Rumery Sentenced to One Year in Atlanta Prison
Former publisher Dr Ed R Rumery was sentenced to one year in an Atlanta prison after conviction on German ownership conspiracy charges regarding the Evening Mail Walter Kaufman and Robert Lind helm attorneys and co defendants received the same sentence. All three were remanded with their counsel for 24 hours to file notices of appeal.
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York
Ed R. Rumery
Afternoon
Atlanta
Evening Mail
Walter Kaufman
Robert Lindhelm
Despondent man shoots himself in suburb home
Despondent over marital difficulties, 29 year old Joan Muff committed suicide at his father's residence 8848 18th Ave 8 W Monday by shooting himself in the mouth with a shotgun. His wife and child had been living at Mother Ryther's home. Muff had been unemployed for some time. He leaves five brothers his mother and father a widow and child survive him.
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Joan Muff
18Th Ave
Mother Ryther
Huff
Plan to Recruit Nine Infantry Companies in Washington
Maj. Thomas G. Ashton announced in a conference with Brig. Gen. Maurice Thompson that five new infantry companies will be recruited in Eastern Washington within 60 days to replace the current Third Infantry companies. The old units will be converted to field artillery batteries, completing rifle company formation and addressing statewide unit reorganization issues.
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Washington
Third Infantry
Thomas G. Ashton
Maurice Thompson
Steamer in Alaska Must Pay Poll Tax
Supreme court lets stand lower court rulings: seamen temporarily in Alaska for work must pay the Alaska poll tax of five dollars per year.
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Alaska
Washington
Supreme Court
Pine cough remedy from pine extract and sugar syrup
An old remedy uses pine extract mixed with syrup or substitutes like molasses honey or corn syrup to make a pint of cough syrup. The article claims pine compounds soothe throat and bronchial membranes and promote relief from coughs and chest infections. It warns against substitutes and promotes a product from Pines Co. Fort Wayne Indiana.
Charges Prisoners in Texas Are Killed
George W. Dixon of Houston asserts in an open letter that Texas prison camps beat to death and shoot prisoners for minor offenses. He claims 13 prisoners killed, with five beaten to death and eight shot by guards, including one man reportedly killed with a treavy manila rope soaked in water.
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Houston
Texas
Dea
George W. Dixon
Dixon
Government Starts Suit Against John D Rockefeller
The federal government filed suit in New York accusing John D Rockefeller of incorrect and false statements in his 1915 income tax returns. It claims unreported income from 50,104 Illinois Pipe Line and 67,176 Prairie Pipe Line shares and seeks 292,478 dollars plus penalties and 1 percent monthly interest from June 36, 1916.
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New York
John D. Rockefeller
Rockefeller
Ilinois Pipe Line Company
Prairie Pipe Line Company
Jerome Shaffer to entertain Queen Anne High School
Jerome Shaffer, acclaimed entertainer and philanthropist, is set to present an entertainment program at Queen Anne High School on January 7, 1971. He previously spoke to the Queen Anne boys and promised a January show whose proceeds would support a charitable cause. He notes that 69 percent of the proceeds, up to $109, go to the hosting organization.
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Jerome Shaffer
United States
Queen Anne High School
Shaffer
Queen Anne
Ayover
Two Executions In Nebraska State Prison
Alson B. Cole and Alien V. Grammer were executed by electric chair for the murder of Grammer’s mother in law, Mrs. Lulu Vogt, in Elba Nebraska on July 4 1917. Grammer was executed at 3 20 p m and died at 3 24 p m. Cole was strapped into the chair at 3 20 p m and died at 3 35 p m, then removed from the chair to a hearse at the prison door.
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Lincoln
Neb
Alson B. Cole
Alien V. Grammer
Lulu Vogt
Grammer
Elba
Cole
Prinon
Man in Uniform on Trial for Murder
PORTLAND Ore Dec 21 Wearing the army uniform of a private Husted A Walters eats quietly thru the preliminaries of his trial here yesterday He is charged with the murder of Patrolman Jerome Palmer on the night of November 17 Camden NJ Frank J James convicted of murder in first degree for killing of Davis and Paul bank mortgage???
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Portland
Ore
A. Walters
Jerome Palmer
Camden
N. J
Frank J. James
Davis & Paul
Bank Mongenger
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