Mexican note to protect churchmen in Mexico
Ambassador Sheffield presented a note to the Mexican Foreign Office urging fair treatment for American churchmen amid Mexico's new religious teaching policy. The case of Fr. F J Krill, threatened with arrest in Vera Cruz, was settled satisfactorily and Jalapa authorities may allow him to remain. The move signals Washington’s demand for due process and time for Americans to depart if needed.
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Washington
Mexico
Sheffield
Foreign Office
State Department
Senate
Vera Cruz
F. J. Krill
Jalapa
King
Dem
Utah
Borah
Foreign Relations Committee
Setiree
Labor
Justice Department
Nayarit Official Beaten by Worshippers at Cathedral
In Tepic on March 9, the Secretary of State of Nayarit was assaulted by church members who accused him of mocking religion and trying to enter a cathedral in a large sombrero. He was rescued as the crowd threatened severe harm.
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Tepic
Nayarit
Mexico
Éit
Republic
France
Elysee Palace
Briand
Moonsehen
M. Briand
Coast Guard Shelled Canadian Schooner Off New Jersey Coast
British Ambassador Sir Esme How ard reports charges that the Canadian schooner Eastwood was shelled twenty one minutes off the New Jersey coast by a U S Coast Guard cutter. Seneca officials deny the claim while the matter awaits Treasury Department response on jurisdiction and treaty limits.
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Associated Press
Washington
Eastwood
New Jersey
State Department
Esme Howard
Lunenburg
Nova Scotia
U.S. Coast Guard
Seneca
Department of External Affairs
Treasury Department
Coast Guard
Treasury
Great Britain
Suburban rental demand cited by advertiser Bette Beek
Bette Beek notes a growing supply of up-to-date apartments and houses in suburbs. She says Commercial Tribune ads help owners attract tenants who can maintain homes with modern appointments and offers to assist with preparing ads.
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Commercial Tribune
Fox Terrier on Trial for Killing Kitten Faces Death Penalty
Teddy a Belmont fox terrier stood in Police Court charged with willfully chasing and shaking to death a six month old kitten. The case hinges on an autopsy ordered after the kitten was disinterred. Prosecuted at the instance of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. next hearing set for March 16.
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Philadelphia
Teddy
Glénn
Society For the Prevention of Cruelty To Animals
Glenn
Cincinnati Considers One Wire Trolley System Upgrade
City officials and Cincinnati Street Railway Company executives explored replacing the obsolete two wire trolley with a single wire system. Colonel Sherrill and Walter Draper discussed potential benefits, costs, and phased rollout as trials on select routes proceed.
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Cincinnati
Cincinnati Street Railway Company
Colonel Sherrill
United States
Sherrill
Walter A. Draper
Mr. Draper
Millcreek Valley
Hoover outlines inland waterway network and lake level issue
Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover sketches a nine foot channel from Chicago to the Gulf and a two-trunk inland waterway system linking Pittsburgh to Kansas City and Chicago to New Orleans. He urges funding concrete and steel works to resolve lake level disputes and curb rising rail and ocean freight costs impacting the Middle West.
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Chicago
Herbert Hoover
Commerce
Middle West
Gulf of Mexico
John Ericsson Republican League of Illinois
Hoover
Panama Canal
America
Department of Commerce
Mississippi
Great Lakes
Alleghenies
Great Plains
Ohio
Missouri
Pittsburgh
Kansas City
New Orleans
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Omaha
South Dakota
Chattanooga
Nashville
Little Rock
Houston
Galveston
St. Lawrence
New York Ship Canal
United States
Six Convicts Seize Guard Then Flee In Atlanta
Six white convicts wrestled a pistol from guard P. P. Newsom on a county prison truck near Atlanta. Newsom was not expected to survive. fellow guard H. L. Davis lay dying from buckshot. Guards Guy Reid and J. L. Barfield were bruised. two other inmates were wounded lightly. Three convicts remained at large after hijacking the truck and stealing an automobile from two prominent Atlanta women.
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Atlanta
P. Newsom
H. L. Davis
Guy Reid
J. L. Barfield
W. P. Cobler
Roy Wilson
Reid
Barfield
Mill Owner Disappears Leaving Note Says Failure
D L Earley 40, owner of Jamestown and New Jasper mills, vanished from his Xenia home after leaving a note to his wife claiming he was a failure. A letter purportedly from him told a Dayton bank to straighten affairs amid financial worries. He left two sons in law school in Cincinnati.
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Xenia
D. L. Earley
Jamestown
New Jasper
Dayton
Cincinnati
Whitney Slayer Receives Life Sentence in Slaying Case
Judge Hurley termed the sentence one of his hardest as James Eubanks is jailed for life at the Ohio penitentiary for killing Charles Whitney at the Spencer House, Front and Broadway, on January 8, 1926. Whitney died after being shot when Eubanks demanded shoe return. Eubanks is father of Roy Eubanks, a World War I hero and county’s first enlisted soldier to die in the war.
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Hurley
Ohio
James Eubanks
Charles Whitney
Spencer House
Front and
Broadway
Eubanks
Roy Eubanks
America
Whitney
Real estate dealer arrest after trying to punish thief
Morris Pearce a 42 year old real estate dealer escorted Mary Le Mar 22 to a police station accusing her of grand larceny of bed linen worth 54. Pearce refused to accept her offer to pay and was later jailed for transporting liquor after detectives found five quarts of whisky in his car. His limousine was seized.
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New York World News Service
New York
Morris Pearce
Prael
Mary le Mar
Mrs. le Mar
Pearce
Impeachment Bid Moves Against Judge English
The House Judiciary Committee voted 14 to 6 to recommend impeachment over alleged high misdemeanors in office by Federal Judge George W. English of the Eastern District of Illinois. If approved by the House, the Senate would convene as a court of impeachment with seven managers to prosecute.
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Washington
House Judiciary Committee
George W. English
Illinois
House
Senate
United States
Andrew Jackson
English
Wilson
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Judiciary
Hawes
Missouri
Graham
Judiciary Committee
Hersey
Maine
Stobbs
Massachusetts
Montague
Virginia
District Court
Eastern District of
Battles rage behind Opines at Geneva meet
At Geneva on March 9, debates over League of Nations council seats intensify as Locarno pact signers convene and Spain faces pressure from Brazil Poland and China. Sweden denounces Spanish threats while Germany waits for Briand to reconfigure his cabinet and for a council compromise.
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League of Nations
Geneva
Council of
Briand
Louis Loucheur
Paul Boncour
France
Locarno
Spain
Brazil
Poland
China
Quinones de Leon
Yanguas
Primo de Rivera
Germany
Madrid
Norway
Sweden
League
Luther
Dr. Stresemann
Council
M. Briand
Fire Destroys Nickel Plate Roundhouse and Shops at Frankfort
A blaze at Frankfort Indiana gutted the Nickel Plate Railroad roundhouse and its machine and blacksmith shops. Four men were injured and about 500000 dollars in damage caused layoffs for roughly 600 workers as oil burner explosions sparked the fire. The roundhouse new at the time and several locomotives and new machinery were lost in the early morning blaze.
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Associated Press
Frankfort
Ind
Nickel Plate Railroad
Woman Poisoner Given Life Term in Illinois Case
Flora Illinois March 9 Mrs Elsie Bible Malinsky 45 pleaded guilty in Clay County Circuit Court to the poison murder of Mrs Laura Malinsky 53 and was sentenced to life in Joliet She said she gave poison in a glass of water She cleared her husband of blame The grand jury had indicted the couple The body of Mrs Laura Malinsky died September 26 The viscera were poisoned and exhumed December 11 The State Attorney indicated no further inquiry into Arbille Bible Elsie’s first husband death is likely.
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Associated Press
Flora
Ill
Elsie Bible Malinsky
Clay County
Laura Malinsky
Ernest L. Malinsky
Joliet
Malinsky
Williams
Arbille Bible
Poison Evidence Links Massie Murder Case in Edgewater
In Golden Colorado on March 9 District Attorney Stone announced chemical analysis of Mrs. Virgil A. Massies viscera found enough deadly poison to kill a plow horse. Massies husband faces murder charges and declined comment while co defendant Mrs Rene Divelbess swore innocence after hearing the result. Exhumation of Mrs Massies body led to the examination in Denver.
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Associated Press
Golden
Col
Virgil A. Massie
Edgewater
Denver
Stone
Massie
Rene Divelbess
Miners Rescued After 26 Hours Entombment Twenty Die
Ten miners are rescued alive after 26 hours entombed in a shaft. Eleven bodies are recovered from the mine as authorities continue to investigate causes and safety measures. Briand forms ninth cabinet in Paris planning to return to Geneva to press League peace efforts.
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Briand
Geneva
Judges Laud Adult Probation System as Cure for Crime
Judges and officials in Cincinnati voiced support for adult probation as an economical, humane crime remedy. James W. Kirby of Cleveland outlined implementation, with local judges urging creation of a probation department funded by county commissioners. The discussion cited juvenile probation success and called for investigations and supervision to curb recidivism.
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Cincinnati
Woman’s City Club
James W. Kirby
Cleveland
Cuyahoga County
Charles W. Hoffman
Frederick Hoffman
Yeatman
Darby
Ryan
Walter Knight
Ralph Reed
Louis Rubenstein
Chile
Common Pleas
Board of County Commissioners
Ohio
Department of Probation
Kirby
Detroit
New York
Troy Chief's mystery trip renews Nesbitt murder probe
Troy Ohio authorities report Police Chief John Sharits left town with Fire Chief George Landrey to chase a promising crew linked to the Nesbitt murder case. Detectives seek clues about missing clothing from the Nesbitt home as the investigation faces fresh angles and uncertain arrests.
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Troy
John Sharits
Frances Drake Nesbitt
Miami County
Harvey
Campbell
Sharits
George Landrey
Nesbitt
Jacob Nesbitt
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H. L. Dailey
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P. J. Click
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