Cincinnati Real Estate Board Rejects Taft Bill Referendum
The Cincinnati Real Estate Board voted unanimously to withdraw from backing a referendum on the Taft taxation bill. Mayor Carrel praised the decision as protecting Ohio municipalities, while board members urged a standard tax classification system and warned against broad refere ndum action. The move aligns with other Ohio boards weighing similar stances, though several remain opposed to the referendum.
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Cincinnati Real Estate Board
Carrel
Ohio Association of Real Estate Exchanges
Ohio
Cincinnati Real Estate Board Exchange
Cincinnati Realtors
Taft
Cincinnati
Board of Trustees
William Reehl
Cincinnati Exchange
Warren E. Richards
State Real Estate Exchange
William Dyer
Walter S. Schmidt
Mr. Schmidt
German made poppies sold by Legion post in New Jersey
In Orange New Jersey on May 26 the American Legion Post sold 3 500 poppies ordered to aid disabled veterans. The lot had been made in Germany and the sale proceeded despite an outburst of action at the New York firm supplying the poppies.
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Orange
N. J
Germany
American Legion Post
New York
Airman Smashes 29 Storms in 113-Hour Gulf to Canada Flight
Lt. Harrison G. Crocker flew a De Haviland from Ellington Field to Selfridge Field without a stop in 11 hours 64 minutes, reaching Canada after 11 hours 29 minutes of flight. He braved 29 storms, altitudes from 100 to 500 feet, and near-treetop danger to set a new distance record in a solo, daylight coast-to-coast journey.
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Gulf
Canada
Associated Press
MT. Clemens
Mich
Gulf of Mexico
Harrison G. Crocker
Kelly Field
San Antonio
Tex
de Haviland
Ellington Field
Houston
Selfridge Field
Texas-Louisiana
Defiance
Crocker
Louisiana
Selfridge
William Mitchell
Air Service
United States
Counts, ex federal agent, indicted in rum conspiracy case
Fred Counts former federal prohibition agent for Cleveland and his brother A Frank Counts attorney along with Joseph A Shearer and Samuel A Hoskins are named in secret indictments charging conspiracy to violate the Volstead act and defraud the government. Indictments detail payments from Louis Auerbach totaling about 60 000 to Frank Counts and 22 700 to Hoskins while other officials allegedly aided permits for illegal alcohol.
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Leveland
Fred Counts
Cleveland
A. Frank Counts
Ted
Order of United States District
Bernsteen
Joseph A. Shearer
Ohio
Federal
Atlanta
Louis
Abraham Auerbach
Samuel Rembrandt
Evans
A. Frank
Louis Auerbach
F&rmed
Benjamis R Schwartz
la Selker
Shearer
Prohibition Enforcement Service
Auerbach
Hoskins
Counts
Auerbachs
Frank Counts
F. W. Durbin
Federal raids seize liquor at Price Hill House and Meadow Inn
Two federal flying squads raided the Price Hill House and Meadow Inn near Dent, Ohio, arresting seven men and seizing a large liquor cache. Patrons hurled bottles from Price Hill, while Meadow Inn guests tried to destroy evidence as agents arrived from Pittsburgh and Cincinnati led by Roy Goodwin.
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Price Hill House
Meadow Inn
Dent
Cincinnati
Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
Roy Goodwin
Prohibition
First District Police Staton
George T. McDuffie
Summit Avenue
Bunting in Serious Condition After Self Inflicted Shot
Harry Bunting a 19 year old from 3955 Gold avenue was found shot through the left chest in an apartment at 741 West Seventh street. He claims he shot himself and asks that Edna Walsh and Grace Wilson be released. the two 19 year olds are held on suspicion amid conflicting police accounts.
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Edna Walsh
Grace Wilson
Harry Bunting
Bunting
Gold Avenue
Est
Seventh Street
Cincinnati
West Seventh Street
General Hospital
Harley Jones
Dempsey
von Dohre
Klein
Miss Walsh
Miss Wilson
Harry Kline
Frank Nieman
Patrol No. 1
Henyie
Creed Bar Votes to Free University of Chicago from Baptist Rule
At Atlantic City the Northern Baptist Convention voted that the University of Chicago president need not be a Baptist. The amendment gives the university fuller trustees control and raises board size from 21 to 25, with Baptist membership reduced from two thirds to three fifths. Debate centered on church affiliation versus academic independence.
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Atlantic City
Northern Baptist Convention
University of Chicago
F. W. Freeman
Denver
Col
Freeman
Corwin
Shank
Washington
Fr Man
Asta
Feiler
Feller, Jr
John de
Peace Agreement Ends Turco Greek Reparations Clash
Lausanne talks culminate in agreement to settle the Turco Greek reparations dispute. Greece admits indemnity obligations while Turkey waives payments. Boundaries between Eastern and Western Thrace to be clarified and ships seized restored. Karagazh and a rail link to the Bulgarian frontier ceded to Turkey. US envoy Grew helped steer negotiations toward peace.
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Associated Press
Lausanne
Near East
Auchy Chateau
United States
Joseph C. Grew
Switzerland
Grews
Greece
Turkey
Thrace
Karagazh
Ncipal
Sir Hor
Ce Rumbold
T Brian
Pelle
Ismet Pasha
M. Venizelos
America
Europe
Mr. Grew
Negro Known as Pistol Pete Fatally Stabbed After Coney Island Outing
A negro nicknamed Pistol Pete died from a knife wound to the heart after a street altercation on Broadway near New Street. Police searched Second District for the assailant, tracing blood to a negro restaurant where two men argued over a time of chance before the stabbing. Lieutenant Jennings acted as the lead investigator.
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Pete
New Street
Broadway
Fourth
Coney Island
General Hospital
Second District
Newalley
Klan Cyclops Convicted of Libel Against Mayor
Roy N. Miner Exalted Cyclops of the Ku Klux Klan of Minneapolis and three of five defendants were found guilty of criminal libel against Mayor George E Teach and received workhouse terms from Judge F M Nye. Shirely Richert a notary public was fined 50 with thirty days in the workhouse option. Miner and Gladys Kennedy got ninety day sentences while George Silk Hopkins Minn publisher and Tom Sullivan received sixty days. The judge stayed sentences pending appeal.
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Minneapolis
Roy N. Miner
Cyclops
Ku Klux Klan
George E. Teach
F. M. Nye
Shirely Richert
Miner
Gladys Kennedy
George Silk
Hopkins
Minn
Tom Sullivan
Pendi
Bodies of Soldiers Block Streets of Shiuhing City
Reports from Canton dated May 25 describe Shiuhing, fifty miles west of Canton, blocked by fallen soldiers after two city gates were mined during Canton Constitutionalists capture. Fighting renews in Northern Kwangtung as Sun Yat-Sen’s forces advance toward Waichow.
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Associated Press
Canton
Shiuhing
Shinhing
Kwangtung
Wu Pei-Fu
Chihi
Peking
Waichow
West River
Kwangsi Province
Hongkong
East Canton
Sun Yat-Sen
Texas Oil Company
Helena
Forces Press Canton Front as Reenforcements Rush Forward
Hong Kong reports large forces invading Kwangtung Province as Pe King’s levies press Canton and Sun Yat Sen constitutionalists. Canton rushes reinforcements to Shikwan while fighting in East River districts turns from desultory actions to preparations for an assault on General Chen chiung ming’s Waichow stronghold. West River steamers are involved.
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Canton
Associated Press
Hong Kong
Kwangtung Province
Peking
Dr. Sun
Waichow
Oskamp Family Completes Control Buy of Major Jewelry Firm
William M. Oskamp paid 276 250 dollars for 650 shares of common stock, gaining controlling interest in the Oskamp Nolting Company, a leading Middle West wholesale jewelry house at 30 West Seventh Street. Longtime president Charles A. Nolting and other officers exit or stay as the transfer completes.
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Oskamp
Middle West
Oskamp-Notting
Notting
Messrs. Twachtman
Schaefer
Nolting
Cincinnati
Oskamp-Nolting Company
Duhme Jewelry Company
West Seventh Street
William W. Oskamp
Mr. Oskamp
William
New York Board of Trade
National Jewelers’ Association
Cincinnati Wholesale Jewelers and Manufacturers’ Association
Oskamp Jewelry Company
Dixie Terminal
Oskamp Ingition Company
East Ninth Street
Oskamp- Nolting Company
Oskamp Ignition Company
W. Herbert
E. Gordon Oskamp
William S. P. Oskamp
W. Herbert Oskamp
Youth Arrested in Newport Third of Bandit Trio Nabbed
A 19 year old Newport youth Dale Read Waterfield was arrested after a tip at Crawford's Cafe for complicity in the May 8 Knau hold up and possible involvement in the fatal shooting. Cincinnati police say two other bandits, Clarence Crosser alias Duke Davis and Herbert E Weisenberger, have confessed and implicated Waterfield. Crosser and Weisenberger were arrested in Louisville and Cincinnati respectively.
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Newport
Cincinnati
Knau
Lewis Knau
Queen City Avenue
Crawford
Fifth
Monmouth Streets
Dale Read Waterfield
Knall
Grannan
Bullerdick
Hayes
Kenney
Waterfield
Clarence Crosser
Duke Davis
Vanceburg
Louisville
Herbert E. Weisenberger
West Eighth Street
Mie McClain
Schlageter Executed by French Troops in Ruhr Zone
Albert Schlageter was executed by French troops near a cemetery in the Ruhr occupied zone for railroad sabotage and espionage. He faced a French court martial and admitted blowing up tracks and bridges, with ten shots fired as two priests escorted him to his death. A German protest followed from Herr Lutterback.
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Associated Press
Dusseldorf
Albert Schlageter
Schlageter
Ruhr
Herr Lutterback
Demonstration Strikes Spread in Ruhr and Unoccupied Germany
Ruhr strikes swelling as 300,000 workers, including 70,000 idle in Bochum, halt mines and metal works. Policing squads formed in Gelsenkirchen while unrest spreads to Solingen Hamm and Elberfeld. clashes fatally wounded agitators. Essen fined $1,800 by France for sabotage amid broader disorder.
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Germany
Associated Press
Essen
Ruhr
Dortmund
Bochum
Solingen
Hamm
Elberfeld
Dortmunt
Socialist International
Hamburg
Gelsenkirchen
Basel
German Industry Agrees to Back Reparations Guarantees
Berlin May 26. The meeting of Chancellor Cuno with the Executive Directorate of the German League of Industrialists signals a major step toward new reparations proposals. The memo outlines the league’s readiness to guarantee 40 percent of the guarantees for an annual loan and proposes a gold mortgage on unencumbered real estate. Annual receipts from this source are estimated at 600 million gold marks for ten years, rising to about one billion as housing restrictions are lifted.
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Associated Press
Berlin
Cuno
German League of Industrialists
Industrialists’ League
League
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Joseph Shearer
Samuel Hoskins
Price Hill Incine Company
Leslie Bower
Glenway Avenue
Covington
Paul Kierman
West Fifth Street
Chicago
Federal Building
Carl Jones
Kenyon Avenue
Aaron Lincow
Northern Avenue
A. Rosenblum
Milton Street
Gordon B. Becker
Bloody Run Boulevard
Glila
Angora
Athens
South China
Tientsin
China
Shantung Province
Shantung
Paotzuku
Tsaochwang
Albert Schlagéter
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