Tate Starts Hunt For Star Trial Witness
Chicago May 20 The state moves to locate witness Robert White missing since being offered 25000 to leave town and threatened if he testifies in the William D Shepherd William Nelson McClintock murder case Crowe asserts White is in Florida and will present an affidavit to counter defense claims of escape judges delay juror examination continued this afternoon
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Chicago
William D. Shepherd
William Nelson McClintock
Shepherd
Robert White
White
Charles C. Faiman
Faiman
National University of Science
Florida
Robert L. Crowe
Thomas J. Lynch
France to reveal war debt policy to United States soon
Paris May 20 The French government expects by Saturday to publish a draft policy on its war debt to the United States as a basis for negotiations. Finance Minister Caillaux and Foreign Minister Briand will involve experts Seydoux and Berthelot. internally the matter is in a technical stage while talks with the US remain diplomatic.
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Paris
United States
Finance Ministry
Washington
Painleve
Chamber of Deputies
Caillaux
Briand
Jacques Seydoux
Phillippe Berthelot
Ford Family Expands Power in Wall Street Venture
A new bank in Wall Street linked to Edsel Ford provokes Wall Street skeptics while Henry Ford's son serves as a Detroit Guardian Trust director. The Ford family moves into the financial arena with ample backing, spurring concern about Ford influence.
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Arthur Burisbaneé
Star Company
Wall Street
Edsel Ford
Henry Ford
Guardian Trust Company of
Detroit
Fords
Ford
United States
Wussy the singing dog shocks Cleveland police
Victoria Hochfelder awoke to a puzzled scene as her singing dog Wussy, once a famed Cleveland pet known for whining along phonograph records and dancing in rhythm, is now gone leaving her prostrate with grief and questions for police.
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Cleveland
Wussy
Victoria Hochfelder
Peace efforts fail to settle church fight in Presbyterian rift
In Columbus on May 20, leaders report peace overtures among Presbyterian factions failed and a Thursday vote will decide control of the church. Ultra conservatives oppose the Erdman candidacy with Thompson backed by militants, while the New York presbytery dispute and Fosdick case loom over the assembly.
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Columbus
Presbyterian Church
Charles FR. Erdman
Princeton University
Princeton, N. J
Clarence E. McCartney
William Jennings Bryan
Florida
Erdman
William O. Thompson
Ohio State University
Doctor Thompson
General Assembly
Chester
New York
Jong
Harry Emerson Fosdick
First Presbyterian Church
New York City
New New York
Presbytery
Supreme Court blocks referendum on Ohio gas tax repeal
Ohio's high court rules the 2 cent gasoline tax is not subject to a voter referendum, upholding the law and ending opponents' challenge. The decision, cited by tax expert Wilbur Benoy, solidifies the tax as an Ohio statute until Legislature acts. Charles C. Jones led the suit as secretary of the Ohio State Automobile Association.
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Columbus
State Supreme Court
Wilbur E. Benoy
Attorney General
Ohio
Benoy
Supreme Court
Charles C. Jones
Ohio State Automobile Association
Union May Stop Co op Mining
Indiana court ruling by Judge Robert C Baltzell denies an injunction against union interference with miners in cooperative ventures. The decision permits union officials to threaten revoking charters of locals whose members work mines under group leasing or joint stock ownership.
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Indianapolis
Co-Operative Mining Ventures
Indiana
Robert C. Baltzell
U.S. District Court
Baltzell
Kentucky Woman Criminally Abused Post Mortem
Coroner in Cincinnati reports Mrs. Aileen Williams 38 Bromley Ky found murdered near Cincinnati after a postmortem found she was criminally attacked. Detectives state Joseph Cavanaugh Dayton Ky admitted meeting her in Cincinnati Saturday night. Her skull was fractured and a necktie suggested strangulation. Diamonds valued at 600 dollars and 60 dollars in cash were missing.
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Cincinnati
D. C. Handley
Aileen Williams
Bromley
Joseph Cavanaugh
Dayton
John Williams
Williams
Handley
Jewelry heist at Capitol Building looms in Chicago raid
Four bandits entered a jewelry establishment in downtown Chicago near the Capitol building. A sought after safe or loot valued at about 100000 dollars is reported, while a man was bound and shot during the incident. Authorities seek suspects and details of the crime.
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Chicago
Capitol
Samson
Cincinnati
Ohio Times
Trade Commission Seeks Secrecy in Publicity Policy
Washington May 20 The federal trade commission debate on publicity moved to big business as Commissioner Humphrey urged the chamber of commerce to back the new policy of secrecy. He defended ending preliminary public charges as unjust to defendants and dangerous to the public, contrasting with the former practice.
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Washington
Federal Trade Commission
W. E. Humphrey
United States Chamber of Commerce
Commission
Humphrey
Great Coal Company Closes Mines in Two States
Pittsburgh Coal Company announces closure of all union mines in its district and Ohio. Forest Hill near West Newton shuts, 400 workers laid off. Longtime operations fell from 50 mines in Pittsburgh district and 14 in Ohio to current closures. Company cites Jacksonville scale and below cost sales as causes. A proposed solution comes from miners in Pomeroy, Ohio, who agreed to work on the November 1917 wage scale three weeks ago.
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Great Coal Company
Pomeroy
Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh Coal Company
Union
Forest Hill
West Newton
Ohio
Jacksonville
West Virginia
Kentucky
Pennsylvania
Pomeroy, O
Congress weighs new teeth for dry law enforcement
The Couzens Senate committee opened consideration of proposals for stronger prohibition enforcement. It urged federal aid to dry agencies, higher sleuth salaries, and action to halt contraband imports, including possible state department notes to foreign governments to curb booze shipments.
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Washington
Congress
Couzens Senatorial Committee
Treasury Department
Navy
Atlantic
Pacific
Department of Justice
Detroit
Lincoln C. Andrews
Prohibition Bureau
State Department
American
América
Brown Gas Tax Upheld by Court
Columbus officials defend the 3 cent gasoline tax under the Brown act as the Ohio Supreme Court upholds its constitutionality. The ruling, issued Monday, holds the act not subject to referendum and relates to a test suit by Charles C. Janez of the Ohio Automobile Association.
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Columbus
State Supreme Court
Charlies C. Janez
Ohio Automobile Association
Upkeep of Planes Washington
Army estimates show that it costs from 400 to 3000 dollars a year to operate an airplane.
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Washington
Bulgarian Cathedral Bombing Death Sentences Upheld
The court of appeals confirmed death sentences for Friedman, Scaristan, Colonel Koeff, and Zaugorky in the Sveti Kral cathedral bombing that killed 160 people. Sentences were sent to King Boris for signature. hangings were expected in the public square before the cathedral ruins.
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Sofia
Court of Appeals
Sveti-Kral
Friedman
Scaristan
Koeff
Zaugorky
Boris
Girl 15 Fatally Wounds Woman in Riverdale Shooting
Chicago dispatch reports a 15 year old girl shot Misa Simneck and Birdie Wunsch after accusing her father of infidelity. Lucille Wunsch fired on her father and Miss Simneck near the Trapp home, wounding all, with her mother taking a bullet meant for Wunsch.
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Chicago
Misa Agnes Simneck
William Wunsch
Birdie
Lucille Wunsch
Pobice
George Trapp
Riverdale
Miss Simneck
Lucille
Mother
Wunsch
Vinton Sheriff Sentenced For DWI In Columbus
Fletcher Collins, sheriff of Vinton county, was sentenced to sixty days in the workhouse by Municipal Judge Miller for driving while intoxicated. His attorney filed a bill of exceptions for June 2, while Collins remains free on bond. Collins, rearrested two months ago by Officer Waugh, had wine found in the car. He is married with five children and was reelected to a second term last November.
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Columbus
Fletcher Collins
McArthur
Vinton County
Miller
Collins
Waugh
Jury selection appointees named in Common Pleas court
James B. Rose and Charles Monks were appointed commissioners of jurors in Common Pleas court by L. G. Worstell on Tuesday.
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James B. Rose
Charles Monks
Common Pleas Court
L. G. Worstell
Ohio Attorney General to Seek Supreme Court Ruling
Columbus May 20. Attorney General Crabbe reviews Governor Donahey’s request to seek a Supreme Court decision on the constitutionality of Ohio accepting the John Bryan farm with the condition that no religious services be held on the property.
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Columbus
Crabbe
Donahey
State Supreme Court
John Bryan
Soviet plot to overthrow Bulgarian government uncovered in Sofia trial
In Sofia May 20 a trial in Vratsa revealed the central committee in Moscow planned a sudden incident at Sveti Krai cathedral and organized a Bulgarian Soviet republic bid. Special couriers were sent to form groups and unite with the Agrarians under Ivan Nenoff to direct the Sofia district with a five member sub committee spending large sums.
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Sofia
Bulgaria
Central Committee
Moscow
Sveti Krai
Vratza
Ivan Nenoff
Nenoff
Crisis in French Morocco as Rif tribes mass for battle
Dispatches from Fez report a rapidly approaching crisis in French Morocco as Rif tribesmen mass for a decisive clash with augmented French troops.
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Paris
Fez
French Morocco
Obscene magazines targeted for removal urged by Ohio AG
Ohio Attorney General Crabbe told county prosecutors to enforce the state law banning obscene magazines and papers. He asked local officials to remove such periodicals from newsstands following a letter from Florence D. Richards, president of the Ohio W. Co. T. A., naming numerous titles as obscene.
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Columbus
Crabbe
Ohio
Florence D. Richards
Ohio W. Co. T. A
McNutt Awarded Damages in Electric Co. Case
George McNutt a Marietta brick contractor wins 5537 in a federal court jury verdict against the Monongahela West Penn Electric Co He sought 10200 claiming injury last year after accidentally touching an electric wire during work in Columbus Ohio May 20 19XX.
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Columbus
George McNutt
Marietta Brick Contractor
Monongahela & West Penn Electric Co
McNutt
Entire Town Joins Hunt For Robber In Maine
Winthrop, May 20. After shooting Mrs. Emma Towns and setting her cottage ablaze, a man abducted her niece Mrs. Alda Hayward in an auto. Towns is in serious condition with wounds to face and neck as 2,500 residents join a mass search.
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Winthrop
Maine
Emma Towns
Alda Hayward
Great Exodous Of Beer Arrives In Canada At 12:01 PM
Detroit reports a cross border beer movement as Ontario loosens laws to permit import of 4.4 percent beer from government warehouses. Windsor prepares twelve war rooms while Windsor’s Prince Edward Hotel hosts a basem ent tap room. The event signals a rush of American money and Canadian bars on the eve of Thursday afternoon.
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Canada
Detroit
Mich
Ontario
Windsor
Prince Edward Hotel
King George 5
Jacksonville Agreement Boosts Mine Output Claims
Union officials foresee ultimate victory under the Jacksonville agreement as the Dark Hollow mine resumes at 60-40 plan and Essex Coal Mine No. 6 reports 500 tons daily with 75 workers. Paydays reveal wages around 68 to 113 dollars after deductions as Meigs county workers, many long associated with the company, reflect renewed activity.
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L. H. Foulke
Pomeroy
Burgh Coal Company
Easex
Jacksonville
Meigs County
Starter
Essex Coal
Hobson
New York Central Ida
C. Va
New York Central
Ch. Va
Forrsty Case
Thomas York
Pittsburgh Coal Company
Learn the facts about the bev in American forests
A garbled note discusses American forests and timber issues. It mentions the Forest Service and state concerns about lumbering's impact on resources, urging readers to send stamps for illustrated materials on forest conditions.
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America
Our Washin
Bureau
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Crowe
Mr. Ford
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Wuzzy
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Fie
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