French Cabinet Crisis Looms Over Finance Clash
Paris reports a brewing French cabinet crisis as Premier Herriot and Finance Minister De Monzie clash over plans to raise funds. De Monzie seeks four billion francs of extra paper money and a 10 percent wealth levy while ministers dispute loan terms and timing ahead of a key finance committee vote.
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Paris
Herriot
M Monzie
Gavment
Chamber of Deputies
Ile
M. de Monzie
Premier Herriot
de Monzie
Kila
Elysco Palace
M. de Monale
Perriot
Senate
Chamber
Three Men Sought in Death of Mrs. Sullivan
State Police spread a drag net in Pottsville to find three men believed to know details of the death and attempted incineration of Mrs. Anna Sullivan age twenty eight. Autopsy shows skull fracture from a blow using a blood stained stone or nearby jug. Witness saw the woman enter an automobile on South Center Street around 9:30 pm March 28.
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Pottsville
Anna Sullivan
South Center Street
Romania Passes Emigration Bill Despite British Protest
Parliament in Bucharest adopted the emigration control bill today despite a strong protest from Great Britain. Britain warned the measure would drive British steamship companies out of Romania, signaling tension between the two governments.
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Bucharest
Romania
Great Britain
Rumania
Tendler Stops Julian in Philadelphia Fight
Welterweight Lew Tendler defeats Tony Julian of Braden Massachusetts by technical knockout in the third round when Referee Arthur Nolan stops the bout as Julian cannot continue.
Girls find diamond brooch valued at five thousand dollars
Two ten year old girls in Philadelphia found a shiny pin in the street today and turned it over to the police. The brooch is described as a diamond and is valued at about five thousand dollars.
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Philadelphia
San Francisco Girl Seeks Sanity Ruling in Mother's Slaying
The prosecution in 17 year old Dorothy Ellingson murder case began presenting evidence to show she is sane. Protective officer Katherine Sullivan testified Ellingson said she could answer the alienists questions and stated the truth stands above all things. Sullivan identified four statements by Ellingson about her night life and testified she danced drank and played the phonograph after shooting her mother to forget.
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San Francisco
Cal
Dorothy Ellingson
Katherine Sullivan
Suit Based on Law Ante‑Dating Revolution
Philadelphia April 6 Police Magistrate Evan T Pennock received notice of a $10000 suit for alleged illegal search of a citizen s house for liquor on March 10 Herbert Edge a bookkeeper filed the suit Edge and his wife swore no intoxicating liquor was ever in their home Lincoln Leyre lawyer who served notice said it was not personal against the magistrate but a test case backed by the association against the prohibition amendment The lawyer said they ante dated the revolution to find a law to support the suit
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Philadelphia
Evan T. Pennock
Herbert Edge
Edge
Lincoln Leyre
Association Against the Prohibition Amendment
Tribute paid memory Admiral R. E. Peary
In Arlington cemetery on the sixteenth anniversary of Peary's North Pole discovery a veterans group led ceremonies with navy and marine corps officials and National Geographic Society participation. Rear Admiral Luther E. Gregory and Dr. J. Howard Gore gave addresses honoring the explorer.
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Washington
Robert E. Peary
North Pole
Arlington Cemetery
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Navy
Marine Corps
National Geographic Society
Luther E. Gregory
J. Howard Gore
Martinsburg Man Appointed Twenty third Judicial Circuit Judge
Decatur H Rodgers of Martinsburg was named judge of the twenty third circuit by Governor Gore. A 35 year old Berkeley County native with a VA education, he served in the U S Army in 1918 and later worked as assistant to the Berkeley County State’s Attorney. He plans to qualify on commission and attend the April Berkeley Springs term if notified in time.
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Martinsburg
Gore
Woods
W. Va
Decatur H. Rodgers
Twenty-Third Judicial Circuit
J. M. Woods
Rodgers
Herbert Ebannis
Berkeley County
American Legion
Berkeley Springs
Friend of Fatman Caught by Chicago Police
Chicago April 6 Police began a search for Winfield Hoegger inspector for the Chicago department and friend of C. C. who confessed he turned over infected fever germs to William Depherd foster father of the late William N. McClintock. Attorneys for Shepherd seek bail in the state supreme court after three failed attempts. State's Attorney Crowe said he would travel to Springfield to argue if oral arguments are required. Mercury found in organs of McClintock and Mrs Emma Nelson McClintock and Dr Oscar Olson, investigations continue with final coroner report due midweek.
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Crowe
Springfield
Supreme Court
Chicago
Winfield Hoegger
Ee Department
C. C
William Depherd
William N. McClintock
Farman
Eefly Health Department
Shepherd
McClintock
State Supreme Court
Criminal Courts
Robert EB. Crowe
Perevon
Hidker Court
Eimma Nelson McClintock
Young McClintock
Oscar Olson
Harry Olson
Germany's Dawes Plan Payments Reported for March
Berlin reports that Germany paid 91,691,000 marks under the Dawes plan in March. Britain received 21,600,000 marks, France 37,900,000, and Japan supplied $595,000 in dyestuffs. Total payments since the plan began reach about $145,000,000 in seven months.
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Berlin
Germany
Great Britain
France
Japan
Dawes
Adams admits attempt at bank robbery in Keedysville
Clifford Snively nineteen year old college student confessed to State’s Attorney Wellsworth Roulette that he tried to hold up the Citizens Bank of Keedysville on Saturday night. Accomplice Howard Lynch confessed to cutting the wires that threw the town into darkness and aided the planned distraction.
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Hagerstown
Clifford Snively
Keedysville
Wellsworth R. Roulette
Citizens Bank of
Howard Lynch
Snively
Lynch
George W. Buxton
Prize Offered to Juvenile Glee Clubs in State Meet
Clarksburg W V April 6 100 prize announced by Cora Atchison federation president after Morgantown committee meeting. The $100 award goes to the best juvenile glee club affiliated with the West Virginia Federation of Music Clubs at the state meeting in Huntington next spring.
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Clarksburg
W. Va
Cora Atchison
West Virginia Federation of Music Clubs
Morgantown
Huntington
Man Excused From Jury Duty For Wedding Plans
Philadelphia April 6 a bachelor of forty was excused from jury duty after arguing income from landscaping would support his marriage in June. Judge Auderted of the quarter sessions court dismissed Thomas Conner as a wedding present saying jury service would ruin his spring work.
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Philadelphia
Audearted
Quarter Sessions Court
Thomas Conner
Coumer
Jane
Cotton Manufacturers Conclave Sees Budget Surplus Forecast
Washington reports at the National Association of Cotton Manufacturers banquet that under the 1926 budget the year will end with a balanced budget and a surplus of 67 884.48 dollars. Director Lord cites efficiency and economy and notes a 33 1/3 percent public purse assessment versus 66 2/3 percent for states and cities.
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Washington
Coolidge
National Association of Cotton Manufacturers
Treasury
Bureau of the Budget
Lord
Boston
Morgan Butler
Massachusetts
South America
Colombia
Ecuador
Brazil
Australia
Malay Peninsula
Julius Kien
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
The
Commerce Department
Brenner Beats Ex-Champion Lynch In Lancaster Fight
Len Brenner of Lancaster won a judges decision over Joe Lynch ex bantamweight world champion in an eight round bout. Brenner stayed on his toes throughout and stifled Lynch’s late rally in the closing rounds.
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Lancaster
Len Brenner
Joe Lynch
Brenner
Nonunion coal output rises in northern West Virginia
Fairmont April 6 production reports show 771 cars of nonunion coal in northern West Virginia, the highest daily output since the strike began. Union coal totaled 185 cars. 119 nonunion mines operated, yielding 86 percent of normal with peaceful marches and limited picketing.
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Fairmont
W. Va
West Virginia
van A. Bittner
George 8. Hrackett
Northern West Virginia Coal Operators Association
Brackett
Mr Brackett
French Ambassador Talks With Kellogg Amid Debt Talks
Reports in congressional circles said the administration weighed starting talks with debtor nations not yet in refunding negotiations. Emile Daeschner met Secretary Kellogg in Washington, with no official disclosure of the conference's nature. The armament conference plans saw no new steps, awaiting Kellogg’s outline of practical arms limitation ideas.
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Washington
Emile Daeschner
Kellogg
State Department
Congress
Snd
Kellorg
Paris
Boy Dies In Bicycle Tragedy At Train Crossing
In Lima Ohio on April 6 14 year old Vertell Boroff was killed when his bicycle rode under crossing gates in front of a Pennsylvania passenger train. Fifteen year old Homer Godfrey riding on the handlebars slipped off but was uninjured.
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Lima
Ohio
Vertell Boroff
Pennsylvania
Homer Godfrey
Engineers Deem Coal River Policies Fair After Inspection
More than 200 stockholders mainly railroad engineers returned to Huntington after touring Coal River Collieries holdings at Asford and Seth in Boone county. They met Warren S. Stone and planned the annual stockholders meeting, later praising living and working conditions while opposing the Jacksonville wage agreement with the United Mine Workers of America.
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Huntington
W. Va
Coal River Collieries Company
Asford and Seth
Boone County
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Warrens. Stone
Brotherhood
Cleveland
Asford
Stone Mine No. 2
Seth
Jacksonville
United Mine Workers of America
Lewis Defeats Mendt After Forty Eight Minutes in Okla Bout
Former world champion Lewis defeated Joe Mendt in Tulea Oklahoma after a grueling forty eight minute match. Three head locks secured the win forcing Mendt to the mat and leaving him partially unconscious.
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Lewis
Tulea
Okla
Strangler
Jackie Coogan Awarded Six Cents in Damages
New York April 6 Jackie Coogan, youthful screen actor, was awarded six cents in damages today by Supreme Justice Delehanty in a suit against Adama Bach Handkerchief Manufacturing Company and Charles FP ue & Company for use of his name and picture without consent.
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New York
Jackie Coocen
Supreme Justice
Delehanty
Adama- Bach Handkerchief Manufacturing Company
Ins
Charles FP Ue & Company
Jackie
Clark widow to receive large share in senator's will
The widow Anna F. Clark receives 2.6 million plus an ante nuptial settlement. Executors hold 600000 in trust for maintenance of the New York home until 1928. Art treasures bequeathed to the Metropolitan Museum of Art as the William A Clark collection. If refused, Corcoran Gallery of Art would receive it. Estate value stated as over 10 million.
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Corcoran Gallery of Art
Washington, D. C
New York
Robert W. Deforest
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Wiliam Andrew Clark
United States
Clark
Galeries
Poms
Gasoline blaze destroys Arnold feed store in Weston
A gasoline explosion at 6 o'clock tonight destroyed the Porter Arnold feed store and Weston Huge Company building on Main Street. Fire caused by an open gasoline bucket injures Kyle Ferinash and halts electric light service for about two hours. The loss is about $15,000 with partial insurance.
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Weston
W. Va
Porter Arnold
Main Street
Mr. Arnold
L. P. Ferinash & Son
Kyle Ferinash
Ferinash
Weston Electric Light Palat
Gore vetoes two West Virginia bills in April session
In Charleston on April 6 Governor Gore vetoed two bills, one lifting the Cabell County domestic relations judge salary from 3000 to 4000 a year and another creating a 7000 dollar Kanawha County prosecuting attorney contingent fund. He objected to the salary rise across terms and to a special measure lacking adequate expenditure safeguards, proposing a general crime detection fund modeled on a prohibition section. The vetoes came with a legislative adjournment and a regret resolution for former Governor Atkinson.
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Charleston
W. Va
House of Delegates
Gore
House
Senate
Atkinson
Cabell County
Kanawha County
Moonshine Raid Ends in Fatal Shootout
Charlie Mills, 42, an alleged moonshiner, was killed early Sunday near Harve Mills home in Monroe County during a raid by seven enforcement officers. Sherman Mills, 17, was captured and jailed in Bluefield. Charlie's body to be buried at Gray Sulphur. Police planned hearings by federal commissioner.
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Charlie Mills
Harve Mills
Monroe County
Valley Road
Lynside
Peterstown
Peters Mountain
Louis Dunn
Mille Hood
Hawkes and Creasy
Erift
Zack Ferguson
Watkins
Bob Taylor
L. N. Lambert
Monroe
J. W Thomas
Mills
Charlie Milla
Sherman
J. W. Thomas
Eli Watkins
Taylor
Autfi
Bluefield
Milla
Princeton
Oakvale
Charlie Mite
Bill Watkins
Ted
Charlie Mille
Balt
Shermen Mills
Charlie Mils
Sherman Mills
Gray Sulphur
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