Wheeler Accepts Second Place Nomination in La Follette Ticket
Senator Burton Wheeler of Montana accepts second place on the La Follette Follette ticket after urging from La Follette advisers. The conference named him its first and only choice for vice president, with plans for a broad campaign circuit beginning in Virginia and Detroit.
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Washington
Burton K. Wheeler
Montana
Senate
Robert M. L. Follette
Wheeler
la Follette
John W. Davis
Thomas J. Walsh
Oil Committee
Senator Wheeler
Sinswer
Conference For Progressive Political Action
Senator la Pollette
Virginia
Four Acquitted on Conspiracy in Postwar Lumber Fraud Case
In Washington on July 19 AP reports four defendants acquitted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the government in postwar lumber sales. The trial in the District of Columbia Supreme Court lasted ten weeks. Also tried were John Stephens of Jacksonville and Ernest Morse of Cincinnati, who earlier received acquittals.
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Washington
John L. Philips
Atlanta
Republican State Committee of
Georgia
Chas
Phillips
Frank T. Sullivan
Fale
Shotwell
Sapolis
District of Columbia Supreme Court
John Stephens
Jacksonville
Fla
Ernest ©. Morse
Cincinnati
Lumber Dealers Endorse U S Grading Rules
East Lake City on July 19 reports Utah lumber dealers meeting in support of the United States Department of Commerce grading rules for red cedar shingles and lumber. The plan calls for thicker wider shingles to improve durability and reduce fire risk.
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East Lake City
Lumber Dealers of
Utah
United States Department of Commerce
Loeb Admits Killing Victim in High Profile Case
Chicago report says Richard Loeb conceded he delivered the fatal blow in the killing of Robert Franks during the kidnaping incident with Nathan Leopold. The two wealthy youths had previously confessed, each blaming the other, after learning the penalties would be the same.
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Chicago
Richard Loeb
Nathan Leopold
Robert Franks
Chicago Herald Examiner
Leopold
Loeb
Marine Mystery Comes to Light
Victoria British Columbia July 19 AP light on the mystery surrounding the disappearance of the British sloop of war Condor which left Esquimalt December 2 1901 with 104 British sailors aboard and was never heard from again is believed to have been discovered by W P Bevan federal district engineer for Alberni Traces of a lost ship found in the sands of Long Beach on the west coast of Vancouver Island.
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Victoria
B. C
Prosecution on an Old Charge Recalls Alabama Feud
Sharpsburg Georgia July 19 AP. W J Gay 81 recalls a 1902 dispute over Broyles near Birmingham. He says Oliver Cameron shot him three times in the back and fled. Gay now seeks prosecution for assault with intent to murder. Cameron recently attempted suicide in Portland, claiming he believed he killed his neighbor.
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Sharpsburg
Oliver Cameron
Birmingham
Ala
Cameron
Portland
Ore
W. J. Gay
Gay
Broyles
Los Angeles Reports First Horse Theft In A Year
A horse theft case in Los Angeles was investigated by deputies and then turned over to the automobile theft squad after discussions over who should handle the case. This marked the first reported horse theft in the county in more than a year.
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Los Angeles
Prohibition Leaders Urge Global Dry Movement
Pussyfoot says orientals model people as World League Against Alcoholism meets in Winona Lake. Jotneon plans Cairo HQ to push worldwide prohibition citing six hundred million abstainers. Tra Landrith and Frances Stoddard advocate campus mobilization, with Hopkins of Kansas Supreme Court among speakers.
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Tud
Pussyfoot
England
World League Against
Cairo
Egypt
My. Johnson
America
Orient
India
Turkey
Ian Newsper
Tra Landrith
Inter-Collegiate Prohibition Association
Europe
Frances Cora Stoddard
Boston
The
Scientist Temperance Federation
Richard J. Hopkins
Kansas Supreme Court
Group trial on mutiny charge set at Fort McKinley
Mania July 1 AP reports a Philippine scout mutiny case will be heard in two American military tribunals. The ringleaders will be tried together in one court for mutiny, while over 200 others charged with joining mutiny face a second court. Trials to start July 25 to save labor and expense.
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Seouta
Fort McKinley
Fair Weather Tonight and Sunday With Little Temperature Change
A brief weather note indicates generally fair conditions tonight and Sunday with only minor changes in temperature expected. No significant precipitation or wind shifts are anticipated.
Combing Whiskers From Briny Deep
Debris from the sea off California includes fake whiskers gathered by divers and shipped to San Pedro. The whiskers will be sent to Japan for disguise uses in film and fashion, while other portions go to seafood and confectionery products.
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San Pedro
Calif
California
Japan
Fat Presidents Out of Fashion Says Copeland
New York July 19 AP Royal Copeland urged 8000 Boy Scouts at Bear Mountain to keep their waistlines down. He warned that a president must be fit and vigilant, arguing obesity signals laziness and indifference to public welfare and could cost votes.
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New York
United States
Royal
Copeland
Bear Mountain
The
Statesman
Coolidge Defines Progressive and Reactionary Labels
President Coolidge says the terms progressive and reactionary depend on the observer and criticizes the habit of labeling all dissenters as reactionary. He notes the old orthodoxy joke and outlines plans for a weekend Potomac cruise with Mrs. Coolidge, John, and his father after mid afternoon meetings.
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Washington
Coolidge
Baker to Tour West for Republican Campaign Organization
George B. Baker publicity director for the national committee plans a Western tour next week. He will visit Denver, San Francisco and Los Angeles to confer with party chieftains as campaign preparations start in Rocky Mountain and Pacific seaboard states. Further stops and North Pacific visits remain unclear.
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Chicago
Rocky Mountain
Pacific Seaboard
George B. Baker
New York
National Committee
President Coolidge Takes Potomac Cruise Aboard Mayflower
President Calvin Coolidge sails down the Potomac aboard the Mayflower with Mrs. Coolidge and family. The royal party includes Dr. and Mrs. John Hitchcock and former Northampton neighbors. The cruise will return Monday after a voyage to the Chesapeake Bay upper reaches.
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Washington
Coolidge
Potomac River
John 8. Hitchcock
Coolidges
Northampton
Mass
Cheseapeake Bay
World airmen delayed before transatlantic leg
London July 19 AP three members of the American around the world flying expedition Lieutenant Lowell H. Smith Lieutenant Leigh Wade and Lieutenant Leslie P Arnold returned to the flying party headquarters at Brough to refit their airframes and rest before starting for Kirkwall for the long trans Atlantic leg. Officials are weighing a terminus near Coverfield while weather and other factors are considered before the fliers resume flight.
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London
Royal Aero Club
Lowell TH. Smith
Leigh Wade
Leslie P. Arnold
Smith
Brough
Kirkwall
Washington
Los Angeles
Calif
Air Service
United States
Meyerfeld
Major Imbrie Victim of Mob Attack in Teheran
London reports confirm Major Robert Imbrie American vice consul in Teheran was killed after a mob attack while photographing a public fountain. Seymour, his fellow American, was seriously injured and later hospitalized. Imbrie, born 1884 in Washington, had a long diplomatic career including Petrograd Viborg and Constantinople postings.
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London
Robert Imbrie
Teheran
Persia
Seymour
Imbrie
Evening News
Robert Simbrie
Washington
State Department
Major Imbrie
Department
Associated Press
Stepa
Bernard Gottlieb
United States
Petrograd
Viborg
Constantinople
George Washington
Yale
Immigrant Vice Consul Dies After Mob Attack
A Teheran mob beat American Vice Consul Robert Imbrie and Melvin Seymour during a religious demonstration. Imbrie died of shock at 3 p.m. yesterday, Seymour seriously injured and unable to speak. The assault occurred as they watched the event outside the Bahai procession.
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Washington
Deata
Joseph
Kornfeld
Teheran
Persia
Robert Imbrie
Melin Seymour
Seymour
Chicago Beer Destroyed in Wave of Prohibition Raids
In Chicago on July 19 AP reports prohibition officers drained about 70 000 gallons of high alcohol beer from a brewery and halted another operation on behalf of the city treasurer. They also wrecked distilling equipment across several models in three raids, tagging the efforts as a pouring party that moved over 72 000 gallons of near beer into city sewers. The U S circuit court upheld lower court injunctions against Pilsen Products and Peter Hand Brewing, with City Treasurer John Cverenka president of the latter.
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Chicago
Prohibition Enforcement
Terry Druggan
Frank Lake
Valley
One Wa Street
West Side
United States District Court
United States Elrewit Court of Appeals
Pilsen Products Company
Peter Hand Brewing Company
John Cverenka
Five Die as Auto Drops Through Bridge in Buena Vista
Five persons were killed near Buena Vista Colorado when their automobile broke through a bridge and dropped about fifty feet into the Arkansas River late last night, according to AP reports.
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Buena Vista
Colo
Here
Arkansas River
Man Held in California Train Robbery Suspect Released
A man arrested in Daviport Iowa on suspicion of being Roy de Autremont, sought by California authorities for a Southern Pacific train robbery near Siskiyou last October, has been released after police failed to identify him as the suspect.
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Daviport
Iowa
Roy de Autremont
California
Southern Pacific
Siskiyou
Calif
Allied body agrees on two points in Dawes plan debate
In London and Southampton reports, American Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes, on an unofficial visit, backs prompt execution of the Dawes plan as a basis for European economic recovery while the inter allied conference committee votes to secure German loan investors’ priority rights and preserve Versailles treaty signatories’ rights.
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Southampton
England
Chas.vans Hughes
Hughes
Europe
Dawes
London
Inter-Allied Conference
Germany
Premier Herriot
France
Charles EB. Hughes
Ambassador Kellogg
Drew House
American Bar Association
British Bar Association
Denver Post editor dies after short illness at 67
Harry H. Tammen editor and part owner of the Denver Post dies in Denver after a four month illness. He leaves a wife Agnes and brother Frank. A longtime newspaper man, he shared ownership with Fred G. Bonfils and once owned other papers. He helped build the Post into the region’s largest circulation.
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Denver
Cole
Harry H. Tammen
Denver Post
Post
Tammen
Agnes Tammen
Frank Tammen
Fred G. Bonfils
Kansas City Post
Sells-Floto
Efreus
Big Ee
M Post
Rocky Mountain District
Quake creates island at entrance to the sea
A July report from Moscow states a quake formed an island at the entrance to the sea near Anov, altering the coastal geography and blocking some routes. Local authorities assess the new landmass and potential hazards to shipping and fishing.
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Moscow
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