Ohio hotel bribery inquiry hears Witness claims debt payment tied to Marshall bill
Senate committee probes alleged hotel lobby bribery as Kryder and Atwood testify Robert O Brien says Senator Rowe gave a 300 note to Attorney Ben J Sawyer with Byers discounting it and taking 50 as expense money Rowe denies wrongdoing saying the note was repaid before the Marshall bill and the loan was for a medical layoff period.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Senate Probe Committee
Kryder
Henry County
Atwood
Franklin County
Senate
Robert O’brien
Ohio Hotel Association
Senator Rowe
Cleveland
Ben J. Sawyer
W. W. Byers
State Hotel Men’s Legislative Committee
Byers
W. C. Nichols
New Philadelphia
Rowe
Marshall
General appropriation bill leads five measures in house
In Columbus on March 28 the 72 million general appropriation bill topped a slate of five laws to be voted on. Other bills set for passage include the Freeman auto bus tax bill, the Brown gasoline tax bill two cents per gallon, the Green county highways system with state aid, and the Brown blue sky law strengthening measure. Dr Albert Einstein denounced the league of nations and asked that his name be removed as a collaborator in Zurich on March 22.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Mar
State Utilities Commission
League Zurich
Albert E. Einstein
League of Nations
Last Dog License Fine Suspended. County Tightens Rules
Walter Warner of Nelsonville admitted on March 15 that he failed to secure a dog license before a county dog catcher visit. Magistrate Helwig fined him five dollars plus costs but suspended the penalty, warning that no further suspensions will be allowed to enforce license tag compliance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter Warner
Nelsonville
Henry Williams
Williams
Helwig
Mariner
Warner
Sutro tunnel project eyed to drain Nevada lode
Washington reports the interior department announced a revival plan to resume the Sutro tunnel. The purpose is to drain the Comstock Lode in Nevada where more than 325 million dollars in gold and silver were extracted in the early sixties.
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Washington
Comstock Lode
Nevada
Interior Department
Adams County Man Sentenced to Death in 1808-Style Case
Robert Davis was sentenced to death for the murder of George Webb in Adams county. The judge is Will P. Stephens. The sentence, set for July 6 in the Ohio penitentiary, marks the first death penalty in Adams county since 1808 following a jury verdict yesterday.
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West Union
Robert Davis
Ohio Penitentiary
Will P
Final stand in Monticella Utah as Indians flee with prisoners
Report describes a pursuit of Piute Indians who fled with two escapees from the San Juan county sheriff. Four posse members are missing but later found. Joe Bishop’s Boy was shot and nearby bodies imply whites close in. Four squaws and papooses were left behind and sent to Blanding under guard. About forty Indians held at Blanding. Runners say a dozen fugitives remain in hills with reinforcements arriving.
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Monticella
Utah
Mars
America
San Juan County
Joe Bishop
Blanding
Steel merger denial filed with FTC over trade restraint charge
General denial was filed by Bethlehem Steel, Lackawanna Steel, and Midvale Steel in response to the Federal Trade Commission’s accusation that their merger would restrain trade. Attorneys for the companies denied the charge in formal answers submitted today.
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Washington, Mar
Federal Trade Commission
Bethlehem, Lackawanna
Midvale
Fatal death of infant in Youngstown cascarets incident
Youngstown Ohio March 22 Josephine Defuria an 18 month old died after swallowing a large quantity of cascarets officials said the child suffocated and died following the accident at home authorities reported the case as sudden infant death linked to ingestion of the drug involved in the household tragedy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Youngstown
Josephine Defuria
Government rests case in liquor conspiracy trial for Gary and Lake County men
In Indianapolis on March 22 the government rested its case against 63 defendants from Gary and Lake County accused of conspiracy to violate liquor laws.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Ind
Gary and
Lake County
Ohio Bell plans $10M 1923 build program across 22 points
Ohio Bell Telephone announces a 1923 construction program exceeding ten million dollars to unify service at 22 dual points and add about 2000 telephone stations. The meeting also approved a quarterly preferred dividend of 1.75 dollars payable April 1 to holders of record March 20.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Mar
Ohio Bell Telephone Company
Borah Advocates GOP Line At Akron Rally
Senator Borah declares third party danger and says old parties can end it. He faces crowd of Ohio voters gathered in Akron under Summit Corporation auspices with reception banquet and rally. Berlin interview quotes Chancellor Cuno resisting Ruhr settlement talks with France while bayonets at Germany's throat are noted.
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France
Ruhr
Borah
Akron
Ohio
William E. Borah
Idaho
Republican Party
Summit Corporation Executive Committee
Portage Hotel
Wave of Prosperity Increases Across U S Industry
The department of commerce reports February showed continued commercial and industrial prosperity in the United States. Business failures declined as stock prices rose and manufacturing output increased, with improvement seen in nearly all lines of industry and reports reaching the department.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Mar
United States
Department of Commerce
Department
Mentor Marsh Blaze Destroys Lake County Marshland
Fire at Mentor marsh spreads for over a mile with flames exceeding 650 feet in the air. Summer cottages and farm homes near Mentor headlands face danger as hundreds observe from the surrounding highlands. Incendiary origin suspected amid Lake County fire losses totaling more than $600,000 in recent blazes.
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Mentor
Lake County
Cleveland
Mentor Marsh
Mentor Headlands
Highlands
Two Girls Die in Rail Crossing Crash Near Wauseon
Helen Schroeder and Helen Bishop, both 15, freshmen at Wauseon High School, died in a late yesterday auto accident at a rail crossing when Lawrence Zimmer drove the car around a freight train. Zimmer was seriously injured and hospitalized.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wauseon, .O
Helen Schroeder
Helen Bishop
Wauseon High School
Lawrence Zimmer
Zimmer
New York Central
Defiance Notary Club President Joins State Committee
Frank F. Hall of Defiance becomes a member of the state committee of northern Ohio for crippled children activities. The appointment expands local leaders in disability advocacy within the region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Defiance, O
Frank F. Hall
The
Defiance Notary Club
State Committee of
Northern
Ohio
Crippled Children
Railway Magnate in Grave Condition On Riviera
George Jay Gould Sr American railway magnate lay ill at his villa on the Riviera as doctors warned of possible sudden collapse due to heart complications. Mrs Gould his second wife married last May assists in nursing. Gould is 59 years old.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mentone
France
George Jay Gould
The
Riviera
Gould
Hold Up Newcomers Washington Deportation Delayed
Secretary of Labor Davis ordered a suspension of deportations for 200 Russians and 500 Poles held at Ellis Island due to immigration quota overruns. The action delays removal while authorities review the cases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, Mar
Davis
Ellis Island
Ohio cities show highest death rates. Jackson tops births
Vital statistics for February report from the state department of health lists Logan and Greenville as the highest death rate cities, with Jackson noting the highest birth rate. Meigs and Clinton counties report the lowest death rates while Athens County totals reflect nine deaths and 16 births outside cities.
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Logan
Greenville
Ohio
State Department of Health
Gallipolis
Jackson
Clinton
Meigs
Athens
Nelsonville
Athens County
Hocking County
Meies
Vinton
Building Under Way At Athens State Hospital Dairy Barn
Work has begun at the Athens state hospital on a new concrete dairy barn for 60 head of young cattle raised on the hospital farm. The fireproof structure includes mow and feed rooms above the stables and uses hospital labor for excavation, expected to finish this week. Construction also progresses on a tuberculosis cottage by CC. P. Kircher of Athens, contract value about 68000 dollars, to house 60 male patients with a private kitchen and dining area to prevent contact with others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Athens State Hospital
CC. P. Kircher
Athens
Rose bush in Martins Ferry promises blooms if weather holds
Fred Morris city building custodian in Martins Ferry notes a budding rose bush and predicts it will bloom if current warm spell lasts several more days. The item reflects a simple local weather-plant observation from a city worker.
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Martins Ferry, CO
Fred Morris
Morris
Pranco German peace plan predicted by Daily Mail
The Daily Mail predicts a Prancio German peace plan within three weeks. It cites Dr Bergmann, a German reparations expert, who drafted the plan with Swiss M Dubois now in Paris to present it to Premier Poincare.
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London
Wrahr
The
Daily Mail
Bergmann
Germany
M. Dubois
Paris
Poincare
German Chancellor Cuno on Peace Terms and Poincare Stand
In an exclusive interview at Wilhelmstrasse Chancellor Cuno themes: France’s insistence on unconditional surrender and German amnesty for prisoners as a condition for peace. He accuses Premier Poincare of blocking negotiations and portrays France pressing for Germany to surrender first.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
Poincare
Cuno
Hoover cites sugar profiteers probe and losses
Washington March 22 disclosure from the Department of Commerce confirms an official inquiry into imported sugar prices. Secretary Hoover asserts the Peoples Legislative Service is a month behind the times in alleging the nation has been robbed of 500 million dollars by sugar profiteers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States
Department of Commerce
Peoples Legislative Service
Times
Secretary of
Commerce Hoover
Akeley Divorce Ends 21-Year Adventurous Partnership
The Chicago divorce court granted Mrs Delia J Akeley a divorce from Carl J Akeley this afternoon ending a 21 year union. The couple famed as big game hunters traveled together through Africa and on the lecture circuit and were known across three continents.
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Chicago
Delia J. Akeley
Carl J. Akeley
Africa
Ford predicts end of today’s big business within decades
Detroit March 22 Henry Ford, in a review of conditions and a future prophecy, says industry will grow so large in 20 years that today’s big business will seem small. He urges investment back into the business, predicts railways electrification, and argues against outside stockholders and middlemen profits.
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Henry Ford
Graham Campbell
I. N
Detroit
Mich
Ford
Dends
Detroit, Toledo
Ironton
Tive
Trouble Resumes at Sugar Creek Mines After Walkouts
Work stoppages ripple through Sugar Creek as No. 209 reopens with No. 210, but men from No. 209 resume walkouts citing unequal work distribution. Some miners refuse to load cars, while No. 210 workers remain on duty amid disputes over shifted work and railroad car allocations.
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Sugar Creek
Ohio Collieries Co
No. 209
No. 210
Young Couple Sought After Infant's Death Sparks Missing Persons Case
Sheriff Yarnall and deputies search western Washington county for Floyd Nice, 17, and his wife, 16, of Wesley township. They disappeared after Acting Coroner B. F. Guyton investigated the seven month old daughter found dead in bed with facial and neck marks. Officials say the couple secured a Parkersburg marriage license by misstating ages.
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Marietta
Mar
Yarnall
Washington County
Floyd Nice
Wesley Township
B. FE. Guyton
Nice
Parkersburg
W. Va
Baltimore writer urges U S recognition of Lenin Trotsky
Mrs Marguerite E Harrison of Baltimore arrives on the President Monroe after a trip to soviet Russia where she was imprisoned as a spy. She urges the United States to recognize the government of Lenin and Trotsky.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Russia
Marguerite E. Harrison
Baltimore
United States
Lenin and
Trotzky
Monroe
Mrs. C. W. Watson Dies in Fairmont Home
Mrs. C. W. Watson wife of former United States Senator Watson of West Virginia died at her Fairmont home. She had been taken in on shipboard while en route to England.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fairmont
W. Va
C. W. Watson
United States
Watson
West Virginia
Seize the Cash in Düsseldorf
In Düsseldorf on March 22 French authorities seized 20.9 million marks of municipal cash and 30 million marks of postal funds and arrested two German postal officials.
Vice President Resigns At United Mine Workers Meeting
Logan March 22 A welcome address opened the United Mine Workers annual convention in the Hocking field with 62 delegates from as many local unions. Congressman T M Foster spoke and was thanked for his Washington work. Swyers resigned as vice president due to ill health. about 12,000 miners exist in the district and past year receipts were 697.09 with expenses 11 654 leaving a balance of 4 045 75. President Hall discussed injunctions against the union and the effort by coal companies to make them permanent.
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Jo Hutchinson
Elmer Allebon
Oral Daugh
Joseph Richards
Henry
Ewin William Rickets
Thomas G
Isaac Jones
Geor S. Thompson
George Barber
Ear Andrews
Clyde Dean
William Southford
A. B. Perguson
Morris Maphey
John Kemper
Worth Parker
D. W. Wallace
Rober Bell
Willam Seiler
Dan Dora
Charles Arbell
Marshall
Ohio Federation & Labor
Wein
Swyers
Yers
Hocking
M Swyers
Hall
Jo Baker’s
West Virginia
Hinchman
Ohio River
Bellai
Eve
Sater
Ohio
Finding of Body Likely Leads to Murder Charge
An investigation into the discovery of 55 year old Ja Labrenich's decomposed body buried in Tamarad swamp near Warren O will likely result in murder charges against several suspects, according to Sheriff Thomas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warren
Ja Labrenich
Tamarad
Thomas
Emma Haas Convicted of Contempt in Bribery Case
Emma Haas was found guilty of contempt in Ironton Ohio for accusing Judge A J Layne of taking a bribe to deny a divorce to Chester Ward. Judge Wood of Mount Gilead sentenced her to five days in jail.
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Ironton
Mar
Emma Haas
A. J. Layne
Common Pleas Court
Chester Ward
Wood
Mount Gilead
Morrow County
Marshall
Ohio Supreme Court
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Renegade Band
Armory
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Teutons
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Berlin
Wilhelm Cuno
Harry S. New
Meigs County
State Hospital
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Ah-wenha
Viener
Esther Pierce
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