Ruhr peace talk gains cautious support amid strain
British correspondents report a drift toward peace in the Ruhr as workers and industry grow tired of fighting. French setbacks worsen coal shortages and French rail rights. France and Britain circle for new terms while Holland Denmark Sweden seek moves to restore international trade. Washington signals interest but no formal complaints issued.
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Explosion Destroys Oklahoma Home Killing Two
A mysterious blast at a Fairfax house killed two women and badly burned a man named Bill Smith who survived. Nellie Brookshire and Smith's wife died. the blast spread debris over two blocks. Authorities probe incendiary links to a sister-in-law's murder a year prior.
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Woman on trial for manslaughter after killing Paul LeBlanc
Mrs. Alva Lazree testified about the night she shot LeBlanc asserting she endured ongoing abuse and took deliberate aim at his heart. Police described her claim that LeBlanc attacked her. testimony noted she faced illness but remained in court. This is her second trial after an earlier conviction was nullified by indictment error.
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Durr
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World War Loans Blythefield British Aid Questioned
William G Goodoo secretary of the treasury says no suggestion that Great Britain should assume responsibility for U S allied government loans. Lord Balfour not involved and no plan approved by him or the U S government.
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Los Angeles
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Treasury
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Great Britain
Big Pack ers finish program to merge two organizations
Chicago March 10 Proposing to move to a complaint of illegal combination filed by Secretary of Agriculture Wallace Armour and Company Morris and Company two leading meat packing concerns have virtually consummated the merger that awaits a formal statement to be issued Tuesday or Wednesday Adjusters James B Forgan and Albert H Wigwin settled stock valuations after a Florida conference with Nelson Morris and other officials The merger would create a combined capital above 500 million dollars Armour J Ogden Armour chaired talks with government officials and bankers Attorney General Daugherty ruled against the merger but the plan proceeded and a hearing was set Murphy or Wallace filed the complaint while the packers deny the charges and intend to prove their case at the hearing
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New York
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Ocean Park
Fla
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Armours
Concern
J. Ogden Armour
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President Harding Plays Golf Ahead of Palm Beach Cruise
President Harding and his party planned a round of golf in Stuart Florida under favorable skies before resuming their houseboat cruise on the Pioneer to Palm Beach. Yesterday he played near Vero in the Indian River then to Rio Mar Golf Course and Fort Pierce before joining the boat. The Palm Beach stop was moved up slightly in the vacation schedule.
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Fever Girl in Escanaba Reaches Twenty-First Day of Illness
Evelyn Lyons known as the fever girl continues to read hundreds of inquiries from medical men nationwide. Her temperature remains 114 degrees or higher and pulse at 120 while she maintains rationality and appetite. Chicago doctors were en route to observe the case as of early morning, per Dr. Harry Dennet.
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Mich
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Chicago
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Morehouse Parish Grand Jury Nears Hooded Activity Close
The Morehouse parish grand jury adjourned to Monday morning for a longer home stay as the hooded activity inquiry likely ends early next week. Most key witnesses from January have been questioned, with only a few more expected before Tuesday night.
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Monroe
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New Orleans
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Daniel
Richards
Boy uses ether can on subway causing near panic
Richard Chanorro, a South American youth, carried a quarter pound ether can on a Seventh Avenue subway car claiming he did it to fight a cold. Ether fumes sickened about sixty passengers and caused a chaotic scene before officers restrained him and recovered the can.
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Chanorro
Palmer Trust Corporation Purchases Site Near Swartz
The Palmer Trust Corporation of Chicago bought a forty acre site on the Missouri Pacific railroad about a mile and a half south of Swartz in section 82 east 1956 from George Trove dale for 5000 dollars. Officials say two carbon plants are contemplated and a carbon plant may be constructed on the site.
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George Trovedale
Palmer Corporation
Chicago
Four Unidentified Men Found Dead on Wakulla Beaches
Bodies of four unidentified men washed ashore on Wakulla County beaches over the past two days. Deputy Morrison reports indications of wholesale foul play in the alien smuggling trade.
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Clearing House Reserve Surplus Climbs to 17 Million
The New York clearing house report shows banks and trust companies with an excess reserve of 17 246 030 dollars for the week, an increase of 18 131 000 dollars.
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New York
Tennessee pushes single ground for divorce bill
Tennessee moves to restrict divorce grounds to unfaithfulness. Shelby county representative Marion Griffin backed the measure in the lower house yesterday, aiming to make infidelity the sole legal cause.
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Associated Press
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Tennessee
General Assembly
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Shelby County
Bride of Vanderbilt Ill With Diphtheria at Sandy Point Farm
Mrs Reginald Vanderbilt formerly Gloria Morgan, eighteen, newly married four days, is hospitalized with diphtheria at the Sandy Point farm estate of her husband in Portsmouth. Her illness began after arriving Wednesday night. her father is Harry Hays Morgan, American consul-general in Brussels.
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Reginald ©. Vanderbuilt
Sandy Point
Vanderbilt
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Harry Hays Morgan
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White Sulphur Springs Chosen for Southern Publishers Meet
Chattanooga Tenn March 10 W C Johnson secretary of the Southern Newspaper Publishers Association announced the board selected White Sulphur Springs West Virginia as the site for the twenty first convention and set the dates July 9 10 and 11 for the meeting.
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Southern Newspaper Publishers’ Association
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W. Va
Franklinton Jury Probes Sheriff Deaths and Moonshine Case
The Washington grand jury in Franklinton La. continued sessions investigating the deaths of deputies Robert Wesley Crain and Wiley Pierce at a swamp moonshine still eight miles east of town. Indictments expected include five men jailed as suspects. Yesterday’s indictments named John Murphy Gideon Rester for murder and Mack Little Jap Little Frank Carter as accessories for aiding concealment.
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Gideon Rester
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