Limit Punishment for Attack on Girl
Chicago reports Frank Egan aged 23 received life imprisonment after attacking a 20 year old woman in his rooms on May 30. He had his bond revoked and was sent to jail pending a motion for a new trial. In Lansing Michigan the State Supreme Court upheld part of Arthur Rich’s life term for assaulting Louise King, a 19 year old coed, after a disputed trial.
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Chicago
Frank Egan
Cornell Avenue
Egan
South Park Avenue
Emanuel Eller
Gan
Lansing
Mich
Arthur C. Rich
Battle Creek
Jackson
Louise King
State Supreme Court
Rich
Ingham County
Miss King
Battle Creek Country Club
Cotton Crop Outlook and Policy Debates in Washington
The Department of Agriculture forecasts American cotton carryover at 8.5 to 9 million bales for the season. Representative Taber urges President Coolidge to raise import duties on hay buckwheat and other Canadian goods. The Ways and Means Committee backs 6 percent loans on adjusted bonus certificates. Green to draft a new bill. The Senate advances $1.2 million for early work on the last three cruisers despite the President's opposition. The immigration law's national origin provision is postponed for one year by unanimous Senate action.
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Department of Agriculture
Taber
New York
Coolidge
House Ways and Means
Veterans Bureau
Green
Senate
Dempsey Ordered From Ring By Surgeons Panel
In Los Angeles doctors treat Jack Dempsey for blood poisoning of the left hand and arm and forbid a return to boxing for four to five months at least. His wife Estelle Taylor announces he will never fight again.
Ninth Campus Death Highlights Rochester Incident
The University of Rochester reports the ninth campus fatality of the year due to self harm. J Morgan Derr Jr, twenty, a student, died by his own actions in Rochester.
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Rochester
J. Morgan Derr, Jr
Sejfhomore
University of Rochester
Priest Marries in Chicago After Quitting Priesthood
Rev. Father D W Downey a Roman Catholic priest of Marceline Missouri and Miss Maudie Myers of Marceline obtained a marriage license in Chicago on January 18 and were married by Judge Wars W McEwen. Downey abandoned his priesthood and disappeared from Marceline on January 17 startling friends. Myers, twenty one, is the daughter of a coal miner. Downey, thirty six, was pastor of St. Bonaventure church.
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Chicago
D. W. Downey
Marecelline
Maudie Myers
Marcelline
Wars W McEwen
Father Downey
Miss Myers
St. Bonaventure Church
New Immigrant Law Aims to End Farm Priority
Washington lawmakers consider a joint resolution to admit husbands of American citizens as non quota immigrants and liberalize immigration rules. The House immigration committee favors amendments that largely erase farmer immigrant preferences and grant up to 90 percent of country quotas to relatives of naturalized citizens and residents who have declared intent to naturalize.
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Washington
Senate
House
Immigration Committee
United States
Muscle Shoals bids rejected by House committee
The House Military Affairs Committee rejected bids from American Cyanamid and Farmers' Federated Fertilizers for Muscle Shoals power concessions and plant. A committee was appointed to confer with the bidding firms.
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Muscle Shoals
Washington
House Military Affairs Committee
American Cyanamid Company
Farmers’ Federated Fertilizers Company
American Swims Catalina to Long Beach Champion
Lowell, Massachusetts swimmer Catalina swim completes Catalina Island to mainland crossing on second try within 15 days. Noted as one of the few to conquer the English Channel route.
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Long Beach
Califf
Henry F. Sullivan
Lowell
Mass
English Channel
Catalina Island
Senate bill bars concealed firearms from mail service
Washington debate focuses on mail delivery limits as a senate passed bill would prohibit firearms that can be concealed on a person from being sent through the mails. The measure aims to curb hidden weapons shipments and tighten mail safety standards.
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Washington
Senate
Bulletin Warns Against Worry in Daily Life
Doctors issue bulletin stating humans suffer more from worry than work. It notes birds, foxes, squirrels and dogs do not fret over limited nests, holes, nuts, or bones and that anxiety over scarcity does not affect their wellbeing.
Coolidge Out of Race Said by Dr Buller at Riverside
Dr Nicholas Murray Butler president of Columbia University told the Riverside Republican club that Coolidge would not seek a candidate on the ticket next year. Butler said no election without a stand against Prohibition and that the Eighteenth Amendment should come out of the Constitution. He framed his views as a personal opinion and noted he was a working Republican and friend of the President.
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New York
Riverside Republican Club
Nicholas Murray Buller
Columbia University
Coolidge
Agaain
Doctor
Ontario legislature to regulate liquor import and sale
The assembly opens its annual session with a primary duty to pass legislation enabling the government to import and sell liquor in line with last fall's referendum.
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Toronto
Ontario
Woman Completes Catalina to California Swim
Myrtle R. Huddleston a 30 year old Long Beach beauty parlor owner weighing 250 pounds completed the 25 mile Catalina island to California mainland swim. She is the first woman to achieve the feat.
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Los Angeles
Courtairs
Myrtle R. Huddleston
Long Beach
Catalina Island
California
Sacasa offers peace plan to United States mediators
Liberal leader Juan B. Sacasa has transmitted to the State department his willingness to remove himself from the Nicaraguan situation and to accept U S mediation by the United States and four Central American republics in the conflict with President Diaz.
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Washington
Diaz
United States
State Department
Juan B. Sacasa
Count Rigo the Gypsy Violinist Dies in New York
Janos Rigo known as Count Rigo and the gypsy violinist dies in New York from a complication of diseases.
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Count Rigo
New York
Janos Rigo
Motorboat Aims Atlantic Crossing in 35 Hours
A Strassburg built motorboat designed to cross from London to New York in 35 hours at 87 miles per hour, six engines, follows Bugatti specifications.
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Cross Pond
London
Atlantic
New York
Strassburg
Malaria Strikes U S Marines in Rama Camp
About 800 American Marines stationed at Rama have been attacked by Nicaragua malaria. The illness has affected a sizeable portion of the force, prompting medical attention and preventive measures.
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U. S
Mangua
Rama
Nicaragua
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