Court House Grand Jury Probes Kepner Death Mystery
Frederick Maryland crowds packed the courthouse as a special grand jury began investigating the June death of Mrs B Evard Kepner found in her father’s home. The body was by a revolver next to her hand. initial verdicts labeled suicide but autopsy and coroner testimony suggested murder, heightening husband B Evard Kepner’s suspicion and prompting testimony from witnesses including Miss May Tucker.
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Ay International News Service
Frederick
Teddy
Kepner
Webber
Btate
Aaron Anders
Husband
Los Mystery
Husbard
May Tucker
Architee
Indian Natives Die in Tribal War on Ashiginstan Border
A dispatch from Peshawar reports fierce fighting between Amb and Mianghi natives along the Ashiginstan border left fifty natives dead. Violence continues as tribes clash, with reports of cruelty and unrest spreading across the frontier.
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International News Service
Bombay
Amb
Ashiginstan
Pessawar
Planning Help For U S Wheat Growers
Federal Farm Board disapproves of plans by national agriculture groups to withhold 200 million bushels of wheat to raise prices. It will still extend aid to growers through intermediate banks and rural credits funds, with strict loan distribution, while Federal Reserve and War Finance Corp assist in orderly marketing. Government credits responsive to cooperative farming, but not endorsing farm bureau plans, are planned. the 200 million bushels withdrawal is deemed impractical.
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W. H Atkins
International News Service
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Washington
Federal Farm Board
National Agriculture Organizations
Treasury Department
Tha Federal Reserve Board
War Finance Corporation
Farm Loan Board Ln
Atrerican Farm Bureau Federation
Police kill two gunmen in pistol duel in Philadelphia
Police sergeant William O'Neil was wounded in the groin by a gunman named Samuel Wallace while attempting to arrest him for an earlier shooting. O'Neil returned fire from an upper window and, in a close-range duel, mortally wounded Wallace. Wallace was known in the Black Belt as a two gunman.
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International News Service
Philadelphia
William O'Neil
St. Joseph's Hospital
O'Neill
Samuel Wallace
Wallace
Auto and Trolley Car Collision on Local Streets
Ellsworth Hose of Spruce street drove a car that collided with Boonsboro trolley at First street and Pope avenue yesterday afternoon. The auto bumper was broken and the fender bent. Hose and several occupants escaped injury. The crash was described as unavoidable.
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Ellsworth Hose
Spruce Street
Boonsboro
First Street
Pope Avenue
Pittsburgh Streetcar Crash Triggers City Probe
City authorities opened an investigation today into last night streetcar crash that injured 26 people, one seriously, sparking panic among passengers aboard two crowded cars.
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International News Service
Pittsburgh
Johnson Returns to U S to Fight Entangling Alliances
Senator Hiram W. Johnson arrives in New York after a four month European tour. He declares a campaign to wage war to the finish against entangling foreign alliances and opposes Wilsons League of Nations and Hardings world court. Crowds cheer as police escort him to a temporary residence amid Broadway crowds.
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Hiram Johnson
U. S
WM. K. Hutchinson
International News Service
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New York
Hiram W. Johnson
California
Europe
Ratiant
Johnson
America
Wilson
Harding
Dollings Co. Decision Postponed by Philadelphia Court
Three Dollings Co. stockholders won a delay in seeking a receiver as the Circuit Court in Philadelphia postponed its decision until Wednesday. The action follows Friday’s appointment of receivers for the Ohio Company at Columbus, Ohio.
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R. L. Dollings Co
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Ohio Company
Columbus
Ohio
Village seeks pastor as Catoctin Furnace homes sell
Lancelot Jacques and Stanley Hauver, buyers of the 10000 acre Catoctin Furnace tract, sell 16 of 44 village houses to occupants. The Episcopal Church will be kept and builders seek a pastor to care for spiritual welfare. rector applications are invited as remaining houses are expected to sell this week.
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Lancelot Jacques
Smithsiburg
Stanley E. Hauver
Catoctin
Jacques
Negro Burglar Captured At Knoxville After Gunfire
A black burglar was captured near Knoxville and Weverton, while a white accomplice fled during a burglary at I W Valentin e general merchandise store. Deputy Morgan Runkles and others pursued. bullets were fired but none hit. An unrelated Helsinki despatch reports a major anti Soviet plot in Russia with numerous arrests.
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I. W. Valentine
Knoxville
Weverton
Morgan Runkles
Stockholm
Helsinfors
Tidingen Today
Russia
Foot Injury From Nail at Potomac Plant
Oliver Thompson of Williamsport was seriously injured after stepping on a nail protruding from a board at the Potomac Public Scarvylee Company powder plant. The nail nearly pierced his foot, causing a painful wound.
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Oliver Thompson
Williamsport
Potomac Public Scarvylee Company'sa
Forgetting Key Cost Him Life in Pittsburg
Wilbert Corbett a 22 year old resident of Imperial near Pittsburg was accidentally electrocuted when entering his attic after forgetting his night key. He climbed a pole near his home to wake the family but touched a high tension wire on the crossarm.
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International News Service
Pittsburg
Wilbert Corbett
Imperial
Here
Irene Castle Granted Divorce in Paris Tribunal
Official notice from the Seine Tribunal states Irene Castle, American actress, was granted a divorce from her husband Robert Treman on July 12. Castle had sailed to New York on the Lafayette by Saturday, offered no indication of the divorce, and expressed a desire to keep her husband. The American colony was surprised and reluctant to credit the report.
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International
Paris
Seine Tribunal
Irene Castle
Robert Treman
Mayor Urges All Citizens to See Man Without a Country
Mayor C E Bowman of Hagerstown urges every resident to attend the American Legion presented screen version of The Man Without a Country by Edward Everett Hale. He calls the drama, set in the era of Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, highly patriotic and historically impressive.
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Hagerstown
Edward Everett Hale
American Legion
Alexander Ham Iton
Aaron Burr
Philip Nolan
United States
Walters Held For Court In Shooting Case
Benjamin Martz of Mount Lena testified in a police court preliminary hearing against "Red" John Walters accused of shooting Martz while intoxicated on July 8. Walters, in a sling, faced $2000 bail for the November grand jury as he admitted the shooting and claimed theft by Martz and another man earlier that evening at his home on Mapte 4.
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Benjamin Martz
Mount Lena
John Walters
Martz
Walters
Robert Day
Mapte 4
Deadly Break for Freedom in Illinois Prison Escape
Southern Illinois faced a mass breakout as 27 convicts escaped the hospital for the criminal insane. One inmate was killed, 13 captured. guards were stabbed and assaulted during the melee. The escape occurred during an airing period. authorities report survivors subdued with rifles and makeshift clubs.
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International News Service
Chester
Southern
Illinois
State Hospital
Bull Pen
Gene Geary
Chicago
Jackson
Freedom
Ralph Dibay
Deny
Frank A. Stubblefield
Gompers and Hughes Agree on Russia Policy
Washington July 23. Publicized correspondence shows Secretary Hughes and Samuel Gompers, AFL president, agreeing the United States cannot recognize Moscow while Soviet leaders pursue destruction and refuse to meet inter nation obligations. Gompers calls the regime repugnant and villainous. Also noted is a cafeteria closure for a month of repairs.
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International News Service
Washington
United States
Hughes
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Moscow
Gampera
Earth tremors sweep Southern California injure San Bernardino
A series of four earth shocks hit Southern California starting 11:35 Sunday night, centering on San Bernardino. A Hall of Records collapse injured a man as rocks rained down, and the San Bernardino hospital and Patton State Insane Asylum reported wall and window damage. Shocks were felt along the San Andreas foothills, with Hollywood experiencing stronger tremors.
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Internationa News Service
San Bernardino
Cal
California
Hall of Records
San Bernardino Hospital
Patton State Insane Asylum
San Andres
Imperial Valley
George R. Fisher
Richardson
Fisher
Los Angeles
Hollywood
Still A Chance For A 12 Mile Dry Boundary
Washington reports that officials see a possible path to extending the U S three mile limit to twelve miles for prohibition enforcement as European developments influence negotiations. Secretary Hughes had nearly given up hope but now believes success may come.
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International News Service
Washington
Europe
United States
State Department
Hughes
Quake fears link to San Andreas drift voiced
Berkeley experts speculate a second tremor sweeping California could align with the San Andreas fault line. Prof. John T. Buwralda says Redlands San Bernardino and Los Angeles show similar drift activity, with Mojave also affected. He cautions that a more severe quake could follow, though details remain uncertain.
Wage Parley Reopened On Coal Issues
Atlantic City July 23 After a ten day recess the anthracite wage conference reconvenes to decide on a possible strike September 1 and a shorter fuel supply for next winter. Operators have not yet commented on full recognition of United Workers of America in Districts 1 7 and 9. Miners seek a 2 percent wage rise for contract miners and $2 extra for day workers, while owners deem current wages generally adequate. Only three minor miner demands have drawn some owner approval.
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International News Service
Atlantic City
United Workers of America
Bostick Hearing On Bigamy Charge Postponed
The hearing of Martin Bostick charged with bigamy was postponed from today in Baltimore to tomorrow. He allegedly married Elizabeth Bembrey of Hagerstown while another wife remained undivorced, with his first wife and three children in Washington and Mrs Bembrey living in Baltimore in a stylish apartment.
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Martin Bostick
Baltimore
Bostick
Elizabeth Bembrey
Hagerstown
Washington
Bembrey
Forest Fires Rage Across Pennsylvania District
Kane July 23 Hundreds of men battle wildfires between Mount Alton and Kushegua in Kinsene Bridge district as thousands of acres of timber may burn. Beillon game sanctuary in Elk county, 20 miles south of Kerve, destroyed. fires threaten further spread without rain.
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International News Service
Kane
Mount Alton
Kushegua
Kinsene Bridge
Hera
Beillon
Elk County
Kerve
Fall from ladder injures man. shocks local scene
C L Arnold of Gapland fell from a ladder and sustained a sprained ankle and broken hip. He lost his balance near Roar Gate in what locals call a mishap that unsettled the area and drew attention from nearby residents.
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C. L. Arnold
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