Burns Heads U S Bureau of Investigation Faces Four Bomb Mysteries
William J. Burns takes command of the U S Bureau of Investigation to tackle four major bomb cases unresolved for years. The Chicago Federal Building blast, the Wall Street office bombing, the 1918 mail bomb plot targeting leading Americans, and the 1912 Judge Rosalsky package explosion are central, with Burns renowned for past counterterrorism efforts and significant arrests.
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Washington
Bureau of Investigation
United States Department of Justice
William J. Burns
Department of Justice
Chicago Federal Building
New York Wall Street
Judge Rosalsky
New York
United States
Wall Street
J. P. Morgan and Company
A. S. Burleson
J. P. Morgan
John D. Rockefeller
A. Mitchell Palmer
Rosalsky
Owen Eagen
New York Bureau of Combustibles
Eugen
Coral Reefs May Explain Pacific Ocean Subsidence
Dr. W. H. Hobbs of the University of Michigan proposes deep boring into coral atolls and barrier reefs to settle the subsidence theory of the Pacific Ocean. He sails with U.S. and Japanese support to study reefs in the South Seas, West Caroline Islands, and the Philippines.
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Honolulu
T. H
South Seas
Annals of Science
Pacific Ocean
W. H. Hobbs
University of Michigan
United States
Charles Darwin
James D. Dana
R. A. Daly
Harvard Unversity
Ice Ag
Europe
Nort
America
Daly
Hobbs
West
Caroline Islands
Manila
Bittern
Philippines
Sulu
Celebes
Ten Thousand Learn Basics at Citizens Camp Ends Sept. 5
Plattsburg N Y August 29 Ten thousand men and boys will have learned rudiments of military training at government expense when the last Citizens Military Training Camp closes September 5 The war department estimates a cost near 840000 and notes camps were open to men aged 16 to 35 in good health with priority to those without prior military experience Training focused on elementary drill marching life hygiene and basic soldier duties while some camps already finished and others just started.
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Plattsburg
N. Y
War Department
Boston
Cgovernor’s Island
Fort Howard
Mort McPherson
Fort Benjamin Harrison
Ind
Fort Sheridan
Fort Crook
Neb
Fort Sam Houston
Tex
San Francisco
Cal
New York Gangster Hoey Fears Police Revenge
Ex convict William F. Hoey known as a gangster and cop fighter sits in a West Thirtieth Street station cell fearing revenge from New York police after Patrolman Daniel J. Neville was killed. Hoey pleaded with Sing Sing prison chaplain for sanctuary, while police prepare witnesses and argue about bail and risk to the public.
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New York
Thirtieth Street
William F. Hoey
Daniel J. Neville
Hoey
Thirty-ninth Street
Hell’s Kitchen
Sing-Sing
Sing Sing
Father Cashin
Hoevy
Mystery man Peek shot in Atlanta hotel dispute
R L Peek known as a mystery man was shot in a hotel argument with prohibition agent Harry Saphire and died. Saphire was not arrested. He said Peek tried to draw a weapon.
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Atlanta
R. L Peek
Harry Saphire
Saphire
Peek
Chilean adviser studies Volstead act use in government
Alfredo Avalos legal adviser to Chile's ministry of finance arrived in New York to study Prohibition enforcement and assess a possible Chilean adoption. He cited usefulness in Antofagasta and worker regions while noting 700 million pesos invested in wine industry as a major obstacle.
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U. S
New York
Alfredo Avalos
Ministry of Finance
Chile
Antofagasta
Indians Said Immune From Stomach Cancer
A report notes a belief that Indians possess immunity to stomach cancer, a claim rooted in traditional medical lore and discussed in contemporaneous medical circles.
Adventist Church Network in the United States Exceeds Two Thousand
The Seventh Day Adventists report 2254 churches across the United States while the National Geographic Society shows a membership of 750000.
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Seventh-Day Adventists
United Stats
The
National Geographic Society
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Meyer Legislative Committee
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Patapon
Pathe Phonograph
Dave Roma
Bradner
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Babson
Silver Company
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