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Newspaper
Gunnison Valley News
Location
Gunnison, Utah, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1925
Page
6
Nine men and three women were impaneled in Los Angeles after nearly three days to hear evidence on an alleged plot to kidnap Mary Pickford for a $200000 ransom. The report also notes a Montanan girl found dead, flood impacts in Oregon, and other 1920s era events.
Ines Vargas, sixteen, threatened to jump from a four story roof after demanding parental consent to marry Isidro Covarublas. Firemen arrived in under ten minutes with a life net and, amid a chaotic rescue, prevented her leap as Cirince Vargas relented but Isidro faded from the scene.
Mrs Emma Kehoe known as the fat woman of Johnny J Jones exposition left Columbus for home in Tontin Michigan due to a serious illness caused by heat. Doctors attending here report her condition as serious. Weighing 675 pounds, her weakened state required she be moved from the Sherman D Brown ambulance to a large truck at Union Station from White Cross hospital.
Miss Lake, operator at Michigan Bell Telephone in the Wilson building, risked her life to remain at her post and sound the alarm during an early morning fire that nearly wrecked the telephone office interior. She found the electric push button tied and secured but managed to restore the siren signal.
Frank Cross, newly named director of the national Americanism commission for the American Legion, traces a frontier lineage from Indiana to Colorado. He served in France, later taught at the Colorado School of Mines, and built programs to educate immigrants on American ideals and pass naturalization tests.
Utah residents skeptical about a Salt Lake and Denver railroad from Provo to Craig. witness R Collett touts Uintah basin potential. He cites irrigation, poultry and dairy expansion, sugar beet factories, cattle and sheep herds, coal fields, oil wells, copper mines, phosphate rock, iron ore, and timber movement. Denver chamber opposes the Bamberger application.
Logan R. Black, a Philadelphia broker, and his friend Roger Bispham were killed when Black piloted a new racing model aircraft that entered a side slip and nosedived from about 150 feet at the Pincairn flying field edge in Bryn Athyn.
The estate of Yale athletic adviser Walter Camp, who died in New Haven Connecticut, is valued at 326634. An inventory filed by the administrators lists personal property bonds and stocks cash deposits and royalty contracts with New York publishers.
Extradition documents were prepared at the governor’s office in Sacramento to bring Juan Y. Paden from Asheville to Vallejo to face murder charges in the 1921 killings of Allan J. Herrick and Francisca Amper. George W. Vallery of Denver was elected grand master of Knights Templar at Seattle’s 36th annual conclave.
The successor of Cardinal Regin archbishop of Quebec who died recently will be Most Rev Paul Hugene Roy coadjutor archbishop of Quebec.
County grand jury returns true bills charging Jack Wilson alias Woods W J Holmes of Texas and William Mullen of New York in a Drake hotel raid murder case. Mullen remains at large.
James J. Powell 47, a bridge expert, was killed when his wife Alberta 46 threw a knife at him across the dinner table. The blade struck above his heart and entered the right ventricle, causing instantaneous death after a domestic quarrel.
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