29 Jan 1923
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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1923
Page
1
Theodore H Price argues that rising prices and falling production reflect labor scarcity and shrinking European buying power. He warns that market firmness masks danger, anticipating consumer cuts unless wages and farm profits rise. workers push for higher pay while unorganized clerical and farmer groups face reduced purchasing power.
A laborer, claiming to be an employee named Stratton, was mistaken for a burglar at the Williamson Heater Company building on West Fifth Street. Police Sergeant Harley Jones received a tip, Officer Robert Armstrong chased a man forcing a second floor shutter, who surrendered at Central Station after explaining he was finishing work. He warned, “never again will I be so industrious.”
A cautious note urges economy to minimize expected consequences of a near war in Europe. The author warns against thinking the conflict will spare the nation and calls for restrained, prudent policy to avoid foolish overreach.
The stock market shows calm with a dip in some automobile shares tied to a meteoric manufacturer. Rail shares gain as consolidation under the Esch-Cummins bill appears inevitable. border executives push for alliances with stronger rivals. The bond market remains subdued after absorbing over 800 million in new offerings since year start. a tax proposal for new securities briefly unsettles non-taxables.
Foreign bonds have been weaker amid unsettled Europe with French dollar bonds selling at the lowest price yet recorded. French Belgian and German currencies declined, though the mark fluctuations ceased to hold significance as the Reichs report latest emerged.
The rebel campaign of murder and destruction proceeds with attacks on Governor General Healeys residence in Phoenix Park and Marlborough Barracks. Railways and stations face daily incendiary attacks, crippling service and leaving Dublin and provinces under pressure as guards respond.
Frederick Fierfelder, 65, of 435 West Seventh Street, died at General Hospital after a motorcycle struck him at Seventh Street and Central Avenue Saturday night. Rider Frank Reed, 28, was arrested on manslaughter charges. Katherine Fierfelder and Laura Moore were listed among the dying, with two men in the car arrested for reckless driving and drunk driving respectively. Several others injured include John Garving and Bernadina Klein in separate crashes on Hamilton and Race streets.
Charles Chaplin and Pola Negri disclosed their engagement at Pebble Beach Lodge in Del Monte California. Chaplin arrived by train from Hollywood and later hinted at plans but offered no marriage date. Both actors confirmed the engagement in a brief press moment before returning to their respective commitments.
Smoke stack atop the American Cotton Oil Company building at 443 East Sixth Street was blown from its fastenings by an early gust, saving work for wreckers. George R. Hauser ordered an experienced firm to handle the tear down. Debris fell into the company yard while nearby residents faced ammonia exposure, halted by firefighters with gas masks.
Mortimer E. Lautman general merchandise manager Kaufman Department Store Pittsburgh is sought by police for grand larceny after disappearing following a $25 000 cashing at a bank. He allegedly invested $20 000 for stock that was not bought and efforts to locate him span Pacific ports. Wife Eva Lautman suspects foul play over $75 000 cash and a planned big deal in New York City.
Idle for over two weeks, rum runners along the New Jersey shore resume brisk midnight carries of 75 to 125 cases per trip. Boats repaired during the lull, often faster and better prepared, eluding dry enforcement with cargo jettisoned when necessary while rumors of rival gangs and stolen revolvers surface.
NEW YORK Jan 28 Rev Dr Percy Stickney Grant, under fire for alleged heresy, said he would keep preaching a humanistic religion even if it means leaving marble church halls for a street corner soap box. He cited capitalistic interests behind opposition and defended forty years of views while noting his fiancée Mrs Philip Lydig.
In West Palm Beach Florida early today a hiking party of scouts triggered dynamite sticks hung in a knapsack. Three youths Lawrence Haworth 19 Robert Lincoln Jr 14 Martin Feuss 19 were killed and five others Hall Nichols 24 Orson Morgan 15 Thomas Mathewson 17 Lewis Hall 16 Lawrence Clinging 12 injured. Mathewson serious. All victims residents of Palm Beach County.
William G. Lee, president of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, will become president of Steigelmeyer Manufacturing Company, a Seymour Indiana firm valued at ten million dollars. He plans to resign from the trainmen, will work without pay initially, and the plant is to be erected within ninety days to produce automatic train control devices for railroads.
At Lausanne the Turkish delegates Ismet Pasha and Riza Nur Bey demand full sovereignty abolishing capitulations as Armenia seeks Russian asylum for 250000 refugees. France Britain and Italy maneuver for a feasible peace while Ambassador Child and Curzon work to avert a conference collapse.
Ruth McElwain Tucker 20 and Duncan Waller 19, a traveling salesman from Mayfield Kentucky, were found shot to death on a road near Memphis Tennessee. Waller sat in a car with two head wounds while Mrs Tucker lay about twenty steps away in the roadway. Police consider robbery and jealousy as possible motives. Jewelry and money were missing.
Dayton Ohio January 28 Patrolman George E Clark 24 and Daniel McDermott a Negro die in a local hospital from a pistol battle on West Third Street. Surgeons say neither will recover Clark was wounded in a struggle for his gun after stopping McDermott who drew a knife Roach another patrolman fired at McDermott as he fled McDermott collapsed on the street then boarded a street car and fainted upon seating.
In Parliament Premier Stamboulisky bluntly offered to pay Bulgaria’s reparations in human corpses if foreign powers demand payments. He implied the bourgeois ministers Guchkoff Daneff and Malinoff, jailed awaiting trial, would be the victims, and called for an end to reparations and an Aegean outlet.
Former Ohio governor James M. Cox, a 1920 Democratic candidate, told Springfield Ohio readers that France’s invasion of Germany was a mistake and urged united international action. He argued for removing peace from politics, building American leadership, and choosing either the League of Nations or another organized global peace effort with clear terms.
In Harrodsburg Kentucky Ruth Johnson a 25 year old public school teacher was shot twice by her father J P Johnson while they searched for burglars shortly after 4 am The father mistook her for an intruder and opened fire wounding her seriously as they cleared a noise at the rear of the house
Fire from a store adjoining the Palace dance garden in Hoboken New Jersey caused a near panic. More than twenty women fainted and about 100 others, with partners, crowded hallways and stairs seeking safety.
Millions attended Catholic services across the Rhineland and Ruhr in response to Cardinal Schulte’s pastoral letter. Rail strikes idled trains from Düsseldorf to Essen, stranding hundreds and isolating the Ruhr as Dortmund remained the last open access to the interior.
London note from The Times Essen correspondent describes railway paralysis spreading from the Ruhr and reaching the left bank of the Rhine. It says a French declared barrier is not yet official and praises French tact in leaving the British zone alone, calling the area an oasis of peace amid arrests, strikes, and deportations.
Duesseldorf telegraph and telephone central stations went on strike at 7 PM in protest against the presence of French soldiers.
Coblenz January 28 French engineers have taken over the railways in the zone. Two battalions are guarding tracks bridges and depots and a train to Paris was dispatched tonight for military use. Railroad workers refuse to return until French troops depart. Leader Frederick Kalt says the action is not a formal strike despite a five minute halt after Major General Allen handed command.
In Tuscaloosa Alabama Glenn Kersh sixteen son of City Clerk M C Kersh died from psychic effects of excitement after an initiation at the Sigma Nu fraternity house on the University of Alabama campus. A coroner jury found no violence and doctors attributed death to a weak heart.
Jake Feldman 27 of Cincinnati was arrested after a disturbance at the Hippo drome Theater Covington. Police say Feldman started a near panic claiming his wife was with another man and he struck the rival. women screamed as the fight spilled into the aisles.
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