Prairie fires leave death and danger across wide area
AP reports fires in two distant regions continued to burn with unconfirmed claims of four deaths and over three hundred square miles scorched. In South Dakota two Wakpala fires were said extinguished after about 150000 acres burned. Nebraska reports say a teacher and two children were burned to death near Crookston as fires rage since last Wednesday.
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Associated Press
St. Paul, Minn
South Dakota
Aberdeen
S. D
Wakpala
Nebraska
Valentine
Neb
Crookston
Vanderbilt Home Burglary Search Yields No Intruder Found
Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt led a police team through her five story Fifth Avenue residence after reporting a reflected glimpse of an intruder in the dining room mirror. After half an hour the search found no one and no sign of tampering with doors or windows.
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Associated Press
New York
Willam K. Vanderbilt
Fifth Avenue
Fifty-Third Street
McCrane Found Not Guilty of Murder
In Cross City Florida on March 27 W G McCrane was found not guilty by a jury in the murder case tied to the death of Lewis Barker a Black man. The court recessed until Tuesday for the trial of co defendant John H Wineburn Higginbotham and E G Priest were released on bond.
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Ascrted
Proms
Cross City
Fla
W. G. NeRane
Lewis Barker
John H. Wineburn
Higginbotham
E. G. Priest
Change of venue denied in Putnam murder case
The Georgia Court of Appeals affirmed Judge J. B. Park's ruling denying a change of venue for Ted Coggeshall and F. W. McClellan charged with the murder of Professor W. C. Wright superintendent of Putnam county schools. The court held the plaintiffs could obtain a fair trial in Putnam with no danger of lynching or violence.
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Lower Court
Associated Press
Atlanta
Georgia Court of Appeals Today
J. B. Park
Ocmulgee Circuit
Ted Coggeshall
F. W. McClellan
W. C. Wright
Putnam County
Putnam
Cotton Shippers Meet in New Orleans on Cotton Export Issues
In New Orleans on March 27 the American Cotton Shippers Association began a two day session with about 100 members from the cotton belt and foreign cotton exchange representatives. The meeting focused on shipping and exporting matters.
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Associated Press
New Orleans
American Cotton Shippers Association
Cotton
Chapman Identified by Woman at Hartford Murder Trial
Hartford March 27 Three witnesses testified at the Gerald Chapman trial for the murder of a New Britain policeman. They sought to link a car found at the scene to a stolen vehicle from Steubenville Ohio last April. Catherine Boorn Stanton Motor Company book-keeper identified Chapman as the man who looked over the car.
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Hartford
Conn
Gerald Chapman
New Britain
Chapman
Steubenville
Ohio
James Sneader
Stanton Motor Company
Catherine Boorn
Two Indicted for Receiving Bribes at Atlanta Penitentiary
Atlanta March 27. Father Thomas P. Hayden former chaplain and L J Fletcher former assistant warden were indicted by the federal grand jury on charges of receiving bribes from prisoners.
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Associated Press
Atlanta, Ga
Thomas P. Hayden
Atlanta Penitentiary
L. J. Fletcher
Federal Grand Jury
Wealthy Cincinnati wife hid from husband. cook in demand
Minnie Erickson told police she worked as a cook in Cincinnati to hide from Martin Erickson whom she had left in Chicago. Her income from a Washington apartment building exceeds 11 000 dollars a month.
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Associated Press
Cincinnati
Martin Erickson
Minnie Erickson
Chicago
Washington
Final Arguments' In Bennett Trial May Take Day
Chattanooga Tenn March 27 If the five lawyers who are to speak use all the time allotted them the jury in the case of W H Bennett and Mrs Mae Bennett who are charged with the murder of Miss Augusta Hoffman will not be able to begin deliberations over a verdict until same time tomorrow Attornies have for four and a half hours argument for each side W W Draper assistant attorney general had the floor when court opened this morning Both defendants were calm and almost expressionless as Draper in opening his argument denounced them bitterly as murderers He rias culed testimony of the defense and assailed the defendants during much of his speech W OH Cummings former state senator made the opening address for the defense reading the state statute to the jury defining murder He stressed the pleasant relations which he said were shown to have prevailed between his clients and their children on the one hand and their kinswoman on the other He suggested that the bones exhibited in court during the trial were placed under the house.
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Associated Press
Chattanooga
Tenn
W. H. Bennett
Mae Bennett
Augusta Hoffman
W. W. Draper
Draper
W. OH. Cummings
Fred Kea
Noah Covington
Tanner
Covington
Citid L. Brown
BE. O. Stephens
Tanber
Charles S. Claxton
Tin
W. A. Evant
Rawlings
Torburton
J. J. Harris
E. A. Douglas
J. L. Kent
Thomasville Man Elected President Of State Junior Chamber
A Macon conference formed a Georgia state Junior Chamber of Commerce association. Officers elected include President William Alexander of Thomasville, first vice president George E. Myers of Atlanta, second vice president Peyton Jones of Macon, third vice president Dr H M Kennedy of Atlanta.
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Thomasville
Woow
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George E. Myers
Peyton Jones
Kennedy
Dempsey Hotel
Fred Lagerquist
Ino
Carlisle
Michell
Goodham
Williams
Sheridan
Ansley
Convention City
Snow
Rockwell
Myers
Georgia
New York
National Junior Chamber of Commerce
William Alexander
Turner Rockwell
Campbell Ansley
Tom Mitchell
Tanner Sentenced to Life for Tarbutton Murder
J J Tanner found guilty of killing Gus A Tarbutton a Johnson County farmer and banker. Judge Earl Camp sentenced him to life imprisonment after the jury recommended mercy. Additional jurors were drawn for the Rawlings case and deliberations continued on the Tarbutton death.
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Pras
Wrightsville
J. J. Tanner
Gus A. Tarbutton
Johnson County
Earl Camp
Body Admiral Dewey to Rest in Crypt at National Cathedral
Washington D C March 27 the body of Admiral George Dewey famed for Manila Bay will be moved from Arlington to Bethlehem chapel in the national cathedral tomorrow or Monday a naval guard of honor will accompany the transfer. The crypt in the chapel will serve as a temporary resting place until a memorial is built in the transept for the great military dead.
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Washington, D. C
George Dewey
Manila Bay
Arlington National Cemetery
Bethlehem
National Cathedral
Senator Capper Sees Prosperity for the Nation
Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas, en route home from Washington, forecast a prosperous year for agriculture and a revival in business as farmers plan the next crop and cattle industry rebounds within a year. He said a fair crop and good prices would put farmers in fine shape this year.
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Ager
Vote for Unification in Philadelphia Conference
The electoral conference of the Philadelphia Methodist Episcopal Church voted 106 to 6 for unification of the North and South churches. The action occurred in Norristown Pennsylvania on March 27.
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The
Associated Press
Norristown
Penn
Philadelphia Methodist-Episcopal Conference
Weather forecast for Georgia tonight and tomorrow
The forecast calls for a very cold night with light frost in the south and heavy killing frost in the north. Saturday is expected to be fair across the state.
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Georgia
Muscle Shoals Commission Appointments Announced
President Coolidge names the Muscle Shoals commission members including former Representative McKenzie from Illinois and former Senator Dial from South Carolina with Yale Professor Harry A. Curtis and others. No cabinet member named to the panel to decide on the facilities at Muscle Shoals and the best utilization method.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
Coolidge
Muscle Shoals Commission
McKenzie
Iinois
Dial
South Carolina
Harry A. Curt's
Yale University
William McClellan
New York
Russell F. Bower
American Farm Bureau Federation
Muscle Shoals
Exhumations Linked to McClintock Death Mystery
Chicago March 27 exhumations were ordered in the McClintock case. The bodies of Dr Oscar Olson and Mrs Emma McClintock will be opened for autopsy and inquest to probe mysterious deaths tied to William McClintock and Foster Father Shepherd. The inquiry follows testimony about typhoid germs supplied by Faiman and alleged murder plans.
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Chicago
McClintock
Oscar Olson
Europe
Emma Neowon Me. Chintock
Wilko
Cintock Millonaire Orote Oo
Heath
Willie
Shepherd
Kaeimans
Trial of India murder case in Bombay
Prosecution in a Bombay murder case involving nine men charged with abducting dancing girl Mumtaz Begum calls her uncle Alta Bux Waztir as a witness. Authorities seek to prove a plot to force her return to the Maharajah of Indore, where she had been a favored figure.
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Bombay
India
Gir Mumtaz Begum
Maaharajih
Indore
Alta Bux Waztir
Abdul Kadir Baula
Marahajah
Teapot case decision awaited as judge mulls points
In Cheyenne Wyoming on March 27 the Teapot Deme case involving the Sincleir Oil Company hung on legal questions. Judge T Blake Kennedy will retain all case documents, with a decision not expected for about thirty days.
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Associated Preac
Heyenne
Wyo
Jno
T. Blake Kennedy
Sincleir Oil Company
Tveaterday
Kennedy
Allies to Reply Separately to German Security Pact Proposal
Paris March 27 the allies will respond separately to Stresemann's memorandum proposing a security pact. The plan aims to ease tensions but each entente power views the security problem from a distinct angle, complicating a collective note.
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Ansociete Ag
Paris
Stresemann
Germany
Appeal to College of Bishops Filed in Baltimore Conference
A formal appeal to the College of Bishops was filed today before the Baltimore Methodist conference challenging the recent adverse vote on the proposed unification of the Northern and Southern branches of the church. The action follows standard procedures within the denomination.
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Sashigton
Mareboat. OA
Baltimore Methodist Conference
Pittsburgh School Wrecked by Explosion and One Life Lost
An explosion wrecked a public school in Swissvale near Pittsburgh and janitor Jacob Jacobs is reported missing. Police and firefighters search the ruins believing he died in the blast. Officers say the explosion was not accidental and no reward is offered for information.
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Pittsburgh
Pires
Pal Marek
Swissvale
Cenborb
Jacob Jacobs
Probe of Conduct Federal Judge English Continues
The congressional inquiry into Judge George Washington English shifts to the financial aspects of the case. The committee cannot impeach and impeachment depends on the inquiry outcome.
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English
Associated Press
St. Louis
Congressional
George Washington English
East St. Louis
Georgia judge refuses gasoline price restriction
In Atlanta on March 27 Judge George Bell of the Foster superior court denied the state's and city's injunction to restrain gasoline price increases beyond 27 cents per gallon. The temporary injunction prohibiting price rises was dissolved as evidence of no conspiracy among Georgia oil companies was found.
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Bell
Associated Presa
Atlanta
Georgia
George Bell
Fustor Superior Court
New Minister to Peking Not Yet Named by Coolidge
Washington reports officials worry over delays in appointing a minister to Peking to relieve Dr. Jacob Gould Schurmann as ambassador to Germany. Political pressure from aspirants delays the post and China’s unstable situation heightens reluctance to leave the Peking legation without a qualified minister.
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Peking
Coolidge
Associated
Trae
Washington
D. C
Jacob Gould Schurmann
Schurmann
Germany
China
Two Men Found Dead in Empty Gasoline Tank Car
The bodies of two unidentified men were found inside an empty gasoline tank car opened for cleaning in Baton Rouge Louisiana. The car had recently returned from Uniontown Alabama after transporting a load of oil.
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Asdochited
Prema
Wheeler and Campbell Indicted Again in Federal Case
Senators Burton Wheeler of Montana Gordon Campbell and Edwie S Booth face a federal grand jury indictment on conspiracy charges Campbell an oil land operator in Montana Booth a former interior department solicitor The indictment is the second against Wheeler and Campbell and follows Montana charges alleging improper representation before the government department.
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Washington
12. C
Burton K. Wheeler
Montana
Gordon Campbell
Edwie S. Booth
Federal
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Booth
Interior Department
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