Dr Walter Simons Takes Oath as German President
Berlin March 12 Dr Walter Simons former foreign minister took the oath as successor to the late President Ebert. Clerical and Middle parties nominate Dr Wilhelm Marx for coalition presidential candidate while right wing groups threaten their own choice. Karl Jarres may oppose Marx.
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Dr. Marx
Berlin
Mar
German Republic
Walter Simons
Ebert
Wilhelm Marx
Prussia
Fehrenbach
Otto Gessler
Bavarian People's Party
Economic Party
Marx
Karl Jarres
Interior
Forces of Senate Probe of Justice Department
A fragment from 1924 shows a Senate probe discussion where Muma quotes Daugherty alleging a law violation and a refusal to advise. The text continues with statements by Spellacy about the interaction and conclusions drawn on that point.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
Spellacy
Muma
Daugherty
Nurmi Repeats 3000 Meter Mark In Two Mile Race
Paavo Nurmi of Finland breaks his own 3000 meter record in a two mile race at the Greek-American A C meet in New York. He clocks 8 minutes 24 2-5 seconds for 3000 meters and 9:03 1 5 for two miles. Teammate Willie Ritola also competes in 14:14 for three miles.
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New York
Paavo Nurmi
Finland
Andy Craw
Jimmy Connolly
Georgetown University
Nurmi
A. C
Willie Ritola
Willie Plant
Phil Granville
Canada
Joe Pearman
Influenza In Chicago Near Epidemic Stage
Chicago reports 78 new influenza cases and seven deaths in 36 hours raising totals since March 1 to 121 dead from influenza and pneumonia. City health commissioner says no real epidemic but urges public precautions to prevent spread. In Columbus Ohio, over 5,000 public school pupils are absent due to illness including colds and mild influenza.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Mar
Herman WN. Bunderen
Columbus
Ohio
Drul Palmer
Murder in First Degree Charged in Atchison Case
Roy M. Turner of Wichita Kansas, former University of Kansas football player, is charged with murder in the first degree after Atchison divorcee Dora Gage dies in a Kansas City hotel room. A deputy coroner’s report found poison in her stomach and three large bruises on her body. Turner, who was arraigned and held without bond, admits meeting Gage and describes giving her a drink he claims she asked him to throw out the window after she fell ill. He alleges she discussed her note and foreclosures on a Nevada Missouri farm and an insurance policy.
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Kansas City
Roy M. Turner
Wichita
Kans
University of Kansas
Dora Gage
Atchison
Ency Poteen
Turner
Mrs. Gage
Demand for Expulsion of All W W Members at Ohio Union Meet
Bellaire Ohio March 12 The sub district convention of United Mine Workers of America adopted a resolution demanding expulsion of members affiliating with the Industrial Workers of the World Wm H Roy vice president of the Ohio miners union stated that WW members within the union had fleeced the sub district of 50000 by diverting funds meant to aid jail prisoners for I W W support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bellaire
Ohio
United Mine Workers of America
Industrial Workers of the World
Wm. H. Roy
Ohio Miners’ Union
W. W
Miners’ Union
Samuel Biern Dead Victim of Pneumonia
Huntington WV March 12 Emanuel Biern seventy four years old is named as the deceased in a pneumonia death. The report notes his age and place indicating a local obituary notice.
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Samuel Biern
Huntington
W. Va
Emanual Biern
Much Wanted Escaped Prisoner Recaptured
Walter Williams twenty seven escaped from the county jail by sawing his way out and was recaptured tonight in the northern part of Columbus. He was wanted in three penal institutions and is believed to have escaped from Moundsville West Virginia prison on May sixth nineteen twenty two and the Iowa Michigan reformatory on May twenty ninth nineteen twenty four. Burglary appears to be his forte.
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Columbus
Ohio
Walter Williams
Williams
Moundsville
W. Va
Iowa
Mich
Huntington Businessman and City Leader Dies at 70s
Longtime Huntington figure and former city council member dies of pneumonia contracted a week earlier. Survived by widow and three sons: Dr. Oscar Biern, Samuel Biern, and Arthur L. Biern. Services to be held at the grave with Rabbi Feinstein officiating. Biern was a leading member and officer of Temple Ohev Sholem.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Huntington
Oscar B. Biern
Samuel Biern
Arthur L. Biern
Wheeling
Huntington Masons
Rathi A. Feinstein
Temple Ohev Shoim
Mr. Biern
Parry Miller Wins Moundsville Mayoral Race
Par ry Miller a Democrat won the Moundsville mayoral election defeating Republican J W Garvin by 1587 to 1518. Council seats split evenly with two members from each party. school board Republicans Drake Charles Morgan Arthur Montgomery Hugh Thompson and William S Daltzell won.
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Moundsville
W. Va
Charles Gamble
A. R. Acker
Charles G. Morgan
Arthur Montgomery
Hugh Thompson
William 8. Daltzell
Seaplane Ambulance for Queenstown Plans Passed Tests
In Southampton England a seaplane ambulance designed to serve as an air medical craft for Queenstown has passed all tests. The report notes skepticism toward Congress members, suggesting critics might not fare better if placed in their shoes.
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Southampton
Eng
Ince Guianna
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Walter Simon
Washington
Burns
Quimby
Rickard
W. D. van Riper
Jack Dempsey
Jack Kearns
Mr. Burns
Hudson
Purdue
Wisconsin
Kansas
London
THE
United Woolen Mills Co
Princeton, Cor
Federal
Cincinnati
Dayton
Springfield
Lima
Hamilton
Portsmouth
Mansfield
Zanesville
Cambridge
Marietta and Steubenville
Parkersburg
Clarksburg
Charleston
Wheeling and Fairmont
Ashland
By Aker
Th’ Wan
Mrs
Nou
Pia
Mrs. Hoople
Parry Miller
Tommy
Eddie Roush
Cincinnati Reis
Steckler’s Men’s Shop
Hart Schaffner & Marx Clothes
George M. Cohan
Chesterfield
Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co
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