Riots in Breslau Over Living Costs Turn Deadly
Six people were killed and fifteen wounded as rioters looted shops and hotels in Breslau amid rising living costs. Police and volunteers restored order after crowds clashed. a Silesia metal workers strike prompted a lockout and widespread industrial stoppages.
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Breslau
Silesia
Associated Press
Germany
Silesia Metal Workers
Employers’ Federation
Ratibor
Lower Silesa
Foreign money shortage sparks Berlin financial turmoil
Berlin reports a currency shortage as the Reichsbank tightens foreign exchange allotments. Banks and brokers face demand surges with duplicate applications while Berlin quotes lag behind London Amsterdam and Zurich. Officials consider an internal gold loan to curb speculation and aid small investors buying government bonds.
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Berlin
Reischbank
Reischsbank
Reichsbank
London
Amsterdam
Zurich
Danzig
Villa Assassination Seen as Personal Feud By Obregon
President Obregon suggested Villa’s killing may stem from a personal feud amid a staged ambush. A Parral garrison report details a three day wait by seven to nine gunmen in a vacant lot near Benito Juarez and Balvino Barredo, with Villa and four others dead and two escorts wounded.
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Mexico City
Obregon
Francisco Villa
Villa
J. Felix Lara
Parral
Benito Juarez and
Balbino Barredo
Trillo
Daniel Tamayo
Rosario Rosales
Canutillo
Kuertz Demands Light on Bond Issue by Ohio Traction
W Jerome Kuertz director of Street Railroads demands specifics on a 4.4 million dollar 6 percent bond issue by the Ohio Traction Company. He says securities require city approval and cites Ordinance 253-1918. The Cincinnati Traction Company and officials discuss the refinancing plan and related notes maturing in 1923.
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Kuertz
Letter IQ Traction Company
Ohio Traction Company
W. Jerome Kuertz
Cincinnati Traction Company
Traction Company
Carrel
Froome Morris
Saul Zielonka
Charles F. Hornberger
Charles E. Tudor
Fifth-Third
Citizens National Banks
Cincinnati Street Railway Company
Warsaw Avenue
City of
Cincinnati
Public Utilities Commission of Ohio
Ohio*~ Traction Company
W. Kesley Schoepf
Mr. Schoepf
Bottle of Rare Wine Bodes Change for Last Man Club
Stillwater Minnesota hosts annual reunion of four of the original 34 members of Company B Minnesota Volunteers. A bottle kept since 1886 becomes the toast, prompting talk of changing the clubs constitution to allow two last drinkers or to pass the bottle to the American Legion for a new Last Man Club. The 85 year old Peter Hall presides as president with John Goff and Charles Lockwood present. Emil Graff misses due to infirmity.
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Associated Press
Stillwater
Minn
Last Man Club
Company B
Minnesota
Peter Hall
Atwater
Adam Marty
Bull Run
Last
American Legion
Mr. Hall
John Goff
Soldiers’ Home
Minneapolis
Charles Lockwood
Chamberlain, S. C
Old Civil War Company
Emil Graff
St. Cloud
Fla
Bloodless street clash ties Covington political fight
In Covington, John I. Murphy and Judge Frank M. Tracy exchanged words and a shove on Third Street near the post office as part of Kentucky Democratic nomination battles. Attorney Edward Tracy says the fracas stemmed from mudslinging with Murphy backing Barkley and Tracy backing Cantrill.
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John I. Murphy
Judge Tracy
Covington
John T. Murphy
Ludlow
Frank M. Tracy
Kenton
Edward Tracy
Tracy
Third Street
Murphy
Postoffice
Jimmy Whittle
Whittle
Kentucky
J. Campbell Cantrill
Alben W. Barkley
Barkley
Colonel Denhardt
Attorney Murphy
Moose Hall
Crittenden
Anea
Third
Scott Streets
Judge assigns traffic law part to actor in speeding case
Wallace Ford 31 actor living in Willoughby appeared before East Cleveland Police Judge Stanton Addams for speeding He claimed he rushed to a theater rehearsal The judge quipped about the show Six Cylinder Love and fined Ford fifteen dollars and costs totaling 24 60 The judge also gave him a copy of Traffic Regulations for East Cleveland as his part for next week.
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Cleveland
Wallace Ford
Willoughby
Stanton Addams
Ford
Addams
East Cleveland
Third man linked in Morris murder arrested in Kentucky
Walter Gulley, 40, of Portsmouth Ohio, arrested at Childsburg Kentucky as third suspect in the Robert F Morris killing near Otway Ohio May 27. Gulley waived extradition and will face first degree murder charges alongside John Spires and Frank Moore. Spires and Moore pled not guilty. Hearing dates set for Moore and Spires.
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Commercial Tribune
Portsmouth
Walter Gulley
Childsburg
Robert F. Morris
Cincinnati
Otway
O. Gulley
Harry M. Dunham J
Scioto County
W. W. White
Adams County
Gulley
John Spires
West Union
Morris
Spires
Slim
Frank Moore
Moore
Justice of the Peace
Wiliam Cooper
Theodore K. Funk
Salamanca Fire Devastates City Center and Downtown
A massive blaze in Salamanca New York destroyed the City Hall and central business district after a bonfire of an abandoned skating rink storage sparked tanks and garages. Damages estimated up to 1 million dollars with several injuries to residents and firemen.
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Salamanca
N. Y
Main Street
Broad Street
Clinton Street
Joan
Bradford
Ellicottville
Little Valley
Arkham
Andrews Theater
Mulqueen
Brookhart fronts farm ills fight with Lincoln Republicans
Iowa Senator Brookhart says Lincoln Republicans and Jefferson Democrats will unite with Tory Republicans and Bourbon Democrats when Congress meets to wage agriculture’s fight. He claims progressives are organized, farmers face bankruptcy, and prices for farm products and land are being distorted by middlemen and financial interests.
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Iowa
Lincoln
Jefferson
Chicago
Congress
Moses
New Hampshire
Washington
Smith W. Brookhart
Brookhart
East
Illinois
Four Tickets in 1924 Race Foreseen by Senate Result
Special Correspondent notes Magnus Johnson's Minnesota Senate win signals a four ticket 1924 race. Washington pundits foresee chaotic campaigning with possible congressional election of a president. Ford and La Follette on third or radical tickets stir battle, while Johnson's return from Europe looms for early foreign policy scrutiny.
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Washington
Magnus Johnson
Minnesota
United States Senate
United States
Congress
Coolidge
United Stats
Shipsted
Northwest
Prohibitionists
Henry Ford
Bob la Follette
Harding
Verdun
Oe Johnson
California
Johnson
Europe
Three States Crime Ring Tied to Long Island Arrest
A woman, Rose Fulton, and two men, Joe Fulton and Ernest Moehr, were arrested in a Long Island bungalow after a spree that included Brooklyn candy store holdups, a shot at a negro gateman at a railway crossing, and auto thefts in Iowa and Pennsylvania. A fourth man is still sought. The trio confessed to crimes dating from May 30, with escapes across New York, Iowa, Indiana, and Pennsylvania before returning to New York.
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New York
Long Island
Brooklyn
Iowa
Pennsylvania
Rose Fulton
Louie’ Schéchinger
Old Mill
Joe
Ernest Moehr
Fultons
Meeher
Middle No
Indiana
New Castle
Election of Johnson Explains Farmers Dissatisfaction
Senator Simeon D. Fess spoke at the Thirteenth Ward Republican Club outing at Coney Island linking Magnus Johnson’s Minnesota Senate win to farmer discontent. He argued surpluses, not demand, doom profits and urged Republicans to hold firm on sound economics while noting wartime debts, tariff shifts, and banking policies aided recovery and reduced unemployment.
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United States
Simeon D. Fess
Ohio
Thirteenth Ward
Republican Club
Coney Island
Fess
Magnus Johnson
Senate
Minnesota
Northwest
Johnson
A. E. B. Stephens
George Eyrich
Evelyn Kelly
Elaine C. Ross
Jeanette H. Cramer
D. C. Handley
Froome Morris
Yellow Springs
Mr. Morris
Business Men’s Club
Morris
George P. Carrel
Charles Hornberger
Charles Tudor
Samuel I. Lipp
Farmers and laborers push for more voice on Federal Reserve
Senator Brookhart notes farmers and workers dominate bank deposits and demand co-operative credit and board representation. He argues for three farmers and two laborers on the Federal Reserve Board. He also cites railroads’ value dispute and says Congress may fund World War I bonuses with profiteer costs. He left Chicago tonight.
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Federal Reserve Bank
Federal Reserve Board
Brookhart
Interstate Commerce Commission
Chicago
Wheat Prices Fall Cited as Exchange Retaliation
Senator Ladd of North Dakota asserts in a letter from Washington that wheat prices declined after Congress passed grain exchange regulation. He says speculators pushed the market downward to punish farmers and the farm bloc, hoping to force repeal of the law.
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Washington
Congress
Ladd
Republican
North Dakota
Europe
Italian vessel Pietro Brizzolari Lost Near Alexandria
A Lloyds dispatch from Alexandria reports the Italian ship Pietro Brizzolari of 1,184 tons was lost at sea with the crew saved.
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London
Lloyds
Alexandria
Pietro Brizzolari
Plan Fifth Railway Trunk Line Between New York and Chicago
New York Central officials propose a fifth great trunk line to connect New York with the Midwest, seeking Interstate Commerce Commission approval. The route would be about ninety five miles shorter than the current line, use existing segments, and include a Hudson River crossing or tunnels. The plan aims to relieve congestion east of Buffalo and expedite freight and passenger flows between Western points and New York.
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New York
Chicago
Middle West
New York Central Railroad
A. H. Smith
Interstate Commerce Commission
New York Central
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Mr. Smith
Ista
Hudson River
Yankee Naval Officer Ends War Of Chinese Factions
American Lt. Leland P. Lovette aboard the gunboat Pampanga brokered a peace between Sun Yat-Sen aligned Constitutionalists and Kwangsi forces in Kwangtung Province. The pact, signed at Wachow's Standard Oil office, had Sun evacuating Wuchow and Constitutionalists occupying forts, with river traffic resuming and Lovette returning to patrol duties. Sun Yat-Sen weighed the gains as Kwangsi collapse loomed, while Canton reported a brighter peace outlook.
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Yankee
U. S
Canton
Leland P. Lovette
United States
Pampanga
Kwangtung- R
Constitutionalists
Sun Yat- Sen
Kwangsi
Sun
West River
Shum Hung- Ying
Wuchow
Wai Pong-Ping
Lovette
Kwang
Kwangtung
Standard Oil Company
Wachow
Shum
Associated Press
North River
Chen Chiung-Ming
East River
Waichow
Sun Yat-Sen
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Street Railway
Schoepf
F. Morris
Pari
Farmer-Laborites
Farmer- Laborite
Small
Robert T.small
The
Britain
Treasury
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