Steamer Boston Federals Rammed by Oil Tanker Swift Arrow
Three people were killed and one injured when the liner Boston was rammed by the oil tanker Swift Arrow off Point Judith Rhode Island. About 800 to 900 passengers were being transferred to other vessels as survivors were rescued in fog. The Boston was crippled and in tow near Newport while Swift Arrow headed to Fall River with the tanker bow damaged but not leaking.
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New York
Mastern Steamship Company
Boston
Swift Arrow
Point Judith
Rhode Island
J. A. Coates
Swiftarrow
R. J
Eastern Steamship Company
Fall River Line
Priscilla
Providence
Plymouth
Fall River
Mass
Newport
R. I
Beavertail
R. L
Colonial Line
Lexington
Rebel attack grips Sao Paulo amid Brazilian conflict
Reports from Santos via La Nacion describe heavy fighting as federal troops press a decisive assault on Sao Paulo held by rebels. Government advances, ample arms, and food sustain the defense. no American casualties are recorded. Three thousand civilians killed or injured in the Sao Paulo fighting.
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Buenos Aires
la Nacion
Santos
Sao Paulo
Rio Janeiro
Armintust Haeberie
Connell
Washington
Unidentified bodies found on Bolton as wreckage towed ashore
In Newport Rhode Island the beached steamer Bolton has entangled two men and a woman in cabin wreckage and cannot release them. A second report from New York notes lifeboats from the steamship Boston missing after a collision in fog near Point Judith. The Boston, valued ship of Eastern Steamship, was being towed to Newport when subsiding and taking water, with possible sinking.
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Newport
R. L
Bolton
New York
Wnseveral
Boston
Point Judith
Eastern Steamship Company
R. I
Commonwealth
Fall River Line
Woman victim of acid thrower in Kentucky porch attack
In Lebanon Junction Kentucky a masked woman approached the Woolridge home at sundown and threw acid on Mrs. Lillian Woolridge injuring her face while her mother Emma Ellison, 75, suffered a burn to an arm. The attacker fled after the act and the victim named only one possible enemy.
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Lebanon Junction
Lillian Woolridge
Family Drowns at Strapp's Lake Colorado
Mr and Mrs H W Baker and their two year old son Richard of Havelock Nebraska were drowned shortly before noon at Strapps Lake a summer resort 22 miles west of Boulder. Coroner L B Kelso reported the deaths.
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Boulder
Colo
H .W. Baker
Richard
Havelock
Neb
Strapp's Lake
Kelso
Girl Leaves Home After Quarrel in California
Los Angeles July 22 AP Brycia Sykes a 19 year old girl says she is the daughter of a millionaire from Tulen Oklahoma pled I to the ats jail Inat ft or a place to sleep telling ot ers that a quarrel with hh father sent her away them home several weeks ago on that she was without funds. Ac cording to her story she walked to California but was practically penniless when she arrived.
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Los Angeles
Calif
Brycia Sykes
Rator
Tulen
Okla
Ats
California
Independents Plan Third Ticket Campaign Tour
Senators La Follette and Wheeler will tour the east and south on a third ticket campaign after a Washington meeting of the Conference for Progressive Political Action. Representative Nelson, La Follette manager, said itineraries will be arranged personally with broad campaign lines agreed upon. The campaign will not use any existing party name in the national effort. Washington officials say endorsements will back La Follette aligned candidates and liberal rivals in key races.
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Chicago
la Follette
Wheeler
Laboard
New England
John M. Nelson
Nelson
Washington
Conference For Progressive T
la Follette-Wheeler
Wisconsin
Minnesota
North Dakota
South Dakota
Farmer-Labor Party
House
Senate
Court editor jailed for contempt after criticism of decisions
Las Vegas New Mexico July 22 Carl C Magee editor of the New Mexico State Tribune was jailed for three months after being found in contempt of court by District Judge D J Keady for editorials criticizing court decisions. Judge Leahy denied a stay of sentence to allow a writ of habeas corpus.
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Las Vegas
N. M
Carl C. Magee
The
New Mexico State Tribune
D. J. Keady
Magee
Leahy
Prohibition Death Rate Debate Sparks Expert Clash
Chicago, July 22 AP Dr W A Laforge claimed prohibition raises alcoholism deaths to 25 per 100 000 versus 2.6 now, arguing repeal is needed. Dr Deets Pickett countered that 1922 figures show alcoholism deaths near 0.25 per 100 000, with pre prohibition rate 6.8 per 100 000 and no 25 percent rise.
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Chicago
W. A. Laforge
Cleveland
American Institute of Homeopathy
Deets Pickett
World Service Commission
The
Methodist Episcopal Church
Leforge
Pickett
Federal prohibition search warrants upheld by appeals court
The U S circuit court of appeals ruled agents may serve search warrants in federal prohibition cases in a decision by Judge George H. Bingham with Judge Charles F. Johnson concurring. Judge George W. Anderson dissented. The appeal involved William Keehn of Rhode Island convicted under the federal prohibition act.
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Boston
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
George H. Bingham
Chas. F. Johnson
George W. Anderson
District Court
William Keehn
Rhode Island
Prohibition Raid at Belle Claire Roof Garden
Federal agents raided the Belle Claire hotel roof garden in New York. They arrested the captain of waiters and a waiter for liquor sales, left two summons with the manager, and reported purchasing a pint of whiskey for six dollars.
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New York
Belle Claire Hotel
Wage Dispute Before Board Opens Formal Hearing
Chicago July 22 AP Officers of the Brotherhoods of Locomotive Engineers and Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen arrive to begin preliminary talks with the U S Railroad Labor Board for the formal hearing of a wage dispute covering western railroads. The board plans a Thursday opening after a tentative program is laid out by leaders Griffing and Robertson.
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Chicago
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
United States Railroad Labor Board
L. G. Griffing
David B. Robertson
Labor Board
Mob Clashes Over Miss Wilson Slaying in Illinois
In Cairo and Mounds, Illinois a mob of about 300 gathered to lynch two Black men suspected of killing 18 year old Daisy Wilson during a botched holdup at a villa ridge store. Sheriff Hudson and Ku Klux Klan organizers intervened as the prisoners were moved for safety.
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Cairo
Ill
Pulaski County
Daisy Wilson
Moundy
Hudson
Water Valley
Henry Bour
Wilson
Seymour Welch
Wilsons
Wilson Country
Meridian Road
Villa Ridge
Mound City
H. F. Moreland
Mounds
Mexican election proclamation delayed until November
Mexico City reports that congress will not announce the presidential winner before November. Rumors say Callen supporters claim victory based on district reports, while officials with the Callistas’ headquarters circulate statistics from a majority of districts.
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Mexico City
Congress
General Callen
Callistas
Airplane Speeds To Supreme Court
In San Francisco on July 22 AP reports that after exhausting legal resources an air mail appeal to the U S Supreme Court is sent to halt the death sentence of Tanne Wolfgang. Wolfgang, convicted in Los Angeles for killing a policeman during a robbery, awaits execution at Ban Quentin penitentiary.
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San Francisco
Supreme Court of the United States
Tanne Wolfgang
Washington
Ban Quentin
Colt
Wolfgang Wit
Tos Angeles
Bankers Seek Tight Security for Large German Loan
London July 22 AP delegates at the allied conference moving to implement the Dawes plan discuss securing a loan of 490 million to Germany. Bankers question if safeguards are enough while American bankers resist relying on protocol guarantees. The Daily Telegraph notes a diplomatic snag as Premier MacDonald relays the obstacle to the chief debate.
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London
Germany
Daily Telegraph
Telegraph
MacDonald
France
Inter Allied Talks Focus on German Loan Safeguards
London and Paris reports describe bitter debate over safeguards for the proposed 200,000,000 Dawes loan. Delegates weigh penalties and defaults as frontline issues while Belgian Premier Theunis proposes a compromise likely to gain acceptance.
Kellogg Proposal Aims to Break German Loan Deadlock
London July 22 Ambassador Kellogg presented a plan to end the interallied conference deadlock on guarantees for the German loan. The fate of the Kellogg plan will be known tomorrow.
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London
Kellogg
Tries death by own action second time in Portland
Oliver Cameron who confessed to shooting Adfiray near Birmingham on January 2, 1909 is guarded in Portland after a second suicide attempt. He earlier tried hanging in a police hospital ward, was saved by a fellow inmate’s alarm, and was rescued from the Willamette River last week after leaping from a bridge.
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Portland
Ore
Oliver Cameron
Adfiray
Birmingham
Ala
Cameron
Willamette
Firpo to Box Harry Wills in August Bout Negotiated
Argentine heavyweight Luis Angel Firpo signed to fight Harry Wills after a conference with Tex Rickard. The contract sets no fight before August and restricts Firpo to no other opponents. Firpo eyes White Sulphur Springs or Saratoga as training sites.
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New York
Luis Angel Firpo
Harry Wills
Firpo
Tex Rickard
Wills
Pirpe
Firpe
Saratoga
Summit
Nod
Birds and planes ready for home voyage via Humber estuary
American aviators in Brough England prepare to convert three planes into seagoing ships by removing landing gear and adding pontoons. After six days of repairs the crew will resume their circumnavigation once Washington gives the word. New radiators are being installed as the ships are made seaworthy and the original wings will be retained.
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Brough
England
Humber
Washington
Great Britain
Tokio
Paris
Pelletier
Oisy
Frinc
London
Pacific
India
Californias
United States
Asia
Europe
Elevator deal not financed gr
Chicago July 22 AP Directors of a new grain sales corporation met to discuss organization by laws and a permanent board. A proposal from northwestern grain interests to sell marketing facilities to the American Farm Bureau Federation was considered but likely not decided today.
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Chicago
Grain Sales Corporation
Kansas City
Dakotas
Montana
Minnesota
American Farm Bureau Federation
Minneapolis
Farm Bureau
Mienols Corporation
Butler and Coolidge plan nationwide Republican campaign
National chairman Butler and aides completed campaign organization plans and then met with President Coolidge at the White House to discuss future steps. Butler said the Republican bid would run in all regions and not target any single group or state.
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Washington
Republican Campaign Organization
Butler
White House
Goodoe
Coolidge
Death Penalty Understood in Leopold and Loeb Case
Chicago July 22 AP Jacob Franks father of the 12 year old victim and Richard Loeb slayers will be first witness as evidence opens before Chief Justice Caverly. Hearing advisory in which counsel present arguments for punishment. Leopold and Loeb plead guilty to murder and kidnapping. state plans to call 75 witnesses and alienists to discuss mental responsibility. Three week process expected. jury not required unless insanity claim arises.
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Chicago
Jacob Franks
Nathan Leopold, Jr
Richard Loeb
John R. Caverly
Roberts Franks
Leopold
Loeb
Crowe
Nathan Leowee
Richard Nerd
John R. Twee
Mail Box Thieves Held For Trial In Chicago Case
Calvin Pearce of Salt Lake City and Mrs. Frede Dingley of Yakima Washington were arraigned before U S Commissioner James R Glass on charges of stealing from private mailboxes in Chicago and western cities They were remanded to Dekalb county jail held for trial with bonds of 1000 each Pearce reportedly sought in other western cities and the pair likely to face a federal grand jury here.
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Chicago
Calvin Pearce
Salt Lake City
Utah
Frede Dingley
Yakima
Wash
Dekalb County
United States
James R. Glass
Pearce
Glass
Mountain States Telephone to Acquire Eastern Utah Assets
The Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph company received authorization from the Interstate Commerce Commission to acquire the properties of the Eastern Utah Telephone company.
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Washingtons
Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company
Interstate Commerce Commission
Eastern Utah Telephone Company
Son Kills Father Over Incurable Frustration in Wisconsin
In Hudson Wisconsin on July 22 an AP report states 21 year old Kruger killed his father after an argument about the man’s behavior at home. The body was buried on the property and later discovered as authorities investigated.
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Hudson
Wis
Ace Kruger
Confefitiee
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Colorado Lake
Brotherhoods
Labor Commission
Vate Weathn
University of Chicago
Laura Spelman Rockefeller
Young Wowan
Supreme Court
Franks
Foreign Office
Theunis
Belgium
Herriot
North Atlantic
Corporation
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