Zuta’s Bloody Range Reveals Chicago Gang Power
Investigators disclose torn strong boxes and papers linking Jack Zuta to Chicago gang activity and public officials. Letters from Louis La Cava and Ben Laube surface, detailing ransom plots and attempted influence in local crime networks, with La Cava once a Capone gunman and suspect in a state attorney’s murder.
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Ben Laube
Gary
Ind
Frank Gross
Orlando
Fla
Ben
Zuta
Wisconsin Lake
Laube
Jack Zuta
Gross
Florida
Laurie
Chicago
Volpa
Joe Genaro
Jack
Helen Delmar
New York
Genaro
Louis la Cava
Muta
Capone
Pat Roche
la Cava
Willam MecSwiggin
Roche
Slayers Pair Escape From Atlanta Jail
Fred Pair, condemned slayer of a policeman, and Sam Aiken, condemned for killing his wife and her alleged lover, escaped a tower cell by sawing bars, lowering a rope of blankets, climbing the outer wall, and using nine hacksaw blades found in the cell. Sheriff Lowry to investigate.
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Atlanta
Fred Pair
Sam Aiken
James I. Lowry
State Supreme Court
Pair
J. E. McDaniel
Aiken
Boyce Hunter
Former Senate Sclons Will Seek Comeback
Charles F. Ruggles, 84, last of Michigan lumber barons, died in a plain room where he cooked, scrubbed, and made Christmas candy. A multi millionaire, he stayed true to his simple life wearing moccasins and a lumberjack shirt as he shifted from lumber to salt manufacturing and managed a vast estate.
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Manister
Mich
Charles F. Ruggles
Michigan
Ruggles
Minnesota
Carolinas
Florida
California
Empress of Japan Smashes Pacific Travel Record
The 26 000 ton liner Empress of Japan arrives at the Victoria quarantine station at 8 am after 8 days 6 hours 63 minutes from Yokohama setting a new Pacific crossing record of 4814 miles. Built in Glasgow at 7 500 000 dollars the ship measures 666 feet long with 87 feet beam and carries 1212 passengers.
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Victoria
B. C
Pacific Ocean
British Columbia
Yokohama
Glasgow
Southampton
Northwest Ports
Suez
Gerard Adds Names to List of Rulers of the United States
James W. Gerard, former ambassador to Germany, adds five names to his list of 59 men who rule the United States. The additions include Ridney M. Mitchell of the electric bond and share company, Edwin Frew of Corn Exchange Bank, Amadeo P. Giannini of Bank of Italy, William Green, and Matthew Woll of the American Federation of Labor. The list was conveyed by telephone from Newport, Rhode Island, where Gerard is a guest of General Sernelius Vanderbilt.
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New York
James W. Gerard
Germany
United States
New York Times
Newport
KR. I
Gerard
Sernelius Vanderbilt
Ridney M. Mitchell
Electric Bond and Share Aeepony
Public !Ies
Edwin Frew
Corn Exchange Bank and Trust Company
Amadeo P. Giannini
Bank of Italy
trans-Ameri
Ca Corporation
Bank Securities
William Green
Matthew Woll
American Federation of
Lord Overbrook
Viscount Rothermere
London
J. Gerard
England
ABE WARNER NARROWLY ESCAPES BLAZING AIRMAIL CRASH
Abe Warner veteran Varney air mail aviator from Boise escaped with minor injuries after a fire broke out in the cockpit near Baker Oregon. His plane burned, mail was salvaged, and he flew to Pasco Washington with pilot J P Livermore. Gasoline fumes filled the cockpit as flames spread from a nine leak.
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Baker
Ore
Abe Warner
Varney Air Mail
Boise
Warner
J. P. Livermore
Pasco
Wash
Cap Hatfield, Last Hatfield Feudist, Dies at 67
William Anderson Cap Hatfield of Logan West Virginia died in Baltimore at age 67 after a brain ailment. He was linked to the Hatfield McCoy feud and survived numerous gunfights. He served as deputy sheriff under J D Hatfield and was married to Nancy Smith Glenn.
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Baltimore
William Anderson
Cap” Hatfield
West Virginia
Kentucky
Logan
W. Va
Anderson Hatfield
Devil Anse
Hatfield
Logan County
Nancy Smith Glenn
J. D. Hatfield
United States
One Per Cent Cut May Stand
Ogden Mills, undersecretary of the treasury, said after a White House call that there is ability and even a probability the emergency one per cent tax cut on normal incomes this year might continue next year. He would not detail plans and said a statement would be issued later.
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Washington
Ogden Mills
The
Treasury
Hoover
Mills
White House
Congress
Six Senators Seek Comebacks as Eight Leave the Senate
Six incumbents retire this year while six Democrats and two Republicans seek to return in November. Retirements include Frederick Huntington Gillet of Massachusetts and Furnifold Simmons of North Carolina. Others leaving are Guy Goff of West Virginia Arthur Gould of Maine Lawrence Phipps of Colorado Patrick Sullivan of Wyoming William Brock of Tennessee and David A. Bair.
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Senate
Frederick Huntington Gillet
Massachusetts
House
Furnifold M. Simmons
North Carolina
Chamber
Guy Despard Goff
West Virginia
United States
Wisconsin
Shipping Board
Arthur Robinson Gould
Bert M. Fernald
Maine
Lawrence Cowle Phipps
Pennsylvania
Carnegie Company
Colorado
Patrick J. Sullivan
Wyoming
State Senate
William E. Brock
Chattanooga
Tenn
Tyson
David A. Bair
Death toll rises in Blakeburn mine disaster
In Blakeburn British Columbia twelve more bodies were located today in the No 2 Stope of Blakeburn No 4 mine where 45 miners were killed in the August 13 explosion. The total recovered reaches thirty five.
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Blakeburn
B. C
Blakeburn No. 4
Miers
Baseball scores across leagues show varied results
Chicago and New York games split as pitchers and batters clash. Boston and Philadelphia witness high scoring innings with combined runs and errors noted. Deadball era style box scores show sparse details but indicate multiple teams posting wins and losses across the day.
Utah man injured in Gusty parachute jump crash
Eddie Fries 25 of Echo Utah was hospitalized in Parkersburg Iowa with back injuries after jumping from a cabin monoplane with a parachute. He said a rudder malfunction caused the plane to go out of control and crash burning. Fries was en route to the Chicago air meet from Los Angeles and refueled at Denver. A search for the Lockheed Vega aircraft was under way. The plane reportedly belonged to his cousin Edward Bedais of Los Angeles.
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Parkersburg
Iowa
Eddie Fries
Echo
Utah
Fries
Chicago
Los Angeles
Denver
Edward Bedais
Princess Fourth in Line Brings Royal Joy to Glamis
Glamis Scotland August 22 crowds celebrate the birth of the new daughter of the Duke and Duchess of York, fourth in line to the throne. Mother and child reported well by physicians. Queen Mary and King George plan early visit. Elizabeth VII shares scene with newborn sister as royal family marks a double birthday moment.
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Glamis
Scotland
Forfar
Duchess of York
Henry Simson
F. Neon Reynolds
David Miles
George
Mary
Strathmores
Elizabeth
Jessie
Gerald David
Ten Die in Prague to Iglau Air Crash
Ten people were killed when a large Prague to Bratislava airliner crashed near Iglau during a storm. The dead include nine Czech citizens and one German. Four died at impact, another perished before hospital. two injured critically and one slightly.
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Prague
Czecho-Slovakia
Iglau
Bohemia
Moravia
Prague-Bratislava
Harper advances to finals in national women’s tennis championship
In Forest Hills on August 22 Mrs. Anna Harper of San Francisco, the American favorite, defeated Baroness Georgio Levi of Rome 6-2 6-3 in the first semi final to reach the final.
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Forest Hills
Anna Harper
San Francisco
Georgio Levi
Rome
Italy
Metsenzahl To Be Taken Back Elmore County Boise
August 22 report states H B Metsenzahl will be moved from the state penitentiary to Mountain Home to be nearer the site of the September murder of his adopted daughter Marie West. Sheriff of Elmore County to deliver the removal order, with Bolse private detective T Ragsdale continuing to probe the case.
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Metsenzahl
Elmore County
Boise
H. B. Metsenzahl
State Penitentiary
Marie West
Penitentiary
Mountain Home
Justice of the Peace of
T. Ragsdale
Bolse
Meisenzahl
King Hill
Glenns Ferry
Ragsdale
Receiver sought for Warner Brothers Pictures Inc
A petition filed in Wilmington Delaware asks the court to appoint a receiver and provide an accounting for Warner Brothers Pictures Inc and Renwar Inc. Boston stockholder R I Nelson sues the officers and directors for mismanagement and alleged excessive theatre and real estate purchases and transfers. The Chancery Court will not convene until December.
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Wilmington
Del
Warner Brothers Pictures, Inc
Renwar, Inc
Warner Brothers
Court of Chancery
Arctic mystery of exploration cleared up
Oslo dispatch reports the discovery on White Island of the body of August Andree, the Swedish balloon explorer missing since 1897. His companions K Frankel and N Strinberg may also have perished. a diary, altimeter, and personal items were found at the camp near the shore. The findings end decades of speculation about the fate of the Andree expedition.
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Oslo
Norway
Arctic
White Island
Fridtjof Nansenland
August Andree
Andree
Danes Island
Spitzbergen
North Pole
Explorer
Grenna
K. Frankel
N. Strinberg
Brattvaag
Siberia
Dr. S. Horn
Andrew
Rudolph Island
Her Husband With Affinity Ends Long Mountain Drive
Mrs Elizabeth Kiger 35 traveled 131 miles by rickety coal wagon drawn by a tired horse to a Pittsburgh police station after confronting her husband and the other woman. She left eight children on a Crawford county farm and moved them to a neighbor while she pursued him, four days into the journey. She faced Kiger and Mrs Bessie Roberta in a rooming house. all three were arrested.
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Pittsburgh
Elizabeth Kiger
Crawford County
Kiger
Bessie Roberta
Resumes His Flight Across the United States
Eddie Schneider, 18, holder of the junior transcontinental east west flight record, left Albuquerque at 7 55 a m for Wichita after spending the night there He will land in Wichita tonight and finish the trip to New York on Saturday to set a new west east junior record of about 28 hours 55 minutes
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Albuquerque
N. M
Eddie Schneider
Wichita
Kas
New York
Manganese Dumped on American Market Prompt Hearing
Washington reports that domestic manganese producers allege Russian ore is being dumped in the U S market. Assistant Secretary Lowman ordered cost comparisons of U S and Russian production before any embargo action. The American Manganese Producers Association seeks anti dumping enforcement with a preliminary hearing adjourned to September 9 for further testimony.
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Washington
Lowman
Russia
Treasury
Rusala
American Manganese Producers Association
Iron and Steel Industry
J. Carson Adkerson
Association
Amer
Adkerson
Pittsburgh
Lowmen
Harold A. Pumpelly
Butte, Mont
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Asher B. Wilson
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Hills
U. S
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Lyons and Tat and Connally
MacPayden
Smitherry
Cleveland
Hudlin
Sewell
Sherid
Holloway
Pipgras
Dickey
Detroit
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Sorrell and
Hayworth
Earnshaw
Mahaffey
Cochrane
Schang
Perkins
St. Louis
Stewart and Ferrell
Hadley and Spencer
Brooklyn
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Vance
Lopez
Benton
Gooch
Zchary
Cunningham and
Spohrer
Prench
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Parmalee
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Root
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