Republicans Seek Centralized City Council Slates
The Republican City Central Committee will pick six candidates to back for the nine seat City Council, aiming to centralize GOP influence. The committee met at Strand Bullring and named Froome Morris and others to assess nominees, with R K Hynicka presiding and several incumbents stepping back from discussion.
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Republican Organization
Republican
Novemer
Republican City Central Committee
Strand Bullring
Froome Morris
Frank Lewis
Alfred Deckebach
William E. Hess
al Bode
George F. Schotte
Republican Committee
Central Committee
Charter Committee
Democratic Party
New Council
Charter
City Charter Committee
Henry Bentley
Frank Bowman
Louis Capelle
Charles W. Baker, Jr
Capelle
Fred Schneller
Eighteenth Ward
Martin Daly
Fourth Ward
Fred Schneider
Schneller
Daly
Edwin B. Kellogg
Robert Schmidt, Jr
Bertha Lietze
Frank Duttenhofer
Adolph Kummer
Mr. Kneller
Remus Fails Bond. Remanded to St Louis on Volstead Case
Federal officials move Remus to St Louis after he could not raise a 25000 bond by noon. He was jailed there following an erroneous detour to Clayton County Jail. Rumors of planned testimony before a federal grand jury could not be confirmed.
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George Remus
Hickenlooper
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Remus
Clayton
Zia
Desirable Rooms Available in Norwood and Surrounds
Classified ads offer rooms for rental in Norwood Walnut Hills Mt. Auburn Hyde Park and nearby suburbs. Readers are urged to turn to the classified page to select new living quarters today.
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Norwood
Walnut Hills
Mt. Auburn
Hyde Park
Florida orange gain from gin boom under Prohibition
New York World News Service reports Palm Beach Mayor Stephen Harvey says Prohibition boosted Florida oranges by popularizing cocktails. He notes no orange surplus due to rising gin consumption and doubts rum running to Florida can be stopped because of the coast line.
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N. Y. World News Service
New York
Florida
Stephen Harvey
Palm Beach
Railroad wins 2 million against Western Union telegraph
United States Judge A M J Cochran confirmed a report by special commissioner John W Menzies finding Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company entitled to about 2 000 000 in ground rentals for use of its right of way by Western Union Telegraph Company. The case began in 1912 after a contract expired in 1909. Appeals to higher courts likely, prolonging final decision.
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United States
A. M. J. Cochran
Maysville
John W. Menzies
Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company
Western Union Telegraph Company
Cochran
Mr. Menzies
Mississippi River
Covington
Menzies
Telegraph Company
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
United State Supreme Court
Collegian Kidnapers Sentenced to Penitentiary
In San Francisco the Superior Court sentenced Bliss, Baker, and Crawford to one to two and a half years each after they abducted Mrs. Jackling using a faked phone call and demanded $50,000 from a messenger threatening inoculation with deadly germs. Baker is UC student. Crawford, a former University of Oregon student.
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San Francisco
Superior Court
Bliss v. Baker
C. Russell Crawford
Baker
University of California
Crawford
University of Oregon
Jackling
Rockefeller Sends Birthday Verse to Early Settlers Meeting
John D Rockefeller, unable to attend the Early Settlers Association of the Western Reserve annual meeting, sends regrets and a five line birthday verse. The letter includes warm regards and best wishes to the organization.
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Cleveland
Early Settlers’ Association
John D. Rockefeller
Early Settlers’ Association of the
Western Reserve
Dry agents in gun battle at illicit distillery
In New York on September 12 four prohibition agents clashed with occupants of a distillery posing as a barber supply shop in the lower East Side. Police reserves intervened and the agents won seizing four stills and several hundred gallons of alcohol valued at about 50 000 dollars.
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New York
Lower East Side
French Attack in Morocco Expands Front Across Sixty Miles
Paris reports a major Moroccan offensive by French forces advancing across a sixty mile front. Seven troop groups operate in the campaign with 500 square kilometers retaken in three days. Abd el Krim’s Rif forces retreat as French strength aims to force a decisive end to the conflict.
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Paris
Abd-El-Krim
Upper
Atlas
Painleve
Morocco
France
Spain
Prince Seif-ed-Din Tracked by Europe in Paris Stay
Paris dispatch says Scotland Yard learned from a Paris bartender that Prince Seif-ed-Din hid with two attendants in a countryside hotel near Paris. The group traveled by train and cab to the Pyramid Hotel at Brunoy, where the prince relaxed, read English papers, and ate partridges and Burgundy while planning next moves amid pursuit across Europe. The hotel keeper confirmed the guests as the prince and companions and they left by automobile after a brief stay.
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Arno Dosch-Fleurot
New York World News Service
Paris
Scotland Yard
Seif-ed-Din
Europe
Alps
Constantinople
Thcehurs
Pyramid Hotel
Bruney
Forest of
Senart
Fontainebleau
Monsieur Sarim
Nee
Turkey
N World News Service
CN. Y
Press Pub. Co
Spirits Pack Up Ectoplasm as Spook Congress Adjourns
Paris reports the International Spiritualist Congress ends its session with spirits to communicate in Esperanto at the next meeting. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle receives thanks for publicity. Leo Dennis, president, closes with a hopeful note of continued work in the next world.
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Associated Press
Paris
International Spiritualist Congress
Arthur Conan Doyle
Leo Dennis
Youths Rob Soo Train Passengers
Two masked young men robbed the Mountaineer West Coast train near Minot North Dakota after boarding during a stop. They collected about $200 from roughly twenty passengers and fired at the conductor, but missed. Authorities say the suspects appeared nervous and possibly new to train robbery.
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Minot
Mountaineer
Rice
Youth Held in Death Threat Case at Gimble Bros Firm
Benjamin Russkoff, eighteen, a clerk, is held on $65,000 bail for extortion and threatening to kill Louis R. Gimbel Jr of Gimble Bros unless $15,000 is paid by Sept. 11. He admits involvement with two other men to receive a package but says he knew nothing of the letters.
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New York
Louis R. Gimbel, Jr
Gimbel Bros
Benjamin Russkoff
Russkoff
Gimbel
Mr. Gimbel
Blackmail Probe Involving Liquor Agents In Fort Wayne
Federal investigators in Fort Wayne interrogate claims that Chicago prohibition agents Fred Hoy and C B Nutter demanded 1000 dollars from Louis Koers a drink stand owner and 500 dollars from Jack Lynch a soft drink vendor to dismiss liquor charges after August 12 raids. Lynch says he offered 109 dollars but the agents refused. Gus Poulos is questioned over allegedly taking a 100 dollar bribe from a detainee linked to the raids.
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Associated Press
FT. Wayne
Ind
Fred Hoy
C. B. Nutter
Chicago
Federal Department of Justice
T Pair
Louis Koers
Jack Lynch
Gus Poulos
Lynch
Poulos
Detroit Park Employee Traced for Annoying Mary Pickford
Detroit police arrest Joseph A. Soditis, parks department worker, after he sent letters claiming Miss Mary Pickford had fallen in love with him. He admits writing for fun and is released after promising not to write again.
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Detroit
Joseph A. Soditis
Department of Parks and Boulevards
Mary Pickford
Miss Pickford
Soditis
Valentino Fined Fifty for Speeding in Cossack Outfit
Rudolph Valentino appeared in a gaudy Russian Cossack officer uniform in Los Angeles as he was fined $50 for speeding. The crowded courtroom included many middle aged women. Valentino denied drinking before arrest while the arresting officer testified he smelled liquor on his breath, though his lawyers argued the odor could be garlic.
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Los Angeles
Rudolph Valentino
Valentino
Jail A Year Lets Valley Gangster Live In Luxury
Chicago dispatch reports Terry Druggan known as Valley eluded jail life while serving a one year federal sentence. He attended cabarets and visited his wife, eating meals served from outside and living in the hospital. A reporter was assaulted, leading to his indictment and renewed court action.
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New York World News Service
Chicago
Terry Druggan
Westbrook
Druggan
Thomas Brockmeyer
John Lovering
Lynch
Odds-on Walker Favored to Beat Hylan in Primaries
Wall Street assigns five to one odds that State Senator Walker defeats Mayor Hylan for the Democratic nomination. Odds also favor Walker carrying all five boroughs and being elected mayor, with brokers reporting $50,000 wagered at two to one. Hylan money has reappeared but was quickly covered by Walker backers.
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New York World News Service
New York
Wall Street
Walker
Hylan
W. L. Darnell & Co
Darnell & Co
Butler admits failure in war on bootleggers
Brigadier General B. D. Butler, Director of Safety for Philadelphia, admitted his 20 months of prohibition enforcement had virtually failed. He announced plans to return to the Marine Corps when his leave of absence ends this year.
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Associated Press
Philadelphia
D. Butler
Marine Corps
Honolulu Welcomes Air Heroes After Pacific Drift
Commander John Rodgers and crew reach Honolulu after nine days adrift in a disabled seaplane. crowds greet them at the Capitol as Rodgers delivers mail to Governor Farrington and recounts the epic voyage with Navy officers and survivors praising the seaworthy PN-9 aircraft and their tense flight.
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Honolulu
Capitol
Rodgers
John Rodgers
Hawaii
Pacific
Royal Palace
Territory of Hawaii
Navy Hospital
Pearl Harbor
Rogers
Wallace R. Farrington
John
R. A. Rogers
Orient
Admiral McDonald
Farrington
Connell
Stantz
Mrs. Farrington
Police Believe They Found Anderson Body in Iowa
In Dubuque Iowa police think they recovered the body of George Dutch Anderson the Munice killer who murdered Ben Hance and his wife. A man calling himself George Daley died found in weeds near the riverfront with matching hair teeth height and markings.
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New York World News Service
Dubuque
George
Dutch) Anderson
Muncie
Ind
Ben Hance
River Front
Anderson
Atlanta
George Daley
East Dubuque
Daley
Had Robbed U S Mails and Got $1 000 000 Loot
New York report traces George Anderson linked to Gerald Chapman, awaiting death in Connecticut for killing a policeman. They allegedly robbed a mail train totaling a million dollars, once escaped from Atlanta Penitentiary, and later reunited after freedom.
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U. S
New York World News Service
New York
George Anderson
Gerald Chapman
Connecticut
Ben Hance
Muncie
Ind
Chapman
Anderson
Hance
Atlanta
Liberty
Pottery Plant Fire in Cincinnati Causes Big Loss
An overheated kiln sparked a blaze at the Cincinnati Tile and Pottery Company on Reading Road causing 3000 in damage to stock and 35000 in total losses including the building. The fire burned about ninety minutes with rain aiding firefighters and traffic disrupted along Reading Road.
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Cincinnati Tile and Pottery Company Pliant
Reading Road
W. T. Bahlman
Cincinnati Tile and Pottery Company
Longwort
Arctic ice may trap ship and 33 men for spring
The steamer Bay Chime with 33 crew is frozen in a small Arctic Bay near Herschel Island. Hudson's Bay Company says they may be there until spring but no one is in peril. They asked Ottawa to seek US help from the coast guard cutter Bear to attempt a rescue despite heavy ice and distance.
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Associated Press
Vancouver
B. C
Bay Chime
Herschell Island
Arctic Ocean
Hudson's Bay Company
Dominion
Ottawa
United States
Coast Guard
Bear
T P
Coolidge appoints nine member board to study air power
President Coolidge creates a nine man board to study developing and applying aircraft in national defense. The group, including Harbord Fletcher Morrow Coffin Bingham Vinson Parker Denison and Durand, will meet at the White House to organize and report by late November.
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Coolidge
White House
Davis
War Department
Wilbur
Navy Department
War and Navy Departments
James G. Harbord
New York
Frank F. Fletcher
Washington,d. C
Dwight W. Morrow
Englewood
N. J
Howard E. Coffin
Detroit
Senator Bingham
Connecticut
Representative Vinson
Georgia
House Naval Committee
Parker
House Commerce Committee
Arthur C. Denison
Grand Rapids
Mich
William F. Durand
Los Angeles
Mitchell
War
Navy
Shenandoah
Antonio
Viddenwell
Army Air Service
War and Navy
Army
New York City
Washington, D.C
Howard C. Coffin
Hiram Bingham
New Haven
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Lovering
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Butler
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William H. Bowlin
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Skiles N. Pope
Jackson
Tenrs
Pope
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