County Board to Reconsider Relief for City
County Commissioners forecast a decision today on taking over the Tuberculosis Sanatorium to avert police and fire salary cuts. The City Council, facing revenue gaps, proposed operating the sanatorium and hospital with a $763,800 hospital fund, while slashing salaries on paper to meet budget limits.
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Martin Daly
Charles C. Rose
Stanley Matthews
Linton
Rose
Alfred Deckebach
Eee ~ Dary
Fred Schneller
Matthews
University
Murray Seasongood
Tyler Field
Board of Education
Girls’ Opportunity Farm
London Brokers Quit After Rubber Boom Nets Them Fortune
One of the world’s largest stock firms Baiss & Rogers retired after clearing over 1 000 000 pounds from the rubber boom. The four partners will quit and invest profits in gilt edged securities. They traded more rubber shares in a day than typical in the New York exchange.
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Arthur E. Mann
New York World News Service
London
Messrs
Baiss & Rogers
Stock Exchange
New York Exchange
N. Y
World News Service
Modified Dry Law Inevitable Hill Declares
Washington dispatch reports Representative John Philip Hill says modification of the Volstead act is inevitable after a Federal Council of Churches report and congressional sentiment. He notes more than 150 last session favored relaxing restrictions and predicts an expanded wet bloc with hearings and allied groups pushing for change.
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New York World News Service
Washington
Federal Council
Congress
John Philip Hill
Rep
House
Hill
Wayne B. Wheeler
Anti-Saloon League
American Federation of Labor
The
Moderation League of
New York
Constitutional Liberty League of
Massachusetts
Liberty Defense League of
Maryland
Wheeler
Plan To Meet Wet Attack With More Dry Laws Wheeler Says
Wayne B. Wheeler, Anti Saloon League counsel, told a Dayton meeting the fight continues. He urged stronger national prohibition laws, Civil Service for agents, and deportation for violators. He cited 38,000 bootleggers in Federal Courts and over 7 million dollars in fines with 5,000 years prison time imposed.
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Wheeler
Associated Press
Dayton, CO
America
Wayne B. Wheeler
Anti-Saloon League
Congress
Crossed in her love for actor ends life
Northampt on Mass Dec 11 Hassane Bourian 20 Armenian student at Burnham School preparatory to Smith College committed suicide last night by inhaling gas in the kitchen of her brother in law's house where she lived She had been in Paris last summer and fell in love with an American actor Her family objected to the match Letters from her sweetheart ceased arriving recently.
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New York
World News Service
Northampton
Mass
Iss Hassane Bourian
Burnham School
Smith College
Paris
Lolves
Trawler Sinks Off Vigo. Sixteen Die at Sea
A trawler sank at the mouth of the Rivera Vigo near Vigo Spain today claiming sixteen lives. The vessel ran aground on peat banks as rescue efforts were underway.
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The
Associated Press
Vigo
Spain
Rivera Vigo
World Court debate opens as Lenroot and Darrow clash
Senator Lenroot argues the Permanent Court of International Justice is independent of the League of Nations and within Article 36 its jurisdiction. Clarence Darrow counters the court has no real power and could replace national sovereignty, urging sobriety by teaching self control rather than by prohibition.
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Associated Press
Princeton
N J
Irvin L. Lenroot
Wisconsin
United States
Permanent Court of International Justice
Clarence Darrow
Chicago
League
Darrow
Brookhart
Iowa
League of Nations
Lenroot
Russia
Poland
Council of the League
Covenant of the League
Great Britain
Congress
Hague
Court of Arbitration At
the Hague
America
Wilson
Tomeh
Senate
Alleged Shakespeare Relics Held by Rogers Descendant
London December 11 Hunter Charles Rogers claims to possess a large set of Shakespeare manuscripts and relics not yet verifiably authentic He plans to travel to America in March with the items for exhibition and expert study Some items have dubious provenance and skepticism remains over their authenticity The collection includes a Breeches Bible and a Sixteenth Century prayer book with inscriptions linking them to Shakespeare and his era.
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Arthur E. Mann
New York World News Service
London
Hunter Charles Rogers
America
Rogers
United States
van Buren Point
Buffalo
St. Louis
Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
Spenser
Edward
Yale Heiress Heir Wins Hogan Scholarship For Poor Students
John R. Prentice son of E Parmelee Prentice and Alta Rockefeller wins the James J Hogan scholarship at Yale for industrious students. He has paid his own way since 1920 earning ten dollars weekly as a night hospital switchboard operator in New Haven.
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New Haven
Conn
John D. Rockefeller
Yale University
University
James J. Hogan
John R. Prentice
E. Parmelee Prentice
New York
Alta Rockefeller
James Hogan
Eli
Hogan
Fraternity Delta Kappa Ep
Prentice
Associated Press
John Rockefeller Prentice
E. Parmalee Prentice
Yee Ave
Social Register
Taft School
Watertown
Yale
New Haven Hospital
Maine Fiddler Plays for Ford at Old-Time Dance
Grandpa Mellie Dunham Maine’s premier fiddler headlined a Ford factory party with the Ford Orchestra. The event emphasized neighborliness and a return to prewar dancing, arguing poise and human contact through square dances and circle dances foster friendly relations among workers and executives.
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Associated Press
Mellie
Dunham
Maine
Henry Ford
Ford Orchestra
Ford
Virginia
America
Jersey City Bank Employee Vanishes With Shortage
John T. Minugh Assistant Treasurer at the Lafayette Bergsen Branch disappeared yesterday. State bank examiners reported a shortage of about $15,000 in his accounts. Minugh served the Trust Company of New Jersey for over twenty two years.
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Jersey City
N. J
The
Trust Company of
New Jersey Today
John _T. Minugh
Lafayette-Bergsen
State Bank
Minagh
Trust Company
Train wreck in British India leaves three dead
In Madras on December 11, a passenger train on the Mayaya ram Avantangi branch of the South Indian Railroad derailed after a sand embankment collapsed in rain. Three people were killed and seventeen were injured.
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Hart
Associated Press
Madras
British India
Mayayaram-Avantangi
Alien Law Stops Student Bride From Board
In New York a French bride, Mrs Montfie Melchoir, 22, was held aboard the La Savoie as she refused to leave the ship bearing her husband to the United States. The couple awaits a Board of Inquiry decision on the immigration issue while the husband, a Sorbonne history student, and his father, Prof. M V Melchoir, await the fate of their non quota visa plan. The scene at Havre and Ellis Island illustrates how law and love collide at immigration checkpoints.
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New York World News Service
New York
la Savoie
United States
Montfie Melchoir
Ellis Island
Sorbonne
M. V. Melchoir
Girard College
Philadelphia
Melchoir
University of Delaware
Roof collapse at Playhouse endangers cast in Song of the Flame
In Wilmington Delaware during a performance of The Song of the Flame the rigging loft roof collapsed injuring more than a dozen chorus members with three serious cases. Mme Chereko Norman Stengel and Miss Blanche Collins were among the injured as debris caused extensive damage estimated at sixty thousand dollars.
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Wilmington
Del
Mme. Chereko
Russian Arts
Norman Stengel
Blanche Collins
Mme
Andriefski
Mme. Troitzkaya
M. Davidenko
Bob Leroy
Arthur Hammerstein
Dorothy Mackaye
Miss Mackaye
Two Men Rescued as Collapse Traps Crew in New York Ruin
Two injured but conscious workmen were fed through tubes after being pinned by fallen timbers as the rear wall of a stone residence on Forty-seventh Street near Fifth Avenue collapsed. Five workers were rescued. two firemen and another worker were hurt during the efforts. Priests administered last rites to the two living men after hours of rescue work.
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Associated Press
New York
Forty-seventh Street
Fifth Avenue
Father Caldwell
Joseph McKenna
St. Malachy's Church
Actor's Chapel
Bernard McQuade
Car overturns injuring Mrs. Dodge and Mr. ONeill in Palm Beach
In West Palm Beach the car rolled over on Ocean Boulevard just before midnight injuring Mrs. Horace E. Dodge Jr. of Detroit and Palm Beach who sustained minor bruises while Hughes James ONeill of Detroit suffered a fractured skull in the crash.
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West Palm Beach
Fla
Horace E. Dodge, Jr
Detroit
Palm Beach
Hughes James O'Neill
Ocean Boulevard
Man Testifies He Kissed Mother-in-Law After Each Wife
Chicago December 11 Daniel Samuelson testifying in a separate maintenance suit claimed he was forced to kiss his mother-in-law every time he kissed his wife. He said she lived with them and ordered the gestures to see if he drank, and that this kissing drove him from the house.
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New York World News Service
Chicago
Daniel Samuelson
Grange Pulls Out of Detroit Game with Arm Injury
Harold Grange, Chicago Bears star, has been diagnosed with a blood clot in his bruised arm after a Detroit examination. The physician ordered the arm in splints and Grange to rest, citing danger if the clot travels to the heart. He appeared exhausted and said sleep has eluded him due to arm pain.
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Detroit
Harold
Red’) Grange
Chicago Bears
Grange
St. Louis
Boston
Pittsburgh
Health Board Removes Dr. William Wolf as Chief Food Inspector
City Board of Health meeting at Sol Freibergs apartment adopted a resolution to remove Dr. William Wolf of 4350 Hillside Avenue from the post of chief food inspector. Wolf had been appointed on probation about three months ago earning 3000 a year, replacing Dr. R. B. Blume whose salary was 4000. The board planned to ask the Civil Service Commission to restore Wolf as veterinarian inspector.
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City Board of Health
Sol H. Freiberg
Kemper Lane
William Wolf
Hillside Avenue
Wolf
Health Department
R. B. Blume
Blume
Dr. Wolf
Civil Service Commission
Died at Martins Ferry as robbers enter home and mine safe
In Martins Ferry Ohio Mrs Catherine Dorsch 72 collapsed and died after finding robbers in her house and a blaze at her greenhouse. The Y and O mine safe was blown gaining 200 dollars and papers. greenhouse loss 3000 dollars. In Newark New Jersey two robbers bound cashiers and fled with 8000 dollars in payroll funds from National Carbon Gas Co plus other cash and checks.
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Martins Ferry
Catherine Dorsch
Casper Dorsch
Robbers Take $1900 From Paymaster At Collier Plant
Four robbers today held up the paymaster and his assistant outside the P. F. Collier & Son printing plant on West 130th street and escaped with $1900 in currency and checks. The money was taken from the executive offices of Collier's Magazine on Park Avenue.
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New York
P. F. Collier & Son
West 130Th Street
Pay Rand
Collier’s Magazine
Park Avenue
Cincinnati Banker Dies by His Own Hand After Bad Investments
James I. Stephenson, 50, a Cincinnati banker and former Vice President of the Guarantee Trust Company, shot himself in his Vernon Manor apartment amid concerns over a steel stock investment. Friend Richard Smethurst cites Stephenson’s moral burden over notes and failed deals, including $20,000 in steel stock and $7,500 invested by the friend. Several suits followed for notes tied to the stock. Stephenson is survived by his wife and four children. funeral arrangements noted.
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Life
James I. Stephenson
Cincinnati
Richard Smethurst
Madison Read
Stephenson
Vernon Manor
Guarantee Trust Company
Bank of Commerce
Vernon Manor Company
American Mortgage Company
East Seventh Street
Bank of Commerce and Trust Company
New York
Twelve Points State Bank of
Terre Haute
Ind
Common Pleas
George L. Sexton Company, c
Union T Just. Company
East St. Louis
First National Bank of
Youngstown
Guarantee Trust Company of
Mr. Smethurst
J. B. Mansfield
Detroit
Mich
W. H. Schott
Midwest Grain Company
James King Duffy
Regal Oil and Gas Company
B. K. Littlepage
Charleston
W. Va
Handley
Beh W. Stephenson
W. S Stephenson
Philadelphia
Bertha
Ruth Stephenson
Hartwell
R. A. Jones
Wilmington
J. J. Suven Peafer Lott
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Opportunity Farm
Field
Commercial Tribune
Sunday Commercial Tribune
Betty Beli
Fortune
Senator Lenroot
Princeton, N. J
Slough
John D
Silon
Fiddler
Grandpa Mellie
Jersey City Bank
France
Teacher
Manila
Tribune
Hiligan
Lanao
Thomas Toores
Rete
Lake
Hammerstein
Sudden Hall
Wilmington Playhouse
AUTO
Chickie
Elenore Meherin
the Commercial Tribune
Associated’ Press
Newark
National Carbon Gas Company
Albert Demarest
Says
Banker
Stoge
Smethurst
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