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Newspaper
Laredo Weekly Times
Location
Laredo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1923
Page
7
Albanian police capture a man who confesses he was part of the murder gang linked to the Janina assassination. The mission members clear Greece of any guilt in the incident.
Oklahoma Governor Walton warned the legislature against meeting next Wednesday, threatening to close the State Fall and impose stricter martial law enforcement. He vowed no mob shall rule Oklahoma while he is in office. The report also notes military and public safety developments elsewhere.
The Bulgarian legation in Paris reports Sofia denying a provisional revolutionary government and says outbreaks are confined to southern Bulgaria. Martial law was reportedly considered to curb insurrectionary activity, but denial from Sofia is absolute.
Berlin reported Chancellor Stresemann summoned the state premiers for a conference on the Ruhr incident with expected action on abandoning passive resistance. The meeting is anticipated for Tuesday as political circles view it as likely to prompt policy changes. Geneva notes include an appeal to the League of Nations on reparations and Arabia applying for League membership.
The internal revenue collector in St Louis was ordered to seize the warehouses of the Jack Daniel distillery and Parker Distilling Company while investigations into the theft of about 2 million dollars of whiskey proceed. Officials believe bootleggers carried out the theft and moved whiskey to Chicago or other markets. A separate report from Sept 22 notes the IWW marine transport workers branch has called a strike on the Great Lakes with possible extensions to Gulf and seaboard ports for war prisoner releases and other demands. Local steamship officials say no strike is in effect locally.
Mrs J Foster Symes wife of Federal Judge Symes a Denver society leader was held up last night robbed of her money and automobile. She fainted after fleeing to a ranch house and was brought to Denver in an ambulance. Police reported locating the automobile this morning.
The navy airship ZR-1 passed over Wilmington at noon while en route from Lakehurst to Washington. It left Lakehurst at 9:45 and expected arrival in Washington at 12:45. In the misty rain the ZR-1 dropped a wreath on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington as thousands watched.
Advertisers welcomed a tentative settlement after International Pressmen's union members agreed to man the prints abandoned by locals. A reporter, kidnapped during a meeting, was battered and torn, and the art director of a morning paper was beaten near Park Row as strike sympathizers rioted.
Marvin Rone a 36 year old Fort Worth oil company employee was accidentally killed by gas fumes at Pioneer yesterday an industrial accident report from Fort Worth dated September 22.
Three large gas mains serving 61 communities in Texas were broken as floodwaters swept away emergency lines and parts of two mains. The situation threatened the main crossing the Red River near Gainesville as flood stages rose to unprecedented levels, officials with Lone Star Gas Company said.
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