Chicago Crime Ring Exposed in Major 1920s Report
A long investigation reveals a Chicago organized crime network spanning vice, liquor, and political influence for nearly two decades. The Carnegie and Industrial clubs funded the study led by criminologist John Landers and jurist Bruce Eight, with state officials and a federal grand jury involved in probing leaders and operations.
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Ah C. Butler
Chicago
Carnegie
Industrial Club of
Chi
William WH
Susistan
Cank County
Furi
Federal Grand Jury
Special County
Grand Juris
Murcer
Girl Student Chooses Life Fight Over Marriage
Chicago May 21 AP The University of Chicago medical student Miss Helen Owens contemplates marriage against a grave heart condition. Her parents support her medical career but fear the prospect of marriage affecting her studies. Nineteen blood transfusions have been given as doctors oppose her wish to discontinue treatment.
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Chicago
Helen R Owens
University of Chicago Co.c
John Mayer
Fredersk
Pennelvania State College
Owens
Miss Owenns
U S Note Warns Chinese Against Using Violence
The United States warns Nationalists in North China not to molest Americans and says American troops would protect nationals if necessary. The note urges disciplined forces to quell disorder and states no intent to interfere in Chinese affairs. It mentions killings of missionaries Dr Walter F Leocur and Mrs William T Hobart and blanked details in Teining.
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U. S
Shanghai
United States
China
Peking
Tenin
Americca
Walter F Leon Cur
Teining
William T Hobart
Tetantu
Mde
Chang Tso-lin
Manchuria
Store Owner Is Taken by Death Ogden Leader Wright Dies
AP report says Angus T Wright 71 president of W H Wright & Sons, operating merchandise stores in five Utah Idaho cities, died after two days illness. Survived by widow and several sons and daughters. Funeral Wednesday afternoon in Ogden, burial in Ogden City Cemetery.
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Ogden
Angus T Wright
W H Wright & Sons Company
Utah
Idaho
Wright
Ogden City
Police catch young slayer in Lafayette Indiana
Police capture 20 year old Penn Burns in Lafayette at his uncle’s home as an escaped prisoner held on charges connected to the February killings of Deputy Sheriffs Wallace McClure and John Grove. The deputies were found shot on a Danville farm. Burns denied involvement. The car used to move the prisoners was later located in a Decatur garage.
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Lafayette
Penn Burns
Wallace McClure
John Grove
Robert Wi Nameon
Burns
Danville
Bexter
Otto W Smith
Burne
Decatur II
Baxter
Fishless Fisherman Held By Suspicious Policeman
In Chicago Lawndale district Joseph Movek was detained by two officers while using a fishing pole with lime and hooks but no bait. Police found items suggesting prior ownership by others and questioned Movek who explained a habit of fishing twice a week amid bungalow closets and outside windows. Authorities held him as evidence of prior ownership and potential theft.
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Joseph Movek
Novek
Lawndale
Bremen's Crew Visits Albany in New York Welcome
The Bremen crew from the Irish coast to Greenly Island arrived in Albany New York to an enthusiastic reception. Baron Von Hoenefelt Captain Herman Koel and Major James Pitameurice traveled from Boston by train and were greeted at Union Station by Mayor Thacher and local officials and business leaders.
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Albany
Fiers
Bremen
Greenly Island
New York
Baron von Hoenefelt
Herman Koel
James Pitameurice
Boston
Union Station
Thacher
Western attorney Robert Robinson resigns to join professorship
Salt Lake City May 2 AP J Robert Robinson western attorney who has led for seven years tendered his resignation to take effect June 1 He resigns to enter the practice of his profession in Provo where he will form a partnership with his brother J W Robinson He will be succeeded by F A Trother of Salt Lake City.
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Salt Lake City
APJ
Robert Rob'nsom
Enere Furateh
Hic
Portland Man Drowns While Trying to Save Boy
AP reporting from Bend Ore details the drowning of Frank T Johns 21 Portland labor candidate for president in 1924 while attempting to rescue Jeck Rhodes 12 son of J C Rhodes of Bend from the Deschutes River. Johns reached the youth within ten feet of shore but both men sank before recovery. Witnesses recall a double tragedy as bystanders watched. Johns had lived in Portland nine years and was a carpenters union member active in Socialist Labor politics.
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Bend
Ore
Frank T Johns
Portland
Jeck Rhodes
J.C. Rhodes
Deschutes River
Johns
Ac ‘Ress
Withim
Carpenters Union
Klan Parade Permits Denied in New York
Police refused parade permits for Ku Klux Klan events in Jamaica Queens amid fears of unrest. Citizens' Association and Major Emmette B. Smith objected, while 25 permits were issued elsewhere in Queens and boroughs. The Klan planned a private memorial service on its own property.
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New York
Fes
Jamaica
Poice
Warren
Associaton Tic
Emmette B. Smith
Knights of the Klux Klan
Fampire State Rangers
Imc
Hempstree
Quer
Jemaica Brem
Fog Lifts Slightly as Ships Enter Quarantine
In New York Harbor after a three day fogbank four trans Atlantic liners and two additional vessels reached quarantine including the Leviathan Baltic Albert Ballin and American Banker. About 2 50 passengers seek to return home as weather delays linger and more ships anchor outside quarantine netting.
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New York
Albert Ballin
Baseball score summaries from today’s games
Pirot over Washington 3 to 2 in nine innings with Zachery and Tate for Washington and Quinn Foxx for Philadelphia. Phillies win 4 to 3 over GOP after late scoring. Hidkey and Ruel paced by Walbere Cochran for Boston vs New York 9 to 4. Ruffine and Hoffmann led Chicago 8 to 2 over St Louis. Deweon Braem Hers and Piechnich actors for Cincinnati split doubleheader losses with Pittsburgh 4 to 3 and 2 to 0. Puseeli Gooch and Donohue support Cincinnati in a 6 to 3 win at Chicago. No other games scheduled.
Radical gains in Reichstag election signal fragile coalition
Berlin May 21 AP with forty two percent of its membership Socialists and Communists and sixty of489 Taendates in the possession of und etatched and largely unidentified political groups the new reichstag elected yesterday gives only slight promise of surviving the year. The total voters about equals that of 1924 30592442 and the two radical parties benefit by their ballots while the four of time bourgeois parties all register. The social Democrats local parties with 152 seats two more than last election while the German Nationalists captured only seven seats compared with 111 previously. The new reichstag must assemble within 30 days as leaders who analyzed Sundays vote say it lurches to the left the predom inance of labor in the parliament hardly promising harmony in a government comprising industrialists centrist and democrats.
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Berlin
Mewreichstag
Social Democrats
Men Reicheteng
Encial Democrats
Clark Murder Trial Starts in Hollywood Case
Sheldon Clark, 23, confessed slayer of Don Scle wich, former butler at Lie Grey Chaplin’s home, faced first degree murder charges as his trial opened. He told reporters he would name prominent figures from the Hollywood firm colony when he testifies. Jury selection began under Judge Wooley with prosecution noting a week to pick jurors.
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Utah
Sheldon Clark
Don Sclewich
Lie Grey Chaplin
Clark
Newepapermen
Hollywood
Wooley
Detrick
Fort Keller
C. M. Edwards
Saving Life Is Too Big a Job Says Old Miner
In Newport Mev 2 coroner's inquest heard George Pearce a Monmouthshire miner defend his failure to aid a man who drowned after being found in a pond. Pearce said he had saved 32 people from ponds and barely survived his efforts, questioning why he did not act sooner.
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Newport
George Pearce
Pearce
Final Story Confirmed About Johnny Pytek Incident
Chicago AP reports Bruno Edom's account of eight year old Johnny Pytek's death is proven true as the child’s body is found in the Chicago River. Earlier, Bruno's warnings were dismissed though he had described the river accident and timing after the boy vanished.
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Chicago
Bruno Edom
Johnny Py- Tek
Johnnny
Marines hunt rebel band after killings in Nicaragua
In northern Nicaragua Marine patrols swept the dene forests as they converged on Para Res from three directions. Captain Robert S. Hunter was killed, Corporal William L. Williamson and Private Max M. Dubois were wounded. An isolated patrol awaited relief from Quilali while others pressed the search, crossing the Cua river northwest of Jinotega. Major Keller E. Rockey led a relief column toward the stranded Marines.
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Nicatapus
Niccaragua
Para Res
Avistors
William L. Williamson
Robert S. Hunter
Max M Dubois
Livonia
Cua River
Jinotega
Keller E Rockey
Quilali
Ohi
Quilsl
Nobile Plans Early Polar Flight From Italia
General Umberto Nobile, aboard the dirigible Italia, contemplates an early takeoff to reach the Pole. He plans to wireless a message from the Pole to Pope Pius and Premier Mussolini, signaling a historic mission with Italian interest across Christendom.
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Mussolini
Rome
Umberto Nobile
Italia
Pius
Mussolii
Nobile
Pope Pius
Piantine
Rate ruling on Interboro and Martha lines in New York
The supreme court has not yet finalised the rate authorities may collect on the Interboro and Martha lines in New York City. Court decisions will determine the permitted charges.
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Washington
Mey
Interboro
Matha
New York City
Supreme
Deluge of Phosgene Gas Threatens Hamburg Town
Hamburg faced a phosgene gas leak from a chemical factory in the free harbor district. Eleven people, mostly firemen and police, died and about ninety were hospitalized as fumes spread through the city and nearby Wilhelmsburg. Troops assisted evacuations and emergency services, while ambulances and fire brigades mobilized with gas masks and ammonia to combat the toxin.
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Hamburg
Germany
Free Harbor
Hembure
Berlin
Wilhelmeburg
Hugo B
Stelaensburg
United States
Ween
Childres
Ery
Menace
Horrbcure
Seventy Bodies Recovered in Mine Blast Rescue Push
Rescue teams have recovered sixty bodies with thirteen more found during the search at the Mather mine near Butte following a blast that killed or trapped 138 workers. Leader Henry Flier says most recovered are day shift men and that crews must press 4000 feet deeper toward No. 9 north to reach the night shift victims.
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Mather
Butte
Henry Flier
No. 9 North
Texas Mob Lynches Black Person for Slaying
Center Tex May 21 A mob seized a Black man identified as Buddy Evins from officers and fatally harmed him in a courthouse yard scene linked to a prior incident. The victim had been charged in a May 12 case involving John Wheeler at Canton.
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Center
Tex
Buddy” Evins
Evins
John Wheeler
Canton
Mexican Indians See Lindbergh as Angel Gabriel
In Citapas near the Guatemalan border villagers believe Charles Lindbergh’s voyage from Mexico to Guatemala marked the appearance of the Virgin of Guadalupe on a tree. They insist the image proved the Angel Gabriel visited their village, while locals deny knowing Lindbergh.
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AP Lindbergh
Angel Gabriel
Citapas
Tropics
Lindbergh
Mexico
Guaterials
Guadelupe
Gay
Gabriel
Teigh
Ee Ae Gustemaia City
Getriei
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