River search for body ends amid river tragedies
The body of two-year-old David Pitman of Belvidere was recovered from the Kishwaukee River after an all night search. A shooting left Steven Sibich in critical condition after Thomas Borrata called him a poor nut. Sterling voters approved Sunday shows by a 275 vote margin. Mary Grace died in Harrisburg, wife of former United Mine Workers executive board member. Alfred Duodack drowned at Lake Decatur when he fell from a boat.
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David Pitman
Belvidere
Kishwaukee
Steven Sibich
Kewanee
Thomas Borrata
Sibich
Mary Grace
Charles Grace
United Mine Workers’ Executive Board
Harrisburg
Alfred Duodack
Decatur
Lake
Notable Illinois Figures and Incidents Recap From Region
Joseph Goffinet of Flue Mound dies after a fall at 75. William Townshend of Stockton dies after ten days illness at 68. B F Peek of Deere & Co. announces candidacy for Congress. Bandit shootout near Rockford ends with one capture as Tony Gezingo. St Luke's survey flags 75,000 ill in Chicago against 19,000 beds. Hastern Cuban Plantation in Galesburg area declared bankrupt with $50,000 excess claims. Illinois hard road bonds auctioned for $9.69 million. Warren county road work boosted with state funds and 50 miles added. Possible Republican judgeship candidates named. Ku Klux Klan members surrender for murder charges in Herrin. Alton city hall foundation to be reused with $75,000 remodeling funds. J B B Hill appointed agricultural education supervisor in Illinois. Freeport aims to raise $50,000 for aged home with $250,000 conditional bequests. Federal crusaders raid Ottawa and La Salle. moonshine seized. George N. Pek resigns from Moline Plow. potential sale for $4 million. Pekin council opposes Lake Michigan to Illinois River water flow. H O Watson ex-mayor of Mount Vernon dies in Los Angeles at 85. H B Campbell, Chicago resident, commits suicide in Bloomington.
Los Angeles Boy Wins National Oratorical Prize
President Coolidge presided over the final national oratorical contest on the American Constitution. Seven finalists from more than a million students spoke, with Don Tyler of Los Angeles winning first prize $3,500, Ruth Newburn of Washington earning second, John M. Callan III of Philadelphia third.
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Washington, D. C
Coolidge
Don Tyler
Los Angeles
Cal
Pacific Coast
Ruth Newburn
John M. Callan III
Philadelphia
Memorial Continental Hall
Mount Vernon
Washington
Taft
van Devanter
Butler, Sutherland and Hanford
United States Supreme Court
Robert E. Lee Saner
Dallas
Tex
American Bar Association
Border Treaty Signed by U S and Canada
Washington reports a treaty to curb smuggling of liquor and narcotics across the Canadian border. Secretary Hughes signs for the United States and Ernest La Pointe signs for Canada. It takes effect ten days after ratifications, lasts one year, and allows exchange of information on vessel clearances. The pact addresses liquor shipments across Alaska to the Yukon.
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Washington
United States
Hughes
Canada
Ernest la Pointe
Ottawa
Senator Ball Sued for Five Thousand Dollars
Washington Senator L Heisler Ball of Delaware faced a District of Columbia Supreme Court suit by Citizens Bank of Weston West Virginia seeking 5000 dollars plus interest on a sixty day note dated August 8 1928 and payable to Penfield Coal and Coke Co. Homer C Stuntz bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church died at Methodist Hospital Omaha after paralysis struck him in Miami February 12.
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Washington
L. Heisler Ball
Delaware
District of Coluumbia Supreme Court
Citizens’ Bank of Weston
Weston
W. Va
Penfield Coal and Coke Co
Homer C. Stuntz
Methodist Episcopal Church
Methodist
Omaha
Miami
Fla
Missouri Loses Federal Highway Aid in Defeated Bill
Washington reports that Missouri will lose 2,423,485.75 dollars in contemplated federal highway funds after the appropriation bill failed. The total impact exceeds 4.8 million dollars with dollar-for-dollar state matching. Other states listed include Illinois California New York Ohio Pennsylvania and Texas. The Department of Agriculture notes 540 million dollars in federal highway funding since 1916. By May 31 road work showed 82,099 miles completed 17,000 under construction 2,518 approved for construction. The 1921 act aimed for about 170,000 miles. roughly 110,000 remain to be finished with a yearly 11,000 mile target. The defeated appropriation will be reintroduced at the December session.
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Washington
Missouri
Department of Agriculture
Illinois
California
New York
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Texas
Congress
Flight crash claims flyer and Mexican boy on ground
San Antonio Texas Lieut Stewart L Thomson a Kelley Field student pilot and 11 year old Jose Maria Ramos chopping cotton were killed when three planes in formation collided at about 1300 feet near Kelly Field. Lieut W W White parachuted to safety after escaping the wreckage.
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San Antonio
Tex
Stewart L. Thomson
Kelley Field
Jose Maria Ramos
Here
W. W. White
Kelly Field
Lieut. White
Fifteen Dead In Loomis Colliery Mine Explosion
In Hanover Township Wilkes Barre Pa fifteen men are known dead and a score or more injured after a blast in the Loomis colliery of the Glenn Alden Coal Company. Seven bodies were recovered as rescue crews battled fire and cave ins while workers fled to the shaft foot. An additional blast at Truesdale colliery left John Nagashefski of Nanticoke seriously burned.
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Wilkes-Barre
Loomis
Glenn Alden Coal Company
Hanover Township
Truesdale
John Nagashefski
Nanticoke
Gland Theft Linked to Boy's Slayers in Franks Case
Chicago authorities identify Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold Jr as partly connected to the kidnapping and murder of 14-year-old Robert Franks, adding a grim chapter to the sensational crime.
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Chicago, Ill
Richard Loeb
Nathan F. Leopold, Jr
Chas. Ream
Robert Franks
Barnes Attacks Government Tampering With Progress
Julius H. Barnes president of the United States Chamber of Commerce denounces government interference in national progress in an address before the National Association of Mutual Savings Banks in New York.
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New York
Julius H. Barnes
United States Chamber of Commerce
National Association of Mutual Savings Banks
Hotel Manager Confesses Embezzlement Linked to Blackmail
Miss Tamar Best, 40, manager and cashier at the Stanley Hotel in Chicago, admitted she embezzled 15000 dollars and paid it to blackmailers who threatened defamation.
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Chicago
Tamar Best
Stanley Hotel
Mrs. Mott of Flint Dies After Bedroom Window Fall
Mrs. Ethel Mott wife of Charles B. Mott vice president of General Motors was killed when she fell from the second floor bedroom window at their Flint home authorities investigated the fatal accident citing fall from window as cause of death timing and setting.
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Flint
Mich
Ethel Mott
Charles 8. Mott
General Motors Corporation
Leopold and Loeb Indicted in Franks Killing Case
Chicago charges Nathan Leopold Jr and Richard Loeb with murder and kidnapping for ransom in the Robert Franks case. Seventy-one witnesses testified as prosecutors seek death by hanging on ten murder counts and sixteen kidnaping counts. A defense fund of 1 million dollars was reported for Clarence Darrow’s team as insanity defenses are planned.
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Til
Nathan F. Leopold, Jr
Richard Loeb
Robert Franks
Robert E. Crowe
Leopold
Chicago University
Jacob Franks
Thomas Marshal
John R. Caverly
Caverly
Clarence Darrow
Benjamin Bachrach
State of
Ilinois
Loeb
James Whitney Hall
Hall
Hugh T. Patrick
Archibald Church
William O. Krohn
Harold Douglas Singer
Criminal Court
Leopold and Loeb
Strife Marks Congress Close As Budget Fails
Congress closed its six months with heated clashes over farm relief and reclamation policy. Deficiency and reclamation bills failed, a bonus appropriation died in the Senate, and officers adjourned without funds for the bonus. President Coolidge signed last minute measures before adjourning.
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Senate
Pittman
Nevada
Borah
Idaho
King
Utah
Coolidge
Capitol
Walsh
Spencer
Missouri
Norbeck
South Dakota
Smoot
Spanish Springs
Collector and Watchman Shot on McKinley Bridge
Joseph Wallace fifty toll collector on the Illinois end of the McKinley Bridge was found shot to death in front of his station by passersby Charles Virgin watchman for the Illinois Traction Company lay nearby unconscious with a chest wound He died an hour later at St Elizabeths Hospital Wallace had been shot twice one bullet through the forehead and another through the neck The revolver remained holstered and Wallace offered no protection Six killed when train strikes auto Greenville Ohio Six members of the Adam Pittman family of Bradford were killed when their stalled auto was hit by an eastbound Big Four passenger train at Dawn nine miles north of here
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St. Louis
Joseph Wallace
Illinois
McKinley Bridge
Charles Virgin
Illinois Traction Company
St. Elizabeth's Hospital
Wallace
Greenville
Ohio
Adam Pittman
Bradford
Here
House to Probe Federal Bankruptcy Law
Washington May Investigate bankruptcy law action by House shows a resolution adopted authorizing a subcommittee of the judiciary committee to conduct the inquiry.
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Washington
House
Judiciary Committee
Two Golfers Struck Down by Lightning at Edgewood Club
Charleston West Virginia names S B Avis former congressman and R G Altizer vice president and general counsel of United Fuel Gas Company as the two men killed when a lightning bolt struck a summer house at Edgewood Country Club where they had taken shelter during a storm. H G Scott of New York left the house minutes before the bolt. the house was overturned by the shock as the three men were playing a golf match on the club links.
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Charleston
W. Va
S. B. Avis
West Virginia
R. G. Altizer
United Fuel Gas Company
Edgewood Country Club
H. G. Scott
New York
Black man fatally injured after capture near Crockett
A Black man accused of confronting a white woman was captured near the crime scene by a posse and struck by a relative of the victim as he lay wounded. The incident occurred a few miles from the site of the confrontation in Crockett Texas.
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Crockett
Tex
Coast Guard Seizes Liquor Laden Launch in Galveston
Coast guards seized the launch Chero kee near Galveston Texas with about 400 cases of liquor on board. Onboard were Jack Kominsky and Joe Landi who were taken into custody by officials.
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Galveston
Tex
Jack Kominsky
Joe Landi
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