Leopold and Loeb Fathers Reject Costly Defense Plan
Chicago June 7 Leopold and Loeb faced two indictments for kidnapping and murder of Robert Franks. Their fathers issued a statement rejecting a lavish defense and pled for a simple inquiry into mental responsibility, asserting no intent to spend large sums on legal or medical talent. Two trials may be held separately with change of venue possible due to public sentiment.
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Chicago
Leopold
Loeb
Franks
Jackson Park
Nathan Leopold, Jr
Richard Koeb
Millonaires
Robert Franks
Nathan Leopold
Albert H. Loeb
Bears Neebuck and Company
Richard Loeb
Crowe
Loci
Nathan E. Leopold, Jr
Atate
Altorony Crowe
American fliers complete 5606 mile Shanghai flight
American army aviators arrived in Amoy China at 4 30 PM after a 5606 mile flight from Shanghai in nine hours and 45 minutes. The trip involved three planes, plots and mechanics, all in good condition. Photographs of witnesses at their locations are used to aid prosecutions in state cases.
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Amoy
China
Shanghai
French Councillor Claims Tarred Roads Cause Cancer
Paris city councillor Jousselin argues tarred roads raise cancer risk, noting higher mortality among tar workers. He has called for an immediate halt to road tarting in the Seine department citing worker exposure.
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Preac
Paris
Jousselin
Department of the Seine
Veto Hits Postal Salary Increase Bill
President Coolidge vetoed the local salary raise for postal employees saying government excess must stop. He returned the measure to the Senate citing lack of provision to raise about 68 million dollars from postal revenues and urged reconsideration after a post office inquiry into cost and revenues. The president endorsed the campaign expenditure section if kept alone and said postal salaries should be linked to ways to increase revenues. Congress to reconvene in December for further action.
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Washington
Coolidge
Senate
Legisation
Post Office Department
Congress
Siew
Cleveland Street Car Strike Threatens Convention Opening
With the Republican National Convention near, about 2,300 Cleveland Railway motormen and conductors vote to strike at midnight Tuesday unless a 12 cent an hour wage increase from an arbitration board is granted. The walkout could disrupt convention day transit.
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Associated Press
Cleveland
Ohio
Cleveland Railway Company
Illinois Favorite in Big Ten Track Meet
Chicago June 7 Illinois is favored to win the western conference track and field championships where 24 midwest universities compete. Trials yielded eight Illinois entrants in finals with Ohio State and Iowa each with five qualifiers and Michigan, Purdue, Wisconsin and Minnesota with three. Northwestern two.
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Ted Ree
Chicago
Illinois
Iilint
Ohio State
Iowa
Michigan
Purdue
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Northwestern
200 Athletes Try for Olympic Track Team at East
More than 300 athletes competed in sixteen events at the Eastern sectional tryouts for the American Olympic track and field team. The top four in each event qualified for the finals at Harvard Stadium next Friday and Saturday.
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New York
Harvard Stadium
Gas Jet Fatal to Three Chicago Brothers
Three brothers aged 15 17 and 14 were found dead in their Chicago bedroom from a leaking gas jet. Their mother discovered them lifeless as she entered the room and attempts to turn off the jet could not explain the incident.
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Chicago
John
Stanley
Joseph Olesky
Milwaukee Man Offers to Hang In Murderers Place
A Milwaukee tailor named Curt Geissler sent a letter proposing to substitute himself on the gallows for Nathan Leopold Jr. or Richard Loeb if their heirs pay 1 million dollars. Officials called the notion legally impossible and not part of any law in the United States or elsewhere.
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Associated Preas
Chicago
Curt Geissler
Milwaukee
Wis
Nathan Leopold, Jr
Richard Loeb
Robert Franks
Morgan Collins
Loeb
Leopold
Joseph P. Savage
Varied Gasoline Prices Across Iowa Prompt Speculation
Des Moines reports show gasoline selling from 14% to 20% cents with Standard Oil stations at 15% cents after a price cut aimed at boosting competition. Des Moines Auto Club seeks site for a club financed filling station via coupon book sale. Low prices noted in Burlington Mount Pleasant Cedar Rapids Council Bluffs.
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Des Moines
Standard Oil
Burlington
Mount Pleasant
Cedar Rapids
Council Bluffs
Des Moines Auto Club
Standard Oil Company
Muscatine Lawyer Killed in Car Overlooked Embankment
Wm. R. Jayne, a prominent Muscatine lawyer, died when his car went over a steep embankment along the toll road to the Illinois approach of the Muscatine high bridge. His car was found at the bottom of the incline and his body later recovered in a slough. An inquest verdict ruled accidental drowning.
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Aswowlater Tre
Muscatine
Wm. R. Jayne
Ilinois
Muscatine High Bridge
Jayne
Hite
Weather outlook for Upper Mississippi and Lower Missouri week
The forecast for the week starting Monday shows showers at the start and again after Wednesday. Temperatures are expected to be near or slightly below normal across the region.
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Associated
Washington
Mississippi
Missouri
Dance disrupted by Japanese ruffians at Tokio hotel
In Tokio on June 7 a group of about thirty Ronin interrupted a Saturday night dance at the Imperial hotel with anti American speeches and naked sword dances. Two American women fainted as demonstrations unfolded amid calls for deportation and a boycott of American goods and films.
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Tokio
Imperial Hotel
Great Forward Association
Rend
Empire
Japan
Japanese Olympic Team Arrives in Paris in High Spirits
The Japanese Olympic team landed in Paris greeted by embassy attaches and many Japanese residents. All team members appeared buoyant and in good spirits as they arrived for the Paris Games.
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Paris
Associated Press
Woman Chairman of Committee at GOP Gathering
Mrs Elizabeth P Martin of Philadelphia was chosen chairman of the permanent organization committee for the Republican convention. It marks the first time a woman has chaired a national convention committee. The selection was announced by William Butler field marshal for President Coolidge, at the request of Mrs A T Hert of Louisville, Kentucky the new vice chairman of the Republican National Committee executive committee.
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Associated Press
Cleveland
Ohio
Elizabeth P. Martin
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Wm. Butler
Coolidge
A. T. Hert
Louisville
Kentucky
Expecting Millerand to Quit as Paris Faces Deadlock
Observers in Paris press the opinion that President Millerand plans an early resignation after consultations with his household. A premier may be named that evening after talks with M. Steeg and other leaders. The left's interdict and radical measures fuel parliamentary unease over funding.
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Paris
Mitterand
Millerand
M. Steeg
Mulerand
Oklahoma editor Edgar Bronson dies at El Reno
Edgar d S. Bronson, president of the National Editorial Association and publisher of the El Reno America, a weekly newspaper, died of heart disease in El Reno, Oklahoma, last night.
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EL Reno
Okla
Edgard S. Bronson
National Editorial Association
el Reno America
Walsh and Spencer clash over oil inquiry in Senate
Washington teems with political clash as Senator Walsh of Montana pushes approval of the oil inquiry report detailing irregularities in the Sinclair and Doheny leases and Senator Spencer resists, while other actions include rate reform talk and a push on campaign expense investigation.
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Walsh
Montana
Senate
Spencer
Sinclair
Doheny
Albert B. Fall
la Follette
Wisconsin
Committee On Audit and Control
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