Hughes Seizure Transfer of Martha Washington Questioned
Witnesses before the House Shipping Board probe assert Charles E Hughes reversed a Congress transfer decision on the seized steamer Martha Washington. Officials say the vessel, originally Austrian, became Italian after Trieste’s annexation and was sold to Cosulich for 60 000 dollars with potential unaddressed claims. The board leader calls the sale a possible subterfuge and a mistake.
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Associated Press
Washington
Congress
Martha Washington
Charles E. Hughes
Shipping Board
Lineberger
Rep
Cal
House
Martha ‘Washington
United States
Austria
Trieste
Italy
Hughes
Davis
Dem
Tenn
House Merchant Marine Committee
State Department
A. D. Lasker
Department
William Phillips
Connally
Texas
Phillips
Lasker
Cosulich
Mr. Connally
Plummer
Want Ad News Briefs: positions, sales, and notices
Molders for high grade brass castings sought with pay. Reward offered for return of a brown purse with money and a wedding ring. Local laundry tips to end laundry troubles. Services Offered column. Local firm seeks local and district manager, automobile preferred. Combination invalid car and sedan for sale. Restaurant in good business for sale. Capable woman seeks office position.
Two Vessels Break Up Off Oregon
The Admiral Nicholson went aground while heading to aid the G. C. Lindauer stranded on Umqua Bar. A gale raged as coast guard crews laid breeches buoy lines and both ships were thought lost. The Lindauer crew was rescued. Nicholson crew remained aboard as conditions worsened.
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Associated Press
Reedsport
Ore
Admiral Nicholson
G. C. Lindauer
Umqua Bar
Coast Guard
Cincinnati Chamber Plans Program of Progress Week
A campaign to raise 165000 annually for three years to fund the Chamber of Commerce program will run June 9 to 16 in Cincinnati. Four division leaders will coordinate 40 trade groups with a Committee of One Hundred to supervise progress. Notables including Mayor Carrel and Chamber president Freiberg join the effort.
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Chamber of Commerce
Cincinnati
Chamber
Gibson
J. Stacey Hill
Monte J. Goble
Warner Saggers
Lawrence J. Bradford
Co. W. Loughead
Hills
G. P. Carrel
Sawsepes
John Horgan
Gucken Water
I . Shuff
Stuart B. Sutphin
Frank J. Jones
Geo Puchta
E. Anderson
Secret Ae
Perle
Peraes Gour
Fim Gibbs
Sol Fan A. Hinsch
Gaade
Apuis
Ry W. Brown
Charles W. Schmidt
G. H. Warrington
Samuel W. Sturm
Sayers
Hill
Charles P. Taft
A. Clifford Shinkle
Cinccinnati
Qne Atlantic-Pacific
Dixie Highys
Chicago
Ohio River
California
Shrevenort
Community Chest
Masonic Temple
John Omwake
Mayor Carrel
E. C. Gibbs
A. Julius Freiberg
Ww. C. Culkins
Edwin C. Gibbs
J. H. Dickerson
Edgard Friedlander
Harry D. Rei
Warner Hawk
Bonifield
Arthur R. Mo
Laurence C Witten
City Franchises and Car Fare Debate in Alcorn Suit
Master Commissioner report in the Alcorn case criticizes city officials for forcing a five cent fare at service at cost. It recommends Cincinnati Car Company refund part of profits from steel rails dealings to Cincinnati Traction Company and says the city should drop its franchise claims.
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City
Cincinnati Car Company
Cincinnati Traction Company
Robert S. Marx
Superior Court
Traction Company
Robert S. Alcorn
Alcorn
Carl A. Nau
Cleveland
Marx
Nau, Rusk & Swearingen
Nau
Plot to Kill Forbes Is Reported In Philadelphia
Caesar Tata was arrested on a charge of being a suspected character after telling Mrs. Elias H. Mortimer and police about a plot to kill Colonel Charles R. Forbes, former Veterans Bureau head. He allegedly named Mortimer’s husband and three others who he said were paid to hire killers. Police listened in at the Bowler Tullidge home where concealed officers heard Tata's tale.
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Associated Press
Philadelphia
Caesar Tata
Elias H. Mortimer
Veterans’ Bureau
Tata
Charles R. Forbes
Bureau
Mortimer
George Bowler Tullidge
Forbes
Washington
Veteran Hiker Weston Shot At His Ulster County Farm
Edward Payson Weston 86 famed long distance walker was shot and wounded when several men attacked his Plutarch farm home in Ulster County last Monday night. The intruders battered doors and windows, beat Weston who fled to an upstairs room. housekeeper and adopted son escaped injury. troopers report Weston unable to explain motive.
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Associated Press
Kingston
N. Y
Edward Payson Weston
Ulster County
Weston
Walker
Plutarch
New Paltz
Resignation of University of Cincinnati Nursing Director
Miss Laura R. Logan, Director of the School of Nursing and Health at the University of Cincinnati, resigns effective November 1 to become head of the Illinois Training School for Nurses in Chicago. She will direct courses at Leland Stanford Summer. has led the Cincinnati program for ten years and is president of the National League of Nursing Education.
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Laura R. Logan
School of Nursing and Health
University of Cincinnati
Frederick C. Hicks
Miss Logan
Illinois Training School For Nurses
Chicago
Leland-Stanford University
California
School of Nursing and
Cincinnati
Hippe Hospital
Ft. Wayne
Ind
School of Nursing
College of Medicine
Cincinnati General Hospital
National League of Nursing Education
League
Acadia University
Columbia University
Mt. Sinai Hospital School of Nursing
New York City
Logan
Cook County Hospital
Mary C. Wheeler
Seven Officers of Finance Firm Indicted in Mail Fraud Case
Dayton May 16 seven board members of the bankrupt American Finance Company were indicted for using the mails to defraud and conspiring to violate federal law. Named are Edward Wuicker Charles Hoffritz Milton Stern Charles Slagle H B Johnson J M Dunwoodie and G W Quinn with nineteen counts charging mail fraud and conspiracy. Victims across the United States cited include Mrs Rosand Isaac Holmes Mrs Montgomery of Cincinnati and Patrick Ganson of Kelly Field Texas.
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Associated Press
Dayton
American Finance Company
Smith* Hickenlooper
United States
Edward C. Wuicker
Charles Hoffritz
Milton C. Stern
Charles Slagle
H. B. Johnson
J. M. Dunwoodie
Clarence Keifer
G. W. Quinn
James A. Smith
Julius Jones
Cincinnati
Rosand Isaac Holmés
Montgomery
Arge Gordon
Harveysburg
J. O. Waybright
Ripley
W. Va
Patrick Ganson
Kelly Field
Texas
Grand Jury
Hickenlooper
Charles W. Hoffritz
Egg Register Company
Charles W.slagie
Merchants’ National Bank and Trust Company
First Joint Stock Land Bank of Dayton
H. B Johnson & Co
Hoffritz
Scotland
Daniel W. Quinn, Jr
Remus Paid Jess Smith in Big Liquor Deal, Senate Probe Sought
Remus testified to paying Jess Smith $250000 to dodge the law in major liquor schemes. The Woman's City Club will study Reis trial details after a manslaughter acquittal. A 1923 accident killed two girls and injured one as Reis’s car jumped the curb.
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Remus
Jess Smith
Law
Senators
Joseph H. Reis
Overlook Avenue
Price Hill
Woman’s City Club
Ben Loewenstein
Guy Mallon
W. E. Stilwell
Club
Samuel Sturm
Tax Publicity Foes Face Senate House Conferees Deadlocked
Washington May 16. Conferees on the tax reduction bill remain deadlocked over publicity of tax returns and a graduated tax on undistributed profits. Hoover denounces the open returns plan as unfair to small business and a potential fraud trigger while Senate and House leaders weigh open access to some committees.
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Associated Press
Washington
Senate
House
Hoover
Norris
Senate Finance Committee
Jones
Dem
N. M
Simmons
N. C
Ways and Means Committee
Two Children Killed by Autos in Cleveland
In Cleveland on May 16 two children were killed by automobiles. Henry Lanes aged 10 and Louis Barnoff aged 3% were struck near their homes. Clement Taylor aged 25 died from injuries after he fell under a rear wheel earlier today. The year’s auto fatalities total 43.
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Associated Press
Cleveland
Clement Taylor
Henry Lanes
Louis Barnoff
Death Claims Rev. A J Ruffing Saintly Catholic Educator
The Rev. Father Augustin J. Ruffing, 49, professor of Latin and Greek at St. Xavier College, died last night at Good Samaritan Hospital after a long illness. Born October 2, 1875 in Dunkirk New York he taught in Detroit Cleveland Toledo Cincinnati and here since 1922. He served as vice president of the University of Detroit 1915 to 1917 and held posts at St Ignatius Cleveland St Johns Toledo and Detroit University High School. Survived by four brothers and four sisters. Funeral arrangements to be announced.
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Augustin J. Ruffing
St. Xavier College
Good Samaritan Hospital
Father Ruffing
Detroit
Cleveland
Toledo
Cincinnati
Dunkirk
N. Y
Canisius College
Buffalo
Margaret Ruffing
A. J. Sullivan
A. G. Sipple
M. Augusta Ruffing
Sisters of St. Joseph
Medina
Doheny Jr Cannot Be Forcibly Forced To Testify
Washington May 16 Special government counsel failed to compel Edward N Doheny Jr to testify before a grand jury probing naval oil leases fraud. Judge Hitz dismissed the government motion citing the Fifth Amendment privilege protecting the witness, who refused to answer questions about a $100000 cash delivery to Albert B Fall in 1921. Doheny accompanied by his father and J J Cotter, Pan American Petroleum, the California Naval Reserve lease holder, attended as jurors adjourned. The panel plans to resume Monday.
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Washington
George Remus
Atlanta
Senate Committee
Jess W. Smith
Daugherty
Remus
Senate
Department of Justice
Smith
Jess Smith
Wheeler
Rea Teawyer
Chicago
Ohio
Kentucky
Indiana
More
New York
Missouri
Central States
H. M. Daugherty
Smithe
E. M. Zoline
Thomas Ce. Felder
James M. Linton
Atoek
Ashington
Colomb
Indianapolis
Associated Press
District of Columbia Supreme Court
Edward N. Doheny, Sr
Los Angeles
Grand
Naval Oil
Doheny
Albert B. Fall
Lessee
California Naval Reserve No. 1
Atlee Pomerene
Frank J. Hogan
Justice Hitz
J. J. Cotter
Pan-American Petroleum and Transport Company
California Naval Reserve
Hogan
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Hanlon
M. Brouse
Kaiser
Alfred Bettman
Erick Hinkohn Omwake
Jd. Williams
F. B. Edwards
Re. Sh Kiphar
Laura Fl. Logan
University Department
R. D. Robinson
New Board
Reis
Woman's City Club
Tain
Guy Tawney
Froome Morris
Howard N. Ragland
Charless
Bell
H. M. Butz
Walnut Street
Thomas Popplar, Jr
Ridgeland Place
William R. Spooner
East Fifth Street
H S. Dick
Tennyson Street
Walter Jackson
Desmond Street
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