Tragic Hudson River Death Ties To Max Bodenheim
Autopsy shows Miss Virginia Drew, 24, drowned after disappearing from an apartment where she called on novelist Maxwell Bodenheim. Police sought Bodenheim for questioning but found no charges. Her body was recovered from the Hudson. investigators weigh possible self destruction and circumstances.
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New York
Virginia Drew
Hudson River
Maxwell Bodenheim
Bodenheim
Miss Drew
Night clubs padlocked in bold New York raids
Federal agents sealed eight New York night clubs in a White Light Belt raid, boarding bar doors with pads and planks. Deputy marshals led the operation, aided by the Prohibition Director, a deputy US attorney, and agents. Other areas of the venues were left untouched.
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New York
Broadway
United States
Prohibition
Campbell
Erickson Cotes To Line In Narrow Lead In Primary
AP reports show Governor Erickson leading renomination with 23 945 votes to Roy E Ayers 23 429 after 1425 of 1490 precincts. Angstman and Harmon gain in republican bids for supreme court and secretary of state. Final totals will shift with missing precincts across about 20 counties.
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Associated Press
Erickson
Roy E. Ayers
Lewistown
Albert Angstman
Supreme Court
W. &. Harmon
Obregon to be buried in Navajoa in solemn homecoming
In Nogales Arizona July 20 AP reports Mexico pays tribute to President elect Alvaro Obregon believed assassinated. Obregon a farmer from Cajeme rose to lead the country as military commander then president and recently won a second term. He returns to Navajoa for his final rest in the local burying ground.
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Nogales
Arizona
Mexico
Alvaro Obregon
Cajeme
Navajoa
Unknown laborer found dead in bad order car
In Glendive area a decomposed male body, likely a laborer, was found in a Northern Pacific bad order box car by a repair track employee. Identifications are gone. he had been dead over a month. The car, from Beaverhill, arrived six weeks earlier and was stored for space. The cause appears to be strangulation.
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Glendive
Beaverhill
Smith to address all major campaign issues in acceptance
Albany N Y July 20 AP Speculation over the content of Governor Smiths forthcoming acceptance speech prompted him to say no one but himself knows what he will say He intends to discuss all major campaign issues at notification next month He denied reports that he will subordinate prohibition and farm relief and emphasized his broader plans continued on page ten
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Albany
N. Y
Smith
Iis Daily
Helena Opens Big Municipal Airport Amid Sunshine Launch
Crowds gathered yesterday afternoon as Helena's new municipal airport officially opened in ideal flying weather. Governor J. E Erickson, Commissioner J R Wine, and National Parks Airway Inc president Al Franks delivered remarks. Seven Montana aviators performed air stunts that entertained and impressed officials.
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Helena
J. E Erickson
J R Wine
al Franks
National Parks Airway, Inc
Montana
Erickson
Deaths From Heat Storm Hit Nebraska Train Crew
Omaha scene amid a record heat and electric storm left five dead after a downpour. One man electrocuted touching a live wire. four train crew members died in a double header freight crash through a trestle. Victims: Leroy McArdle 27 of Elkhorn. D D Tucker 44, engineer. Iesee Davis 22, fireman. George Wilson 43, engineer. John Butts 24, fireman.
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Neb
Frieght
Leroy McArdle
Elkhorn
D D Tucker
Iesee Davis
George Wilson
John Butts
Fort Worth Attorney S. W. Cowan Dies in Hospital
S. W. Cowan, 69, attorney for the American National Livestock Association since 1892 and a noted railroad rate expert in the county, died this morning in a Fort Worth hospital. Fort Worth, Texas, July tt.
Japan Accepts Plan to Lay Ban on War
Japan accepts the revised Kellogg anti war treaty and receives warm Tokyo greetings on rapid adoption of the American proposal. The State Department makes the reply public as Czecho Slovakia remains the only missing signatory to a proposed five power general peace pact open to all nations. Tanaka notes the imperial government is proud to join a movement aligned with widespread hope.
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Japan
Washington
Tokyo
State Department
Tanaka
Indianas Supreme Court denies Stephens habeas corpus plea
Indianapolis July 20 The Indiana Supreme Court today denied a habeas corpus re hearing sought by D. C Stephens serving a life term for murder. The suit against the prison warden and trustees claimed lack of jurisdiction by the Hamilton County circuit court that tried and convicted him.
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Indianapolis
Ind
D. C
Stephenson
Indiana State Prison
Indiana Supreme Court
Hamilton
Indiana Anti-Saloon head held in contempt ruling
Indiana Supreme Court affirmed the contempt conviction of Dr. Edward S. Shumaker, superintendent of the Indiana Anti-Saloon League, but did not increase his sentence as urged by Attorney General Arthur L. Gilfillan. The decision was announced in Indianapolis on July 20.
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Indianapolis
Indiana Supreme Court
Edward S. Shumaker
Indiana Anti-Saloon League
Arthur L. Gilfiom
Round the World Flyers Land in Canada at Victoria B C
John Henry Mears and pilot B. D. Colfer landed in Victoria British Columbia after sailing aboard the Empress of Russia. They planned to depart at dawn for Seattle as part of their around the world race.
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Flyers
Canada
Victoria
B. C. Jule
John Henry Mears
B. D. Colfer
Empress of Russia
Mears
Seattle
Making Girls Walk. Home is Not Crime Great Falls
The Montana county attorney’s office told a Great Falls justice that taking a girl for an auto ride and making her walk home is not a crime. Two young women testified to a complaint against five young men, names unknown, for taking them miles into the country and leaving them to find their way home. The car was recovered by police but the suspects were not found. The case was dismissed because the charge does not constitute a crime.
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Great Falls
Montana
Justice Court
Wife Declares She Slew Husband With Woman Companion
Dr. Virginia Alvarez Hussey, a former Venezuela official’s daughter, surrendered a loaded revolver at Norristown police and confessed to killing her husband Lindley M. Hussey and a woman companion near her Parker Ford home. Authorities searched nearby roads and fields but found no bodies. Hussey was jailed in Montgomery County.
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Virginia Alvarez Hussey
Venezuela
Lindley M. Hussey
West Philadelphia Hospital For Women
Parker Ford
Pottstown
Dr. Hussey
Montgomery County
Food poisoning hits guests after Marshall Hall picnic
About 50 women and children were hospitalized in Washington after a picnic at Marshall Hall on the Potomac. Reported as food poisoning, with many more treated at home. doctors suspected tainted eggs as the cause.
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Washington
Marshall Hall
Potomac River
Dynamite Blast Death in Rockford Drama
In Rockford a dynamite blast killed Vernon Plager, a radio expert, as he stepped on his car starter. Police say Paul Reed, a former sweetheart of Mrs. Iva Plager, may know handling dynamite. Reed and Mrs. Plager are in custody, with ties to an elopement and a recent plea to elope again.
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Rockford
Vernon Plager
Paul Reed
Iva Plager
Reed
Hoover at Stanford to Attend Funeral
Herbert Hoover, presidential candidate, returns to California from Stanford to receive formal notification of his Republican nomination. A quiet homecoming follows the death of Mrs Hoover’s father C. D. Henry, a wealthy banker, prompting cancellation of celebratory events in San Francisco and Palo Alto. Hoover is greeted by family and close associates as he heads to the funeral.
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Stanford University
Herbert Hoover
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Pacific Coal
California
Hooters
C.D Henry
Bay
San Francisco
Palo
Parachute Malfunction Ends Student's Flight in Leonard
Leonard Texas July 20 AP Bob Dowdy of Mena 25 said to be a student at Southern Methodist University Dallas was instantly killed during an attempted parachute jump from an airplane near here today Dowdy plunged about 3000 feet to the earth when his parachute failed over the field authorities reported a fatal parachuting accident involving a university student near Leonard Texas.
West named interior secretary by Coolidge in 1923
Roy O. West of Chicago was appointed by President Coolidge to be secretary of interior, succeeding Hubert Work. Work resigns from cabinet to devote time to chairman duties of the Republican National Committee, while West plans to resign as vice chairman of the finance committee and member of the national committee executive committee.
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Superior
Roy O. West
Chicago
Coolidge
Interior
Hubert Work
West
Tillmon
National Committee
Dr. Work
Republican National Committee
Farmer Kills Wife and Two Sons in Farm Dispute
An elderly farmer killed his wife and two sons following a dispute over timber on the farm. The 35-year-old wife and the two children died, while the husband escaped with minor injuries. Local authorities are investigating the incident.
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Farmer
Wife
W. R. Wreght
Fred Tyice
Air Tour Planes Meet Missoula Visitors at Airport
Air tour ships of the Edsel Ford National Reliability tour are parked at Missoula airport with 22 planes and pilots as guests of the city. Pilot Dan H. Robinson, flying a Curtiss Robin biplane, arrived at 5:35 pm after earlier radiator leak trouble in Spokane and a crankshaft fault near Plains. Captain Ray Collins and Captain R. G. Breene officiated as referees as the event opened in Missoula with continued coverage on page ten.
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Dan H. Robertson
Edsel Ford National Reliability Tour
Robertson
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