England Rejects Geneva Protocol To End War
Geneva March 12. Austin Chamberlain British foreign secretary says Britain cannot sign or ratify the Geneva protocol in its present form. After consulting with dominions he declares the protocol not the best path to peace. League Council crowded by snowbound members hears the decision. The empire pledges sympathy to efforts for a peaceful international organization.
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Geneva
Austin Chamberlain
Council of
League of Nations
Chamberlain
Great Britain
League Council
Britain
Fees Cut in Gas Tax and Pre Primary Convention Bill Move
Columbus reports early conferee agreement on a 37 percent cut to auto tag fees from eight twelve and twenty five to five seven fifty and twelve sixty. The plan also reshapes proceeds shares among counties and addresses 1925 tax collection. A Marshall bill for party pre primary conventions to endorse U S Senate candidates advances with expected House amendments as GOP aims to limit city group control. The Legislature schedules a light agenda and recess.
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Columbus
Senate
House
Senate Automotive Committee
Republican State Central Committee
United States
Friends of
Flying Men Proved It On Him
Arthur Brisbane reports a Tammany Hall leader mocks libel suits and criticizes Mr. Weeks for anti aircraft gun tests. The piece argues flying machines matter in war and should not stop battleship profits.
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Tammany Hall
Weeks
Weeks theory ridicules air defense and claims gold stuffed eagle
The passage mocks anti aircraft defense arguing battleship crews would merely shoot into the sky at invaders. It portrays Americans as a fat, asthmatic, wingless eagle stuffed with gold and ridicules the idea of air attack. Page 4.
Increasing Facilities to Move Coal from South
Columbus, March 12. Work on converting Hocking Valley into a modernized unit of the Nickel Plate System begins with a $2,500,000 appropriation. Parsons avenue yards will nearly double capacity and a double track to Fostoria will be built this year. Yard capacity rises to 4000 cars, up from 2200, with 26 tracks expanding to 50. Completion of the C O link should double tonnage. deliveries rise from 400 to 1200 cars daily if N and W can handle it. Coal from West Virginia and Kentucky now moves through Ohio to the Great Lakes. The line averages eighteen freight trains daily. the new link could push this to about thirty trains daily each way.
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Columbus
Hockin Valley
Parsons Avenue
Fostoria
Hocking Valley
Waverly
West Virginia
Kentucky
Ohio
Great Lakes
Toledo
Chesapeake & Ohio
Notoriety Seeker Returns Home After Wild Spanish Tour
Lieutenant Osborne C. Wood, son of the Philippines governor, ends a two week Spain tour after unpaid gambling debts in France triggered charges at Biarritz. He sails from Cadiz aboard the West Chetac to Tampa with two dollars, paid hotel bills by friends, amid wide press attention calling him "The World's Greatest Spender."
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Cadiz
Spain
Osborne C. Wood
Philippines
Francis
Tampa
Florida
United States Shipping Board
London
The
Shipping Board
Wood
France
Biarritz
Bullet Riddled Sedan Found Near Rendville
Perry county officials investigated a car found just north of Rendville described as riddled with bullets on all sides. A woman's hat umbrella and other apparel lay beside the sedan with no signs of a struggle or blood. License number not reported.
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New Lexington, CO
Perry County
Rendville
Sun Yat Sen Dies at 63 in Peking
Dr Sun Yat Sen former South China leader and first provisional president died of stomach cancer in Peking aged 63 after weeks of illness. He directed reforms and helped abolish the queue while opposing the military governor system.
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Peking
Sun Yat Sen
South China Forces
Sun
China
Reds order planes Rome to supply 200 aircraft
Russia has placed an order with Italian manufacturers for 200 military airplanes in a move signaling expanded wartime air power. The deal ties Rome to Moscow through a large defense procurement amid escalating conflict dynamics.
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REDS
Rome
Russia
Plan Big Parade Climaxes Safety Week in Athens County
Athens County Automobile club officials say preparations are nearly complete for a Safety Parade to crown Safety Week. Troops and Junior Scouts report to the Armory Friday afternoon. Ohio University Band leads, followed by a fire truck, wrecked car, and ambulance. Over 100 cars expected with Kiwanis Rotary Elks Red Cross health department and county delegations participating.
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Athens County
Athens County Automobile Club
Athens
Ohio University Band
Kiwanis
Rotary Clubs
Elks Club
Athens County Red Cross
Health Department
Safety Week
Thirteen Athens county youth accepted for Citizens Military Training Camp
Fifteen candidates were considered but thirteen were definitively accepted for the 1925 Citizens Military Training Camp after the March 1 campaign start. Accepted from Athens include Elmer I Thompson William F Rechtold Clifford A Huggins Byron Rees and Wiley M Ryan with others from Glouster Millfield Coolville and Jacksonville. Camps will be at Camp Knox Kentucky and Fort Benjamin Harrison Indiana from July 8 to August 6 with government expenses paid. Age limits for beginners are 17 to 24 and applicants must be in good physical and moral standing.
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Athens County
Citizens
Fifth Corps
Fort Hayes
Columbus
Athens
Elmer I. Thompson
William F. Rechtold
Clifford A. Huggins
Byron (. Rees
Wiley M. Ryan
Glouster
Thomas Williams, Jr
Paul Kelley
Millfield
Charles W. Sanders
David C. Poling
Coolville
Emmett R. Blair
Dana M. Dean
Jacksonville
Harold K. Woodgard
Camp Knox
Fort Benjamin Harrison
Ind
Swindle Felt In Noble County Two Men Sought
Peter Ostosko says two men sold him two packages claimed to contain 25000 dollars for 1100. When opened only a dollar and papers were found. Police search for the suspects in Caldwell.
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Caldwell
Peter Ostosko
Ostosko
Mysterious Osage murders prompt federal probe in Oklahoma
Washington reports the Department of Justice and the Indian Commissioner are probing a string of Osage killings in Oklahoma. Officials say early evidence points to planning by individuals seeking to seize the Indians large land holdings.
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Washington
Oklahoma
Department of Justice
Bartholomew Lott and Carrie Lambert Unite in Chauncey Wedding
Bartholomew Lott aged 80 and Carrie Lambert aged 70 wed this week in Parkersburg West Virginia. They met at Wood County courthouse and married within three hours of meeting. Lott is father of J Edward Lott of Chauncey.
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C. S. Bradfield, Jr
Chauncey
Bartholomew Lott
Carrie Lambert
Parkersburg
W. Va
Wood County Court House
J. Edward Lott
Aged Doctor Delivers Longevity Advice at 101
Akron dispatch notes Dr. Charlotte Davenport, age 101, lecturing on how to live long. She asserts people gain intelligence after seventy five and criticizes golf as a stupid game, offering practical guidance from a centenarian physician.
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Charlotte Davenport
W. J. Huske
U.S
Akron
State courts face fight over costly Grafton farm site
Lawmakers weigh a plan to erect a state institution for feeble minded care at Grafton Farm. Thomas W. Latham said courts may halt construction and urged securing land near Sandusky and Huron. The bill includes a $549000 appropriation plus $600000 more for the project, depending on final action.
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Columbus
Grafton
Grafton Farm
Thomas W. Latham
Monroeville
Huron County
Pioneer Association of Independent Voters
Latham
Sandusky
Huron
Erie County
Senate Finance Committee
Sings on Loan Miss Kersting to Study in Paris
Miss Kathleen Kersting of Wichita Kansas travels to Paris to study under Madame Jonia Calve the noted French soprano. The Wichita Rotary Club lent her 5000 dollars with repayment only if possible to do so.
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Kathleen Kersting
Wichita
Paris
Jonia Calve
Wichita Rotary Club
Mitchell Washington Charges Upheld on Air Service Deficiency
Brigadier General William Mitchell faced charges of personnel and equipment shortages in the army and navy air service. A special House committee report on military aeronautics development upheld the charges this afternoon.
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Mitchell
Washington
Mar
William Mitchell
Army
Navy Air Service
Special House Committee
Will Ask Senator to Come Across With a Large Sum
Washington March 12 The Bureau of Internal Revenue prepared an arbitrary assessment for levying against Senator James M Couzens Republican of Michigan for income tax paid in 1919 The amount is not stated but is understood to be between 10 000 000 and 11 000 000 the Treasury claims Couzens owes due to under valuation of his Ford Motor stock This is part of the ongoing conflict between Couzens and Secretary Mellon over his investigation of the Bureau's affairs.
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Washington
Bureau of Internal Revenues
James M. Couzens
Michigan
Treasury
Couzens
Couzen
Ford Motor Car Company
Detroit
Truth needed says speaker at Ohio university convocation
Prof Albert Bushnell Hart urged honesty in an Ohio university convocation address. He argued the League of Nations failed, questioned the World Court's reach, and doubted the Protocol of Arbitration can outlaw war. He spoke of an aristocracy of nations and a global wealth and education gap.
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Albert Bushnell Hart
Harvard
Ohio University
U. S
League of Nations
United States
World Court
United Stas
Dr. Hart
Hart
England
France
China
Japan
Germany
Russia
Speeders Face Jail Risk On Rural Athens County Roads
County speed cop H. Gilson urged swift action against fast drivers on the Athens to Glouster road and through Redtown Jacksonville and Millfield. Two speeders Bert Wolf and Eidos Skinner were fined ten dollars and costs after pleading guilty. Courts consider higher fines and possible jail time for repeat offenses over 50 mph.
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Athens County
H. Gilson
Gilson
Athens
Glouster
Redtown
Jacksonville
Millfield
Sanders
Bert Wolf
Eidos Skinner
Wilson
Warren repeats Warren for attorney general after Senate rejection
President Coolidge submitted Charles Beecher Warren of Michigan for the cabinet a second time after a 40 to 40 Senate vote rejected him. A White House breakfast conference with Warren and Senator William Butler followed the move. The absence of Vice President Dawes prevented breaking the tie.
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Washington
Mar
Senate
Charles Beecher Warren
Michigan
Coolidge
Warren
White House
William Butler
Massachusetts
Republican National Committee
Dawes
Dem
Free booklet on school lunches offered to readers
A newspaper ad announces a free booklet titled School Lunches addressing feeding as essential for pupil performance. It covers good bread, packing baskets, foods for children, packing at school, noon meals, food handling, cleanliness, and cost control with a mail coupon and cents in stamps.
Haskin Seeks Return Postage for Booklet
Frederic J. Haskin of The Athens Messenger Information Bureau in Washington asks recipients to enclose two cents for return postage and a copy of the booklet School Lunches. Name
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Frederic J. Haskin
The
Athens Messenger Information Bureau
Washington, D.D. C
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