Canal Mystery 5 Cleared Up By Admission
Indiana Harbor police report Canadian George Smith confessed to killing two of his three children, George Jr and Edgar, after luring them to Indiana Harbor ship canal with a plank over water and forcing them to jump. He claimed he failed to kill Robert, twin to Edgar, and later viewed the bodies with remorse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana Harbor, Ind
James Ro Regan
East
Chicago
Ind
George Smith
Indiana Harbor Ship Canal
Smith
George, Jr
Edgar
Ship Canal
Canada
England
George Jr
Robert
Lolt
Indiana Harbor
Exhumation Opens Probe Into Wealthy Widow Death
Coroner says exhuming Mrs Mary Alice Dickinsons body, who died January 4 leaving a 300000 estate, will advance the investigation. The widow, once married to Wall Street broker John Dickinson, left heirs Grace and Margaret Johnson. Attorneys allege forgery conspiracy and fraud in the will, while other relatives claim Mrs Dickinson was incompetent in 1921.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Mary Alice Dickinson
Wolf
Calvary Cemetery
Dickinson
John Dickinson
Wall Street
John Dickson & Co
Chicago Board of Trade
Duickansen
Dowagiac
Mich
Henry Johnson
Examines Curtain Use for North US Locomotives
Washington report says railroads in northern United States should install curtains on locomotives to project enginemen. The Rogers report backs curtains from November through April in northern territory with Michigan Minnesota and Wisconsin among 35 designated. Cairo protest injures five students during clash with police over Brisn-Egypt treaty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States
Interstate Commerce Commission
John Ty Rasery
Railroad Commission of
Wise Consin
Rogers
Michigan
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Cairo
API
Im 4
Don Walch of Badger State Enters Presidential Race
Wisconsin born Don Walch, a Two Rivers native and Wisconsin alumnus, announces candidacy for the Democratic nomination for president. He rose from Teapot Dome investigator to educator and public figure, with early career in Glen Beulah and Sturgeon Bay, and a late wife Eleanor McClements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Two Rivers
Lake Michigan
University of Wisconsin
Tom Walsh
Glen Veulail
Glen Beulah
Inter
Sturgeon Bay
Eleanor McClements
Sheboygan
McClements
Walsh
Wisconsin
Redfield
Sdb
Helena
United States
Rabbi Loses Suit for Marital Freedom
Milwaukee report states Rabbi David Savitz lost his suit for marital freedom from Helen Savitz. Circuit Judge Oscar Maritz denied the divorce, finding no cruel or inhuman treatment. The judge noted the rabbi's failure to inform his wife of his whereabouts and his amicable relations with female acquaintances as key issues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milwaukee
David Savitz
Helen
Oscar Maritz
Esse
Winniper Canada
Pritz
Keen Ins
Senate resumes hearings on railroad consolidation bill
In Congress today the Senate resumes hearings on the railroad consolidation bill while the immigration committee continues hearings on the Mexican immigration bill. The House proceeds with consideration of the executive department appropriation and immigration issues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
Interstate Commerce
Fess
Housie
Aamjeulive Department
Immigration Committee
Bax Hill
Beck Denounces Admin and Promotes Norris Delegates
Fond du Lac Wisconsin hears Congressman J D Beck on a tour for Progressive Republican presidential delegates. Secretary of State Theodore Dammann accompanies him denying schism in the state Progressive party and saying real state campaign will start after the primary. Beck attacks the administration on Muscle Shoals and Boulder Dam delays, endorses Wisconsin delegates at large for Sen Thomas Walsh.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fond du Lac
Wis
J. D. Beck
George W Norris
Republian
Muscle Shoals
Power Trust
Boulder Dam
J D Beek
Wisconsin
Madison
Theodore Dammann
Miley
Riley
Flint
Thomas J Walsh
Montana
John K Barnes
Charles B Rogers
Sot
Atkinson Miles G Raley
Hamilton
Two Rivers
Seek Master Mind Behind Milwaukee Auto Thefts
Milwaukee police hunt for the mastermind of a wave of car thefts since Sunday night. Forty two cars stolen in the past week, with indications pointing to a single gang responsible for the spree.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milwaukee
Explosion at Pleasant Valley school blamed on dynamite
Ottawa Hl reports State's Attorney Russell O Hanson described the bombing at Pleasant Valley school. Hiram Reed faces a dynamite charge after a damaged flue was shown as proof. Lola Bradford, the nearly killed teacher, and parents attended as closing arguments began, experts debated coal dust versus dynamite, and jury deliberation was scheduled after lengthy hearings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottawa
Pleasant Valley
Lola Bradford
Russell O. Hanson
Hiram Reed
Gil
Moss Bradford
Howard Clegg
Charles Thiel
Hanson
Reed
Nules
Yola
Herbert Bradford
Frank Hayes
Left Handed Socialism Label Marks Milwaukee Campaign
Milwaukee speakers opened Sheriff Charles Schallitz’s mayoralty bid with the term left handed socialism attributing the current city administration’s tilt to big interests and corporations. Jim Alvin B Peterson, Milwaukee attorney, delivered the keynote condemning the administration and urging citizen intervention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milwaukee
lPl
Fornal J
Charles Schallitz
Schallitz
Jim
Alvin B Peterson
Campaign Log March 3. Democratic slate and Republican maneuvers
Av United Press reports Democratic candidate John B. Elhgit announces Sen Thomas J Walsh of Montana will lead the May 1 presidential ticket under a McAdoo slate with efforts to have President Coolidge reconsider running. Hoover forces claim fifty upper New York delegates. Reed criticizes administration over old scandals and cites Sinclair funding. Kansas districts pledge delegates to Curtas. Nebraska’s McNuhen says farm relief stance will shape support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press i
John B Elhgitt
United States Senate
California
Thomas J Walsh
Montana
McAdoo
Charles JD Hilles
New York
Coolidge
Elles
Washington
William H Wl
New York State
Campanton
Hoover
James A. Reed
Oakland
Calif
Will Hayes
Harry Sinclair
Kansas
Kansas City
Charles Curtus
Adam McMuhen
Nebraska
Parts of lost plane found on Eastern Shore
Norfolk reports identifying the horizontal stabilizer and rudder of an amphibian plane found four miles south of Cape Charles City on Chesapeake Bay. The aircraft disappeared Monday with Commander Ellyson and two navy pilots from the carrier Lexington, sparking a search for the rest of the wreckage and the missing men.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norfolk
Chesapeake Bay
Cape Charles City
Naval Air Station
Com T. Gillyson
Washington
Navy Départment
Navy
Hampton Roads
Annapolis
Ellyson
Hugo Schmidt
Roger Ransehausen
Lexington
Exonerated school head to resume duties Monday
Milwaukee (LP) Eduard Seifert exonerated superintendent of Cudahy schools announced he would resume duties Monday morning. The Cudahy school board will meet to decide whether to appeal a judge’s order allowing Seifert to return to office. Seifert had faced removal last fall amid charges of insubordination and moral turpitude after a protest by Cudahy High School staff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milwaukee
Eduard GC Sei
Fect
Cudahy
Chewit
A IT Reid
Wausau
Serfer
Seifert
Pele
Cudahy High School
Ellyson
Naval Aviation
Navy
Ater
Willy
Mee Nat
Plan to Combine Depots Faces Oshkosh Council Debate
Oshkosh council members weigh a joint station plan to replace two major rail depots. Mayor H F Pitts urges protective, citizen benefits. Councilman Oaks backs grade crossing elimination and joint station as a long term project. Councilman Wilzel supports a union station, seeking proper location to serve residents and improve facilities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George I. Oaks
Coun
Dan Wilzel
Soo
Oshkosh
Mussolini Warns on Tyro Question in Chamber
Premier Mussolini told the chamber of deputies that Austrian manifestations against Italian rule in the former Austrian Tyrol were intolerable and warned Italy would act. He rebuked Austria for ingratitude and said the Tyro question would be settled this time by deeds, not words.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamber of Deputies
Tyrol
Rome
Mussolini
Tassolini
Sepel
Vienna
Audria P
Italy
Forged Landing on Ice Floe Sixty Miles From Land
A graphic account details a forced sixty mile sea landing on an ice floe and the survival journey back to shore. Canadian airmen Lewis and Sergeant Terry, with a native Eskimo guide, endured ice battles cold and hunger before reaching Port Burwell after two weeks missing. They traveled eastward but realized they were drifting away from land, and subsisted on raw walrus meat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ostawi
Noth Atlantic
Burwell
Pulot A
Lewis
Terry
Marine Department
Would Nullify Contracts In asbestos conspiracy suit filed in federal court
A federal case opened accusing Dillon Read and others of schemes to nullify contracts and fix interstate commerce in asbestos. Defendants listed include Dillon Read, Asbestos Corporation Ltd, Canadian Johns-Mamile Co, Quebec Abestos Corp, Johnsy-Mainville Corp, Philip Carey Manufacturing, Keashey Co, Mattie Co, Richard V. Mathison, Duvaldo Golkirthwave, and George B Crabbsy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
United States
Dillon, Read & Company
Claremen Dillon
Asbestosy Corporation, Ltd
Canadian
Johns-Mamilie Co
Quebec
Abestos Corporation
Tota
Johnsy-Mainville Corporation
Philip Carey Manufactuing
Compar
Keashey and Mattie Company
Richard V. Math
Recommendation for 30 day stay of execution
Michigan City trustees urged Governor Jackson to grant a 30 day stay of execution for John Hall of Milwaukee who is condemned to die in the electric chair on March 9. A public clemency hearing was proposed for March 30, following Hall’s murder conviction for the killing of Louis Kreidler a South Bend druggist.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michigan City
Trd
John Hall
Milwaukee
Jackson
Hall
Louis Kriedler
South Bend
Tulsa Banker Dies in Hot Springs After Illness
J. Mel Giaw, a Tulsa banker, had been seriously ill in Hot Springs for several days and died at 3:49 this morning. He was a prominent financier in Oklahoma and a longtime resident of Tulsa. Funeral arrangements are pending.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hot Springs
Ark
Nicaragua Crisis Sparks U.S. Debate on Marines
Senator Din of Washington criticizes policy as General Lane testifies in secret to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Lane says a U.S. withdrawal could trigger an immediate march on Managua led by General Landing to seize the government. Secretary Wilbur and others also testify amid sharp political attack on administration strategy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Nicaragua
Bug
Rufus Lane
Managun
United States
Little Republic
Line
Senate Foreign Relations
Wilbur
Bolair
Din
Democrat
Hoover asks Wisconsin to drop his name from primary
Secretary Hoover has sent a letter to Wisconsin's secretary of state asking that his name be withdrawn from the Republican presidential primary. He did not authorize entry into the state race and his associates deny involvement in factional争 within Wisconsin GOP. The move aims to prevent his name from appearing on Wisconsin voters' ballots in the primary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, DD
Hoover
Wisconsin
Commerce
Morlon P. Hunter
Bm-Wankee
Troover
Republcan
Chio
Maryland
la Follette
Hunter
Tuple
Wimary
Wis
Barking of Dog Reveals Dead Man in La Crosse
In La Crosse Wisconsin a barking dog alerted neighbors to a man found dead by police. Walter Strong, 60, was discovered with the body identified as Raymond Dyer. Police report the death occurred earlier with family details including Strong’s wife and daughter.
Sweethearts story begins in Northwestern on Monday
The Northwestern prints the start of Ita McGlone Gibson’s serial Sweethearts in today’s issue, detailing a girl forced to choose and promising enthralling readings as readers follow her through tangled romantic ramifications and the old adage that true love never runs smooth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Northwestern
Mre
Ita McGlone
Gibson
Yeads
Oshkosh City Forms Plan to Start Union Station Work
Oshkosh city council approves immediate action to create a concise plan for a joint railroad depot with Chicago & Northwestern rights of way and elimination of Soo Line service. Corporation counsel Lloyd Mutchell to prepare the plan, submit to council, and pursue required filings. aims include phased Soo Line freight and passenger pullback and eventual union station progress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union Station
Oshkosh
Commission
Soo Hine
Chicago & Northwestern
George F. Qaks
Lloyd D. Mutchell
Chamber of Commerce Committee
United Forces
State Railroad Commission
Madison
Interstate Commerce Commission
Washington, D .C
Rairoad
Commission Council
Corporation
Mitchell
Soo Line
Broad ‘Street
Oaks
Councman
Dan Wilel
Maitchell
Eny of
Minneapoli
St. Paul
Sao Ste. Marie
Soe
Chicago & Northwestern Railroad
Sooling
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Canal Mystery 5
Examiner
Ye Ant
Alexander Lubowsky
New York City
W. R B. Huntington
Lubowsky
Walch, Don
Badger State
Len Thomas
J Walsh
Ccongress
United Prose
Beck
Dammann
Republican National
Wevile
Arial Subhas
Ak Estrone
Don Hans Sinlay
Marty Elise
Pertinn
Missouri
Tentral
Erek
H. F P. Titts
Magoolini
Tulsa
Negeggary
Sandino
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