Trotzky Returns to Moscow After Four Months in Isolation
Leon Trotzky, deposed Soviet war minister, arrives in Moscow from Sukhum amid expectations of a cabinet post. He may be offered foreign trade or other duties while Frunze remains in command of the army. Trotzky appears tired but in good health, with his wife and son by his side.
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Moscow
Leon Trotzky
Sukhum
Trans- Caucasia
Red Army
Commissariat of Foreign Trade
Leonid Krassin
France
Trotzky
Trotzy
Frunze
trans-Caucasia
Trotty
Kremlin
Caucasus
Five Robbers Loot Morris Bomash Pawnshop
Five men raided Morris Bomash's pawnshop in downtown on May 7, holding up employees, looting the safe and displays. Valuables taken estimated between $40,000 and $50,000. Police search for suspects.
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Comerge
Morris Bomash
Judge Identifies Stop Word Problem Behind Speeding
Detroit May 7 AP Judge Charles L Bartlett questions speeding defendant Joseph Spano about traffic rules. After a spell test, Spano fails on the word stop, prompting the judge to remark that drivers spell go but not stop. Spano is fined 50 dollars.
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Detroit
Charles L. Bartlett
Joseph Spano
Bartlett
Spano
Woman Speaker for Time Being in Illinois House
Mrs. Rena Elrod presided over the Illinois House for the first time ever as she was asked to substitute for Speaker Scholes who had an important engagement with the governor. A cheer rose as she took the gavel and announced the house in order.
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Springfield
Illinois House of Representatives
Scholes
Rena Elrod
Noted British Factor Is Dead
Lord Leverhulme dies at 73 after bronchitis and pneumonia. He rose from a grocer's assistant to chairman of Lever Brothers with control of 60 British soap companies and overseas subsidiaries worth 56,627,000 pounds. His son William Hulme Lever succeeds as acting chair and titles.
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London
Lord Leverhulme
Lever Brothers
William Hulme Lever
William Hasketh Lever
Oil workers clash leaves man dead in Eldorado melee
In Eldorado Arkansas on May 7 an outbreak of violence between white and Black oil field workers left one Black man dead and eight whites wounded, two seriously, after a demand for Black workers to be discharged. More than a hundred shots were fired as deputies opened an investigation.
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Eldorado, Ark
Here
Coffee futures dip after early rise on European selling
New York May 7. Coffee futures opened 7 to 20 points higher then dropped 90 to 101 points by day end amid heavy selling from Europe and New Orleans interests. Brazil port stocks and increased Brazilian offerings pressured prices.
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New York
Europe
New Orleans
Brazil
Shepherd Case Witness Hit At Night in Chicago
Gladys Roberts, a telephone girl detective who testified at the McClintock inquest, said she was seized and struck last night by two unidentified attackers while walking from a movie show. Her face was badly battered and she asked the state’s attorney for redress. The inquest led to William Darling Shepherd and Mrs. Shepherd being bound over to the grand jury in the McClintock death case. she recalled visits to John E. Jones’s detective agency and conversations with Shepherd.
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Chicago
Gladys Roberta
McClintock
Miss Roberts
William Darling Shepherd
Shepherd
John E. Jones
Jjones
Gland Treatment Called Over-rated by Leading Surgeons
Washington on May 7 AP reports skeptical views at a congress of physicians and surgeons on ductless glands and erlad medicines. Dr Mayo and Dr Barker warned against unreliable gland transplants and serum claims as public misled.
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Washington
Congress of American Physicians and Surgeons
William Mayo
Rochester
Minn
Congress
Florida House pushes strict anti gambling bill
In Tallahassee on May 7 the Florida lower house introduced a stringent anti gambling bill after a race track investigation bill failed in the senate. The measure imposes five years imprisonment and fines up to a large amount for betting. A key provision targets issuance of any insurance quotation or related documents.
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Tallahassee
Fla
Florida General Assembly
House
Senate
Sixty Boats Patrol Liquor Line at Sea
New York May 7 AP forces enforcing prohibition continued the war on rum row ashore and at sea amid a 45 mile gale. More than sixty boats patrol rum row with thirteen airplanes aiding a Washington directed fleet. Seizures amount to 25,000 bottles of whiskey and 7,000 gallons of alcohol valued at 150,000 dollars.
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New York
Prohibition Enforcement
Rum Row
John C. Knox
Victoria
B. C
Washington
Pote
Perenne
Eentates Mre
Coast Guard
Clifton
Staten Island
Four Ships Reported Arriving Off New Jersey Coast
New York May 7 AP reports destroyer Cunningham on scouting duty for the dry Armada blockading the rum fleet off the New Jersey coast today shows four new ships on rum row. One is a large German liner from Hamburg. The arrivals appear unaware of the net into which they have fallen.
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New York
Cunningham
New Jersey
Rum Row
Hamburg
Plane over rum row sighted 80 liquor ships off New York
New York May 7 AP observers in a seaplane over rum row report about 80 liquor ships anchored 18 to 35 miles offshore. Two 75 foot coast guard vessels tracked each rum boat as crews watched from government craft and the sea swelled under a stiff wind.
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New York
New York Evening World
Coast Guard
Rum Row
Arthur L. Caperton
War time nurse reunion in Joplin Missouri
Farnell Walton of St. Louis recognized the nurse who cared for him during the war while he recovered in a New York hospital. The poignant meeting took place at the Groene camp of the G R in Joplin on May 7 AP report notes the nurse’s role in healing his wounds.
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Joplin
Farnell Walton
St. Louis
Groen
G. R
New Yy
Boy Students Kill Teacher In Vilna School
Three male students storm a Vilna high school during graduation exams firing weapons. A teacher and three students were killed. several others wounded. One assailant died after dropping a hand grenade, another killed himself.
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Warsaw
Vilna
Idaho PTA Convention Opens in Idaho Falls
The twentieth annual Idaho P T A convention opened in Idaho Falls with 140 delegates attending. Highlights include the state president Mrs C E B Roberts from Gooding sharing insights from the Austin national convention and proposals to divide the state into districts under new local chairmen.
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Idaho Falls
P.T. A
Horace Turner
Bi Ging
Idaho
Vage McHan
T. C. Hollister
Twin Falls
Brs
D. G. Ruby
Caldwell
C. E. B. Roberts
Gooding
Roberts
Austin
Texas
Boise
Dent
Koll
Breeding
Pocatello
Halleck
Proitland
Theresbyterian Church
Irene Welch Gissom
Mra. J. Opm
Union Pa- Die
Oregon Short Line reports on revenue
The Oregon Short Line Railroad reports 1924 operating revenue just under 35 million dollars, with expenses near 26 million. Utah benefits most from freight and passenger revenues. systemwide freight revenue is 27.1 million and passenger 5 million. Net income after bond charges leaves 33 thousand to surplus. Freight carloads in Utah include sugar beets 3000, wheat 1785, flour and meat 1418, cattle 1007, sheep 1122, wool 113, and mining products 1382 carloads.
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Idaho
Utah
Union Pacific
Oregon-Washington
Utah and Northern
Eight Family Members Killed in Swissvale Explosion
Pittsburgh authorities sought three men after an explosion in Swissvale killed eight members of the Pusatera family. Detectives pursued a black hand plot theory targeting Thomas Pusatera, a local fruit dealer, whose store was wrecked along with the other buildings.
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Pittsburgh
Swissvale
Thomas Pusatera
State Masons to seek legal action against bogus bodies
The New York state grand lodge of Masons announced a legal offensive to curb spurious Masonic bodies. It plans to push legislation making it a punishable offense to merchandise Masonic insignia and mislead the public, following reports of people drawn to fake organizations.
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New York
Wey 7
Grand Lodge of Masons
Nie
Jardine Considers Calf Rope Challenge At Legion Rodeo
Secretary Jardine who set a broncho riding date in North Dakota may enter calf roping against Omaha Mayor Dahlman. The mayoral challenge could be staged at the American Legion rodeo on May 12. Jardine, once a cowboy, weighs the plan.
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Washington
Jardine
North Dakota
Dahlman
Omaha
Jardine Mays
American Legion
Drowning Toll Sparks Call for School Swim Lessons
Berlin AP reports Prussia has seen nearly 4,000 drownings in twenty years, including 325,000 children, per German Life Saving Association. The group urges compulsory swimming lessons in schools to curb the high death toll.
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Berlin
Prussia
German Life Saving Association
Bogus Money Paid for Bogus Liquor
Washington reports that counterfeit cases surge due to fake currency used in liquor purchases. Secret service notes over half of recent counterfeiting cases traced to clues from illicit liquor payments. Bootleggers and rum runners are unaware their payments expose them to investigators.
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Washington
Secret Service
Savings Stamp Fakers Caught in Wide Conspiracy
Secret service officials linked a nationwide counterfeiting ring in the indictment of eight men in Pittsburgh on charges of counterfeiting war savings and revenue stamps. About forty to fifty others are under arrest across three states as trials of alleged leaders begin in Chicago next week. Federal agents report $190 in fake stamps seized and multiple counterfeiting outfits uncovered. Confessions have been obtained in several cases, with distribution centered through Cleveland and Pittsburgh networks.
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Washington
Secret Service
Pittsburgh
Chicago
Friends of the
Ngsters
Woodaenevate
Cleveland
Pittsurgh
Long distance air photographs relay from Honolulu to New York
Photographs transmitted through the air traveled 5060 miles from Honolulu to New York in twenty minutes marking a history making journey. The RCA conducted the experiments with cooperation from the U S army, using seven pictures of people and events in the sham warfare near Hawaii.
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New York
Honolulu
U. S. Army
Hawaii
Radio Corporation of America
United States Army
English Team Defeats St Anne's In Northern Foursomes
Miss Glenna Collett and Mrs Allan Mac Heth, former American and British champions, beat Miss Dawson and Mrs Sykes at England on May 7, five up and four to play in the ladies northern foursomes. The Anglo American pair lost only one ball.
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St. Anne’s
Epland
Glenna Collett
Allan MacHeth
Dawson
Sykes
England
Wrong Man for Husband in L A. Mistaken Identity
Grace Moore mistook Joseph Glenn Phebus for her husband James W. Moore who had deserted her. Phebus, charged with failure to provide support, proved the error with birth and school records from Plattsmouth Nebraska and an affidavit showing he was operating a street car in Los Angeles on the wedding day. Mrs Phebus testified for her husband.
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Los Angeles
Grace Moore
Joseph Glenn Phebus
James W. Moore
Phebus
Hindenburg Election Entered in Protest
An official protest challenges Field Marshal Hindenburg's May 12 inauguration as vote coercion and irregularities are alleged. Socialists cite localities with unanimous Hindenburg support and transparent ballot envelopes. The shift of political focus to Munich accompanies efforts to heal Bavarian tensions and unite Germany.
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Ber
Oe Socialiste
Ven Ae
Election Commission
von Hindenburg
Republican Reichsbanner
Reichsbanner
Bavaria
Berlin
Ggenets Corps
Dynamiters Hit Highland Mine Area in Fairmont
State police pursue dynamiters after transformers at Consolidated Coal Highland mine were blown late last night. A high tension power line supplying nearby properties may have been the target, though not the line itself. The strike situation, called for April 1, shows little change as Governor Gore holds conferences for more mining updates.
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Fairmont
W. Va
Consolidated Coal Company
Highland
Howard M. Gore
Return flight of airship Los Angeles postponed
San Juan May 7 The return flight of the United States naval dirigible airship Los Angeles scheduled for today was postponed until tomorrow.
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San Juan
United Tes Naval
Los Angele
Baseball Scores From Early Season Games
National and American League results include Cleveland 7 1 at Detroit 5 4 and Philadelphia 9 7 at New York 6 7 with multiple pitchers noted. Details show Boston Brooklyn and Chicago matchups with varied scoring along with Pittsburgh St Louis activity and sparse box scores.
Bryan and Coolidge Lunch Meeting At White House
William Jennings Bryan dined with President Coolidge at the White House. Bryan reportedly urged Coolidge to address financial matters during the discussion.
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Bryan
Ccoolidge Washin
William Jeanings Bryan
Presidentolidge
Cooldenridge
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