London socialite turned thief jailed for frauds
The so called Josephine ODare, a Mayfair hostess in London, was exposed as Skyrme a daughter of a rural laborer. Between glamorous parties she ran a criminal scheme with forgers and crooks earning an estimated 100000 dollars. Aware but loyal the butler testified to the respectable table and aristocratic guests in the kitchen thieves kitchen.
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Milton Bronner
NEA Service
London
Mayfair
England
Josephine O'Dare
West End
Bond Street
Birmingham
Mayfair Society
Miss O'Dare
First white woman braves Black Hills frontier tale
In 1874 Annie D. Tallent led a wagon train to the Black Hills seeking gold and endured hunger, cold, and perils before a brief stay at Gordon Stockade. She was later arrested by soldiers and buried far west. a monument marks her cabin site while the First Lady’s modern visit echoes her daring journey.
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C. J. Lilly Washington
Black Hills
South Dakota
Annie D. Tallent
Calvin Coolidge
Tallent
Gordon Stockade
State Park Inn Near Angola Opens to Public
The Potawatomi Inn at Pokagon State Park near Angola Indiana was officially presented to the public on a day that drew over 1500 visitors. Conservation Director Richard Lieber and Governor Jackson spoke as dignitaries from Michigan Ohio and Indiana attended. The yellow stucco hotel on a hill offers 32 rooms with steam heat and running water and is leased to Mr and Mrs Werher Janku of Indianapolis to run as a year round resort.
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Bay Times
Specia Angola
Tnd
Pokegon State Park
Lake James
Here
Indiana
Richard Lieber
Jackson
Steuben County
Michigan
Joseph L. Hooper
Battle Creek
Norman B. Horton
Green
Ohio
Morton B. Carlisle
Ohio Valley Region
State Park Conference
Indiana Park
R. E. Bishop
Werher Janku
Indianapolis
Lieber
Charles G. Sayers
Indiana Theater Opens Inaugural Night In City
The Indiana Theater opened to the public with inaugural ceremonies Saturday night and Sunday as thousands visited. Governor Ed Jackson and Mayor John L. Duvall accepted the theater for the state and city, praising Circle Theater Company founders and officers. Lewis Stone attended, and telegrams from hundreds of film figures arrived as "The Prince of Head Waiters" screens this week.
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Indiana
Dick Miller
Chamber of Commerce
Indiana Theater
Ed Jackson
John L. Duvall
Circle Theater Company
Lewis Stone
First National Pictures
Jazz leader Ted Brown jailed over tax debt
Ted Brown American jazz band leader was jailed after fleeing to avoid paying 260 pounds of income tax. Arrested Saturday friends offered to pay, but appeals to Home Secretary Sir William Joynson-Hicks failed to avert imprisonment in London June 20.
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London
Ted Brown
Brown
William Joynson-Hicks
Vandals strike in Indianapolis homes and thefts reported
Vandals damaged two Indianapolis houses last weekend. One home at 4505 E Twenty first St saw a knife wound and torn curtains while Cyrus Rader and his wife were in an orchard. Thieves stole 40 dollars worth of lead from vacant houses on E Fifteenth Street, and a man named Charles Alexander, 49, of 229 W Fourteenth St was found in a vacant house on N Meridian Street by police.
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Indianapolis
Cyrus Rader
Twenty-first St
Charles Alexander
Fourteenth St
N. Meridian St
Fido Fountains Replace Pekinese Bow Wow Bar At Savoy
London readers note three marble troughs outside Savoy’s revolving doors have vanished. Three new fountains, miniature Benvenuto Cellini replicas, stand where even small Pekinese can drink, easing the mood in fashionable circles.
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United Press
London
Savoy
Barking Circles
Florence
21 Dead Found In Mill Debris
From Bogota Colombia police report 21 bodies recovered from the Rosellon cotton mill debris near Medelin after a Saturday collapse from a landslide. Two workers were saved, about 40 mill employees including 34 girls were buried, and four farm workers were killed before the slide halted. Reaching those trapped was expected to take three more days. One farm worker killed had married the day before. her husband left five minutes before the slide.
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United Presa
Bogota
Colombia
Rosellon
Medellin
Fourth attempt to blow up Los Angeles aqueduct
Four dynamiting attempts on the Los Angeles water aqueduct within a month prompted Governor C C Young to seek drastic measures to prevent further wrecks. Officials warned of a possible water shortage as repairs followed the latest blast attributed to Owens Valley ranchers whose protests over land damage date back fourteen years.
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United Presse
Los Angeles
Cal
Los Angeles Water Aqueduct
C. C. Young
Ownes Valley
Stolen Automobiles Reported Across Several Owners
Police report multiple vehicles stolen from various owners including Thurston Denneker of 335 Northern Ave Ford from a residence, C C Epple of Royal Hotel Hudson from 222 N Beville Ave, D W Mack of Crawfordsville Ind Ford from Maryland and Pennsylvania Sts, Burnie Meador of 530 S East St Chevrolet from Riverside Park.
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Thurston Denneker
Northern Ave
Ford
C. C. Epple
Royal Hotel
Hudson
N. Beville Ave
D. W
Fleeing suspects in New York Street pursuit identified as James Johnson
Police chased two suspects who fled after crossing New York Street at New Jersey Street without stopping. One man discarded a bottle of alcohol and fled with a can. Officers captured the other man who provided the name James Johnson, 62614 N California.
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New York St
New Jersey St
Graham and
Oakley
James Johnson
California
Automobiles Found Recovered in Terre Haute and Nearby
Joseph Rourke of Terre Haute reports a Ford found at Sand and McCarty Streets. Fred L. Virtue Jr. notes a Ford found at Troy and Meridian Streets near Spink Hotel. F W Gisler reports a Ford found at 315 West Ohio Street and another at 836 Sanders Street.
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Joseph Rourke
Terre Haute
Hudson
Sand
F. W. Gisler
Sanders , St
Ford
Ohio St
Deserter Stain Haunts Lindbergh Relative for 60 Years
Francis A Land, 84, Lindbergh’s great uncle, is listed as a deserter on Civil War records. He has spent six decades seeking a pension and to clear the family name while Lindbergh earns national acclaim. He hopes renewed congressional action will rectify the record.
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Lindbergh
Francis A. Land
Lindebigh
Land
Buffalo
N. Y
Grand Army
3Rd
Maryland Infantry
Stonewall Jackson
Hooker
Chancellorsville
Libby
Lanc
Lee
Vaip
Washington
Fight For Justice
Charlie
President Coolidge
Detroit
Wesley Jones
Bandit shoots self in drugstore hold up and escapes
A bandit shot himself during a late Saturday night robbery at Hook drug store 771 Massachusetts Ave. He took $250 then fled in an awaiting car with a partner, after District Patrolman Fleming tailed them two miles. Clerks A G Maecher and Charles Lyon reported the incident and other burglaries in the area with varied losses.
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Hook
Massachusetts Ave
Fleming
A. G. Maecher
N. Capitol Ave
Charles Lyon
S. Trowbridge St
Leonard Forsythe
John Farlow
Exeter Ave
H. M. Zorn
New Jersey St
E. J. Eich
Emerson Ave
NAB Speeders in Traffic War
The war on speeders and traffic violators boosted weekend arrests. Police record shows 199 men and 19 women detained. traffic arrests 49. speeding 30. intoxication 37 men and 4 women. driving while intoxicated 13 men. operating blind tigers 17 men and 5 women. Other offenses spread across vagary 27.
New Defense Planned in Raymond Trial
Dorothy Mackaye’s defense aims to prove Ray Raymond died from a fall rather than a fist fight with Paul Kelly. Kelly’s manslaughter conviction stands. he will be a key witness. Ethel Lee’s testimony from Kelly’s trial is expected as the case resumes.
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United Press
Los Angeles
Ray Raymond
Paul Kelly
Dorothy Mackaye
Raymond
Kelly
Miss Mackaye
Jerry Geisler
Ethel Lee
Wagner
Rich Doctor Slater Ends Life in Chicago
Dr. George F. Slater a wealthy Chicago physician died Sunday by poison. He faced a coroner inquiry into a young woman’s death tied to a alleged operation. His wife blamed real estate troubles and debts, not the inquiry, for his action.
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United Press
Chicago
George F. Slater
Slater
Parliament Considers Ban on Public Nude Bathing
London June 20 A Liberal member Colonel Day announced will question the home secretary this week to consider legislation prohibiting undressing on public beaches for bathing. He warned the evil of public bathing is rampant in seaside towns with nude coast bathing.
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United Press
London
House of Commons
Colonel Day
Home Secretary
Mide
England
Arrest Foils Gupid United P CornN Wedding Plan
Miss Grace Carvaugh, 19, planned to return to St Louis as her fiancé Clyde E. Bruce, 25, faced a grand larceny charge after being arrested at the union depot. Police said Bruce is also wanted in New Orleans for a $90,000 robbery.
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Ut United P Cornn
Ohio
Grace Carvaugh
St. Louis
Clyde E. Bruce
Bruce
Union Depot
New Orleans
Working wife upheld in Bombay court order
In Bombay on June 20 the chief presiding magistrate ordered William Walter Norton Baker to pay maintenance to his wife Lillian Gladys Baker. He must let her keep her post office job and return home if she desires, rejecting the husband’s demand that she quit her job. The judge called the husband's reason for separation an exploded one.
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United Press
Bombay
India
William Walter Norton Baker
Lillian Gladys Baker
Tuxedo Park Baptist Church Celebrates 25th Anniversary
The twenty fifth anniversary of Tuxedo Park Baptist Church was observed this Sunday with attendees at services. The church began in June 1902 from a mission Sunday school started by Woodruff Place Baptist Church. Rev. O L Steining the first pastor attended the exercises. Rev A S Clutton now pastor has served twenty years.
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Tuxedo Park Baptist Church
Woodruff Place
O. L. Steining
A.S. Clutton
Elder Prosecuted Daughter Denied Plot to Slay Family
In New Brunswick New Jersey the 84 year old George F Morse father of 40 year old Bessie Morse dismissed the maid Mamie Todds charges that Miss Morse plotted with gunmen to kill her sister and brother in law Raymond and Mrs Dey and their adopted son Elmer The father posted $1000 bail for his daughter after her arrest based on Todds allegations.
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Bu United Press
New Brunswick
N. J
Bessie Morse
Miss Morse
Mamie Todd
Raymond Dey
Elmer
Miss Morse Diad
George F. Morse
Prospect Plains
Middlesex County
Sacred Heart High School grants diplomas at Sunday commencement
Sixty three graduates, nineteen from the four year high school course and forty four commercial graduates, received diplomas at Sacred Heart High School Sunday. Bishop Joseph Chartrand delivered the commencement address stressing religion as the basis of morality and noting the Church’s role in education. Frank J. Boerger led the musical program.
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Sacred Heart
Joseph Chartrand
Frank J. Boerger
Relics Donated to Alabama State Museum in Montgomery
A Revolutionary War trunk and a hand wrought flat iron long kept by the M. B. Cleece family for over a century were added to the Alabama State Museum in Montgomery.
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Spheciac
Montgomery
Ala
M. B. Cleece
State Museum
138 Cities Rally For New Airports Nationwide
138 cities form committees on aeronautics as aviation boom grows. Kansas City dedicates its new airport June 30 and a million-dollar drive aims to buy Roosevelt Field for a Lindbergh named municipal airport. Washington and Baltimore vie to host air mail stops as public support surges for broader air transport and memorial fields.
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Chambers of Commerce
Kansas City
Roosevelt Field
Long Island
Lindbergh
National Press Club
United States Chamber of Commerce
Chamber
Washington
Air Mail
New York
Atlanta
Baltimore
Glover
Airmail
Vienna Honors American Aviators Chamberlin and Levine
Vienna greeted Clarence Chamberlin and Charles Levine with enthusiastic ceremonies after their record flight from Berlin aboard the Columbia. The aviators arrived with their wives in a separate plane as part of a convoy provided by a German airline, and plans call for further travel to Prague, Czecho Slovakia.
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United Press
Vienna
Austria
Clarence Chamberlin
Charles Levine
Germany
Chamberlin
Levine
Berlin
Columbia
Prague
Czecho- Slovakia
Auto thief clashed with officer over claimed car
In Demopolis Alabama on June 20, Officer Jim Miley stopped John Harris as he attempted to drive away. Harris claimed the car was his, but the officer asserted the vehicle belonged to him and warned Harris he was pinched for attempting theft.
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United Press
Demopolis
Ala
Jim Miley
John Harris
Hattie
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