Woods Making a Final Effort in Utah Murder Case
Omer B. Woods, condemned for the murder of his wife and to be executed January 18, seeks clemency after filing a 97 percent petition with Governor Mabey. He will receive a personal hearing before the Utah Board of Pardons, following yesterday’s denial of his appeal. Woods claims A C Vadney and robbers killed his wife and accuses his attorney of forgery. Prosecutor Rogers warns Woods may be staging a last bid to shift blame.
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Salt Lake City
Omer BR. Woods
Charles R. Maber
Utab Board of
Wersons
Woods
A. C. Vadney
Council
Idaho
Thomas Ramage
Tennessee
Mure
Utah
State Supreme Court
Gorerner Mabey
Pardons Board
E. A. Rogers
Yadney
Suicidal father kills family then commits suicide in Sacramento
Kawashima 8, recently from Nevada, fatally stabs his two children in bed, wounds his wife, then hangs himself with a rope. Hisako 3 and Shoichi 14 months die within minutes. Mrs. Kawashima later dies at the emergency hospital. Kawashima had been in the United States 20 years and was described as insane, fearing deportation.
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Sacramento
Calif
Kawashima
Nevada
Hisako
Shoichi
United States
Fruit Jobbers Fight Rates at Kansas City Convention
The Western Fruit Jobbers Association of America meeting in Kansas City adopts resolutions opposing railroad consolidation and urging freight rate adjustments to ease farmer burden. Chairman A. R. Currie says farmers are bearing too much of the transportation costs and calls for rate relief.
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Kansas City
Western Fruit Jobbers’ Association of America
A. R. Currie
Society heiress weds Austrian count in New York
Miss Millicent Rogers, 20, heiress to Rog ers wealth, wed Count Ludwig Salm Von Hoogstraten of Austria at a municipal building. The groom, twice her age, served in World War I. Rogers estate worth about 10 million was left by H H Rogers. The couple reportedly stay at the Ritz Carlton with the bride's parents unaware of the engagement.
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New York
Millicent Rogers
Coleone
Henry Huddleson Rogers
Ludwig Salm-Von Hoogstraten
Austria
Bogers
H. H. Rogers
Standard Oil
Ritz-Carlton Hotel
Frozen to death under snow on Omaha street deck
An unidentified man was found buried under snow on the cooling deck of a plow company in Omaha. A notebook with the name Leroy Conklin of Telluride Colorado was found with the body, but police doubt the name. A snow storm and prior sleet disrupted Nebraska telephone lines and rail traffic.
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Omaha
Neb
Jony
Prevailed
Nebraska
Leroy
Conklin
Telluride
Colo
Salt Lake Valley Water Project Discussion Planned
Salt Lake County reclamationists will meet January 10 to discuss plans to use government funds for training on 15 000 acres of the Salt Lake Water in the Lake City area.
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Lake City
Temehy
Salt Lake
Salt Lakeity
Separatist Chief Assassinated in Bavarian Palatinate
AP reports Herr Heintz head of the Palatinate autonomous government was shot in Speyrn Jan 9 or 10. Five others died in clashes between separatists and city residents. Four separatist leaders named Beorbis Welssand Weigl Fusheller were also killed.
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Speyern
Bavarian Palatinate
Herr Heintz
The
Palatinate
Frankfort
Ieaders
Heintz
Herrin Beorbis
Welssand
Weigl
Fusheller
Fat cattle auction headlines Ogden livestock show
Ogden Utah January 10 AP cattle show concludes judging and moves to sale. Twin Falls Shorthorn breeders plan a registered animal auction while champion Hereford steers and cows are named. Prizes go to Idaho Oregon and Utah exhibitors with record Holstein entries noted.
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Ogden
Utah
Twin Falls Shorthorn Breeders’ Association
Garth Peck
Utah Agricultural
Union Stockyards
F. A. Snyder
Los Angeles
Warren Fuelsted
Prescott
A. E. Lawson
Spokane
Wash
Idahs
Oregon
Prince Berre
Victor
Idaho
Primrose
C. A. Norton
Samen
John H. Seelyant
W. E. Meyers
Holstein Fresian Association
Pacific International
Venner seeks dissolution of Southern Pacific control over Central Pacific
Clarence H. Venner, a Southern Pacific stockholder, petitions the U S Supreme Court for an order to dissolve SP control of the Central Pacific Railroad as per the May 1922 ruling. He argues the government will not appeal the Utah federal court decision permitting SP continued control and attacks ICC jurisdiction, claiming the district court should have nullified the commission action as invalid under the high court mandate.
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Washington
Clarence H. Venner
Southern Pacific Company
Supreme Court Today
Southern Pacific
Central Pacific Railroad
Supreme Court
Venner
Federal Court For
Utah
Interstate Commerce Commission
Central Pacific
Federal District Court
District Court
Commission
Moore denies engagement to Irene Franklin actress
Alexander F. Moore United States ambassador to Spain returned to America for a visit and said reports of his engagement to actress Irene Franklin were untrue.
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New York
Alexander F. Moore
United States
Spain
America
Irene Franklin
Bourne Divorce Suit Filed in Mobile Circuit Court
Mrs. Carol B Bourne filed for divorce and alimony from ex Senator Jonathan L Bourne of Oregon who has a home in Mobile County Alabama citing voluntary abandonment as the grounds for separation.
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Mobile
Ala
Carol B. Bourne
Jonathan L. Bourne
Oregon
Dyer Anti lynching Bill Revived by House Committee
Washington report notes the Dyer anti lynching bill was revived in the last Congress after a Democratic filibuster and ordered to be reported by the House Judiciary Committee.
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Washington
House Judiciary Committee
Jailbreak at County Bastile Frustrated by Deputy Sheriff
A mass jail escape attempt at Bannock county jail was thwarted around 11:30 by Night Jailer Freeman Cutler with aid from Jack Evans and a trusted prisoner. Perry Sam assaulted Cutler with a salt hose, but the door mechanism and quick response kept all 35 inmates confined. Sam and Frank R Martin implicated. both placed in solitary. Cutler suffered minor injuries and resumed duty.
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Bannock
Freeman Cutler
Mr. Cutler
Jack Evans
Cutter
Evoy
Perry Sam
Sam
Trusty
McEvoy
Evans
Cutler
L. J. Moss
Moss
Price
Cooper
Frank R. Martin
Martin
Blaze in Rich Gold Mine Sparks Mexican Tragedy
A fire at Promentorio mine in Cusihirachie, near Chihuahua City, sent a special train to assess damage. Officials report the blaze could cost up to 500,000 pesos while recalling the 1916 massacres involving Americans.
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Chihuahua City
Mex
Cusihirachie
Steel orders rise at United States Steel totals
New York January 10 AP unfilled orders of United States Steel Corp for December stood at 4,445,339 tons, up 76,765 tons from November end.
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New York
United States Steel
Borah Pushes Hearing on Russian Recognition Program
Washington reports Congress nearing key fiscal actions as the House advances the interior appropriation bill while Senate moves on bridge and pension measures. Senator Borah seeks a public Russian recognition hearing, and the Dyer anti lynching bill regains a House committee report amid ongoing tax and farm relief debates.
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Washington
Jan
Congress
House
Mellon
Senate
Interstate Commerce Committee
Smith
la Follette
Spencer
Coolidge
Lodge
Borah
Senate forestry committee urges rapid timber production expansion
The senate reforestation committee urged boosting timber output on suitable lands. It recommends expanding public forest ownership where public interests exist and easing private timber growing risks to spur commercial reforestation. It backs completing Weeks Act forest land purchases for watershed protection and allows certain private land grants or bequests.
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Washington
United States
Senate
Life Saving Service Transfer Proposed to Commerce Department
Washington reports that the transfer of the life saving service from the coast guard to the bureau of lighthouses under the commerce department was recommended today by W. F. Willoughby at the institute of government research to the congressional organization committee.
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Life Saving Service
Washington
Coast Guard
Bureau of Ight Houses
Commercial Department
W. F. Willoughby
Institute of Governm
congressional +zation committee
Farmers Oppose Mellon Plan In Nationwide Meeting
Farmers organizations across the country renew support for organized action against the Mellon plan at a large Washington meeting. Delegates vow to press for economic reforms and farm aid in response to proposed tax and credit changes.
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Washington
Representa
Newhouse Cubs League Bank Opinion on League of Nations
Samuel Newhouse of Salt Lake, visiting Boise, says America should not join a league of nations or any plan requiring closer European involvement. He calls European aims incompatible with American ideals and cites chaos in Europe and his years in France. He owns a Paris-area chateau and returned from Mexico due to the revolt.
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Boise
Idaho
America
League of Nations
Europe
Samuel Newhouse
Salt Lake
Newhouse
Paris
Mexico
United States
General Serrano orders broad advance on Jalisco front
General Francisco Serrano, Mexico's war minister, orders a general advance against rebel forces led by General Enrique Estrada on the Jalisco front. Federal forces on Vera Cruz and Morelos fronts also move forward, with 12,000 troops and 2000 Yaqui auxiliaries. The Yaqui are used as shock troops near Vera Cruz along the inter-oceanic railway line.
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el Paso
Tex
Francisco Serrano
Mexico
Jalisco
Enrique Estrada
Mexico City
Juarez
Guadalajara
Vera Cruz
Morelos
Eugenio Martinez
Juan Dominguez
Sonora
Hanna to Lead Coolidge Campaign in North Dakota
Fargo North Dakota January 16 AP Hanna former North Dakota governor will direct the Coolidge campaign in the state. He left San Diego California last night to return to Fargo and take charge of the campaign.
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Hanna
Fargo
N. D
LB Hanna
North Dakota
Coolidge
Fargo Forum
Washington
San Diego
Calif
Dispatch
Pin swallowed by wrong child shocks Ravenna family
Akron reports Betty Manders, a three year old twin of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Manders of Ravenna, swallowed an open safety pin. An initial X-ray failed to locate the pin, and a later examination revealed the mistake: they had been examining the wrong child.
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Akron, O
Betty
Jack Manders
Ravenna
Tax Free Securities Totals Reach 12.3 Billion on Jan 1
Treasury release shows tax exempt securities in American hands total 12.3 billion as of January 1. If including securities held by state and local funds the figure would rise to about 14.67 billion. Government bonds remain tax exempt at 2.294 billion with 753 million in treasury for circulation. Insular possessions add 112 million with 3 million in treasury.
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Washington
Mellon
Treasury
United States
Federal Land Banks
Intermediate Credit Banks
Joint Stock Land Banks
Moros Routed as Manila Orders Island Lockdown
Manila dispatch says nineteen constabulary men were killed by Moro fanatics on Bucas Island Mindanao. Authorities order cutting all mainland communications with Surigao to trap and round up remaining attackers and detain them before any return to the mainland. Governor General Wood plans a Surigao visit to assess the clash and revolutionary propaganda among Moros.
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Manila
Bucas Island
Constabulary
Surigao
Mindanao
Bueas Island
Wood
Oil Taxes in Mexico Put U.S. Firms on Record
New York January 10 AP The imminent expiration of the time limit for American oil companies to pay Mexican production taxes may prompt statements indicating whether they will pay the Obregon government or Adolfo de la Huerta the funds he demands. De la Huerta claims control over large parts of Mexico’s northeast oil fields.
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New York
Mexico
Obregon
Adolfo de la Huerta
Cleaning Up City Underway in Philadelphia Campaign
At the dawn of the fourth day of Brigadier General Butler's campaign to clean up Philadelphia police reports indicate a major crackdown on crooks narcotics dealers and underworld figures. About forty places were raided last night and roughly 50 arrests were made.
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Philadelphia
Butler
T City
Outlaws Make Safe Getaway After Shootout
West Palm Beach reports indicate officers and posse pursued members of the Ashley gang after a gunfight that killed Deputy Sheriff Fred Baker. John Ashley was captured after exchanging shots, and Albert Miller, accused slayer, fled. heavy rain hindered the search though six mob members were later captured.
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West Palm Beach
Fla
Ashley Ng
Fred Baker
Joe Ashley
John Ashley
Olympicis
John Rogers
Albert Miller
Miller
Tate
West Palmseacu Wen
West Palm Beach, Fla
Ashley Mobley
Crazed shooter sows panic in town in Jan 10 incident
Denver dispatch reports a drink crazed two gun man identified as Charles Bosworth opened fire across Cyraterte street. He wounded two fatally or seriously others fled as patrols pursued then tracked him to a pool room where he was captured. Nearly a score of bystanders identified him.
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Denver
Cole
Charles Bosworth
R Sons
Murder of mining engineer Croner shocks Salt Lake City
Salt Lake City police hunt an unknown killer after C. B. Croner, president of Metals Extraction and Refining Co of Utah, is shot dead in a downtown rooming house. Croner, a former Los Angeles resident and Stanford graduate about 40, had few enemies and robbery is unlikely. Probers hold Ray Tullidge the hotel owner and his wife as part of the investigation while a citywide search continues for Croner’s assailant.
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Salt Lake City
C. B. Croner
Croner
Los Angeles
Calif
Ray Tullidge
Metals Extraction and Refining Company of
Utah
Natal township votes to remove Asiatics from franchise
The Natal council in Pietermaritzburg acts to eliminate Asiatics from the township franchise, signaling a change in political rights amid tensions in South Africa.
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T. Pietermaritzburg
South Ee
Natal
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