Church Says He Alone Is Responsible For Murders
Chicago September 19 Harvey W Church admitted to state officials he alone killed Bernard J Daugherty and Carl A Ausmus in a motel cellar and river murder spree He demonstrated lifting a 188 pound detective to prove his claim and confessed to using a revolver a knife and a bat in the killings revealing a chaotic motive and cover story involving his mother and a car theft scheme.
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Chicago
Harvey W. Church
Bernard J. Daugherty
Carl A. Ausmus
Daugherty
Church
Ben Newvark
Billy” McCarthy
McCarthy
Ausmus
Bee
Newmark
Baseball Standings Snapshot From National and American Leagues
National League results show Cincinnati 6 16, Boston 34, Chicago 1 5, Brooklyn 1, Philadelphia 4, St. Louis 6. American League notes Petrol 2, New York 4, Cleveland 1, Washington 4.
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National League
New York
Pittsburgh
Boston
Brooklyn Dee Ee Couve
Cinetwaath
Chicago Gas Boovsevere Ceveen
Philadelphia Water
American ‘League
Borer
New York Pevedee
Serecesselee
Cleveland
Washington
Oececens
Seeves
Eresseessee Erede
Desencesoraben Oeeyell
Wa Philacetphia
Cincinnati
Chicago
Brooklyn
Philadelphia
St. Louis
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A first person confession reveals a witness considering changing a story to free two individuals, Leon Parks and Milton HB Walker, whom the speaker insists had nothing to do with the crime. The speaker notes Parks confessed and reflects on altering their account to secure freedom.
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Leon Parks
Milton HB. Walker
Parks
Dry Men Aid Bootleggers
Four inspectors on the Federal Prohibition staff under Harold L. Hart are suspended and recommended for dismissal. The investigation targets alleged government complicity with bootleggers and claims of thousands of dollars in dob lore weekly for aiding illegal liquor dealers in evading the law.
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New York
Federal Prohibition
Harold L. Hart
Evonts
Indict 325 Men for Murder in Logan County
Logan West Virginia September 19 three hundred twenty five names included in a blanket indictment for murder returned by a Logan county special grand jury. The targets include C P Keeney and Fred Mooney district 17 United Mine Workers leaders and H W Blizzard a UMW official. Also 200 indictments charging insurrection and pistol tong were returned.
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Logan
W. Va
Logan County
Tedas
Logan Boone County
C. P. Keeney
Fred Mooney
United Mine Workers of America
H. W. Blizzard
United Mine Workers
Fordney tariff plan eyed as barrier to prosperity
Marshall Field & Co warns 30,000 retail merchants that the American Valuation Plan in the Fordney tariff bill would erect a tariff wall and hinder recovery. The chart shows some foreign-made goods up to eight hundred percent above 1914 prices, disputing claims of low import costs.
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Chicago
Marshall Field & Co
United States
Marshall Field &Co
Congress
Senate Finance Committee
Japs Gaining Control of Hawaiian Islands
A washington dispatch notes increasing Japanese influence in Hawaii where Japanese constitute about 43 percent of residents and are projected to dominate local politics and key industries. The piece discusses potential U S responses, possible move to a commission or military governance, and suggests steps to preserve American policy and control amid demographic shifts.
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Washington
United States
Japan
Hawaiian Islands
U. S
Japanese Americans and Chinese labor debate in immigration stance
The article discusses American born Japanese in the islands forming families on government lands and conflicts over alien labor laws. It notes 49 000 of 100 900 Japanese are American in name, with many attending Japanese schools and running newspapers. Chinese labor worries arise as a plan to limit Chinese immigration could force competition with Japanese workers.
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Japan
House Committee On Immigration and Naturalization
Hawaiian
I Islands
Lsbor
Washington
Women Holding Many Positions In U.S. Workforce
Census reports show more than five million women and girls employed nationwide as wartime labor shifts continue. The Labor Department estimates nearly 500 thousand left payrolls since last year, while forecasts predict two million more women entering work as prosperity returns and war shortages ease.
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Washington
United States
Labor Department
Irish Parley Nears as Sinn Fein Readies Conference
London reports a likely cabinet Sinn Fein meeting after Eamon De Valera sent a reply to Lloyd George. De Valera claims self recognition and says Ireland will meet as a nation, while London insists delegates must meet as representatives of a sovereign independent state.
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London
Sinn Fein
Eamon de Valera
Lloyd George
Snn Fein
Dublin
de Valera
Sinn Fe
Inverness
Black Rock
Mr. de Valera
Mansion House
Arthur Griffith
Eamonn J. Duggan
Sinn Fein Publicity Department
Desmond Fitzgerald
Tova Georgé
Ireland
Tariff measure opposition roils New Mexico senate race
New Mexico voters choose between H Bursum Republican and Richard Hanna Democrat to succeed Albert Fall as U S Senator. Bursum, riding the regular Republican wing, faces Democratic attacks as a standpatter amid campaign trips by GOP organizers. New Mexico, a normally close state, held by Harding last year, with both sides claiming victory.
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Washington
Harding
New Mexico
Albert B. Fall
Interior
H. ©. Bursum
Richard H. Hanna
Bursum
Republican Party
Fall
London Turns Round-Headed, Not Cromwell’s Revival
Anthropologists say London is becoming a city of the round headed people, yet this does not signal a return to the Round Heads era of Oliver Cromwell.
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London
Oliver Cromwell
Boseton Transcript
Labor Board Orders Reinstatement of Two Foremen
In Chicago on September 1 the railroad labor board ruled that Butler County Railroad reinstate Jesse M. Micks and Frank Mosley, two section foremen discharged December 18 for belonging to the same union as their workers. The decision upholds theTransportation Act allowing subordinate officials to organize despite railroad policy against union membership.
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Chicago
United States Railroad Labor Board
Butler County
Interstate Commerce Commission
Indian Day Celebration Invites All Tribes to Illinois
Forest preserve commissioners invite all United States Indians to the Illinois Indian day celebration at Deer Grove preserve near Palatine on September 24 25 and 28. Indian games dances and ceremonies are planned with assistance from the Boy Scouts of America and the Prairie Club of Chicago. Red Fox of the Northern Blackfoot reservation in Washington is credited with originating the plan.
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Chicago
United States
Forest Preserve Commissioners
Deer Crove Preserve
Palatine
Toy Scouts of America
Prairie Club of Chicago
Red Fox
Washington
Wagon Tongue Kills Man in Matthews Missouri
N W Roberts a merchant and mail carrier died after a wagon tongue shattered his windshield when a team of mules bolted driving his car off a highway near Pepler Bluff Missouri. He collapsed and died shortly after.
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Pepler Bluff
N. W
Red Stevedores Loot Ship in Petrograd Arrival
Capt. Ole Olsen of the Danish steamer Phoenix in Reval reports Soviet stevedores unloading the first ship with American foodstuffs pilfered supplies. They used hooks to tear sacks of sugar rice and flour and broke open milk cases.
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Neval
Petrograd
Ole Olsen
Phoenix
Reval
Hardinges Return to White House After Vacation
President and Mrs. Harding returned to the White House after a vacation. He planned to send the peace treaties with Germany and Austria to the Senate for ratification when it reconvenes on Wednesday.
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Washington
Harding
White House
Germany
Austria
Senate
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Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, Order of Railway Conductors
Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen
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Union of North America
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