Wood Urges Strong Foreign Policy and Universal Training
Major General Leonard Wood campaign speech in Cincinnati urges a robust foreign policy and universal military training. He calls the League of Nations a child born abroad and says America must Americanize it, with a 200000 to 225000 regular army and a longer debt repayment period.
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League of Nations
Leonard Wood
Music Hall
America
Wood
L. A .Ault
Horace Williamson
Rotary Club
General Wood
Warren G. Harding
Hagding
United States
Congress
Jesson
Columbus
Warren Harding
Ohio
$800 Barracks Model Foreshadows Soldier Trial
A Brooklyn Federal Court next Monday will hear Private George W. Barry of the Forty-fourth Coast Artillery defend murder charges in the 1919 death of Sergeant Frank H. King. An $800 model of a Ft Totten barracks with a tin soldier over a bunk illustrates the case, as authorities pursue the motive linked to a $1,000 theft.
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New York
Ft. Totten
New York Harbor
Brooklyn
George W. Barry
Forty-fourth Coast Artillery
Frank H. King
Department of Justice
Barry
King
Mystery Surrounds Fatal Shooting of Youth in Home
Leroy Conway an 18 year old of 1732 Fairmount avenue was found mortally wounded in his home early this morning by Lester Corn and Richard Campbell of the same address. He was taken to General Hospital in Patrol 5 and died en route. Police from the Fifth District consider the wound in the abdomen likely accidental and are investigating.
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Leroy Conway
Fairmount Avenue
Fifth District
Conway
Lester Corn
Richard Campbell
General Hospital
Prohibition raid nets home brew at Providence street boarding house
Police led by Lieutenant Pflug raided Albert Hebenstreit's room at 1636 Providence Street and seized 1000 pints four kegs two one eighth barrels and a wash tub of home brew plus two auto patrol loads of makings. He faces Federal prohibition charges and is held for U S authorities.
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Pflug
Albert Hebenstreit
Providence Street
Hebenstreit
United States
Scout Finds Missing Boy Who Says He Was Lured Away
Joseph McKeehan aged 12 of 239 Reading Road was found by Boy Scout Sidney Sikind after being missing since last Tuesday. The boy told Detective Chief Kirgin that a man lured him to Winchester, Kentucky promising money, then robbed a store and beat him before returning to Cincinnati. He was returned to his parents.
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Joseph McKeehan
Reading Road
Sidney Sikind
Kirgin
Winchester
Cincinnati
Covington Boy Drowns When River Bank Caves In
Jesse Reed a Covington resident aged years son of Mrs Rose Reed of 130 West Fourth street drowned in the Ohio River when a riverbank gave way while he played with three companion youths. The body was recovered about forty five minutes later after cries for help. Despite hospital efforts the boy did not revive.
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Covington Boy
Jesse Reed
Rose Reed
West Fourth Street
Covington
Ohio River
Jesse
Booth Memorial Hospital
Youth Admits Visiting Warren Schoolgirl Before Death
Reginald Pierce, 23, detained in the Olive Thompson case, admitted visiting the Warren home shortly before her death but denied firing the fatal shot. Workmen reported seeing him leave the residence a short time before the brother found the girl shot in her spine. police suspect self-inflicted death.
Skeleton Found In Miami River Near Trenton
A skeleton of a man about 55 or 60 was found in the Miami River near Trenton by Cecil Regan and C L Cole. Investigators consider two possibilities Mose Cohen the Dayton merchant who vanished two years ago or a flood victim from 1913. Coroner Cook of Butler County will examine the remains, which were brought to Middletown after being recovered from the river.
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The
Commercial Tribune
Middletown
Miami River
Trenton
Cecil Regan
C. L. Cole
Mose Cohen
Dayton
Cook
Butler County
Democrats Jubilant At Turn Of Affairs In 1920 Race
Washington April 24 Republicans undergo a party shift as Hiram Johnson builds a reformist lane. Democrats see Johnson as a hinge on the treaty issue and aim to frame the 1920 race around the League of Nations. Hoover emerges as a Western alternative to Johnson and a counter to eastern conservatism.
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Hoover
David Lawrence
Washington
Hiram Johnson
California
Republican Party
Friends
White House
League of Nations
Johnson
Wilson
Senator Johnson
Brother Johnson
Hiram
Lowden
Wood
Harding
America
Nore Johnson
East
Chicago
Hughes
Herbert Hoover
William Howard Taft
Mr. Hoover
Bears sell German made postcards at Mt Vernon shock
Washington April 24. A discovery that souvenir postal cards sold at Mt Vernon bore the inscription made in Germany caused a furor at the final session of the continental congress of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Delegates protested, but Mrs. George Thacher Guernsey assured that such cards would not be sold to tourists in the future.
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Washington
Mt. Vernon
Germany
Continental Congress
the Daughters of the American Revolution
George Thacher Guernsey
Covington Bank Robbed by Noted Check Fraudster
A masked thief deposited about 3000 dollars in large bills at the First National Bank of Covington then cashed a 3000 dollar check and later an 8000 dollar check before vanishing. Bankers’ Protective Association investigators say the criminal is an experienced operator already linked to a Pennsylvania bank robbery.
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First National Bank of
Covington
E. S. Lee
R. J. Humpert
Mr. Humpert
General Hospital
Humpert
Ernest Dunkie
Bankers’ Protective Association
First National
Pennsylvania
Double Time Clubs Favored by Cornwell
Governor John J. Cornwell urged formation of double time clubs to force production and curb prices. Speaking to the Commercial Club at the Queen City Club, he argued tighter money and rising costs require greater output rather than artificial contraction.
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Cornwell
John J. Cornwell
West Virginia
Commercial Club
Queen City Club
Mexican factions locked in battle for Tampico oil fields
Allan A. Ryan, son of Thomas Fortune Ryan, gains 1.65 million by brokers paying 550 a share for Stutz stock, ending a volatile controversy on the New York Stock Exchange. The dispute began March 31 with trading suspended as shorts covered and accusations of an illegal corner.
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Tampico
Ryan
STATZ
New York
Allan A. Ryan
Thomas Fortune Ryan
Stutz Motor Car Company
New York Stock Exchange
Board of Governors
Exchange
Stutz
Four injuries and a wreck from city auto crashes
Four people were injured in auto accidents and one street car was wrecked. Melville Schuehler, 11, was bruised after stepping from behind a street car into a car driven by Traction Company chauffeur Slior Froreman. Froreman avoided a collision but wrecked the vehicle. Schuehler was taken to General Hospital.
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Melville Schuehler
West McMicken Avenue
West
McMicken Avenue
Slior Froreman
Traction Company
Froreman
General Hospital
Gilbert Avenue
Norwood
Cornelia Smith
Park Avenue
Howard C. Hicks
East McMillan Street
Paul Costa
West Highth Street
Jacob Schneider
Glenway Avenue
Colerain
Primrose Avenues
Arthur Rann
Colerain Avenue
James J. Vance
Belmont
North Bend Road
College Hill
Mra
Vance
Airplane Crash Kills Child in Arkansas Crowd
A two thousand crowd in Sallisaw Oklahoma watched a four teen year old boy die and two men injured when an airplane piloted by Bob Fogg, a former army aviator, plunged forty feet and tore through the gathering near Ft Smith Arkansas.
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FT. Smith
Ark
Sallisaw
Bob Fogg
Train Hits Street Car In Philadelphia Injuring Thirty
A Pennsylvania Railroad freight train struck a trolley car in Philadelphia's southern section today injuring more than thirty people. The trolley loaded with about seventy passengers, mostly women and children, was knocked off the tracks and rolled onto its side in the street.
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Railroad
People Urged To Cut Out Waste If Living Plane Is To Be Kept
Eugene Meyer Jr. warned at a New York banking banquet that elimination of waste in production and distribution is essential to maintain the recent gains in living standards. He cited swindling promotions and the turf war between state and federal authorities as ongoing drains and urged decisive action.
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New York
United States
Eugene Meyer, Jr
War Finance Corporation
American Institute of Banking
Meyer
Serting
John Reed
Abo
Finland
Communist Labor Party
Hoover
Communist Party
Hale
Karl Marx
Eight Die in North Dakota Farmhouse Slaying
TURTLE LAKE N D April 24 Eight persons were found dead today at the Jacob Wolf farmhouse three miles north of here in a hatchet murder. Victims include Jacob Wolf his wife five daughters Bertha Edna Mary Lydie Martha and hired man Jake Hofer. Only Emma eight months old survived. Bodies of some victims were hidden in the cellar and barn.
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North Dakota
Turtle Lake
N. D
Jacob Wolf
Bertha
Edna
Mary
Lydie
Martha
Jake Hofer
Emma
Engineers on Lackawanna Strike In Sympathy With Yardmen
Engineers employed by the Lackawanna Railway will strike Monday morning in sympathy with yardmen. Ed ward A. McHugh, chairman, said the move follows meetings the night before. Other railroads consider similar sympathy actions as unions oppose seniority forfeiture for returning workers. Federal authorities reportedly warned strikers and faced criticism from officials over threats of arrest.
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Lackawanna
New York
Lackawanna Railway
Edward A. McHugh
McHugh
Arrest threats called highly improper in Cleveland strike
In Cleveland on April 24 threats by a Justice Department representative to arrest several hundred striking switchmen if they did not return to work were labeled entirely improper and unauthorized in a telegram from Washington. Assistant Attorney General Ames confirmed the stance to District Attorney Wertz as A. L. Faulkner, secretary of labor aide, intervened by convening strike leaders for talks.
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Cleveland
John Lawken
Department of Justice
Washington
Ames
Ed. S. Wertz
A. L. Faulkner
Wilson
Labor Grows Restive Shea Warns Board
Timothy Shea vice president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen tells the Railroad Labor Board that 2,000,000 railroad workers demand a basic living wage of 6.50 dollars a day with scales for skill and experience. He notes workers’ strikes stem from starving families and accuses profiteers of hiking costs while the war ends. He urges timely settlement to avoid further disruption.
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Washington
Timothy Shea
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
Railroad Labor Board
Shea
Hostlels
Communist Labor Party Draws Fire at Wilson Hearing
Secretary of Labor Wilson weighed whether joining the Communist Labor party could warrant deportation after a long hearing. Federal officials sparred over party links, with Hoover declaring the group a threat and Hale defending distinctions between Communist and Communist Labor parties.
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Communist Labor Party
U. S
Wilson
Anderson
Boston
Communist Party
Swinburne Hale
New York
J. S. Hoover
Department of Justice
Hoover
Third Internationale
Miners Cut Wage Demands and Push for Closed Shop Pact
In New York on April 24, anthracite miners and operators on the subcommittee cut wage demands by about 50 percent and reduced hours to a six hour day. They now seek 30 percent for contract workers and $1 for day men, and press for a closed shop, uniform scales, payment on legal ton basis, and a five day week.
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New York
Presidential Coal Commission
John L. Lewis
Turmoil in Mexico as Rebels Grip Tampico Oil Fields
Reports from Washington indicate Revolutionary forces led by General Arnulfo Gomez battle Mexican federal troops under General Murgia for Tampico oil fields. Troops rush from Nuevo Leon and Tamaulipas to aid Murgia amid deep regional upheaval across Colima Michoacan and Sonora with generals switching loyalties and strategic bridges destroyed.
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Washington
Arnulfo Gomez
Murgia
Tampico
Salvador Algrado
Onora
Nuevo Leon
Tamaulipas
Gomez
Alvarado
Renteria
Michoacan
Obregon
Colima
Carranza
Mexico City
Mexican Congress
Monterey
Torreon
Matamoras
Chihuahua
la Cruz
Francisco Figueroa
Guerrero
Maycot
Iturbe
Mazatlan
Pacific Coast
San Lorenzo River
Angel Flores
Sonora
Sinaloa
Gonzales
General Obregon
Chepultepec
Mexican Troop Defection Reported Near Monterrey
Reports from Brownsville say Colonel Gallegah with his garrison at Linare Neuvo Leon defected to anti government forces. Linare sits on the Mexican National Railway linking Tampico and Monterrey.
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Brownsville
Texas
Mexico
Gallegah
Linare
Neuvo Leon
Monterey
Tampico
Montery
Texas Governor denies Mexican officials transit through Texas
Governor W P Hobby refused a request from the Mexican Government routed via Washington for Generals Juan Jose Rios Manuel Gambo and their staffs to cross Texas unarmed on their way from Sonora to Mexico City. He warned such transport would provoke trouble and threaten American citizens on the border.
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Austin
Tex
State Department
Washington
Juan Jos Rios
Manuel Gambo
Texas
Sonora
Mexico City
W. P. Hobby
Hobby
Colby
2.75 Percent Beer Approved by New York Assembly
The New York Assembly passed Senator Walker's bill by 85 to 57 to permit sale and manufacture of beer containing up to 2.75 percent alcohol.able for sale to be consumed in restaurants clubs and hotels in first and second class cities. The sponsor Senator James J Walker said it would prevent a return to saloon conditions.
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Albany
N. Y
Assembly
Walker
James Jd. Walker
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