Grand jury action possible against large industrial alcohol distributors
Washington reports indicate grand jury action may be taken against major industrial alcohol distributors tied to bootleg liquor in big cities. Acting Prohibition Commissioner Jones says these firms controlled vast volumes diverted to illegal channels, with investigations under way and many licenses under review or cancellation.
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French seize Rhine coal boats and take Ruhr assets
ESSEN Jan 18 The French military authorities seize Ruhrort and Duisburg harbors and requisition barges to move coal coke and supplies. They plan to move mined coal to France and Belgium aiming for 150000 tons daily. French say troops in the Rhineland Ruhr are insufficient and need about 25000 more to carry out the program. Coste of the French ministry confirms no confiscation of German property.
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Ruhrort
Duisburg
Rhine
France
Belgium
Ruhr
Rhineland
Germany on brink of war over Ruhr aftermath
Berlin Jan 18 Germany’s interior minister Oeser warned that without arms Germany might wage war against France to avenge the Ruhr seizure. He said France aims to destroy Germany, predicts French collapse within five years, and urged passive resistance while the nation faces famine, disease, and rising mortality. He appealed for American help to ensure peace.
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Karl M. Blish
I. N
Berlin
Germany
France
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Herr Oeser
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Cox Calls For Action To End World Strife
James M Cox, three time Ohio governor and 1920 Democratic presidential nominee, at a Jackson Day dinner in Lancaster Ohio, decried the world drift toward horror and urged swift American leadership and League of Nations participation to salvage Europe and prevent renewed war. He warned a committee banking inquiry would delay action and urged America to join reparations discussions and a survey of Germany to avert a new crisis.
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O. Jan
League of Nations
James M. Cothrice
Ohio
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Europa
Europe
America
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Amca
Germany
France
Mr. Cox
Democratic Party
Mine Workers and Operators Meet Over Cleveland Agreement
Representatives of the United Mine Workers led by John L. Lewis and central competitive bituminous field operators opened negotiations to replace the Cleveland agreement ending last year’s strike. The Cleveland pact expires April 1 and talks aim to extend it for one year, with miners seeking a six hour day and five day week. About 20,000 miners in Illinois Indiana Ohio and western Pennsylvania stand to be affected.
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New York
United Mine Workers of America
John JL. Lewis
Cleveland
Lewis
Illinois
Indiana
Ohio
Western Insylvania
Dayton slot company rep arrested for drunkenness in Nelsonville
Co. O Bartels of Dayton, linked to a local slot machine firm and brother of Athens county former prosecutor W B Bartels, was arrested at 2:39 am with corn liquor and a 82 caliber Luger on him. He pled guilty to possessing intoxicating liquor and was fined 100 dollars plus costs, and bound over to the grand jury on the concealed weapons charge with 100 dollar bond.
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O. Bartels
Dayton
W. B. Bartels
Athens County
Andy Smith
Bartels
McCune
Plage Shopmen in Jail for Fear of Lynching by Mob
Kansas City. January 18. Rock Island Railroad shopmen accused of aiding in the Tren ton murder of Guy Cornwell were rushed to Kansas City and jailed to avert mob violence. Cornwell, a shop worker, was beaten to death last week.
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Rock Island Railroad
Guy Cornwell
Trenton
Cornwell
Hollywood in a New Scandal
San Diego January 18 detectives seek light on the death of Fritzie Mann a 20 year old Oriental dancer in Hollywood and at the border. Police probe whether she married a film actor three months before her death as she told a physician she did. Her mother denies the marriage. The body was found on a beach with a head wound suggesting foul play.
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San Diego
Fritzie Mann
Hollywood
France tests pilotless 300 horsepower government plane
A government airplane with 300 horsepower flew over Etampes aviation field in France. The flight was radio controlled with ground operators directing its movements, demonstrating piloted absence.
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France
Etampes
Tax Exempt Bonds Rise Threaten Public Revenues
A January 20 Literary Digest excerpt cites Prof. Seligman and Secretary Mellon warning that thirty billion dollars in tax exempt federal state and municipal bonds jeopardize federal and state revenues and undermine business growth, with President Harding backing a constitutional amendment.
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New York
aJn
R. A. Seligman
Columbia University
Mellon
Harding
Tax-exempt bonds debated as federal amendment urged
The piece cites professors and several newspapers arguing to end tax exemption on state and municipal bonds. It notes a Treasury cost of about 300 million dollars yearly and warns the change would curb tax avoidance by the wealthy while stressing potential state and municipal credit effects.
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House of Representatives
Seligman
United States Treasury
Chicago Exenius Post
New York Globe
Mellon
Denis
Louisiana moves to identify hooded mob members in Mer Rouge killings
In Bastrop Louisiana on January 18 witnesses testified as the state seeks names of four men linked to the hooded mob that abducted Watt Daniel and Thomas F Richards in Mer Rouge last August. All four are said to be Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. Arrests expected as authorities press to reveal suspects identities while some face pressure and possible confessions.
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Ila
Watt Daniel
Thomas F. Richards
Mer Rouge
Louisiana
Rouge
B. M. MeckKoin
Met Rouge
Baltimore
Thomas I. Richards
Jim Morton Fate Hangs On Dense Ohio Bank Robbery Trial
In Cleveland Ohio on January 18 a judge weighs the fate of James Morton known as Big Jim described by the state as the most dangerous criminal in Ohio. Morton on trial for the June 1919 West Cleveland bank robbery in which $65000 was taken. He previously faced conviction and was granted a new trial.
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Cleveland, O
Big Jim’ Morton
Ohio
West Cleveland
Morton
Judge Allen Calls for Judiciary Free From Politics
Judge Allen urged a judiciary free from political manipulation and party influence, arguing that only a populace demanding nonpartisan selection or appointment can restore integrity. He warned the electoral system requires people to express interest, or politics will continue to influence courts.
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Allen
Columbus
Florence
Aller
Withers Ashes to Scatter Over Nevada One Wish
The late Robert G. Withers will have his ashes scattered over Nevada after cremation in Sacramento. A Democratic figure and Woodrow Wilson college mate, Withers died in Reno Sunday evening. He attended the University of Virginia and moved to Nevada as a lawyer during the Goldfield boom. The scattering will occur without ceremony.
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Reno
Robert G. Withers
Woodrow Wilson
Nevada
Sacramento
Withers
University of Virginia
Woman Stabbed to Death in Chicago Flat
Mrs Rebecca Barnett 39 was stabbed three times in a South Side flat early today. Police arrested Mrs Hazel Cox 28 who allegedly said Barnett was involved with her husband. The murder occurred during a party.
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Chicago
Rebecca Barnett
South Side
Hazel Cox
Barnett
Akron captures four gunmen linked to robberies
Police chief John Durkin said the four suspects arrested after a running gun battle in Akron are West Virginia desperadoes likely behind many recent holdups. Two officers heard shots, pursued two men, who opened fire prompting a lengthy firefight with over 26 shots exchanged before the quartet was subdued.
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Akron
John Durkin
Westirginia
Barred Prom Main Spree At Elyria
Elyria mayor bans busses from using Court street on route to Cleveland and Columbus, citing theft of passengers from the interurban company at the Cleveland waiting room.
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Cleveland
A. R. Jones
Court Street
Jones
Columbus
Southwestern Electric Company
Iinterurban Company
Harding Still Confined With Severe Cold at White House
President Harding remained confined to the White House with a severe cold. He was ordered by his physician to avoid his desk and cancel engagements.
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Washington
Harding
White House
Coast Guard fears Mexican schooner lost off Cape Henry
NORFOLK VA Jan 18 The coast guard reports fear that the Mexican schooner Helvity with a nine man crew is lost off Winter Quarter light 64 miles north of Cape Henry as rescue efforts continue.
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Norfork
Coast Guard Service Today
Hlelvity
Winter Quarter Light
Cape Henry
Rebels threaten Cork isolation as docks and railways disrupted
Dublin Jan 18 Republicans threaten Cork with land and sea isolation as railways are torn up and dock workers threaten to strike. No ships enter or leave Cork harbor. The British capture and search the KEnglish channel steamer Slovennamon suspected of arming Irish rebels.
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Dublin
Cork
Kenglish
Slovennamon
Ruhr mine owners to face French court martial
Paris dispatch reports twenty one Ruhr coal mine owners were ordered to appear before a French court martial to explain their refusal to obey the Franco Belgian Italian industrial commission orders to deliver coal for Allied shipments. The message notes German magnates seeking arrest to be martyrs and mentions France seeking Italian troops to reinforce Rhine occupation alongside Allied forces.
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Frank FE. Mason
Paris
Ruhr
Essen
Wissen
Pettit Journal
Rome
France
Haly
Coblenz
Poincare
Berlin
Rhine
Ohio Law Proposals Show Reforms in Divorce and Finance
Columbus reports bill proposals include substituting an interlocutory decree for final divorce after one year if both parties comply and no remarriage. non residents who served in World War may claim a veterans bonus. liquor licensing duties shift to the penitentiary under welfare. Blue Sky law strengthened with witnesses and filings. licenses moved to March 1. a four year extra tax levy for municipalities to cover pre 1924 deficits and current costs.
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Ohio
Hunt
Lucas County
Donahey
Kennedy
Brown County
Fair Holmes County
Secretary of State
State Welfare Department
State Commissioner of Securities
Threshers Adopt Resolutions Against Tractor Lug Rule
In Columbus resolutions by the Ohio Brotherhood of Threshermen oppose state police and the Knapp bill penalizing tractors and gasoline engines with lugs or cleats on wheel surfaces on improved highways. The measures are pending in the state legislature.
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Columbus
Knapp
Ohio Brotherhood of Threshermen
Cleveland to Build New Union Station in Months
Insolvent Judge Adams upheld the right to condemn property for the depots project. The Van Sweringen interests, sponsors of the depot Square, plan to push ahead with the $60,000,000 Cleveland Union Station and start work within a few months once legal hurdles are cleared.
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Cleveland, O
Adams
van Sweringen
Cleveland
Missing teen Frank DeAugustine still not found
A state wide search has failed to locate Frank DeAugustine the 17 year old son of Mr and Mrs DeAugustine of 244 Mahoning Avenue He was a high school student and has been missing for nearly eight weeks with his mother reported dying during the period
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Niles
Frank DeAugustine
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