Rich adviser sought as Koretz mystery deepens
Chicago authorities pursue Leo Koretz after revelations that investors tied to his guidance lost about 3.9 million dollars. Koretz vanished from the St. Regis New York, triggering raids on his Majestic and Drake offices as investigators seek to tally his timber and oil holdings tied to the Bayano River trust. A jewel package valued at 75 000 dollars arrived at his Sheridan Road home two days after his New York sighting, while his wife reports the family nearly penniless.
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Chicago
New York
Seven Seas
Leo Koretz
Attor Nnobert Crowe
Korta
Panama
Koretz
St. Regis Hotel
St. Regis
Loo 6
Crowe
Majestic
Sheridan Road
Bayano River Trust
Changes in Business Methods In State Office
Columbus Ohio December 13 The complete revision of office methods and installation of an accounting system to produce more detailed information in the state workman’s compensation department were recommended today by State Auditor Tracy in a report submitted to Governor Donahey.
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Columbus
State Workman's Compensation Department
Tracy
Donahey
Rebels threaten Jalisco as Obregon pushes campaign
Federal troops under President Obregon move on Guadalajara to crush the La Huerta Sanchez rebels led by General Enrique Estrada. About 27 000 loyal federals advance toward battle. troops sent from Esperanza reinforce Vera Cruz. Villa family figures noted with loyalty to the government.
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Mexico City
Obergon
la Huerta Sanchez
Jalisco
Enrique Estrada
Guadalajara
Joaquin Amaro
Obregon
Sinaloa
Ippolito
Do” Villa
Nutillo
Chihuahua
Fon
Insurgents Clash With Regulars Over Senate Leadership
Washington December 13 Insurgent Republicans in the Senate clash with regulars over leadership as a split risk grows. Seven insurgents bolted to back a Democrat for chair of the Interstate Commerce Committee, delaying bills and threatening party harmony. Negotiations with Democrats circulated while administration leaders weighed compromise options.
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Washington
Congress
Capitol
Senate Interstate Commerce Committee
Railways Committee
Albert B. Cummins
Iowa
Cummins
la Follette
Wisconsin
Ellison
Smith
South
Senate Democrata
Howell
Norris
Nebraska
Watson
Indiana
McLean
Connecticut
Fernald
Maine
Southerners Hold Power as 1924 Republican Delegates Rise
Republican leaders accept the Solid South block of 151 delegates from ten states that never vote Republican. Coolidge and Johnson plan bidding strategies with Slemp and Reynolds directing southern efforts. Primaries will decide the more winnable delegates with 18 states holding preferential ballots totaling 525 delegates. Illinois forecasted to yield a majority of its 61 delegates through its primary.
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I. N.S
Washington
Bec
South
Cleveland
National Committee
Solid South
Coolidge
Hiram Johnson
Johnson
C. Bascom Slemp
James
Illinois
William B. McKinley
White House
Baltimore & Ohio Wins $7.6 Million Equipment Trust
The Interstate Commerce Commission authorizes the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad to issue $7.6 million in equipment trust certificates to fund the purchase of new rolling stock and equipment.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Weather Bureau Chief Hails U S Forecasts And Benefits
Chief C I Marvin declares the U S Weather Bureau leads worldwide in usefulness and accuracy. He notes forecasts provide high economic benefits, outlines past struggles, and says future forecasts for seasons or years cannot yet be reliably produced. He stresses public trust and scientific limits.
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Marvin
Weather Bureau
Bureau
Prohibition Raids In Knoxville Seize Liquor And Property
Knoxville Tennessee December 13. Scores of people were arrested and hundreds of gallons of liquor and other property seized in raids that have continued for 24 hours. The operation was led by federal prohibition agents Eugene Asher and his son Edward C Asher.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Eugene (Dreadnaugh) Asher
Edward C
Lighthouse) Asher
Ohio farmers sign up 1924 wool contract
Columbus Ohio reports farmers are signing the new cooperative wool contract for 1924. J I Walker head of the Wool Marketing Department of the Ohio Farm Bureau Federation says farmers may receive cash advances on their wool when requested.
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Columbus
Ohio
Ling
J. I’. Walker
Ohio Farm Bureau Federation
Dawes Named for Reparations Study Panels
The Allied reparations commission in Paris discussed appointing three American members to study Germany's capacity to pay. Charles G. Dawes is most likely to serve as one American member, with Herbert Hoover also mentioned. No German members are expected. neutrals will be represented and witnesses may testify over about two years.
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Germany
Paris
Inter-Allied
Dawes
Herbert Hoover
Germaany
France
Iowa Bars Collection of Coin Lent for Rum
Iowa Supreme Court rules money lent to further liquor traffic cannot be recovered by suit. In the case Gertie Davis versus Clyde and Nellie Herney of Sioux City the high court held the loan was for liquor purposes and upheld a judgment for the defendants, deeming the act criminal.
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Des Moines
Iowa Supreme Court
Gertie Davis
Clyde
Nellie Herney
Sioux City
Herney
Postmaster Vacancy at Hollister Athens County
The first assistant postmaster general seeks a qualified person to fill the Hollister postmaster position after the current postmaster resigned. Interested applicants should write Congressman J M Foster 416 House Office Building Washington DC for examination details. Prompt action required.
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Athens County
J. M. Foster
House
Washington, D. C
Rich Corset Maker Is Killed in Long Fall
Edwin C. McWatty president of the Mc Watty Corset company fell eight stories from his hotel Royalton window in New York early today and died instantly. Reported he suffered ver tico yesterday and an apparent second attack preceded the fall as he opened the window for air.
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New York
Edwin C. McWatty
McWatty Corset Company
Royalton
McWatty
Reed Attacks Coolidge Proposal on Reparations Commission
United States Senator James A. Reed announced an attack on the proposed unofficial representation of the United States on the inter allied reparations commission during his stop in St. Louis. He criticized the plan as inadequate for national interests and questioned the commission's authority and structure.
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Senator Reed
Coolidge
ST. Louis
United States
James A. Reed
Inter-Allied Reparations Commission
River At Standstill From Cincinnati to Kanawha Mouth
Ohio river from the mouth of the Kentucky to the mouth of the Kanawha will be stationary tonight and Friday according to river authorities in Cincinnati. The report notes no significant rise or fall expected along this stretch.
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Cincinnati
Ohio River
Kentucky
Skanawha
Severe winter grips southern Rocky Mountain district
Denver reports four degrees above zero with many thermometers below zero as the region experiences the harshest weather of the winter. In New Mexico a blizzard caused nine deaths and several missing are believed dead from exposure.
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Denver
Colo
Rocky Mountain District
New Mexico
Great Plant Plans Center City Around Meadville Site
Plans for a mammoth steel plant and a surrounding city were revealed in Meadville Pennsylvania. Steel interests from Pittsburgh and Canada reportedly control options on 2000 acres at Shadeland in western Crawford County near Meadville with total capital estimated at 250 million dollars.
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Meadville
Pittsburg
Canada
Shadeland
Crawforn County
Got Six Months for Libeling an Official
Lord Alfred Douglas sentenced to six months in jail after a jury at Old Bailey finds him guilty of libeling former Colonial Secretary Winston Churchill. Jury deliberated five minutes.
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London
Lord Alfred Douglas
Old Bailey
Winston Churchill
Labor Ready for War As Parliament Opens
Labor Party members in London begin fundraising for the next election and plan to challenge the Tories after King George opens Parliament. A non content speech by the King and Premier Baldwin could delay defeat, while Tory diehards push for a coalition likely to fail.
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London
Labor Party
Laborites
King George
Stanley Baldwin
George
Fire alarm wire network spans Manhattan Island vast
More than 17 000 miles of wire are used in Manhattan Island fire alarm systems, linking streets and stations to detect fires quickly across the city. The extensive network underscores the scale of public safety infrastructure in New York.
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Manhattan Island
New Yorke
Harrison trial defense by depositions continues in Columbus
In Columbus Ohio on December 13 testimony by depositions in the defense of Dwight Harrison former general manager of the defunct R L Dollings Co is set to continue. Judge Duncan has repeatedly overruled calls to admit testimony as immaterial with Harrison expected to testify once two depositions about the acquisition of a cement plant in Birmingham Alabama are filed.
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Columbus
Dwight Harrison
R. L. Dollings Co
Ohio
Common Pleas Court
Harrison
Duncan
Birmingham
Ala
Miners to Take Grievances to State Body
A meeting of the general grievance committee of Miners employed by the Lehigh Valley Coal Co will be held in Scranton to review the strike. Conciliators Thomas R Davis and J F Dewey informed Secretary of Labor Davis that matters may go to the state conciliation board and that workers could return by next Monday. They reported 7000 workers involved, down from 17000.
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Washington
Lehigh Valley Coal Co
Scranton
Thomas R. Davis
J. F. Dewey
Davis
State Conciliation Board
Labor demand drives unions to push government on unemployment
London dispatch reports labor groups demand an immediate government plan to reduce unemployment. Trade unionists vote to back the labor movement and Ramsay MacDonald leads the opposition as a new cabinet forms in the House of Commons.
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London
Laborites
Hc Tories
Labor Party
Ramsay MacDonald
House of Commons
Used revolver ends tense Ohio divorce dispute
Canton Ohio December 13 Trimic Popa 35 shot his wife Mary Popa then killed himself in a local hospital both fatally wounded. The couple had separated two months earlier and Mary had filed for divorce. Popa had sought reconciliation but was refused.
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Canton
Trimic Popa
Mary Popa
Alocal Hospital
Popa
Papa
Germany to seek reparations talks as Ruhr passive resistance ends
Berlin reports Germany will request the inter allied reparations commission to resume negotiations on payments. It states that passive resistance in the Ruhr has been fully abandoned, with the decision announced today.
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Berlin
Germany
Inter-Allied Reparations Commission
Ruhr
Release of Yankee Held in German Prison Sought
Washington December 13 The United States government may act through diplomatic channels to win the release of Hooven Griffis a former American army officer sentenced by a German court to 71 months in prison for attempting to capture Grover Cleveland Bergdoll the wealthy draft dodger Representative Roy FitzGerald of Ohio announced today
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Washington
United States
Hooven Griffis
Grover Cleveland
Bergdoll
Roy G. Fitazgerald
Ohio
Russia Orders Boycott of Switzerland
Moscow announces a boycott of Switzerland amid strained ties since the Lausanne conference. Russian officials object to the acquittal of the assassin of M Vorovsky in Lausanne and the ongoing diplomatic tensions between Moscow and Bern.
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Moscow
Switzerland
Russia
M. Vorovsky
Italy
Lausuppne
Church leaders condemn Ku Klux Klan menace in nationwide purge
Ohio delegates and church officials denounce the Klan as armed anarchy corrupting homes and communities. Speakers urge inter racial cooperation and church action to crush the movement, noting its spread to every state and its use of mob violence under benevolent guise.
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Columbus
Ohio
Ku Klux Klan
Née
Council of Churchs
Thomas Nicholson
Chicago
Methodist Episcopal Church
W. C. Winsborough
St. Co
Presbyterial Church In the
United (South
George Haynes
New York
Commission On Race Relations
Federal Council of Churches
Mra. Winsborough
Union
Mra. Winsburough
America
State office complex proposed for Capitol grounds
Columbus Ohio December 13 opponents to the plan for a new state office complex on the capitol site will seek injunctions to block construction. The project, estimated at 3 900 000, hinges on a suitable design and approval by the state building mission headed by Gore Donahey State Auditor Tracy and Attorney General Crabbe.
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Columbus
State House
Gore Donahey
Tracy
Crabbe
Capitol
Average US death age at time of death cited as 69 years
The report states the mean age at death in the United States is 69 years. It notes this statistic as a general demographic figure without regional or demographic breakdowns.
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United States
Leafy color pad from 1924 Navy tribute offered free
A Washington Inf Bureau note says a complimentary color pad commemorates the United Navy with a leaf for each year, printed in 1924.
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Washington
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