Bastrop Jury Fails to Indict Ku Klux Members in Slaying
Morehouse Parish Grand Jury concludes ten day session without indictments in the Watt Daniel and T F Richard murders and hooded band activity. Attorney General Coco says he may file information against named participants and seek new venue or a rehearing. Captain Skipwith of the Ku Klux Klan hails the outcome.
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Bastrop
KU Klux
Morehouse Parish
Grand Jury
Watt ‘Daniel
T. F. Richard
Fred Odom
Coco
J. K. Skipwith
Cyclops
Morehouse Ku Klux Klan
Odom
May Demand Change of Venue and New Grand Jury
In New Orleans on March 15 Assistant Attorney General Walmsley signaled a likely state action after open hearings toward affidavits against numerous suspects in the deaths of two men and related offenses. He said a new grand jury and change of venue could be sought for trials, with over forty-five affidavits anticipated for crimes including lying in wait with a dangerous weapon and deportation.
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New Orleans
Walmsley
Coco
Sisters' Heroic Work Saves 31 Patients in Asylum Fire
In Montreal on March 15 a fire destroyed the Roman Catholic Home for Incurables on Decarie Boulevard. Eighty attendants and as many Sisters of Providence evacuated 31 patients to the Gray Nuns Orphanage as ambulances and a taxicab fleet aided the emergency.
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Montreal
Sisters of Providence
Decarie Boulevard
Major General Henry Dies Ex-Surveyor of Port of New York
Major General Nelson Herrick Henry a Spanish War veteran and former Surveyor of the Port of New York died suddenly at the Army and Navy Club. Born in 1855 in New York City he graduated from Columbia University in 1879 and served as a Major in the Spanish-American War while Surgeon General of the New York National Guard. He was advanced to Major General of the State Guard in 1910 and that year named Surveyor of the Port of New York.
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New York
Nelson Herrick Henry
Port of
Army and Navy Club
General Henry
New York City
Columbia University
New York National Guard
State Guard
Port of New York
Louisville & Nashville declares stock dividend and cash payout
Directors of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad declared a stock dividend of 62 percent totaling 45 million dollars. The dividend is payable May 7 to stockholders of record April 16. A regular cash dividend of 2 percent was declared in advance, payable August 10 to stockholders of record July 17.
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Melon
New York
Louisville & Nashville Railroad Today
Officials and witnesses testify in Gary liquor case trial
In Indianapolis, March 15, testimony focused on alleged lawless handling of Gary liquor cases in a federal trial. Seventeen government witnesses described the division of seized liquor proceeds, police protection, bond fixing, fines without records, and fees shared among officials. documentary evidence tied money to Gary attorneys used to secure defendants' freedom.
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Indianapolis
Gary
Lake County
Dan Melloy
Agnes Szabo
William O. Dunn
Clyde Hunter
Melloy
Pete Persons
Denny Shea
Terre Haute
Shea
Hunter
United States
Homer Elliott
Gasper Monte
Star
Gary Bank
Woman acquitted in murder case at Massepaqua inn
Mary Elizabeth Wells was found not guilty of second degree murder in Mineola New York after a jur y selected for merit deliberated about two hours. She smiled as the verdict read and thanked her attorney Miss Helen McCormick while Mrs Pettit expressed quiet congratulations.
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Mineola
Njy
Mary Elizabeth
James Pettit
Massepaqua
Wells
Helen McCormick
King's County
Price Hill Woman Dies After Rainstorm Auto Crash
Mrs. Amelia Peters, 69, of 1017 Carson Ave, Price Hill, died after being struck by a truck driven by Robert Naayers at Warsaw and Carson. Naayers was arrested on manslaughter charges after taking Mrs. Peters home. coroner and doctor attributed her death to internal injuries or shock.
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Amelia Peters
Carson Avenue
Price Hill
Peters
Warsaw
Carson Avenues
Robert Naayers
Manns Avenue
Naayers
Mrs. Peters
Clarence Orr
Irish Regular Averts Train Crash By Brave Action
In Ireland near Thomastown and Athlone a national soldier stopped a runaway locomotive moving at twenty to thirty mph. Volunteer Brady removed shoes and socks, grabbed the engine, and shut it down before it hit an oncoming passenger train. The Railway Protection Corps officer alerted troops at a block house along the line.
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Dublin
Thomastown
Athlone
County Westmeath
Railway Protection Corps
Brady
Indecent Wine Miracle Exhibit Sparks Bail for Official
Magistrate Ryttenberg in New York held Abraham Baylinson secretary of the Society of Independent Artists in $25 bail after ruling the painting Father Forgive Them for They Know Not What They Do offended public decency. The work shows William Jennings Bryan spilling wine Christ has changed from water while Andret S Vebeee author of the federal prohibition enforcement act and William H. Anderson of the New York Anti Saloon League observe.
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New York
J. Francois Kaufman
Society of Independent Artists
Ryttenberg
Abraham Baylinson
Society
William Jennings Bryan
Andret S Vebeee
William H. Anderson
Anti- Saloon League
Death of Dorothy King in West Fifty-Seventh Street Apartment
Police found the body of Dorothy King 27 an artist's model in her fashionable West Fifty-Seventh Street apartment. An empty chloroform vial lay beside her and the room was ransacked with missing jewels. Two men had visited the apartment earlier today as detectives pursued possible leads in the New York case.
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New York
Dorothy King
West Fifty-Seventh Street
Miss King
Indictment Echo of Promise Breach Suit In New Yorker Case
Evan Burrowes Fontaine, a dancer, and her mother are indicted for perjury tied to Fontaine's $1,000,000 breach of promise suit against Cornelius Whitney. They face bench warrants if they do not surrender. Whitney’s counsel alleged fraud and a court-ruled perjury by both women. Fontaine's annulment of marriage to Sterling Adair of Texas was challenged. The dancer claimed to be unmarried, while records show cohabitation. Adair died after annulment. the infant son figures prominently in the suit.
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Nyack
N. Y
Evan Burrowes Fontaine
Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney
New York
Supreme Court
Tompkins
Whitney
Sterling Adair
Waco
Tex
Miss Fontaine
Adair
Cornelius Whitney
Unconditional Evacuation of Ruhr Demanded by Germans
Berlin reports state Germany will demand complete and unconditional Ruhr evacuation as a prerequisite to resuming reparations and deliveries in kind. Reichstag leaders and Berlin editors are said to back the plan, dismissing staged withdrawal or restricted zones as unacceptable.
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Ruhr
Associated Press
Berlin
Germany
France
Cuno
von Rosenberg
Reichstag
Socialist Party
Savage Miss Wiped Out by Windstorm
Memphis Tenn March 15 reports reached here early tonight that Savage Mississippi near Tunica Tate Counties has been wiped out by a wind storm. Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad south of Memphis disrupted line communication destroyed with scores of houses reportedly destroyed and twenty five or more injured while telephones to Senatobia Coldwater and other towns in the area are out of order.
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Memphis
Tenn
Savage
Miss
Tunica
Tate
Yazoo
Mississippi Valley
Senatobia
Coldwater
New Orleans
William S. Carter Former Brotherhood Leader Dies at 63
William S. Carter, former President of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, died in Baltimore at age 63 after arteriosclerosis. He had been in a coma for two days and was surrounded by family including wife, son Lee Carter, and son-in-law Harry E. Reed. His body will be taken to Washington for a Masonic funeral planned for Saturday or Sunday.
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Baltimore
William S. Carter
The
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
Carter
Washington
Lee Carter
Austin
Tex
Harry E. Reed
United States Railroad Labor Board
Chicago
D. B. Robertson
A. H. Hawley
Brotherhood
Carter a Leader of Locomotive Firemen Union Passes
Born in Austin Texas on August 11 1859 Carter devoted his life to organizing the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen. He served as president for years before leading as editor of the unions magazine and later directing labor division in the U S road administration under William G McAdoo.
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Baltimore
Austin
Tex
Carter
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
Mexico
The
Brotherhood
William G. McAdoo
Secretary of the Treasury
United States Road Administration
Mr. Carter
Division of Labor
French Sentries Fire Germans at Recklinghausen Warehouse
Three Germans were shot and killed by French sentries when they ignored challenges while attempting to break into a Recklinghausen machinery warehouse. The Inter-Allied High Commission ordered Ruhr tradesman orders released without the 10 percent tax, freeing millions of dollars in goods including dyes, velvets, silks, gloves, chemicals, steel rails, machinery, and textiles.
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Duesseldorf
Recklinghausen
Ruhr
Inter-Allied High Commission
Chiropractor Schuette Faces Fine in License Case
Edward H. Schuette, a Cincinnati chiropractor, declines jail and opts to pay a $25 fine after conviction for practicing without a license. A ten day stay was granted to allow an appeal to higher courts as he prepares to challenge Judge Samuel Bell's ruling.
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Edward H. Schuette
Calhoun Street
Cincinnati
Hamilton County
Samuel Bell
Schuette
Bell
George D. Meeker
Ohio Chiropractors’ Association
Cincinnati Chiropractors’ Association
Cincinnati Association
Meeker
Walter Locke
FY K Gusweiler
Bernard Fox
State Supreme Court
Chauncey Pichel
Pichel
Joseph O’connell
John M
Frank Dorsey
State Medical Board
Celia Dorsey
Platter
Harding to tour coast to coast with Alaska leg
President Harding plans a coast to coast speaking tour after his Florida vacation. He will seek direct talks with agricultural, manufacturing, and labor groups to learn public views while avoiding a partisan campaign. The Alaska leg may begin in June or July with a possible early congressional session.
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Miami Beach
Fla
Harding
United States
Washington
Florida
Congress
White House
Haeding
Philippines
Hawaii
Mr. Harding
Panama
Porto Rico
Alaska
Seattle
Northwest
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Dakotas
Montana
Oregon
California
Nevada
Utah
Colorado
Kansas
Nebraska
Iowa
Missouri
Middle Western
Ohio
Indiana
Illinois
New York
New England
Senate
Taft
Roosevelt
Wilson
Chamber of Commerce
Tisanship
Eight I W W Members Convicted of Syndicalism
Eight members of the Industrial Workers of the World were found guilty of criminal syndicalism by a Los Angeles jury in the Superior Court. Five were convicted on two counts and three on one count.
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Los Angeles
Industrial Workers of the World
Harding Fishing Trip Begins Amid Weather Delays
President Harding and party reach Cocolobo Cay near Miami for deep sea fishing. Weather threatens barracuda amberjack or kingfish hopes, with waves and northeast wind hindering sea trips. Attendees include Lasker, Christian, Dawes, Dawes, Romfy, James Allison host, and others.
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Miami
Harding
Cocolobo Cay
Bisca Bay
Lasker
Shipping Board
Christain
Carl G. Dawson
Charles G. Dawes
E. G. Romfy
Sawyer
James A. Allison
Flamingo Hotel
Seahorse
Cocolobo Cay Club
Biscayne Bay
John Barton Payne
American Red Cross
Hale
Maine
Frelinghuysen
New Jersey
Miami Beach
Harvey S. Firestone
Akron, O
Palm Beach
Vero
Ormond
St. Augustine
Augusta
Protest Storm Halts Noise Test Beside Elman Concert
In Springfield on March 15 the Board of Aldermen canceled planned noise trials around the municipal auditorium for Mischa Elman’s concert. A twelve ton street flusher and a ten ton dump cart with chains and road roller rattled outside as the organist played, aiming to gauge track construction impact.
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Springfield
Mass
Board of Aldermen
Mischa Elman
Liman
Foster Trial Opens Over Communist Party Case At St Joseph
William Z. Foster criminal syndicalism trial begins in St Joseph Michigan with Sheriff Bridgeman testifying about a raid on a Communist convention near here last August. Chief counsel Walsh argues Foster attended as a fraternal delegate not a member, while Assistant Attorney General Smith outlines charges of organizing and advocating violent overthrow. The case features a government agent Morrow as a witness and details of raids that led to arrests and the reorganization of the party into the Workers' party.
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Associated Press
ST. Joseph, Mich
William Z. Foster
George Bridgeman
Berrien County
Foster
L. Smith
Atorney
Michigan
Communist Party
Labor Herald of
Chicago
Educational League
Mr. Smith
Frank P. Walsh
New York
Herrin
Ill
Smith
Walsh
Dde
Bridgeman
Francis Morrow
Ashworth
Camden
N. J
Morrow
Secret Service of
United States
Workers’ Party
Organized Labor
Communist Party of America
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Echo
New Yorker
Buer
Cologne
Witten
Paris
William Garter
Alta
Brotherhood of
Ghiropragior Balk
By David Lawrence
Commercial Tribune
Red
Government Secret Service
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