Race Track Whispers Tie Ward Murder Mystery
James J. Cunningham, once private detective and race track hanger-on, is questioned about the killing of Clarence Peters by Walter S. Ward. Cunningham alleges Ward’s father was being blackmailed. Peters’ death linked to a web of gamblers, a red car, and possible Stamford treatment.
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White Plains
N. J
James J. Cunningham
Clarence Peters
Walter S. Ward
Millonaire
Ward Baking Company
Westchester County
Cunningham
Ward
Peters
Rogers
Joe Jackson
Walter
Jackson
Keniseo Reservoir
Stamford
Conn
Charley Ross
Peddock
Bowie
Baltimore
Stcht
Hurt
J. H. Atlas
New York
Lght
Weeks
Taft Says Government Morally Bound To Pay Bethlehem Steel Workers
Chief Justice Taft told the house claims committee that the government is morally obliged to pay war claims to Bethlehem Steel workers totaling over a million dollars. As joint chair of the war labor board, he said determination hinges on which workers are entitled. About 38,000 machinists and other workers are involved.
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Bethlehem
Washington
Taft
House Claims Committee
Steel Company
War Labor Board
Une der
Plane Crash Kills Two in El Paso Mountains
June 3 reports say Ben Jenkins Jr of El Paso a reserve lieutenant and Sergeant Arthur Juengling of Fort Bliss twelfth observation squadron were burned to death when their aircraft collided with a mountainside and burned on impact. The tragedy occurred during a routine flight over the nearby range. Local authorities investigated the crash and identified the victims, both service members with ties to the El Paso area.
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el Paso
Texas
Ben Jenkins, Jr
Arthur Juengling
Twelfth Observation Squadron
Fort Bliss
States Enforce Day Law Proposed by Attorney General
Chicago June 3 Attorney General Daugherty urged states to assume more enforcement duties in areas like prohibition blue sky laws white slave traffic narcotic statutes and road inspections. He warned of centralization as a danger to both federal and state governments citing a decay in state activity and a lack of moral backbone among some officials.
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Chicago
Daugherty
Ilinois State Bar Association
Dpampherty
Mr. Daugherty
Anong
Monkey Gland Man Found In California After Disappearance
Irving Bacon once treated in New York for monkey gland surgery reappears living quietly as a private tutor in California with wife and children. He supposedly vanished months ago leaving a note saying the family would be better off. A Los Angeles dateline letter reached Dr. Edgar in Atlantic City. In Chicago Kenegan M Landis and ex governor Francis McGevsern will be asked to aid federal or prosecutorial actions in fraud cases under preparation.
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Bacon
Atlantic City
California
M J
Irving Bacon
New York
Bin
Pote
Edgar
Allied Medical Association
Los Angeles
Landis
Chicago
Kenegan M. Landis
Prancis €. McGevsern
Wisconsin
School Bonds Fraudulent Issue Reported in Kennedy Township
The state banking department received word of attempts to sell a forged bond issue from the Kennedy township school district in Allegheny County. The authentic bonds are green and 5 percent, payable in 1951 at the McKees Rocks Trust Company. the counterfeit notes are gold colored and issued in $1000 denominations.
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Harrisburg
State Banking Department
Kennedy Township
Allegheny County
McKees Rocks Benust Company
June Snowstorm Brings First White June in Cheyenne
Snow fell across central and southern Wyoming on Wednesday and Thursday, with Cheyenne recording the first white June in the memory of the oldest inhabitants. Temperature remains moderate. Say You Saw It In The News.
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Wyoming
Cheyenne
Wyo
Woman Slain by Apartment Attacker in Wilkes-Barre
Bridget Marling, 33, wife of Charles Halliday, living in Ash Ley, was murdered in her residence by an assailant who shot her in the head during an attack with two alleged accomplices. Police and state troopers scoured the northern city and surrounding areas as investigators pursued three young men.
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Appeinterant
Wilkes-Barre
Bridget Mralding
Cheries Halliday
Ashley
Wes
Hbilenhack
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