Mine Workers and Operators Move Toward New Wage Scale
Atlantic City July 25 The anthracite joint scale sub committee planned three sessions to speed talks on a new wage scale to avert a strike in hard coal fields. John L Lewis says miners demand recognition of their union and a 20 percent wage rise. No substantial progress reported. Rinaldo Cappellini observers the talks as he becomes District No 1 president.
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Atlantic City
N. J
S. D. Warriner
Canl
John L. Lewis
Warriner
Lewis
Rinaldo Cappellini
District No. 1
Wll
William J. Brennan
Big Four
Cappellini
French Premier opposes fixed date for war debt payments
Paris reports Premier Poincare resists naming any payment date to the United States for France's war debt, preferring to link debt talks with German reparations. He may accept a German indemnity cut to thirty billion marks if Britain and the US cancel their claims. President Millerand favors delaying final settlements. Diplomatic talks with Belgium continue in response to Britain’s reparations note.
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United States
Paris
Polihcare
Great Britain
America
France
Millerand
Poincare
Man Manslaughter Verdict in Miller Case at Meigs Court
Jurors find James Miller guilty of manslaughter in the Swanner and Reynolds coal mining killings after seven hours of deliberation. Judge Miller to sentence tomorrow morning with a mercy recommendation noted by defense. The case ties to the West Virginia United Mine Workers clash with coal operators.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oliver Hartley
Meigs County Court House
Pomeroy
James Miller
Miller
Swanner
Reynolds
West Virginia
I. M. Foster
Americans Meet Turks After Peace Has Been Signed
In Lausanne on July 25 intensive talks continued between Turkish representatives and American delegates led by Joseph C. Grew. The discussions, begun before dawn, considered adjourning the talks to a different city away from the Near East peace conference, which had concluded with the Turkish peace treaty yesterday.
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Lausanne
Joseph C. Grew
Switzerland
Near East
Ten Inmates Still At Large From Illinois Hospital
Chester Illinois July 25 search for ten inmates at large from the state hospital for the criminal insane extended to towns within fifty miles. An armed guard will be stationed in a tower over the bull pen to prevent uprisings and avoid gun barring rules at the hospital.
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Chester
State Hospital
Ord
Farmer Patrick Vasue's fine reduced after barefoot children appear
In Elyria Ohio Judge A R Web der suspended seven hundred dollars of a one thousand dollar fine for Patrick Vasue a Brownhelm farmer when his barefooted children entered the courtroom. Neighbors posted the remaining three hundred dollars to cover the balance.
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Elyria
A. R. Webder
Patrick Vasue
Brownhelm Farmer
Vasue
Yes we have no sleeves at fashion fair 1923
New York July 25. The national merchandise fair and fashion show opens with a sleeveless gown as the emblem. Buyers from across the country attend while industry leaders argue comfort and style must lead fall fashion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Oldest Subscriber Found in Athens
The Athens Messenger notes its oldest living subscriber, Mrs. A. C. Painter of Amesville, 80, who has read the paper for 59 years. She recalls the paper’s early 1842 lineage, its change in delivery routes, and stresses that many cannot afford to skip the Messenger. Continued on Page Five.
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A. C. Palmer
Athens County
Painter
Amesville
Len McCune
Maplewood Drive
Athens Messenger
Forest Fire Near New Gretna Threatens Lodges Farms
Hundreds of farmers and lodge occupants fight a forest fire that has burned 18 miles of territory near New Gretna. A New York broker A Sheridan and his daughters escaped when their auto stalled. they climbed to a hill for safety as flames destroyed lodges farms and barns with no reported deaths.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlantic City
N. J
New Gretna
A. Sheridan
New York
Margaret
Mamie
Jenkins
Fight on Leonard Wood Framed as Personal Clash
Manuel Quezon, Philippine senate leader, says the struggle against Governor General Leonard Wood is against Wood himself, not against the United States, in an exclusive interview from Manila dated July 25.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manila
P. I
Leonard Wood
Wood
United States
Manuel Quezon
Philippine Senate
Lloyd George Warns Europe Faces Despair in Speech
Former British premier David Lloyd George, in Bristol on July 25, warned that Europe’s outlook could sap even stout hearts. He accused France's Premier Poincare of distorting statements and stirring hatred with Sunday speeches, provoking suspicion among nations.
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Bristol
England
Europe
David Lloyd George
Poincare
France
Bold bandits hunted across Ontario after $125,090 bank robbery
Ontario police scoured the province from Toronto to the U S border for the bandits who held up 14 messengers yesterday and escaped with $125,090. Three bank employees were wounded and in critical condition as rifle armed officers and posses combed roads, mountains, and forests.
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Toronto
Ont
Ontario
United States
No meeting called by Plains parent teacher group
The Plains July 25 report says a planned July 27 P T A meeting was unauthorized. President John Harrison stated today that no such meeting had been called.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Plains
The
Plains Parent-Teacher Association
John Harrison
Branch Office Post Office Raid Yields Cash and Stamps
Motor bandits broke into a branch post office near Fifty-Eighth and Market streets in Philadelphia. They smashed the safe and escaped with 1400 dollars in stamps and cash.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Fifty-Eighth and
Market Streets
Price girl to be subpoenaed in Whitfield murder trial
Marie Agnes Price, 14, companion of John L. Whitfield in his flight after Patrolman Dennis Griffin’s killing, was to be served with a subpoena in Fort Wayne to testify for the state in the trial now under Judge Frank C. Phillips in Cleveland. The state aims to prove Whitfield was armed when the couple left Cleveland after the shooting. Eleven jurors were tentatively seated with remaining challenges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland, CO
Marie Agnes Price
Gtr
John L. Whitfield
Madison
Wis
Dennis Griffin
Whitfield
Frank C. Phillips
Fort Wayne
Ind
Whitfleta
Cleveland
Mother and Baby Bound for State Prison in Ohio
Mrs. Julia Guirga arrives at Stark county jail with a six month old infant and seven year old daughter to await transfer to the Marysville reformatory for a year sentence under dry laws. Judge A W Agler fines her 509 dollars. The state arranges care for mothers with infants at the reformatory. An earthquake fact is noted in the report.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canton
Julia Guirga
Stark County
Marysville Reformatory
Reformatory
Inter-City Kiwanis Picnic Planned at Risine Park
Logan reports the Kiwanis inter-city picnic set for August 9 at Risine Park with Athens Lancaster and Logan clubs participating. Tennis and volleyball accompany outdoor games and a big picnic dinner noted as the main feature. The Loran club plans a large delegation.
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Logan
Risine Park
Lancaster
Athens
Loran
Supreme Court likely to delay ruling on whiskey prescriptions
Washington reports that doctors may face six more months of Volstead limits on whiskey prescriptions as the case from Judge Knox moves through the Second Circuit. The Montana decision expands the issue to both quantity and total number of prescriptions, with the government pursuing direct Supreme Court review in the fall term.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Department of Justice
Treasury Department
Knox
Federal Court of New York
Circuit Court of Appeals
Second Circuit
Bourquin
Federal Court of
Montana
Federal District Attorney
New York
Circuit Tribunal
Orphant Lizzie to be Auctioned by Cincinnati Police
Cincinnati police plan to auction the unclaimed one ton truck nicknamed Orphant Lizzie. Proceeds will go to the police relief fund. The vehicle was seized in a liquor raid and has a noted history of five trips to Canada for liquor cargoes.
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Cincinnati
Canada
Perry County Grand Jury Indicts Day Officer for Murder
A. H. Fouts state prohibition Officer is indicted for first degree murder by the Perry county grand jury. The case stems from a dry raid near Bruno Butler’s Corning mine death. Butler’s body was found within a day. Fouts was jailed here then moved to Newark amid mob violence, returned as a grand jury witness, then sent back to Newark. He had been acquitted two months earlier on assault and battery charges.
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Perry County
Grand Jury
New Lexington
A. H. Fouts
Prohibition
Bruno Butler
Fouts
Butler
Newark
Step siblings wed in Lima church match
In Lima Ohio a step brother and step sister married at the First Baptist church. The union makes the bride’s mother her mother in law and the bridegroom’s father his father in law. Shaw and Mrs Barnes had married over three years ago. Their children, a son and daughter, fell in love and wed.
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Lima
Ohio
First Baptist Church
Frank Shaw
Blanche Barnes
Shaw
Receivers Appointed for Dollings Subsidiaries
Comon Pleas Judge Duncan named Samuel Kinnear former Columbus postmaster and Arthur Crumrine Columbus receivers for Franklin Brick and Tile Co. He also named William C. Willard Huntington National Bank Columbus and William G. Pickre Dayton as receivers for Recording Devices Co. Bond set at 25666. Receivership for Barton Townsend Co. of Zanesville scheduled today.
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Comon Pleas
Duncan
Samuel Kinnear
Fromer Columbus
Arthur Crumrine
Columbus
Franklin Brick & Tile Company
William C. Willard
Huntington National Bank
William G. Pickre
Dayton
Recording Devices Company
Dollings Company
Barton-Townsend Company
Zanesville
State to Present Evidence in Probe of War Materials Theft
Indications were that the state would present evidence to a grand jury to indict W. H. Cabeen F. J. Woodward and Arthur Goldberg former state highway employees dismissed by Municipal Judge Seidel over alleged theft of surplus war materials from the state fair grounds Columbus July 25.
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Columbus
W. H. Cabeen
F. J. Woodward
Arthur Goldberg
Seidel
Rebel trike beyond Ghilfd in New York harbor strike
In Hoboken eight longshore liners idle as I L W W branch members threaten to halt all shipping. About 1000 I L W W men and 1299 regular union members are involved in the walkout. Circulars claimed every ship would be tied up by 10 this morning as Joseph Ryan vows to uphold the contract and help break the W W strike.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Hoboken
Marine Transport Workers
New York Harbor
International Longshoremen's Association
TI. W. W
Joseph Ryan
Steamship Lines
W. W
Devastating Flood Strikes Shoshone Valley Yellowstone Route
Heavy rain and cloudbursts devastate the Shoshone valley near Cody Wyoming. Debris blocks routes and isolates 400 tourists while rail lines suffer extensive damage across Burlington and Northern Pacific tracks. Damages range from hundreds of thousands to millions with no fatalities reported yet.
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Cody
Wyo
Yellowstone Park
Shoshone Valley
United States Forestry Service
Canyon Creek
Absaroka Letee
Grinnel Creek
Sanders
Northern Pacific
Wyola
Burlington
Burlington, Cloudbursts Halted All Traffic From the East Into BH Lings
Forsythe
Rock Springs
Arminge
Thermopolis
Riots in Frankfurt Cause Kills and Wounds Amid Turmoil
Berlin dispatch reports communist rioting in Frankfurt, Germany, leaving many dead and over 100 wounded as shops suffer extensive damage. In Ohio, a three grade cream system begins in Highland County to improve dairy quality with support from the Ohio Farm Bureau Federation and Ohio State extension service.
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London
Frankfurt
Germany
Berlin
Star
Columbus, CO
Highland County
Ohio Farm Bureau Federation
Ohio State University
Thieves Steal From Bucyrus Grocery, Overlooked Cash
In Bucyrus Ohio two bottles of pop pipes cigarettes and candy were taken from a local grocery. The cash register was short by 61 dollars and police suspect boys as the culprits.
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Bucyrus, O
Bridge Replaced After Destructive Fire on Local Railroad
In Medina Ohio it took 23 hours to replace a 75 foot bridge on the Akron Canton and Youngstown line after a fire destroyed it. Trains were detoured over the B and Q railroad during the work.
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Medina, O
Akron, Canton and Youngstown
Logan Hit By Severe Electrical Storm
Logan Ohio experienced a strong electrical storm Tuesday morning with thunder waking residents. Lightning killed two dairy cows near Lloyd Hansley, causing about 156 dollars in losses, while a large elm at Dr J S Cherrington’s home on Mound Street was struck but caused little damage to the porch.
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Logan
Lloyd Hansley
United Methodist Churches Move Toward Reunification
In Cleveland Ohio on July 28 the unity plan for the Methodist Episcopal Church and its South branch gained unanimous approval from the unification committee. If northern general conference votes yes next May, a southern session would follow to grant final approval, aiming for completion by 1925.
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Cleveland, CO
Methodist Episcopal Unity
United States
Methodist Episcopal Church South
Committee On Unification
Sesmo
General Conference
Germany to issue internal gold mark loan in Paris report
Paris sources report Germany plans an internal gold mark loan to support its finances. The rumor circulated after discussions with French officials and quotes unnamed ministers. The brief note gives no loan size or timeline.
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Paris
Germany
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Lino
Jack Carberry
Arms
Henry Ruscombe
George A. Wortham
Paul Berkeley
Internnational
BOLD
Uncle Sam
W. H. Atkins
Nippon Female Commercial College
Tokio
Corning Miner
Dollings
R. L. Dollings Company
Ghilfd
M. E. Church
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