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Newspaper
Linton Daily Citizen
Location
Linton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1927
Page
4
Fragmented text notes Reed Smoot and Appropriations tied to flood relief and tax measures. Mentions pre-convening actions, President Coolidge timing, and a plan to frame a presidential call weeks before the session.
The Linton city council postponed the appointment of a three year school board member, to fill A H Witty's seat, amid multiple candidates. Mayor Bull stated the Ku Klux Klan asked approval for a June 28 parade, but the council declined jurisdiction though members voiced opposition. Drainage and sewer work plans were presented by City Engineer Baughman for the A street area.
Marion Indiana June 8 The Grant county special grand jury recessed after voting first degree murder indictments against Arthur and Dorothea Walser for poisoning their young cousin The couple has confessed and hopes for leniency as arraignment is expected Friday in the wake of the indictments.
United Press dispatch reports a new Mississippi flood spreading toward the Cairo Memphis area. War department data from Major D H Connolly predicts stages at Cairo 50 feet by June 10 New Madrid 39.5 feet by June 11 Memphis 39.5 feet by June 14 and Helena 49 feet by June 15 if rains stay off.
Warsaw reports a Russian note accusing Poland of moral responsibility for the assassination of Soviet Ambassador Pierre Volkoff. The note calls the act an internal Russian affair that occurred on Polish territory and names Boris Kowrba, a Russian monarchist, as the killer.
In Ossining New York on June 8 experts warned Mrs Ruth Brown Snyder now under death row for murder shows signs of insanity The suicide or punishment case has alarmed alienists who plan to examine her and co convict Henry Judd Grey The Prudential Insurance Co fights to avoid paying $95000 in life policies and seeks return of premiums paid with court action to enforce payment.
Kansas City Kansas June 8 naming of infant son of Mr and Mrs William Reynolds honors two transatlantic fliers Clarence Chamberlin and Col Charles A Lindbergh gives the child the name Clarence Lindbergh Reynolds or words to that effect per the report
Clarence D. Chamberlin told United Press in Berlin that an American group has offered 100000 to fly home to Roosevelt Field. He said they may depart in five to six days and plan visits to Vienna Rome Paris London and perhaps Moscow. He discussed offers in circus movies vaudeville stage lectures and noted his mother may sail to England to meet him.
Clarence Chamberlin has expressed a wish for a glass of Pilsener in Berlin causing shock at home. His mother says she will cable him to avoid wine when he reaches Paris. The Chamberlins are known in Denison for long standing support of prohibition and his teetotaler stance before leaving.
German and American reporters criticized Clarence Cham berlin and Charles Levine after Chancellor Poole of the U S embassy said the airmen sold all rights to their flight story to an American newspaper and would reveal no further details.
The Michigan City state board of charities will probe claims by D. C. Stephenson life prisoner and Ku Klux Klan figure that prison officials mistreated him. Records will be checked and guards and inmates questioned. Stephenson may be called before the board before the July 1 report.
Aboard the U S cruiser Memphis with Captain Charles A. Lindbergh aboard the voyage from Cherbourg toward Washington proceeds in calm seas. The ship crossed the halfway mark yesterday with 1,675 miles completed at 22 knots and is expected to reach the Virginia Capes Friday night for arrival in the capital by Saturday.
Colonel Charles Lindbergh, replying from London via wireless to Secretary of War Davis, declines a private subscription funded trust in his and his mother’s honor for the New York to Paris flight. The offer was organized by Louis K. Ligg ett of Boston Joseph W. Wear and George Brooke of Philadelphia through the War Department.
William Dodd 73 step father of James Bethel Gresham first American soldier killed in World War I funeral held in Evansville. He survived his wife Alice Gresham Dodd by three months.
United Press Dispatch reports a grim scene near Newcastle Pennsylvania when 12 motorists found a car blocking the road. Inside lay Mrs Elizabeth of Ellwood City with a fatal head wound and her husband nearby shot through the heart. McElliott and Mrs Bryan are identified as married with children.
St Joseph Michigan June 8 Two young Shiloh girls believed killed after being sent to the House of David lumber camp at High Island to escape raid deaths linked to King Benjamin Purnell are recounted Hazel Wuerth testified Eliza Murphy died from camphor poison and Jassie Wheeler from mushrooms as part of the state's action to disband the colony as a public nuisance
Broadway producer Earl Carroll arrived at the United States penitentiary in Atlanta in a weakened state and was assigned prisoner No. 24909 by Warden John W. Snook. He regained consciousness after admission and exchanged a weak greeting with the warden while being placed in a private hospital room. His hospital neighbor is former Indiana Governor Warren T. McCray, ill with high blood pressure.
Robert T. HumesState police chief warns during a statewide safety drive that the new Indiana law imposes up to 500 dollars in fines and jail terms from 80 days to six months for a first offense with felonious second offenses carrying one to five years. He urges caution, rest, and sober driving to prevent accidents and urges drivers to stop every fifty miles for rest and hydration.
A June report from Petersbur notes a fatal or serious vehicle incident involving 22 year old June Preston and 8 year old son of Mr Kelly, with Mrs Charles Presto also mentioned. Details uncertain due to damaged text.
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