Bandits Robbed Train of Freight in Buffalo NYing Robbery
Twenty masked men seized a New York Central freight train near North Tonawanda, loading silks, shoes, clothing, tires and other goods valued at about 76 000 dollars into six motor trucks. The heist lasted about 30 minutes as robbers covered crew and guards, then headed toward Buffalo with the loot. No shots were fired and no arrests reported by noon. A New York Central police chief disputed reports of the incident as false.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Sanborn
New York Central Railroad
North Tonawanda
Tonawanda
New York
New York Central
Edward Miles
New York Central Lines
Presbyterian church report warns trials test nation and church
Winona Lake Indiana May 21 a Presbyterian general assembly heard a special committee on Christian life and work report. It cites corrupting movies easy divorce prohibition and women's suffrage as mixed outcomes of the postwar era and says a faithful church would sustain the nation if the nation should fail. The report is signed by Rev Hugh B McCauley of Paterson New Jersey.
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Winona Lake
Ind
Special Committee On
Presbyterian General Assembly
Hugh B. McCauley
Paterson New Jersey
Banks in Bad Way in Vienna May 21
Banks here have remained virtually stationary for three months. To meet demands of large depositors for payrolls they use emergency measures such as depositing securities with the government and having money printed to order. Coffee Doesn’t Hurt claims caffeine in moderate amounts is a safe stimulant with no harmful after effects per MIT study begun in 1920. Lost Suit for Income in Springfield James L Crane of New York loses $132000 income recovery from property inherited from his wife Mrs Frank Stickler Crane.
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Vienna
Boston
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Springfield
Bio
James L. Crane
New York
Frank Stickler-Crane
Board of Education to Meet For Special Session
A special meeting of the board of education will be held Monday night at 7:80 o'clock in the board office at Seventh and New Hampshire.
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Board of Education
Seventh
New Hampshire
Attacks on George Harvey Washington Seen in Parliament Row
May 21 reports say ambassador George Harvey was assaulted in the house by Representative Stevens of South Carolina after Harvey’s London Pilgrims dinner remark that the United States entered the war to save civilization. Stevens cites a 1916 Charleston speech claiming Harvey bragged of Civil War antecdotes about yellow ancestors who hired substitutes.
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George Harvey
Washington
Stevens
Dem
South Carolina
Harvey
London
United States
Charleston
S. C
State Troops in the Mingo Field
Merriam Merrimac Merri mac town in West Virginia faced renewed gunfire but no casualties were reported as martial law stayed in force in Mingo county under Major T B Davie. Kentucky Guards patrolled the Tug river frontier while armed civilians acted as deputies. state rifles were issued to deputized locals.
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Williamson
W. Va
Merrimac
West Virginia-Kentucky
Tug River
T. B. Davie
West Virginia
Mingo County
E. F. Morgan
Kentucky
Kentucky National Guardsmen
Morris
Tariff Emergency Schedule Move Tests House Vote
The Ways and Means Committee reported a joint resolution to make new schedules in the permanent tariff bill effective immediately if an emergency exists. The move drew a strict party line vote with Democrats opposing. Representative Garner of Texas warned he would reserve all points of order, signaling Democratic resistance. Republicans planned a swift passage likely next week. The resolution by Representative Longworth was submitted to the House.
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Washington
House Ways and Means Committee
Garner
Texas
House
Longworth
Ohio
Potato Crop Hurt by Wet Weather in Kansas
Prof. L E Melchers of Kansas State Agricultural College reports untreated seed potatoes in the Kaw Valley suffer widespread yellowing, brown lesions and mold due to prolonged rains. Treated seed shows excellent prospects as 3 to 6 inches of rain drenched eastern Kansas in the crop start, with seed treatment costing little effort.
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L. E. Melchers
State Agricultural College
Kansas
Melchers
Kal Valley
Kaw Valley
Washington agrees to 15 percent wage cut with changes
An agreement reached in Washington on May 21 between Secretary Davis Chairman Benson of the shipping board and representatives of the Marine Engineers Beneficial association accepts the fifteen per cent wage reduction but modifies working conditions. The changes in overtime and conditions suggest the actual wage cut will be slightly less than 15 percent.
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Washington
Shipping Board
Davis
Benson
Marine Engineers Beneficial Association
Will Cost Six Billion to Run the Government This Year
Washington May 21 passage of the deficiency appropriation bill with 160 million dollars will raise the total cost of the government for the current fiscal year ending June 30 to six billion. Representative Byrnes of South Carolina, a Democrat on the appropriations committee, said Republicans use unexpended balances and other devices to fund expenditures, masking economy.
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Washington
Representative Byrnes
South Carolina
Appropriations Committee
House
Byrnes
Arrested Former Governor Catts in Georgia on Peonage Charge
Albany Georgia May 21 Sydney Catts former Florida governor was arrested on a federal warrant charging peonage. His bond set at 2500 by U S Commissioner George White. Bond not furnished before noon.
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Albany
Sydney Catts
Florida
U. S
George White
Rich Woman Thief Confesses After Auto Crash
Chicago May 21. Mrs Joseph Heil wife of a broker confessed to years of robbing wealthy households by posing as a maid after an automobile accident. Loot believed over 25000 dollars with many pieces found at her home. Held for four robbery counts, she is ill and near motherhood. Police say she identified four employers as victims.
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Chicago
Joseph Heil
Hcll
Heil
Reid
North Shore
Damage suit and divorce filed in Douglas County Court
Try damage suit reports that plaintiff De foxy damages in which FE it Wickersham is plaintiff and led. Flunsinger defendant. The Hanger Woodward action ended with damages claimed from an automobile collision. A wife seeks divorce, Alice G. Burch versus Arthur G. Burch, alleging abandonment cruelty and gross neglect. The Madi and Osborn sheep sale case was discharged after failure to reach a verdict.
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de Foxy
Feit Wickersham
Flunsinger
Douglas County
Hanger-Woodwarl
Madi
Osborn
Charles E. Moss
Douglas County District Court
Alice G. Burch
W. A. Quayle
Arthur G. Burch
Kansas Defeats Missouri 11 9 In Columbia Series Opener
The University of Kansas baseball team won the first of a two game series against Missouri University at Columbia yesterday afternoon by 11 to 9. Two Dublin constables on a cycling tour were shot dead.
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M. U
University of Kansas
Missouri University
Columbia
Dublin
Simple Ceremony for Justice White Buried at Oak Hill
Washington May 21. With simple honors the body of Edward Douglass White chief justice of the United States was buried at Oak Hill cemetery. Flags lowered, doors closed, a funeral salute from Fort Meyer, and a small congregation gathered at St Matthew's church. President Harding attended with his wife as cabinet members diplomats and Congress members mourned. The service concluded in church and relatives plus nine near relatives and eight supreme court honorary pallbearers followed to the grave.
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Washington
Edward Douglass White
United States
Oak Hill Cemetery
Fort Meyer
Potomac
St. Matthew's Church
Harding
Congress
High Department
Supreme Court
Reading Company Reading Plan Approved by Court
Philadelphia May 21 The United States district court approved the modified plan to dissolve the Reading company as decreed by the Supreme Court. The plan was accepted by the Reading Company and the United States attorney general on May 2. The court’s ruling grants equal rights to common and preferred stockholders to receive stock in the new corporation formed to take over the Reading company’s equity in the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron stock. The opinion also fixes the sole controversy with the government over the sale of majority holdings in the New Jersey Central railroad, and declines to order an immediate sale or set a sale date.
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Philadelphia
United States District Court
Reading Company
U. S
United States Attorney General
Philadelphia & Reading Coal and Lion Company
New Jersey Central Railroad
Graduating Recital for Miss Thelma Hale at Fraser Hall
Thelma Hale pianist will perform at Fraser Hall Chapel on Tuesday May 24 with Dora Helmick soprano and Profs C S Skilton and Miss Hale as accompanist. The program includes works by Beethoven Skilton Moszkowski and Chopin with Miss Helmick and Otto Glanke on flute. In a separate item President Harding and Mrs Harding depart Washington Mayflower bound for New York to deliver two addresses.
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Thelma Hale
Fraser Hall Chapel
Dora Helmick
C. S. Skilton
Miss Hale
Skilton
Miss Helmick
Harding
New York
Washington
Student Drowns At Potter Lake After All-Night Search
James White a freshman engineer from Turon Reno county drowned while swimming in Potter Lake near midnight. His body was recovered at 7 43 am after an all night search by top University swimmers aided by nets grappling hooks and divers. Death likely due to cramp. Swimming late at night at Potter Lake is common among many University men.
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James White
Turon
Reno County
Potter Lake
Young White
White
Jayhawk
Ed White
James Naismith
Next Week in Court in Douglas County District Court
Docket lists hearings for May 21 to June 2 with cases including Criss v Monks, Russell v KCV&W Ry, Dodds v Lamb Bros Lumber, Coutraken v Coutraken, Dade Co Bank v Richardson, City v Johnson, Repstine v Koch, Weyermuller v Parrish, Helwig v Dunn, Krause v Richards, Bond v White, King v McCumber, Anderson v Anderson, Farrish v Parrish, Fey v Johns, Connor v Cole, St Bank of Ottawa v Watkins, Barrett v Harkey, Williams v Hunsinger, Butcher v Brown, plus all divorces and motions. A note on a Chinese famine fund shows a $40 contribution from D E Conner of Wilsey Kansas. pope pleads with Irish authorities to end violence.
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Coutraken
the Dade Co. Bank
Richardson
City
Johnson
Repstine
Koch
Weyermuller
Parrish
Helwig
Dunn
James Clapp
Krause
Richards
Bond
White
King
McCumber
Anderson
Farrish
Fey
Johns
Connor
Cole
St. Bank of Ottawa
Watkins
Barrett
Harkey
Williams
Hunsigner
Butcher
Brown
Reward Offered for Missing Trained Pig Shine
Deputy Sheriff Lyn Arnold in Jacksonville Florida on May 21 offered a reward for the return of Shine a trained pig that helps locate moonshine stills. He warned he would withhold food for 48 hours and place Shine in a car to hunt suspected liquor plants. Shine has been missing for days and blockaders are suspected of stealing him.
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Shine
Anglo American understanding praised as pacifying gesture
Berlin commentary notes that Lloyd George and Ambassador Harvey sparked unusually warm Anglophile and Anglo American accord before the war. Vorwaerts sees avoiding Upper Silesian conflict and urges U S influence to guide liberal peace prospects and European economic recovery.
My Story of the 140th Field Artillery Book Release
Topeka March 21 Captain W P Maclean superintendent of the Boys Industrial School reports the new volume My Story of the 140th Field Artillery has just off the press. The 200 plus page book, produced entirely by the school boys, traces the 180th Field Artillery from mobilization to overseas return and includes numerous photographs of its six batteries recruited mainly from Topeka Lawrence Pittsburg Kansas City and Wichita Kansas.
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Topeka
Kan
140Th Field Artillery
W. P. Maclean
Boys’ Industrial School
180Th
Lawrence
Pittsburg
Kansas City
Wichita
National Balloon Race Delayed Start From Birmingham
Birmingham May 21 The national elimination balloon race will start late today from Birmingham under Aero Club of America auspices. Nine balloons are slated to launch with first at 5 pm and subsequent arrivals every five minutes heading toward the Mississippi Valley and Great Lakes region. Three winners will earn spots in the international race for the Gordon Bennett cup from Brussels in September.
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Birmingham
Ala
John Kerry
St. Louis
Ralph Upson
Aero Club of America
Great Lakes
Brussels
Hanger case ends abruptly in district court
Damages sought by J A Hanger against Sheriff J R Woodward over a car seizure during an arrest concluded with a directed verdict for the defendant. Judge Means overruled a defense motion and the appeal to the Supreme Court was noted. Witnesses testified as attorneys disputed possession legality and damages for loss of use. A booze inquisition and a light burglary note closed the day with references to a mercantile policy.
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John’ Ax
Hanger
Melvin
Woodward
Supreme Court
C. A. Smart
J. A. Hanger
J. R. Woodward
Hk. E. Melvin
Smart
Rai
Means
Stezed
Jud Smart
Douglas County District Court
Topeka
Baldwin Mitchell
Lawrence
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Ann Flynn
Fred Hopper
Jacksonville
Illinois
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Sare
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Monk
Oxweld Acetylene Co
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Russell
W. Ry. Dodds
Lamb Bros. Lumber
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