Cincinnati Gas Rate Vote Sparks Five Year Impact
The Cincinnati City Council passed raised gas rates by 23 to 8, with estimates showing the public would pay about 1.3 million dollars more annually for five years, total near 10 million dollars, due to a plan shifting to poorer gas. Mayor Carrel’s veto remains a possible outcome if three more council members sustain opposition.
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Carrel
Cinnati
Charles O. Rose
Fifth Ward
Rose
Walter C. Linehan
Kentieth Ward
Glen Way Avenue
Warsaw
Corrinne McCloskey
Fourth National Bank
Main
Charles A. Rager
Woodlawn Avenue
William J. Stenger
Firstational Bank
Ed Bacon
Frank Butz
Cliff Cordes
Edward H. Lillie
Jesse McDonald
Charles Rose
W. J. Schneider
Fred Schulze
Dan Bauer
John Bauer
John Burckhauser
Frank Juttenhofer
Otto Francis
Charles Genslinger
Philip Harig
William Hess
Ed Kellogg
Joseph Lawson
Bertha Leitze
Linehan
McCloskey
Cliff Martin
Andrew Murphy
George Nordman
Martin O'Hara
Rager
Joseph Reichert
George Schlicte
Robert
DANGLES IN AIR FALLS TO DEATH IN CITY WINDOWS
A banker Samuel F. Barrows 50 of Johnsonburg Pa and three others die after jumping or falling from high windows in New York City. Barrows clung to a nurse Christine Chisholm on a fifth floor ledge before dropping to the sidewalk. Adolph Summerfield and a tuberculosis patient Miss Anna Meeser also die in separate window falls. Police report Barrows held mill and banking interests. nurse among the witnesses.
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New York
Johnsonburg
Muel F. Barrows
Welfare Island
West Fifty-sixth Street
Christine Chisholm
Barrows
Carbondale
Page
Anna Meeser
America
Adolph Summerfield
River Go Drive
Popoff
View Hospital
New Springs
Staten Island
Community Chest fund push nears goal with large gifts
In Cincinnati, Mrs. Mary Emery led a $40,000 contribution raising the total to $1,616,560 as teams race to raise the remaining $242,733 to reach the $1,859,293 goal. Campaign head John D. Sage urged small gifts, with final rally and dinner planned at the Gibson.
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Mary Emery
Chest
Gibson
Cecil H. Gamble
John D. Sage
Community Chest Organization
Sage
Team
Community Chest
Walnut Street
Frank Nelson
Hell
Florida House Bans Describing Women as Flappers
Florida lawmakers consider a resolution to make using the term flapper illegal for women in the state. Representative Branch of Liberty argues the label degrades young Florida women and seeks serious consideration for the measure.
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Florida
Tallahassee
Fla
House
Representative Branch of Liberty
Earl of Cardigan’s secret marriage exposed in Islesworth registry
London report details the Earl of Cardigan secretly marrying Miss Joan Sadler last July in Islesworth registry office. The bride, 22, is described as tall and dark with poetic interests. Officials learned of the match only recently as the Earl used a false name and title.
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John I
Bauderston
New York World News Service
London
Earl of
Mr. Cardigan
Fcop High
Yeek World Press
J Pie
Nine More Policemen May Lose Jobs In Graft Inquiry
Charles Tudor, Safety Director, admitted city officials seek evidence to dismiss nine or ten policemen amid a federal graft probe. He met with officials and A. Lee Beaty to discuss indictments that were nolled, and said fifty-seven applicants took a sub patrol exam as vacancies rise.
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Charles E. Tudor
The
Commercial Tribune
Civil Service
A. Lee Beaty
United States District Attorney
Washington
Federal Building
Hareth Mau
Civil Service Commission
Carrel
John Lentz
John J. Weitzel
Mr. Tudor
Thei Police
John Rolf
Henry Beckroege
William Hamel
William Strieder
Adolf Brackmeier
George Pearcy
Harry Wuest
Wuest
Police
Nolle
May
Brackmeier
Strieder
Arthur van Dohre
Owen Brissie
Urban Link
Paie
Farm Work Recommended for Policemen at Atlanta
Twenty six Cincinnati police officers and seven village liquor court agents, jailed for a vast graft conspiracy, began long sentences at the Atlanta federal penitentiary. They traveled by train, each man stripped to prison garb, and entered the three mile trip to the prison where 3,000 inmates already served time. The mood shifted from cheer to somber as the Swanee River Special arrived and the new inmates faced their fate.
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Atlanta
Cincinnati
Swanee River
The
Southern Railway
Stanley Borthwick
United States
Bulgarian Supreme Court chief slain by Communist killer
Belgrade reported the Bulgarian Supreme Court president was killed by a Communist who escaped guards while awaiting trial. Sofia dispatches say revolutionists used fashionable women as messengers to relay coded orders, with several arrested. Police thwarted an attack on Foreign Minister Kaloff and a mysterious Varna ship fled pursuit.
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Rome
Tribuna
Belgrade
Sofia
Kaloff
Giornale D’italia
Varna
Black Sea
Chase Through Cincinnati Ends With Shootings and Wrecks
A five mile pursuit across West End and downtown Cincinnati to Newport left one black suspect shot, a woman injured, and two cars wrecked after a stolen auto was pursued by Policeman Walter McArthur. He captured three suspects and pursued two to Newport where they escaped. The injured man was Albert Turner 17, of 1018 Kossuth street. Beverly Bayne gave an incorrect Newport address.
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West End
Cincinnati
Central Bridge
Newport
Walter McArthur
Fourth District
Orville Nestor
Vine Street
Reading Road
Morgan Street
McArthur
Seventh
Freeman Avenues
L. F. Foster
Ninth and
Carr Streets
Black Belt
Third Street
Albert Turner
Kossuth Street
Nelson C. Guy
Thorton Street
Dayton
Guy
Beverly Bayne
Lincoln Avenue
John Ford
West Street
Ralph Mayberry
George Street
Bridge Police
Churchill Budget Highlights Social Insurance and Gold Return
London April 28 Winston Churchill's budget speech spanned over two hours delivering a landmark plan for social insurance covering this generation and the next, backed by a large Tory majority, while also announcing a restored gold standard and a NY$300 million credit. The package included higher luxury duties, tax changes, and a new silk tax, with praise from most but some dissent from hardline Tories.
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John KL. Balderston
New York World News Service
London
Winston Churchill
Islands
Churchill
Labor Party
Labor
New York
Snowden
Lloyd George
Stanley Baldwin
Baldwin-Churchill
Lady Kitty Vincent Wins Divorce From Sir Berkeley Vincent
London April 28 Lady Kitty Vincent eldest daughter of the late Earl of Tirlie won a divorce from Sir Berkeley Vincent on grounds of misconduct with a hotel woman. The suit was undefended. She testified their marriage begun in 1906 was happy until World War I, later strained. She left him after he confessed misconduct and has not seen him since.
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John L. Balderston
New York World News Service
London
Kitty Vincent
Earl of
Monte Carlo
Sir Berkeley
Miss Bramery
Bramley Moore
Kitty
Harl of Firlie
Scotland
Corthacy Castle
Forfarshire
Barrie
Luther to Give Pledge of Peace in Berlin Today
Berlin dispatch reports Chancellor Luther will address the Industrialists convention to defend peaceful German policy, assert adherence to the Dawes plan and Versailles terms, demand freedom of the Rhine, and bolster the entente while portraying France as the obstacle to peace. The speech signals a framework for Germany’s near term foreign policy and hints at cabinet stability amid nationalist pressures.
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Luther
Berlin
Dawes
Ruhr
von Hindenburg
Germany
France
Paris
Briand
Reich
Rhine
Marx
Britain
America
Stresemann
Hanover
N.Y
Motorist 71 Hurt In Beacon Roadster Crash
Rees E McDuffie 71 of 931 Summit avenue Price Hill injured when his high powered sport roadster struck a beacon signal at Gilbert and Elsinore avenues. Light not burning he could not see the signal three youths aided him to Dr John Oliver 2233 Park avenue who gave first aid and sent him to Christ Hospital with cuts bruises to face chest and legs in serious condition but expected to recover
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Rees
E. McDuffie
Summit Avenue
Price Hill
Gilbert and
Elsinore Avenues
John Oliver
Park Avenue
Christ Hospital
Oliver
McDuffie
Aballi Named Cuban Ambassador to United States
Havana April 28 Rafael Sanchez Aballi a wealthy sugar owner from Oriente province has been appointed Cuban Ambassador to the United States by President Zayas. The secret session approval surprised as it was not expected until Machado assumed office. Aballi is in the United States with Machado and his party.
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Havana
Rafael Sanchez Aballi
Province of
Oriente
United States
Zayas
Senate
Machado
Senor Aballi
Senor Machado
New York prepares for May Day security sweep
Police plan to hold the entire department in reserve from midnight Thursday to Friday to guard public buildings churches and prominent homes amid fears of May Day anarchist socialist and Communist activity. A thwarted circular urged a citywide strike and is under investigation.
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New York World News Service
New York
William J. Lahey
Brooklyn
Gegan
Bulgaria
America
Autoist shoots would be killer who helped him in Ohio
In Defiance Ohio Lynn A Lyons a Findlay salesman wounded twice during a ride by a well dressed man who flagged for a lift. After being dumped in a ravine Lyons crawled to a farmhouse and wrote his account as deputies hunt the suspected robber who fled in Lyons’s car.
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Defiance
Lynn A. Lyons
Findlay
Lyons
Standley
Here
Samuel Gilford
Sheriff Miller
Gilford
Miller
Soviet Priest Sentences Hit Religious Teaching
In Odessa on April 28 six Catholic priests were sentenced to three years in prison for teaching religion to children and using violent punishment. Several other priests charged received shorter sentences. Soviet law bans religious instruction for minors but allows adult worship.
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Odessa
Russia
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