Chicago Union Labor Heads 10 Stay in Jail
Chicago's Big Tim Murphy Con Shea and Fred Mader, three leaders of unions, face renewed jail stays as judge delays hearings while prosecutors push fresh indictments. Defense seeks release or access to Miller statements tying the trio to police killings, bomb plots, and racketeering cases. Police expansion to add 1,000 officers moves toward emergency funding.
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Chicago Union Labor
Associated Tress
Chicago
Big Tim" Murphy
Con" Shea
Fred Mader
Kickham Scanlon
Scanton
Cehecago
Lalas
Big
Tim’ Murphy
Chicago Building Trades Council
Com Shen O
Theatre Janitors’ Union
John Miller
Miller
Mader
Shea
Murphy
Land
Charles ¢. Fitanorris
Car Crash Near Goshen After Chuck Hole Incident
A Ford touring car carrying five Elkhart residents, including William Davis, struck a chuck hole on the Hoosier-Dixie highway south of Goshen and crashed into a telephone pole. The lone injury was a woman with a slight forehead cut. all others escaped unharmed. Damage to the car was extensive, with bent axle, twisted frame, and crushed headlight and fender. repair time and cost were estimated at $50. The vehicle was sent to a local garage for repairs.
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Goshen
Hoosier-Dixie Highway
J. Davis
Elkhart
Willian
Judge Drake Consents to Sit in Ellli Liquor Case
Judge James Drake of the circuit court agrees to hear as special judge the EMH liquor cases in Elkhart involving Steve Eli Sr Anna Eli and Frank Horvath. Judge Hile of the superior court will travel to Goshen to replace Drake in the circuit court. The trio were indicted after moonshine production on their farm north of Elk hart.
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James §. Drake
Circuit Court
Elkhart
Steve Eli, Sr
Anna
Frank Horvath
BR E Proctor
Hile
Goshen
Hikhart
Wool market opens in Go shen with 39 cents offered
The wool market opens in Go shen with first class wool advertised at 39 cents. Buyers and sellers gauge prices as early activity sets tone for the season.
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Goshen
Seven Year Old Boy Hurt as Rail Gate Falls on Swinging Children
Noble Bechtold Jr., seven, is hospitalized with concussion and head contusion after a large iron gate at the West Pike Street railroad crossing toppled while children swung on it. The gate had been pushed out across interurban tracks by a switching crew. no one was supervising. Elizabeth Wogeman escaped injury as Noble was knocked unconscious. No fault assigned to the crew.
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Noble Bechtold, Jr
Noble Bechtold
North Second Street
West Pike Street
Bechtold
Elizabeth Wogeman
Noble
Uncle Sam Sells War Housing in Lorain Auction
In Lorain Ohio on May 23 Uncle Sam sold 280 homes and two business blocks built during the war by the United States Shipping Board and the Emergency Fleet Corporation to the highest bidders.
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Lorain
Ohio
Sam
United States Shipping Board
Emergency Feet Corporation
Indiana Republicans Fix Platform Ahead of State Convention
Indianapolis May 25 Republican leaders gather for the opening day of the state convention to iron out platform differences and avoid a platform fight. Senator Watson arrives to deliver the keynote as debates focus on endorsing the Harding administration and a possible return to a convention system for nominations. The lone state office contest centers on clerk of the supreme court between Patrick Lynch and Henry Roberts.
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Associated Press
Indeanapoles
AML
James E. Watson
Washington
Harry S. New
John T. Adams
Republican National Committee
Indianapolis
Supreme Court
Patrick J. Lynch
Henry A. Roberts
Resolutions Committee
Watson
Harding
McCray
State House
Mob Seizes Black Prisoner From Georgia Jail
A mob of 50 to 60 stormed Wilkinson county jail in Irwinton and freed Jim Denson, a Black man sentenced to hang for attacking a white woman. Guards were wounded in the incident, and Denson was taken away in an car with a rope around his neck. no trace found by sheriff at dawn.
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Associated Press
Irwinton
Wilkinson County
Jim Denson
United States Supreme Court
Denson
Macon
John B. Stanley
J. Hk. Bel
Stanley
Densen
Many New York Post Office Employees Found With Criminal Records
Acting Postmaster General Bartlett reported to President Harding that 49 of 460 registry division employees in New York had criminal records based on fingerprint checks. All 49 were dismissed as arrests tied to recent postal robberies. Bartlett ordered fingerprinting for all 15,000 New York office workers and planned further inspections in Chicago.
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Washington
Registry Division
New York Post Office
Harding
Bartlett
New York
Morgan
Chicago
State to Receive Bids on Cassopolis Highway Project
Indianapolis May 23 The state highway commission announced bids for paving the Cassopolis road between Elkhart and the Michigan line will be received on June 15. The commission will consider brick concrete and bituminous concrete and has not yet decided the paving type. The four mile road seeks cost proposals.
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Associated Press
Indianapolis
Cassopolis
Elkhart
Michigan State Line
State Highway Commission
Oil For
Road Grading Foreman Dies of Heart Ailment
Haman Fetters aged 60 of a farm east of Webster Lake died at noon yesterday while eating dinner under a shade tree near North Webster. Death was due to heart trouble. Fetters began work that morning as foreman of the grading gang on the Moorehead road, supervised by Walter Irick under E. A. Gast.
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Haman Fetters
Webster Lake
North Webster
Mr. Fetters
Moorehead
E. A. Gast
Walter Irick
Ward Baking heir kills man over blackmail demand
Clarence Peters, a Havrehill, Massachusetts man, is shot by Walter Ward son of Ward Baking president George Ward after a dispute over a blackmail payment. Ward had already paid $30,000 to blackmailers and refused another $50,000, prompting the deadly confrontation in New Rochelle and subsequent manhunt for two associates.
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White Plains
N. Y
Clarence Peters
Exmarine
Walter &. Ward
George S. Ward
Ward Baking Company
Ward
Young Ward
Europe
Majestic
Clackmail
Peters
New Rochelle
Associated Press
Ross
Jack
Walter S. Ward
Clarence Veters
Havrehill
Mass
West Chester County
New York
Liberty
George J. Werner
New York City
White Light District
Broadway
Werner
Lower East Side
Weather report for Indiana shows showers tonight and Wednesday
Daily government temperature reading by S W Witmer notes four hours before noon. Showers are forecast for tonight and Wednesday with little change in temperature across the period.
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S. W. Witmer
Indiana
Amishman’s Penalty Suspended for Liquor Violation
Jacob C. Troyer, an Amish man from a farm east of Goshen, was fined 100 and sentenced to 90 days on the penal farm after pleading guilty to illegal possession of intoxicating liquor. Sentence suspended on good behavior. the moonshine was for personal use, though alleged cruelty to his family occurred.
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Jacob C. Troyer
Goshen
Troyer
John Dunlap
Reuben Dunlap
David Ms. Blough
Milton Latta Miller
Ray Miller
Alberta
Can
Mary FE. Cain
Salem Bank and Trust Co
Mass Meeting for Reorganization of C C Thurs June 8
Reorganization committee of the Chamber of Commerce plans a mass meeting in the chamber rooms on Thursday June 8 at 8 o clock. The session will be informal with no speeches and refreshments to be served. Committee members listed include S FE Spohn G B Slate A G Hooverns A Deahl H R Whitmer J W Foreman and O M Kinnison.
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Committee On Re-Organization
Tri Kappa Sorority
Chamber of Commerce
S. FE. Spohn
G. B. Slate
A. G. Hoovens
A Deahl, H. R. Whitmer
J. W. Foreman and
0. M. Kinnison
School Board Reassesses High School Bid Proposals
The city board of education, including Claude E Cornell George Richardson and M A Wysong, is tabulating 10 bids for a new high school on the Farmington addition bought for 15000. Superintendent J W Foreman is away due to his father's illness. action may wait.
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City Board of Education
Claude E. Cornell
George Richardson
M. A. Wysong
Farmington
J. W. Foreman
Charleston
Lil
Ellwood & Miller
Elkhart
Goshen Finishes First Spring Cleaning in Two Years
Under street commissioner Ott Grismer the first spring cleaning in Goshen in two years was completed today. The work cost will be drawn from the general fund with between 2000 and 3000 loads of ashes and rubbish hauled away.
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Ott Grismer
Goshen
Sister-in-law of Lincoln J. Carter Dies
Lincoln J. Carter reports the death of Mrs. Walter Lyon of Salt Lake City Utah. Mr. Lyon her husband survives and is a half brother to Mr. Carter.
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Lincoln J. Carter
Walter Lyon
Salt Lake City
Utah
Mr. Lyon
Mr. Carter
Ulster Police Mass Roundup Sparks Political Fallout
Ulster authorities arrest hundreds across six counties amid a sweeping raid against the Irish republican army, Sinn Fein, and related groups. Reports note 1,500 initial estimates. actual prisoners near 200 by noon, with clashes near Downpatrick and continued tension in Belfast and Dublin.
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Belfast
Ulster
Irish Republican Army
Northern Ireland
Irish Republican Brotherhood
Irish Volunteers
The
Sinn Fein
Girl Guides
Boy Scouts
Ireland
Sinn
Were Twaddell
Twadden
Healy
Fermanagh
Slorly
Downpatrick
County Down
Dromore
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Miami Beach
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O. K
U. S. Navy
Chuck Hole
Drake
ELLI
Uncle Sam
Hammer
O. P
Democrat
Georgia
Cassopolis Highway
the Democrat
W. S. Ward
Father
Jesse Hern
Oxelo
Jacob Rockinbargh
Canton
Samuel Ju. Nawagie
Middlebury
W. A. Books
Harrison Miller
Concord
Charles Jantus
William Dbuetrick
Osolo
Galen Roose
Union
Jesse FE. Koerner
Wikhart
KK. A. Skimmer
Oxolo
John JH. Ruple
Bango
Charles Roebeck
Lenton
Margaret Summerlett
Harold W. Suammerlott
Margaret Steckley
Louise Biance
Frank L. Biance
Louise Smith
C. of C. Thurs
Ulster Police
Tl.ondon
Parliament of
James Craig
W. J. Twaddell
Dublin
Republican Party
Eamon de Valera
Ard Fheis
de Valera
Michael Collins
Mr. Coislins
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