Baldwin Chosen as Prime Minister in Britain
Stanley Baldwin to succeed Andrew Bonar Law as Prime Minister after consultations. Sir Robert Horne may become Chancellor. Chamberlain and Birkenhead possible in cabinet. Labor rise noted as opposition. Reappointments expected, Ruhr policy and Russia stance to be set by new ministry.
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Associated Press
London
Stanley Baldwin
Andrew Bonar Law
Lord Stamfordham
Baldwin
Marquis Curzon
Earl of Balfour
Labor Party
House of
Rds
Lord Haldane
Labor
Lords
Curzon
House of Coinmons
England
Commons
Bonar Law
Wlll
Robert Stevenson Horne
Lloyd George
Robert
Mr. Lloyd George
Austen Chamberlain
Lord Birkenhead
Suez Canal Company
Robert Horne
Chamberlain
Birkenhead
Ruhr
Russia
Lianfairfechan
Lord Curzon
Irish Free State
Woodrow Wilson
Five Die In Mexicali Theater Fire Loss Tops Two Million
Five persons are known dead and more believed killed as a theater fire caused by a motion picture machine explosion swept Mexicali Lower California. Property losses exceed $2,000,000 and over 1,000 people were left homeless as flames continued to spread by eight o clock this evening.
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Mexicali
Lower
California
Manville Trial Ties Black Art to Oil Stock Deal
Charles B. Manville, 90, asbestos magnate, testifies in a $21,000 suit over notes he signed for Dr Alonzo Austin and a counterclaim alleging being duped into investing in oil stock. He recalls Beulah Thompson guiding him to a psychic described as black art. Evidence shows cross-claims over executorship and stock investments amid family wealth and high-profile names.
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New York
Charles B. Manville
Alonzo E. Austin
Manville
Austin
Tiffany
Mr. Schwab
Cornelius Doremus
Bergen County
N. J
Hobart
Bird
Walter B. Clarke
Cincinnati Woman Among Passengers Of Sunken Steamer
The government steamer Seal arrived with passengers and crew from the sunken Marvale near Cape Freels Rock. Mrs. Sara Walsh of Cincinnati was rescued and will be taken to Montreal aboard the Melita, later calling at St Johns or here. She is sister-in-law of Hugh Walsh of 4788 Rapid Run Road Price Hill.
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Trepassey
N. F
Seal
Marvale
Personamboard
St. Shott
Bken
Melita
Montreal
St. Johns
Sara Walsh
Cincinnati
Canadian Pacific
Cape Freels Rock
Hugh Walsh
Rapid Run Road
Price Hill
Federal Court approves segregation plan for Reading companies
The Federal District Court in Philadelphia confirms the third modified plan for the segregation of the Reading companies and orders a decree for court approval to be submitted by June 20. The court dismisses exceptions from common stockholders and the government but reserves jurisdiction to supervise coal stock if delays occur in dissolution proceedings.
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Philadelphia
Federal District Court
Reading
Fines in Dollars Imposed by Occupation Forces in Germany
In Dortmund fines of 345 dollars were levied for destroying wires and the city refused payment leading to a seizure of fifteen million marks by French authorities. Lennep was fined 155 dollars after shots were fired at a station with no injuries reported.
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Duesseldorf
Dortmund
Lennep
Smuggling Surge Across Canadian Line Suppresses Quiet Trade
Chicago reports from May 22 reveal smugglers bring 100000 gallons of liquor daily from Canada. An army of about 25000 smugglers operates from Ecorse Michigan near Detroit, with vast rows of buildings used to dump liquor into the U S. The business, described as the largest single industry, runs day and night along the border, with shipments by river and highway across Michigan Illinois and Indiana.
Cutter Goes to Meet New Rum Vessels
The coast guard cutter Mascoutin with guns mounted at Norfolk Navy Yard sails to join cutter Manning fourteen miles east of the Virginia Capes. Manning has patrolled the area since Sunday night as rum runners Istar and Cartona await arrival.
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Norfolk
Coast Guard
Navy Yard
Virginia Capes
Istar
Cartona
Virginia
Smuggling Story Denied by Michigan Prohibition Chief
DETROIT May 22 The Chicago Daily News report on a four mile row of liquor dumps at Ecorse is called absurd by Federal Prohibition Director James R. Davis. He cites two block long boathouses as the real smuggl ing hub and notes reduced imports from Canada with four patrol boats on the Detroit River. He says most liquor is synthetic booze made on this side from denatured alcohol and denies staff remarks about a wall along the Canadian line.
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Michigan Dry Agent
Detroit
Mich
Chicago Daily News Today
Ecorse
Here
James R. Davis
Michigan
Chicago
United States
Davis
Canada
Detroit River
Ontario
Bryan Loses Fight on Evolution but Wins Pledge Demand
INDIANAPOLIS May 22 William Jennings Bryan was defeated as evolutionists scored a victory when the Presbyterial Church assembly rejected his resolution to bar schools from using church funds for teaching evolution. He won a demand that every Presbyterian minister, official, member and denominational faculty and students sign a total abstinence pledge.
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Bryan
Associated Press
Indianapolis
Ind
William Jennings Bryan
General Assembly
Presbyterial Church of the
United States
America
John Wills Baer
Pasadena
Mr. Bryan
Charles A. Briggs
Union Theological Seminary
Baer
California
Committee On Education
Assembly
Blood donation sought to save aged man at General Hospital
Physicians at the General Hospital say a pint of healthy blood could save 72 year old John Bohlander of 124 Allison Street who is slowly dying from a blood disease. Relatives cannot donate, and social workers seek a donor through the hospital staff to aid in a transfusion plan.
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General Hospital
John Bohlander
Allison Street
Bohlander
Richard Marshall
Spring Street
The
Social Service
Thepateeerk A. Brown
Hos
Pital
A. C. Bachmeyer
German Mark Slumps Sharply in New York Market
The German mark fell to 0.0017 percent cents in New York trading, deepening the slide past the prior record low. Reichsbank data show around seven trillion paper marks in circulation, while an influx of sixty million gold marks, about $15 million, moved from Germany.
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New York
Germany
Whitfield Shot and Woman Held in Wisconsin
John L. Whitfield, accused kidnapper and murderer of Policeman Dennis Griffin, fought Madison police and likely wounded during a gun battle. A woman identified as Marie Price was arrested. a roadster with Ohio plates linked to Whitfield is held by Madison authorities.
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Cleveland
John L. Whitfield
Dennis Griffin
Madison
Wis
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Wisconsin
Marie Price
Whitfield
Ohio
Millionaire Dingwall Arrested for Misusing Investor Funds
J Alexander Dingwall Jr an oil and land promoter was arrested on charges he misused nearly 1 million dollars provided by investors. He faced a court order with bail set at 25000 and restrictions on asset disposal as authorities pursue an equity receivership. The case centers on admitted transfers of investor funds to his personal account and a scheme using participat ing contracts to keep investors tied to his ventures.
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New York
J. Alexander Dingwall, Jr
Dingwall
A. R. Latsor
George W. Baker
Brooklyn
Blue Mining
Frank D. Dingwall
Tulsa
Okla
Walter Dingwall
Larson
Cloudbursts Cause Millions in Oklahoma Damage
Heavy rains and cloudbursts flooded Western Oklahoma with millions in crop damage. The Washita River near Clinton swelled to about a mile wide, communications broken, roads underwater, and reports of missing people in Leedy and Butler could not be confirmed.
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Oklahoma
Clinton
Westerrn
Washita
Leedy
Here
Dewey County
Butler
Dismember Germany Proposed by French Deputy
Paris view of May 22 reports Deputy Alfred Margaine urging dismemberment of Germany to weaken Prussia and secure French safety. The Ruhr occupation costs 145 million francs faced debate as Louis Dubois recounts Germany’s resistance and ally concessions. Debate to resume Thursday.
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Associated Press
Paris
Chamber of Deputies
Alfred Margaine
Germa
Ruhr
Margaine
Germany
Prussia
Chamber
Louis Dubois
Reparation Commission
Two Men Sentenced to Fifty Year Terms in Mail Robbery Case
Eddie O'Brien and James Colson, convicted of belonging to the gang that robbed the Toledo Post Office of $1,000,000 on February 17, 1921, were each sentenced by Judge Killits to fifty years in the Federal Penitentiary at Atlanta.
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Toledo
Eddie O'Brien
James Colson
Jersey City Police Officers Killed In Raid
In Jersey City on May 22 Sergeant John J. Black and Patrolman Clarence Wear were killed after they and Lt. Harry Otis and Patrolman James Walton attempted to arrest Frank Sage one of three aliases connected to a $19,000 Public Service payroll robbery. Sage and a woman identified as his wife May Miller faced murder indictments. Otis and Walton were seriously wounded. Kearth and wife questioned. Sage claimed neighborhood taunts spurred him. police say Sage fired three shots.
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Jersey City
N. J
John J. Black
Clarence Wear
Harry Otis
James Walton
Frank Sage
Frank Miller
Frank Eigan
Public Service Company
West New York
Sage
Black
Wear
Adam Kearth
Kearth
May Miller
Black and Wear
Otis
Walton
Higan
Hudson County Grand Jury
F. K. Swayzee
Cleveland
Lillian
Special Session Likely Over Moscow Propaganda Wave
Dwight Braman of the Allied Patriotic Society warns at Albany hearings that seditious propaganda from Moscow will force a U S special session within three months and a State Legislature session in four to address it. Opponents urge repeal of anti sedition laws, citing loyalty tests for schools and licensing of instruction.
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Albany
N. Y
M Rae
Congress
Moscow
Smith
United States
Dwight Braman
Allied Patriotic Society of America
Braman
Francis H. Kinnicutt
American Defense Society
William A. Walling
Clara Phillips Transferred to Castle From Jail
Clara Phillips was moved from a Tegucigalpa jail to Omoa Castle under heavy guard amid fears of escape. Her lawyer Salvador Zelaya seeks immediate release for Phillips and sister Mrs. Etta May Jackson, arguing improper extradition procedure and Honduran law.
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Clara Phillips
Castle
Associated Press
Tegucigalpa
Honduras
California
Omoa Castle
Atlantic Seaboard
Central America
Phillips
Salvador Zelaya
Etta May Jackson
Sehor Zelaya
Supreme Court
Jackson
Manuel ‘Alladares Nunez
Senor Zelaya
Jesse Carson
Los Angeles
Carson
New Orleans
Guatemala
Katherine MacDonald Marries Charles Schoen Johnson in Philadelphia
Screen actress Katherine MacDonald wed Charles Schoen Johnson of Philadelphia today in Atlantic City ceremony. Johnson is grandson of Charles T. Schoen, inventor of the pressed steed railroad car. The couple left for a honeymoon without revealing their destination.
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Katherine MacDonald
Atlantic City
N. J
Charles Schoen Johnson
Philadelphia
Charles T. Schoen
Bank holdup suspect identified in gun battle arrest
Nicholas Francisco of Columbus identified W. C. Stewart of Phoenix Ariz as the bank bandit who, with a fellow, held up the High Russell Branch in Columbus. Policeman Dan Garrett was wounded in the shoulder. Stewart shot himself dead after being wounded, leaving about $2000 on his person.
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Chillicothe
Garret
W. C. Stewart
West Jackson Street
Phoenix
Ariz
Garrett
Circleville
Bank Robbers Loot High-Russell Bank in Columbus
Two armed men entered the High-Russell branch of Citizens Trust and Savings Bank in Columbus Ohio this morning, threatening staff and customers and taking 3985 dollars from tills. Detective squads searched the negro quarter and nearby streets after bank manager Harry Richter fired at the robbers, but no trace was found.
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Columbus, CO
High- Russell
Citizens Trust and Savings Bank
Harry Richter
Columbus
Richter
Powder plant blast leaves four dead in Benson area
Four men are confirmed dead and one injured after an explosion at the Apache Powder Company plant six miles south of Benson Arizona. The blast wrecked three mix houses, severed telephone lines, and cut direct plant communication.
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Benson
Ariz
Apache Powder Company
Runaway Newport Girls Return Home From Knoxville Ordeal
Mabel Hall and Alma Stickrod, 14 and 15, fled Newport Ky to Knoxville Tenn. After two nights in a deserted house and a railroad-station ordeal they called home. Parents retrieved them. both girls vowed not to run away again.
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Newport
Knoxville
Tenn
Mabel Hall
West Seventh Street
Alma Stickrod
West Fifth Street
Covington
Falmouth
Menzie
High Ridge
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Sir Robert Horne
Seeress
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Illinois
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Citizens Saving Company
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