Lawmakers Approve Relief Bill Amid Bible Bill Clash
In Columbus on January 15 the House passed emergency tax relief legislation 97 to 19 and the Senate 27 to 6 as Taft defeated Gordon for Speaker. Klan-backed threats to stall the session failed and adjournment sine die was set for year end. The measure lets counties fund floating debts and authorize school districts to levy extra funds, with oversight and timing tied to governor actions.
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Columbus
Ku Klux Klan
Donahey
House
J. H. T. Gordon
Logan County
Robert A. Taft
Cincinnati
Gordon
Taft
Senate
Bible On
Secretary of
Allen County
Belmont
Gallia
Coshocton
Bryan
Representative Buchanan
Carroll County
Buchanan
Chicago narcotics ring plotter trio seized in Cincinnati
Federal agents arrested Jack Wallace in Cincinnati while he awaited transfer to Hamilton County Jail. Wallace, 29, linked to a Chicago narcotic conspiracy and charged with grand larceny, faced arraignment as investigators reported a widespread drug network and past crimes dating to 1913.
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Jack Wallace
Chicago
Cincinnati
Wallace
William Gray Beach
William J. Calhoun
William Spillard
Sixth Street
Vine
Hamilton County
Miami
Fla
Calhoun
Bertillon
Andrew J. Miller
Hopkins Street
Miami County
Indiana State Penitentiary
Indiana
Bogus stock sellers convicted of fraud in New York
Charles W. Galvin and Irwin Bloom were found guilty of mailing fraud for selling over 30 000 shares of bogus Tex York Producing Company stock. A California Postoffice inspector testified as a witness. The men advertised worthless paper from their Broad Street office and await sentencing.
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New York
Charles W. Galvin
Irwin Bloom
Thomas D. Thatcher
Postoffice
California
Tex York Producing Company
Texas
Broad Street
Chaliapin Sings for Mail to Retrieve Passport
A Paris dispatch to the Brooklyn Eagle reports Feodor Chaliapin forced to sing in Berlin to recover his passport. With trunk en route to Leipzig, a Berlin general delivery clerk refused the mail until the famed tenor performed a passage from Boito’s Mephistofele, prompting letters to be handed over.
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New York
Paris
Brooklyn Eagle
Feodor Chaliapin
Berlin
Leipzig
Chaliapin
Gessler Putsch Looms in Berlin
Paris Soir reports Dr. Otto Gessler Minister of Defense plans a Nationalist putsch in Germany. Hunger riots among Berlin's 200000 unemployed could trigger action, with the Black Reichswehr ready to suppress unrest by force, elevating militarists.
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Arno Dosch-Fleurot
New York World News Service
Paris
Otto Gessler
Defense
Germany
Paris Soir
The
Soir
Berlin
Reich
Black Reichswehr
Dozen Injured as Double Deck Bus Plows Into West Virginia Mine
A Norwood Bus Company double decker jumped the curb on Montgomery Road in Norwood striking a brick pile and crashing into a cellar excavation. Injured include Leona Herzer Alfred Scales Robert Hare Eddie Collins and Mrs Eddie Collins. Scales most seriously hurt. an X ray planned. Bus driver Hildreth said steering wheel locked. brakes failed to stop the momentum. Rescuers freed passengers amid shattered glass after hours of effort.
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West Virginia
Perth
Alfred Scales
Rossmayne, O
Norwood Bus Company
Montgomery Road
Weyer Avenue
Norwood
Leona Viola Herzer
Hegner Avenue
Deer Park
Rossmayne
Robert Hare
Hunter Avenue
Eddie Collins
Ohio Avenue
Silverton
W. H. Ventress
Ventress
House Backs Italy War Debt Settlement In Vote
The House passed 257 to 133 a resolution authorizing acceptance of the Italian war debt settlement. The plan funds the original debt of 1.648 billion over 62 years, starting at 5 million annually and rising to 80 million, with total receipts of 2.407 billion. Debates attacked Mussolini's government as dictatorial. defenders cited terms as favorable.
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Washington
House
American Debt Commission
Senate
Finance Committee
United States
Mussolini
Rainey
Dem
III
Garrett
Tennessee
Rathbone
Rep
Ill
Hull
Tenn
Friends of the Settlement
Langley Faces Two Year Term After Prohibition Conviction
Former U S Representative John W Langley accompanied by his nephew boarded a Southern train at Grand Central Depot for Atlanta where he will enter the Federal Penitentiary to begin a two year sentence for violating the prohibition laws. He defended himself as innocent and hinted at political impact from the case.
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John W. Langley
Grand Central
Atlanta
Federal
United States District Court
Covington
The
Commercial Tribune
Roy B. Williams
United States
Lexington
Langley
Campbell County
Marshal Williams
Williams
Bank Bandit Robs Detroit Savings Branch for $6000
A man robbed the Detroit Savings Bank branch today and escaped with 6000 dollars in cash. Bank employees say he previously struck another robbery at a different location about six weeks earlier, with an estimated 5000 dollars taken.
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Detroit
Detroit Savings Bank
Shaw radio play dubbed silly in London broadcast
George Bernard Shaw’s unpublished radio comedy Passion, Poison and Petrification, or the Fatal Gazongene draws hundreds of listeners’ scorn. The script features a poisoned lover, a plastered ceiling, a statue, and a demand for lime as an antidote.
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John L. Balderston
New York World News Service
London
George Bernard Shaw
Shaw
Broadcasting Company
Magnesia
Cyril
Maude
N. Y
Orews 4
N.Y. World) Press Pub. Co
Coolidge Stays Hands Off as Anthracite Crisis Looms
The White House reaffirmed a hands off policy on the anthracite dispute as Congress debates action. Senator Copeland introduced a resolution requesting the president to take steps to resume mining, aiming for early action. Representatives from Pennsylvania coal districts met with Labor Department officials but sought no specific action.
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Washington
Congress
White House
Coolidge
Copeland
Dem
N. Y
New York
Pennsylvania
Davis
Labor Department
Union Central Buys Burnet Site for 7 Million Build
The project plans an eight story structure with an option to add eleven more floors later at a total cost of seven million dollars. Groundbreaking and financing details are expected as the purchase is finalized.
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Union Central
Burnet
Envoys Accused of Supplying Liquor as Americans Sneak It
In a Senate speech on January 15 Senator Cole Blease attacked foreign diplomats over liquor imports and enforcement disparities. He accused diplomats of truckload liquor traffic and defended Americans who seek illicit drinks, criticizing prohibition agents. He invoked Woodrow Wilson and the World Court, and condemned the League of Nations as a Democratic plot.
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Blease
Senate
Washington
Woodrow Wilson
Cole Blease
S. C
George Washington
Prohibition
House
Capitol
South Carolina
James M. Cox
White House
Wilson
Democratic Party
League of Nations
United States
Haunted Akron home linked to fatal police shooting
In Akron Ohio Donald Hughes a 21 year old killed by City Policeman Irvin on December 31 in a confrontation over gasoline is remembered by a strange pale light seen nightly in his home. Neighbors report the phenomenon after dark with no known explanation and some say the house is haunted.
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Akron
Donald Hughes
Irvin
Ughes
Hughes
Donald
Hayes Heir to Rutherford B. Hayes Dies in Toledo
Richard A. Hayes, attorney and eldest son of the late President Rutherford B. Hayes, is confined to his Toledo home with an illness believed to be fatal. He has been an active member of the Toledo Bar Association for 35 years.
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Toledo
Rirchard A. Hayes
Rutherford B. Hayes
Stock Exchange bans a little drink and eats
The New York Stock Exchange warned member firms to stop liquor and free lunches for favored customers. Branch managers were summoned for discipline over lapses as the exchange enforces rules against splitting commissions, with lunch and drinks viewed as forms of such splitting. Construction of the hotel project will cost 2,250,000 dollars and start when options expire.
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New York
New York Stock Exchange
Exchange
Burnet House to Make Way for Union Central Office Annex
Union Central Life Insurance proposes to raze the Burnet House at Third and Vine to add a six to eight story annex with a potential nineteen story tower. The project, valued around 2.25 million for the initial structure and 7.6 million for full height, would create 100000 square feet in the Union Central Building and include a 600 car garage with shops and a restaurant.
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Cincinnati
Burnet House
Third and
Vine Streets
Cicinnati
Union Central Life Insurance Company
Union Central
William H. Menke
W. E. Farnan
Walter E. Huenefeld
John D. Sage
Insurance Company
Sage
Malcolm W. McIntyre
Fourth and Central Trust Company
New York
Baker Alley
Union Central Building
Iit
Vine Street
Third Street
Iite
Mada Ts’ Svi
Quake Rocks Pizzoli Italy No Damage Reported
A strong earthquake lasting several seconds shaken Pizzoli in Abruzzi Italy on January 15. Peasants in the district fled their homes after a series of lighter quakes over the prior three days. Pizzoli lies sixty miles northeast of Rome.
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Pizzoli
Italy
Abruzzi
Rome
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