News of the Week Cut Down for Busy Readers
A roundup of brief items from Washington reports major deficits reversed into a small surplus, personnel changes, price shifts, and legal notices. Highlights include Charles W. Pugsley resigning to head a South Dakota college, Roy Haynes potential Ohio governor bid, tax prospects brightening, and Prohibition rules easing. Also noted are Camp Grant auctions, Richard K Fox will, Chicago heat deaths, a Zionist convention appeal, and a double homicide at St Louis.
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Washington
Prohibition
Roy Haynes
Ohio
Michigan sweep at Chicago meets supports 31 points
Sporting Michigan won the national collegiate meet in Chicago scoring 31 points. Brookins of Iowa set a world record in low hurdles and six meet marks were broken. Henry Ford commented he will not run for president. A new cross-state air service began Kansas City to Wichita. Trinity Church in New York reports income of 1,249,870 with real estate rentals at 1,138,720.
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Chicago
Brookins
Iowa
Corporation of Trinity Church
New York
Etna eruption devastates Sicilian villages and flight swells
dispatches report Mount Etna destroyed four villages in Sicily and that about thirty thousand residents are fleeing. other items note a priest kidnapped near Hankow, Chinese pillaging, and various war and political developments worldwide.
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Mount Etna
Sicily
Catania
Illinois News Roundup: Drowning, Fines, and Local Changes
Angelo Ambrose of Freemanspur lost three fingers in a hay cutter incident. Moline votes to widen four downtown streets to ease congestion. Frank Kozlowski, ten, drowned at a Kankakee quarry. Lawyer William B. Gilbert of Cairo dies after illness. Harvey L. Jordan fined $1000 after moonshine finds. Farmers Mutual Telephone petitions to discontinue service filed in Springfield. Milson of Macomb hired as Bigin high school's athletics coach. Robert Reynolds, seventeen, killed by grain chute accident at a Rockford elevator. Mixed bathing banned at Rockford Fairgrounds pool. State teachers pension board to meet in Springfield. Wedding to funeral tragedy at Zion as Kenosha groom killed en route. Pana church building razed for new edifice costing $150,000. Lincoln Square renamed in Springfield. Kane county considers forest preserves for picnics. Gov. Small offers $50 reward for逃 Theodore Glawronki alias Dombrowski. Shelbyville estate leaves $20,000 to First Methodist Church. Christian county sheriff reports jail and cellar full of violators. Wesleyan University honors Maj. Wesley Powell with seven-foot monument.
Notable Union Leader John McParland Dies in Indianapolis
Personal John McParland president of the International Typographical Union and well known in trade union circles throughout the English speaking world, died in Indianapolis Ind of heart trouble. Maurice Hewlett novelist died of pneumonia in London. Walter E. Flanders Detroit auto industry figure died in Newport News hospital from injuries in an automobile accident. Gen. Luis Terrazas died at his home in Chihuahua City Mex.
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John McParland
International Typographical Union
Indianapolis, Ind
Maurice Hewlett
London
Walter E. Flanders
Detroit
Newport News
Luis Terrazas
Chihuahua City
Mex
Illinois Holds Omnibus Budget Ball for 1925
Illinois lawmakers adjourned with a $206 million tax bill plus a $100 million hard road bond issue looming for 1925. The omnibus appropriation fell by about $320,000 beyond House and Senate cuts, while tax measures failed, including a failed 1 to 8 percent income tax. The Senate advanced a home for deranged veterans at Elgin and passed child protection bills.
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General Assembly
Oldiers
University of Illinois
Joliet Penitentiary
House Omnibus Bih
Omnibus Bill Conference Committee
House Committee On Appropriations
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Wright
Norman L. Flagg
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Elgin
Elgin State Hospital
Water Breaks Up Georgia Mob at Jail in Savannah
In Savannah on June 20, police, troops, and firemen battled a 2000 strong mob aimed at lynching Walter Lee, an 18 year old accused of assaulting a white woman. One man, Claude Parker Jr., died of a stomach wound. George Bart was seriously wounded. A militia detachment with machine guns arrived as water streams flooded the crowd and the mob fired stones toward firefighters.
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Savannah
Walter Lee
Claude Parker, Jr
George Bart
Lee
Merrit Dixon
A. Russell Moore
Germany Spends 80 Million to Stabilize Mark
Berlin reports the Reichsbank deployed eighty million dollars in foreign currencies from March 1 to June 9 to prop up the depreciating mark. Doctor Gleimius, head of the foreign moneys department, testified before the Reichstag committee investigating currency measures.
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Berlin
Reichsbank
Gleimius
Reichstag
Germany
Hughes Warns World Court Or Sword At Dartmouth Luncheon
Secretary of State Charles E. Hughes spoke at Dartmouth College in Hanover urging support for the world court. He warned that there is no path to the millennium except through justice and that discarding the best instrumentalities of justice invites the sword's decision.
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N. H
World Court
Dartmouth College
Charles E. Hughes
Bank Clerk Confesses $1.5 Million Theft in Wichita
Philip A. Drumm, cashier at the American State Bank in Wichita, confessed a defalcation of about $1.5 million after a bank statement review. The bank closed its doors and the Wichita Clearing House association reported the confession and plans to turn over all personal properties to the bank.
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Wichita
Kan
Philip A. Drumm
American State Bank Here
Wichita Clearing House Association
Drumm
President Harding Heads West on Two Months Tour
President Harding departed Washington on a transcontinental trip lasting over two months. His itinerary will extend to Alaska the Panama Canal and Porto Rico, keeping him away from the capital during this period.
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Washington
Harding
Capital
Alaska
Panama Canal
Porto Rico
Chicago Physicians Unmask "Girl Slayer" as a Man
Examinations by physicians revealed that the person identified by Mrs. Richard C. Tesmer as the assailant in a recent holdup is in fact a man. The case followed a report of a female suspect described by the complainant. Authorities await confirmation and further details.
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Chicago
Richard C. Tesmer
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Farmers’ Mutual Telephone Company
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