Franks Case Grows with Threats and Spectacle Clues
Chicago reports intensified threats at the Franks home of Jacob Franks after 13 year old Robert Franks was found dead from suffocation following a kidnapping for ransom. Police and detectives pursue leads as a ransom demand of 10000 looms amid a mystery with missing principal players.
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Chicago
Jacob Franks
Robert Franks
Robert E. Crowe
Franks
Morgan A. Collins
Hughes
Science Today
Science
Womar
Oscar Wolff
Hughes Ad
Wolff
Richard P. Williams
Mott Mitchell
Charles BE. Dease
Young Franks
Adam May
Japanese Held by Russians Freed In Vladivostok Release
Tokyo reports all Japanese detainees arrested by Soviet authorities at Vladivostok have been released. Captain Matsui of the general staff and Commander Minotsum a of the navy were freed, followed by 18 others including students and interpreters. Government spokesmen noted ongoing negotiations at Beijing for Japan to recognize the Soviet government.
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Associated Press
Tokio
Vladivostok
Foreign Office
Matsui
Minotsuma
Peking
Japan
Southern Woman Sparks Norris Hearing Disruption
Mrs. W. B. Edmundson of an Alabama farm drew laughter and a brief pause at the Muscle Shoals hearing when she joked Chairman Norris had promised a kiss for a schoolgirl’s pledge. Norris sought an investigation as she explained no harm was meant and the session returned to business.
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Washington
W. B. Edmundson
Alabama
Owonwece Agriculture Committee
Muscle Shoals
Norris
Oresap Bie
Frost Damage Hits Iowa Fruit Trees Des Moines May 24
Iowa weather bureau reports frost last night caused considerable damage to fruit trees in the northwest while north central districts saw minimal impact. Temperatures fell one to six degrees below freezing with Inwood recording 26 degrees below zero.
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Des Moines
Iowa Weather Bureau
Inwood
Iowa
Spectacles Key Clue In Boy's Kidnapping Case
The Franks family traced a child’s disappearance to a ransom plot. A phone threat demanded $10,000 and the boy’s body was later found in a railroad culvert. Eyewitness details, a folding typewriter note, and a suspicious sedan linked suspect activity to the home area.
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Samuel Ettelson
Johnson
Franks
Billy
Cray
Bond Thieves Arrested by New York Police
Three men with New York addresses Frank Markey 31 John Elmkorff 24 and Joseph Faber 21 were arrested after bonds valued at 475000 were recovered from them. The group allegedly robbed Walton State Bank Kansas in 1925 and staged similar heists in Denver and St Louis before a fatal shootout wounded two gang members.
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Associated Treasy
New York
Walton
Kansas
Denver
St Louis
Frank Markey
John Elmkorff
Joseph Faber
Liberty
Walton State Bank
Federal Reserve Board
Washington
Walton Bank
State
Russian Supreme Court sentences seventeen to death
In Leningrad on May 24 the Russian Supreme Court, after 27 hours of deliberation, condemned seventeen former judges officials lawyers and others connected with the new economic policy to death on corruption and bribery charges.
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Leningrad
Russia
Supreme Court
Bronson elected president of national editors group
Edgar B. Bronson publisher of the El Reno American was chosen president of the National Editorial Association at the close of its 39th annual convention in Oklahoma City.
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Oklahoma City
Okla
Edgar 8. Bronson
el Reno American
el Reno
National Editorial Association
Prominent Eastern Star Officer Dies in Town
Mrs W H Bardwell past grand organist of the Order of the Eastern Star in Town died unexpectedly at her Clinton home last night. Funeral services will be held here with interment Monday in Belle Plane Indiana after the body is taken there.
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Clinton
W. H. Bardwell
Order of the Eastern Star
Belle Plane
Race Track Tours Cleared Out of Federal Printers
Atlantic City May 4 report on conditions in the Washington government printing office describes a gambling culture within the facility. George H. Carter says race betting and bookmaking operated openly, with over $1,000 bet daily, affecting workers including women who faced coercion and penalties. Officials were alleged to be complicit in the chaos.
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Atlantic City
N. J
Washington
Third District Typothetae Federation
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
George H. Carer
Public Service
Carter
Hich
Five killed at Herrin as gun battle erupts
In Herrin, May 24, Jack Skelechor died in a violent clash blamed on Ku Klux Klan raiders linked to a failed assassination plot against Glenn S and Young. Two unidentified men were captured after a car crash. officers say a machine gun and revolvers were found.
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Herkrin
Jack Skelechor
Pccu
Peredic
Glenn S&s Young
Ku Klux Klan Nquor
Shelton Brothers
Oscar Cagle
Nlerrin
Carterville
Ere
Four Burned to Death in Home Fire in Idaho
In Georgetown near Montpelier Idaho Mrs Isaac Kovene and her three sons aged 4 6 and 8 were burned to death when the Kovene home was destroyed by fire in the early hours.
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Pocatello
Idaho
Isaac Kovene
Kovene
Georgetown
Montpelier
Raw sugar prices set new low record in 1923 trend
In New York on May 24 a further drop of a fraction of a cent in raw sugar prices produced another new low since January 1923. A sale of 33,000 Porto Rican prompt shipment bags went at 5.55 delivered.
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New York
Presbyterians Adopt Ministers Pension Plan In Assembly
The Presbyterian general assembly adopted a pension plan for ministers missionaries and other church workers to begin April 1 1926 or sooner a 15 million revolving fund will support retirement annuities around half the average salary with a 65 year payout and survivor benefits. Will Hays chaired the committee presenting the plan. In a separate session fundamentalists won a procedural clash over an overture requiring a confessional test. The minority report moved forward to the judiciary committee for floor consideration.
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Grand Rapids, Mich
Presbyterian General Assembly
H. Hays
Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of American
Haye
Grand Rapids
Mich
General Assembly of the
Presbyterian Church In the
United States of America
Indianapolis Assembly
Will H. Hays
Indiana Synod
Board of Pensions
The
Presbyterian Church
Point Grand Rapids
Committee On Judicial Business
Philadelphia
Judiciary Committee
Grinnell athlete wins high hurdles at conference meet
At Memorial Stadium Lincoln May 24 Missouri Valley conference track meet began under ideal weather with several potential records. Grinnell’s Tayor won the 20 yard high hurdles in 15.4 seconds ahead of Blanchard Washington and Weir Nebraska with Green Cornell fourth.
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Memorial Stadium
Lincoln
Neb
Missouri Valley Conference
Tayor
Grinnell
Blanchard
Washington
Weir
Nebraska
Green
Corinnell
Weeks Warns Army Has Often Been a Force for Peace
Secretary Weeks delivered a prepared address at Fort Monroe during the centennial ceremonies of the Army Coast Artillery School. He stated that theories create wars but not peace, that American armies have not created wars, yet have made peace many times, and that he could not attend in person, sending the remarks via officers in Washington.
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Preas
Fortress
Monroe
Army Coast Artillery School
Weeks
Washington
Iowa Leads Budget Reform With Local Budget Law
Des Moines May 24 Iowa with its new budget is a pioneer in the field and sets an example for other states considering budget legislation. Fred L Maytag director of the budget declares the local budget law allows united effort to reduce taxes and applies to all counties cities towns school districts and other taxing districts. He notes contracts provisions take effect October 1 and his office will publish a pamphlet detailing the law with explanations by himself and the state attorney general.
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Associated Press
Des Moines
Iowa
Fred L. Maytag
Kendall
America
United
May
County Boards of Supervisors
Americans Receive Warm Welcome in Tokio After Pacific Flight
In Tokio on May 24 American fliers and their mechanicians were greeted with enthusiastic crowds and official honors. Lt Gen Gashi Nagaaka and Ambassador Woods led visits, with British and Russian observers commenting on the achievement and the welcome.
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Associated Press
Tokio
Globe
Pacific
Kasumigaura
Gashi Nagaaka
Imperial Aviation Association
Cyrus £. Woods
Woods
War
Navy
Ugaki
General Ugaki
Ambassador Woods
Stuart MacLaren
Pacific Ocean
L. G. Broome
MacLaren
Broome
Aleutian
Kurile Islands
Bering Island
Attu
Aleutians
Paramashiru
Kuriles
Lowell H. Smith
Komandorski
Smith
United States
Soviet Russia
Crabbe Sentenced Five Years In Anamosa Reformatory
George Crabbe Jr. of Galesburg Illinois was convicted of larceny and sentenced to up to five years in the Anamosa reform school. His counsel indicated an appeal to the state supreme court.
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Burlington
George Crabbe, Jr
Galesburg
Anamosa
Crabbe
State Supreme Court
Johnson Ties Record for Consecutive Strikeouts
Washington Americans pitcher Walter Johnson tied the American League mark for consecutive strikeouts by fanning six Chicago White Sox in order. Johnson tallied 14 strikeouts in a 1-0 shutout, his 1st shutout win with 18 years in the majors. The record matched by Jim Scott and T. J. O'Brien in 1913.
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Chicago
Walter Johnson
Washington Americans
Chicago White Sox
Jim Scott
White Sox
St. Louis
T. J. O'Brien
Boston
Johnson
Wite Sox
Oy Johnson
Senators
Woman and six children die in Canton fire
A two family house in Canton Mays was destroyed by fire killing a woman and six children. Victims named as Mrs Anvonetta D Amateio and her three children along with four children of Joseph Le Claire. Cause of the blaze is not known.
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Canton
Mays
Anvonetta D’amateio
Joseph le Claire
Weather outlook predicts showers for week in upper Mississippi
May 24 forecast for the week beginning Monday in the upper Mississippi and lower Missouri valleys calls for considerable cloudiness and occasional showers in the first half, with fair conditions and normal temperatures in the second half.
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Washington
Mississippi
Missouri
Snowfall Reported Across Chicago Outlying Areas
Chicago records snow in outlying sections with temperatures dropping twenty degrees from the day before as a winter storm moves through the area.
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Chicago
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Herrin
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