McPherson Kidnap Saga Advances with New Evidence
Los Angeles July 16 Developments in the Aimee Semple McPherson kidnapping case link Henneth G Ormiston to fresh leads. The Los Angeles grand jury adjourned to hear new testimony on Salinas sightings and a Northern California evidence report. Deputy D A Ryan promised Dennis Collins would testify next Tuesday.
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Los Angeles
Aimee Semple McPherson
Henneth G. Ormiston
Angelis Temples
Los Angeles County Grand Jury
Tan Rean “Bu A
Ryan Wid
Santa Monica
Ryan
Oakland
California
Ormisten
Salinas
Dennis Collins
McPherson
Collins
District Attorney's Office
Ormiston
Rum Runners In The Service Concluded Trial Testimony
New York testimony links top figures to a $60,000,000 liquor ring as John A. Weisshaar testifies he helped move officials between bases. Coast Guard witnesses describe transporting hundreds of whiskey cases from rum row on jointly owned boats and earning payments of 200 per trip aboard cutter 203.
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New York
Washington
William V. Dwyer
John A. Weisshaar
Dwyer
Weishaar
Cape May
N. J
Coast Ward
Paul Louis Crim
Coast Guard Service
Coast Guard
Cren
Angelo Ferullo
Crim
National Temperance Union Withdraws From Sesquicentennial Exhibit
The national Women’s Christian Temperance Union withdraws its exhibits and will not support the sesquicentennial celebration. The decision, conveyed by a letter from national president Dr. Ella A. Bolle, cites concerns over the event’s opening and the public program.
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Philadelphia
National Women’s Christian Temperance Union
Ella A. Bolle
Indictments Return in Cook County Election Fraud Case
Forty four Gretten jolaes and es who served in Cook county's April primaries were named in indictments by a social grand jury investigating election frauds. They face charges of conspiracy and making a false canvas.
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Chicago
Gretten Jolaes
Cook County
Toy
At the Scene of Disaster in New Jersey
Secretary of War and Marine officers inspected the devastat ed territory around the explosion site on a Sunday afternoon. In the photo, Major N F Ramsey commands the Picatinny Arsenal with Brigadier General D Lilt Rug g ies assisting as ordnance chief and other officials present.
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Secretary of War
Marine
Devastowa Area
New Jersey
N. F. Ramsey
Picatinny Arsenal
D. Lilt Ruggies
Assistaani Cuist
Ordnance
C. ©. Williams
Ordnance Division
Dwight Davis
P. Summerall
Hugh Drum
Five Per Cent Increase Is Denied in Western Roads
Idaho census shows big game rise with 1495 antelope and 99 grizzlies remaining in northern Idaho. Separately Washington's Interstate Commerce Commission denied a five percent freight-rate hike for the western district, citing no current financial emergency and improving regional conditions.
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West
Boise
Idaho
National Forest Survey
Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Congress
Trunk Line
Welcome Extended as Governor Visits President
Governor Alfred E. Smith and Mrs. Smith visited President Coolidge in White Pine Camp New York. A luncheon at the summer White House followed the official call. The governor and party then paid respects to President and Mrs. Coolidge.
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Paul Smith
N. Y
New York State
Coolid
Alfred K. Smith
Albany
White Pine Camp
Sumer White House
Smith
Coolidge
Railways cut running time between Los Angeles and Chicago
Union Pacific and Chicago Northwestern officials announce a five hour reduction in running time between Los Angeles and Chicago effective November 1. New equipment will be introduced to shorten the schedule and improve service.
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Los Angeles
Union Pacific
Chicago Northwestern Railway
Chicago
Detroit-Pittsburgh night express derailed near East Liverpool
Six cars of the Detroit Pittsburgh night express derailed seventeen miles from East Liverpool Ohio injuring two seriously and twenty sustaining minor hurts. Passengers and crew received first aid on site and a special train carried them onward.
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East Liverpool
Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh
Oakland Athletics Purchase of Leo Dickerman
The Oakland baseball club announced the purchase of right handed pitcher Leo Dickerman from the St. Louis Cardinals. He will report at once.
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Oakland
Calif
Oakland Baseball Club Today
Leo Dickerman
St. Louis Cardinals
Bonny arraigned on forgery charge in city court
Joe Bonny, brought from Salt Lake City, was arraigned in Judge BE. G. Houde's court on a forgery charge. He waived preliminary hearing and will face the next judge for sentence. The Citizens Bank attorney M. W. Johnson argued the complaint alleging a forged $46 check.
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Salt Lake
Joe Bonny
Salt Lake City
BE. G. Houde
M. W. Johnson
The
Citizens Bank
Bonny
Baseball Scores From Today Across Multiple Parks
In Washington Cleveland defeats the Nationals 8 to 5 with late runs. New York tops Detroit 10 to 4 after a strong eighth inning. Philadelphia sweeps a doubleheader versus St Louis by 7 to 6 and 5 to 3. St Louis loses a second game to Philadelphia 5 to 1. Pittsburgh beats Boston 9 to 1 with a late surge after a slow start.
Miner Suffers Broken back In Tunnel Rockfall
A mining worker at Park Cesna hospital named Prank Perla, 28, was injured when rock fell in a tunnel yesterday. Surgeons set bone fragments, placed him in a plaster cast, and hope for recovery though long term function may be limited.
McCarthy Announces Turner B W Mureheson Purchase
San Francisco Missions president William H. McCarthy said Turner B W Mureheson was purchased from Cedar Rapids club of the Missionipp Valley league. Mureheson is twenty one years old, throws right handed and bats right handed.
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San Francisco
William H. McCarthy
San Francisco Missions
Turner BW
Mureheson
Whitcher
Cedar Raputs
Yeurs
Bate
Idaho invests five million more since 1919 find
Idaho investments rose by 5 million dollars since 1919, reaching 14,525,891.72 dollars. In 1919 the total was 9,938,147.46 dollars. The department, now the state’s largest financial institution, earned 740,000 dollars last year, saving that amount in taxes. Endowment funds earnings go to state institutions and public school funds are distributed to districts. Bond holdings rose to 62 percent of total investments as of January 1 1924, up 33 percent due to the increase of 1,690,489.05 dollars.
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Boise
Idaho
E. M. Hoover
Em Investments
C. Moore
Smuggler Killed by Coast Guard Near Oswego
Oswego, N Y July 16 A Coast Guard boat opened fire on a launch carrying 400 bags of bottled beer as it tried to land on Lake Ontario shore about 13 miles from Oswego Leo Yott of Syracuse was killed in the gunfire two companions were captured and the beer seized the incident followed a failure to halt order by the coast guard crew.
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Oswego
N. Y
Leo Yott
Syracuse
Coast Guard
Lake Ontario
Hambone's Meditations with J P Alley
Folklorist-style musings note folks oversimplify heavy loads yet avoid truly light work. Alley uses humor and rural voice to reflect on labor, duty, and everyday chores in a folksy, timeless frame.
Prominent Atlanta Banker Ends Life After Crash
J R Smith prominent Atlanta real estate board president and Bankers Trust director shot himself at his Morningside home. A servant found the locked room and the body after a shotgun blast, with letters found nearby. Inquests expected as Bankers Trust and related banks face bankruptcy actions and closures across Georgia and Florida.
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Atlanta
J. R. Smith
Atlanta Real Estate Board
Bankers’ Trust Company
Federal District Court
Morningside
Mr. Smith
R. J. Smith and
W. 8. Rankin Company
Sylvan Hills
Farmers and Bankers Trust Company of Atlanta
France presses ratification of debt funding deals in Paris
Paris July 16 The government will insist on ratification of both the Washington and London debt funding agreements before parliament adjourns for the summer recess Caillaux told the chambers committees. Without ratifications there is no chance of credit for franc stabilization. Mellon says no other creditor has given France more generous terms than America.
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Paris
Washington
London
Nance
Caillaux
Chambers
Netton
Prance
England
Mellon
France
Las America
Negro gunman kills himself in Iowa train incident
In Council Bluffs on July 16 a train attack left one man dead and two seriously wounded when a passenger, believed to be William Johann of Oklahoma, opened fire and then shot himself. Conductor A T Rowherder and passenger F C Knop were among those injured.
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Cornell Bluffs
Rock Island
William Johann
Oklahoma
J. FP. Anderson
Council Bluffs
A. T. Rowherder
Rock Taland
F. C. Knop
Council Bluffs, Ia
Wethered Ends Hagen Talk With British Golf Views
London reports former British amateur champion Roger Wethered agrees Walter Hagen gave good advice to British golfers but says Hagen comments were unwelcome in England. Wethered tied Jock Hutchison and won the British Open in 1921 after a playoff loss. He notes Hagen’s remarks and their reception among UK golf circles.
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London
Roger Wethered
Walter Hagen
Wethered
Jock Hutchin
Tragen
England
Howeet
Idaho birth rate hits 2.15 for month ending July 10
Idaho vital statistics show 1 104 births and 386 deaths in the month ending July 10. Among births 96 were to foreign born parents, 557 males 545 females, 116 twin sets, 29 stillborn and sixteen illegitimate. Deaths split 216 males 170 females with Brights disease leading causes, followed by heart disease and cerebral hemorrhages.
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Boise
Idaho
State Bureau of Vital Statistics
Bright
Northwest forest fires claim many lives and threaten timber
July reports from Seattle describe continued devastating fires across the Northwest with lightning and electrical storms fueling blazes. One death is linked to a falling tree while fighting the flames near Hall. Mills burn in Salmon valley near Nelson and several towns report brush fires stopping at city edges as rain cues forecast.
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Seattle
Wash
Northwest
Canada
United States Weather Bureau
Pacific North
Severino Calpra
Nelson
B. C
Hall
Kane
Wiite Bluffs Prairie
Port Orchard
Spote
Alberta
Saska
British Columbia
Montana
Kootenai
Kaniku
Blackfoot
Pend O’reille
Coeur d’Alene
Joo
Indemnity Fund for Livestock Levy Set in Idaho
Idaho counties are instructed to levy half a mill on cattle values for the tuberculosis indemnity fund and a quarter mill on horses and mules for glanders. The notices to all 44 county boards came from Dr. W C Nye, director of the bureau of animal industry. The fund compensates owners whose livestock are killed by state veterinarians to prevent disease spread.
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Boise
W. C. Nye
Bureau of Animal Industry
Department of Agriculture
Gooding Opens Campaign Headquarters for Senate Run
Senator Frank Rt. Gooding plans to establish campaign headquarters in Gooding to begin fundraising next week. Hagel Kilogett, his private secretary, and two assistants Mrs. A J Schubert and Miss Ariel Fike will staff the office.
Aged Man Executed in Columbia for Wife Murder
Jett Wallace aged eighty was hanged in Columbia Mississippi for the murder of his wife. The trap was sprung at noon and he died ten minutes later.
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Columbia
Miss
Jett Wallace
Henoe
Water breakthrough in Pocatello as test well yields clean supply
A test well at the Turner property south of Pocatello produces about a million gallons daily after an hour of pumping. Mayor A Ben Ross and city officials praised the effort, noting the 80 foot well water is clear and soft. Pipeline work to city mains starts now with expected delivery by August 1.
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Pocatello
C. Ben Ross
Eat Wall
Turner
Laura Gough
Harris
Layne-Bowle Company
A. Ben Ross
Ross
Second Avenue
Ben Ross
Marker honors Sauk-E-Nuk site of 1780 western raid
The Rock Island marker commemorates the westernmost Revolutionary War engagement at Sauk-E-Nuk Illinois. In 1780 Colonel John Montgomery and the Clark expedition razed the village and the site marks the farthest west reached by American troops. The Colonel John Montgomery chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution placed the marker.
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Rock Island
Sauk-E-Nuk
Ilinois
John Montgomery
George Rogers Clark
The
Sons of the American Revolution
FOUND BROTHER AFTER MANY YEARS
New York July 16 In answer to a radio broadcast Mrs Lydia G Nelson of San Francisco sailed today to join her long lost brother Siegfried Johnson after months of failed searches and a radio message from Windhack Southwest Africa led to correspondence and her journey to reconnect as his housekeeper.
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New York
Lydia G. Nelson
eCallister Street
San Francisco
Malan
Siegfried Johnson
Windhack
Africa
Mra
Nelson
Sareg
Bishops Accept Proposal For Peace Talks
London reports that four member executive committees of the British federation stated peace parley terms have been accepted by a group of Anglican bishops. The minor executive quoted said the plan to return to war under current conditions had been accepted with few alterations. He expressed belief that negotiations would begin promptly and a breakdown of barriers was possible.
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London
Prov Association
Brit
Federation
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