Klan Inquiries Highlight Courthouse Hearings In Bastrop
In Bastrop Louisiana on January 11 Mayor Robert L. Dade testified in an inquiry into Morehouse Parish affairs. Witness Fred Higgenbotham linked a Bastrop Klan meeting to the court. A Klansman citizen Hugh Clark claimed he sought return of Addie May Hamilton amid town tensions.
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Bastrop
Robert L. Dade
Mer Rouge
Morehouse Parish
Fred Higgenbotham
Bastrop Klan
Hugh Clark
Met Rouge
Addie May Hamilton
Skipworth
Cyclops
Morehouse Klan
Clark
Watt Daniel
Thomas Richard
Lake la Fourche
Addie May
Hamilton
Higgenbothiam
T. F. Richard
Harry Neelis
Neelis
Ku Klux Klan
Skipwith
Rum runners seized as flotilla fails to break blockade
Coast guard units captured the Margaret B and three other vessels off Ambrose Channel, confiscating about 1,000 cases of liquor. In Highlands New Jersey authorities report a bustling bootlegging scene with 22 vessels offshore and hundreds of cases being moved to Manhattan and other cities.
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Associated Press
New York
Prohibition Navy
Lexington
Sandy Hook
Margaret B
Coast Guard
Ambrose Channel
Margaret K
Evelyn
Highland
N. J
Coast Guards
Revenue Cutter
Surveyor
Highlands
New Jersey
Ambrose
Aisit
Covington Officials Quarrel Over Tax Assessments
At a Covington City Commissioners hearing on alleged unofficial changes to the City Assessor's books, disputes erupt over remarks by City Finance Commissioner Dunkie and statements by Board of Equalization member Richards. The probe centers on reductions totaling 29,400 in taxable value after earlier claims of 89,100, including a large reduction in H Eilerman & Sons.
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Joseph B. Dunkie
Board of Equalization
Covington
Finance
John O. Richards
Henry Jenisch
Dunkie
Blackburn
Richards
Donnelly
H. Eilerman & Sons, Clothiers
Eilerman
France approves Ruhr policy as Poincare defends action
Paris reports Parliament and Senate cheer Poincare after voting confidence 478 to 86 on postponing interpellations over the Ruhr policy. Poincare rejects German insinuations of inheritance of warmaking will wage, insisting France will secure coal from Germany at the pithead and warning of Bochum occupation if demands are unmet.
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Associated Press
Paris
France
Ruhr
Chamber
Senate
Poincare
M. Poincare
Brennus
Louis XIV
Napoleon
Germany
Bochum
Memel District Revolts Over Union With Lithuania
A revolt in the Memel district of East Prussia declares itself the government and seeks union with Lithuania. Lithuania denies troop incursions and warns against volunteers aiding the revolt. Heydekrug is reported occupied by 400 Lithuanians. Germany says it will not send troops. The League of Nations territory remains under French oversight with limited police. The Entente may reinforce occupation forces.
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Cording
Heydekrug
League of Nations
Entente
Mufti
Berlin
Germany
Memel
Ruhr Occupied by French Troops in Essen
German city Essen with 600000 residents falls under French troops as the Ruhr is occupied to secure coal for reparations. General Degoutte announces continued German laws and press freedom unless libelous to troops as armored cars and rifles deter crowds while German police cooperate.
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Essen
Germany
Ruhr
Degoutte
Allied Engineering Commission
Boy Laughs Amid Bedding Fire At 309 Main
Ada Reise found her 8 year old son James on a burning bed at 309 Main street yesterday afternoon. She alerted the fire department and the blaze was extinguished before spreading further.
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Main Street
Ada Reise
James
William H Moore dies, titan of Tin Plate Trust era
William H Moore former associate of William Leeds and a noted corporation attorney died at his New York home of heart failure at 74 after three months illness. He and brother James Hobart Moore built much of U.S. industry, organizing Diamond Match, National Biscuit, American Tin Plate and more later merging into U S Steel in 1901. He held posts with First National Bank and Rock Island Railroad among others. He was born in Utica and educated at Amherst, began law practice in Chicago in 1872.
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Associated Press
New York
William H. Moore
William B. Leeds
Tin Plate Trust
Edward Small Moore
Paul Moore
James
Moore
Rock Island
Utica
Daniel F. Moore
Rachel Beckwith
Triangle
N. Y
Oneida Seminary
Sportland Academy
Homer
Amherst College
Eau Claire
Wisconsin
Chicago
E. A. Small
Morris resigns as American Minister to Sweden
Ira Nelson Morris of Chicago resigns from the post of American Minister to Sweden to return home and direct his private business interests.
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Washington
Ira Nelson Morris
Chicago
Sweden
Ohio women prepare to cross Sahara Desert alone
Two Cleveland socialites and veterans of a Mojave solo crossing sail aboard the Providence for Algiers to begin a Sahara Desert crossing alone. Mrs Edna Brush Perkins and Mrs Charlotte H Jordan plan months living in Atlas Mountains towns before the expedition.
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New York
Mojave Desert
California
Algiers
Sahara Desert
Edna Brush Perkins
Roger, Perkins
Cleveland, O
Charlotte H. Jordan
Edwards. Jordan
Cleveland
Sahara
Atlas Mountains
Despondent man hangs himself in Cincinnati home
Glenn R. Frank 45 was found by his son John in his bedroom at 4710 Hamilton Ave. He used a clothesline to form a noose tied to a bedpost. Dr. Beatty said suicide appeared prompted by despondency after a failed refrigerator business and job losses. The widow noted mounting worries and a recent home sale.
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Hamilton Avenue
Glenn Robert Frank
John
Sinkking
Tenth District
E. N. Beatty
Frank
Toledo
Cincinnati
Ee Fang
Germany to Declare Day of Mourning
Berlin reports that Germany will immediately declare the peace treaty broken after the French occupation. It will withhold talks with the Reparations Commission until the act is reversed and designate Sunday as a national mourning day while restricting alcohol use.
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Germany
Amsterdam
Berlin
Coasting and Speeding Ban on Gilbert Avenue
Safety Director Charles Tudor vows to stop speeding on Gilbert Avenue by citing up to fifty motorists daily. Street Railway Director William Kuertz orders traction company to prohibit excessive street car coasting down the Gilbert Avenue hill to protect passengers and others on the road.
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Gilbert Avenue
Charles Tudor
William Jerome Kuertz
Street Railways
Traction Company
Gilbert Avenue Hill
Diamonds story to begin next Sunday
A legal drama titled The Diamonds is announced to start next Sunday. The notice indicates a story aimed at lawyers and readers, with the premiere set for the coming week.
Patronage rush plagues governor as 3400 seek 50 jobs
Columbus January 11 The executive office reports 3400 names on patronage lists for state jobs and only 50 positions within the governor’s authority remain. Governor Donahue plans to study applications this week with afternoons reserved for seekers. Governor announces new appointments including Harry L Conn as Superintendent of Insurance and Tiffin Gilmore as Chief Statistician.
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Columbus
Donahey
Donahry
Ofttorney
Harry L. Conn
van Wert
B. W. Gearhart
Conn
Central Manufacturers’ Insurance Company of
Ohio Underwriters’ Mutual Fire Insurance Company
Brown
Tiffin Gilmore
S. M. Johnson
Elene
A. G. Feight
Montgomery County
Automobile Department
F. C. Goss
Henry G. Lohném
Erie County Elections Board
Atorney
Crabbe
David E. Greene
Cleveland
Pierre White
Henderson
Colonie
Edward P. Swater
Asistant Adjutant General
Asistant Quartermaster General
J. C. Unger
Cao
Memel Crisis Deepens as Lithuania Invades
Berlin reports the Lithuanian invasion of Memel on the East Prussian frontier is widening. Germany states it has no plan to dispatch troops. The international territory's status remains disputed amid growing tensions.
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Germany
Memel
Associated Press
Berlin
Riots Rise in Memel Region Declared by Self-Styled Government
In Kovno on January 11 official reports say uprisings erupted across the Memel region. A group calling itself the Supreme Committee for the Salvation of the County proclaimed itself the territory’s government and demanded union with Lithuania. It denies that regular Lithuanian troops crossed the frontier.
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Kovno
Lithuania
Memel
Supreme Committee For the Salvation
Police Seek Trio Who Bought $3000 in Goods With Bad Checks
Detectives offer a reward for information leading to the arrest of two men and a woman who purchased about $3,000 in furniture and other items with worthless checks in December. They arrived in Cincinnati in November, rented a Price Hill home, and used downtown stores for purchases and a New York check deposited locally. The getaway included storage at the Hawthorne Avenue address and later shipping by wagon, with neighbors noting late night removals and claims that goods were found to be flawed.
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Cal Crim Detective Bureau
Cincinnati
Hawthorne Avenue
Price Hill
Ateas T. Martin
Martin
New York
Dan Maham
Maham
Crim Bureau
Gloom Over Coblenz as U S Troops Prepare to Leave
In Coblenz 1200 members of the Eighth U S Infantry prepare to depart Europe, marking the end of American forces on German soil. News confirmed from Paris follows a VFW dance where German friends mourned the withdrawal and Coblenz officials voiced sorrow and hope for orderly matters. The St Mihiel will sail from New York to Antwerp to transport troops as General Allen readies evacuation plans.
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Associated Press
Coblenz
Jan
Eighth
U.S. Infantry
Rhine
Europe
Paris
Henry T. Allen
Germany
United States
St. Mihiel
New York
Antwerp
Wa Department
Allen
Army of Occupation
American Soldiers May Bring German Wives Home
News from Washington states a new law lets soldiers married to German women return with them from the Rhineland. The wives are not yet U S citizens until they complete naturalization papers. The article notes about 67 000 immigrants from the region are affected.
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Washington
Rhineland
United States
Fire damages Kemper Hall dormitory in Kenosha
Fire of undetermined origin swept the main dormitory of Kemper Hall, a girls' boarding school, driving scores of students into the snow and destroying the building. Fireman Mortzfeld was injured when trapped by a fallen wall as Kenosha homes opened to shelter more than eighty girls.
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Kenosha
Wis
Kemper Hall
Mortzfeld
Bath
French Army Advances Into Essen in Ruhr Occupation
French armored cars lead the occupation, entering Essen with the 40 000 men from the Duesseldorf and Duisburg bridgeheads. Belgians join, railway stations and Krupp works secured, no shots fired, dawn to noon patrols amid cold vigil and industrial glow.
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Ruhr
Huhr
Essen
Horizon Blue
Krupp
Duesseldorf
Duisburg
Muelheim
Duisberg
Moers
Kuhrort
Boyer
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