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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1921
Page
5
President and Attorney General announce federal inquiry into Ku Klux Klan activity across the country. Director Burns ordered DOJ agents to probe Klan locations and influence in multiple regions.
Easton Md Sept 22 Perry Castle a one legged negro held in jail for attempted assault on Mat tie Simpson 14 denied assault but bruises and teeth marks support her tale Mattie Simpson Bertha sister of the assaulted child Isaiah Fountain who was hanged after a prior sentence paid pen alty upon the gallows
Dr. O W Morris head of horticulture at Washington State College urged growers on a growers excursion that fewer taller trees per acre can produce as large or larger apple crops as dense plantings. He cited Wayne County New York tests showing higher per acre yields with fewer trees and noted picking costs are only slightly higher for larger trees.
Melvin Flegenheimer United States commissioner was injured after his right foot was caught in a trolley car door at Robinson and Broad streets. He was taken to Stuart Circle Hospital where doctors splinted the leg and he rested comfortably.
The first car of Northwestern boxed apples for 1921 arrived in Pittsburgh Monday for I. Cohen and Sons. The Cascade Packing Company of Yakima, Washington shipped the fruit. It sold readily at 3 dollars 4.25 per box and was in splendid condition.
The preliminary hearing for Roseno Arbuckle on a murder charge in the Virginia Rappe death proceeds in San Francisco with spectators barred except witnesses, court attaches and reporters. Sherman, questioned in New York, may return for Arbuckle trial, while First National withdraws Rappe films from all outlets nationwide.
Paris reports hundreds of bodies found after a massive blast at Oppau near Frankenthal in the Rhineland. Authorities say as many as 2500 may be injured with the explosion linked to experiments for compressing a new gas whose properties are not yet known.
Police suspect robbery as the motive after three men were found dead within miles of each other near Southern Hi nets. The bodies were found by Missouri Pacific train crews late last night and investigators believe the triple crime occurred on the same freight train.
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