Florida Fruit Lands Investors in Logansport Probe Swindle
Florida Fruit Lands contract holders in Logansport plan a meeting at the R R Y M C A on Canal Street to discuss a large suspected swindle. Dr J P Hetherington, a local investor, will present a communication from trustee Sawyer and outline steps to protect holders against the Florida land company.
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Canal Street
J. P. Hetherington
Fruit Land Company
Carte Blanche
Hetherington
Florida Fruit Lands Company
State of Florida
Florida
Robert Weir
The
Panhandle Railroad Company
Claude EB. Sawyer
Aiken
S. C
Joseph H. Rodes
St. Louis
Fred L. Hoag
Kansas City
Miss Haley Under Guard Before Grand Jury Testimony
Miss Nora Haley private secretary to John J McNamara has been located in Chicago under government surveillance and will travel to Indianapolis to testify before the federal grand jury. Police and federal agents say her testimony could reveal ties between the McNamara case and union officials.
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Chicago
Ill
Nora Haley
John J. McNamara
Department of Justice
Indianapolis
Federal Grand Jury
Secret Service
Daniel Haley
International Bridge and Structural I Ironworkers’' Union
Miss Haley
Subpoena for Stenographers Tied to Ironworkers Inquiry
Here is the excerpt: all stenographers employed at the headquarters of the International Association of Bridge and Structural Ironworkers in Indianapolis since 1905 are to be subpoenaed as witnesses before the federal grand jury probing the alleged nationwide dynamiting conspiracy. The statement was made today.
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Indianapolis
Ind
International Association of Bridge and Structural Ironworkers
William A. Hammell
George Gallagher
Joseph Scott
McNamaras
Hammel
John J
Hammell
San Quentin
Scott
Municipal Forest Theme for Discussion at Cass County Meeting
Temporary officers were elected to serve until a permanent Indiana State Forestry Association chapter forms in Cass County. Ex Vice President Charles Warren Fairbanks spoke at Logansport’s courthouse, advocating municipal forests and tree planting for future generations. He discussed Japan and lauded local horticultural work, while a farmer, Isaiah Kreider, praised old ramjo apples.
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Marshall
Fairbanks
Commonwealth
Japan
United States
Horticultural Association
Cass County
Isaiah Kreider
Kreider
Hancock
Governor's Son Shot In Seattle Patrol
F T Seal, a Seattle liveryman and son of a Tennessee former governor, was shot yesterday by M C Patterson. The bullet rests near the heart and probing could cause fatal hemorrhage. Seal is not expected to survive. Patterson is jailed and awaiting word on Seal’s condition from Memphis relations.
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Associated Press
Seattle
Wash
F. T. Seal
M. C. Patterson
Malcolm R. Patterson
Tennessee
Patterson
Seal
Memphis
Kokomo Boy Edwin Lowder Repeats Runaway Trek to Chicago
Fourteen year old Edwin Lowder of Kokomo ran away to Chicago after his return from Logansport. Panhandle detectives tracked him, and Kokomo police arranged his return home. He spent a night at the Logansport headquarters before continuing to Chicago by boxcar.
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Kokomo
Edwin Lowder
Chicago
Panhandle
Logansport
William Sowder
Leeds Street
Lowery
Russian troop movements stir Persia crisis and British concerns
Reports from London and Washington describe secret Russian advances in Persia with aims of establishing influence over Tehran and Tabriz. American treasurer-general in Persia W. Morgan Shuster faces blame. Britain seeks Russian restraint amid tensions with Germany. In California, James B. and John J. McNamara begin life and fifteen year sentences for Times building and Lewellyn works bombings, as Sheriff Hammell escorts them to San Quentin.
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Asia
East
Persia
Russia
England
Germany
James B. McNamara
Los Angeles Times
Lewellyn
Rockefeller and Gates Decline to Attend Congressional Hearing
John D. Rockefeller and Rev. Frederick T. Gates formally declined to appear before the congressional investigating committee. They said the Merritt brothers’ testimony re-stated old, already-denied charges and that the Merritts’ retractions negate the need for their appearance. Gates added he would reach the public directly and questioned the committee’s usefulness.
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Merritt Brothers
Merritts
Frederick T. Gates
Nationalize National Sport Proposed by Congressman Driscoll
Buffalo congressman Daniel A. Driscoll, representative of New York's Forty eighth district, plans to introduce legislation to create a federal bureau to supervise baseball. The move aims to nationalize the sport and regulate its operations from Congress.
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Associated Frese
New York
Daniel A. Driscoll
Buffalo
Congress
Doors of Prison Shut Mnamaras From The World
The World Times Building doors close as Mnamaras are sent to prison for natural life. Authorities confirmed the life sentence following the verdict in the case.
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Mnamaras
Committee of Inquiry to Continue Steel Legislation Work
Washington December 9 the house committee of inquiry into United States Steel Corporation settled all differences at a special meeting and unanimously decided to continue the inquiry not to resolve suit questions but to enable a recommendation of legislation by the panel.
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Washington
House
Committee of Inquiry
United States Steel Corporation
Steel Corporation
Three Escape From Mine Blast In Tennessee Strike
About 126 to 156 miners were buried after a massive explosion at Knoxville Iron Company's Great Cross Mountain mine in Briceville Tennessee. Rescue teams faced heavy rubble and slate as officials warned most men likely perished with only three survivors early today.
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Briceville
Tenn
Knoxville Iron Company
Great Cross Mountain
Knoxville
Taylor Little
Leé Polson
Stephenson
The
Iron Company
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Halevy
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Iranch
Indiana
Forestry Association
Charles Warren Fairbanks
Court House
N. B. Thomas
Wabash
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Shuster
London
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Tabriz
Teheran
Times
National Council
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Cal
San Quentin Penitentiary
Clarence S. Darrow
MR. Rockefeller
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John D. Rocke
Stanley
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Leonidas
Alfred Merritt
Rockefeller
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John D. Rockefeller
Mr. Gates
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Times Building
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