World business groups urge arbitration treaties to cut waste
Secretary Hughes may back a series of commercial treaties with arbitration to settle business disputes. Secretary Hoover promotes a national drive to insert arbitration clauses in contracts to avoid costly court litigation. Annual waste from perishable goods and foreign trade disputes is estimated at over a billion dollars. The plan envisions a government arbitration court and recognition of arbitration clauses by statute.
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Robert S. Thornburgh
N. S&s
Washington
United States
Hughes
Commerce Hoover
Hoover
Ials
Miller murder case twists on false report about affidavit
The Miller murder case took a new turn after a false report claimed Prosecutor Davis filed an affidavit charging Sarvee Holt with shooting Swanner. Davis denies the error, saying Holt faces inciting and presiding over the crime and may be held as a witness or stand trial. Congressman Foster arrived to assist Miller’s defense as West Virginia lawyers are urged to stay out of the case. A miners group offered guard services to public peace.
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Messenger
Pomeroy
Miller
Davis
Sarvee Holt
Swanner
Holt
the Messenger
J. M. Foster
Athens
West Virginia
Campbell
C. D. Stedman
Oat White
Hugh Mahon
Rail freight traffic hits highest first quarter on record
The American Railway Association reports freight traffic on U S railroads for the first three months of 1923 was the heaviest ever for that period, with a 24 percent rise from last year and a 3.6 percent beat of the prior high. Eastern lines up 22 percent, Southern routes up 33 percent, and Western lines up about 24 percent.
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Washington
American Railway Association
Oberlin Boards Cuts School Year to 36 Weeks
Oberlin Ohio board of education reduced the 38 week school year to 36 weeks to meet the budget. City schools will now align with the college schedule.
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Oberlin, O
Board of Education
Wage Increase At Cleveland Stone Quarry Need 76 Workers
The Cleveland Stone Company announces a wage hike of five to seven and a half cents per hour effective today. Local quarries, including the Berea operation, seek 76 additional workers to meet immediate demand.
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Amherst. C
Cleveland Stone C
Berea
George J Gould Sr Dies After Long Illness in France
George J Gould Sr American financier and railway magnate died in Nice France after a six month illness. He suffered heart weakness and pneumonia. His first wife died in 1921, and in 1922 he wed Guinevere Sinclair in New Jersey before moving to Europe. He planned only one U.S. trip to settle affairs.
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London
George Jay Gould
French Riviera
Nice
Gould
Guinevere Jeanne Sinclair
Lakewood
N. J
Europe
United States
Ohio League of Women Voters Opens State Session
In Columbus on May 16 Governor Donahey Mayor James T Thomas Dr W O Thompson president of Ohio State University Congressman Theodore Burton and Judge Florence E Allen address the opening meetings of the Ohio League of Women Voters Annual Session. The league reports its membership has doubled to about 12 000 women with nearly all congressional districts organized.
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Columbus
Donahey
James T. Thomas
W. O. Thompson
Ohio State University
Theodore Burton
Florence E. Alyen
State Supreme Court
Ohio League of Women
Ters
League
Whitfield Search Intensifies as Manhunt Expands
Prosecuting Attorney Edward C. Stanton seeks a 5000 fund to prosecute the search for John Leonard Whitfield, indicted for the murder of Patrolman Dennis Griffin. Authorities rely on trained manhunters amid tips and sightings from Cedar Grove, Salem, and Pittsburgh directions.
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Cleveland, O
Edward C. Stanton
Common Pleas
John Leonard Whitfield
Dennis Griffin
Whitfield
Cedar Grove
W. Va
Salem
Ohio
J. A. Quick
William Waters
Cleveland
Don Detwiler
Ope Thief Granted Conditional Pardon by Donahhey
Paul Fetters, 29, of Columbus, received a conditional pardon from Governor Donahhey after nearly three years of a five year term for stealing morphine tablets from Dr. George Gardner in Ashville in 1920. Fetters, a former addict, once chauffeured former Governor Judson Harmon.
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Columbus
Paul Fetters
Donahey
Fetters
George Gardner
Ashville
Judson Harmon
Glouster men face liquor charges in Athens court
Three of seven Glouster men arrested for dry law violations appeared in Athens county common pleas. Clint Hook pleaded guilty to possession and selling intoxicating liquor and was fined 400 dollars for possession and 800 dollars for sale plus costs. Ernest Stewart was found not guilty of selling intoxicants and dismissed. Steve Gibbs was found guilty of possessing and selling and fined 100 dollars and costs for possession and 790 dollars and costs for sale. he appealed on error and was released on 1200 dollar bond.
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Glouster
Athens County Common Pleas
Clint Hook
Glouster Poolroom
Worstell
Ernest Stewart
Hook Poolroom
Worsteill
Steven Gibbs
Gibbs
Blind Wheeling man found dead after hanging
Max Goetz a 47 year old blind man was found hanging in his Wheeling home by his wife this morning. He tied a rope to a door hinge and leaned forward to strangle himself. Once a prosperous butcher he later earned a living selling horseradish.
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Wheeling
W. Va
Max Goetz
Goetz
United States objects to allies on army costs stance
Washington reports say the United States rejects allied governments position on army occupational costs as Paris dispatches note deadlock among conferees. The stance is described as without justification and unfair to the United States.
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Washington
United States
Paris
Oil Tank Explosion Triggers Panicked Coast Fire
An 85 000 barrel General Petroleum oil tank near Point Firmin and Fort MacArthur exploded in flames. Fire companies from San Pedro and Los Angeles rushed to the scene to battle the blaze which endangered three nearby tanks and a large residence district.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Fort McArthur
Point Firmin
General Petroleum Company
San Pedro
Tania
Judge orders Dayton jail cleanup before further federal sentences
In Dayton Ohio on May 16 United States District Judge John E. Sater halted federal sentences in Montgomery county jail until the facility is cleaned and made sanitary. Five prisoners recently indicted by the last grand jury were sentenced to the Miami county jail and the judge called the current jail filthy and insanitary.
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Datton
Montgomery County
United States District
John E. Sater
Miami County
Sater
Underwood 10 Announce Self for President
A 1924 Democratic bid centers on Senator Oscar Underwood of Alabama as a likely candidate. Forwarded word says he will announce after Europe travel, with Ford seen as the key unknown factor shaping the race and party support in New York, New Jersey, and Illinois.
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I. N
Washington
Oscar Underwood
Alabama
Europe
Underwood
New York
New Jersey
Massachusetts
Illinois
Smith
Edwards
Henry Ford
Coubt
Ford
White House
William Gibbs McAdoo
McAdoo
San Francisco
Senator Underwood
Attorney Josephson defies parking rules with pink tea cart
Columbus attorney Louis Josephson parks his electric cart in prohibited zones when no space is available. After repeated police notices, Municipal Court Judge Berry orders him to report nightly at 9 to Policewoman Emily Greer to address alleged traffic violations. The potential penalty remains unspecified.
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Louis Josephson
Columbus
Josephson
Emily Greer
Miss G
Two Million Dollar Ransom Demanded by Chinese Bandits
Lin Cheng dispatches report that Shanghai Pekin express bandits hold seventeen foreign prisoners and demand two million dollars for their release. Negotiators countered with eight hundred thousand dollars and hopes rise for action by Thursday.
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Pekin
Lin Cheng
Miniaktey
Whitfield Sought for Murder in Cleveland and Mexico
John Leonard Whitfield is charged with the murder of Patrolman Dennis Griffin in Cleveland last Friday and is wanted in Mexico on a murder charge. A $1850 reward stands for him dead or alive. A tip from a former companion suggests Whitfield feared arrest on an old charge, explaining the shooting after police detained him on a larceny count.
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Cleveland, O
John Leonard Whitfield
Dennis Griffin
Cleveland
Mexico
George Mattowitz
Whitfield
Griffin
Man Fined For Driving With Old License Tags
William Van Meter of Cemetery street was arrested Tuesday by Special Constable Morris Guthrie for driving an automobile with 1922 license tags instead of 1923. He pleaded guilty before Magistrate Helwig and paid a fine of $3 plus costs.
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William van Meter
Cemetery Street
Morris Guthrie
van Meter
Helwig
Northwestern trustees offer $10000 reward for Mount case clues
The Northwestern University board offers ten thousand dollars for information leading to solving the death of Leighton Mount. The item follows a garbled note about a vanished man connected to a claim over a queen of Spain and a student dress dispute from September 1921.
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Chicago
Board of Trustees
Northwestern University Today
Leighton Mount
China talks stall over freeing foreign prisoners
Washington May 1 Jacob Gould Schurman the American minister in Peking reports to Secretary Hughes that no progress is being made in negotiations to compel the Suchow bandits to liberate their foreign prisoners.
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Washington
United States
Jacob Gould Schurman
Peking
Hughes
Leaders Named in Rum Smuggling Ring Warrants Issued
Eight men across New York Philadelphia Uniontown and Washington are charged in formal complaints filed by Herman J Falk as leaders of a large rum smuggling ring. They allegedly conspired to illegally ship 50 000 gallons of alcohol from Havana to the United States aboard the British steamship Yankton.
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New York
Herman J. Falk
United States District Attorney
Jacob A. Kirsch
Charles W. Johnson
Philadelphia
Alfred Ernest Corns
Uniontown
Edward A. Flannigan
Washington
Nathan Shaflin
Abraham Shaflin
Harry L. Marks
Charlies T. Cox
Martins Ferry man chosen for postmaster job
Long, hardware merchant and former mayor of this city, is selected as Republican postmaster by supporters of Congressman Murphy. He has long aided the party and served as a delegate in the 1920 presidential preference primary.
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Martins Ferry
Hayward Long
B. F. Murphy
Long
Miracle save after Sunday flood hits Hot Springs business district
Hot Springs faced a devastating cloudburst and flood that flooded Central Avenue, causing $2,000,000 in damage but, miraculously, no lives lost. Police and Arkansas guardsmen aided rescue and cleanup as power, gas, and water were restored, and trains were expected to resume.
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Hot Springs
Ark
Maine
En Dam
Ea Si
Aveenue
Arkansas
Arrest in Britain After Irish Deportation Controversy
A man who won a challenge to the deportation policy of Ireland to England was rearrested in London today after being released from an Irish jail. The second arrest follows charges brought by the British government.
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London
Art
England
Death of Foster Son Being Probed
Warrant charging Emma Uel, 68, with murdering her 12 year old son Harry by poisoning was issued in Lansing Michigan on May 1. She says she bought poison at a store and was trapped in a maze as investigators pursue conflicting answers about the child’s death while Mrs Koppel denies any intent to obtain $1300 in insurance.
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Lansing
Mich
Emmauel
Harry
Fire fatality in Sandusky house keeps house from burning
Dora Bower 65 a housekeeper died after pouring gasoline on hot coals during a supper fire in Sandusky Ohio. The blaze damaged the Ratduff farm dwelling with an estimated loss of 3000 dollars. She died in Providence hospital yesterday.
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Sandusky
Dora Bower
Daeed
Iosene
Terry
Providence Hospital
Ward Ratduff
Tourists Die in Collision with Electric Car
Four travelers from Texas were killed when their car was struck and demolished by an electric streetcar near Dayton Ohio. The victims were Mr and Mrs Gafford of San Antonio. Identification cards in their pockets indicated prior World War service and membership in Modern Woodmen.
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Dayton, O
Gafford
San
Texas
Dayton and Wese
Mapolis
Meeting Postponed by Pari Teachers Association
The Training school Pari Teachers association meeting held Thursday has been postponed. The new date will be announced later.
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Pari Teachers Association
Afterme
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