Referendum Filed Over City Gas Rate Increase
Citizens' Gas Committee and Federated Civic Association file referendum petitions at the City Auditor's office after the City Council's 24 to 8 vote to pass raised gas rates. If upheld, rates would stay current until the August primary and a later court or taxpayer action could ensue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. W. Freeman
Union Gas and Electric Company
Citizens’ Gas Committee
Gas Committee
Federated Civic Association
Carrel
Charles O. Rose
Fifth Ward
Engp
Froome Morris
Robert Schmidt, Jr
Morris
William Schultz
Eli Frankenstein
John Ehmann
Adolph Wulff
Federated Association
Schultz
Public Utilities Commission
Freeman
Rose
W. G. Hagenah
Chicago
Painter Armand Guillaumin Rejuvenated by Blood Marriage
Paris reports the 84 year old impressionist Armand Guillaumin was revived from senile decay by Dr Jaworski's blood fusion treatment. Blood from a young woman restored health and vitality, with Guillaumin regaining wit and vigor. Doctors caution it is not a universal cure though it strengthens the body for further treatment.
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Alfred M. Murray
New York World News Service
Paris
Armand Guillaumin
Jaworski
Guillaumin
Grave for a Bed Looked Good to Him
TOLEDO May 19 B L Tooney 42 wandered along Stickney Avenue to Forest Cemetery and slept on a grave. Police called him at 10 Tuesday morning. He said he was tired and thought the grave would be a good place to sleep. Tooney is charged with drunken and disorderly conduct.
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Toledo
B. L. Tooney
Stickney Avenue
Forest Cemetery
Poleemen Hleeren
Sembach
Tooney
Enclaved men beaten in Calhoun peonage trial opens
Black witnesses describe forced labor and brutal beatings in Calhoun County peonage case. Indicted officials including Judge W I Chafin and Sheriff C S Clark face US statute violations as witnesses recount fleeing, debt bondage, and corporal punishment at Land and Davis turpentine works.
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New York World News Service
Pensacola
Fla
Federal
Calhoun County
United States
W. I. Chafin
C. S. Clark
Thomas Shuler
T. E. Casom
G. W. White
Will Proeta
Charles
Alfred Land
M. B. Davis
Henry Sanders
Land & Davis
Chafin
Blountstown
Dewitt
Mr. Davis
Judge Enjoins Chaplin Imitator in Private Costume Ruling
Los Angeles May 19 Judge J L Hudner granted an injunction in Chaplin’s suit to bar Charles Amador from using the name Charles Aplin or imitating Chaplin’s famous costume including balloon pants cane and flapping shoes The court held Chaplin’s outfit is a distinctive part of his act and allowed Chaplin to seek contempt charges against future imitators.
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Los Angeles
Charlie Chaplin
Charles Amador
Charles Aplin
J. L. Hudner
Chaplin
Charles Apliner
Charles Chaplin
Hudner
Aviator and Banker Die in Wisconsin Plane Crash
Rel lis Conant of Westfield and W. E. Hershleb of Wisconsin Rapids were killed when their airplane spiraled from 2,000 feet and crashed during a lesson. Conant ran the local flying field and had sold the banker a plane two weeks earlier. Hershleb was taking his fifth lesson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Westfield. Wis
War Aviator Foiny and Mechanic Die in Air Race Crash
Adjutant Foiny and his mechanic Jean Foucher were killed when their plane crashed after taking off in a military cup air race near dawn. The craft reportedly struck high trees along a side street in a suburb due to low visibility.
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Tours
France
Adjutant Foiny
Jean Foucher
Foiny
Foucher
Gasoline tax not subject to referendum, Ohio Supreme Court rules
Ohio Supreme Court decides the Brown two cent gasoline tax law not subject to referendum and effective April 17 after legislative reenactment over Governor Donahey's veto. The ruling centers on mandamus against the Secretary of State to issue licenses under the old law. The constitutionality challenges await in Franklin County Common Pleas Court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Supreme Court
Donahey
Columbus
Charles ¢. Jones
Ohio State Automobile Association
Thad H. Brown
Jones
Secretary of State
Franklin County
Columbus) Common Pleas Court
State Tax Commission
Central Ohio Oil Company
Supreme Court
Common Pleas Court
Robinson
Matthias
Day
Allen
Kinkade
Marshall
Automobile Association
Crabbe
Attorney General
Secretary Ofate
National Grange
Ohio State Grange
Ohio Farm Bureau Federation
Means Seeks Refuge in Prison in Atlanta
Gaston B. Means, famed investigator, surrendered in Washington to begin a two year NY sentence for illegal whisky withdrawals and sought refuge at Atlanta Federal Penitentiary. He faces forgery charges connected to Senator Brookhart documents tied to the Daugherty inquiry.
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Washington
Gaston B. Means
Atlanta Federal Penitentiary
Means
District of Columbia Supreme Court
New York
Enator Brookhart
Iowa
Daugherty
Atlanta
Department of Justice
Georgia
Convicted Means to Serve Two Years in Liquor Case
Federal Attorney Buckner said Gaston B. Means, convict in the conspiracy to remove whisky from a Brownsville distillery, is in a Washington jail. He will be brought to New York before beginning his two year sentence, not sent directly to Atlanta penitentiary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
United States Court of Appeals
Gaston B. Means
Brownsville
Buckner
Means
Washington, D. C
Washington
Atlanta
Hiss
Berkeley Matron Ends Life by Jump Into Bay
A Berkeley woman after a quarrel with her husband inched to a San Francisco Bay wharf and leapt into six inches of water. Passersby alerted police. responders retrieved her. Mud scraped off at hospital, she returned home determined to continue living.
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Associated Press
Berkeley
Tal
San Francisco Bay
Teacher killed under street car wheels in Evanston tragedy
Emil Eichler, 63, a former Cincinnati German teacher now printer, died after missing a step on a moving Evanston street car at Fourth and Sycamore. The trailer dragged him, crushing his abdomen and severing a leg, and he died en route to General Hospital. The incident halted Fourth street for 30 minutes. witnesses cleared the motorman and conductor of blame. Eichler, a German immigrant, had worked as a printer and in various local firms. he was survived by his widow Elsie Harss Lichler. Funeral plans were not announced.
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Evanston
Fourth
Sycamore Streets
Emil W. Eichler
Clarewood Avenue
Cincinnati
Peter Stricker
The
Commercial Tribune
Eichler
Fourth Street
Fire Department
Traction Company
Mr. Bichler
General Hospital
William Brasher
Arch Street
William Beebe
Brashear
Beebe
Mr. Eichler
Hichler
Germany
Ernest Meyer Enameling Company
Main Street
George H. Nowland Company
West Pearl Street
Elsie Harss Lichler
Mother Reunited After Note Found At Toledo Hospital
A note dropped from a window at the State Hospital in Toledo three years ago led to the reunion of Mrs. Mary Hall of Shiloh Ohio with her daughter Mrs. Margaret Pepper of Cleveland after thirty four years apart. The note asked for care and said she was held there as no one visited. The mother’s husband died, her mind suffered, and the children were sent to institutions. The daughter located the mother through the note and court papers, bringing her home on Wednesday.
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Associated Press
Cleveland
State Hospital
Toledo
Mary Hall
Margaret Pepper
Shiloh
Greenwich
Hall
Entente Parties Demand U S Intervention Over Rhine Troops
Angered factions accuse Germany of strategic actions on the Rhine as Entente partners press the United States for intervention. Several members urge decisiveness while speeches reflect common fury and rising diplomatic tensions.
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Rhine
Germany Pressures for Change as Reichstag Splits
In Berlin on May 19 the United German front collapses as Socialists move to vote no confidence in the Luther Stresemann government. Westarp pushes for monarchist power, a constitutional committee, and a return to the imperial flag while backing a high wheat tariff. Amid calls for American intervention, nations anticipate notes on disarmament and a security pact, with Germany resisting hard lines and signaling indignation before any allied drafts.
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Samuel Spewack
New York World News Service
Berlin
United German Front
Entente
Luther-Stresemann
Count Westarp
Hindenburg
Reichstag
Ebert
Westarp
Stresemann
Rhineland
Germany
France
Rhine
League of Nations
Breitschied
N. Y
U S Loses Suit Against Harvesters Corporation
The Inter national Harvester Company was ruled not to be a combination in restraint of trade and the government's petition for supplemental provisions to the 1918 decree was dismissed. The case, ongoing since 1912, involved four prior Sherman Act decrees and a three-judge panel divided with two upholding the 1918 decree and one dissenting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
ST. Paul
International Harvester Company
Federal Court of Equity
Harvester Company
The Miracle Set for St. Louis Coliseum Engagement
St. Louis formed its largest theatrical contract to stage The Miracle for four weeks starting Christmas Eve at the Coliseum. Morris Gest of New York was hired by a joint committee of financial and business interests. The project is underwritten for 325000 with 100000 advanced as a guarantee against loss. Gest pledged an artistic standard exceeding his previous productions in New York and Cleveland venues.
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New York World News Service
ST. Louis
Morris Gest
New York
St. Louis Coliseum
Gest
Century Theater
Public Auditorium
Cleveland
Mystery Slaying Deepens Over Woman Found With Blows
The death of Mrs. Aleen Williams, 33, of Bromley Kentucky, is blamed on heavy blows to the head with a bludgeon. A man in a light gray suit and cap, last seen with her Saturday, is being sought by police. A necktie was tied around her throat, and she was found in a gully near Vaughn Road after leaving her husband Saturday.
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Aleen Williams
Pike Street
Bromley
Vaughn Road
Delhi Pike
Sedamsville
Williams
Handley
Orlando C. Cress
General Miles Laid to Rest at Arlington After Four War Service
Lieutenant General Nelson A. Miles was buried at Arlington National Cemetery amid military honors. President and government officials attended at St. John's Church as officers, veterans, and family accompanied the funeral procession to the tomb. The ceremony ended with rifle volleys and the bugle of taps marking the end of a life devoted to the flag.
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Miles
Arlington
Washington
Nelson A. Miles
Arlington National Cemetery
Ft. Myer
Virginia Hills
Army
Navy
Marine Corps
St. John’s
St. John’s Church
White House
Old Fort
Highway Bridge
Sherman Miles
Europe
Ft. Meyer
New German Plot Aims to Ship Fake Scotch Whisky to America
U S officials uncover a large scale rum running scheme using Germany as base to supply Rum Row despite New Jersey blockade. Small cargoes of whisky sail openly to British ports then to Rum Row while authorities monitor Halifax and Bremen ships. The operation relies on profits from seized cargoes and operates with covert support from European sources.
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Germany
America
Arthur E. Mann
New York World News Service
London
Great Britain
New Jersey
Coast Guard
United States
World News Service
Staten Accord i
Eeseveloper Beiesne Resienshinn Gang
Ating
Canada
West Indies
Margareth
Duncan & Schramm
Bremerhaven
Ibiken
Lloyd
Halifax
Bremen
Margareth Witte
Emile Witte
Wesermunde
Falmouth
God
Prohibition Navy
The
World News
Trial of William D Shepherd Upset as Key Witness Missing
Chicago May 19 a dramatic court scene disrupted by the absence of a crucial state witness Robert White a former instructor tied to the Farman University group In the trial of William D Shepherd accused of causing the death of his foster son William N McClintock White had testified to seeing Shepherd near a laboratory handling germ cultures The defense sought to portray Shepherd and Mrs Shepherd amid a tense jury selection with tentative jurors and a courtroom ban on husband wife conferences as bailiffs intervened during a fraught emotional moment.
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New York World News Service
Chicago
William D. Shepherd
William N. McClintock
Crowe
Robert White
Charles C. Farman
University
Shepherd
Faiman
Lynch
Stewart
Isabelle Pope
Two Men Shot Dead in West Virginia School Election Gunfight
In Kermit near Williamson West Virginia two men Sherman Parsley and Buck Kirk died in a gunfight during a school election. Three others were seriously wounded Deputy Sheriff Ken Kirk Deputy Sheriff John Chaffin and Ken Chapman were injured and sent toward Huntington. The clash followed a dispute over voter qualifications in the bid to create an independent school district.
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Huntington
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G. B. Means
Unuer
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Sycamore
Aeighotag
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U. S
U.S
Harvester Corporation
Dayton
Baltic
Riga
Shepherd Case
Farman
Guardian
W. Va
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