Pistol Duel At Andrew Jackson Hotel Leaves Two Wounded
In Nashville Tennessee a pistol battle at the Andrew Jackson hotel left Tom Murrey of Chicago believed fatally shot and Robert Shearon a detective with a leg wound. Murrey and an alleged confederate named Slater were detained as authorities say the pair admitted planning robberies in the south.
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Associated Press
Nashville
Tenn
Tom Murrey
Chicago
Nashville General Hospital
Robert Shearon
Andrew Jackson
W. H. Ter
Murrey
Ofrs
Ater
Man Found Guilty in Amite Murder Case
R J eCrory convicted of slaying Henry Forrest in a two year old case between Pontchatoula and Springfield. Jury recommends no death sentence.
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Ammond
R. J. eCrory
Enry Forrest
Pontchatoula
Springfield
Amite District Court
Broadmoor Player Narrowly Misses Hole in One
In Shreveport J J McHardy of the Broadmoor club nearly made a hole in one at the state tournament yesterday. On the sixth in the fifth flight he blasted 195 yards to six inches from the cup, spectators mistaking it for a true ace and sparking a brief flurry of excitement.
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Shreveport
J. J. McHardy
Broadmoor Club
Jack Tullos
Aviators Headed for San Francisco and Hawaii
In San Diego to Honolulu flight plans Lieut. Lester Maitland and Lieut. Albert Hegenberger take off from Rockwell field for non stop flight to Honolulu. They expect Crissy Field landing today and aim to reach Oakland tomorrow before Hawaii departure. Byrd eyes possible France flight from Roosevelt Field awaiting weather clearance with the America ready on the runway.
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Lester J. Maitland
Albert Hegenberger
Rockwell Field
San Francisco
Honolulu
Maitland
Hegenberger
Crissy Field
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Oakland
Aviation Field
Hawaii
Bishop Manning Attacks Companionate Marriage and Divorce Mills
New York Bishop William T. Manning denounces companionate marriages and sex experiments as a sin against God. He criticizes Paris and Reno divorce mills and a university questionnaire proposing such unions as he prepares for Europe with his daughter Frances.
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Associated Press
New York
Wm. T. Manning
New York Episcopal Diocese
Europe
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Reno
Frances
York
Lausanne
Switzerland
St. John’s Cathedral
Episcopal Church
San Francisco
Pnble
Kansas Mine Mutiny Ends as 328 Prisoners Surrender
At Lansing Kansas a mine mutiny involving 328 convicts ended after a 77 hour siege. Leaders barricaded the shaft and controlled food and the telephone. Prison authorities planned today to question mutineers to fix responsibility.
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Associated Press
Lansing
Kan
W. H. Mackey
Gas Pipeline Survey Advances Toward Hodge Mill Startup
Survey of about 20 miles of the 47 mile Monroe gas line to Hodge Louisiana nears completion for Advance Paper company which plans a Jonesboro pulp mill. Construction to start within weeks, with a 140 to 150 ton daily output and full plant hoped operational by September 1 1928. Industrial Gas and Development will supply gas via a 7 inch line and drill two wells within 30 days. Line construction to begin July 1 and be welded throughout with Belgian pipe.
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Hodge
S. M. Collins
Advance Paper Company
Jonesboro
West Monroe
Industrial Gas and Development Company
Monroe Field
Belgium
Aviators Fall Forty Feet in Jackson Flight
W A McDonald of Jackson was knocked unconscious and J L Calhoun of Gulfport escaped unhurt when their plane fell forty feet in Jackson. Engine trouble caused the nose dive as they departed for Gulfport from the field.
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Jackson Flight
Associated Press
Jackson
Miss
W. A. McDonald
J. L. Calhoun
Gulfport
McDonald
Calhoun
Lions Queen Catherine Canova crowned in St Augustine and Miami
Catherine Canova was named queen at the first Ponce de Leon celebration in St Augustine Florida and also chosen queen at the Lions clubs national convention in Miami Florida.
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Catherine Canova
Ponce de Leon
St. Augustine
Fla
Lions’ Clubs
Miami
College Boys in Plane Crash On Homebound Return
Pottsville Pa June 25 Two Princeton University graduates James T Wicker and George L Lambert died when their two seater biplane crashed in a swamp near Pottsville as they were landing on a trip from Princeton to St. Louis Lambert's injuries were not life threatening and he was treated at Pottsville hospital The aircraft was owned and piloted by Lambert
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Associated Press
Pottsville
James T. Wicker
George L. Lambert
St. Louis
Princeton University
Lambert
Lambert Pharmaceutical Company
Walker
Princeton
Pottsville Hospital
Drillers Open Second Half Against Tarps at Forsythe Park
The Monroe Drillers meet the Gulfport Tarpons tomorrow at Forsythe Park in the second half opener. Jimmy Valentine will pitch for the visiting Fishermen and Frank Keck for the home club as both aim for league pitching leadership. President Atkins urges a large crowd to support the financially strained club.
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Gulfport Tarpons
Forsythe Park
Jimmy Valentine
Frank Keck
Atkins
Drillers
Lost money found at county jail prompts owner hunt
A finder turned over a cache of cash totaling $20,000 in various bills and bonds to the Troy county sheriff. The sheriff advertised the discovery hoping to locate the rightful owner of the funds.
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Troy
N. Y
Hambones Meditations by J P Alley
A brief item notes J P Alley performs Hambones Meditations with Pickin berries as a spirited interlude. The quirky line ends with a playful claim about the jab of work and teeth in the act.
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Hambones Meditations
J. P. Alley
Deputy and widow held in S C case murder charge denied
Greenville South Carolina June 25 Two weeks after Sheriff Sam Willis was shot to death in his garage his wife Mrs Ethel Willis and Henry Townsend a deputy who had served with him in France and later under him were arrested on murder charges Townsend remained jailed in Columbia Mrs Willis spent the night at home and was taken to the county jail after a breakfast with her mother and two deputies. The case arose after Mrs Willis said she saw a man run past her home whose face appeared to be masked with lamp black. Willis was shot at midnight June 12 while housing his car four bullets were fired two near the heart and two at the face. Townsend and Mrs Townsend visited the scene afterward. Townsend had not commented on the charge against him. Mrs Willis protested her arrest claiming innocence.
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Greenville,&. C
Sam D. Willis
France
Ethel Willis
Henry
Townsend
Columbia
Willis
Henry Townsend
Mother and Son Found Dead in Gas-Filled New Orleans Apartment
In New Orleans on June 25 Mrs. James I. Corblet and her seven year old son James were found dead from asphyxiation after friends broke into their gas filled room. Gas jets were open and flowing. Friends say Mrs Corblet had threatened suicide. The pair had recently arrived from Shreveport with her husband.
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Associated Press
New Orleans
James I. Corblet
James
Wage increase denied to sixty five thousand rail workers
A board of arbitration denied a wage increase to about 65,000 conductors and trainmen on 55 western railroads, rejecting their request for an average one dollar per day raise. Yardmen won a seven percent bump.
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Chicago
Cowboys Lose Economic Battle Says Novelist
Washington dispatch reports novelist Mary Roberts Rinehart argues in Lost Ecstasy that the northern cowman loses to economic forces. She cites restricted range, sheep encroachment, and rising eastern beef demand as bets against the traditional cowman. The industry’s decline erodes fortunes, forcing cowhands toward farm work or other prospects as prices slump. CONTINUED ON PAGE TWELVE
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
Northern Ranges
Mary Roberts Rinehart
Middle West
Mrs. Rinehart
Royalist Leader Freed From Prison In Hoax
Paris June 25 Leon Daudet royalist leader freed from jail where he served a libel term after a hoax on the prison director. Delest and Lemard also released. Camelots du Roi, loyal to Daudet, claimed a ministerial order impersonation prompted the action. Daudet reportedly left Paris for an unknown destination.
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Leon Daudet
Daudet
M. Delest
Lemard
Communist Party
Camelots du Roi
L’action Francaise
L'Action Francise
Ministry of the Interior
M. Sarraut
Asheville Man Leads In Southern Amateur Final Match
Harry Ehle of Asheville led Jack Heath of Charlotte by 3 up after 18 holes of the 36 hole final in the Southern Amateur golf tournament played in Charlotte North Carolina. Heath cards 89 while Ehle stands at 85 after the morning round.
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Associated Press
Charlotte
N. C
Harry Ehle
Asheville
Jack Heath
Heath
Ehle
No Respecter of Persons Night Visitor in City Burglary
Three burglars entered the home of J. M. Busby of the city police on Thomas Street near Riverside sanitarium last night. They took a watch about $4 in cash and a pair of trousers. Entry was through a living room door with an ice pick. Mrs. Busby woke as the thief left. he fled when she called to her husband. Busby gave chase but no trace found.
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J. M. Busby
Thomas Street
Riverside Sanitarium
Mr. Busby
Captain at 97 navigates Lake Champlain duties
CAPTAIN AT 97 BURLINGTON, Vt. At 97 years of age, Eli B. Rockwell is on active duty as a steamboat captain. He commands the Vermont in a 12 hour run on Lake Champlain between Plattsburgh, N. Y. and Montcalm Landing, Vermont.
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Burlington
Eli B. Rockwell
Vermont
Lake Champlain
Plattsburgh
N. Y
Montcalm Landing
Howells Son-in-Law Killed at Mexican Ranch
Robert Catlett Howell, Baton Rouge native and son of a former Louisiana Supreme Court justice, was killed on his ranch in Los Merchin Sinaloa Mexico by a ranch hand named Felippe Chan. He was 37 and survived by his wife Minnig Boyd and two brothers. He had split his time between Nogales Arizona and the Mexican ranch for several years.
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Baton Rouge
Robert Catlett Howell
Rufus Kane Howell
Louisiana Supreme Court
Thomas D. Boyd
Mexico
Nosgales
Arizona
Felippe Chan
Boyd
Howell
Los Merchin Sinaloa
W. C
G. C. Howell
Aston Villa
Justice Howel
West Feliciana Parish
Mr. Howel
Nogales
Sinaloa
Murder Report Ties Mexican Tomato Firm Leader
Robert C. Howell, president of the Mexicos Arizona Trading company, reportedly murdered on his ranch in Los Merchis Sinaloa. A Chinese tomato grower named Felippy Chan is accused. Mrs Howell, daughter of University of Louisiana president Boyd, was present. The Howell Trading company ranks among the largest tomato growers and shippers on the Mexican west coast.
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Nogales
Ariz
Robert C. Howell
Mexicos Arizona Trading Company
The
Herald
Los Merchis
Sinaloa
Felippy Chan
Howell
Boyd
University of Louisiana
Howell Trading Company
West Coast
Pennsylvania Supreme Court Rules Sunday Baseball Illegal
Pennsylvania state supreme court rules Sunday baseball illegal in quo warranto case against Philadelphia Americans. Proceedings were brought to stop the Athletics from playing Sunday games after they hosted a Chicago White Sox matchup on August 23.
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Associated Press
Philadelphia
State Supreme Court Today
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia American Baseball Club
Athletics
Chicago White Sox
Hoover says flood rehabilitation rapid on Mississippi trip
Secretary Herbert Hoover said flood relief work in the Mississippi valley is progressing quickly as he tours the flood areas. He noted relief agencies are organizing credit for victims whose assets were wiped out and planned further checks on relief progress with Red Cross officials. He will proceed to Jackson, Mississippi, to survey remaining liabilities and funding.
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Mississippi Valley
Herbert Hoover
James E. Feiser
American Red Cross
Gee
T Jackson
Hoover
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