Arrest of 16 men in Tampa liquor plot
United States marshals план to arrest sixteen men in Tampa on charges linked to a liquor conspiracy. Key figures include Lieut Joshua J Sprinkle and former deputy marshals Joseph E Boudwin Sr and Jr, with warrants issued by Commissioner Turnage after federal indictments. Bonds set at 1900 dollars each.
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Tampa
United States
Thiteen
Joshua J. Sprinkle
Eteran
Metropolian
Turnage
Patrick H Batteman
Charles Marshall
John B. Neaman
Snyder Joseph E Boudwin Sr
Joseph E Boudwin Jr
James Hicke
Wallace Baresdale
Claude MfcNeil
Willam’ Holler
Bromley Hunter
Ralph McCullough
James Murter
Washington
Mqnor
New York
United States Attorney
S G ¢Allahan
Justice Hitt
District Supreme Court
Newman Joseph E Boudwin Jr
Barcadale
WeNelll Holler
Hunter
Emil Krause
Thistricte Attermes
Peyton Gordon
Nolle
Sprinkle
Judge Proves Auto Has Too Much Speed
In police court Judge Mc Mahon fined Frederick Friether twenty dollars for speeding after a practical test on Sixth Street showed the car could reach 26 miles an hour. Friether had claimed the vehicle could not exceed 18 miles per hour. Probation Officer Smith and Motorcycle Policeman Milton D Smith paced the car during the test.
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Frederick Friethr
Ap Grocer
McMahon
Friether
Smith
Milton D Smith
Nickel Plate May Get 3 More Roads
Continued from first page reports the New York Chicago and St Louis Railway Company planning a name change to Nickel Plate and a capital structure around 306 million dollars. The merger would create the Greater Nickel Plate with an exchange of shares from existing Nickel Plate and Erie assets, aiming to pare down values while defining the new system’s stock mix and branding.
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New York
St Louis Railway
New York Chicago and St Louis Railroad Company
Greater Nickel Plate
Erie
Traffic Board to Act on City Garage Plan
District officials push a plan to establish public parking in competition with private garages. The proposal includes converting the Pennsyl vania avenue park in front of Center Market into a lot and buying downtown vacant lots to build a central garage. The traffic board will study the idea and report back to the commissioners, with engineers backing tentative approval for a Pennsyl vania avenue lot conversion.
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Bell
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Engineer Department
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W H Uolcombe
Albert J Headley
Traffic Bureau
Ringgold Hart
Gov Smith Calls Defense Day Prayer Across New York
Albany Aug 8 Gov Smith urges New York State National Guard to join War Department tests on September 12 and asks citizens to gather in places of worship to offer prayers for peace and national security The proclamation praises guardsmen as first line of defense and seeks public support and divine mercy for lasting harmony worldwide.
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New York State
War Department
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North Carolina Proclaims Defense Day Support
The governor calls on all North Carolinians to observe National Defense Day on September 12 to honor the President and War Department policies and lend earnest support to national defense efforts.
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Raleigh
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War Department
Squall Upsets Canoe Two Women Missing
A canoe with Mrs Thomas Galt of St Lews and Miss Julia Hitchcock of Springfield reportedly drowned after a squall off Annisquam yesterday. The craft was found bottom up near Plum Cove. Coast guards and an air search failed to locate the occupants through last night and today. The Leviathan sailing time was postponed to 6 pm on August 16 to avoid a race with the Majestic.
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Worcester Mass
Thomas Galt
St Lews
Julia Hitchcock
Springfield Mass
Annisquam
Annisquam River
Plum Cove
Coast
Captured Rum Boat Brought In
New York on August 8 a schooner named Pacific captured off Greenwich Port with 16 cases of liquor was brought to the United States barge office and tied to the customs marine parol. Two men were arrested.
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Pacific
Greenport
Enited States Barge Office
Customs Marine ‘Parol
MacReady to Test Maughan’s Airplane Before Coast Flight Tale
Lieut John A MacReady will depart Bolling Field for McCook Field Dayton Ohio to inspect and test the airplane used by Lieut Maughan in his coast to coast flight. Findings will guide air service in conditioning and preparing equipment across the service.
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John A MacReady
Bollingfield
McCook Field
Dayton
Ohio
Air Service
Argentine Aviator Resting in Calcutta
Maj Zanni the Argentine aviator arrives in Calcutta from Ier and rests several days while awaiting a new propeller. He will not start the next leg of his flight before Sunday.
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Ier
Shenandoah Moored to Navy Ship Mast in Narragansett Bay
The navy dirigible Shenandoah was moored to the special mooring mast on the USS Patoka in Narragansett Bay at 8 tonight for a test of mobile anchorage. The operation took about an hour with 1,000 feet of line let down and drawn in to the mast. Weather looked favorable for a three day test to assess mast stability and the airship’s mobile mooring on the aluminum frame.
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Newport Mor Ango
Narragansett Bay
Mobie
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Early Action Requested in Mine Eviction Cases
Morgantown West Virginia August 8 indications that coal firms will restart operations on an open shop basis next month were presented as counsel urged Judge Lazell to convene a September special session to hear aviation cases. The firms reportedly plan to evict union miners from company housing. New York August 8 Burke Brothers Construction Company faced three creditor petitions for bankruptcy alleging debts above 1 million with assets around 900 thousand.
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New York
Burke Brothers Construction Company
Bathing tragedy at Tidal Basin claims Signal Corps man
Private Charles Biehler 22 of the ITS army signal corps drowned at the Tidal Basin yesterday afternoon. His body was found in five feet of water after an apparent heart attack. A bystander, Eugene Edelin, stubbed his toe, touched the body, and life guards, beach doctors, and other bathers attempted resuscitation without success. Biehler, said to be the first Washington man to receive the radio flash of the Japanese earthquake, was removed to the beach as spectators watched for over an hour.
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Eugene Edelin
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Lb L Cockerell
H A Spergel
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Apple Perron
Laurie
Gordon Leech
Washington
Ambassador Herrick Sails For U S Today
Paris August reports say Ambassador Herrick, accompanied by his son Parmely Herrick and the Slisters family, sails from Paris on a two month United States vacation. The State Department approved a routine leave of absence. Officials deny health or resignation rumors.
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Myron TF Herrick
France
Parmely Herrick
Slstters
United States
Ambassador Herrick
Wolf
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Department
White House
Woman Shoots Self In Bedroom Over Religious Picture
Mrs Molly Schafhirt, 58, shot herself with a 32 caliber pistol at 1850 Wyoming avenue northwest. She was found wounded in her room with a blood-stained painting of Jesus Christ nearby, and detectives suspect a second shot may have gone through a window. Mrs Schafhirt, a devout Calvary Baptist member, is in critical condition at Emergency hospital, with motive linked to religious fervor and recent family tensions. Her husband Dr William Schafhirt, a dental surgeon, learned of her act after returning home and arranging medical care.
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Wyoming Avenue Northwest
Fating
Schashirt
Springman and
Darnell
Eleventh Street
Joe
Pet Airedale
Dr Schatfhirt
Schatshirt
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Calvary Baptist Church
Jesus Christ
Arts Officials Approve Statue Sites and Lamp Post Plan
Fine Arts Commission reports on sites for two statues in Washington and inspection of proposed lamp posts citywide. Sites include Sixteenth and Mt Pleasant for Francis Asbury statue and Meridian Hill for Sereni ty. New double light 20 foot lamp posts to be installed on Pennsylvania Avenue amid broader street lighting upgrade. Plans also approved for McKinley Manual Training High School and John F Cook School, plus Conduit Road filtration plant and Arlington National Cemetery expansion proposals.
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Columbia Road
Francis Asbury
Meridian Hilperk
Serenity
Charles Deering
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Pennsylvania Avenue
A L Harris
McKinley Manual Training High
Second
T Streets
John F Cook
O Street
North Capitol
First Streets
James A O'Connor
War Department
Care H Jabelowsky
Arlington National Cemetery
Custim
Mount Vernon
Americans Pay Honor To Pedro Menendez
Americans attend the Pedro Menendez celebration in Aviles Spain with United States Ambassador Alexander P Moore and Maj Campbell Hodges. Delegates from St Augustine are guests of honor at a reception, speeches are given by the St Augustine head and Senator Taylor. The party will proceed to Santander for a breakfast at which King Alfonso is invited.
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Spain
Alexander P Moore
United States
Maj Campbell Hodges
Pedro Menendez
St Augustine
Fla
City Hell
Taylor
Florida
Santander
Alfonso
Fallon Is Acquitted In High Profile Trial
In Philadelphia an acquittal ends the Fallon trial after jurors stood six to honors. Testimony centered on a $1000 check allegedly paid by Fallon's wife to Ben digs Watson, who advised Fallon to plead guilty and seek limited disbarment. Fallon denied Watson's claim and claimed media motives. A separate report mentions a missing Walter Smallwood and a large plant fire causing extensive damage to Gorgas Pierie and Bisbee operations.
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Fallon
Bendigs Watson
Watson
New York
Philadelphia
Gorgas-Pierie Manufacturing Company
Bisbee Linseed Oil Company
Pierie
Walter Smallwood
Ecuador Establishes Legation in Switzerland
Ecuador appoints Robalino Davila as minister to Switzerland after receiving ex equatur from Swiss government. Envoy assigned to Berne to formalize diplomatic ties and represent Ecuador in Swiss affairs.
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Ecuador
Swiss
Berne
Aug
Switzerland
Robalino Davila
Army Flier Knocks Birds’ Record for Hours in Air
Staff Sergeant Fred Kelly of the 91st observation squadron is hailed as the flyingest man in the army air service with an average of more than two hours in the air daily for a year. His fiscal year total was 706.45 hours, surpassing Lieut. H. T. McCormick’s previous mark at Brooksfield by seven hours and twenty minutes.
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Army Air Service
Fred Kelly
91St Observation Squadron
Kelly
The
Air Service
H. T. McCormick
Brooksfield
Skeleton Case Closer After 50 Year Ground Burial
Police ended the inquiry into the skeleton found under a woodshed at 1701 U Street NW. Coroner Nevitt said the bones lay in the ground at least fifty years, making a murder investigation impractical. One theory links the remains to a Civil War veteran. a nearby hospital and a patient buried there are considered possibilities. The shoe sole found with the bones had no connection to the remains.
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U Atrest
J Ramaay Nevitt
Seventeenth
U Streets
Nevitt
Several Cities Lost By Brazilian Rebels
Santos Brazil Aug 8 By AP fighting has been along a line from Sao Paulo to 306 miles west as federal troops report taking several cities. Rebels retreat northwest toward Matto Grosso forests. Buenos Aires Aug 8 By AP rebels evacuated Sao Paulo on July 28 to spare the city from bombardment and avoid demonstrations by foreign powers per published manifesto.
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Brazil
State Officer Silent On Reason for Shot
Putnam Conn Aug 8 Still conscious though hovering between life and death G Harold Gilpatric state treasurer and cashier of the First National Bank of Putnam and director of several companies refused to explain why he shot himself at his home yesterday while bank officials waited at the institution Federal Bank Examiner Beane and two assistants who worked all night over the accounts were still busy over the books when the bank reopened to Assistant Cashier Guy D Baker who said the bank is solvent and nothing irregular has been found in the accounts Bank Commissioner Byrne said the state accounts are in perfect order.
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Putnam Conn
Harold Gilpatric
First National Bank of Putnam
Federal Bank Examiner
Beane
Thin District
Guy D Baker
Byrne
Italian Crown Prince Humbert in Argentina greeted by crowds
Crown Prince Humbert of Italy visits Buenos Aires on a mission of ceremonies. He toured the port and packing plant, received an honorary university degree, watched a 20000 child parade, was welcomed by the Argentine congress, and attended a Colon theater opera gala.
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Crown Princes
Humbert
Italy
Argentina
University
Colon Theater
Forest Fires Bite National Forest Officials in California
Cot W B Greeley, head of the Forest Service, left other duties to guide the fire fight in San Francisco amid a dangerous August for forest fires. Officials express anxiety over the evolving blaze situation in the national forests.
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California
Cot W B Greeley
The
Forest Service
San Francisco
National Foresta
Larceny Charge Filed Against EFL Garvin Clerk
New York clerk Howard L. Meyers of EFL Garvin & Co customs brokers was arrested today on larceny charges. Officials estimate the stolen funds total between 15000 and 20900. Meyers posted 2600 bail for a future hearing.
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New York
Aug
Howard L. Meyers
EFL Garvin & Co Customs
Enigmatic 64 year old woman held in puzzling assault case
Police seek two more young women and a man in an inquiry after a 64 year old prisoner at the house of detention, Mrs Lydia Blackburn, allegedly attacked a passerby with a hypodermic. A nurselike figure with medical talk and a mystery limousine ride adds to the intrigue.
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Lydia Blackburn
Mre Blackburn
House of Detention
Headquarters
Fowler and
Flaherty
Mrs Blackburn
Park
Lafayette Park
War Trophies Held For Delivery Funds War Trophies Held For Delivery Funds
Secretary Weeks writes to governors of states territories and possessions that Congress passed a War Department bill for equitable distribution of World War I trophies. No appropriation accompanies the act, delaying delivery until funds are provided. The chief of ordnance is designated to arrange distribution once funds are available.
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Weeks
Congress
War Department
Army
Uncle Sam Offers Free Buffalo From Yellowstone Herd
Interior Department to cull a single 800 pound buffalo from Yellowstone National Park herd as subsistence issues grow. About 50 buffalo remain roaming the park with the agency offering one to the public free of charge, payable only transport and rounding costs.
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Samer
Yellowstone
Sationat Park
Interior Department
Theresare
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