Goolidge Again Declines Running for Third Term
President Coolidge reiterates he will not run for another term and declines a Wyoming GOP request to waive personal preference. The White House letter to L. C. Hinkle cites his August and December statements and notes ongoing talk of a draft movement for Hoover.
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Goolidge
Wyoming
Washington
Coolidge
Republican State Central Committee
Everett Sanders
L. C. Hinkle
Republican State Committee of
Sanders
Hinkle
Black Hills
Republican National Committee
White House
Republican Party
Hoover
Charles D. Hilles
New York
Mayor Thompson
Chicago
C. Bascom Slemp
Virginia
Mr. Coolidge
Slemp
Roanoke
Herbert Hoover
Chicago Boss Slain by Gang Fire on Street
Diamond Joe Esposito a powerful Twenty-Fifth Ward political figure was killed outside his home in Chicago. Neighbors Albert and Joseph Vedette saw a black car with four or five gunmen fire, then he was taken to county hospital where he died. The body bore a $1,000 diamond belt buckle a $5,000 diamond ring and a $3,000 stickpin.
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New York World News Service
Chicago
Diamond Joe” Esposito
Albert
Joseph Vedette
Twenty-Fifth Ward
Dancer Wins $20,000 in Breach Suit in Cleveland
Gene McGushion a 22 year old dancer from New York City won a $20,000 verdict in Common Pleas Court in a breach of promise case against violinist Duci Kerekjarto theater or concert performer.
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Cleveland
Gene McGushion
New York City
Common Pleas Court
Duci Kerekjarto
Theater O
Defeat of Soviet Proposal Assured at Geneva Conference
Twenty two nations oppose the Soviet disarmament plan at the Geneva conference ensuring its defeat. A separate note reports a husband facing execution on the Canadian gallows tomorrow for murder.
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Geneva
Canadian Wife Says She Would Die Rather Than Penitentiary
Doris Palmer McDonald wept and declared she would prefer death to life in prison amid her husband’s death sentence in a crime case. She had trusted her Catholic conversion and lamented his public statement that cleared her of complicity, which halted her correspondence.
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New York World News Service
Montreal
Quebec
Doris Palmer McDonald
W. W. Cribarn
Vernon
N. Y
Nye
Troops Sought To Quell Miners Riot In Ohio
Steubenville reporting that Jefferson County Sheriff William T. Allison appealed to Gov. Vic Donahey for Ohio National Guard troops to quell a threatening gathering of union sympathizers near the Dillon No 1 mine of the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad. The governor had not yet responded at midnight.
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Steubenville
William T. Allison
Jefferson County
Vic Donahey
Ohio National Guard
Dillon No. 1
Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroad
Allison
Disarmament talks see Soviet plan challenged by committee
Twenty two of twenty five countries on the Preparatory Committee oppose the Soviet demand for immediate complete disarmament. Hugh S. Gibson and others from the United States Cuba Belgium Holland Sweden Poland and Yugoslavia voiced criticisms. Litvinov will speak again tomorrow to defend the plan and may withdraw if referred for instructions.
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Geneva
Hugh S. Gibson
United States
David Whitmarsh
Cuba
Baron Rolin-Jacquemyns
Belgium
Jonkeer Rutgers
Holland
Heening
Sweden
M. Sokal
Poland
M. Markovitch
Jugo
Maxim Litvinoff
Gibson
M. Litvinoff
William C Sproul Former Pennsylvania Governor Dies in Chester
Former Governor William C. Sproul died at Lapiden Manor near Chester at 9:30 p.m. He was 57 and had suffered months of illness after a pneumonia attack. Survived by his widow and two children, he left a legacy in rail coal mining iron and steel shipbuilding and as a longtime state senator. He supported Good Roads and contributed Sproul Observatory Swarthmore College and partial ownership of The Chester Times.
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Chester
William C. Sproul
Pennsylvania
Lapiden Manor
Sproul
Union League of Philadelphia
President Coolidge
Flower
State Senate
Good Roads
Chicago
Warren G. Harding
Swarthmore College
Gun duel wounds five in Tennessee town
Newport Tennessee reports a pistol duel on Main Street leaving five wounded, including the town chief of police and two women. A fourth principal is missing, thought badly hurt, last seen near the Asheville North Carolina turnpike after fleeing in a car.
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Tennessee
Newport
Tenn
Main Street
Asheville
N. C
Pike
Newport Fourth Street to Get Boulevard Lights
Mayors of Newport and Covington unveil a two city plan to install boulevard lighting along Fourth Street in Newport from Monmouth Street to the Fourth Street Bridge and along Covington to widen the bridge approach. The aim is to curb crime and raise property values while improving cross river connections and traffic between the cities.
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Boulevard
Fourth Street
Newport
Underworld
Fred L. McLane
Thomas F. Donnelly
Covington
Licking River
Monmouth Street
Mclane
West End
Scott Street
Eleventh Street
Army flyer injured in Bolling Field crash landing
Lieut. Harry J. Flatequal of the Army Air Corps fell about one hundred feet during a forced landing at Bolling Field and was severely injured. He was taken to Walter Reed Hospital. Flatequal had been a student at the University of Minnesota before joining the Air Corps.
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Washington
Harry J. Flatequal
Army Corps
Bolling Field
Walter Reid
Flatequal
University of Minnesota
Air Corps
Scripps Litigation Reveals Family Rift Over Estate
In federal court testimony Mrs. Josephine Scripps seeks 6 to 10 million dollars from Robert Paine Scripps estate claiming an 1908 increment agreement. Witness J. W. Curts details tensions between E W Scripps and James G Scripps as Roy W Howard rises to board chair east of the Rockies. The case centers on control of the Scripps Howard chain after the founder's death.
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E. W. Scripps
Scripps - Howard
James G. Scripps
Roy W.howard
Rocky Mountains
Josephine Scripps
Miramar
Cal
James
Robert Paine Scripps
Cincinnati
Mr. Curts
Scripps Papers
Howard
Curts
Mr. Howard
S 4 Victims Tried to Chop Way Out
Boston March 21 Evidence that the last hours of the forty men who died on the sunken submarine S 4 were spent in frantic attempts to batter a hole through the hull was found by the naval board of investigation. Cold chisels hand wrenches and other tools were found on the motor room deck and through the tiller and torpedo compartments. The six men in the torpedo compartment showed evidence of extreme endurance before death by carbon monoxide ended their struggle.
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Boston
Naval Board of Investigation
Lieut
Graham N. Fitch
Investigation Board
Coast Guard
Paulding
Actor Tom Wise, Lambs Club Leader, Dies at 62
Thomas A. Wise a famed character actor and Shepherd of the Lambs Club died of heart disease in his Forty-fourth Street Hotel apartment at age 62. The English born actor who began on stage in 1883 and appeared in many New York productions collapsed while leaving the Lambs Club. his wife was at his bedside.
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New York
Thomas A. Wise
Shepherd of the Lambs Club
Forty-fourth Street Hotel
Mr. Wise
Chicago
The
Lambs Club
Faversham
England
America
Dixon
Cal
Bijou
Arthur Wilson
Amos Bloodgood
William Payton
William H. Langdon
Mississippi
Samuel Bee
Shepherd
the Lambs Club
Tom Wise Remembered as Lambs Club Leader and Stage Actor
The article recalls Tom Wise’s last Cincinnati appearance as Sir Anthony Absolute in The Rivals about fifteen months ago and his prior 1924 role as Clem Hawley in The Old Soak. Critics praised his exceptional stage ability, and he held the Lions Club’s highest honorary post in the Lambs Club, a leading actors organization.
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Tom Wise
Cincinnati
Sir Anthony Absolute
Clem Hawley
Shepherd of
Miami Student Ends Life in Palace Hotel Poisoning
Raymond S. Tish, 19, of Coshocton Ohio and Miami University student, died after taking poison in his hotel room at the Palace Hotel in Cincinnati’s downtown. A note to his father explained his struggle with college life and loneliness. The other case reports Joseph Highmand, 28, Covington racetrack groom, who shot himself in a Covington confectionery store after a coughing spell, with a prescription for asthma found in his pocket. He had recently moved from New Jersey.
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Miami
Raymond S. Tish
Coshocton
Miami University
Oxford
Palace Hotel
Sixth and
Vine Streets
Swing
Jack
Joseph Highmand
East Sixteenth Street
Covington
Highmand
Richard C Ae
Seventeenth Street
Eastern Avenue
Bert Steffen
East Seventeenth Street
Steffen
St. Elizabeth’s Hospital
New Jersey
Dome Deal Storm Roars Through Capitol as Oil Feud Reflares
Washington March 21 Republicans and Democrats clash over Teapot Dome as Senator Robinson attacks Gov. Smith amid a Senate pep rally of barbs. At the Oil Committee Wilbur Marsh denies concealed Democratic contributions and rebuts lapsed 1923 reporting expectations in a charged hearing.
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Capitol
Washington
Teapot Dome
Senate
Committee
Harry F. Sinclair
Robinson
Indiana
Alfred E. Smith
New York
Oil
Nye
North Dakota
Wilbur Marsh
Democratic National Committee
Marsh
Fred W. Upham
Republican National Committee
Congress
Senators level slush fund charge over public utilities
Washington March 21 Senator Johnson charged efforts to collect a slush fund to influence public utilities legislation. He read a letter from Newton W. Harrison urging unity and a $1 contribution per stockholder. Senator Walsh supported charges that utilities associations subsidize college lecturers to sway youth views.
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Washington
Senate
Johnson
Rep
Cal
Walsh
Dem
Mont
Newton W. Harrison
National Association of Owners of
California
Montana
St. Louis Star
City moves to widen Fifth Street by excess condemnation
City Council advanced plans to widen Fifth street between Main and Pike by excess condemnation, taking all south side property except the Masoni ale and Fontbonne. The move awaits court action and may face challenges from owners led by the Pickering Company, with no emergency clause delaying effect for thirty days.
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Fifth Street
Main
Pike Streets
Masoniale
Pay &R
Gun Opens Way for Legal Fight On Who Died First
A Cincinnati couple’s double tragedy triggers a dispute over which spouse died first. Mrs. Schlattner’s sister pursues administration of the estate valued around four thousand dollars, while Albert Schlattner objects. Probate Court anticipates difficult determination since both died after a neighbor found the scene.
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Martin Schlattner
Homeside Avenue
College Hill
Annabelle
Paul V. Connolly
Amy O’brien
Gilsey Avenue
Price Hill
Schlattner
Charleston
W. Va
Lueders
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George
Ceorge Macdonas
Canada
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Ohuws
Women’s Counsel
Hull
Tom Wat Dito
Famou
Hoosier Petre
Smith
Harrison
Albert B. Fall
Goungil
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Inet
Senate Teapot Dome Committee
Naval Oil Beases
Continental
Committee On Public Lands
Naval
Continental Trading Company
el Paso
Fall
Liberty Bencé
Continental Liberty
Sinclair
New Mexico
Harding
Edward L. Doheny
Elk Hills
Doheny
William E. Leahy
Leahy
Cheyenne
Wyo
Frederick L. Siddons
District of Columbia Supreme Court
H. M. Blackmer
Denver
Teapet Dome
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