Nine convicts killed in Knabb camp probe hearing
The Joint Legislative Committee heard from Mrs Thelma Franklin that nine convicts at State Senator T J Knabb s Baker County camp died last year seven since September and most deaths were ruled natural. She alleged brutalities by wardens including a shooting by Warden Thompson and described gruesome burials and a rescue of Paul Revere White. The Senate later adopted a resolution urging abolition of corporal punishment as an experimental measure.
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Associated Press
Tallahassee
Fla
T. J. Knabb
Baker County
Joint Legislative Committee
Thelma. Franklin
Glen St. Mary
Franklin
Senator Knabb
Mary Sheffield
Thompson
Sheffield
Ino
Paul Revere White
Washington, D. C
Taunton
Mass
Clarence
Internal Revenue Bureau
J. B. Thomas
Knabb
Thomas
Florida Senate
Turnbull
Heroic American Girl Amidslaught In Chinese Bandit Raid
Reports from Peking describe a raid by the Suchow bandits on a train and a besieged camp near Linching. An American girl Miss Schonberg carried ransom demands through gunfire to the besieging troops, while American Major Pingle and Major Robert Allen, plus others, endured weeks of peril and hard marching before relief. Prices on captives set by bandit chief run high, with foreigners at fifty thousand dollars each.
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Peking
Shantung Province
Linching
Tsinanfu
Tientsin
Joseph Rothman
Suchow
Shanghai
Miss Shonberg
G. Jacobson
British-American Tobacco Company
Jacobsen
Miss Schonberg
Major Pingle
Péking
Chevalier Musso
Roland Pinger
Robert Allen
Caution But Not Timidity Needed To Insure Prosperity
Hoover tells business men caution safeguards prosperity but not timidity. He argues against inflation, urges disciplined growth, notes wholesale price trends, and outlines four defense lines including saving, prudent business conduct, credit management, and unified policy. Immigration committee proposes adding 2 percent selective migrants to meet labor shortages.
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Hoover
Mr. Hoover
Movie Stars Command High Pay per Picture in 1910s
Testimony at a Federal Trade Commission hearing reveals top film stars earned 100000 to 350000 dollars for each picture, with Chaplin earning 1 million in 1917 for eight films and Mary Pickford at 350000 per picture for several works. Norma Talmadge and Constance Talmadge also profiled. Williams notes First National controlled 60 percent of leading talent in 1916 and sought to counter Famous Players by forming the Exhibitors Circuit in 1917.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
John D. Williams
First National Exhibitors Circuit, Inc
Federal Trade Commission
Famous Players-Lasky Corporation
Williams
Famous Players
Charlie Chaplin
Mary Pickford
Norma Talmadge
Constance Talmadge
Katherine McDonald
Copitante
First National
First National Exhibitors’ Circuit, Inc
Singer Wins Suit Against Ziegfeld Impresario
Olive Cornell, once dropped from the Follies in 1920 for enunciation, won a verdict of 7,200 dollars against Florenz Ziegfeld. She had asked 25,000, but the jury cut it to 10,000 and then subtracted earnings since her discharge.
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New York
Olive Cornell
Florenz Ziegfeld
Miss Cornell
Dameser
World Court plan acceptable to Cox says Democrats should back peace
Former presidential candidate James M. Cox told the Illinois Women’s Democratic Club that any plan securing permanent world peace should appeal to both parties. He blamed Britain for the Ruhr tie-up, urged American involvement in naming World Court judges, and criticized Charles Evans Hughes for delaying invitations to eligible delegates.
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Cox
Chicago
James M. Cox
Illinois Women's Democratic Club
League of Nations
Democratic Party
Europe
Herbert Hoover
America
France
Germany
England
Lloyd George
International Court
Charles Evans Hughes
Senate
World Court
Mr. Cox
Hughes
John Bassett Moore
Comet and Star Added to Sky Landmarks at Harvard Observatory
Harvard astronomers endorse a new comet found by Rev. Joel H. Metcalf in Ophiuchus. The ninth magnitude object near Alpha Ophiuchi was visible only with telescope and not yet measured for orbital elements. Carl Lampland from Lowell Observatory reports a new star in Messier 83, a faint fourteenth magnitude nova seen May 3.
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Cambridge
Mass
Harvard College Observatory
Joel H. Metcalf
Portland
Ophiuchus
Metcalf
Lowell Observatory
Flagstaff
Ariz
Carl
Otto Lampland
Messier 83
Lampland
Krupp Leader and Directors Sentenced in Germany
In Werden Germany Dr Krupp von Bohlen head of Krupp works and directors Hartwig Oesterlen Bruhen receive prison terms totaling 55 years for responsibility in clashes between Krupp workers and a French squad. Sentences of 15 years for Hartwig and Oesterlen 10 for Bruhen 20 years by default for Bauer Schaeffer Kuntz who fled. Fines total 850000000 marks.
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Associated Press
Werden
Germany
Krupp von Bohlen
Krupp Works
Bruhen, Oesterlen
Hartwig
Krupp
Peyronnel
Verden
Paris
Strasbourg
Metz
Arrests in New York Immoral Show Raid
Eight hundred men were arrested in a New York meeting hall raid on an immoral performance. Patrol wagons from all police stations moved prisoners to East Sixty seventh Street Station.
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New York
Fourteenth Street
Harlem
East Sixty-seventh Street
Indicted for Rum Plot in West Va
Eighteen indictments charging eighty-seven men including Sheriff Harry Clouse of Ohio County allege conspiracy to violate national prohibition laws. Federal arrests followed the grand jury findings in Wheeling with names of businessmen and political leaders among the accused. The case centers on a two million dollar swindle linked to bootlegging, involving shipments from Tennessee to Wheeling.
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Wheeling
W. Va
Harry Clouse
Ohio County
Clouse
A &Core
Charles Burnetti
S. K. Johnson
Chester G. Thompson
Crystal Rock Distilling Company
Joseph Bennett
Louis Farrell
Charles Nagel
Cecil R. Kerns
Columbus
Atlanta
Kerns
Old Hickory Powder
Tennessee
Bill to require liquor on ships entering British waters
London May 8 A private bill to compel any ship entering or leaving British ports to carry a reasonable supply of alcoholic liquors for passengers on demand is to be introduced in the House of Commons by Lt Col George Loyd Courthope Conservative MP for Rye. Penalties for noncompliance are provided and cross party support is claimed to oppose American Prohibition, though the measure has little chance of approval.
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London
House of Commons
George Loyd ‘Courthope
Rye
Sussex
Courthope
House
Five Italians Slain in Mexico Found at Rio Grande
The bodies of five Italian nationals slain for their money were recovered from the Rio Grande near Columbia Nuevo Leon Mexico and buried on the Mexican riverbank. A sixth body was not yet found while divers continue searching. Seven Mexicans are jailed in Laredo in connection with the slayings as the victims tried to enter the United States clandestinely.
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Laredo
Texas
Columbia
Nuevo
United States
Blackmail letters trigger ambush in Kentucky hills
Covington reports two Carrol county men Pul liam and Preston, both wounded, taken to Covington jail on mail fraud charges. They claim ambush while returning from Milton after receiving threatening notes signed Blackhand. Authorities link letters to extortion attempts reaching Milton and nearby farmers.
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Carroll County
Kentucky
Covington
Emmett Orr
United States
Bedford
Eugene Pulliam
Edward Preston
Marshal Preston
Thomas Diskin
Cincinnati
Pulliam
August Baker
Milton
Blackhand
Raker
Preston
Trimble County
Roetken
Diskin
D. F. Vorheis
Farmers’ Bank
Robert Culvert
Queen Mary Purnell Subpoenaed In Israelite House Of David Case
In St Joseph Michigan on May 8 the wife of missing cult leader Benjamin Purnell was served a subpoena to testify before the grand jury probing immoral conduct. Witnesses including former colonist Hazel Wade Wuerth and three young girls were questioned about improprieties at Shiloh and the group’s leaders.
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Shiloh
Wuerth
Purnell
Quay
Mary
Benjamin
Dingeman
Portsmouth
Detroit
Colony of
Michael
Isabella Pritchard
Ohio May Weather Sets 30 Year Cold Record and Storm Fatality
May snow and severe storms grip Ohio with the coldest May in 30 years as 53 year old John Meowhay dies after lightning strikes him in Warren. Forecasters report lows near 35 and up to 2-10 inches of snow in Central and Southern Ohio.
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Ohio
Columbus Weather Bureau
John Meowhay
Warren
Cincinnati
William C. Devereaux
We'll Start Again as Elida Confectionery Burns Down
Two motherless twin boys Nolan and Murlan Mosier operated a small confectionery in Elida. A fire swept the building and spread to an adjoining grocery store causing about 2000 dollars in losses. The boys vowed to start over as the Lima Fire Department battled the blaze for under an hour.
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Lima
Elida
Nolan
Murlan Mosier
Murlan
Covington Banker John P. Ernst Ill With Appendicitis
John P. Ernst president of the Covington Savings Bank and Trust Company is ill at his Woodford Apartment Building home with appendicitis. Physicians report the condition serious but not critical. Ernst has served the bank for over thirty five years and is brother of Senator Richar Ernst.
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John P. Ernst
Covington Savings Bank and Trust Company
Woodford
Ernst
Richar Ernst
Covington Bank and Trust Company
Industrial Club
Cotington
Footpads Hold Up Drug Store as Knau Survives Shootout
Three bandits ambushed Lewis Knau near his Queen City avenue home after learning his Washington Moving Picture Theater receipts stood at about $200. Knau fought back, injuring a bandit who later died from a self-inflicted gunshot, while the remaining assailants fled. Police and detectives investigated, locating a new revolver and a hotel room linked to the dead robber.
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General Hospital
Lewis Knau
Queen City Avenue
Knau
Kwall
Washington Moving Picture Theater
Colerain Avenue
Kiiau
Bogen Avenue
Wiliam Smith
Lftifig
George Cramer
Queen City, Avenue
Hea l
Smith
Queen City
Bogen Avenues
Fred Goodall
Colerain
Goodall
Grannon and Kinney
Hayes and Bullerdick
T. J. Kinsey
Dallas
Tex
Honing Hotel
Vine Street
Eugene Weatherly
E. McClain
Cincinnati
Bert Burns
East Lighty-fifth Street
New York City
Weatherly
McClain
Washington Theater
Kwau
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Legislative
F. J. Knabb
Social Worker
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Ziegfeld
Palr
Essen
West VA
Mexico
Confederate
Kentucky Hills
Sam
Mary Purnell
Husband
David
Weather Bureau
Washington
Great Lakes
Mississippi River
Lower Lake Area
Ohio Valley
Atlantic States
Atlantic Coast
Lower Lakes
Bureau
Lewis Knall
Walnut Hills
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