Mitchell court martial nears end with Weeks letter
Washington dispatch reports the Mitchell court martial approaching final stages as ex Secretary Weeks introduces a letter explaining why Mitchell was not reappointed as Assistant Chief of the Army Air Service. The document brands him unfit for high office and cites attacks on the Navy and War Departments.
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Navy
Washington
Mitchell
Weeks
Army Air Service
Coolidge
Dennis Nolan
Allen Guillion
Nolan
Hugh A. Drum
War
Navy Department
Air Service
Drum
Frank R. Reid
Illinois
Reid
General Drum
Mr. Reid
Urban Bus Drivers Reckless in 60 Percent of Rides
A The Commercial Tribune probe rode six urban buses between 4 and 8 pm finding about 60 percent of drivers careless or reckless. Norwood White Motor and other lines show speeding, weaving, and open doors amid heavy traffic. A commuter letter cites repeated hazards and driver distraction as common faults.
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The
Commercial Tribune
Five Pennsy Lines to Merge into One Unit
Five subsidiaries of the Pennsylvania System will be consolidated into the Pennsylvania, Ohio & Detroit Railroad under an Interstate Commerce Commission order. The merged entities are the Cincinnati Lebanon & Northern, the Cleveland Akron & Cincinnati, the Toledo Columbus & Ohio River, the Manufacturers' Railway of Toledo, and the Pennsylvania-Detroit Railroad.
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Washington
Pennsylvania System
Pennsylvania, Ohio & Detroit Railroad
Interstate Commerce Commission
Cincinnati, Lebanon & Northern
Cleveland, Akron & Cincinnati
Toledo, Columbus
Labor Board Sets Aside Sunday Overtime Award
The United States Railroad Labor Board reversed its own ruling granting time and a half for Sunday work for American Railway Express Company workers. Express drivers chauffeurs conductors and helpers protested non application of the decision and the board upheld the express company.
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Chicago
United States Railroad Labor Board
American Railway Express Company
Railway Express
Express Company
Taxi cab driver robbed during car chase on Third Street
Helmer DeMint of 901 Clinton Street was held up at Fifth Street by two men in a stolen car after chasing another vehicle. A revolver was pressed to his side and $5 stolen. Edward Vincent, who pursued, saw the confrontation and obtained the suspect car’s license. The theft occurred minutes earlier from Ruben Fisher’s Newport home.
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Cumminsville
Northside
City Transit, Inc
Colerain Avenue
Brighton
Race Street
Elberon Avenue
Eighth Street
Cincinnati Motor Bus Company
Warsaw Avenue
Government Square
Helmer DeMint
Clinton Street
DeMint
Third Street
Third
Race Streets
Fifth Street
Eggleston Avenue
Edward Vincent
Work Road
Ebenezer Avenue
Fourth
Heggleston Avenue
Vincent
Ruben Fisher
Columbia Avenue
Newport
Auto Show Exhibitors Space Allotment At Cincinnati Dinner
Cincinnati Automobile Dealers Association capped exhibitor requests to fit twenty five companies into space at the Grand. The 1926 show runs the week of January 16 at Music Hall following the New York Auto Show. President John W Tarbill praised the expected display. General manager Harry T Gardner announced allotments and plans.
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Cincinnati Automobile Dealers’ Association
Harry T. Gardner
Music Hall
New York
John W. Tarbill
Gardner
Mothers of Democracy Plan Christmas Cheer for Veterans
The Mothers of Democracy schedule several events starting tomorrow at the Altamont for 150 World War veterans and staff, a Metropole dance for former service members, a children's party with filled stockings, and eighty baskets of dinners toys and clothing for needy families. Mrs Andrew Foppe serves as general chairman.
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Mothers of Democracy
Altamont
Metropole
Andrew Foppe
Smoke Ordinance Action To Be Decided By Council
The Health Committee will decide whether the new smoke ordinance is acted on by the present City Council or postponed for the new Council. A public hearing was held yesterday with contractors and manufacturers seeking time to study the revised terms.
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Health Committee of Council
Moron term explained by Dr. Copeland in health column
Dr. Royl S. Copeland defines the term moron as a person underdeveloped mentally to age ten or twelve and notes the word is misused for degenerate or morally corrupt individuals. He describes differences from idiot and imbecile and urges proper understanding and sheltering for morons to lead useful lives. Health Q&A covers varicose veins and diet tips with exercise and fresh produce guidance.
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Copeland
Tally
Powers with Alt on America Slipping Navies
Geneva talks within the League of Nations council and its disarmament sub committee reveal that Italy and Japan oppose allowing Washington to lead naval disarmament efforts. Britain proposes extending treaty supervision to all members after a disarmament agreement, but Romania Poland and Czecho Slovakia push back for now.
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New York
League
Washington
Geneva
Lord Cecil
Great Britain
Council
Spain
Rumania
Poland
Czecho-Slovakia
Koorsigety Y
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World Press Pub. Co
Disarmament hinges on U S aid says Paul Boncour
Geneva December 16 M Paul Boncour a League of Nations disarmament leader said success hinges on American cooperation. He noted Germany praised the program and warned England will not favor naval disarmament without U S involvement while France links land, naval, and air armaments.
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Paul-Boncour
Associated Press
Geneva
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M. Paul Boncour
Lord Cecil
League of Nations
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League
French Council For the
England
France
England Delays Air Defense Program After Locarno Pact
Sir Samuel Hoare announced at Chelsea Town Hall that Britain will postpone fulfillment of the air defense program in light of clearer and more peaceful European skies resulting from the Locarno agreements.
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Associated Press
London
Samuel Hoare
Air Ministry
Chelsea Town Hall
Great Britain
University of Cincinnati plans World Court discussion convocation
A January 8 11 30 am gathering in McMicken Auditorium invites students to discuss the World Court. Delegates Ben Bryant and Helen Wehmann report on the Princeton New Jersey conference held December 11 12.
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University of Cincinnati
McMicken Auditorium
Ben Bryant
Helen Wehmann
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N. J
Mayor to fix sunset hour for lamps in Koege
Dec 16 reports Koege Denmark where the mayor proclaims cycles and motor vehicles must light lamps thirty minutes before sunset. The exact sunset hour will be fixed by the mayor. King Canute style claim highlights local authority in a humorous note.
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Canute
Koege
Officials Investigate Cause Of Store Fire
Fire destroyed several hundred dollars worth of women's dresses at Charles Green's clothing store 501 West Fifth Street. Fire Prevention Bureau chief Edward Steinway and Deputy State Fire Marshal Jack McGinn investigate origin after alarm at 12 15 PM. Green says he locked the store minutes before and cannot explain the blaze.
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Edward Steinway
Fire Prevention Bureau
Jack McGinn
Hilsinger
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Mr. Steinway
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Steinway
Intervention Denied in Leland Divorce Case
Springfield Ill Dec 16 Dr Carl Case once Oak Park minister and named co respondent was denied permission to intervene in the divorce of Albert and Charlotte Leland of Chicago The state Supreme Court refused to annul the decree Case had sought to defend his honor against Mrs Lelands confession which she repeated before the court She said she would leave her children a heritage of adultery rather than insanity
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Ill
Carl Case
Oak Park
Albert
Charlotte Leland
Chicago
State Supreme Court
Real Estate Title Change at Walnut Hills Project
Lester Butterworth attorney took title to the Agin Building at McMillan and Concord streets Walnut Hills for 82500. The three story brick building houses three stores and ten apartments. Seller was Dr. Joseph Meltus via Widmeyer Realty and Loan Company. Butterworth acted for an undisclosed client.
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McMillan and Concord Streets
Walnut Hills
Lester Butterworth
Joseph Meltus
Widmeyer Realty and Loan Company
Butterworth
Major Realty awards contract for Norwood store building
The Major Realty Company awarded a $55,000 contract to Seibold Farrell Building Company for a concrete brick and stone store and office building at Main and Washington avenues Norwood. The two story office block will occupy part of the former Benjamin Smith homestead sold recently by Frederick A. Schmidt Company.
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Main and
Washington Avenues
Norwood
Benjamin Smith
Frederick A. Schmidt Company
Madisonville house sale changes hands for $10500
A nine room frame residence on a one acre plot on the north side of Tompkins avenue Madisonville was bought yesterday by Mrs Jennie M Tweeney for 10500. John C and Arthur Mackenzie were the prior owners with W W Clippinger attorney and the Warren E Richards Company handling the sale.
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Madisonville
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Arthur Mackenzie
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Hyde Park bungalow sale at 3601 Ault Park Road
Cooper Pogue bought the Hyde Park East brick bungalow at 3601 Ault Park Road for 14000 dollars yesterday. John Sargent was the seller and Myers Y. Cooper served as broker.
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Cooper Pogue
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Myers Y.cooper
Cincinnati City Manager to address builders meeting
Colonel C. O. Sherrill the new Cincinnati City Manager will speak at the Cincinnati Association of Building Owners and Managers annual meeting on February 9. Executive Secretary J. B. Cuni announced the invitation and notes the topic is expected to be building management.
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Cincinnati
Cincinnati Association of Building Owners and Managers
J. B. Cuni
Sherrill
East Clifton House Bought by Emma Gerhardt
A two story frame dwelling on Vine Street near Glenmary Avenue East Clifton was purchased yesterday by Mrs. Emma Gerhardt from J R Foster. A greenhouse was included. Anne H MacNeilroe was the broker. Five rooms are contained in the residence.
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Glenmary Avenue
East Clifton
Emma Gerhardt
J. R. Foster
Anne H. MacNeilroe
League of Nations awards Mosul to Irak over Turkey
The League of Nations rejects Turkey's Mosul claims and grants the vilayet and Mosul village to Irak. Britain will protect Iran under a twenty five year mandate, reviewable annually, with delimitation of the boundary to follow after Britain's treaty with Irak.
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Irak
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Zab
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Laidoner
Anden
Angora
Tewfik Rushdi
Grand National Assembly
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N. Y
World News Service
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Turkish Envoy Seeks Moscow Backing Over Mosul War
Westminster Gazette reports Turkish Minister of Agriculture Sabri Bey travels to Moscow ostensibly for farming study but aims to secure Russian support for Turkey in case of war over Mosul. London correspondent notes serious mood and calls for swift diplomacy to ease hostile elements.
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Associated Press
London
Westminster Gazette
Great Britain
League
Woman slain with ax shaves suspect. Detroit janitor held
Detroit police interrogate Charles Fitzpatrick a negro janitor in the basement killing of Marie C Mullen real estate broker and rooming house proprietor. Fitzpatrick admits incidents but denies the murder claiming innocence while police press a possible motive from heating complaints and a drunken state. Mullen once worked in Austin Texas and had lived in Ithaca New York and Chicago.
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Associated Press
Detroit
Charles Fitzpatrick
Marie C. Mullen
Fitzpatrick
Lincoln Snoring Tale Becomes Bank President’s Forte
Madison veteran L. S. Hanks 87 retired president of the State Bank of Madison and noted Lincoln snores expert died at his home. He recalled in 1859 staying with an uncle in Janesville where Lincoln guest slept in spare bed and he shared the lounge. Hanks described Lincoln twitching and thrashing as he slept keeping him awake.
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Wis
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State Bank of
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William Tallman
Janesville
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Mr. Hanks
Plot To Assassinate Stresemann Faces Berlin Arrests
In Berlin on December 16 a plot to kill Foreign Minister Gustav Stresemann was uncovered. Police arrested two German Fascists, Kaltdorff and Lorenz, who planned escapes by disguises, cars, and an airplane. They sought a Munich attorney as an accomplice but he betrayed them to authorities. The case drew on nationalist and fascist rhetoric surrounding Stresemann and the Locarno Pact. The Foreign Office played down the plot as the brainstorm of unruly youths.
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Associated Press
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Lorenz
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Vossische Zeitung
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Foreign Office
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Alsace- Lorraine
Germany
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Remus Testifies in Jack Daniel Conspiracy Trial
George Remus of Cincinnati said big money and the game’s thrill drew him into illicit liquor. He testified in Federal Court in Indianapolis, outlining the Daniel stock purchase and the illegal withdrawal of 30,000 gallons for distribution to bootleggers. The government rested its case against 27 defendants. Remus denied immunity offers and noted his prior denial to the Daugherty committee.
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George Remus
Cincinnati
Remus
Daniel
St. Louis
Harry M. Daugherty
Attorny
Daugherty Committee
Nag Goldstein
Michael J. Kinney
Fred Essen
Arnold J. Hellmich
Internal Revenue
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Hellmich
Lem Motlow
Nashville
Tenn
Wayne Ely
Imogene Remus
Arrest to Expand Roundup of Dayton Liquor Ring
Dayton Ohio officials expect arrests of fifteen or more men tied to a five year old liquor ring operating around Dayton. Harry A Abrams assistant US district attorney said the Shawhan family are part of the larger outfit with stills in and around Dayton and liquor moved from Kentucky and Detroit.
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Associated Press
Harry A. Abrams
United States
Abrams
Cincinnati
Department of Justice
Fred Shawhan
Floyd
William A. Rogers
Kentucky
Detroit
Robbers tied to Rondout train hijack indicted in East Chicago theft
Federal grand jury indicts Joseph Weil and five associates for disposing of $40,000 in two cent stamps stolen from East Chicago postal service during 1924 robberies. Weil misses arraignment. $20,000 bond to be forfeited unless he appears January 26 for trial.
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Chicago
Rondout
Ill
East Chicago
Ind
Joseph
Yellow Kid
Weil
Bond Hill Welfare to Discuss Car Bus Service
Bond Hill Welfare Association will hold a Saturday evening meeting at Bond Hill School to discuss transportation needs. J B Stewart Jr general manager and Hudson Biery director of PR for the Cincinnati Street Railway Co will speak. Officers will be elected with Walter Bertsche and Roy Perry for President and Homer Smith and Charles Kleine for Vice President.
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Bond Hill
A. B. Cooley
Harry Woodward
Gustave Wisser
Ed A. Varnholdt
Walnut Hills Classical High School site discussion meeting
A mass meeting will be held tonight at 8 at the Walnut Hills Business Men's Club at Peebles Corner to discuss selecting a site for the new Walnut Hills Classical High School. E F Macke of Walnut Hills High School announced the event, with parent teacher representatives expected and the public invited.
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Parent- Teachers’ Association
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