Invention Extends Oil Boom From Shale Rock Field
Beaver Colo March 27 United Press reports a new shale oil machine extracting oil at 100 to 200 barrels daily and fractionating into gasoline phenol and more. Inventor Harry L Brown New York with engineers chemists and financiers demonstrated near Debeque. The device sends shale through retorts. oils condense in tanks and byproducts include aspirin dyes perfumes and synthetic rubber plans.
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United Press
Beaver
Colo
Cola
Vinter Alderson
Colorady School of Mines
Harry L. Brown
New York
Debeque
Thomas Dwyer
Philadelphia
DuPont Company
Dwyer
Frank Be. Shepherd
Denver Engineering Company
G. R. Debeque
Denver
Chester W. Church
Frederick M. Browning
David Dodge
William T. Mack
Courtland Ro Jones
FLBL
Boy helper halts jail delivery during melee at city jail
In Marion NL on March 27 Ralph Thaxton, 12, son of Sheriff Melvin Thaxton, wrested a revolver from a prisoner and dashed to city hall to summon police as eight inmates attacked his father. A guard shot and killed George Wilson, a Chicago magazine solicitor, during the chaos. Dent Hinkle escaped. others were returned to cells as officers regained control.
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Marion
Ralph ‘Thaxton
Sherif Melvin Thaxton
Wix
Thaxton
George Wison
Chicago
Dent Hinkle
Harrisurg
Snerif
Sam
Wilson
Hinkle
Daddy
Storm Lake to Cut Teacher Salaries and Staff
The Storm Lake school board offered re elected teachers their former posts with a one cent per cent salary cut except four principals. Kindergarten will be dropped and high school staff reduced by removing physical training duties. A. E. Ruby and Vera Winters retain current salaries. George B. Dean to coach football.
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Storm Lake
aAfi
Board of Education
A. E. Ruby
Prince School
Wes
George B. Dean
Vera Winters
Lilian McLoushiin
Lillian Perrott
North Schoo
St.Mat. Bithe Bigh
Three Boys Aged 7 8 and 11 Get Five Year Terms But May Gain Liberty
Washington dispatch reports three boys aged 7 8 and 11 sentenced to five years for alleged burglary in West Virginia. DOJ findings show third degree confessions under police pressure, bloodhound evidence, and wrongful conviction. Mrs. Warren G Harding intervention may secure their release to parents. president action possible.
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Harding
Conternational News Wire
Washington, D. C
Pont Offica
West Virginia
Warren G. Harding
Department of Justice
Abs. Harding
National Reform School
Andy Bergold
Frank Bosko
Teddy Bosko
Wairton
W. Va
Federal Court of Northern
Yoirton
Buty
Warren Martin
Death by own action attempts of prisoner and wife
Osceola March 27 Roy J McCarthy Fort Madison prison parole violator and his young wife attempted to end their lives Saturday en route to Fort Madison. They were improved today at a local hospital where Mrs McCarthy is out of danger and likely to leave soon. McCarthy is very ill from the poison but expected to recover and will be taken back to Fort Madison to complete his sentence. He was sent up from Iowa City on a charge of robbery.
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Osceola
Roy J. McCarthy
Fort Madison
McCarthy
McCrthy
Fie
Jowa Clir
Continue Search for Miss Miami Victims in Progress
A continued search for the five victims of the ill fated flying boat Miss Miami was conducted today by former submarine chasers John S Pickson of Memphis husband of a victim and Harold K E Smith of Kansas City whose mother and father perished on the vessel. The operation focused on locating bodies near Miami Florida with authorities coordinating the hunt and awaiting further developments.
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Miami
Fla
John S. Pickson
Memphis
Harold KE. Smith
Kansas City
City Council Postpones Salary Slicing Vote
Municipal candidates faced uncertain pay as the city council failed to pass a salary ordinance at a Saturday special session. The action postponed to 4 p.m. today with no electoral salary changes before the election. The council also approved a joint defense contract with Cadar Falls against the Citizens Gas & Electric suit over rate cuts. Members’ final regular session is tonight ahead of April 3 inaugurations.
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Cadar Falls
Fuderal Court
Citizens’ Gas & Electro Gg
McAdoo Admitted to Bar in Los Angeles
William Gibbs McAdoo former secretary of the Radineg 3 and director general of railroads is a practicing attorney in Los Angeles. He was admitted to the bar today in the district court of appeals on motion of attorney Isadore B Dackweiler. McAdoo was accompanied by his son Robert and several friends.
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Los Angeles
Cal
William Gibbs McAdoo
Radineg 3
McAdoo
District Court of Appeals
Isadore B. Dackweiler
Robert
Funeral rites set for Henry Ohrt in Reinbeck
Henry Ohrt aged two died at 111 Virden street after two weeks of pneumonia. Born December 16 1839 in Germany he married Marie Hinz in Germany March 2 1896 and came to America on their wedding trip. Surviving spouse and eight children live in Reinbeck and Waterloo. Funeral arrangements include viewing at Pr ierzen Bros. Undertaking and service at 2 p m at the Congregational Church in Reinbeck.
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Henry Ohrt
Virden Street
Mr. Ohrt
Germany
Marie Hinz
America
Waterloo
Reinbeck
Chhildren
Herymann
Emil
Herbert Obrt
Anna Mason
Josephine Sherburne
Elsie’ Davis
Prierzen Bros
Congregational Church
California tremor rattles Riverside sleepers
A slight earthquake was reported in Riverside by early risers. People felt a quake near Stocenfield at 4:35 a.m., lasting only a few seconds.
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California
Riverside
Cali
Stocenfield
Labor and Coal Strike Talks Persist in US Mines
Labor members of the anthracite wage scale subcommittee return from Cleveland to press wage demands with operators as talks aim to avert a nationwide coal strike. Operators resist wage increases, citing stable costs and prices. Murray replaces Lewis as arbitration head, while plans to import coal and mobilize nonunion workers loom amid mounting tensions.
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Associated Prema
New York
Cleveland
Operaors
Murray
Lewis
Hillip Murray
United Mine Workers of America
John L. Lewis
International Organization
Indianapolis
United Mine Workers
United Press
Highway tests begin on Bates experimental round road
Springfield March 27. Highway officials from almost every state gather for the Bates experimental road test. Trucks will be loaded gradually to press weaker road sections and establish a record of which construction withstands the strain longest. The tests will continue for several weeks.
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Springfield
Ill
Bates
Union
Bandit Holds Up Drugstore in Chicago Robbery
In Chicago on March 26 two men robbed a drugstore while customers including a man and his young son watched. One robber surrendered after a child’s plea, and Murphy fought back. The bandits escaped with $75, 64 pints of whisky, narcotics, and cash.
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Chicago
Bandit
Daddy
Thomas Murphy
Murphy
Olive Tablets Offer Quick Constipation Relief
Dr Edwards Olive Tablets provide a calomel free laxative option by a physician with 17 years in practice. The sugar coated olive colored tablets soothe the bowels without griping and promote natural action. One or two tablets at bedtime are suggested for fast, pleasant results with a 15 cent price.
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Edwards
Calomel
Br. Edward
Dr. Edwards
Insane Woman Rescued After 18 Hours in Tree Top
Annie Lymboroplas, inmate at St Elizabeths asylum, sat in the top branches of a tall pine for 18 hours. Washington fire department carpenters and guards used a 40 foot ladder and rope to lower her, after she escaped last night via a bathroom window and fled through the asylum grounds.
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International News Wire
Washington, D. C
Annie Lymboroplas
St. Elizabeth's Insane Asylum
Washington Fire Department
Annie
Wmeang
Aj Umbao
Thes Grounds
Yetres
Body of second Fort Madison boy found on Mississippi shore
Fort Madison Iowa March 27 the body of Harald Bonta 14 one of two Fort Madison boys who disappeared January 9 after a skating trip on the Mississippi river was found near the river shore five miles southeast of here last night The body which had been washed to shore was discovered by fisherman George Gill The body of Pearl Phillips who disappeared with Bonta in January was found near Montrose fifteen miles from here on March 17
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Fort Madison
Harald Bonta
Mississippi River
George Gill
Pearl Phillips
Bonta
Montrose
Here
Chicago druggists lose hood permits in probe
Washington March 27 Prohibition Commissioner James E Jones announced that liquor selling permits of many Chicago retail druggists will be revoked after a Chicago investigation. The probe targeted druggists believed to be in business solely to deal in liquor.
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Washington, D. C
Giquor
Chicago
Prohibition
James E. Jones
Jones
Prohibition Bureau
Allies Send Peace Proposals To Greece And Turkey
Paris dispatch reports Allied foreign ministers sent a memorandum of a revised Sevres treaty to Greece and the Turkish governments. Proposals include perpetual Dardanelles navigation, Armenian protection under the league, Turkish sovereignty over Asia Minor, Adrianople to Greece, Thrace mostly to Turkey, Gallipolis to Greece, and a future Armenian national home. The note says the aim is to restore peace, protect Muslims, compensate Greece, and prevent further wars.
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Associated Press
Paris
Greece
Constantinople
Angora
Sevres
Grapes
Dardanelles
Bosphorus
Asia Minor
Caucasus
Persia
Mesopotamia
Mediterranean
Aegean
League of Naions
Turkey
League
Adrianople
Gallipolis
Mussulman
Man Whose Parachute Failed to Open Seven Years Ago Now Dying
Council Bluffs, la March 27. James Jameson 41 whose parachute failed to open in a 1000 foot drop at Hagle Neb seven years ago arrived here on a stretcher en route to see his wife dying at a hospital in Brash Colo. He has lived in Minneapolis since the accident. Physicians say nearly every bone is broken and he also has a fractured skull.
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Council Bluffs
James Jameson
Hagle
Neb
Minneapolis
Intse
Brash
Colo
Ferry Mary D. Conger boiler explosion kills four in Port Huron
Telegraph briefs report a boiler explosion aboard the ferry Mary D. Conger in Port Huron Michigan killed four men and caused about one hundred thousand dollars in property damage. Separate item from New York notes Gordon Duffield seventeen left Plainfield New Jersey to live with his mother in Chicago and said he had been working in lower East Side restaurants after leaving school. In Marion Indiana Ralph Thaxton twelve son of Sheriff Melvin Thaxton attempted jail delivery and was frustrated by prisoners before police were notified.
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Associated Press
Port Huron
Mich
Mary D. Conger
New York
Gordon Duffield
Plainfield
N. 5
Graham Duffield
Chicago
Lower East Side
Marion
Ralph Thaxton
Melvin Thaxton
Swiss riding master seeks US visit to win Miss McCormick
Max Oger, a 48 year old Swiss riding master linked romantically to Miss Mathilde McCormick, granddaughter of Joan D. Rockefeller, plans a personal appeal to her parents in the United States for marriage. He has no passport and has sold his stable, keeping two horses, while public speculation grows.
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International News Wire
Zurich
Switzerland
Max Oger
Mathilde McCormick
Chicago
Joan D. Rockefeller
United States
Hand
Oser
Lake Thorne
Gier
America
Col. Haegler
Max
Nurse Goes to Trial for Killing Attorney
New York report by March 27 details jury selection in Brooklyn for Olivia M P Stone charged with murder of Ellis Guy Kinkhead former Cincinnati corporation counsel. Stone, a graduate nurse, says she was once married to Kinkhead who she says later married another woman. She followed him from his office and shot him after months of brooding over the affair.
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New York
Olivia M. P. Stone
Ellis Guy Kinkhead
Cincinnati
Supreme Court
Aspinall
Brooklyn
Kings County
Miss Stone
Kinkead
Scout leaders and five boys drown in lake tragedy
Dowagiac Michigan March 27 three scout masters and five boy scouts drowned while crossing Hemlock Island in a 15 foot motorized boat on Magdan Lake. Bodies recovered Sunday. Four scout masters and six others perished in the incident blamed on inexperience with lake waters. Memorial service planned for South Bend high school auditorium next Sunday with private funerals tomorrow.
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Dowagiac
Midh
Aconta
Magician Lake
South Bend
Joe Taylor
Hemlock Island
Taylor
Verne C. Murphy
Judson Taylor
Clinton Matthews
Philip Neutzel
William Kingsley
Kenneth Burrough
Plan
Ind
Magdan Lake
Mary Garden Orders Radio in Hotel Room
San Francisco March 27 Radio telephony reports a new hobby for opera star Mary Garden director of the Chicago Grand Opera company. On arrival with her company for two weeks of opera she orders a radio telephone set for her hotel room as her first official act.
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San Francisco
Mary Garden
Chicago Grand Opera Company
Miss Garden
Musterole Eases Cold Without Mustard Plaster
Musterole is a clean white ointment made with oil of mustard. Massage gently to relieve chest congestion and discomfort. Available at drug stores in 35 and 65 cent jars and hospital size. Better Than a Mustard Plaster.
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Drust
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Robert Drug Co
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Seaton
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