Buyer’s Guilt Drives Volstead Case Forward
Federal Judge Kirkpatrick awaited briefs in the prosecution of Alfred E. Norris and Joel Kerper on conspiracy to violate prohibition laws. Norris pleaded nolle contendre to the conspiracy charge, challenging the government’s reach over retail liquor purchasers as part of bootlegging. Government lawyers argued any liquor shipment violates interstate commerce laws, framing the case as a broader conspiracy.
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Philadelphia
William H. Kirkpatrick
Alfred E. Norris
New York
Joel Ob. Kerper
Society
Kirkpatrick
Fle
Norris
Nolle
Kerper
$10000 Girl Weds Lineman in Reading Pa
Kathryn Heckman of Stony Creek married William Peterson, a telephony lineman, after seeking a $10,000 match to support her family. News confirms the wedding occurred several days ago. In Geneva, voters grant women the right to become deputy pastors at the Cathedral of Calv in.
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Reading
Kathryn Heckman
Stony Creek
William Terson
Geneva
Chanrery
Had His Dream, Asks No Pity
An obituary note from New York and Chicago papers quotes George Panebaker saying he sought voluntary death to fulfill his dream and not to evoke pity. Investigators found his body hanging in a rooming house on East 121st Street. he was 55.
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New York
Chicago
George Panebrake
East 121St Street
Panebaker
Mediation Efforts Rise in Bolivian Paraguay Dispute
Washington dispatch reports a Pan American conference special committee debating a plan of action to reconcile Bolivia and Paraguay after renewed border clashes. Paraguay and Bolivia have signaled willingness to mediate, while troop mobilization and halt orders color the tense situation in Gran Chaco. Victories and patrols frame a volatile border scene as outside powers urge de escalation.
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Bolivia
Paraguay
Washington
Gran Chaco
Thirty Places Closed During Raids In Oil Boom Town
WINK Texas December 19. Federal and state officers aided by Texas rangers swept through the oil boom town after a private feud between rum runners and hijackers triggered a major drive on lawlessness. Thirty resorts were closed and numerous people held for violations or questioning including gambling narcotics auto theft and other charges. P C Bureham cafe owner kidnapped last week was found after a 26 hour search. he had been bound left to die then wandered two days to civilization.
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Wink
Texas
Hira
Texas Rangers
Beiling
P. C. Bureham
Bureham
Five Million Narcotic Haul Ties Rothstein Case
New York December 19. One ton of narcotics valued at five million dollars was seized by Treasury agents at the Rochambeau pier destined for Philadelphia, linked to the Rothstein case via Joseph Unger. Detectives also found two trunks with narcotics valued at two million dollars when Unger was intercepted at Buffalo en route to Chicago. The grand jury will be shown the latest seizure in its probe of an international narcotics ring.
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New York
Treasury Department
Arnold Rothstein
Philadelphia
Joseph Unger
Charles H. Tuttle
United States
Klein
Unger
Buffalo
Chicago
Federal Grand
Rothstein
Tuttle
Rains Boost Water Supply In Mountain Regions
Heavy rains replenished mountain water supply slowing Williams-Port pumps yesterday. Port mountain and river water now run through mains. when mountain supply returns to normal, it will be fully utilized. A heavy snow could assist.
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Wiliams- Port
Port Mountain
Port
Wants Woman See Him Die In Georgia Ax Slaying Case
Milledgeville Ga December 191 . R H H Whitey Sheppard a Blackfoot Indian facing the electric chair at noon today for an ax slaying asked that Davie Brasswell the woman who testified against him in the trial be forced to witness the execution He said her presence might make her retract her testimony Warden Burke said the woman may witness if she desires Sheppard was convicted twice for the February 1927 slaying of Homer Fowler in Atlanta.
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W. J. Burke
State
Sheppard
Homer Fowler
Atlanta
Woman of 85 on dash by airplane
Raleigh dispatch reports Mrs. C. E. Smith an 85 year old mother began a flight from St Petersburg Florida in a cabin plane to Hartford Connecticut for her son's funeral. She flew from St Petersburg to Jacksonville rode a train overnight to Raleigh continuing the journey. Coat stolen Shirley Baxton Waynesboro reported the theft of a new child’s coat from a car parked in the Baltimore and Ohio yards.
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Raleigh
N. C
C. E. Smith
Poindexter Field
St. Petersburg
Florida
Hartford
Shirley Baxton
Waynesboro
Baltimore and Ohio
Belle Boyd to Return to Virginia Home for Burial
Belle Boyd, famed Confederate spy, will be exhumed from Kilbourn Wisconsin and reburied in Virginia. The body lies in Spring Grove cemetery and honors by Federal soldiers mark Memorial Days. Born in Virginia, she died in Wisconsin on June 11, 1900 while touring with a theater troupe.
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Kilbourne
Wis
Belle Boyd
South
Spring Grove
Virginia
Monu
Wisconsin
Martinsburg
Stonewall Jackson
General Banks
Shenandoah Valley
Feds
Police officer held in bank robbery in Green Bay
Elan Delaney, a police officer on his night off, was under arrest in Green Bay on December 19 in connection with the Farmers' Exchange bank robbery. The bank lies on Delaney's regular beat and was hit during his off duty shift.
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Green Bay
Wis
Elan Delaney
Farmers’ Exchange Bank
Delaney
Will Provide For Family In Embezzlement Case
Otto Ruess, owner of four ars and a North Shore home with a $7,500 yearly salary, faces one to ten years in prison for embezzling $60,000. He pleaded not guilty at arraignment but switched to guilty after his former employer Walter Paencke urged him to accept responsibility. Paencke offered to support Ruess’s wife and children during his prison term.
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Chicago
Otto Reuss
North Shore
Ruess
McGoorty
Walter P. Paenceke
Man killed by neighbor in Bowie Maryland shooting
Melvin Ryan twenty eight, from a prominent family, was shot and killed at a neighbor’s home in Bowie Maryland. Police say the neighbor, whose name was not released, claimed the pistol used was loaded when Ryan challenged him over an automobile bill. The shooter allegedly threatened Ryan and fired, injuring him in the heel. Shrader improving after being shot and seriously wounded earlier by Walter Kupp during a home looting incident.
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Bowie
Melvin Ryan
V.M Nichols Ryan
Ryon
Shrader
Quentin Shrader
Walter L. Kupp
Lfe
Doctor Falls From Roof Injures Self in Sharpsburg
Dr David Newcomer, an 80 year old Sharpsburg physician, fell from the roof of his three story home while erecting a radio aerial this morning. He was rushed to Washington County Hospital with a fractured skull and possible internal injuries. Doctors say he is in serious condition and semiconscious.
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David Newcomer
Sharpsburg
Washington County Hospital
Newcomer
Four Sets Twins In Seven Years
Washington report notes that Mr and Mrs Grover C Robey welcomed a fourth set of twins in seven years, bringing their total number of children to 14. The twins, a boy and girl to be named Clarence and Constance, arrived healthy. The parents come from large families, the mother formerly Miss Anna Barbara Midlecoff of Baltimore, and the father one of seven or more siblings.
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Washington
Grover C. Robey
Robey
Clarence
Constance
Anna Barbara Midlecoff
Baltimore
Eighteenth Child Born to Berwick Couple
In Berwick Pennsylvania the eighteenth child of Mr and Mrs Cal lyn Titel was born today at the local hospital. The event adds to the family with a new son reported by local officials.
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Berwick
Callyin Titel
Toothache Drives Man To Death By Own Action
PORTCHESTER Conn Dec 19 A toothache drove Max Stempian of Greenwich Conn to kill himself He visited a dentist for treatment but finding the doctor out leaped from a window and later was found hanging by a belt in a coal yard He leaves a widow and seven children.
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Portchester
Max Stempian
Greenwich
Conn
Heavy quake recorded at Georgetown University
A very heavy earthquake was recorded at 6 56 this morning on the seismograph at Georgetown University. Director Tondorff estimated the disturbance to be 9 000 miles from Washington but did not calculate direction. November term of court adjourned with no cases left to be tried. The jury was paid off and discharged. Red Jackson, test pilot, performed 417 barrel rolls setting a new record. Congressional committee hears charges that bootleggers served on juries in liquor cases. Agents seize 5 000 000 dollars in drugs of Rothstein syndicate on Hudson river pier.
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Washington
Georgetown University
Tondorff
Edward Oswald
Congressional Committee
New York
Rothstein Syndicata
Hudson River Pier
Bootlegged To Educate Kiddies in Chicago Court
William Grescius pleaded guilty to a dry law violation explaining he bootlegged to fund his children education. His daughter attends a private Boston school and his son studies at Purdue University. Judge Walter Olndley sentenced him to 30 days in jail.
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Chicago
William Grescius
Walter Olndley
Grescius
Boston
Purdue University
Nisbet accused of defrauding close friends in Louisville
Private detectives probing the finances of Albert Nisbet, blind treasurer of the Baptist Tabernacle building fund, report shortages near 40000 dollars and new suspicions the total may reach 150000 dollars. Investigators seek an accomplice as Nisbet, a Louisville Baptist leader and former district magistrate, falls ill amid the discoveries.
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Louisville
Albert Nesbet
The
Baptist Tabernacle
Short
Nisbet
Market Schedules Announced For Holidays
City market inspector Hugh Garver said Saturday’s market will be the last before Christmas. A Monday market plan failed after market attendees voted against Sunday preparation. Next week the market will run Thursday and Saturday, with a New Year morning market on Tuesday.
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Hugh Garver
Mr. Garver
Hoover and Yrigoyen discuss nonintervention policy
Epoca reports a conversation in Buenos Aires in which President Yrigoyen and Herbert Hoover discussed United States nonintervention in Latin American affairs. Hoover clarifies U.S. stance as safeguarding Americans, not meddling, and notes Coolidge’s policy reflects circumstances, not a fixed doctrine.
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Yrigoyen
Beli Hoover
Coolidge
Buenos Aires
Herbert Hoover
United States
Senora Yrigoyen
Hoover
Yrigo ¥En
Local Man Hurt In Auto Mishap
C. M. Austin was driving from Harrisburg to his home when the steering knuckle failed and the car crashed into a telephone pole. He suffered three broken ribs and cuts, with the vehicle badly damaged. Carl Stouffer took him home at 2111 Virginia Avenue and Dr. E. W. Ditto treated him, though he remains shaken and recovering.
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C. M. Austin
Harrisburg
Austin
Carl Stouffer
Virginia’ Avenue
E. W. Ditto
New York Woman in Court Over Poolroom Vandalism
Pauline Horadnitsky faced trial after claims against a New York poolroom for vandalism and alleged desecration of statues including George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. She claimed her husband spent money there on drink. the poolroom owner denied liquor sales.
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New York
Pauline Horadnitsky
Carrie Nation
George Washington
Abraham Lincoln
Pauline
Flu Continues Eastward Spread Across Nation
Public Health Service reports influenza continues to spread along eastward traffic lines with an estimated 400000 new cases in the past week. Census data show 379 deaths in 55 cities for the week ending December 15, up from 254 the prior week, and a higher national death rate than last year.
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Washington
Uenza
Public Health Service
Census Bureau
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Flushing
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Forrest
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Curtiss Field
Richard
American Society For the Promotion of Aviation
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Hagerstown
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ST. Louis
Red Jackson
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State Department Public Health
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