Legislature Repeals Eight Per Cent Interest Law
Nashville reports the senate passed the house measure repealing the 8 per cent interest law and sent it to the governor, who is expected to sign. The session saw little else of note beyond a new Nashville charter. debates over Sunday baseball failed to be revived.
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Ralph H. Perry
Nashville
Senate
House
Perry
Hake
Grindstaff
Johnson City
Green
Rhea County
Crowder to Retire From Army on Own Pleasue
Major General Enoch Crowder, judge advocate general, will retire on his own term soon after news from Washington. He has served Cuba as President Harding's special representative to restore Cuba’s financial affairs. Col John A. Hull has acted as JAG in his absence and may be his successor.
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Washinton
Enoch C. Crowder
Cuba
Harding
Beedens
Hughes
Weeks
Department of Justice
Crowder
Col
John A. Hull
Judge Advocate General
Judge Advocate General’s Department
Military Academy
Brant Defies Bishop and Faces Heresy Rumor Trial
Dr. Percy Stickney Brant, rector of the Church of the Ascension in Fifth Avenue, repeated his controversial utterances from the pulpit amid a crowded service. Bishop Manning demanded a recantation or resignation, but Brant did not retract, culminating in applause and a tense crowd including the divorced wife of W. E. Stokes, Mrs. Philip Lydig, in the front pews.
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Associated Press
New York
Percy Stickney Brant
Protestant Episcopal Church of the Ascension
William T. Manning
Fifth Avenue
Brant
Manning
Grant
Aprocitins Laid at Greeks Door
Mechmed Konitza, Albanian minister to London, protests to Britain over alleged Greek abuses of Albanian inhabitants in Tehamouria near Corfu. He cites reports of atrocities by Greek civil and military authorities affecting over 109,000 Albanians in a province ceded to Greece in 1913.
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London
Greece
Mechmed Konitza
M. Konitza
Tirana
Tehamouria
Corfu
Conference of Ambassadors
Asia Minor
Carnegie Hero Fund awards 24 medals in annual meeting
The Carnegie Hero Fund Commission awarded 24 medals at its Pittsburgh meeting, eight posthumous, with pensions totaling 5 640 yearly to dependents. Educational grants amount to 6 400, and other hero awards total 8 300. Recipients include several who perished saving others from suffocation or drowning in wells and disposals plants.
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Pittsburgh
Carnegie Hero Fund Commission
Anes A Johnson
Gillespie Farm
D. 30
Stamford
Goan
Suse Leo Dietrich
East Blackmore
Mass
Robert C. Richardson
Summit
Ark
John J. Hurt
Samuel P. Booker
Altoona
Kan
Neodeau
Charles Hermanson
Second Street
Hancock
Mich
Newell D. Ormiston
Deep River
Jows
L. B. Cowell
Montezuma
Iowa
British troops told to stay neutral on Rhine arrests
London reports the British government has instructed military representatives on the Rhine to refrain from interfering with arrests and expulsions of German officials by French forces. They are also told not to cooperate with the French or become involved in related incidents.
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London
Associated Press
Rhine
Tiature
France plans drastic Ruhr isolation and control measures
Paris officials say complete isolation of the Ruhr valley is the next step in pressuring German resistance. France would seize mines railways utilities and essential economic sectors and supervise banking as needed to secure coal deliveries to Germany. They dispute Berlin claims of 165000 Ruhr strikers and report progress so far.
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Paris
Ruhr
Germany
Berlin
German agency reports 165000 on strike in Rohr region
Berlin reports that since this morning 65000 workers at Stinness and 100000 at Thyssen have joined a strike in the Rohr district, according to Reuters.
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Berlin
Stinness Works
Thyssen
Rohr
Reuter’s
President Harding Resting After Flu
Washington reports President Harding has practically recovered from the grip of influenza but remains away from the office to obtain much needed rest as his physician states.
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Harding
Washington
Sunday Baseball Permitted in Kentucky, Judge Rules
Green KY Sunday baseball is not prohibited by Kentucky statutes according to Circuit Judge John Gilliam who today held the activity permissible. The ruling comes amid ongoing debates over Sabbath restrictions and local enforcement. The decision signals a potential change in how weekend games are scheduled across the state.
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Kentucky
Green
John Gilliam
Chicago liquor thieves raid vault at Randolph Street
Twelve armed burglars bound and gagged the watchman and a newsboy in a Randolph Street building raid. They drilled a vault and stole six hundred cases of whiskey, reported to be the Sunnybrook Distilling product, according to Chicago police.
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Chicago
Randolph Street
Sunnybrook Distilling
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