Million Dollar Rum Plot Foiled In New York Seizure
A $1,000,000 liquor bootlegging conspiracy aimed at stripping bonded storage was uncovered in New York when the Pershing Ware house Corporation was seized. Ralph and Charles Sabbatino were arrested. forged permits and bribery allegations tied to Acting Prohibition Director John A. Murphy and Assistant Director Lester A. Reeves surfaced. Spring rum fleets and coast guard actions were reported as authorities warned of ongoing smuggling threats.
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New York
E. C
Yellowley
Prohibition
New York State
Pershing Warehouse Corporation
Ralph
Charles Sabbatino
John A. Murphy
Department of Internal Revenue
Lester A. Reeves
Borough Hall
Brooklyn
Sabbatino Brothers
Murphy
Manhattan
Bahamas
St. Pierre Miquelon
Rhode Island
R. Q. Merrick
Federal Prohibition Office
Coast Guard and
Customs Service
Reed
Coast Guard
Lexington
Ister
Times Square
Highlands
Einstein Makes New Discovery and Resigns From League
Berlin dispatches report Albert Einstein arriving in Kantara Egypt after a Japan trip with his wife. He hints at a discovery linking Earth attraction and terrestrial magnetism and cites the sea voyage as aiding his thinking. Einstein resigns from the League of Nations Commission on intellectual cooperation.
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Associated Press
Berlin
Albert Einstein
Kantara
Egypt
Japan
Einstein
League of Nations Commission On Intellectual Co
League
Hotels pay and rate cuts alleged in Ohio Legislature probe
Testimony before the Senate committee on the hotel liability bill details alleged pressures by W W Byers of Cleveland and his attorney to secure payment or reduction of hotel bills for lawmakers. W G Nickels and Robert O Brien describe requests to cover Senator Rowe’s expenses and a note for 300 dollars. Governors and legislators named include Donahey Marshall Gardner and Burch amid claims of overcharges and influence.
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Associated Press
Columbus
W. W. Byers
Cleveland
Ben Sawyer
Ohio Hotel Association
W.G. Nickels
New Philadelphia
Robert O’brien
Senate
L. L. Marshall
Byers
Sawyer
Nickels
Legislative Committee
The
Hotel Association
J. J. Rowe
Rowe
Joe Rowe
Donahey
Dennison
Senator Marshall
Marshall
O'Brien
Mr. Nickels
O’brien
O’ Brien
Joseph R. Gardner
Cincinnati
Frank B. Burch
Rum Row Riders Resume Running From Highlands Port
In Highlands New Jersey on March 22 six fast rum craft left the port armed with automatic pistols and sawed off shotguns to guard against pirates. Several motorized craft tested by sea while mother ships stayed offshore, then moved closer to the three mile limit easing hazards for bottle fishermen.
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Highlands
N. J
Ohio House Rejects Two Cent Gasoline Tax Then Moves On
In Columbus the House rejected a two cent per gallon gasoline tax but moved to reconsider and will push a one cent per gallon tax tomorrow. The two cent bill failed to reach a constitutional 67 vote. a one cent option won 59 to 56 on the day. The Freman motor bus and motor truck tax bill passed 110 to 2 earlier, with Kasch and Hunt voting no. Reconsideration carried 65 to 44.
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Associated Press
Columbus
House of Representatives
House
Freman
Kasch
Summit
Hunt
Shelby
Rubenstein
Cincinnati
Hamilton County
Posse Surrounds Piute Band in Utah Clash
A posse encircles a renegade Piute band in Wash Comb district Monticello Utah. Four white possemen were reported missing but joined the search. In yesterday’s clash one Indian was killed two wounded and ponies shot. Squaws and papooses were escorted to safety by white settlers at Blanding as tensions rise across Southeastern Utah.
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Monticello
Utah
Wash Comb
Blanding
Salt Lake City
Montezuma Canyon
Allen Canyon
Posey
Indian Bureau puzzled by Utah uprising reports
News dispatches claiming an Indian uprising in Utah are "all Greek" to the Indian Bureau in Washington. Commissioner Burke said he has contacted federal and state authorities in Utah, but they report no uprising among the Piutes in San Juan County.
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Washington
Utah
Indian Bureau
Burke
San Juan
Chicago Man Killed as Car Skids near Huron
Albert J. Hart a Chicago advertising sales man was killed instantly and his bride Beryl Gwynne age twenty three was injured perhaps fatally when their auto skidded and overturned in a ditch three miles east of Huron on the way to Chicago. Hart and Miss Gwynne wed two weeks ago in Cincinnati.
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Chicago
Bride Hart
Huron, CO
Albert J. Hart
Here
Beryl Gwynne
Cincinnati
Saunders's $150 Offer Ignored as Piggly Wiggly Stock Sinks
Clarence Saunders, president of Piggly Wiggly Stores Inc, urged settling shorts at $150 a share by 3 pm or face $250 later. Trading ceased on the stock after a 52 point swing, the NYSE halted listings due to concentrated holdings, and brokers reported small sale volumes with bids around $120-$145.
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New York
Clarence Saunders
Piggly Wiggly Stores, Inc
Shorts
E. W. Bradford
Saunders
Bradford
Memphis
Tenn
Piggly Wiggly Company
Washington
Watkins & Co
Piggly Wiggly
National Bank of Commerce
Union and Planters’ Bank and Trust Company
Exchange
New York Stock Exchange
Stock Exchange
Sedamsville Lottery Leads to House Standoff
A Sedamsville man wins a house by raffle but the owner refuses to part with the home. Residents flood the town with gossip while John Meyers, winner, plans legal action after purchasing 50 dollars in tickets over two years. The owner promises refunds and keeps the house as the community watches developments.
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Sédamsville
Sedamsville
Savings Bank
Price Hill
John Meyers
Sixth
Mt. Echo
Meyers
Mr. Meyers
Mrs. Meyers
Sixth Street
Garden
Smart Swindler Targets Banks Across Ohio Indiana and Kentucky
A man using the name Allan Davis swindled at least six banks in Ohio Indiana and Kentucky over two months. Burns Detective Agency says the fraud followed a common pattern with similar descriptions and involved opened accounts in Elyria Ohio and Maysville Kentucky and forged checks from multiple banks. The case spans Maysville Ky Richmond Ind Lodi O Elyria O and Otway O with listed check totals and deposits as detectives trace the scheme.
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Ohio
Indiana
Kentucky
Allan Davis
William J. Burns
Davis
Maysville
Richmond
Ind
Lodi
Elyria
Otway O
Elyria, O
Elyria Bank
Mt. Vernon
Otway
Flood Devastates Missouri River Bottoms Near Sioux City
Seven deaths are reported as a five mile ice gorge on the Missouri River bottoms south of Sioux City floods farms and sweeps homes. Livestock perished, island residents flee as air bombs and dynamite failed to break the gorge and rescues continue for marooned families on Duncan Island.
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Duncan Island
Sioux City
Missouri River
Brass Field Island
Sergeant
Bluffs
Sergeant Bluffs
Iowa sinks after Mississippi shells seal fate of battleship
Aboard the U S S Maryland in Panama Bay March 22 amid the Star Spangled Banner and salutes the battleship Iowa sank after a bombardment by the Mississippi. After nineteen rounds and direct hits the hulk slid beneath the waves with fires in holds and superstructure extinguished.
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U.S. S. Maryland
Panama Bay
Iowa
Mississippi
Denby
Congressional
AOS
Santiago
Winter Peet D.ie ‘Tni
New York Banker Held in Naples On Larceny Charges
Francesco Tisbo, a New York steamship ticket agent and banker, indicted in New York with two brothers on grand larceny charges, arrived in Naples aboard the Taormina from New York and was detained with his wife. Police found 60 000 lire in his baggage.
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New York
Naples
Associated Press
Francesco Tisbo
Taormina
Wealthy Woman Held Under Larceny Charge
Mrs Genevieve Paddleford, wife of oil operator George E Paddleford, faced grand larceny charges in Los Angeles after allegedly obtaining about 15000 in goods on credit from Hollywood and Pasadena stores using false representations. Bail was set at 10000 and she was held at police headquarters while seeking surety.
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Los Angeles
Genevieve Paddleford
George E. Paddleford
Hollywood
Pasadena
Paddleford
Farm Hand Slain in Bloomfield Township Near Warren
Officials opened an inquiry into the slaying of a farm hand known as Holy Joe whose real name could not be learned. The body was found in a marshy area late last night, and Sheriff Thomas was alerted to the scene in Bloomfield Township near Warren Ohio.
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Warren
Holy Joe
Bloomfield Township
Here
Trumbull
Thomas
New High Frequency Electric Cure for Pneumonia Reported
Dr H H Droesner Roetgen ray specialist at St Marys Hospital in Hoboken announces a new pneumonia treatment using high frequency electric currents. Over ten days nine patients received the therapy and all recovered quickly, with discharge anticipated within days as the treatment reduced congestion and heated the body.
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Hoboken
H. H. Droesner
St. Mary's Hospital
GUILTY VERDICT IN WATER FOR WHISKY PLOT
Matthew F. Griffin former head of the Secret Service in Philadelphia and six co defendants were found guilty by a Federal District Court jury of conspiracy to defraud the government in a plot to substitute water for whisky in a shipment to Greece. Bail set at 10 080 each, potential earnings estimated at 5 000 000 if plans succeeded.
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Philadelphia
Matthew F. Griffin
United States Secret Service
Federal District Court
Greece
Griffin
Charles L. McKeehan
Andrew T. Hamilton
John Friedrich
Thomas Kane
Harold L. Smith
Joseph Kleiman
Louis Acton
New York
Arthur V. Hamill
United States
War Secretary's Wife Rushed North for Care
Mrs. John W. Weeks wife of the secretary of war is being sent by special train from Brunswick Georgia to Washington after illness aboard the yacht Everglades off the Georgia coast. A doctors bulletin says her condition has improved since arrival, with Secretary Weeks and Mr and Mrs R M Thompson aboard. The Weeks party traveled south with President Harding.
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Brunswick
John W. Weeks
Georgia
Weeks
Washington
R. M. Thompson
Testimony in case against Israelite House of David unfolds
Mrs. Esther Hansell testified in a financial accounting suit brought by her parents in law alleging fraud by the colony. She described bribery plots to halt investigations, efforts to involve Governor Ferris, and Purnell’s use of jewels for favors to prosecutor O’Hara. She linked the cult to immorality claims and the purification rites, and detailed the leadership’s control structures and weapon permits.
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Grand Rapids
Mich
House of David
Behren County
Michigan
Esther Hansbll
Hansell
Benjamin David Purnell
Woodbridge N. Ferris
United States
Canada
Parnell
Benton Harbor
Ferris
Purnell
Chester P. O'Hara
House of Shiloh
Walter Nelson
O’hara
O'Hara
John Roe Church of England
Benton Harbor Organization
Lizzie Tomlinson
Southport Crossing
England
Sydney
Australia
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RUM Row
Posse Hems
New York Exchange
Jewel
Mrs. Hansell
Secret Service
U. S
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