Borah Sees Hope In Five Year Debt Plan Talks
Washington October 2 The Borah opposition to accepting Caillaux plan shifts to hope long range talks may yield success. White House and Capitol leaders credit the five year lump sum proposal as the only feasible bridge until a permanent pact. President Coolidge believes France can recover financially within five years, easing funds and currency after the discussions.
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Washington
American Commission
Caillaux
Paris
America
France
Coolidge
White House
Curtis
Kansas
Borah
Idaho
Foreign Relations Committee
Funding Commission
Building Trades Row Is Settled
Atlantic City N J October 2 William Green president of the American Federation of Labor announced an agreement ending the jurisdictional dispute between brick layers and plasterers unions which had tied up 250 million dollars in construction. The accord ends hostilities and orders immediate resumption of work. A tribunal will decide remaining issues and both unions will reestablish the 1911 agreement. An executive boards meeting will form the tribunal.
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Atlantic City
N. J
William Green
American Federation of Labor
Green
Ich
Take Stock in Classified Ads
Classified ads promise quick results and dividends of time and money. The Commercial Tribune invites ads for rental, employment, or commercial needs with deadlines noted for Sunday and Saturday issues.
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Tribune
Sunday Commercial Tribune
Birthday Gifts Pile Up for President von Hindenburg
Kegs of beer and many bottles of wine accompanied sausages live crabs and abundant floral tributes at the Executive Palace in Berlin marking President von Hindenburg seventy sixth birthday and first in office The president spent the day at his hunting lodge as ex officers and patriotic societies planned an evening celebration.
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Berlin
von Hindenburg
Scharfheide
Crocker Heiress Marries Fifth Time in Secret Paris Union
New York reports the fifth marriage of Mrs. Aimee Crocker Gouraud, heiress of the California Crocker family, to Prince Mistislawa Galatzine, 25, a Russian. They wed recently in Paris and traveled on the Berengaria with separate suites before immigration officials. Her earlier marriages include Elopement with Princess ter Ashe and marriages to Henry M. Gillig, Jackson Gouraud, and Prince Alexander Miskinoff.
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Associated Press
New York
Aimee Crocker Gouraud
Crocker
California
Berengaria
Mistislawa Galatzine
Paris
Miss Crocker
Queen of Pearls
Gouraud
Prince Alexander Miskinoff
London
Pyome
Darkness In Day Costs Four Lives In Michigan
Storm blackout that darkened Detroit and nearby cities for over half an hour caused four deaths and injuries to ten others. Two section workers on a Wa bash tracks near Milan were struck by a Chicago to Detroit passenger train. Lightning killed two men in Lansing and injured ten more in a separate incident. A foggy, cloudy day with a thunderstorm caused the daytime darkness noted by the Weather Bureau.
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Michigan
Milan
Mich
Chicago
Lansing
Joseph Cutello
St. Louis
W. J. Jones
Kansas City
Alexander IL. Rode
Rudolph Bon
Weather Bureau
First Army
Selfridge Field
Mt. Clemens
Washington
Toledo
Weeks Goes to Capital Silent on Resignation
Secretary of War Weeks left Boston for Washington after a summer at West Gloucester. He had gallstone surgery in May at Massachusetts General Hospital and later recuperated there. Rumors of imminent resignation circulated, but Weeks offered no comment and said his future would unfold after arriving in Washington. He said his health had improved but he was not yet fully rested.
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Weeks
Washington
West Gloucester
Massachusetts General Hospital
Wealthy Melchair Armato Faces Counterfeiting Charges
Chicago October 2 federal agents arrested Melchair Armato a wealthy treasurer of a can company charged with directing a counterfeiting ring he led producing one to twenty gold certificates and passing over two hundred thousand dollars in counterfeit notes. A lengthy probe followed after Armato was linked to a raid on a studio where counterfeit whisky labels and stamps were seized.
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Chicago
Melchair Armato
Armato
Virginia tunnel collapse traps workers Burying engineer and missing six
In Richmond Virginia a Chesapeake and Ohio tunnel collapse at Church Hill trapped more than two score workers. Engineer Tom Mason is believed killed and six missing while others escaped or were injured. Rescue efforts faced gas and rain as crews searched the 3,500 foot passageway amid a legend of prior collapses.
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Virginia
Associated Press
Richmond
Tom Mason
Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad
Church Hill
D. F. Moseley
A. G. Adams
C. S. Kelso
Moseley
Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Tonight
Verdict Won By Procter Against Sprague in Federal Case
A federal jury awarded Colonel William Cooper Procter of Cincinnati 62697 against Colonel A A Sprague of Chicago over a $100000 note tied to the 1920 Wood campaign. The suit looked at whether Sprague signed as half-liable or as an accommodation undersee. Sprague contended the Senate funds inquiry aimed to wreck the Wood campaign. Procter returned to Cincinnati after the verdict.
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Chicago
William Cooper Procter
Cincinnati
Generals Wood
A. A. Sprague
Wood
Procter
Sprague
Senate
Colonel Procter Reacts to Chicago Verdict
Colonel Procter reached his home yesterday. When the Chicago verdict dispatch was read to him last night by telephone his comment was it was just as I expected.
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Procter
Chicago
Dry Act Blamed for Jury Breakdowns By Judge Cull
Former Common Pleas judge Dan B. Cull warned that prohibition weakens juries more than other factors. He said police testimony hinders homicide convictions and accused government overreach into private affairs, urging a return to individual liberty and less meddling.
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Cleveland
Dan B. Cull
Common Pleas
Cull
Bedford Oil Chairman's Estate To Wife In Will
The will of A C Bedford chairman of the board of Standard Oil of New York filed in Mineola New York October 2 bequeaths his entire estate to his widow no estimate of value given.
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Mineola
N. Y
A. C. Bedford
Standard Oil of New York
Wealthy father testifies in murder trial over daughter and Ormond
William B. Cole, cotton executive, testifies about a February letter from William W. Ormond alleging a husband wife relation with Cole's daughter Elizabeth. He described learning of the affair, confronting his daughter, and shooting Ormond as he sat in his car, defense arguing self defense and insanity.
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New York World News Service
Rockingham
N. C
William B. Cole
William W. Ormond
Cole
Ormond
Elizabeth Cole
Fred Bynum
Bynum
Miss Cole
Ormand
Omaha Train Robber Porter Dies After Shootout
Robert H. Porter a Union Pacific employee from Omaha after twenty two years of service turned to crime in a drunken spree robbing trains and was killed by railroad agent Audrey Kenworthy who had been his friend for over a decade. Porter faced mental decline and sought money for his wife and four children.
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Qmaha
Neb
Robert H. Porter
Union Pacific Railroad
Porter
Lynchburg
Union Pacific
Omaha
Missouri Pacific
Portland
Ore
Audrey Kenworthy
Kenworthy
Train Strikes Auto. Two Die, One Hurt Near Xenia
At a crossing east of Xenia on October 2 Frank Isenhower of Dayton was killed and R. W. Nettler of Greenville was seriously injured when their auto was struck by a Pennsylvania train after stopping for an eastbound freight. The westbound main train then hit their vehicle.
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Xenia
Frank Ji Isenhower
Dayton
R. W. Nettler
Greenville
Here
Tong War Breaks Anew In Minneapolis Shooting
A 50 year old man identified as George Chin, believed to be linked to the Hip Sing tong, was shot fatally on a downtown Minneapolis street corner as he stepped to a mailbox to mail a letter.
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Minneapolis
George Chin
Hip Sing Tong
Chin
Denmark Dismisses Its Only Hangman After 20 Years Idle
In Copenhagen on October 2 a government decision ended Herman Christensen’s twenty year tenure as Denmark’s sole executioner. He never faced a death sentence and was dismissed from the sinecure with the state no longer needing an official hangman.
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Denmark
Copenhagen
Herman Christensen
Miss Emanuels Mate a Bigamist
Philadelphia police report Lillian Emanuel's former husband Howard L Jones was a bigamist. Records show she married Jones in 1916 in Pittsburgh and annulment followed in 1918. Police search Emanuel home, maid questioned, and fingerprints stained with clues while Felt's funeral proceeds.
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Lillian M. Emanuel
Maurice E. Felt
City Hall
Miss Emanuel
Pittsburgh
Howard L. Jones
Jones
Brooklyn
CN. Y
Germantown
Eben Galbraith
William A. Gray
Mr Emanuel
Felt
Navy testifies on aviation, cites need for unified defense
Commander John Rodgers tells the president's aviation inquiry board that the Navy lacks scientific organization and calls for a secretary of national defense. He argues for a three-division system covering army operations, navy operations, and shared supply, amidst discussion of the Shenandoah and S-51 incidents.
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Air Inquiry Board
Navy
Walsh Divorce Trial Reveals Severe Cruelty and Hammer Attack
Dayton Oct 2 Beatrice Walsh seeks divorce alimony and property division from Nicholas Walsh Jr Cincinnati heir after repeated beatings and a hammer assault The testimony includes Walsh claiming his common law wife struck him with a hammer and an attempted act involving a phonograph While three women testified to a financial deal related to Walsh parties the judge warned of possible night sessions indicating a long trial ahead
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Associated Press
Dayton, O
Beatrice Walsh
Nicholas Walsh, Jr
Cincinnati
Gher
Walsh
Wal
Barge
R. W. Bagga
Interparliamentary Union rejects US appeal on League and language
The Interparliamentary Union council voted unanimously against asking the United States to join the League of Nations or to revise its covenant. The session also discussed the Saklatvala case, Bolshevism, international trusts, and a world language proposal.
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Washington
Interparliamentary Union
United States
League of Nations
League
Capitol
Pan-American Union
Theodore Adelswaerd
Sweden
Mary MacSwiney
Miss MacSwiney
Saklatvala
Riley
S. Saklatvala
Kellogg
Vladimir Molloff
Sidney Schopfer
Switzerland
Union
Carl Lindhagen
Conference
Conferen
Different Jails for Beer Barons Federal Court Contempt
Terrence Druggan and partner Frank Lake were committed to De Kalb County Jail in Sycamore and DuPage County Jail in Wheaton respectively after contempt proceedings in federal court Judge Wilkerson stated it would shock propriety to return them to Cook County Jail and ordered hold as government witnesses. Nine other defendants were released on bail. The district attorney called the case the most important investigation by a court of justice and accused officials of graft and corruption in Cook County Jail.
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New York World News Service
Chacago
Terrence Druggan
de Kalb
Sycamore
Frank Lake
DuPage County
Wheaton
Wilkerson
Cook County
Olson Sai
Court of Justice
Ataill
S-51 Submarine Tragedy Deepens With 33 Dead
At Block Island collision last week the S-51 sank swiftly after the City of Rome rammed her. Divers recovered two more bodies in the engine room bringing the dead to 33 of 36 aboard. Names included Walter E. Lawton of New London and Brady D. Lindsay of Pensacola. Body recovery continues as salvage plans are discussed.
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U. S
New London
Conn
City of Rome
Block Island
Walter E. Lawton
Brady D. Lindsay
Pensacola
J. D. Beuret
Naval Bureau of Construction and Repair
Washington
Simon Lake
Department
Beuret
Rome
Camden
Lark
Naval Hospital
Newport
S-51 Submarine Debris Search Ends After Seven Days
At Camden on October 2, naval authorities ended a week long effort to locate crew members from the S-51 which sank last Friday night. Five bodies have been recovered with twenty eight people still unaccounted for as divers resume operations pending weather conditions.
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Camden
Washington
H. H. Christy
S. R
Christy
New York
Chittenden
Falcon
New London
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