Gunman badly wounded by police chief in Illinois case
Roy Gann a St. Clair county "bad man" lay critically wounded in a Carlinville hospital after a gun battle with Assumption Police Chief John Ryan who was also shot. Gann confessed to shooting Ryan and named a companion who fled. He also admitted wounding Sheriff Peter Fitzgerald and Deputy Joe Kellermann and linked to Bethalto robberies.
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Baumeister
Peter Fitzgerald
Joe Kellermann
Madison County
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Bethalto
Til
Howard Gan
Diver's Stratosphere Suit for Wiley Post Flight
Wiley Post plans a New York to Los Angeles dash wearing a rubber stratosphere flying suit. The suit, weighing 16 pounds, encloses the pilot and feeds oxygen via a plane supercharger, with six yards of rubberized silk material and an aluminum head shroud.
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Wiley Post
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Post
Pacific Goodrich Rubber Company
W. R. Hucks
John A. Diehl
Akron
Goodrich Company
Lowell Peters
Macon
Hucks
Diehl
Once Nebraska lecturer 19 now boss in Latvia
Milson Bronner reports on M. Ulmanis, once a Nebraska lecturer, now the boss of Latvia. The piece describes Latvia’s 1918 independence, Balodis and Ulmanis leading figures, and the shift from a fragile multi party parliament to strong leadership under Ulmanis and Blodnicks after a 46 day crisis.
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Nebraska
Boso
Latvia
Ulmanis Seizes Power in Latvia Amid Turmoil
Ulmanis becomes Premier for the eighth time as he confronts a 54 to 46 parliamentary majority. He seeks power to dissolve Parliament and cut deputies, then on May 16 seizes supreme state power, declares a state of siege, dismisses Parliament, arrests Socialist deputies, and shuts presses. An Agrarian coalition backs him and 75,000 troops plus police enforce quiet, with a Libau concentration camp noted.
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Blodnicks
Ulmanis
Communists
Sip
Party of the Peasants and Workers
Agrarian Party
Balodis
Libau
J C Women Golfers to Play in Columbia Meet
A ten member women’s golf team from Jefferson City will meet Columbia and Sedalia clubs in an inter city match in Jefferson City tomorrow. Columbia defeated Jefferson City last Friday by 107 to 38 with Miss Anna Sue Kennedy of Columbia as medalist with an 85.
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Columbia
Maune
Jefferson City
Sedalia
Anna Sue Kennedy
Threats lead to guard presence at San Francisco papers
Private detectives guard Chronicle and other papers in San Francisco after threats to bomb the Chronicle unless it shifts its stance on a strike. Newspapers refuse to back strikers, officials silent, and rival guild postings appear on building facades as pressure mounts amid broader industrial tensions with the Orient. Roosevelt era labor actions loom over port access by threat of force if workers do not return. Zebra butterflies described as using sleeping bushes to roost each evening.
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Chronicle
Pacific Coast
The
News
Esaminer
Jail Bulletin
Roosevelt
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