Sapiro Hoped to Reap Millions as Advisor to Farmers
Senator Reed outlines Aaron Sapiro's claimed plan to collect millions as a worldwide legal adviser to farmers. Ford's editor W J Cameron testifies Ford was tolerant of Soviet Russia but not to dictate The Dearborn Independent. Trial pauses as records are sought and Ford not to testify Monday.
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Sapiro
Reed
Ford
Henry Ford
W. J. Cameron
Dearborn Independent
Cameron
Soviet Russia
The
Independent
William Gallagher
Stewart Hanley
Gallagher
W. J. Black
Hanley
Mr. Gallagher
Fred M. Raymond
Washington
Senate Campaign Funds
United States
Aaron Sapiro
Chicago
Idaho
Colorado
Maine
Oregon
California
Carolinas
Truck needed to haul evidence in Ford Sapiro libel suit
Detroit March 18. Jurists may require a trucking service to move the voluminous evidence for the Aaron Sapiro libel case against Henry Ford. Attorney Gallagher seeks copies of every issue of The Dearborn Independent since 1918. About 250 depositions by the defense are set for presentation.
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Ford-Sapiro
Detroit
Aaron Sapiro
Henry Ford
Gallagher
Dearborn Independent
Bechtel Held in Death of Erie Chorus Girl
Karl H. Bechtel district sales manager from Buffalo is jailed on murder charges in the death of Virginia Gibney a chorus girl found dead in an Erie hotel. A coroner jury ruled natural causes but an inquest noted throat marks and Bechtel testified of a dispute over $20 leading to choking. Witnesses heard screams and identified Bechtel leaving the room. Investigators found bloodstained items and a purse with $882 and five diamond rings.
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Erie
Karl H. Bechtel
Buffalo
N. Y
Virginia Gibney
Elmer Hess
Bechtel
Mona Maya
Alice Heffernan
Miss Gibney
Edward Shibles
One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Street
New York City
H. J. Bryner
West Twenty-first Street
Philadelphia
City Planning Commission Faces Viaduct Fight Over Power
Howard Wilson of 4750 Highridge Avenue seeks to block the City Planning Commission from acting against county and state plans for the Eighth Street Viaduct extension from Evans Street to Burns Street. He asks the City Solicitor to file suit, contending the commission has no say over the proposed design and urging timely action in court.
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City Planning Commission
Eighth Street
Howard Wilson
Highridge Avenue
William Jerone Kuertz
John D. Ellis
Planning Commission
Wilson
Western Hills
Evans Street
Burns Street
Ellis
Cincinnati
United States Supreme Court
Washington
Race riot erupts in Coffeyville as troops sent in
In Coffeyville Kansas martial law was declared after a mob of white residents besieged the city jail to seize three Black suspects in an assault on two white girls. About 100 shots were exchanged. three people were wounded. guards locked down hardware stores and armed clashes shifted to the Black quarter.
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Kansas Town
Coffeyville
Kan
Forged Papers Subject of Note
The February 28 note to Mexico, sealed in secrecy, concerned forgery of state documents and was viewed as an oil law confrontation by US officials. Ambassador Manuel Tellez traveled to Mexico City to confer with President Calles, while officials declined comment on the forgery report. Troops later arrived at the scene to restore order after a shooting incident.
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Arthur Constantine
New York World News Service
Mexico City
United States
Mexico
Manuel Tellez
Washington
Calles
N. Y. World News Service
N. Y. World) Press Pub. Co
Ohio faces 13.25 million deficit as budget shortfall grows
Ohio state finances show an overdrawn general fund of 448 680 50 and a projected June 30 shortfall of 13 250 000. Auditor Joseph T. Tracy urges immediate borrowing up to 750 000 under constitutional limits and use of 750 000 from the World War Soldiers bonus fund 400 000 from institutional building funds and 350 000 from the manufacturing and sales rotary fund to cover bills and keep needed programs running. The governor will present recommendations to the General Assembly next week amid a stalled budget program and an emergency plan to meet obligations and highway needs. The deficit breaks down into a cash gap of 8 883 000 and unpaid contract amounts of 4 367 000.
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Columbus
General Revenue Fund
Tracy
General Assembly
Institutional Building Fund
Millionaire Kid’s Train Hold-Up Tale Confirmed
Frederick Buhl Jr claimed participation in a 1923 $300000 mail train robbery at Alton Illinois. American Railway Express records confirm August 1923 hold-up and a guard’s murder. Buhl retracts confession and cites pending New Jersey indictments for embezzlement. Police plan murder and robbery charges while seeking five accomplices. Buhl says loot buried in a graveyard near Bismarck North Carolina.
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New York
Frederick Buhl, Jr
Alton
Ill
American Railway Express Company
Brooklyn
Ruhl
Kid
A. A. Brill
Freud
Buhl
New Jersey
Newark
East Orange
Express Company
Chicago & Alton
St. Louis
Liberty Street
Chicago
Bismarck
N. C
Florida Realty Firm Files Voluntary Bankruptcy
The J. C. H. Realty Corporation of Miami filed a voluntary bankruptcy petition in Federal Court in Jacksonville. Liabilities listed at 1,499,807.05 and assets 35,595.99. The petition was filed in the name of O. S. Johnson, chairman of the board, following a March 4 stockholders meeting in Miami.
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Jacksonville
Fla
J. C. H. Realty Corporation of
Miami
O. S. Johnson
Bank Closure Shocks Stuart as Seminole Bank Folds
Florida banking officials report the Seminole Bank at Stuart, capitalized at 50,000 dollars, closed today due to sector liquidity strains. Deposits total 1,287,124.39 dollars after heavy withdrawals followed the Farmers' Bank failure in West Palm Beach, though no broad run occurred.
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Tallahassee
Fla
West Palm Beach
Seminole Bank
Stuart
Farmers’ Bank
Dr Frederick A Cook Faces Parole Arrest Action
Cleveland authorities plan to arrest Dr Frederick A Cook upon parole from Leavenworth Prison for indictments charging use of the mails to defraud. U S District Attorney A E Bernsteen secured a bench warrant from Judge Westenhaver after wardens at the penitentiary transmitted the parole information. The 1923 indictments named Cook and twenty three associates in a stock sale fraud connected to the Petroleum Producers Association of East Liverpool Ohio.
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Cleveland, O
Frederick A. Cook
Leavenworth
Kan
Cleveland
A. E . Bernsteen
United States District Attorney
White
Bernsteen
Westenhaver
Cook
Dr. Cook
Petroleum Producers’ Association of
East Liverpool
Deadlocked Jury Kept on Job in Sherman Case
A federal jury in Chicago remains deadlocked after more than thirty hours of deliberation in a massive Sherman anti trust trial. Seventy two furniture manufacturers and fifty seven individuals are charged with conspiracies to restrain trade. the jury began yesterday after two months of hearings.
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Chicago
Village Courts Cannot Evade Tumey Decree Says Prosecutor
Hamilton County developments follow the Supreme Court Tumey ruling. Prosecutor Taft states villages cannot dodge the decision by altering mayor pay. Judge Siguble frees seven county jail prisoners via habeas corpus actions. prosecutor plans individual releases with staff help. He also notes Crabbe act provisions giving mayoral jurisdiction beyond municipalities are unconstitutional, stripping mayoral power in these cases.
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United States Supreme Court
Hamilton County
Taft
Stanley Siguble
Common Pleas
Supreme Court
William M. Anderson
Tumey
Crabbe
Tragic Drowning Of 7-Year-Old In Avondale Cistern
Seven-year-old Robert Zapoleon son of J D Zapoleon optometrist, fell into a cistern at the Max Levinson home on Wilson avenue. Firemen and life-saving squad worked over an hour to revive him. he died after the accident yesterday afternoon.
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Robert Zapoleon
J. D. Zapoleon
Wilson Avenue
Avondale
Max Levinson
Levinson
Zapoleon
A. C. Poole
Woodburn Avenue
E. H. Wagner
Jefferson Avenue
Canal Lands Sale to Dayton Passed by Ohio House
By an 87 to 9 vote the Ohio House approved a bill to sell state lands of the Miami and Erie Canal and the Mad River feeder to the city of Dayton. The sale aims to support a grade crossing elimination program and advances to the Senate for action.
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Dayton
Columbus
House of Representatives
Stevens
Mad River
Senate
Drowns in His Auto at Old Town Bridge
L. D. Johnston head of a regional chain store drowned when his car plunged from an embankment into the river at the Old Town bridge east of Logan. He was trapped inside the vehicle at noon today.
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Logan
L. D. Johnston
Old Town Bridge
Police and priest dig for $100000 in cemetery treasure
In Bismarck police and Father James Aly searched the Catholic cemetery after a New York confession by Frederick Buhl Jr. claimed he buried a $100,000 loot from a 1923 Alton train robbery there. AmEx records later contradicted the tale, but the search resumed until further notice.
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Bismarck
N. D
James Aly
St. Mary’s Church
New York City
Frederick Buhl, Jr
Alton
Buhl
New York
American Express Company
Sexton
Tornadoes Kill Dozens Across Arkansas Reach Green Forest
Springfield reports say a tornado struck Green Forest in Carroll County Arkansas killing twenty five and injuring thirty. A special train with nurses and doctors was being sent from Harrison. A second Arkansas tornado within forty eight hours killed eight or ten and damaged the railway station school and homes. Communications were knocked out.
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Springfield
Green Forest
Arkansas
Harrison
Little Rock
Ark
Carroll County
Coolidge expects another U.S. tax cut next year
President Coolidge said a further tax reduction next year is possible. He left details to the Treasury and Ways and Means to frame the bill. A large surplus, Secretary Mellon estimates over 500 million dollars, supports the plan.
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Washington
Coolidge
Treasury
House
Ways and Means Committee
White House
Mellon
Green
House Ways and Means Committee
Congress
Senate
General Strike Called in Port Town to Last Until Occupation
In Shanghai a general strike is ordered to begin tomorrow and continue until Nationalist forces occupy the city. The union urges workers to avoid disorder while showing support for the southern advance against Nanking and the northern troops.
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Shanghai
Nanking
Taipingfu
Wukiang
Lishui
Ishang, Huang
Switchman Crushed In Yard Accident
Patrick Giblin 60 a railroad switchman of Elmwood Place was fatally crushed when he slipped between two freight cars at the Ivorydale yards of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad during coupling. He died at St Mary's Hospital. coroner ruled accidental death.
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Patrick Giblin
Locust Street
Elmwood Place
Ivorydale
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Giblin
St. Mary’s Hospital
Swing
Decisive Struggle To Control China Looms Over Battle Front
China’s civil war shows three major engagements with Nationalists and northern forces claiming gains. Shanghai remains the prize as rail lines from Peking to Nanking and to Hankow shape the fight, with Chang Tsung Chang’s forces defending Shanghai and Nan king while Nationalist columns press near Lake Taihu and Tai ping.
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Nanking
Shanghai
Taihu Lake
Soochow
Sunkiang
Chang Tsung-Chang
Nankins
Yangtze Valley
Shantung
Chang
Chang Kai- Shek
China
Russia
New York World News Service
New York
Chengchow
Suchow
Peking
Lake Taihu
Iling
Taiping
Loot recovered from armored car robbery in Pittsburgh
Police dug up $3,343 of the payroll loot tied to the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Company heist. The cash was buried on Joseph Weckoski’s Bentleyville farm, found after his wife led detectives to the site. Total recovered funds exceed $38,000 with earlier caches totaling over $35,000.
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Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Company
Bentleyville
Joseph Weckoski
Detroit
Weckoski
Fugitive Prison Official Confesses on Carrol Escape Plot
Charles M. Thompson former assistant superintendent of Leavenworth’s shoe factory admitted being offered 68000 to help John P. Carroll escape. He claimed cash salary of 3000 a year would have outweighed the payout. Thompson hid Carroll in a packing case and helped ship him out as federal agents closed in after a multi state chase.
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New Orleans
Charles M. Thompson
Leavenworth Prison
John P. Carroll
Thompson
Carroll
Kentucky
Heela
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James A. Reed
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Rand
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Miami Company
Talesmen
Cornell
Ohio
Gladys Cooper
Neal O’hara
Nibbs
Hollywood
Junior Potter
Leroy Scott
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Eugene J. Young
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Hankow
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