Indiana mayor taken in raid on vice ring
A Calumet district liquor and vice ring sweep in Indiana results in 365 arrests over two days. East Chicago Mayor Raleigh P. Hale and Police Chief James E. Regan, plus Nick Sudovich, are charged with conspiracy. Prohibition agents report warmaids among arrestees as they probe links to Al Capone’s network.
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Hammond
Ind
Calumet District
Chicago
Indiana Harbor
Raleigh P. Hale
East Chicago
James E. Regan
Nick Sudovich
South Bend
Calamet
Probing Death of Agent Reynolds in Arizona
Federal and municipal officers pursued arrests in Phoenix after the death of DOJ agent Paul E. Raynolds. His body was found in an irrigation canal near the city. A witness heard the fatal shot and officials traced the crime scene and obtained a stenographer’s statement.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Paul E. Raynolds
Department of Justice
Here
Reynolds
Crescent
County Court Cuts Tax Levy in Local Precincts
Reports from tax levying bodies show only a slight rate increase in precincts with school projects and the eight cent levy needed by the municipality to retire the filtration plant bond. City officials declare unrest as the issue surfaces.
Crime partners may meet again in death house
Havana reports that two partners in crime face imminent execution by garrote in Cuba. Enrique Pineda, serving a life term as accomplice in the Munoz killing, is to perform the garrote on Xolia Rodriguez, who admitted murder, after Rodriguez’s arrest in Tampa and extradition to Cuba.
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Havana
Emilia
Munoz
Supreme Court
Enrique Pin
Eda
Xolia Rodriguez
Rodriguez
Tampa
Fla
Cuba
Rhineland Evacuation Target Set Before Christmas
The Hague August 14 delegates fix Christmas as evacuation deadline and set Saturday for final decisions on deliveries in kind. The financial committee delays further work to allow informal talks. Philip Snowden urges modifications to the Young plan and hopes for fruitful continues.
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Hague
Netherlands
Rhineland
Philip Snowden
Snowden
Final Preparations Made For Graf Zeppelin Departure
Final preparations were completed in Friedrichshafen Germany as Graf Zeppelin prepared to depart at dawn for Tokyo on its round the world flight. Five engines were checked and the fabric, framework, food, supplies and mail cargo were secured. Dr Hugo Eckener and aides reviewed maps weather reports and meteorological data provided in part by Soviet scientists.
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Friedrichshafen
Germany
Tokyo
Zeppelin
Hugo Eckener
Tressler Held To Grand Jury On Assault Charge
Charged with a criminal assault alleged to have been committed upon his office assistant Eva Cordery, Tressler, owner operator of a Brownton coal plant, was bound over to the grand jury after arraignment before Magistrate John L. Wittman. Cordery testified she was afraid he would kill her and explained she spent the night in Grafton after the August 4 incident, saying Tressler met her near the Clarksburg depot and they traveled from Clarksburg to Weston.
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Eva. Cordery
Flemington-Bridgeport
Tressler
Brownton
John L. Wittman
Miss Corder
Wittman
Grafton
Clarksburg
Weston
Air mail pilot survives near Susquehannan in fog
Jack Webster of Hadley Field Dunellen New Jersey piloting an air mail plane bound for Buffalo New York forced to land in an orchard near Susquehannan after getting lost in heavy fog and fearing fuel exhaustion. He signaled with flares then landed after mistaking power company lights for a field. The plane struck two trees breaking a wing. Webster escaped with minor head cuts. The orchard site is linked to the founder of the Mormon church Joseph Smith.
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Stanton
Jack Webster
Hadley Field
Dunellen
N. J
Buffalo
N. Y
Susquehannan
Webster
Northern
Pennsylvania Power Company
Joseph Smith
Fragmentary accident notice mentions Bernere and witnesses
Partial OCR shows names James A. Bernere aged 31 and another party aged 33 in an explosion incident with observers. Details are incomplete but indicate a local event under investigation.
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Esassoo Iddle
James A. Bernere
Storms Sweep Aftermath of Lam bert Fight at Roadhouse
Reported brawl at Crow's Nest leaves Burl Lambert comatose with a crushed skull. Doctors say no operation needed as symptoms do not indicate surgery. Officers probe unidentified assailants, with Michael Munig and Lotis Lorenzo detained for inquiry.
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Daos
Pat
Lambert
Crow's Nest
Burl “Bray
Severe storm sweeps through three states with heavy damage
A storm system moved through Pennsylvania New York and Vermont bringing wind rain hail and lightning. It cut a 25 mile wide path in Vermont overturning cottages and damaging buildings on Rutland Middlebury roads and lines of communication. No fatalities reported though farms suffered loss of livestock barns crops and flooding affected property and bridges.
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New York
Pennsylvania
Vermont
Lake Bomoseen
Middlebury
Rutland
Reading
Glen Pally
N.Y
Lake George
Soviet Plane Forced Down Near Irkutsk
Moscow reports the flight of the Russian air plane Land of the Soviets, en route to New York from Moscow, was forced to land 170 miles from Irkutsk in Siberia. Tass said there was no information on its ability to continue.
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Moscow
New York
Irkutsk
Siberia
Avs
Tass
Subuol
Snook Case Given Jury in Ohio Slaying Trial
The Dr. James H. Snook murder case against Theora Hix’s death went to a jury at 3 55 p m in Columbus Ohio on Aug 14 as Prosecutor John J Chester Jr opened the final plea seeking conviction amid the weeping mother of the victim Theora Hix witnessed the closing scene in the Acacia destroyed proceedings.
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Columbus
James H. Snook
Theora Hix
John J. Chester, Jr
Ohio State
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Burl
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