Quiet prison break ends in deaths at Tucker farm
Four convicts died during a prison break at the Tucker farm in Pine Bluff Arkansas when trusties opened fire as the escape was attempted from a cotton field. The dead include Benny Carey Boyd Jewell Tyre Clark and John Birchfield all serving long sentences for murder or robbery. Warden Dag Horton said the group had made twelve escape attempts in the past year.
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Pine Bluff
Ark
Tucker
Benny Carey
David W. Burns
Kansas State Penitentiary
Alicia
Burns
Casey
Kansas Penitentiary
Boyd Jewell
Chicago
Sulphur Springs
L. M. Stout
Tyye Clark
Arkansas State Penitentiary
William Bishop
Jack Wade
Crawford County
Arkansas
John Birchfield
Benton County
Tyre Clark
Dag Horton
Republicans Outline Path to Adjournment Amid Bills
Washington May 25 Anxious for adjournment the Senate turns to the Republican steering committee as a way out of chaos. Many GOP senators seek home to campaign while the migratory bird and farm relief measures along with military aircraft projects and treaty approvals crowd the agenda. Several treaties remain pending as steering panel consideration looms.
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Washington
Senate
House
Army Air Service
Navy
Administration
Prohibition
Customs
Treasury
Ukraine General Shot and Killed in Paris
General Simon Petlura once an anti Bolshevik leader in Ukraine was shot by an assassin in Boulevard Saint Michel Paris and died later in a hospital. The attacker Schnarskar reproached the general over his treatment of Russian Jews during his 1927 governorship in Iași.
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Paris
Simon Petlura
Ukraine
Boulevard St. Michel
Schnarskar
Fetlora
Chorus Girl Testifies At Carroll Bath Tub Party Trial
New York May 25 Joyce Hawley, a chorus girl, testified in the Carroll trial that she and Joyce Thaw were present at a bath club party at the Marl Carroll theatre and that alcohol was served. She said she was born in Chicago 17 years ago and that Joyce Hawley is not her real name as the court resumed after a delay caused by Hawley’s absence.
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New York
Joyce
Miss Hawley
Gucknee
Irvin S. Cobb
Goddard
Gowrt
Joyce Hawley
Chicago
Michigan State College Students Spend Night in Lansing Jail
Seven Michigan State College students spent the night in a Lansing jail after a campus celebration following a 4 to 3 victory over Michigan. Police report the clash involved bricks and stones, and a bleacher fire at the East Lansing athletic field.
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Michigan State College
Lansing
Mich
Collaye
East Lansing
Michigan State
Michigan
Hackett
Fast Lansing
Seaplane Carrying Duggan Party Starts Second Argentina Leg
Bernardo Duggan Argentine flyer reaches Charleston on the 6,100 mile NYC to Buenos Aires flight, refueling at the navy yard after a Norfolk departure. The Buenos Aires then departs toward St Augustine or Miami as winds slow progress and repairs follow a minor engine issue.
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Charleston
S. C
Bernardo Duggan
New York
Buenos Aires
Duggan
Norfolk
Charleston Navy Yard
Senor Duggan
St. Augustine
Fla
Miami
Savoia
Senor
Naval Air Station
D. C
Assateague Bay
Senor, Duggan
Edvardo Olivero
Ernes
Jo, Campanelli
Air Service
Little Bay
Hampton Roads
Navy
Air Station
Senora Duggan
Appreciation Ball Honors Winners of Coin Campaign
Avlanta May 25 The Stone Mountain Memorial Association hosted an appreciation ball for 29 southern women who sold the most memorial half-dollars in the harvest campaign for the Confederate memorial. Judges awarded a gold medal to all. attendees included former Confederates, Birmingham reunion holdovers, and local veterans. State officials and guests from across the South enjoyed the evening’s dances and marches.
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Avlanta
Stone Mountain Memorial Association
Stone Mountain
Birmingham
Charles Walpole Called by Death in Kensington Home
Sir Charles Walpole jurist and author was found dead in the smoking room of his London home from a bullet wound. Born 1848 he held key judicial posts in colonies including the district court of Larnaka Cyprus 1889 chief justice at Gibraltar 1892 and Bahamas 1893 before retiring in 1897 to England. He wrote on common law and a history of the kingdom of Ireland.
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London
Charles Walpole
Kensington Court
Great Britain
Larnaka Cyprus
Gibraltar
Bahamas
Englandsi
Kingdom of Ireland
Germany asserts no voice in League at disarmament meeting
At Geneva the German delegation led by Count Von Bernstorff argued that Germany cannot yet participate in League decisions while neighbors remain disarmed. They urged disarmament tied to a reduced European armament level and warned every nation must retain enough force to enforce the League's will. In Lynchburg drought continues with only 0.44 inch rain in 42 days and March rainfall shortfalls.
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Geneva
Germany
Count von Seinstorf
United States
France
Europe
von Bernstorff
League
League Council
M. Paul Bongour
Ifcnce
League of Nations
Lynchburg
Presbyterian men’s work debated at general assembly
Pensacola Florida May 25 The general assembly of the Presbyterian church in the United States discussed men’s work with Dr J E Purcell of Chattanooga outlining gains in church leadership. He noted pastors and men reassessing their role and the need for better organized activities.
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Pensacola
Fla
General Assembly
Presbyterian Church In
United States
J. E. Purcell
Chattanooga
Tenn
White House backs order on state officers in prohibition
The White House says the president is willing to modify the prosecution order if oppressive. It maintains no invasion of state sovereignty and views federal hiring of local officers as aiding states. Senator Walsh defends legality while California seeks deputy sheriffs with federal power.
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White House
Washington
Congress
Representative Hill
Maryland
House
Walsh
Senate
Montana
California
Coolidge
Treasury
Grant
Coolidge Signs Buildings Bill
President Coolidge signed a 145 006 000 public buildings bill authorizing federal construction and repairs in many cities. The act withholds specific spending details until Congress approves each allotment, though a tentative list of sites exists.
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Washington
Coolidge
Congress
Treasury
Delegates Meet at Northern Baptist Convention Opening
California minister J Whitcomb Brougher opened the Northern Baptist convention urging unity between fundamentalists and modernists. He claimed about ninety percent of American Baptists hold fundamental beliefs and stressed the Deity of Christ as essential to harmony.
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Washington
Northern Baptist Convention
J. Whitcomb Brougher
California
Jesus Christ
Christ
Death rates dip slightly across registration area in 1925
Commerce department figures show birth rates fell in 26 of 80 states while deaths rose in 16. overall death rate edged down. In the 48 state area, births 1,727,467 and deaths 955,074 with infant deaths 123,412. Birth rate 21.2 and death rate 11.7 per 1,000.
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Washington
Commerce Department
Massachusetts
Utah
North Carolina
Montana
Vermont
North, Dakota
Maryland
Norfolk
Seattle
Agic
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Carroll
Argentina
Count van Bernstorf
Calif
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