Three Seized In Big Bogus Check Fraud Ring
Police and Pinkertons arrest Alexander Mahoney John Noble and Terry Pellegrino after a subway marked chase on Sixth Avenue in Manhattan. The trio allegedly forged and laundered checks from tobacco dealers to steal nearly 100000 in the past year. Mahoney reputedly led the gang with a history of forgery and burglary. the men face forgery and larceny charges and possible federal theft-from-mail charges.
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Brooklyn
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Greenwich Street
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Rickenbacker Finishes Cross Country Flight
Captain Hédie Rickenbacker completed a cross country flight, landing at Bolling Field after a West Virginia storm forced a stop. He then traveled to Washington and attended a private dinner with General Pershing, proceeding to the capital with air mail planes later.
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France
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Air Mall
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Igor
Chicago
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Vyfon
Steal Train Ends in Jail Near Denver
Denver May 28. Twenty seven I W W members were jailed after attempting to commandeer a Union Pacific freight train to move from Cheyenne to Denver. A 22 man police squad halted the train outside the city upon a report the I W W were aboard. At headquarters several said they formed a band outside Cheyenne to travel south together.
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Denver
Union Pacific
Cheyenne
Wyo
Bergdoll Mother to Appeal to Harding for Aid
Mrs Emma Bergdoll, mother of draft evaders Erwin and Grover Bergdoll, said she would appeal to President Harding to stop government persecution. She threatened to leave the United States if relief is not granted and claimed Grover’s funds and the Wynnefield home remain under her control pending reimbursement.
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Harding
United States
Russia
Germany
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100 Million Farm Agency To Sell Grain
A cooperative financial institution with a capital stock of 10 million dollars will be launched in Wilmington Delaware as the Farmers Finance Corporation a subsidiary of United States Grain Growers Inc. to reduce speculation and middlemen and stabilize grain prices. The plan, tied to Chicago based grain interests and Bernard Baruch, includes terminal elevators warehousing and an export unit with stock offered to farmers at 100 dollars per share.
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Chicago
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Baruch
New York
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Spokane
Clifford Thorne
United States Grain Groware, Inc
America
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Thorne
Finance Corporation
C. H. Gustafson
Lincoln
Neb
United States’ Grain Growers, Inc
Committee of Seventeen
Utes Rally as Whites and Utes Clash in Utah Uprising
Reports say at least one person killed in an Indian uprising in Bad Ute lands southwestern Utah. Sheriff Hyde and County Attorney Keller confront Ute renegades led by Tso Ta Gat as Bluff and Blading residents brace for possible attacks. U.S. Marshal Nebeker seeks federal aid, with troops on standby and mail planes ready to move responders.
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Tribune
Salt Lake
Utah
Bluff and Blading
United States
Aquilla Nebeker
Hyde
San Juan County
George Adams
Te State House of Representatives
Bluff
Keller
Nebeker
Tso-Ta-Gat
C.F. Nelson
Baste
Fearing Famine Pastor Buries Two Tons of Food
In Santa Ana Galif May 28 a canyon cache of two tons of food was found buried. Sheriff C. E. Jackson said locals, including a preacher and two congregants, admitted hiding the stock under a biblical famine prophecy. Names not released.
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Galif
C. E. Jackson
End Strike or Face Jail Says Lloyd George
Lloyd George warned miners and owners that without a speedy settlement the government would push arbitration via legislation. He warned jail could follow for both sides if a settlement failed, while proposing a temporary wage scale and a government grant to ease the transition. A national wages board and a three-person tribunal would determine terms for a year, with a two month report deadline.
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Young Bride Accused of Poison Plot in Fulton County
Spermeraren to sne 4 refine Mrs Elsie Greider Weber, nineteen, jailed in Fulton County, charged with trying to poison her father and extended family after her husband faced the same charge. Police suspect poison in coffee, bread, sugar and cider. a chemical test is underway in Toledo Ohio May 28.
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Toledo
Ohio
Elsie Jreider Weber
Fulton County
Greider
Home Rule or Martial Law Erin's Choice
London reports 1921 Irish crisis as Lloyd George weighs Home Rule or martial law. Dublin and Belfast elections show Unionist strength while Sinn Féin plans noncooperation. new internment camp and Crown forces raid Dublin Mansion House amid Custom House fire. military rule inches closer.
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Brom Tha Tribune
New York Tribune Inc
London
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Ulster
Unionista
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Ireland
Orangewen
Belfast
Dublin Custom House
Second War Criminal Convicted at Leipzig
Leipzig report: Captain Miller faces fifteen months imprisonment as state prosecutor argues the second German officer tried for wartime cruelties. Miller allegedly struck and kicked prisoners, bound one to a stake, and forced sick inmates to work at Mlavy la Martel camp in Aisne France. Prosecutor says case moral not legal. fortress confinement rejected. Sentence set for Monday.
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Associated Press
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Mlavy-la-Martel
Department of the Aisne
France
High Court
Heyne
Herne
Westphalia
Na Fortress
Porter Family Near Mourning As General Porter Dies
Civil War veteran and diplomat General Horace Porter, longtime resident at 277 Madison Avenue, was critically ill for several days and reported sinking rapidly last night. His brother in law Henry McHarg stated at 11 o clock that death could come hourly as relatives gather and care intensifies.
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Horace Porter
Madison Avenue
Henry McHarg
Harding Aim In Disarming Is Practical
President Harding backs approximate disarmament while opposing a sweeping naval order. He seeks balance between reducing arms and avoiding national helplessness, with advisers split among cutting credits and restraining military spending. The article notes French, British, and other nations’ roles and hints at continued debate on naval limits.
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Washington
Harding
United States
Senator Borah
Denby
Great Britain
War Weeks
Commerce Hoover
Great
Borah
Laangar
First Reparations Payment Made by Germany in Bonds
Berlin reports the initial reparations payment totaling 200 million dollars in twenty bonds of 10 million each. Indorsed by Reichsbank Disconto Gesellshaft and Dresdner Bank the bonds allocate 80 million to New York 60 million to London and 60 million to Paris. The Reparations Commission awaits the 1 billion gold mark balance due May 31 per Article 5.
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Associated Press
Berlin
New York
London
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Disconto Gesellschaft
Dresdner Bank
Germany
Briand plants plebiscite pause over Silesia unrest
Briand presents note to British Foreign Office arguing Germans press on in Upper Silesia and plebiscite should wait for order restoration with British troops. He proposes a special commission to study the question for the Supreme Council as Allied forces reframe the zone.
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London
Associated Press
M. Briand
Upper Silesia
Supreme Council
Paris
Allied Council of Ambassadors
Iman
Brieg
Silesian
Silesia
Germany
Council of Ambassadors
France
Glen
Briand
Convict Likes Prison So Well He Almost Has To Be Put Out
OSSINING N Y May 28 Charles Ortner left Sing Sing the only job he ever liked and was fired He arrived May 29 1917 under a Queens County sentence of two to four years for an assault He enjoyed prison life and the rules which kept him apart from talkativeness and quarrels He expected parole in 1918 but refused to sign release papers until he could stay four more years The four year term expired today and Ortner scowled at the suggestion of leaving saying the judge forgot him and that he would stay He was finally ordered out by Warden Lawes and obeyed
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Grover
Germany
Tribune
Queens County
Moyer
Ortner
Edward W. Brophy
Warden Brophy
Jude
Brophy
Lewis E. Lawes
Fin
Arden Lawes
Oliner
British dominion premiers to seek Harding views before imperial talks
London May 28 Premier leaders from Australia New Zealand Canada and South Africa will convey their views to President Harding before the upcoming imperial conference. They back renewing the Anglo-Japanese alliance for naval reasons but seek US good will and collaboration in world affairs. The outcome hinges on Washingtons stance toward the League of Nations and Allied cooperation.
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Harding
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New York Tribune Owo
London
Great Britain
Tribune
U.S
Far East
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Washington
League of Nations
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Supreme Council
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America
Massey
New Zealand
League of Ations
General Smuts
South Africa
Hughes
Australia
Wales
Tokio Expected to Grant U.S. a Share in Cables
Tokio News reports Washington may gain a stake in cable operations as Japan plans a formal response to the Hughes note on the mandate question. An exchange of memoranda is to be inaugurated to seek a direct agreement, sources say.
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