Mutiny at Caledonia Farm Prison Ends in Tear Gas Standoff
At Caledonia Farm Prison in North Carolina 230 inmates clashed, 50 guards used tear gas and shotguns to restore order. Four ringleaders, jailed for theft and larceny, were placed in solitary with bread and water as authorities cited tight control and no further trouble expected.
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J. H. Norman, Jr
Raleigh
Dr. Norman
Robert Jarrett
Buncombe County
Eugene Ross
Vance County
Bruce Ellis
Wake
Clyde Rosian
Norman
Judge Warns Newspapers Over Deposition In Sinclair Case
Justice Bailey denounces publishing of Albert B. Fall deposition as contempt as the Sinclair trial proceeds in Washington. The government rests its case after testimony on the $25,000 payment to Fall and Teapot Dome lease issues.
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Washington
Albert B. Fall
Sinclair
Bailey
Washington Herald
Hearst
el Paso
Fall
M. H. Bull
Supreme Court
Columbia
First National Bank
Texas
Russia
J. E. Benton
Teapot Dome
E. C. Finney
Interior
Naval Oil Reserves
A. C. Veitch
Sinclair Exploration Company
Veitch
Justice Bailey
Blast may be act of the fanatic in West Plains
Prosecutor Green pressed his investigation into last week’s blast that destroyed a dance hall killing 40. He suggested suspect J M Wiser may have acted from revenge against dancing or financial troubles. Wiser’s body showed burns. witnesses counted a light spark before the explosion. No dynamite evidence found.
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West Plains
Green
J. M. Wiser
Wiser
Nobile Lands Italia in Germany After Polar Flight
General Umberto Nobile piloted the polar dirigible Italia to Seddin airfield near Stettin Germany after a 680 mile 30 hour 40 minute flight from Milan A left stabilizer torn but crew praised and the ship readied for northern exploration from Kings Bay amid plans to operate through spring and summer with wireless links to Milano and Rome Titania the dog accompanied the landing
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North Pole
Gleiwitz
Rome
Basilica of St. Paul’s
Death by own action claimed in fallen heiress case
Mrs Lorna Valentine Bowen 28, heiress and poet, died after falling from a Pantry window on the twelfth floor of her parents Park Avenue residence. Officials and family deny suicide, stating she slipped while heating milk for her 17 month old daughter. Police note the window was three and a half feet high with a radiator and a table blocking access.
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New York
Lorna Valentine Bowen
Hiram Royal Mallinson
Park Avenue
Col
Charles A. Lindbergh
Paris
Albert H. Watson
Thirteen Burned to Death in Pa Home Fire
At Blair Four near Altoona thirteen people died when a house burned early today. The dead include a mother, six of her children, and six wedding guests. a daughter married the previous Saturday was among the deceased. Cause of the blaze was not determined.
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Altoona
Blair Four
Here
Embro Krepachaik
Krepachalk
Stern Denies Knowing Anyone Behind Cotton Slump
Edgar B. Stern, president of the New Orleans Cotton Exchange, testifies before the senate cotton slump committee that he has no knowledge of any speculative or merchandising interest that aimed to depress the market last September. He says real beneficiaries were cotton spinners and growers suffered losses, with rumors about mills cutting output prolonging the decline.
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Senate
Cotton
New Orleans Exchange
Washington
Edgar B. Stern
New Orleans Cotton Exchange
Stern
Smith
South Carolina
New Orleans
Soa
Senator Smith
Strike On As Textile Wages Cut
New Bedford Mass April 16 union leaders claim a 100 percent effective strike as 300 000 textile operatives halt work over a ten percent wage cut Informal picketing centers of ovations loom fixers bring out tools Non union mills operate Beacons and Dartmouth stay open Only two pig mills work Twenty six cotton and two silk mills targeted City officials announce curtailment of services including one month unpaid leave for treasury staff and suspension of public school dental clinics The wage cut aims to keep plants running amid competition and the mood is somber in the city with prior cuts in Lowell last December.
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New Beford
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New Bedford Textile
New Bedford
Beacon
Dartmouth
Treasury Department
Board of Health Today
Lowell
Aged Man Identifies Suspects in Gastonia Robbery Case
Caleb B. Mauney, 72, identified two young men Hoyle and Hager as his assailants after a late night robbery near Bessemer City. Bound over to Criminal court on $2,000 bonds each. Hager posted, Hoyle held. Mauney was beaten and cut after leaving his store and being struck by a heavy instrument.
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Gastonia
N. C
Caleb B. Mauney
Bessemer City
Hoyle
Howard Hager
Hager
Mauney
Connecticut Seeks Supreme Court ruling on North Carolina bonds
Connecticut asks the Supreme Court to hear a suit over North Carolina 1868 1869 special tax bonds. Justices flag defective papers and question how Connecticut holds the bonds. Connecticut vows to correct defects and file how it obtained the bonds.
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Washington
North Carolina
Supreme Court
Connecticut
Justice Vandevanter
Holmes
McReynolds
Justice McReynolds
Justice Holmes
Young Woman Struck by Scissors in Greensboro Attack
Mrs. Lucille Ledbetter, 23, is in serious condition in a Greensboro hospital after a five inch pair of scissors were hurled at her while riding in an automobile. Police traced two white men in the car. one fled after the attack, the other stayed and was reportedly drinking as officers arrived.
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Greensboro
Lucille Ledbetter
Arrest Warrant Hangs Over Prohibition Agent
In Chicago on April 16 a police captain faced a dilemma over serving a warrant for Myron Caffey, a Prohibition agent charged with attempted murder. Caffey hid in the federal building while eight officers guarded exits and awaited guidance from federal and city prosecutors on how to proceed.
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Chicago
Myron Caffey
William Schoemaker
Schoemaker
Caffey
Federal Building
Shoemaker
John E. Northrup
U. S
Corporation Counsel
Captain Landy credited with saving Montrose after iceberg impact
Seamen credit Captain Landy of the Canadian Pacific liner Montrose for averting disaster by steering between two icebergs 100 feet high after a collision. The ship struck last Monday three days out of St John NB. two crew killed and two passengers injured.
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Liverpool
Eng
Landy
Montrose
St. John
N. B
Union Hosiery Company of High Point Formed
A North Carolina charter was issued for the Union Hosiery Corporation of High Point with 100000 dollars in capital stock. Initial subscribers include W. B. Thomas, C. F. Earl, and N. W. Bales, all of High Point.
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Raleigh
State of North Carolina
Union Hosiery Corporation of
High Point
W. B. Thomas
C. FE. Earl
N. W. Bales
D A R Opens 37th Continental Congress Amid Defense Debate
President General Coolidge tops the list of speakers as the D A R gathers in Washington for its 37th Continental Congress. Debate looms over naval defense policy and the organization’s stance on national issues, with Mrs Alfred J Brosseau urging informed civic engagement and true Americanism among delegates.
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Washington
Coolidge
Daughters of the American Revolution
Continental Congress
Congress
Alfred J. Brosseau
Helen Tufts Bailie
Boston
Coolidge Increases U S Steel Holding At Meeting
President Coolidge raised his ownership of United States Steel common stock from 590 to 70 shares, announced at the Hoboken annual stockholders meeting. George F. Baker Sr. boosted his holdings from 49 950 to 77 000 shares. Myron C. Taylor was newly elected chairman of the finance committee.
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Hoboken
N. J
Coolidge
United States Steel Corporation
George F. Baker, Sr
Myron C. Taylor
Prohibition Agent Surrenders After Bailiff Shooting
Myron M. Caffey, a prohibition agent who fled to Federal protection after shooting William Beatty, a municipal court bailiff, surrendered to Chicago police on April 16.
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Chicago
Myron M. Caffey
Prohibition
William Beatty
Greensboro native linked to Chicago agent wanted for murder
Myron Caffey, a Chicago prohibition agent charged with attempted murder, has eluded arrest by staying on the eighth floor of the federal building in Greensboro. His mother, Mrs. J. R. Caffey, lives at 243 North Edgeworth Street and had not learned of her son's plight until reading newspaper reports. A brother says Caffey has been in Chicago since January, after a transfer from Philadelphia.
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Myron Caffey
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Federal Building
J. R. Caffey
North Edgeworth Street
Caffey
Philadelphia
Lindbergh Continues Pleasure Flight to Unknown Destination
Col. Charles A. Lindbergh today continued his air pleasure tour landing briefly in Denver with Harold Bixby and Harry H. Knight. In his new monoplane he departed Alexander airport this morning without announcing a target city, with St. Louis thought likely.
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Denver
Colo
Col
Charles A. Lindbergh
Grand Canyon
Harold Bixby
Harry H. Knight
Alexander Airport
St. Louis
Cleveland Railway adopts reflector belt for workers
Cleveland April 16. Front and tail lights will be carried by all trouble men working for the Cleveland Railway. An invention by James Scott maintenance superintendent uses a belt of red reflectors like highway curve markers. The company lost five men in accidents last year.
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Cleveland
Cleveland Railway
James Scott
Bremen relief plane returns with Bremen crew aboard
The relief plane that aided the stranded trans Atlantic Bremen on Greenly Island is returning to Lake Ste Agnes near Murray Bay with Captain James Fitzmaurice aboard. Pilot C. A. Schiller and Dr. Louis Cuisinier were also named as crew. earlier reports cited Father Point and Quebec as possible destinations.
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C. A
Duke) Schiller
Louis Cuisinier
Rescue efforts accelerate for Bremen aircrew on remote island
Preparations quicken to rescue the three aviators who first flew the north Atlantic east to west and landed on a tiny isolated northern island. They aided the German Irish Bremen crew after the trans Atlantic flight and icy barrier crossing.
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North Atlantic
Statler Of Hotels Is Dead At 65
Ellsworth Milton Statler, famed hotel pioneer and head of Hotels Statler Inc, died of pneumonia at the Hotel Pennsylvania aged 65 in New York. Born 1863 in Somerset County, Pa, he rose from bellboy to owner of hotels in Buffalo, St. Louis, Cleveland, Detroit, New York and Boston, with early ventures at Pan-American and St. Louis expositions.
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New York
Ellsworth
Milton Statler
Bellboy
Pennsylvania
Statler
Statler, Inc
Buffalo
St. Louis
Cleveland
Detroit
Boston
Somerset County
Wheeling
W. Va
McClure House
Stacler
Tom Duffy
the McClure
Charleston Man Arrested for Embezzlement in China
Davis E. Duff of Charleston South Carolina, twice manager for the oil export company of Los Angeles in China, is arrested on charges of embezzling 13000 dollars. He pleaded not guilty and posted a 5000 dollar bond. Mrs. Duff sails toward the United States aboard the Tenyo Maru, due San Francisco April 27.
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Shanghai
Davis E. Duff
Charleston
S. C
China
Oil Export Company
Los Angeles
United States Court of China
Duff
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