Eight-indicted over arms sale to Ireland in neutrality case
A federal grand jury in Trenton indicts eight men including Colonel Marcellus H. Thompson in a conspiracy to violate neutrality laws by shipping arms to Ireland. The Auto-Ordnance firm figures in the scheme as gun supplier and several accomplices are named with roles in purchasing, facilitating shipping, and transporting the arms through Hoboken and New York.
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Trenton
N. J
John P. O'Thompson
Auto-Ordnance Company
United States A Sipping Board
Department of Justice
Llan
Yoreland
George Gordon Rorke
Washington
Corporation
Frank J. Merkling
Auto-Ordnance Companys
Frank B. Ochsenriter
New York
John Culbane
American Railway Express Company
Guns linked to New Jersey case vanish on East Side
A Bronx storehouse held weapons for Frank Williams. A Mr Brophy unknown to authorities moved a shipment from Culhane’s place to the East Side. Colonel Thompson and Auto-Ordnance executives pleaded not guilty in Newark. All released on 2500 bail. Williams claimed ownership via purchase from Auto-Ordnance and storage in a warehouse, then said the guns were stolen before appearing on the East Side. Rorke arrested as conspirator, bail 3000. The weapons, feared for guerilla use, boast 500 yard range and one mile kill capacity, discharging 600 bullets per minute.
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Bronx
Frank Willams
Brophy
Frank Williams
Auto-Ordnance Company
George Gordor Rorke
Bandits Raid Hotel in Pittsburgh Suburb
Six masked bandits entered the Allisonark Hotel near Allison Park, wounded the watchman, menaced the owner his wife and three guests and ransacked the establishment. They obtained several hundred dollars in cash and some jewelry before fleeing in an automobile.
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Pittsburgh
Allisonark Hotel
Allison Park
Brother Linked to $227,000 Theft Promoter Charged
Raymond Newlin, once a teller at the National Bank of Coatesville, is jailed in West Chester awaiting embezzlement trial after confessing to siphoning about $227,000 into a credit insurance firm that later collapsed. His brother George Newlin, now in New York, is named in a department of justice confession. Two other men are said involved, one possibly in California.
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Philadelphia
Raymond
Newlin
West Chester
National Bank of Coatesville
Department of Justice
George Newlin
New York
California
Credit Insurance Company
William Penn Worth
Confession Links Newlin to Bank Losses in New York Delays
The latest confession says Newlin was told the company would succeed and sent bank funds amounting to Lump sums up to 20000 dollars to a New York brothel. The enterprise failed rather than prosper. Federal agents probe whether promoters gambled heavily in New York.
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Newlin
New York
Federal judge quashes liquor seizure at New Jersey wholesale drug plant
Newark June 20 a federal judge ordered the return of liquor seized under a search warrant at the New Jersey Wholesale Drug company plant valued at about 500000. Judge Lynch quashed the warrant citing stealth in obtaining the evidence. Counsel Joseph Siegler announced the ruling after a private chambers hearing.
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Newark
N. J
New Jersey Wholesale Drug Company
Lynch
Joseph Siegler
Ford offer must wait Muscle Shoals action before December
Aged in Washington June 20 a House Military Committee resolution would grant privileged status to pending bills directing the secretary of war to accept Henry Ford s offer for the Muscle Shoals nitrate plants The measure goes to the rules committee for debate with ten hours allotted but there is no indication it will pass before December By Washington Post.
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Muscle Shoals
Washington
Secretary of War
Henry Ford
McKenzie
House Military Committee
Rules Committee
Tariff Precedes Bonus Vote In Senate Action
Washington June 20 Senate Republicans in conference voted 30 to 9 against delaying the tariff bill to consider the soldiers bonus measure. A resolution urging final disposal of both the tariff and bonus before any recess passed 27 to 11. The bonus would be unfinished business after a final tariff vote. Senator McCumber, who leads both bills, urged a priority for the bonus.
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Washington
Senate Republicans
McCumber
Finance Committee
Senate debate on tariff disposition and military bonus motion
The motion gathered few votes as Senator Walsh of Massachusetts signaled plans to press the bonus after the naval appropriation bill. Republican leaders predicted failure, counting on Democratic foes to join most Republicans against immediate consideration, while the move could trigger longer debate on the Senate floor.
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Senate
Walsh
Masseschusette
Fall to Fatal For York Woman
Mrs Eliza A Pike of York died after a porch fall at her home rear. A broken hip and tibs from the accident proved fatal. Funeral and burial plans will be announced locally.
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York
Eliza A. Pike
Lydia Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound Aids Portland Girl
A letter from Stella Newton of Portland describes a daughter troubled by headaches back pain and weakness. The writer urges careful attention to health and endorses Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a safe remedy claimed to relieve such symptoms.
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Portland
Uels
Lydia Binkham
Anid Abe
Etter
Stella Newton
R. R
Lydia E. Pinkham
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Elonel Marcellus H. Thompson
Lawa
Miss Lee
Miss Grey
Bob
By Allman
Nashville Tennessean
Clicquot Club
Jamaica
THE
Millis, Mags, U.S
Bank
Kevlin
FORD
Washington Post
Brownie Gillette
Gallette Safety Razor CO
Bowes, U.S.A
Standard Oil Company
New Jersey
BrocIas Iu
the News Job Printing Office
Shipley’s Tire Works
Frederick, MD
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