Rise From Obscurity to Power By Financial Daring in Rail World
Van Sweringen brothers recounted to the Interstate Commerce Commission how in nine years they built the plan to merge trunk railroads in the East. He described buying stock, borrowing funds, and securing allies for the Nickel Plate consolidation including Erie Pere Marquette Chesapeake & Ohio and Hocking Valley. The two explained deferment of most of the $8.5 million price, with $2 million cash down, pledged stock as collateral, and a claim that the effort served the public interest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
van Sweringen
Associated Press
P. van Sweringen
Cleveland
Interstate Commerce Commission
N. W. Anderson
Chesapeake & Ohio
L. F. Loree
Delaware & Hudson
Julius Krutschnitt
Southern Pacific
W. Z. Ripley
Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad
Warteh
Newton D. Baker
New Nickelate Company
M. J. van Sweringen
Railroads
Nickel Plate
Erie
Pére Marquette
Hocking Valley
Nickel Plate Company
New York Central
Actress Leatrice Joy Gilbert Divorces John C Gilbert
Leatrice Joy Gilbert, a moving picture actress, was granted a divorce from John C Gilbert a screen actor in Los Angeles. She cited habitual intemperance. The couple wed March 3 1922 and separated August 10 1924. A property settlement was arranged out of court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Leatrice Joy Gilbert
John C. Gilbert
Gilberts
Adopting Babies as a Hobby Sparks Paris Trial
In Agen a couple called Galou face trial for neglect that allegedly led to a baby's death and a string of thefts. Dinorah Galou, once Dinorah Closter, is accused of stealing babies and weaving a life of imposture while living off proceeds from at least twenty one thefts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alfred M. Murray
New York World News Service
Paris
Agen
Galou
Mme. Galou
Dinorah Closter
Dinorah
Galous
Syria
Constantinople
Galeus
Europe
Turkey
Morocco
Ear
N. Y. World News Service
N. Y. World) Press Pub. Co
Immigration Question Roils Labor Conference At League Meet
At Geneva May 28 the League and labor circles debated immigration as a key issue. Italian Giuseppe de Michelis and Japanese Tom Mayeda attacked policies restricting worker movement. Indian delegate N M Joshi charged colonized regions with serfdom and urged a League investigation. Britain faced similar criticism over colony labor rights.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albin E. Johnson
New York World News Service
Geneva
League of Nations
Giuseppe de Michelis
Tom Mayeda
International Labor Bureau
United States
Britain
England
N. M. Joshi
India
Kunji Suzuki
Japanese Confederation of Labor
Spyright
N. Y
Decoration Day and Sunday ads offered by Commercial Tribune
Advertising space for Decoration Day and Sunday issues is available with extended reach. Orders for Saturday and Sunday insertions must be placed by 8 p.m. Friday at the Commercial Tribune Office, 410 Commercial Square. For late orders, Sunday issues may be placed up to 8 p.m. Friday. Call Classified Advertising Department.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commercial Tribune
Commercial Square
Acquit Brickley in Forgery Case
Charles E. Brickley former Harvard football star was found not guilty by a Springfield jury of forgery and larceny charges. He testified denying involvement in signing powers of attorney to transfer fifty Bigelow-Hartford Carpet Co shares in William J. Hines name and said he did not forge stock or participate in related loans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harvard
Associated Press
Springfield
Mass
Charles EE. Brickley
Superior Criminal
Brickley
Bigelow-Hartford Carpet Company
William J. Hines
Kurt Sternberg
Demand Chapman's Money in Hartford Court Move
Counsel for Gerald Chapman pressed a motion before Judge Edwin S. Thomas to release the attachment of 4560 dollars seized after his Muncie capture. The funds are tied to a 27000 dollar government suit alleging Chapman converted booty from the New York mail robbery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chapman
Associated Press
Hartford
Conn
Gerald Chapman
Ekdwin S. Thomas
United States District Court
Muncie
Ind
New York
Seven Killed In Texas Train Wreck Near Longview
In Longview Texas seven people die and about twenty are injured when the International and Great Northern Sunshine Special derails after plunging down a steep embankment near town. The engine and three cars tumble to the bottom. The dead include Engineer Lem Tarbutton aged 65 and Fireman Griffith of Palestine. An unidentified white man faces likely death from a broken back. four other passengers are seriously hurt. The train was about thirty minutes late.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Longview
Tex
International & Great Northern
Lem Tarbutton
Griffith
Palestine
RARE GEMS TAKEN FROM INSTITUTE
Thieves stole jewels valued at thousands from the Frederick Sterns collection at the Detroit Institute of Arts. Miss Gertrude A. Gilmore, in charge of the section, found paste substitutes after her illness. Police seek a short‑term institute watchman unnamed in public.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Detroit
Frederick Sterns
Detroit Institute of Arts
Institute
Gertrude A. Gilmore
Reds and Fascists Clash in Copenhagen
London May 28 The Daily Telegraph Copenhagen correspondent reports a fierce clash in the Danish capital between fascists and communists. A number of people were hospitalized with serious wounds and many arrests were made.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Daily Telegraph
Copenhagen
Carew Building Sells for Two Million with Large Profit
The Carew Building at Fifth and Vine in Cincinnati sold for 2 million dollars to Seton Realty Company, with Schoengold and Bernstein as brokers. They had bought it in 1921 for 1.1 million, making a 900000 profit in about three and a half years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
CAREW
Schoengold and
Bernstein
Seton Realty Company
I. B. Davidson
Vine Street
Fifth Street
Fountain Square
Schoengold & Bernstein
Bolton S. Armstrong
Adolph C. Weiss
Armstrong
Cincinnati
Union Trust
First National Bank
Traction
Mercantile Library
Ingalls
Second National Bank
Union Central Life Insurance
Dixie Terminal
Gwynne
Keith Theater
Atlas National Bank
Schmidt, Richardson
Temple Bar
Southern Railway
Brotherhood of Railway
National Bank
Frederick A. Schmidt
Walter S. Schmidt
Schmidt Company
Fifth and Vine Streets
William Howard Taft
Common Pleas
Mr. Carew
Frederick A. Schmidt Company
Wiggins
Mitchell
Carew Estate
Big Four Leases Richardson Building as HQ for 40 Years
The Big Four Railroad leases the J. M. Richardson Building at Ninth and Sycamore for forty years to house all city departments in one center named Big Four Exchange. Expected rental around 300000 annually, totaling about 12000000 over the term. Move to begin in August with occupancy on multiple floors and some offices remaining in existing facilities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Big Four
Richardson
J. M. Richardson
Ninth and Sycamore Streets
Big Four Railroad
Eyday
T Road
Jentire B
Worcester
Robert A. Cline
Third
Smith Streets
Crown Overall
Plum Streets
Tabie
Aelite
Thema- Acea
Freeman H. Wipper
Dixie Terminal
Union Central
Ohio Building and Construction Company
Richardson Paper Company
Sycamore Street
Cline
Allies to Charge Germany With Six Versailles Violations
London May 28. Allies prepare a note accusing Germany of six violations of the Versailles armament clauses. The demand includes drastic cuts in the General Staff and army, disbanding auxiliaries, closing military schools, demilitarizing police, destroying Krupp and Deutschewerke equipment, ceasing munition production except by authorized plants, and releasing mobilization papers. Britain awaits dispatch next Tuesday signaling intent to evacuate Rhine zone under League oversight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
John L. Balderston
New York World News Service
London
Paris
First Rhine
League of Nations
War Ministry
Krupp’s
Deutschewerke
Spandau
Eee
Fosdick Accepts Park Avenue Baptist Pulpit in New York
Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick accepts the Park Avenue Baptist Church pastorate while the church plans to drop the word Baptist from its title, possibly adding a Presbyterian assistant pastor. The agreement allows membership without immersion. He will begin in fall 1926 after a European trip and preaches next Sunday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Harry Feimerson Fosdick
Park Avenue Baptist Church
Rockefeller
Fosdick
Cornelius Woelfkin
Europe
Chamber of Commerce Abandons Fourth and Sycamore Plan
The Chamber of Commerce abandons building at Fourth and Sycamore after failing to purchase the Twedell property. It may instead pursue the Federal Reserve Bank site at Fourth and Race, leasing upper floors to the bank for rent. A Tuesday meeting will decide on a new home plan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamber of Commerce
4Th and
Sycamore
Reserve Bank
Fourth and
Sycamore Streets
Twedell
Fourth Street
Telephone
Fourth and Race Streets
Federal Reserve Bank
American Railway Express Company
Chamber
Union Central Life Insurance Company
Union Trust
Congress
Alta
Fourth and Sycamore
William Lucking
Sullivan
Eighth and
Race Streets
Cincinnati Automobile Club
Nine Telephone Girls Towed On Day Machines Oust Them From Jobs
FT. WAYNE Ind May 28 Staccato clicks of machinery replace nimble fingers and cheery voices as the Home Telephone Company plans to substitute 250 girls with an automatic system at midnight Friday Twenty five women accept the change with resolve and say they will find other work Nine are to be married Saturday and the rest within two weeks
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
FT. Wayne
Ind
Home Telephone Company
Treasury seeks repeal of tax publicity provision
The Treasury Department will recommend eliminating publicity features in federal revenue bills after a Supreme Court ruling on names and payments. Officials say the law serves no purpose, invades privacy, hinders tax collection, and fuels opposition to income taxes. White House hints Senate sentiment may align with the adminstration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York World News Service
Washington
Treasury Department
Supreme Court
Treasury
White House
Senate
Amundsen Ellsworth relief committee frames funds role
Bernon S. Prentice heads an American advisory group to avoid premature fundraising for a relief expedition to the Amundsen Ellsworth party. The committee, with members including Charles Hayden James Perkins Marshall Field Bayard Dominick E Roland Harriman Grayson Murphy, awaits government direction from Norway and the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York World News
New York
Amundsen
Ellsworth
Norway
United States
Bernon S. Prentice
Amundsen American Advisory Committee
Amundsen-Ellsworth
Washington
Wall Street
Prentice
Miaukee
Prentige
Pole
Alaskan
Charles Hayden
London
James H. Perkins
Marshall Field
Bayard Dominick
E. Roland Harriman
Grayson M. P. Murphy
Judge voids Doheny Elk Hills leases and Pearl Harbor contracts
Federal Judge Paul J. McCormick ruled the Doheny oil leases at Elk Hills and related Pearl Harbor storage contracts void for fraud and excess presidential power. The decision orders cancellation, settlements for oil taken and credits for Hawaii storage work, with a master to oversee. The case centered on payment to Albert B. Fall and the 1921 executive order shifting disposal authority.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Los Angeles
Doheny Oil Interests
Paul J. McCormick
Naval Oil Reserve No
Elk Hills
Cal
Pearl Harbor
Hawaii
United States
E. L. Doheny
Albert B. Fall
Secretary of the Interior
Harding
Navy
Interior Department
McCormick
Doheny
Edward L. Doheny
Albert B
United States of America
Pan- American Proleum and Transport Company
Pan- American Petroleum Company
Pan- American Petroleum and Transport Company
Warren G. Harding
Secretary of the Navy
Fall
Edward Denby
Congress
Elk Hills Reserve
Pan- American Company
Navy Department
Coheny Company
Pan-American Petroleum and Transport Company
Pan-American Company
Pan-American Copany
E. Aupplemental
Coal Glen mine toll reaches 27
In Coak Glen North Carolina on May 28 sixteen more bodies were brought to the surface, bringing the total entombed to over fifty. Rescue teams reached the 2300 foot level as gas fumes claimed more victims and eleven additional bodies were recovered tonight. Dorsey J. Parker of the Pittsburgh Bureau of Mines led the operation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coal Glen
N. C
Coak Glen
Dorsey J. Parker
Pittsburgh Bureau of Mines
Weeks in good spirits after operation
Secretary of War John W. Weeks underwent surgery for gall stones at M asee General Hospital. The stone removal and bladder drainage were performed under local anesthesia. Doctors report he had a comfortable day, with a good pulse and normal temperature, and is in excellent spirits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Boston
John W. Weeks
Maseee General Hospital
Daniel F. Jones
Gorham Brigham
Weeks
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Elie
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Amundsen Committee
Holds Harding
Credit Ir
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Coal Glen Mine
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