Senators Fight Over Four Power Pacific Treaty Debate
Irreconcilables intensify attack on the four power Pacific treaty with charges of propaganda on both sides. Senators Johnson Willis Spencer Fletcher Pomerene Nelson debate whether the pact is an alliance and if it endangers U S independence as supporters defend the agreement in the Senate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
France
Maryland
Johnson
California
Watson
Georgia
Willis
Republican
Ohio
United States
Pomerene
Spencer
Missouri
Foreign Relations Committee
Fletcher
Florida
Senator Willis
Nelson
Minnesota
China
Psychic fraud claim links Missoula haunting to Antigonish incident
Dr. T. H. Bolton of Temple University ties a Missoula, Mont., haunting to the Antigonish episode nine years later. He asserts Mary Ellen MacDonald of Missoula, then nine, produced rappings in a hypnotic trance, later adopted by the Antigonish case as the same facial cast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. L. Bolton
Missoula, Mont
Philadelphia
T. IL. Bolton
Temple University
Antigonish
Mary Ellen MacDonald
Missoula
Mont
MacDonald
Dr. Bolton
Mary Ellen
Bolton
Window Glass Trust Indicted Under Sherman Act
A federal grand jury indicted the American Window Glass Company of Pittsburgh, Johnston Brokerage Company, a Pennsylvania corporation, and more than a hundred firms plus three labor union heads for alleged Sherman anti trust violations. Labor leaders Joseph M. Neenan James T. Zellers and W A Anderset face charges of aiding manufacturers to restrict supply and raise prices. The case stems from the Lockwood Committee inquiry into the house glass market with over sixty witnesses. Prices allegedly rose from ten to more than thirty cents per pane as production was limited to one third of each year. Ohio firms named include Crown Window Glass Maumes Erie Window Glass Fairfield Licking and Sandusky Glass manufacturers.
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New York
American Window Glass Company
Pittsburgh
Johnston Brokerage Company
Pennsylvania
United States
Hayward
Joseph M. Neenan
National Window Glassworkers
James T. Zellers
Window Glasscutters and Flatteners’ Protective Association
W. A. Anderset
Window Glasscutters and Flatteners’ Association of America
Lockwood Committee
Grand Jury
West Virginia
Ohio
Indiana
Kansas
Oklahoma
Crown Window Glass Company
Maumes
Erie Window Glass Company
Sandusky, O
Fairfield Glass Company
Lancaster
Licking Window Glass Company
Utica
The
Sandusky Glass Manufacturing Company
Classified Ad Index From The Page
An index of advertisements lists diverse merchants and services including building materials bonds and finance firms. Names appearing include The Pearl Market Bank American Finance Co Harry W. Smith Puttar Time Beat Madden's Shoes Cabebchee The Faery Queen Candy The French Bros Bauer Co and Wurlitzer among others.
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DURES
Wocos
Clown Cigarettes
Pbeenee Pease Cunard Anchor
Financial— American Finance Co
Pearl Market Bank
Harry W. Smith—Clothing
Hewitt & Mackenbach—Specialists
Puttar
Gss
Ciced Acessidsens
Liberal Savings and Loan Agssn
Madden’s—Shoes
Motion
French Bros.-Bauer Co
The
Mabley & Carew Co
Qiland Coal Co
Wurlitzer Eee A
Aioe
Birds Should Worry Over House Shortage
Middletown Ohio residents may see an unusual housing effort as Boy Scouts built one hundred bird houses in public parks and plan to distribute two hundred more to citizens to place on private lawns. The structures were crafted in a recent scouting building contest.
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Middletown
Boy Scouts
Mary Ellen MacDonald Not Responsible for Antigonish Ghosts
Halifax report states Mary Ellen MacDonald age 15, adopted daughter of Alex MacDonald, is not the author of the Antigonish ghost and not involved in the Missoula fraud. Dr. Walter Prince’s assessment supports the finding. the Missoula case involved a six year old. Foster father and his brother's details are noted as not linking to a foster daughter Mary Ellen.
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Halifax
N. S
Mary Ellen MacDonald
Alex MacDonald
Walter Franklin Prince
Missoula
Mont
Philadelphia
Mary Ellen
United States
Medium credited with calming ghost in Ambrose Small case
Windsor reporter notes Mrs. Sidney Nunan, a Spiritualist medium, aided by Franklin Crandall in the two year search for Ambrose Small. Crandall said the medium summoned the ghost of his father-in-law Lee Leonard, who died in Jackson, Michigan, and obtained a pledge to stop troubling the Crandalls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Windsor
Ont
Sidney Nunan
Ambrose Small
Franklin Crandall
Truckman
Lee Leonard
Jackson
Mich
Crandall
Crandalls
McGannon Disappears After Perjury Conviction Upheld
William H. McGannon former Chief Justice of the Municipal Court fled his Cleveland home after the Fourth District Court of Appeals upheld his perjury conviction. He faces a one to ten year penitentiary sentence though an appeal to the Supreme Court is possible. The charge stems from testimony at two murder trials over Harold Kagy, whom McGannon had acquitted.
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Cleveland, O
William H. McGannon
Municipal Court
Fourth District Court of Appeals
McGannon
Supreme Court
William H. Boyd
MccGannon
Harold Kagy
Obenchain Jury Locked Up for Night
In Los Angeles Mrs. Madalynne Obenchain faces murder charges in the Kennedy case. After about two and a half hours of deliberation the jury asked for testimony to be read. The judge ordered the request and later locked the panel up for the night due to a female juror’s health concerns amid reports of a nine to three split.
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Los Angeles
Madalynne Obenchain
J. Belton Kennedy
Sidney N. Reeve
Beverly Glen
Kennedy
Canadian Soldier Surrenders in Taylor Case
A former Canadian soldier sought in connection with the murder of William Desmond Taylor surrendered to Mexican authorities in Mexicali Lower California and was returning to Los Angeles in custody of two detectives. He admitted serving under Captain Taylor in France during World War I and his name was not released by officers.
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Los Angeles
William Desmond Taylor
Mexical
California
Calexico
Cal
Los Angeles Times
Times
Taylor
France
Omaha Boxer Dies After Knockout in Preliminary Bout
Omaha boxer Terry O'Mallary died after Ray Carter knocked him out in the fourth round. O'Mallary struck the neck on the floor, respiratory organs were paralyzed, and he died twenty minutes later. Carter was arrested then released on $20,000 bond. This was O'Mallary's third fight, with two prior knockout wins.
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Omaha
Neb
Terry O’mallary
Ray Carter
Carter
O’mallary
O’mallory
O’malley
Whisky Bandits Fail Hold-Up At Local Distillery
A six man whisky gang armed with shotguns failed in a dawn robbery at Blue Grass Distilling on Sixth Street and Liston Avenue Riverside. Guards Hoffbauer and Dehner were captured but freed. Albert Imwalle led the defense and alerted police. Police later found two abandoned trucks tied to the crime. owners were traced to local firms.
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Blue Grass Distilling Company
Fleischmann
Sixth Street
Liston Avenue
Riverside
Albert Imwalle
Colerain Avenue
John P. Dehner
Monitor Street
Sayler Park
Ganger
Imwalle
Max Hoffbauer
Delhi Avenue
Hoffbauer
Dehner
Inwalle
Weatherly
Weiss
Cleary
Ninth District
Imwaille
Hillside Avenue
D. A. White Sugar Company
Elm Street
Air Reduction Sales Company
West Sixth Street
Ford Pledges to Keep Wall Street From Muscle Shoals
Detroit March 17 Henry Ford declares he will dedicate every resource to prevent Wall Street financing or operating the Muscle Shoals water power project. He calls the effort a test of American industry and a model showing power can be developed without Wall Street control to lower industrial costs and raise living standards.
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Ford
Wall Street
Detroit
Muscle Shoals
Henry Ford
Detroit News
South
Mr. Ford
Girl Delivers Triumph Recital as Grandmother Dies En Route
Florence Blasing, seven, cheered by a St Patrick’s Day audience, completes her recitation while her grandmother Mrs Elizabeth Schmidt, eighty two, collapses on school steps and dies of apoplexy. She had traveled from Cincinnati with five children to hear the performance. Funeral services for Mrs Schmidt will be at St Rose’s Church with burial in Calvary Cemetery.
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Highland School
Florence Blasing
Elizabeth Schmidt
Mrs. Schmidt
Florence
Grandma
A. E. Gillette
Schmidt
D. G Handley
St. Rose’s Church
Calvary Cemeery
War Hero Begs Clemency For Buddy In Court
Two convicts arraigned in New York for auto theft and burglary after Sing Sing terms. James E. Taylor, a war veteran, sought clemency from Assistant District Attorney J. I. McDonnell who defended his former comrade. McDonnell praised Taylor’s wartime heroism and asked the judge to balance service to country in sentencing. Judge Crain suspended sentence after the plea.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Crain
Orange County
Sing Sing
James E. Taylor
Herbert Conklin
J. I. McDonnell
Taylor
Conklin
Jim
Raleigh
N. C
North Carolina
McDonnell
Belgium
Flanders
France
Dodge loses bid to avoid five day jail for speeding
Detroit March 17 John Duval Dodge youthful heir to John I Dodge automobile magnate loses fight to avoid five day jail term for auto speeding. Judge dismisses habeas corpus as defective and Dodge returns to the House of Correction while a mandamus motion is rejected.
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Detroit
Mich
John Duval Dodge
Recorder’s Court
Jayne
Dodge
House of Correction
Lansing
Supreme Court
Charles L. Bartlett
John I. Dodge
Theodore Richter
Coffin
Rex Earl of
Kalamazoo
Dodger
Western Normal College
Emmeline Kwakerneck
Justice Court
Miss Kwakerneck
Wage Parley Aims to Avert Coal Miners Strike
New York March 17 The Anthracite Coal Mine Owners and Workers Committee of Eight begins extended talks to avert a general strike over wages. John L. Lewis and Samuel D. Warriner express cautious optimism about reaching a new scale by April 1, with labor costs and consumer prices in focus.
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New York
Lewis
Mr. Warriner
Warriner
Mr. Lewis
William J. Brennan
Scranton
Thomas Kennedy
Hazelton
J. Golden
Shamokin
W. W. Inglis
Pottsville
W. L. Connell
Committee of Eight
Former Omidan Held For Death Of Texas Girl
Charges of murder were filed in El Paso against Fred M. McClure formerly of Cleveland and Tucson in the death of Miss Louise Frentzel 23 whose body was found with a bullet wound. McClure says she killed herself after a quarrel and that he disposed of personal items in a canal.
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EL Paso
Texas
Fred M. McClure
Cleveland
Tucson
Ariz
Louise Frentzel
McClure
Miss Frentzel
Louise
Whisky seized in Dayton-Middletown safe tampered with
Federal prohibition agents report 450 half pint bottles and seventeen quarts of Coon Hollow whisky stored in Middletown were found diluted with water and tobacco juice during transfer to Columbus. The fraud was discovered after officers removed the liquor from the vault amid unclear motives and a full investigation was ordered.
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Cincinnati
Internal Revenue
Prohibition
Dayton
Middletown
Internal Revenue Office
Russell
Columbus
Middletown Revenue Office
Dean
al Wuest
Willis Glover Townes Dies Pioneer Coal Exporter
Willis Glover Townes, 51, former Chairman of the Finance Committee of the National Democratic Executive Committee and president of the United States Coal and Coke Corporation, died last night in Palm Beach Florida. He is survived by his widow and one daughter. funeral services will be held in Atlanta on Sunday.
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New York
Palm Beach
Fla
Willis Glover Townes
National Democratic Executive Committee
United States Coal and Coke Corporation
Whiting Advertisement Motto Echoes Editorial Style
A brief clipped note cites a tag line urging readers to consider writing with the prompt WHITING echoed as an advertising reminder. The piece frames writing as a valued craft in a period voice.
Commercial Tribune Is Praised In Court
In Police Court yesterday morning Attorney Arthur Fricke praised The Commercial Tribune for its telegraphic news service and cited a Court of Appeals ruling by Judges C G Washburn Ross Funk and W E Pardee that Municipal Court Clerks lack power to issue search warrants under the Crabbe act. The case against Charles Busch of 2121 Storrs street for possessing a still and making liquor was continued to March 24.
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Commercial Tribune
Arthur Fricke
Akron
C. G. Washburn
Ross Funk
W. E. Pardee
Court of Appeals
Crabbe
Fricke
Charles Busch
Storrs Street
Busch
Ohio River Victim Identified by Receipt
Coroner Handley identified the body found ashore at 2841 West Sixth Street as Louis J. Strottman 53 a millinery salesman of 424 Fifth Avenue Darton Ky. He had been missing from his Dayton Ky home for about six weeks and had been in ill health. Authorities seek his sister said to live near Cincinnati.
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D. C. Handley
West Sixth Street
Louis J. Strottman
Fifth Avenue
Darton
Philip Munrath
James Kerry
Sedamsville
Qhivo River
Dayton
Ky.) Lodge
Strottman
Handley
Cincinnati
Hetty Green of the Bronx Leaves $3.5 Million Estate
In a Bronx safe deposit box the estate of Mrs Sarah J Wykoff Bent reveals over 1 million in jewels and securities. Temporary administrators estimate her fortune at over 3.5 million with 1.5 million to her second husband Thomas C Bent. During the 1907 panic she bought steel and netted 500000. Friends recall her quip about avoiding bankruptcy for her children.
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New York
Sarah J. Wykoff Bent
Bronx
Wall Street
Thomas C. Bent
Steel
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TATE
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Mary iEllen
Leonard
Willy Dailley
Blue Grass Company
Phgun
John Dodge
Millionaire
Davis
Diggers
Abe
Omidan
Deat OF Texas
Canal
Willis G. Townes
Whiting
Ohio River
al Dayton, Ky
Hetty Green
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