France Works to Audit War Debts and Conditions
Paris reports the government will audit Allied and associate debts incurred during the war. It seeks exact borrowed amounts, interest rates, and the creditor side of France’s ledger. In Washington, Secretary Mellon awaits a funding proposal from Estonia for its US debt, as Piip pursues ongoing talks on funding terms.
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Bass Lake Vanishes Into Low Lake In Minnesota
A Minnesota lake known as Bass Lake, two miles long and one mile wide, disappeared overnight and drained into Low Lake via an old lumber company sluice bed. Foresters suspect a natural sluice release. Adolph Delinsek and a crew report the event with photos, noting fish and fry affected as water flows toward international waters.
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Bryan in Battle for Bible sparks protest in Brooklyn
William Jennings Bryan defending Tennessee anti evolution education law faced a mixed response in Brooklyn as he urged victory for a Christian framework in schools. Pastor Trey Williamson challenged his view while Bryan asserted a majority will shape the nation and warned against modernist influence.
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Associated Press
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United States
France Loses Bid to Arm Warships at Geneva Talks
Geneva May 18 The military committee of the arms conference votes 16 to 8 to drop guns ammunition and all equipment of warships from the draft convention leaving ships and aircraft weapons outside supervision. The United States supports the majority while France led the defeat with backing from Czecho Slovakia and Poland. A separate vote allows arms on war designed aircraft and armored cars to stay in the controlled list. The US also wins by refusing a central arms traffic officer and preserving League Council principles.
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Youngest Death-Row Suspect Cavalier Sentenced
Pottsville Pa May 18 A 13 year old, William Cavalier, was sentenced to death in the electric chair for the murder of his aged grandmother during a robbery last September. He remained calm, saying he would have friends who would save him, as counsel announced plans to appeal to the state supreme court and, if needed, to the board of pardons. The judge imposed the sentence with no emotion.
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Associated Press
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Sizzle in Tucson as mercury hits 101 degrees
The Associated Press reports Tucson Arizona on May 18 experienced summer with the thermometer at 101 degrees at 4 pm, the first time this year it surpassed 100. The piece notes the heat arrival as the season begins.
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Governor Erickson Urges Favorable Report on Montana Irrigation
Governor J E Erickson urged the reclama tion survey board to back the Mandamon Sun River irrigation project and to artificially apply water to land in Montana to fully develop soil. The plea came at a banquet in Auguste en route to Mandana on the Sun River scheme. Historic Connecticut events followed with Governor’s Foot Guard celebrating the 180th charter anniversary and reenactments featuring multiple historic regiments and memorial services in New Haven.
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Virginia
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Benedict Arnold
President Coolidge to lead Miles funeral procession
Washington May 18 By the Associated Press President Coolidge will head the funeral cortege for Lieutenant General Nelson A Miles Veterans from Civil War to World War I units will join the solemn march from St Johns church to Arlington cemetery The service includes Episcopal rites brief services and a three rifle salute with Major Sherman Miles son of the general arriving from Constantinople to attend
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Associated Press
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Arlington Cemetery
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Offers Idaho as Refuge for Homeless Infants
Dr Henry Dwight Chapin urged reform at the Child We Have conference claiming New York foundling homes fail to give individual care and report infant mortality over 40 percent under a year old. Governor C C Moore of Idaho proposed the state as a national refuge for homeless and destitute babies, offering Idaho as a clearinghouse for eastern cities.
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Bay Farms
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Conference of America
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C. C. Moore
Thalia
United States
Governor Moore
Idaho
Probe graft among police in OETA
Detroit May 18. Seventy five picked men of the federal prohibition forces are believed to be at work in Detroit investigating alleged corruption in the police department. Police Commissioner Frank H. Croul admitted the force came from Cincinnati days ago. He cites a national campaign including Chicago and other cities.
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Associated Press
Prohibition Forces
Frank H. Croul
Cincinnati
Chicago
Delay Granted in Gas B Means Case
Washington May 18 A week’s delay was granted today by the District of Columbia supreme court in the forgery trial of Gaston B Means and meanwhile Means’ counsel will decide whether he shall surrender to begin serving a two year prison term imposed in New York.
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District of Columbia Supreme Court
Gaston B. Means
Atlanta
New York
Divorce null case erupts in Rhode Island indictments
Providence, RT May 12 By the Associated Press Two Providence attorneys are jailed on bail of 40000 and 30000 after 26 Providence grand jury indictments. Leonard W. Horton master in chancery faces 17 counts while Francis F Dougherty, his partner, records nine. Indictments center on alleged divorce null serving persons from outside Rhode Island.
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Associated Press
Providence Grand Jury
Rhode Island
Leonard W. Horton
Francis F. Dougherty
River vessel links four go to death in Cumberland net
Four persons drowned when the steamboat Fisk sank in the Cumberland river at Nashville. The rest swam ashore. In Moundsville West Virginia a mine explosion at the Ben Franklin Coal company Tanama mine was believed to be linked to an effort to hide continued operations after a United Mine Workers strike began on April 16.
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Baker Says Pershing Will Not be a Senator
Governor Sam M. A. Baker says General John J. Pershing is not a Missouri citizen and not a candidate for the U S Senate vacancy created by Senator Spencer's death. A Missouri town and Chicago civic groups urged Baker to appoint Pershing, who is from Nebraska.
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Arbuckle Blackmail Plot Reported After San Francisco Trials
Los Angeles dated May 18 report that a San Francisco woman allegedly sought 12500 in a blackmail scheme against Roscoe Arbuckle. The plan involved Arthur Arbuckle and a promise to avoid public attacks by clubs and newspapers. Arbuckle had just married Doris Deane.
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Associated Press
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Doris Deane
Los Angeles Examiner
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Buckle
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Federation of Woman's Clubs
Berlin firms joint vote urged to Soviet on repudiation
London May 1 The Daily Herald Berlin correspondent claims Ureat Bauau proposed to the allies a joint vote to the Soviet government demanding absolute repudiation of the Communist International and expulsion of its headquarters from Moscow The Herald says such a proposal if successful could lead to disaster for the world and risk rekindling the wars
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Associated Press
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Bauau
Alles
Tom Moscow
Herald
McCormicks in Court Fight Over Standard Oil Stock Dividends
Harold F. McCormick, divorced husband of Veith Rockefeller McCormick, opposes paying his wife 7500 in stock dividends from Standard Oil of Indiana. The dividends, placed in trust by John D. Rockefeller in 1917 for his daughter, are at issue in the New York Supreme Court. McCormick argues the stock should be added to his wife’s trust principal.
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Associated Press
Harold F. McCormick
Veith Rockefeller McCormick
Standard Oil Company
Indiana
John J. Rocket Teller
Supreme Cour
Me. McCornick
MecCornick
Rebel Propaganda Tactics Fuel Moroccan Frontline Tensions
Tariq Mai IR Associated Press report describes Ritian rebels using clever propaganda while pressing in front lines along the Ouergina River in Morocco. French governor general Gen eral drills response as authorities seek to clear insurgent activity linked to Ahibil-Krim networks amid widespread unrest.
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Abd-Li-kiim
Ritian Pahesreen
Ouergina
Morocco
Matstial Javamtey
Xavoas
Seven Ships Remain At Rum Row In New York Harbor
United States coast guard blockade has reduced Rum Row from about 20 ships to seven as it tightens off New York harbor. Wireless reports from the blockading fleet detail crew punishments including six guardsmen court-martialed for liquor smuggling and three for intoxication amid ongoing site troubles and operations.
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Rum Row
United States Coast Guard
Blockadinte
Tremevant
Stephen 5. Yeandle
Tillard
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Blockadig
Three Jurors Accept to Try W D Shepherd
Chicago records open as three jurors were tentatively accepted and trial proceedings began for Wilbur Darling Shepherd accused of murder by typhoid poisoning. The case centers on a $1.5 million will and a plan involving C C Farman who confessed supplying germs for $100,000. Faiman's separate trial was granted with no date set.
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Wilbur Darling Shepherd
William Nelson McClintock
Shepherd
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Vtrietien
C. C. Farman
Chicago School of Sciences
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