21 Jan 1926
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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1926
Page
1
New York factions remain divided on the court issue as Dawes supporters and opponents trade positions. A definite date for the final adhesion vote is not yet set amid ongoing tax measure deliberations.
Vice President Dawes issued a public apology after Senate friction over his radio remarks about Senate procedure. The row centered on remarks referencing a New York senator and involved Senator Copeland who condemned the wording as inaccurate. Negotiations on the World Court vote continued with leaders split over timing and the use of cloture as debate stretched.
A flyer urges workers to consider starting a business and promotes the Business Opportunities section in Commercial Tribune Classified Ads. It promises helpful ideas and profitable news for readers who read the classifieds closely.
Washington January 20 Petting places for the poor were urged by Ethelbert Stewart Commissioner of Labor Statistics Department of Labor at the National Recreation Conference He urged opening public parks to blue jean workers from mills and plants and mocked puritanical park rules as rigidity and asininity
State Senator James R. Hopley of Bucyrus told the Ohio State University trustees committee he cannot disclose confidential information about alleged Communist teaching. The inquiry, begun at Governor Donahey's urging, expanded after 26 witnesses were questioned, including six professors accused of Communist leanings.
Francis Walker chief ETF C economist testifies before Senate Judiciary Committee that none of the Aluminum Company of America materials were pledged confidential and that the Dunn DOJ report is inaccurate. He says DOJ could have completed its inquiry in four months with four investigators and questions delays and contradictions in the two reports.
Rudolph Valentino told a World News Service correspondent that his marriage is over and that he plans to return to the United States to begin another film. He said the divorce is of little consequence and plans to act philosophically about it.
Cleveland Ohio January 20 two more arrests on charges of attempting to influence prospective jurors in the Josiah Kirby fraud case bring the total to three with one more sought. Attys William Irvine Akron and Jesse Ledow Mansfield were jailed along with John Brill Cleveland. Federal Grand Jury opened a probe into jury tampering as Judge Killits ordered limited public information.
Mrs Louise Grimm Os kamp estranged wife of Herbert Oskamp agreed to drop a new trial and accept a 75000 reduction from a 1925 $100000 verdict against the Oskamp family. Her lawyers said they will seek Supreme Court review to overturn the appellate decision.
Seventeen firefighters were overcome while battling a blaze at the Lynn Kerr Co wholesale milliners building in Louisville Kentucky. Early estimates put the damage at about two hundred thousand dollars.
English pianist Ethel Leginska failed to arrive for a Evansville Coliseum concert prompting manager S. E. MacMillan to search hotels and city streets. Police and detectives checked hospitals and homes as audiences waited and waited. Leginska reportedly insisted on her preferred hotel and orchestra and caused a temperamental scene before vanishing.
Mary Sterling French died at 77 after years of poverty in Park Ridge. A will left most of her estate to a local family and a school, but a later discovery revealed $10,000 in Liberty bonds and $20,000 in other stocks plus jewelry. A 1887 will left her estate to Mary E. French. Police examine tax receipts and stock investments amid the mystery. In Kansas City a judge urged grand jurors to probe drinking among high school youths, blaming mothers who drink and smoke for juvenile delinquency following a fatal crash involving 16 year old Lynn Bouchard.
Constance Bennett, the motion picture actress, says she is through with her film career and will devote her future to being a wife. She and husband Philip Plant arrived in Tampa from Cuba for their honeymoon after marrying in Greenwich on November 3.
Martin J. Durkin, 26, Chicago criminal known as Sheik Robber, was trapped in a Frisco-Katy train drawing room at Webster Groves near St Louis. He had married Irma Sullivan of Cornell Illinois and waived extradition with his bride as guards moved him toward Chicago. Durkin is charged with the murder of DOJ operative Edouard Shanahan and the killing of Police Sergeant Harry Gray in Chicago.
Chicago convention leaders from the Big Brothers and Sisters Federation urge modification of the prohibition law to better protect youth morals. Speakers include Mrs. Sidney C. Borg and Mrs. Smith Alford among others, noting morale decline and youth defiance linked to prohibition.
Richard Wells ten, of Riverside Drive, fell between a street car and its trailer near Sedamsville last night. He was dragged half a block, suffered crushed legs, required immediate amputation, and died three hours after arriving at St Marys Hospital. The eastbound car was operated by Henry Kirsch and conductor Homer Young. Fred B Fisher witnessed the incident.
A 14 year old girl was accosted near Laidlaw Avenue east of Paddock Road by a tall man described as about 25 years old, 6 feet 5 inches, 165 pounds, wearing a brown hat and tan sweater. Police and neighbors searched the area without success.
Senators Jones and Smoot joined a protest against long and short haul rate rules in the Esch Cummins act as Reed charged profiteering by coal dealers. The discussion covered mining states freight practices, nonunion versus union coal, and calls for presidential action and potential government takeover of mines.
At the Romanian National Theater in Grosswardein Transylvania the production of John Galsworthy’s Loyalties triggered severe rioting. Nationalist students attacked Jewish audience members over perceived British aristocrat anti Jewish sentiment prompting the abandonment of the show.
Cincinnati patrons recall the play Loyalties about Captain Ronald Dancy and Ferdinand de Levis a wealthy London Jew. De Levis is robbed of a thousand pounds at a country house near London and accuses Dancy. The plot centers on race loyalty, London club scenes, and a courtroom clash ending with Dancy facing guilt.
The British schooner Oakalee was seized off Cape Cod with several thousand cases of ques and alcohol aboard. The destroyer McCall reported the seizure to Coast Guard headquarters in New London, Connecticut, by radio today.
Bellevue Hospital in New York housing 1,377 patients halted its heating plant due to coal shortages. Emergency steps brought in coal at night as fog disrupted harbor deliveries and delayed barges expected to reach the hospital.
San Rafael California January 20 authorities hold Bernard S Krawcke a San Anselmo junk dealer in custody as a modern Fagin Twelve boys aged 9 to 16 formed his ring. The youths admitted thefts and said Krawcke instructed them with threats saying he would hang those who squeal and even displayed a rope from his shop ceiling.
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