Senators Hear How Sinclairs Bonds Aided Deficit Payoff
Senate Teapot Dome hearings reveal that about 260000 dollars in Continental Trading Company Liberty bonds given by Harry F Sinclair to the Republican National Committee in 1923 were used to reduce the party deficit before 1924. Witnesses including James A Patten testified bonds were circulated to individuals and proceeds paid toward campaigns.
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Washington
Senate
Continental Trading Company
Liberty Bonds
Harry F. Sinclair
Republican National Committee
James A. Patten
Chicago Grain Commission
Fred W.ham
Upham
Patten
National Committee
Jefferson Hospital
Chicago
New York
Continental
Senator Walsh
William V. Hodges
Denver
Hodges
Continental Bonds
M. J. Pessin
T. Coleman duPont
Delaware
William Boyce Thompson
John T. Pratt
American Association of Foreign Language Newspapers, Inc
Pessin
Concern
Mellon
Swift & Co
H. Hays
Sinclair
Teapot Dome Naval Oil Reserve
Hays
Policemen Warn City Jaywalkers Before Arrests Begin
Police will issue warnings to pedestrians about jaywalking and impending arrests. Each violator gets a slip quoting disaster statistics from 1927 and urging safe crossing on green or amber after red. The plan followed a conference of City Manager I. Sherrill Police Chief Copelan Maj. Wolsefer and Secretary Smith.
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Cincinnati
I. Sherrill
Copelan
Maj
Wolsefer
Smith
Life Saving Hero Leaves Force Over False Statement
Patrolman Vito C. Ferraro was dismissed after being found guilty of making a false statement. Once hailed for saving a man from drowning, reports revealed Ferraro could not swim. Deputy Inspector Lewis J. Valentine led the investigation and tested his swimming ability in a deep pool.
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New York
Vito CC. Ferraro
Police Department
Warren
Ferraro
Lewis J. Valentine
Woman Impersonates Firm Employee to Cash Bad Checks
A stylish young woman used a missing Sheet Metal Products Co checkbook to obtain more than $200 in cash and goods from eight stores, including the Sebel Shoe Store and various Vine street shops. She presented forged typewritten checks under the firm name, paid $7 worth of flowers to fictitious addresses, and received small change at each location.
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Sheet Metal Products Company
Central Parkway
Metal Products Company
Ben
Second National Bank
Sebel Shoe
West Fifth Street
Sebel
Rose Russo
Cook Street
Posner Bros
Vine Street
United Linen
Peggy Hat
Albert S. Ross
Protecto Manufacturing Company
Central Avenue
Julius Baer
East Petrith Street
Frank Moore
Fourth Street
Mariemont
Fire destroys Schulze Baking Co garage and 35 delivery trucks
A midnight blaze at 736 738 West Fourth street in Cincinnati destroyed the Schulze Baking Company three story brick garage and 35 delivery trucks valued at 1 000 each. Total damage reached 75 000 with electrical equipment and a neighboring rooming house also affected. Origin undetermined. Firefighters battled the ten blow fire as residents fled and a worker family narrowly escaped with their belongings.
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Cincinnati
Schulze Baking Company
West Fourth Street
Arthur Hilton
Hilton
Hillsinger
Cunningham
Franks
Anna Jackson
Ray barred from acting in New York pending contract dispute
New York State Supreme Court forbids motion picture actor Charles Ray from practicing in the state until he fulfills a contract with producers Edward F. Gray and Ramsay Wallace. Ray, in a Broadway play, did not appear before Justice J. T. Mahoney as the motion was granted by default amid claims he took 1500 dollars for a play he wrote and later acted in Paterson New Jersey and Cleveland under another manager.
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York
Charles Ray
State Supreme Court
Edward F. Gray
Ramsay Wallace
Ray
Justice J. T. Mahoney
Paterson
N. J
Cleveland
Joseph Shea
Congress Rolls Wordy Day in Washington Amid Debates
Congress spent five hours debating amid packed floors in both houses as the anti-lame duck amendment faced a vote tomorrow. Senate scrutiny focused on Norris proposals for Muskogee Shoals operation while committees opened inquiries into soft coal oil leases and the cotton market slump.
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Washington
Congress
House
Senate
Norris
Muégcle Shoals
Black
Adama
Alabama
Fletcher
Florida
Neal Follette
Snate
Mellon
Teanot Dome
Oil merger rumors link Sinclair with Marland company
New York reports a potential $500 million oil industry giant forming from Sinclair Consolidated Oil and the Marland Oil Company. Subsidiaries Sinclair Crude Purchasing and Sinclair Pipe Line, partly owned by Standard Oil Indiana, may become Marland names. Wall Street trades on merger chatter amid broader market moves.
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Sinclair Consolidated Oil Corporation
Marland Oil Company
Harry F. Sinclair
Oil Corporation
Sinclair Crude Oirchasing Company
Sinclair Pipe Line Company
Arabian War In Arabian Desert Alarms British Posts
Reports from London describe Ibn Saud planning a Mecca pilgrimage while British observers Downplay as desert unrest grows. Basra dispatches note frontier preparations and possible Wahabi raids with armored cars and marines in Kuwait and Syria routes closed.
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Arabian Desert
Saud
Mecca
London
Arabia
Persian Gulf
Ibn Saud
Hedjaz
Nejd
Reyadh
Basra
Iraq
Howeit
Koweit
Holmes Observes His 87th Birthday
Washington March 8 Oliver Wendell Holmes Associate Justice of the Supreme Court is 87 today and marked the day by working on cases at home. He has been ill with a cold for ten days but is improving. Born in Boston in 1841 he survived Antietam and Fredericksburg and remains active and engaged in law and reading remarks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York World
News Service
Washington
Oliver Wendel Holmes
Supreme Court of the United States
Holmes
Mr. Holmes
Boston
Mass
Antietam
Maryes Heights
Fredericksburg
Olmes
United States Supreme Court Bench
Jewelry theft at Jacksonville hotel nets $11500
The theft of jewelry valued at 11500 from the room of Mrs. George Peckham of Cleveland at a Jacksonville hotel was revealed by police. The loot included a $5000 platinum diamond bracelet a $5000 wrist watch and a $1500 diamond ring. Mrs. Peckham said she discovered the loss yesterday.
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Jacksonville
Fla
George Peckham
Cleveland
Peckham
Cincinnati Man Charged With Bigamy After Newport Marriage
David Bruce of Cincinnati, elated by a divorce article, hurried to Newport and wed 19 year old Fannie Ross. His first wife Mona Bruce, still pursuing divorce, had him arrested on bigamy charges. He waived extradition and awaits a Newport preliminary hearing after being jailed on $1000 bond.
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David Bruce
Cincinnati
Bruce
Mona Bruce
Baymiller Street
Newport
Fannie Ross
Fortunate Rat Hunt Yields Hidden Silver Dollars
Ole Lingen of Stanley Wisconsin found a hidden fortune while hunting rats in his cellar. A spade struck a crockery jar containing 386 silver dollars dated 1900 or earlier. The find, valued at about 368 dollars, provides unexpected relief for the widower supporting four children on a clerk's salary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York World News Service
Stanley
Wis
Ole Lingen
Lingen
Train Hits Auto. Beloit Couple Die Near Rockford
In Rockford Illinois on March 8 a Chicago and Northwestern passenger train struck an automobile killing Mrs David Sharp and Mrs Sharp, both 36, of Beloit Wisconsin. The pair had been married two weeks and the crash occurred near Mr Sharp's father’s home.
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Rockford
Ill
David Sharp
Beloit
Wis
Chicago & Northwestern
Sharp
Two Children Die as Train Hits School Bus in Iowa
A Rock Island passenger train struck a country school bus carrying seventeen children southwest of Charles City Iowa killing two youngsters Roger Schaffer ten and Harrison May twelve. Fifteen were injured eight seriously taken to Waterloo Hospital. others treated at home. The driver was speeding to make up time.
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Charles City
Rock Island
Here
Roger Schaffer
Harrison
Waterloo
Robert H Putman founder of Robert Putman Candy dies in Chicago
Robert H Putman 69 founder of the Robert H Putman Candy Company and a Cincinnati candy chain leader died at his Chicago home after a six week illness. He organized the business in 1906 and at one time ran eleven stores after selling his six here to Cincinnati bankers four years ago. He was born near Maysville Kentucky in 1858 and left no children. He leaves three brothers and three sisters. The body will be sent to Cincinnati for burial. funeral arrangements are incomplete.
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Robert H. Putman
Robert Putman
Mr. Putman
Maysville
Thomas D
Hannah Applegate Putman
Chicago
Marshall Field Company
Cincinnati
George W. Mec-Alpin
Putman
Vine Street
Enquirer
Half-Fare Lochinvar’s Movie Dream Meets Kansas City Police
Twelve year old John Wilburn Jr. of Cincinnati fled home with seventy dollars to meet Hollywood. He rode toward Kansas City via train and was found at the depot after a tip from a newspaper clerk. Police coordinated with Kansas City officials to recover him and return him home.
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Lochinvar
Bud
Kansas City Cops
Jackie Coogan
Kansas City
John Wilburn, Jr
MiMicken Avenue
Cincinnati
Hollywood
John
Arpenter
Johnny
Central Union
St Tion
Anne Tigby
Travelers’ Aid
G. van Arsdall
Baltivore & Ohio
St. Louis
Tracy
Bedbugs Behind Merchantville Jail Fire
Millions perish in a Merchantville blaze blamed on incendiary causes and bedbugs. Police guard merchants as Mayor Holman and councilmen witness the flames, while reports describe bedbugs as a factor in the incident and the old jail’s demise.
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New Jersey
New York World News Service
Merchantville
N. J
Fred Holman
John Brickley
United States
Wynce Armstrong
Brickley
William Linderman
Stinson and Haldeman Retry World Flight Record
Eddie Stinson and George Haldeman attempt to set a new continuous flight record from Selfridge Field with the Stinson monoplane loaded to 3845 pounds. They hope for 48 hours of good weather despite storms predicted as they climb to higher altitude.
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Detroit
Eddie Stinson
George Haldeman
Selfridge Field
Stinson
Selfridge
Lake St. Clair
Haldeman
Ruth Elder
Hoover enters Indiana primary challenging Watson
Herbert Hoover secret ary of commerce filed to run in Indiana as a Republican presidential candidate opposing United States Senator James E Watson in the May 8 primary. Hoovers Indiana drive is led by Foellinger with Lowden not entering. The State's deadline allowed belated filings and Evans Woollen is the only Democratic candidate for President.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Herbert Hoover
Commerce
United States
James E. Watson
Hoover
Ohio
Frank B. Willis
Indiana
Oscar G. Froelinger
Wayne
Chicago
Frank O. Lowden
Illinois
Clarence F. Buck
Lowden
Foellinger
M. Bert Thurman
National
Watson
Washington
Willis
Kansas City
Hoosier
Oscar Foellinger
EB. M. Wasmuth
Republican State Committee
Goodrich
Wasmuth
New
Senator Watson
George B. Lockwood
Muncie
Republican National Committee
Hinchcliffe Plans 4000 Mile India Flight Test
London dispatch reports Capt Walter Hinchcliffe, noted British aviator, preparing a 4000 mile flight to India as a preliminary test for an attempted Europe to America crossing in May or June. The plan aims to prove long range endurance before the main flight.
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London
India
Europe
America
Walter Hinchcliffe
Two Marines Die In Nicaragua Plane Crash
A U S Navy observation plane crashed near Esteli Nicaragua killing Capt William C Byrd and Sergt Rudolph F Frankforter both aboard. The pilots were on a test flight from Ocotal when a suspected bird strike caused wing failure and the crew ejected from about 250 feet. Both widows reside in New Jersey and Virginia.
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Managua
Nicaragua
William C. Byrd
Rudolph F. Frankforter
Estell
Matagalpa
Byrd
Orangeburg
S. G
Sergt. Frankforter
Quantico
Palenville
Green County
N. Y
Esteli
Ocotal
Estell Field
Mother Kills Two Babies Then Tries Suicide
In Pittsburgh on March 8, 25 year old Catherine Ward killed her two children, 3 year old Billy by placing him in a tub of water and 8 month old Dorothy May, and then cut her wrists and drank poison. Her condition is critical and unclear. Neighbors reported long illness.
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Pittsburgh
Catherine Ward
Billy
Dorothy May
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Ohio River
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Sctme
Alun
AIG Oil
HEAL
Union of Consolidated Corpor
Ation
Marland Company
Standard
Wall Street
Oper
Ator
Dome
Quiry
Marland
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Bagdad
Damascus
Supreme Court
Iowa
Nebraska
Twentieth Century Limited
Anthony Rocco
Whiting
Rudolph Muse
Robertsdale
Seward, Neb
A. L. Bixby
A. L
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Nebraska State Journal
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