norris bill as too broad and argues for a conservative supervisory law centered in one agency to ease tensions and avoid government despotism.
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Union News Service
Chicago
Thomas BH. Wilson
Institute of American Meat Packers
Congress
Department of Agriculture
U S Plans Cattle Loans in Treasury Review
Treasury officials consider a credit facility plan for cattle raisers without new legislation. The proposal would supplement the War Finance Corporation's 50 million loan recommendation, offering quicker relief and avoiding reliance on congressional authority.
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Washington
Treasury
Federal Board
War Finance Corporation
Stolen Gas Racket Fatal Tap Gone Wrong in Springfield
Gustave Astankewitz, 50, was found dead in a cellar ditch in Springfield while allegedly tapping a gas main to steal gas for an illicit still. Officers reported an odor of escaping gas and a discarded gas mask nearby. Neighbors summoned the coroner after discovering the body.
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Springfield
Ill
Gustave Astankewitz
Astankewitz
Kansas to Harvest Major Wheat Acreage This Year
J C Mohler secretary of the State Board of Agriculture estimated Kansas will harvest about 10 million acres of wheat this year, 900000 more than the May 20 report based on incomplete March 1 assessor returns.
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Kansas
Topeka
Kan
J. C. Mohler
State Board of Agriculture
Mexico oil export tax raised by 25 percent
President Obregon decrees a 25 percent average rise in export taxes on Mexican petroleum products, effective July 1. Government estimates the move will yield over 80,000,000 pesos annually to fund foreign debt payments, which have been in arrears.
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Mexico City
Mexico
Obregon
Wyoming Briefs Highlight Accidents and Local Ventures
News notes from Cheyenne and across Wyoming report a fatal Casper motorcycle crash, a deadly nitroglycerin transport accident near Bonneville, a drowning from a water shutoff in Ranchester, and a cafe owner shot in Casper. Also covered are Laramie County fairs and picnics, a dehorning incident with a dangerous bull near Gillette, a new Rocky Mountain Highway Association formed in Laramie, the death of rancher Rasmus Mickelson in Salt Lake City, medical leave for Midwest league pitcher Kinney, Lovell bond voting delays, and a Cheyenne man’s murder-suicide involving Margaret Grier.
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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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Norris
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Mie
Medicine Bow Forest Service
Brooklyn Lake
Saratoga
Lyman Peck
Casper
Peck
Howard Glass
K. C. Glass
St. Cloud
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Nelson
Thermopolis
Bonneville
Pat Washut
Joseph Washut
Jim Ladas
Burlington Café
Nick Camets
Ladas
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