Shriners Convention Injures In Riverside Collision
Ten people injured in a Riverside Virginia train crash involving Washington Shriners visitors. One car demolished. several guests treated in Alexandria. Another item notes Conrad W. Dykeman elevated as imperial potentate. Kansas City chosen for 1924 convention.
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Washington
Riverside
D. A. Hudson
Laurel
Miss
C. W. Wood
Alexandria
Mount Vernon
Parks
Conrad VY. Dykeman
Brooklyn
N. Y
Kansas City
Advertising agents need laboratory for work
Professor A J Snow of Northwestern University told the National Association of Teachers of Advertising in Atlantic City that advertising teaching requires an experimental lab. He urged a cooperative plan between advertisers and universities to provide a purchasing public for verifying student theories.
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Associated Press
Atlantic City
N. J
A. J. Snow
Northwestern University
National Association of Teachers of Advertising
Associated Advertising Clubs
Snow
Flying Flivver of France Starts Washington Trip
French aviator Georges Barbot left Roosevelt Field for Washington in his flying flivver. He will stop at Pine Valley and Aberdeen to replenish fuel, display the glider to engineers at Bolling Field, then ship the craft to Chicago for further demonstrations.
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Garden City
N. Y
Georges Barbot
Roosevelt Field
Washington
Francis B Valentine
Army Air Service
Pine Valley
Philadelphia
Aberdeen Proving Grounds
Maryland
Bolling Field
Wash
Barbot
Chicago
Holling Field
New York City
Louisiana Business Women Convene in Monroe
The Louisiana State Federation of Business Women’s Clubs meets in Monroe for its annual convention Friday and Saturday. About 100 to 125 delegates from across the state attend events at the Elks Club and Monroe Hotel, with programs including addresses by Miss Dorothy Schulze and Miss Stella Akin, musical numbers, and a big barbecue to close the gathering.
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Louisiana State Federation of Business Women's Clubs
Monroe
Louisiana
Elks’ Club
Dorothy Schulze
Business and Professional Women's Clubs
F. M. Freeman
First Methodist Episcopal Church
Arnold Bernstein
Marguerite Karteau
New Orleans
Julia Wossman
Natchitotches
Gladys Brazeale
Judith Appleman
United States
Germany
Estelle Schulze
Armandine Renaud
The
Elks* Club
Employment Bureau
Gertrude Willenberger
Shreveport
Miss Schalze
Federation
Stella Akin
Savannah
Suzanne Sperry
Gladys Whitfield
Julius Kugler
Louise Smetser
Florence Fergson
Margret Stovall
Marguerite Roberts
Kitty Allen
Ruston
Jettrude Zillenberger
Tessie Dickerson
State Club
Agnes Morris
Frank M. Kennedy
Women’s Department Club
Ouachita Parish
Business & Professional Women’s Department of the Department Club
Leon Baer
R. W. Germany
Business & Professional Women’s Clubs
Effie Moncur
Adele Bonneau
Ethel Mitchell
Bogalusa
Gertrude Dilinberger
Z. L. Lee
Bennie Kendall
Mavis Raxsdale
Mansfield
Edith Brown ‘Bailey
Electricity the only large daily cost cut since 1917
Washington reports from June 6 that electricity is the sole major daily expense showing a price decrease to consumers since 1917. Bureau of Labor Statistics data from 32 cities support the claim, highlighting electricity as the only large item reduced.
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Washington
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Leslie Carries Rifle Ball In His Head Since Childhood
Santa Barbara California June 6 Leslie McCaleb 28 is in a local hospital for an operation to remove a rifle ball said to have been in his head for eighteen years. At age ten he fell from a wagon and cut his forehead. Doctors found no wound but the boy claimed a shooting. X ray revealed a small caliber bullet buried in his skull.
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Associated Press
Santa Barbara
Leslie McCaleb
McCaleb
New Knights Kamelia to Start as Women’s Klansmen Order
Atlanta reports Emperor William J. Simmons announces the Knights Kamelia as a second or primary order of the Ku Klux Klan with plans for two more advanced orders. He says Knights Kamelia will provide probationary Klansmen a cost free path to progress within the organization.
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Associated Proag
Atlanta
William J. Simmons
Ku Klux Klan
Knights of the Golden Forest
Knights
The
Citizens Order
Associated Press
Knights of the
William Joseph Simmons
Knights Kamelia
Emperor Simmons
Imperial Kloncilium
Washington
Knights of the Ku Klux Klan
Kamelia
Simmons
Parker to Speak at Roosevelt Tomb on Flag Day
Governor John M. Parker will address the Tomb of Theodore Roosevelt on Flag Day in New York after traveling from Baton Rouge. Roosevelt befriended Parker and joined him on hunting trips in Southern Louisiana. Parker, a 1916 Progressive vice presidential nominee, plans talks in Atlanta on June 12 and Greenfield, Massachusetts on June 17 honoring Elks fallen in the World War.
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Associated Presse
Baton Rouge
John M. Parker
Long Island
N. Y
Theodore Roosevelt Roosevelt
Parker
Louisiana
Progressive
Roosevelt
Atlanta
National Credit Men's Association
Greenfield
Mass
The
Elks
Belgium Futures Plan on 7 Billion Gold Mark Reparations
Belgium presents an elaborate reparations plan totaling 7,000,000,000 gold marks to France and Britain, with 4.5 billion for the reparation account and 2.5 billion for redeeming German paper marks. Paris signals in principle acceptance but seeks time for assessment while Germany’s offer faces rejection.
Counterfeiters in New York Arrested by U S Operatives
Thirteen men were arrested in New York in two raids by United States Secret Service operatives. Authorities seized millions of bogus government revenue stamps whiskey and champagne labels and the printing plates used to print them. Chief Operative Joseph A Palma led the raids.
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Associated Press
New York
United States Secret Service
Secret Service
Joseph A. Palma
Government's Best Raid Nets Key Smuggling Ring
Washington June 6. Secret Service Chief Moren announced the arrest of thirteen men in New York and the seizure of counterfeit revenue stamps medical liquor prescriptions and withdrawal permits. The raids linked to groups producing fake liquor and using prescriptions to drain bonded warehouse supplies.
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Associated Press
Washington
New York
Cheif Moren
Secret Service
Minimum wage rates set for Louisiana and Arkansas railway workers
The United States railroad labor board reviewed June 1 minimum rates for 340 workers in the Louisiana and Arkansas railway maintenance department. New scales include bridge and building foremen 155 a month, foremen 104.08 a month, several hourly rates, plus a 20 minute lunch period with pay for Baltimore and Ohio shop workers on second shift and for multi shift jobs.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Louisiana and Arkansas Railway
United States Railroad Labor Board
C. G. Sunday
Jonesville
Labor Board
Baltimore and Ohio Road
Ruhr talks shape Franco Belgian crisis after Ruhr entry
Brussels reports emphasize the June 6 discussions among Premier Poincare Chaste de Lasteyrie and Belgium’s Jaspar with Theunis and authorities as the pivotal Paris and Antwerp dialogue since the Ruhr invasion. Belgium seeks a solution even if it diverges from Poincare policy while Britain’s Baldwin is seen as the hopeful broker to resolve reparations deadlock.
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France
Assoiated
Brussels
Poincare
M. Poincare
Theunis
Jaspar
Belgium
Associated Press
Paris
Germany
Premier Poincare
Premier Theunis
Chas
de Lasteyrie
Ruhr
Baldwin
Great Britain
Flying Flivver Accident Near Clarksboro NJ
Georges Barbot from Garden City New Jersey piloting a flying flivver en route to Washington crashed near Clarksboro New Jersey after striking a tree while descending from about 500 feet. He was uninjured and inspected the wreckage with observers noting head winds slowed his speed.
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Vrese Paulsboro
N. J
Georges Barbot
Garden City
L. 1
Washington
Clarksboro
Dia
Barbet
Barbot
Dainty female bandit sought in Chicago murder
Police hunt a young woman described as a dainty debutante who shot and killed Richard Tesmer after forcing him and his wife from their car on Chicago's north side. A male accomplice aided the raid, then the pair fled in Tesmer's auto. Eugene Schlig was arrested on suspicion, with police seeking the other bandits.
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Associated Preag
Chicago
Richard Co. Tesmer
Tesmer
North Side
China
Eugene Schlig
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