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ContextUnder national prohibition, in force since 1920, liquor manufacture and sale are illegal and the trade has largely fallen to criminal gangs; Earl "Hymie" Weiss led the North Side gang after Dean O'Banion was shot dead in his flower shop in 1924. Morgan Collins is Chicago's chief of police and William Dever its mayor; a writ of habeas corpus compels police to bring a prisoner before a judge, who may order him freed if he is not charged.
As printed: WILLS LINED NEST WELL WHILE FIGHTING AS NEAR CHAMPION
ContextHarry Wills, a Black heavyweight from New Orleans, spent years seeking a championship match with Jack Dempsey that was never made; Gene Tunney took the heavyweight title from Dempsey last month. The New York State Athletic Commission licensed fighters and ranked challengers, and could name an official contender for the title.
ContextAimee Semple McPherson is the pastor of Angelus Temple in Los Angeles, who vanished from a Southern California beach in May and reappeared in June at Douglas, Arizona, saying she had been kidnapped. A preliminary hearing is where a judge decides whether the evidence is enough to hold the accused for trial; Kenneth G. Ormiston was the radio operator at her temple, and Carmel-by-the-Sea is a small coastal town south of San Francisco.
ContextD. C. Stephenson was the Indiana Ku Klux Klan leader convicted in 1925 of the murder of Madge Oberholtzer and is serving a life sentence at the state prison; Ed Jackson is governor of Indiana. A grand jury hears evidence in secret and decides whether charges shall be brought, and the Senate campaign funds committee, headed by Senator James A. Reed of Missouri, investigates money spent in election campaigns.
As printed: Foot Ball Signals Bring Identification Of Student Who Lost Memory in Crash
ContextNorthwestern University is at Evanston, Illinois, just north of Chicago. Football signals are the strings of numbers a quarterback calls at the line of scrimmage to set a play, "shift" being the command to move the backfield before the snap.
The defense begins its cross-examination of the State's star witness in Los Angeles, while the Marion County grand jury works to finish taking testimony within two or three days.
