Kneeskern Faces Murder Trial in Iowa Cabin Case
In Decorah Iowa on April 14 a jury selected to hear the state case against cattleman Y J Kneeskern 3 accused of murdering Irene Van Brocklin and her husband Charles at their cabin near Frankville last December. Prosecutors say Kneeskern alone with the woman remained and that he threatened a relative with a shotgun while tampering with evidence. Testimony began with sheriff and coroner describing the victims and scene.
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Decorah
Tvhhat
Y. J. Kneeskern
Kneeskern
Irene van Brockin
Charles
Frankville
D. D. Murphy
Ie van Brocktin
Ms. End
Knesskern
Hauck
B. Ellingson
L. B. Willis
Os State
van Brocklin
Wilson Repudiates Tumulty Message at Dinner for Cox
Former President Wilson distances himself from Tumulty after a New York telegram was read at a dinner with Cox as potential 1974 candidate. McAdoo factions blame the message for a rift, while Tumulty aims silence. Cox refuses to comment, noting he knows nothing beyond the telegram. Washington notes Wilson plans to stay out of politics until a suitable reentry moment.
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Wew
York
George Harvey
Henry Watterson
Stateryan and
Lansing
E. M. House
Prhose
James M. Cox
Cox
Capitol
United Press
Dayton
Joseph Tumulty
Cross May Escape Gallows In Fosdick Murder Case
Des Moines April 14 Gov Kendall plans to confer with Polk county district judge Utterback and County Attorney Rippey on possible leniency for Orrie Cross as he seeks commutation from death to life imprisonment in the Fosdick murder case. Weeks appeal and Cross confession are under consideration.
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Orrie Cross
George Fosdick
Bes Moines
Gov
Kendall
Cross
Eugene Weeks
Hubert Utterback
Polk County Diatrict Court
Rippey
Enfet
Dick Lane Plans New Chicago Omaha Route
Des Moines notes plans for a Chicago to Omaha short line route to be discussed at a meeting in Des Moines tomorrow. Dick KR Lane of Davenport, president of the highway association, will preside at the gathering.
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Chicago
Omaha
Dick KR. Lane
Davenport
Association Promoting the Highway
Resignation Denied Report on Pennington at Soo Railroad
Decorah Iowa April 14 Denial is made of the report that Edmund Pennington president of the Soo railroad will present his resignation to the board of directors soon. Word has been received by Maj A L Caldwell Decorah Pennington's brother in law. Pennington began his railroad career on the Decorah branch of the Milwaukee road about fifty years ago.
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Edmund Pennington
The
Soo Railroad
Maj. A. L. Caldwell
Pennington
Milwaukee Road
Rivers Rising and Falling Across Wisconsin and Mississippi
Madison April 14 The weather bureau reports Wisconsin River falling at Wisconsin Rapids but rising to a peak near 16 12 feet at Porings tonight The Mississippi River continues to rise between St Paul and Dubuque with LaTirosse at flood level and Lansing and Prairie du Chien showing rapid increases
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Weather Bureau
Wisconsin
Wisconsin Rapids
Mississippi River
St. Paul
Dubuque
la Tirosse
Lansing
Prairie du Chien
Chief of Jury Bribers Sough in Chicago Probe
Reports say a $100,000 slush fund to buy favorable verdicts in two Chicago labor leader trials is under investigation by the state's attorney. An insider, claimed to lead a band of fixers, is being sought as the probe widens after juror Henri J. Smith testified he received $1,000 for an acquittal.
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Chicago
I T
Henri J. Smith
Simon O'Dooneil
Chicago Building Trades Council
Henderson Sworn in as Work's Assistant
Henderson Paul Henderson of Chicago is sworn in as second assistant postmaster general in Washington. Pershing is convalescing from a heavy cold in Sea View Golf Club. A rumor from Torrean, Coahuila says Francisco Villa may run for governor. Davenport Fithian remains steadily improving after a shooting accident in a north side private school basement.
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Gen. Pershing
Washington, D. C
Sea View
Paul Henderson
Chicago
Partjlett
Davenport Fithian
North Side
Coal Miner Charles Bentley Found Dead Near Des Moines
Des Moines April 14 The body of Charles Bentley 42 a coal burner was found early today on the White Pole road near Des Moines Coroner Caft will perform at autopsy to determine cause of death County officials suspect Bentley may have been murdered
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Legion Worker to Run for Legislature in Des Moines
Volney Diltz a longtime American Legion worker in Iowa declared his candidacy for the Republican nomination for state representative from Polk County. He announced the bid on April 14 highlighting his Legion service and local advocacy.
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Bes Moines
Volney Diltz
American Legion
Iowa
Polk County
Yale Man Loses His Wife in Des Moines
Des Moines April 14 Fred Woodward Yale In has asked focal police to help him find his wits. The couple came here Wednesday and the woman disappeared the next day.
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Fred Woodward
Yale. In
Focal Police
Iowans Join Antiday Prohibition Group Grows
Des Moines reports over 500 Iowans joined the News Branch of the National Association Opposed to Prohibition. State chairman George T. Reddick cites rapid growth. In Eldora, a five foot coal vein was found within 18 feet of the surface by local prospectors.
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Des Moines
Tews
National Association
George T
Eldora
Eldora, Ia
Government hopes fade for quick miners strike settlement
Washington April 14 Government officials dealing with the national coal strike show little hope for an immediate settlement to bring miners back to work. After a conference with President Harding Attorney General Daugherty called it too soon to attempt an end to the strike and Nolan chairman of the house labor committee said there is little chance of settling the controversy in the soft coal mines until wage talks move in the anthracite fields.
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Harding
Daugherty
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Sofl
Harbord Warns on Army Size and Mission Limits
Maj. Gen. J. G. Harbord told the Senate Appropriations Committee that the regular army cannot meet its duties with fewer than 156,000 personnel. He cited air, cavalry, and field artillery needs, warned against misleading comparisons to 1916, and urged Congress to avoid a dangerously small appropriation that would erode national defense and training programs for the National Guard, Organized Reserves, and civilian camps. He outlined the War Department’s duties including training the National Guard, maintaining training schools, admin overhead, overseas garrisons, coast defenses, and readiness for emergencies.
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DOW
Mob Breaks into Jail in Curiosity Hunt at Homer
A mob of about 600 men stormed the enmity jail in Homer on April 14 seeking Bill Alexander and Joe D. Sherron charged with murder. They cut a hole in the building and crawled through to inspect the cell block, leaving after learning the two men were not inside.
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Bill Alexander
Joe D. Sherron
W. F. Rodgers
Gem theft hits Maxi Kurjan office in Cleveland
Three masked bandits robbed the Maxi Kurjan jewelers office in Cleveland seizing diamonds valued at $50,000. They forced David Kimp the office manager and an associate into the safe to take the gems before escaping.
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Maxi Kurjan
David Kimp
Iowa Student Poisoned by Mistake
Miss Grace Hoffman, 17, a Rockford college student from West Branch Iowa, died after taking poison tablets by mistake, believed to be aspirin. Coroner Boswell ruled the death a accidental poisoning in a verdict rendered today.
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Grace Hoffman
Rockford College
West Branch
Boswell
Semenoff appeal denied in jail release bid
New York April 14 Gen Semenoff Cossack ataman remained jailed after Supreme Court Justice Delahanty denied Ezra P Prentice request to cancel the civil warrant. Semenoff vowed to appeal as he faced visitors including Col Kroupsky while his wife did not appear. He reported Siberian wounds causing occasional pain during his morning exercise at Ludlow Street jail.
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New York
Semenoff
Supreme Court
Delahants
Ezra P. Prentice
Gen. Semenoff
Justice Delahanty
Appellate Court
Ludlow Street
Siberia
Col. Kroupsky
Bere
Petrograd
Dead Blazek Twin Deserts Sister to Attend Convention
In Chicago on April 14 death separated Josefai Blazek from her Siamese twin Rosa. National Spiritualists Association president George C. Warne said Rosa’s spirit attended a state convention to testify about life in the afterworld. He noted Rosa was in the Heancé room briefly and contact had been established.
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Chicago
Josefai Blazek
Rosa
George C. Warne
National Spiritualists’ Association
Warne
Ife
Altha Rosa
Heancé
Inauguration of 200-person transcontinental air service
Mrs Edith Rockefeller McCormick announces soon to inaugurate daily New York to Chicago flights carrying 200 passengers with two planes costing 2 million dollars each. The service aims for a 10 hour Chicago to New York trip and promises competitive rates with trains. She notes operas in Chicago could attract New Yorkers to fly in for evenings performances.
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Chicago
New York
Edith Rockefeller McCormick
Europe
Paper Mill Strike Threatens Newsprint Supply
International News Wire reports a looming paper mill strike could cut newsprint output by 4 500 tons daily, leaving only about ten days of supply for newspapers. Employers at Murray Hill hotel proposed a 20 percent cut for skilled workers, locality rates for unskilled, and straight time pay for overtime, Sunday and holiday work.
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International News Wire
New York
Fatty Arbuckle Comedy Returns to Broadway Run
In Los Angeles on April 14 a Roscoe Arbuckle film titled a feeker debuted on Broadway as the first Arbuckle showing since the Labor Day party tragedy in San Francisco that caused Virginia Rappe’s death. The Famous Players-Lasky troupe described the picture as a test of public receptivity to Fatty again.
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Fatty
Roscoe Arbuckle
San Francisco
Virginia Rappe
Feeker
Famous Players-Lasky Corporation
New York Robbers Loot Four Safes in Manhattan Raid
A band of burglars penetrated Manhattan's financial district at 84 Williams Street and blew open four safes. Night watchman George Breckenridge was found bound. No loot total could be estimated at dawn.
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Great Financial District
Williams Street
George Breckenridge
Dodge Must Defend Liquor Charge Case
Kalamazoo Michigan April 14 John Duval Dodge a Detroit millionaire must stand trial in the circuit court Monday morning in answer to a charge of carrying and possessing liquor despite a small legal technicality which has come up in the proceedings It was stated at the courthouse here today.
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John Duval Dodge
Detroit
Davenport Theatre Owner Sam Greenbaum Dies
Davenport April 14 Sam Greenbaum proprietor of the Garden theatre here and one of Iowa's best known motion picture managers died at his home today after a lingering illness. He was 58 years old.
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Sam Greenbaum
Garden Theatre
Iowa
Harding Signs Three Year Naval Radio Extension for News Messages
President Harding signed a radio bill extending three years the use of the navy radio camp ment for transmission of news messages in the Pacific. The senate sought four years but compromised on three, extending official press communications at sea and in allied regions.
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Washington, D. C
Harding
Navy
Pacific
Senate
Easter Sunday Bloodshed Tops 1918 Dublin Crisis
Dublin reports say Four Courts seized by De Valera faction marking first rebellion buildings taken. Belfast endures Easter violence with Protestant deaths, gunfire, and requisitioned police. fears of wider clashes. Reinforcement by troops and constables continues as Britain nations debate intervention. Sinn Fein captures Sligo post office and assumes control to maintain operations.
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Dublin
de Valera
Four Courts
Germany Accepts Allied Proposals of Financial Plan
At the economic conference in London the big four discussed the Russia issue. Prime Minister Lloyd George of Britain and French, Belgian, and Italian ministers attended. The Italian delegation reported disagreement with clauses that would humiliate Russia. Lloyd George reportedly favored indemnity to Russia for wartime damages.
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France
Schanzer
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Jaspar
Belgium
London
Russia
Fight for Cannon's Place in Congress Grows More Bitter
Danville Illinois April 14 The race to succeed Uncle Joe Cannon in Congress grew more bitter after an official vote count in the eighteenth district showed Holaday William P Georgetown ahead of John H Lewman Vermilion County by 16 votes though earlier reports gave Lewman a 23 vote lead Lewman left for Kankakee to consult with his managers and a new count was expected
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Joe” Cannon
William P. Holaday
Georgetown
John H. Lewman
Vermillio County
Holaday
Lewman
Kankakee
Missing Minister Fruitless Search in Peoria Apr 14
A 40 hour search in Peoria and suburbs by authorities and hundreds of residents failed to locate Rev. W. J. Leach pastor of Averyyville Methodist church who disappeared after Thursday evening prayer services. A large turnout of boy scouts aided the search. Chief of Police Martin warned hopes were slim as most likely places had been checked with no trace found.
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Peoria
W. J. Leach
Averyyville Methodist Church
Martin
Reserve Bank Cuts Discount Rate to 4 14 Per Cent
Richmond April 14 The Federal Reserve bank of Richmond announced the discount rate on all classes of paper for all maturities had been reduced from 5 per cent to 4 1 4 per cent This is the third reduction in the discount rate since November 3 last when the rate was 6 per cent
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Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
Widow of slain man kills herself in Brooklyn fall
Anna Glickstein, widow of Abraham Glickstein shot last year, leaped from her third story window in Brooklyn after a period of mental strain. Reports say she feared the Stone acquittal and had spoken of death if the killer went free. Frances Glickstein, 15, found her mother missing and later learned of the fatal iron post impact. The Stone case prisoner Olivia M. Stone awaits trial.
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New York
Abraham Glickstein
Lillian Raizen
Brooklyn
Anna Glickstein
Stone
Hsd
Olvia M. P. Stone
Lis Guy Kinkead
Cincinnati
Raizen
Dr. Glicksstein
Miss Stone
Lend Tubansky
Glickstein
Frances
Condor Snatches Peasant's Babe Then Shot By Father
Geneva reports a Swiss peasant’s baby abducted by a large condor while the mother gardened on Haslberg slopes. The father fired, hitting the bird as it rose, dropping the condor and saving the child with only minor injuries. The bird reportedly had a wingspan over 17 feet and a 16 inch beak.
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Geneva
Oberlander Volks Zeitung
Haslberg
Avalanche Wrecks West Seattle Home Killing Couple
In Seattle on April 14, Charles Hebenstreit, president and treasurer of Overseas Corporation Ltd., and Mrs. Hebenstreit were buried in their West Seattle home when heavy rain loosened earth toppled the house. Sons Carl and George Hebenstreit escaped unharmed by jumping from a window as the landslide struck.
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Wash
Charles Hebenstreit
The
Overseas Corporation, Ltd
Hebenstreit
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George Hebenstreit
Prohibition Officer Murder Suspect Hangs Self in Lakeville
Lakeville Mississippi April 14 Marcy Kelley committed death by own action shortly before noon today the time set for his hanging in connection with the murders of Prohibition Officer Greer and Town Marshal Dunnam at Richton near here more than a year ago Kelley slashed his throat with a pen knife
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Marcy Kelley
Greer
Dunnam
Richton
Here
Kelley
Fire Breaks Out in Capitol Basement
Fire erupted in a storeroom in the basement of the national Capitol early this afternoon. Smoke filled lower hallways but Capitol employees put out the blaze before serious damage occurred. It marked the eighth fire in the building this year.
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Washington, D. C
National Capitol
Capitol
Flood Threat Looms as River Rises Across States
The dispatch reports flooding across multiple locales including Gould Arkansas where levee breaches prompt evacuations of women and children as convicts help shore up the threatened section. In Winona Minnesota floodwaters from the Mississippi threaten the south side with the lake fed by seepage through a dike arch, while river stage nears flood level at 15 feet.
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O'Fallon
Lil
Associated Preas
Pine Bluff
Ark
Gould
Winona
Minn
Lake Winona
Billions Lost in Property Taxes Warned by State Official
Springfield Ill April 14 Percy B Coffin chairman of the state tax commission warns that billions in personal property escape taxation and that unless the law is observed a reassessment of the 1922 personal tax list may be ordered. Coffin says Cook county alone shows 4 000 000 in assessed values escape assessment entirely.
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Ill
Percy B. Coffin
State Tax Commission
Coffin
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