Cincinnatus Association weighs bribery claims against Reichert
The Cincinnati group debated charges that Councilman Reichert bribed policemen to shield his cafe and pressed for an air of corruption in city leadership. A committee was ordered to urge U S District Attorney May to act against co conspirators named in federal indictments.
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Jareth E. May
United States
Cincinnati
Cincinnatus Association
Literary Club
East Eighth Street
Ralph A. Kreimer
Standish Meacham
Joseph Reichert
Meacham
Joe Reichert
Federation of Churches
Fred Schneller
Henry Bentley
City Charter Committee
Cecil Gamble
Gamble
Council Fails to Act on Reichert Inquiry
The City Council took no official action on a Federation of Churches request to investigate Twelfth Ward Councilman Joseph Reichert amid a federal graft probe. Vice Mayor Froome Morris referred the letter to City Solicitor Frank Bowman for opinion on possible steps.
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Reichert
Federation of Churches
Joseph Reichert
Twelfth Ward
Froome Morris
Wold
Frank Bowman
Council
Charles ©. Rose
Fifth Ward
Rose
Columbus Druggist Sentenced in Liquor Ring Case
Chester Hively a Columbus druggist alleged ringleader of a liquor traffic ring from Columbus to Springfield pleaded guilty in Federal Court Dayton Ohio and was sentenced to one year and a day in Atlanta federal prison Judge Hickenlooper said a severe jolt would make him leave the liquor trade.
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Dayton, O
Chester Hively
Columbus
Springfield
Atlanta
Hively
Hickenlooper
Pet Lion At Girl's Side Thrills Quebec Promenaders
A lion cub trotting behind its mistress on Dufferin terrace drew a crowd in Quebec today. Miss Aileen Hughes, daughter of the late Sir Sam Hughes, returned from Kenya with the cub and plans to place it in a zoo at seven months old.
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World News Service
Quebec
Dufferin Terrace
Aileen Hughes
Sam Hughes
Canada
Kenya
Africa
Flogging Suspected in Florida Celery Scrutiny
Mayor Forrest Lake probes alleged flogging of Benjamin Way father of Yale and Giants player Nelson Way. Inquiry finds Way urged celery growers to market a poisonous spray, warning buyers of danger. Officials say Way warned by celery planters to stop writing letters and leave town.
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Sanford
Fla
Forrest Lake
Benjamin T. Way
Nelson Way
Yale University
New York Giants
Way
Sharon
Lake
New York
United States Department of Agriculture
Celery Carload From Sanford Arsenic Sprayed Seized
Louisiana health officers seized and destroyed a carload of celery from Sanford Fila Arkansas due to arsenic sprays. A second carload, though less sprayed, was ordered washed by state health officials.
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New Orleans
Sanford
Fila
Louisiana State Board of Health
Oscar Dowling
Sanford celery deemed dangerous to health in arid weather
The World News Service reports a denial of Benjamin T. Way being flogged near Sanford Florida and notes a celery growers committee warned him to leave. Dr Radfield of the US Bureau of Chemistry says Sanford celery is unhealthy due to arsenic spray residue from dry weather.
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New York World News Service
New York
Benjamin T. Way
Sanford
Fla
World News Service
R. L. Dean
Sanford Herald
Way
Radfield
United States Bureau of Chemistry
Department of Agriculture
Aviators Communicate Live Over Radio Signal Experiment
Army aviators and radio experts revealed a first time air to ground conversation was transmitted from a plane to earth and rebroadcast by WLS. The fifty watt transmitter on 750 meters was heard on 345 meter regular wave. Major General Hale will direct aircraft at Grant Park Stadium next week with orders and replies aired by WLS.
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Associated Press
Chicago
WLS
Grant Park Stadium
Hale
Sixth Army Corps
Nationwide Clean-Up of Literature Proceeds
Washington May 12 Post office officials plan to bar from mails and express services obscene reading matter and pictures. They will join with a local paper to start in Washington and expand nationwide. Thirty of thirty two ribald publishers and readers of obscene pictures were convicted last year. Fifty tons of objectionable matter were seized. Inspectors nationwide to step up checks on questionable publications.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York World News Service
Washington
Post Office
Government pursues crackdown on grain market raids
Charles Michelson reports the U S government aims to halt large scale wheat market raids linked to Jesse L Livermore and Thomas Howell. Investigators examine the 1922 grain futures law to determine if indictments are possible and consider legislative fixes to prevent future disturbances.
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Charles Michelson
New York World News Service
Washington
Jesse L. Livermore
New York
Thomas Howell
Chicago
Department of
Pdge Gan
Board of Trade
United States
Secretary of Agriculture
Department of Justice
Department of Agriculture
Department of Commerce
Congress
Livermore
Hear Evidence In Dome Oil Case Before Grand Jury
Government counsel began presenting evidence to a special grand jury in Washington to seek fresh indictments against John Fall Harry F Sinclair and the Doheny family. Seven witnesses testified and more are to come as prosecutors pursue conspiracy and bribery charges related to oil leases and Liberty Bonds.
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New York World News Service
Washington
Liberty
Fall
Sinclair
Grand Jury
Owen J. Roberts
Pomerene
E. C. Finney
Interior
Edward B. McLean
Doheny
Theodore Mack
Ernest K. Hill
Senate Investigating Committee
Guy H. Ives
Hill
Amos A. Beaty
Texas Company
Graham Youngs
Blair & Co
New York
Hero of the Norman sinking to receive home gift
Memphis May 12 A fund for Tom Lee the river man who rescued over twenty people after the steamer Norman sank on the Mississippi River has reached several hundred dollars. Mayor Rowlett Paine donated and lauded Lee in a letter as the fund grows.
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Memphis
Tenn
Tom Lee
Norman
Mississippi River
Lee
Rowlett Paine
Fennel and Doyle Hurt in Auto Collisions
Prof Charles T P Fennel, 73, a renowned pharmacist and author at Cincinnati College of Pharmacy, was struck at Fourteenth and Race streets. He sustained severe scalp cuts, a fractured left shoulder blade, and leg bruising. he remains under care with a good chance of recovery. In Oakley square, eight year old Donald Doyle suffered probable fatal injuries after a vehicle driven by William Voespel was alleged reckless. he was hospitalized with skull fracture and brain concussion.
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Fourteenth
Race Streets
Charles T. P. .Fennel
Cincinnati College of Pharmacy
West Court Street
Fenne
Edward Grissell
Merrimac Avenue
Fennel
Walter R. Griess
West Seventh Street
Albion Place
Griess
College of Pharmacy
Madison Road
Markbreit Avenue
Oakley Square
Donald Doyle
Floyd Doyle
Hyde Park Avenue
William Voespel
Oakley
General Hospital
Madison Indiana Womans Car Plunges Over Embankment
A touring car carrying six residents of Ryker Ridge Madison Indiana plunged down a fifty foot embankment in the northeastern part of the city. One woman Mrs Hattie Reidel was killed and three others were seriously injured while two children escaped harm. The driver was Mrs Reidel’s daughter Nina and the car belonged to Mr Grebe.
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Madison
Ind
Rykers Ridge
Hattie Reidel
Wesley Reidel
Reidel
Nina
Miss Reidel
President Coolidge opposes Armistice Day Defense Day plan
President Coolidge rejects making Armistice Day a Defense Day and favors peace over war preparations. He notes Defense Day costs fall on states and says Congress action would be required for future years while this year may pass without new legislation.
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New York World News Service
Washington
Coolidge
Reserve Officers’ Association
General Staff of
Army
White House
Congress
Army Reds Sentences Cut From 66 to 4 Years
Major General William R. Smith at Schofield Barracks reduced the court martial sentences of Corporal Walter Trumbull to three years and Private Paul Crouch to one year after convicting them of attempting to form a revolutionary Communist League among soldiers. Original sentences were forty and twenty six years. Cases will be sent to the Judge Advocate General in Washington.
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Honolulu
William R. Smith
Schofield Barracks
Walter Trumbull
Paul Crouch
Revolutionary Communist League
Trumbull
Crouch
Washington
Bride of a Few Hours Killed in Chicago Car Crash
Mrs Adele Kaufman aged 22, newlywed just hours, was killed in a head on crash with a street car. Her husband Samuel Kaufman 27 and friend Joseph Roff were fatally or seriously injured as they returned from Crown Point where they had been married.
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Chicago
Adele Kaufman
Samuel Kaufman
Joseph Roff
Kaufmans
Roff
Crown Point
Underground alien ring halted after Windsor arrest
Detroit report says Charles McCartney of Windsor was arrested by U S agents for running an underground rail road to smuggle aliens into the United States. Fifteen aliens were seized with several Chinese passengers paying 200 each. Authorities estimate 438 aliens per week and many more in custody as the operation is disrupted.
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Detroit
Charles McCartney
Windsor
United States
Detroit River
Walter F. Brooks
Immigration Border Patrol
McCartney
McCarthey
P. L. Prentis
Hughes Sought to Guide Destiny of Movie Group
At a Milwaukee convention Charles Evans Hughes was chosen to act as legal advisor to independent film producers and theater owners. More than 2,000 delegates from the U S Canada and Europe attended as independents announced a 72 000 fund to counter the big three First National Famous Players Lasky and Metro Goldwyn Mayer. They plan to form an alliance to combat monopolistic tactics and to boycott the big three to force exhibition reform.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Charles Evans Hughes
Hughes
United States
Canada
Europe
Independents
Players- Lasky
Metro-Goldwyn
Hays Will Hays
Depth Camera Ready for Action in Early 20th Century Film
Chicago May 12 George K Spoor president Essanay Film Co pioneers depth dimension cameras ready for action. Third dimension pictures are three times the size of ordinary film using bound light rays. Natural vision pictures reveal real scenes with no distortion and even faint slides or pasteboard are shown. Eastman praised the camera calling it the greatest attack on the industry yet progress.
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New York World News Service
Chicago
George K. Spoor
Essanay Film Company
Picture World
John Berggren
Spoor
George Eastman
Rochester
Bryan Engaged for Scopes Case
William Jennings Bryan will represent the World’s Christian Fundamental Association in the Scopes trial in Dayton Tennessee. He accepted after a Memphis telegram, saying he will help defend the Tennessee law banning teaching theories in conflict with the Bible to protect religious faith of children. The Tennessee legal department will decide if his action is acceptable.
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Pittsburgh
William Jennings Bryan
Christian Fundamental Association
J. T. Scopes
Dayton
Tenn
Pittsburgh Presbytery
Scopes
Tennessee
Bryan
Memphis
Legal Department of Tennessee
Mr. Bryan
Doctors Quit at Dayton State Hospital Over Conduct
Columbus May twelve doctors resign from the Dayton State Hospital consulting staff accusing H. H. McClellan of gross mismanagement. They send a letter to Welfare Director J. E. Harper and the Civil Service Commission requesting investigation. The staff had no official standing or pay from the state.
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Columbus
H. H. McClellan
Dayton State Hospital
J. E. Harper
State Welfare
Harper
C M. Ginn
Dayton
McClellan
State Civil Service Commission
Civil Service Commission
McClellen
Civil Service Protection
H.H. Hatcher
P. H. Kilbourne
Grant Matthews
E. C. Fishbein
H. H. Williams
C. A. Ihle
Benedict Old
B. Cc. West
W. C. Breidenbach
E. W. Shank
W. H. Delscamp
C. M. Ginn
Widow Kills Man Freed In Slaying Of Husband
Winder Georgia May 12 Mrs Greene Bowman shot and killed Guy Thurmond on the main street of Statham. Thurmond had been acquitted at a preliminary hearing of the killing of her husband last fall. Meeting Thurmond this morning Mrs Bowman demanded the pistol used in the slaying of her husband. Thurmond denied possession and as he turned away she shot him four times.
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Winder
Greene Bowman
Guy Thurmond
Staham
Thurmond
Germans Accused of Directing Rif War Forces
Tangier Morocco May 12 reports confirm Germans directing Riffians in warfare against French and Spanish forces. They allegedly adopt Moorish dress and Oriental names to mask identity as part of the conflict.
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Tangier
Morocco
Hindenburg Renounces Old Germany in Pledge of Duty
A solemn ceremony features military veterans and decorated elders honoring the new Germany era. President Hindenburg and speakers evoke former days while pledging loyalty to the republic and its leaders.
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Berlin
von Hindenburg
Germany
Reichstag
Heichstag
von Loebe
Fritz Ebert
Kaiser
Hindenburg
Old Germany
Ebert
Von Hindenburg Appeals to Reichswehr for Peace and Discipline
French observers in Berlin report anxiety over von Hindenburgs calls for discipline and faithfulness to restore army effectiveness. They say his remarks imply support for a strong peacetime force, though the speeches stress a peaceful aim and downplay militarism.
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New York World News Service
Berlin
von Hindenburg
Reichswehr
Discharging of Surgeons Causes Walkout at Dayton Hospital
Dayton State Hospital for the Insane saw resignations after three consulting staff members were discharged by Dr H H McClellan. He cited exorbitant charges for operations, including a $50 fee for a simple case and a $300 charge where none was due. Dr Curtis Ginn resigned a week ago and will head surgical work at another hospital while some staff may be invited back. Dr McClellan called for an investigation and touted a patient cure rate drop in inmates.
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McClellan
Associated Press
Dayton
Dayton State Hospital
In Sane
H. H. McClellan
Curtis Ginn
Ginn
P. H. Hatcher
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