Great Distillery Raid Reveals Detroit Alcohol Plant
Detroit police destroyed an illicit distillery earning about 1 million dollars monthly. The elaborate plant near Woodward Avenue and Grand Boulevard housed 20 000 gallons of ready alcohol and 100 000 pounds of raw sugar with a full ventilation system and elevator shafts. Operators escaped using rope ladders as raiders seized 20 000 gallons of grain alcohol and vast mash supplies.
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Detroit
Uptown Business District
Woodward Avenue
Grand Boulevard
Primary contests please both parties in Nevada
Washington reports both Democratic and Republican spokesmen pleased with the primary contests while prohibition groups press against repeal. In Las Vegas Nevada Secretary Wilbur formally inaugurates the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River project.
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Washington
Las Vegas
Nev
Wilbur
Colorado River
Horton Pushed Rural Highways For More Gas Tax
Savannah Tenn September 15 Governor Horton urged using one more cent of the five cent gasoline tax for rural roads. Speaking at the dedication of an $878000 bridge he said 12700 miles of lateral roads now aided by a cent tax could be expanded with another cent. He promised to seek legislative approval to boost rural road funding and improve maintenance year round. He was renominated in the Democratic primary August 7 and faces C Arthur Bruce in November.
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Savannah
Tenn
Horton
Tennessee River
C. Arthur Bruce
Memphis
Mrs Marguerite Beery Returns After 9 Day Absence
Mrs Marguerite Beery reappeared at friends in Hollywood denying any mystery to her disappearance. She said she went to Las Vegas to establish a residence and may return there permanently. She challenged a reward offer for information and noted her twenty two year marriage to Noah Beery.
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Los Angeles
Marguerite Beery
Noah Beery
Friends
Hollywood Today
North Hollywood
Las Vegas
Nevada
Beery
Chicago battles finish plan in raid on unions and crime
Chicago police launched raids on 10 labor union offices under warrants from Chief Justice McGoorty as part of a broad offensive against rackets and hoodlums. Authorities seek records to trace hoodlums who used unions to muscle workers, with figures like Bar ker and White linked to the on going probe. Danny Stanton was the only arrest, released on bonds, while Capone era figures are suspected to have fled the city.
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Chicago
Swanson
John J. McGoorty
Criminal Court
Mueller
Lounsbury
George
R.) Barker
William
Three Finger Jack
Alcock
Danny Stanton
al Capone
Louisiana Ends Political Strife At Huey Long Banquet
Governor Huey P. Long vowed an era of prosperity in Louisiana after his U S Senate victory. He touted a 68 million dollar bond plan for highways ports schools promising 3 000 miles of paved roads 6 000 miles of gravel roads and 12 bridges within 60 to 90 days to curb employment and spur industry. Mayor T Semmes Walmsley and other leaders urged unity as the state moves forward.
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New Orleans
Huey P. Long
Louisiana
United States Senate
Joseph E. Ransdell
T. Semmes Walmsley
Long
Senate
Wallmley
Veterans Defeat Long-Serving Lawmakers Hit Congress
A roundup shows S Wallace Dempsey E K Browne Furnifold Simmons Joseph E Ransdell and others toppled in primaries. Longtime figures like Thomas Bell Charles Stedman and manys remain in office while 90 year old Stedman retires gravely ill.
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Browne
Miller
Bell
Stedman
Congress Halls
Furnifold M. Simmons
North Carolina
Senate
Joseph E. Ransdell
Louisiana
House
Representative Miller
Washington
Louis C. Cramton
Michigan
Georgia
Thomas H. Bell
Henry Allen Cooper
Kenosha
Cooper
Gilbert N. Haugen
Iowa
John Garner
Texas
Longworth
Rainey
Illinois
Poll
Charles Manly Stedman
Mrs Beery Missing for 10 Days Reappears at Friends
Mrs Noah Beery wife of the film star is found after a ten day disappearance and goes to a friend’s home for safety. The episode highlights concerns about her welfare and the effects on the Beery family.
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Los Angeles
Noah Beery
Not Single Slayer
After two witnesses failed to identify him as the killer of Chicago Tribune reporter Alfred Lingle, Theodore Geisking the 22 year old rum runner remained jailed in Louisville awaiting Indiana extradition. Indiana Governor Leslie signed requisition papers for his return to Rising Sun to face charges of aiding a felon escape and will be tried in Indiana. Geisking’s attorney said he would not fight extradition. Five men arrested near Corbin for liquor running and hijacking were sentenced to seven years each in Atlanta federal penitentiary.
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Louisville
Alfred
Jake) Lingle
Chicago Tribune
Theodore Geisking
Indiana
Harry G. Leslie
Geisking
Rising Sun
Ind
Carl Losey
Corbin
Atlanta Federal Penitentiary
Brookhart Attacks Roosevelt Stand In Prohibition Debate
Iowa Senator Brookhart denounces Governor Roosevelt over repeal of federal liquor control. He says Roosevelt failed to give prohibition a fair trial in New York and asserts the west and south should unite against centralized power, recalling a union in the last Senate session.
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New York State
Washington
Smith W. Brookhart
Iowa
Franklin D. Roosevelt
New York
Roosevelt
Brookhart
Iowan
Senate
Matriculation Opens at Bryan University in Dayton
Dayton Tennessee AP September 18 a fundamentalist university born from the 1925 Scopes trial opened with freshman classes. Officials plan gradual expansion toward a four year program while awaiting a $400,000 administration building. The school carries Christian aims and features a 81 acre site with nearly $1,000,000 subscribed.
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Dayton, Tenn
William Jennings Bryan
Tennessee
Bryan
Dayton
William Jennings Bryan University
Rhea Central High School
Fundamentalist
Jesus Christ
George E. Guille
Moody Bible Institute
John Thomas Scopes
Clarence Darrow
Dudley Field Malone
Visitation Valley Woman Denies Involvement in Murder
Josephine Mitchell an 18 year old from Visitation Valley California was arrested on a murder charge in San Francisco and denies taking part in the killing of John Marcelli. Police say she was one of the party who planned to attack and rob him.
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San Diego
Cali
Ruth Alexander
Aviatrix
Lomaportal
New York
Alexander
Agua Caliente
Wichita
Kansas
John Marcelli
Visitation Valley
Cal
Miser
Josephine Mitchell
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Tapping Charges Continue and Campaign Funds Probe
The Illinois Senate probe into primary campaign funds hears more tapped-phone allegations against Ruth Hanna McCormick. Photographs of a home line at Byron Illinois were shown, but not admitted as evidence, as the committee faces procedural friction and political tension.
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Chicago
Senate
Illinois
Ruth Hanna McCormick
Byron
T. B. Thompson
Rockford, Ill
Daily Republic
McCormick
Pledge of Prohibitionists Amid Dry Law Repeal Battle
Washington reports on the Eighteenth Amendment supporters pledging to resist repeal as primary results spark wet gains. Henry H Curran notes the wet tide continues and promises more progress in Congress while prohibition leaders vow steadfast defense of national prohibition.
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Washington
National Conference of Organizations
Wet View
Henry H. Curran
The
Association Against the Prohibition Amendment
Blanchard Murder Trial Near End in Knoxville
In Knoxville Tennessee evidence closes as the Blanchard trial for the murder of Harry Gervin nears its end. The defense argues insanity from a suspected wife confession while prosecutors say premeditation followed a failed $50 000 alienation suit and Blanchard testified wandering after his divorce before spotting Gervin at a construction site.
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Knoxville
Tenn
E. D. Blanchard
Harry Gervin
Blanchard
Gervin
States
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