French commander vows Ruhr stay a thousand years if reparations fail
General DeGoutte, chief of the Franco Belgian occupation, declares that France will remain in the Ruhr for a thousand years unless Germany pays reparations. He says negotiations hinge on Germany meeting Versailles obligations and questions whether troops would leave if Paris signals readiness to enforce the treaty.
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Ruhr
Irench
DeGoutte
France
General DeGoutte
Paris
Geerman
Germany
Poincare
Lawmakers push tax reform including income tax and reassessment
Rural legislators including Representatives Fouts and Albaugh push tax reforms. The Fouts bill imposes a two percent income tax on und capped incomes with exemptions for married or widowed parents and singles. Albaugh proposes abolishing township assessors, creating a county board of tax assessors, and allowing hiring of experts to list property under state oversight. Ward seeks to tax mortgaged real estate to avoid double taxation. The House taxation committee backs a Taft bill setting caps and a nonpartisan budget panel. Republicans back Jenkins to aid weak schools and fund highway construction.
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Columbus
Fouts
Morgan County
Albaugh
Miami County
Robison
Lawrence County
Boards of County Tax Assessors
State Tax Commission
Ward
Monroe County
House Taxation Committee
Republican House
States General Revenue Fund
Anglo French Parley Breaks Up Over Rail Use
London reports the Anglo French conference on coal transport via railways in the British zone of occupation ended this afternoon in deadlock. French minister M Letroquer said Britain raised issues he cannot decide and must consult Paris.
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London
M. Letroquer
Paris
Former diplomat Charlemagne Tower ill with pneumonia
Charlemagne Tower, former United States ambassador and diplomat, is seriously ill in a local Philadelphia hospital with pneumonia.
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Ile
Philadelphia
Charlemange ‘Tower
United States
Memel Awarded to Lithuanians by Allied Council
Paris February 16 — Memel city and district, once German, were awarded to Lithuania by the inter allied ambassadors. The Memel area had been placed under allied control as a neutral zone after the war, and a month ago Lithuanian irregulars seized the city and set up a provisional government.
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Paris
Memel
Associated Powers
New Warfare Between Polish and Lithuanian Armies
Fighting with many casualties reported from Warsaw as Poles move to occupy the League of Nations neutral zone. Lithuanians destroy railway bridges on the Grodno Vilna line and prepare further attacks amid long standing tensions after Vilna was seized.
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League OF Nations
Copenhagen
Warsaw
League of Na
Grodno
Vilna
Allied powers warn Turkey over port warship withdrawal
London Reb 16 An stern note of warning was sent to Turkey today by the allied powers. The Turks are told that the powers will refuse to obey Turkish demands to withdraw foreign warships from Smyrna and other Near East ports. Admiralty officials say few mines remain in Smyrna harbor and precautions are in place.
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Turkey
Near East
London
Foreign Office
Smyrna
Simi
Admiralty
Fire Rips Columbus Hotel Wrecking Star Hotel. 200 Guests Escape
A blaze at the Star Hotel on North High street in Columbus last night wrecked the building and two nearby stores. Damage reached about 190000 dollars. Two hundred guests escaped unharmed though belongings were lost. Five firefighters were injured minorly as they battled the flames for five hours. The origin of the fire could not be determined.
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Columbus
Star
North High Street
Eivery
Republicans Blow Up Port Marnock Bridge
BELEAST February 16 irregulars destroyed the Port Marnock bridge disrupting rail links between BELEAST and Dublin and halting traffic along the line.
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Beleast
Port Marnock Bridge
Dublin
Gibbs family drowned in Oklahoma bridge plunge
Clyde reports Mr and Mrs Karl Gibbs former residents and their two nieces died when their car fell through a bridge near Norman Oklahoma. Mrs Gibbs a local relative learned of the disaster and left for Oklahoma.
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Clyde
Karl Gibbs
Norman
Okla
Noble County Fair Grounds Leased to Oil Operators
Caldwell Eb. 16. The Noble County Fair Association has leased the fair grounds to oil operators. One well has been sunk to the Berea sand and is producing a fine quantity of oil.
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Caldwell
Noble County Fair Association
Berea
Prison reform urged by Thomas Mott Osborne in Oberlin
Thomas Mott Osborne, former warden of Sing Sing, told the Oberlin committee on prison reform that severity and sentimentality fail. He urged replacing the current system with constructive policies to rehabilitate criminals and reintegrate them into society, with education of those confined as the key element.
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Oberlin, O
Thomas Mott Osborn
Sing Sing
Oberlin Committee
Osborne
Painters in Athens Called to Unite at Meeting
All painters in Athens are summoned for a 7 o'clock meeting this evening to discuss forming a local union. Arthur Graham leads the movement and the gathering will be held at the Hawk barber shop on Nerth Court street.
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Athens
Arthur Grahar
Hawk
Nerth Caur
Ocean storm blamed for Pacific shipping losses
San Francisco reports the greatest north Pacific storm in 25 years as three ships wrecked and one burned. Coast Guard rescues saved 42 crew from the Tuscan Prince and breeches buoy aided Santa Rita and Nika crews amid towering seas. Property losses near 4.9 million dollars.
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San Francisco
North Pacific
Swayne and Hoyt
J. Childers
Vancouver Island
Hoguart
United States Coast Guard
Noted Ohio Killer Habig Dies in Electric Chair
Charles Habig of Wheeling West Virginia convicted of fatally shooting Patrolman August Dyke in Cleveland last year died in the electric chair at the penitentiary at 12 06 this morning. He walked to the chair unassisted and showed no emotion as two shocks were given. Habig had been sentenced June 10 1921 and had two stays of execution, the last granted January 13 by Governor Donahey. Accomplices Chris Lonehar and Morten Herendeen remain jailed for manslaughter. Habig's wife and two children arrived from Wheeling to visit yesterday. He spent the afternoon with his wife and read the Bible before his death.
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Columbus
Charles Habig
Wheeling
W. Va
August Dyke
Cleveland
Habig
Ife
Donahey
Chris Lonehar
Akron
Morten Herendeen
Guardian sues son for damages over farm rents
Cortland Marshall guardian for Andrew Weeks 79 files suit seeking 10000 damages from Frank Weeks son of the ward. He alleges the younger Weeks took possession of a 287 acre farm at Troy and appropriated rents income and profits from the property.
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Elyria
Cortland Marshall
Andrew Weeks
Frank Weeks
Marshall
Oberhausen Mayor Defies French Court Ruling
Essen reports Lord Mayor Havenstein faced a military court today on charges of disobedience. He adopted a defiant posture as French authorities accused him of resistance to occupation rules amid mounting tensions.
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Essen
Havenstein
Oberhausen
Long Lost Catharine Winters May Have Been Found in Meigs County
Oliver Hartley reports in Pomeroy Ohio that a local fortune teller links the names Catherine Winters Catherine Ross Catherine Floyd and Mrs Clyde Taylor to a missing girl case. The tale centers on Catherine Winters kidnapped from Newcastlie Indiana two years earlier and once seen in Middleport in the custody of a man named Joe Davis. The doctor W A Winters spent $7000 in the search amid public excitement.
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Meigs County
Oliver Hartley
Messenger
Pomeroy, O
Middleport
Clyde Taylor
William HH
Senate
Taylor
Catherine Winters
Catherine Ross
Catherine Floyd
Clyde ‘Taylor
Slaptenstadt
Slid
W. A. Winters
Newcanstie
Indiana
Joe Davis
Tom Jones
Ohio Senate
Newcastle
Fate of Moncenisio and Friendship Uncertain in Atlantic Gale
The Moncenisio with a crew of unknown number and the five masted schooner Friendship were reported sinking after a fierce Atlantic gale. Naval officials said the fate of both vessels was not yet learned as ships raced to aid them and no word had been received from either the distressed crews or rescuers.
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New York
Friendship
Atlantic
Naval Communication Office
Cape Treary
Oregon Inlet
Firemen Saved From Death After Major Pittston Blaze
An entire block burned in Pittston Pennsylvania early today causing losses over 160000. Fireman John Ky Walsh rescued two colleagues overcome by smoke on the roof of a building as flames raged unseen below.
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Pittston
John Ky. Walsh
State prison in Columbus faces coal shortage crisis
Lack of coal today forced a shutdown of the power plant and 15 shops at the penitentiary in Columbus. Warden Thomas asked the state utilities commission to accelerate fuel transport, as 2,000 prisoners are confined to cells with extra blankets. If coal cannot be obtained, prison buildings will lose heat.
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Columbus
Thomas
State Utilities Commission
German unity voiced against Ruhr occupation by Cuno
Chancellor Wilhelm Cuno told the German agricultural council that a new unity has arisen in Germany and the German people fight the Ruhr occupation without class distinction. The remarks emphasize national resolve and solidarity across social groups.
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Berlin
Germany
Ruhr
Wilhelm Cuno
German Agricultural Council
Asan Candler to Be Defendant in Major Suit
Atlanta February 16 Asan Candler identified as the Souths richest man will be named as defendant Saturday in a suit for five hundred six thousand dollars filed by attorneys for Mrs Onezima de Bouchelle a New Orleans beauty in the ongoing case of the bouchelle estate and related claims.
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Atlanta
Asan Candler
South
Onezima de Bouchelle
New Orleans
Excavation Opens Tuankhamen Tomb Inner Chamber
In Luxor on February 16, Lord Carnarvon led the opening of the Tomb of Tutankhamen inner chamber after removing seals with his team from the valley site.
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Luxor
Egypt
Tutankhamen
Lord Carnavon
Women serve on Athens County jury in Ed Young trial
For the first time in two years Athens County Common Pleas Court empanels five women on the jury in the E. B. Young trial of Nelsonville, a Sunday Creek Traction Co. president indicted for pointing firearms at highway official FE W. Davis during repair work at Courtney Hill.
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Athens County Common Pleas Court
E. B. Young
Nelsonville
Sunday Creek Traction Co
Common Pleas Court
Emma Palmer
Abbie Lawrence
Young
Foy Shirley
W. E. Molor
W. Bush
H. L. Atkinson
Della James. Young
FE. W. Davis
Courtney Hill
Highway Department
German police chiefs arrested in retaliation incident
In Essen on February 16 German police executives were arrested today in retaliation for the killing of a French soldier after a German policeman had been wounded.
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Essen
Dead man executed after two month coma in South Carolina
Ira Harrison, convicted slayer of J. C. Arnett with two accomplices last May, was electrocuted at the South Carolina state prison. He had been in a coma for two months and was once described as a living dead man by some examiners. He did not speak before the execution and was strapped to the chair.
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Columbia
S. C
Ira Harrison
J. C. Arnett
South Carolina
Harrison
Bank to administer Athens Brown estate first in county history
The Athens National Bank has been named administrator of the estate of Lewis V. Brown, who died intestate at 2 University Terrace on February 6. The estate is valued around 100,600 with 70,000 in personal property and 30,000 in real estate, and appraisers Field Scott, C. H. Klein, and Raymond Walker are to be appointed. The bank recently qualified as a trust company, bonded for 160,000, reflecting a shift toward trust firms handling estates rather than individuals.
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Athens County
Athens National Bank
Lewis V. Brown
University Terrace
State Department of Banking
Brown
Johnson
Ida Bowser Brown
Louis I. Brown
Detroit
Walter T. Brown
Jackson
Red L. al- Sherman
Field Scott
C. H. Klern
Raymond Walker
France loans Poland shock U.S. debt worries
In Washington on Web 14 officials reacted to France lending 400 million francs to Poland while Paris insists its finances cannot fund the 3.5 billion dollar U.S. debt. The move could renew pressure on France to spell out policy on interest payments and the U.S. loan.
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Washington
Poland
United States
France
Founders Day Celebrations At Ohio University In Athens
Alumni students and citizens join a Sunday service in Ewing Hall to honor Ohio University’s founders. Dr Don D Tullis will deliver the main address with President F B Bryan and Joy Cutler providing music. a School of Music recital follows in the evening featuring Hele Hedden Francy Hizey and John Newman Hizey.
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Oelock
Ohio University
Don D Tullis
New York
Indianapolis
Tulis
Lane Theological Seminary
Ife
Chicinnati
Newark
Ohio
Terre Nlante
Indiana
Tullis
Ohio University School of Music
Hele Hedden
Francy Ruggles Hizey
John Newman Hizey
Three Year Prison Term From French Military Court
Havenstein or Oberhausen received a three year term from a French military court after being found guilty of sabotage for refusing to supply France with electric power and light.
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Essen
Havenstein
Oberhausen
Tod
Entente with France pressed by British government
The government believes it must continue the entente with France with the aim of becoming closer to Germany in the longer term.
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London
Sovernment
France
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International News Service
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Rhine
GANG
Isa Newdratts
House Committee
Council OF Allies
England
de Valera
Daniel O’connell
1. N.S
I. N
Eamonn de Valera
Ireland
Free State
Court de Valera
Pacific
Coast Guard
Ailler
SUPD
Debeant
Terrie Gale
Asa
Mafalda
Emmanuel of
Italy
Leopold of
Belgium
Yolanda
ED Young
Law
BANK
Athens National
America
DR. Tullis
School of Music
J. MH. Rogers
God of Hosts
Samson
Handel Ht
Oskar Nedbal
Hanson
Antomme
Mignon
Thoma
Randerom the
Hedden
Cincinnati Conservate
Hizey
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