Covington Police Raid At Stonewall House Seizes Gambling Gear
A Covington county detective and federal agents raided the Stonewall House on the Dixie Highway near Covington Kentucky. Forty six people from Cincinnati and nearby cities were arrested. Gambling equipment and more than $2,000 were seized. No liquor was found. Joseph Helmer owned the roadhouse. Bond set at $500 each.
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Stonewall House
Dixie Highway
Covington
Joseph
Baldy) Helmer
Federal Prohibition
Newman Armstrong
J. M. Hawk
J. M. Wood
W. C. Huddleston
Prohibition
Joseph Helmer
Cincinnati
Louisville
Middletown
Orie S. Ware
Commonwealth Attorney
Japan Lands 16000 at Alexandrovsk Near Sakhalin
A dispatch from Chita reports a Japanese force of 16 000 men landed at Alexandrovsk in the Priamur territory opposite Sakhalin. The island’s split by the 1905 Portsmouth treaty has fueled far Eastern tensions with Japan asserting claims amid Soviet and Sinclair oil developments.
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Japan
Alexandrovsk
Isle of Sakhalin
Associated Press
Moscow
Chita
Far Eastern Republic
Priamur
Sakhalin
Portsmouth
Siberia
Soviet Russia
Sinclair Oil Interests
Tim
Circus Held by Women Rotary Club at Helen Street Armory
The Women’s Rotary Club staged a circus at the Helen Street Armory last night with 800 attendees. A grand march opened the show, and Louise Doll performed as the goose that laid the golden egg while Florence Hendley spoofed Rey Google and Spark Plug beat Lassie Susie. Vendors sold peanuts and lemonades as side shows featured snake charmers bearded ladies and fire eaters.
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Women's Rotary Club
Helen Street Armory
Louise Doll
Florence Hendley
Rey Google
Spark Plug
Lassie Susie
Fatal Crossing Crash Injures Six Near Brantford Ontario
Six people are injured in a collision between an automobile and a Grand Trunk locomotive on the outskirts of Brantford Ontario. A baby among the injured is believed to be dying.
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Brantford
Ont
Grand Trunk
Rescuers Bring Food To Starving Group On Fox Island
Frank J. Parker of Chicago recounted to reporters how eight men and one woman faced three weeks with only beans and frozen potatoes on South Fox Island Michigan. The rescue plane arrived after Parker’s craft, carrying 200 pounds of bacon and supplies, landed briefly before engine trouble forced a return. The group reportedly argued over provisions as hunger rose and labor halted under foreman Nels Ask, with a government plane later ferrying the party back to the mainland.
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Charlevoix
Mich
Frank J. Parker
Chicago
South Fox Island
Parker
Nels Ask
Frankfort
Parker's Palace
Wilson & Co
Islander Confesses Hoax Over Starvation Tale for Tobacco
Northport Michigan April 21 Edward Horn one of three men who claimed nine men and a woman on South Fox Island faced starvation admits the story was staged to obtain tobacco for woodcutters. He says food stock on the island was ample and the plan collapsed under strain. A sealed letter from Ask to Zapf Fruit Package Company contradicts the shortage claim.
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Northport
Mich
Edward Horn
South Fox Island
Horn
Ask
Zapf Fruit Package Company
Man Surrenders After Evading Law for Months
Simon Welder of Springfield Wyoming surrendered to Assistant District Attorney Harry Abrams after a federal liquor law probe. He sought arraignment, expressed weariness of being hunted, and was fined 500 dollars plus costs before returning to his wife and five children.
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Simon Welder
Springfield Pike
Dale Avenue
Wyoming
Harry Abrams
Welder
Abrams
Smith Hickenlooper
Cincinnati Chest pageant at Eden Park retells city history
The city’s past unfolds again this afternoon at Eden Park in a chest pageant scene set by a large local cast. Five hundred participants from schools and clubs portray stages from 1788 to the present, featuring Salomon P Chase, Beecher figures, Hungarian and Serbian dances, and a dramatic theft of the crown and scepter from the Queen City.
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Eden Park
Cincinnati
Emery Auditorium
East High Community Center
Richard Crane
Teward — Society
Taft
Salmon P. Chase
Robert Taft
Lincoln
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Henry Ward Beecher
St. Joseph’s Orphan Asylum
Benjamin Stites
Miami Valley
Ft. Washington
Anthony Wayne
Daniel Drake
John Reily
William Henry Harrison
Beechers
Salmon Chase
Anthony
West
Turks at Lausanne Ready to Make Peace
The Turkish delegation from Constantinople arrived in Lausanne as the peace conference resumes on Monday. Ismet Pasha said Turkey seeks a rational peace and Riza Nur Bey stated they are not here to discuss concessions, only to make peace, directing protests to the Angora government.
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Associated Press
Lausanne
Constantinople
Ismet Pasha
Turkey
Riza Nur Bey
Angora
Endurance Dance Ends in Hospital as Partner Survives
In Norfolk on April 21 Charles H. Myers a paper hanger collapsed after dancing 77 hours and 16 minutes. His partner Miss Elinor St. Taylor had just won the couples endurance record with 57 hours 20 minutes and planned to continue dancing toward a world record, despite near collapse.
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Norfolk
Charles H. Myers
Elinor St. Taylor
Myers
Memphis Promoters Seek Court Help For Marathon Dance
Promoters of a planned Marathon dance in Memphis ask the court to block police interference after Mayor Paine said police would be told to stop the event. A hearing is scheduled for Monday.
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Memphis
Tenn
Paine
Marines and Cavalryman Duel for Dance Marathon Title
In Washington on April 21 five men and a woman danced through sleepless nights in two halls. At midnight they left in a truck with Aubrey Gilbert of Clarksdale Mississippi and Josef Bolstrosky a former cavalryman. Gilbert’s comrades said they would ensure he receives fair play. The contest seeks the title of champion long dance dancer and a $500 prize, with further competition planned in Virginia.
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Washington
District of Columbia
Aubrey Gilbert
Clarksdale
Miss
Josef Bolstrosky
Gilbert
Virginia
Land
Ex-Jailer testifies on Florida death case bribery and jail abuse
In Tallahassee on April 21, former Leon County Jailer Jerry M. Poppell testified before a legislative committee probing Martin Tabert's death. He alleged Sheriff J. R. Jones ordered deputies to push guilty pleas for prisoners leased to Putnam Lumber for $20 per head, and described frequent drunkenness among officials, coerced pleas, and brutal treatment at the camp.
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Tallahassee
Fla
Martin Tabert
Jerry M. Poppell
Leon County
J. R. Jones
Putnam Lumber Company
Poppell
Jones
Willis
Foppell
Putnam Company
Stokes
Senator Stokes
Putnam Camp
Verdict Due Monday in Murphy's 175000 Suit
A jury before Justice Davis in New York Supreme Court heard Charles F. Murphy seek $175,000 he invested in Louis N. Hartog's wartime malto dextrine business. The panel was locked up for the night and to return a sealed verdict Monday morning.
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New York
Supreme Court
Davis
Charles F. Murphy
Louis N. Hartog
Bankruptcy sought for anti-Klan organs in Chicago
PEtitions in bankruptcy were filed today against the Tolerance Publishing Company the American Unity Publishing Company and the American Unity League anti Ku Klux Klan organs. The assets were listed as $4 000 while the obligations of the publishing company were placed at $475 000. The petitions were filed in behalf of creditors.
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Chicago
Tolerance Publishing Company
American Unity Publishing Company
American Unity League
Federal prohibition padlock ruling bars state court action
Judge LaFon Allen of the Jefferson Circuit Court ruled that Sections 21 and 22 of the federal prohibition act are penalties and cannot be enforced by Kentucky courts in the case of the United States against Al Stebler, a Louisville saloon keeper. The ruling holds state courts lack jurisdiction to close or padlock a business under these provisions, potentially blocking further enforcement in Kentucky courts.
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Associated Press
Louisville
Kentucky
LaFon Allen
Chancery Division
Jefferson Circuit Court
al Stebler
Stebler
Congress
Allen
Speeders Crashed While Fleeing Cheviot Policeman
Frank Carson and his wife Marie were badly hurt when their car crashed into a telephone pole on Harrison Avenue after fleeing a Cheviot motorcycle officer. Police say Carson drove at excessive speed, lost control in a bend, and both were taken to General Hospital with uncertain prospects for recovery.
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Frank Carson
Feemster Avenue
Marie
Harrison Avenue
Carson
General Hospital
Omotke Onimi
Chinese Gunboats Back Sun Forces Against Kwangsi Troops
Chinese naval forces on the West River aid Sun Yat Sen’s army in pursuing retreating Kwangsi forces, landing troops and harassing the march. Reenforcements reportedly join the Kwangsi columns as counterattacks unfold. Canton was cleared of Kwangsi soldiers, who fall back toward the Canton Hankow Railway as Sun’s forces take Sunkai.
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Associated Press
Hong Kong
West River
Sun Yat Sen
Canton
Hankow
Sunkai
Will retire as suffrage head Mrs Catt declares
Chapman Catt says she will retire as head of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance after the Rome Woman’s Congress next month where women from thirty three nations meet. Mrs Catt left for Rome today.
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Mrs. Catt
Chapman Catt
International Woman Suffrage Alliance
Woman’s Congress
Rome
Women of Thirtythree Nations
Navy called into action to stop liquor smuggling
Four aircrew dead and one injured when a Martin bomber nose dived into the Great Miami River near Dayton Ohio. Brigadier General Mitchell ordered a board of investigation. the crash prompted warning to foreign nations and intensified naval action rumors.
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Dayton, CO
Martin Air Service
Miami River
Columbus
W. B. Shaw
Selfridge Field
Mich
Ft. Hayes Hospital
Shaw
Dayton
Doyle Finds Cincinnati Medium Laura Pruden A Local Sensation
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle discovers in Cincinnati a woman he calls the most wonderful medium in the world, Laura A Pruden of Price Hill. He invites her to London for experiments and discusses spiritism beliefs and Christ’s divinity. He lectures tonight at Emery Auditorium on proofs of immortality.
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Price Hill
Cenfer
Arthur Conan Doyle
Sherlock Holmes
Cincinnati
Sir Arthur
Laura A. Pruden
Chateau Avenue
British Society For Psychical Research
London
Christ
White House
Capitol
Oliver Lodge
Lombroso
Alfred Russel Wallace
Europe
America
League of Nations
Howard Saxby
Margaretta Tuttle
Emery Auditorium
Sir Arthur Declares Hell Negative in Spiritist View
Sir Arthur, arriving in Cincinnati, says hell is a dark waiting room with no material pain and spiritualists face primarily mental sins like bigotry. He claims thirty six years of spiritist belief backed by spirit photographs and reports of spirits. paradise is bright and worldly with clothing homes and pets. He dismisses a New York priest’s spirit photos as trickery and plans to display his own photographs.
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Ir Arthur
Cincinnati
Hell
Sir Arthur
Paradise
Earth
Hotel Linton
New York
Labor Day in Italy Marked by Fascisti Ovation
Rome reports a peaceful Labor Day with a huge Fascisti show. Premier Mussolini reviewed twenty thousand militia in Rome and pledged allegiance, while 100,000 more participated in other cities. Diaz rode beside Mussolini as del Bono observed the ceremonies.
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Italy
Associated Press
Rome
Mussolini
Armando Diaz
Signor del Bono
Fascisti
Garabaldi
Nations Warned to Caution Citizens on Prohibition Violations
Government advisory urges foreign states to alert their nationals not to engage in activities that would breach American prohibition laws. Officials stress cross border cooperation to curb illicit trafficking and illicit alcohol operations.
Navy May Patrol Seas Against Rum Runners
Washington April 21 President Harding weighs using the US Navy to patrol waters inside the three mile limit to curb bootlegging with small craft training for enforcement. Prohibition officials expect stronger action once foreign relations are advised and support from Britain is sought.
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Washington
United States
Harding
Department of State
Hughes
Britain
Great Britain
Florida
Navy survey underway on potential dry policy reach
An unofficial Navy Department survey assesses facilities to enforce a possible presidential order to make the United States dry from shore to the three mile limit. Officials note no immediate White House action but consider preliminary steps and discuss a patrol cordon inside the three mile limit along the Atlantic Coast to Florida.
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Associated Press
Washington
Navy Department
Harding
Navy
United States
White House
Naval
Atlantic
Florida
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Sun
W. R. Lawson
Langley Field
Bidwell
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A. M. Smith
Bureau of Standards
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