Werden Trial Opens In Verden For Bohlen Case
War time court martial in Verden near Essen presided by Colonel Peyronel heard the case against Aripp Von Bohlen and four Krepp works directors charged with involvement in the March attack on French troops. Heavy guard and identification controls surrounded the town as armored cars watched approaches. Proceedings focused on why orders to stop the siren were not issued.
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Prussia
Ruhr
Krupp
Werden
Av Aripp von Bohlen
Wat Kripp Works
Tith
Kseen
Yorge
Cyronel
Essen
Paris
London
United States
Holland
Denmark
Sweden
Switzerland
Berlin
Ane
Verden
Rhineland
Colonel Peyronel
Pope blames estranged husband for Hansell killings
Jack Pope and Red Harvey confessed to involvement in the murders of Thomas Hansell his wife their daughter and two grandchildren near Howarth Oklahoma on April 26. They accuse John Pope Mrs Pope’s estranged husband of driving the crime to grab property. authorities keep details secret to prevent mob action.
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Associated Press
Idabel
Okla
Jack Pope
Red” Harvey
Thomas Hansell
Lydia Pope
Hansell
Howarth
John Pope
Tom Hansell
Harvey
Pope
Hansells
Army aviator plans daylight flight New York to San Francisco
Lieutenant L. R. Maughan of the army air service likely will start a daylight to dark flight from New York to San Francisco on June 21 the longest day of the year. The date was tentatively chosen today due to the extra daylight.
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Associated Preey Washington
L. R. Maughan
Army Air Service
New York
San Francisco
New Haven Railroad seeks $2.6 million bonds for electric locomotives
In Washington on May 4 the New Haven Railroad asked the Interstate Commerce Commission to issue 2.6 million dollars in bonds to partly finance twelve electric locomotives.
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Washington
New Haven Railroad
Inter- State Commerce Commission
Geraldine Farrars Divorce Suit To Be Retried Before Jury
The appellate division of the supreme court ordered a retrial of Geraldine Farrars divorce suit against actor Lou Tellegen before a jury. The ruling allows Miss Stella Larrimore, named as a correspondent by the diva, to have a chance to elect her name in public.
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Associated Press
New York
Gerladine Farrar
Lou Tellegen
Supreme Court
President May Return Via Porto Rico On Navy Vessel
President Harding weighs plans for a western trip including Denby suggestion to sail from Alaska to the Panama Canal and Porto Rico aboard a U S man of war. The proposal, if adopted, would alter the route and mode of travel for the president.
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Porto Rico
U. S
Associated Press
Washington
Harding
Denby
Alaska
Panama Canal
Kidnapped boy returned home after nationwide search
Verner Alexanderson, found after a three day search in a shack on the Indian river near Theresa, heads home with his father and mother at Sheriff Gillett's house. A dog given by kidnappers accompanies him. suspects Harry Fairbanks and Stanley Crandall fled to Canada. Authorities question Mrs. Greene of Alexandria Bay about involvement.
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Associated Pree
Harry Fairbanks
Ogdenshure
Stanley Crandall
Rochester
Canada
Rockwort
St. Lawrence River
Alexandria Bay
H. D. Gréenne
Fairbanks
KE. Flw. Alexanderson
Dr. Alexanderson
Demand Three Percent Tax Proposal Sparks Oil Tax Telegrams
Fort Worth Texas May 4 telegrams to the Texas house of representatives demanded a three percent tax on crude oil. The state headquarters announced the plan and said a meeting in Austin May 16 would discuss establishing a cotton and cotton seed selling agency.
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Associated Press
Fort Worth
Tex
Texas House of Representatives
Austin
Hall Elected Labor Head at Virginia Convention
John Hopkins Hall Jr was unanimously elected president of Virginia's labor department at the tenth annual conference closing in Richmond. Chicago was chosen as the next meeting site for the Association of Governmental Labor Officials of the United States and Canada.
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Associated Press
Richmond
John Hopkins Hall, Jr
Virginia
Chicago
Association of Governental Labor Officials
United States
Canada
Seismograph in Ohio Records Distant Earthquakes
Cleveland physicians note a seismograph at St Ignatius College recorded shocks at 11:12 and 11:47 am. Father Odenback said the quake likely originated 4,000 to 5,000 miles away and could not determine direction.
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Ohio
Cleveland
St. Ignatius College
Frederick L. Odenback
Avalanche of Selling Pushes Stocks to Year Lows in New York
New York May 4 Another avalanche of selling orders from professional speculators sent more than twenty leading rails and twenty leading industrial stocks to new low prices for the year. Small investors faced steep losses as margins forced liquidations, with many prominent issues like Republic Steel United States Steel Bethlehem Steel Baldwin Locomotive and others hitting their yearly lows.
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Associated Press
New York
Stewart Warner
Republic
United States
Bethlehem Steels
Baldwin Locomotive
American Car
American Sugar
American Ice
American Zinc
Texas Company
Lon- American Petroleum “B
Houston Oi
Colden Ou
General Asphalt Common
Preferred
United States Alcohol
New York Central
Atlantic Coast Line
State not likely to prosecute girl in dead baby case
Louisiana probably will not press murder charges against Josie Fultz a Scott parish teacher who mailed her dead infant to a fictitious recipient in Duncan Oklahoma. District Attorney Percy T Ogden said the state cannot prove the case given the difficulty of disproving the girl's assertion that the infant was dead at birth. A federal charge of misuse of the mails is filed and the woman is free on bail.
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Associated Wreig
Rum Pirates Return To Fray After Fight Off Jersey Coast
New York on May 4 reports the rum fleet that fled yesterday amid a three sided government assault has returned and forms an extended line off the Jersey coast. Captain Berry of the coast guard says the yacht Istar and the British tanker Warszawa remain off Jones Inlet with several schooners scattered twelve miles apart.
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Coast OF Jersey
Associated Press
New York
Berry
Coast Guard Service
Istar
Warszawa
Jones Inlet
Poincare May Lodge Protests In Liquor Case
Paris reports the French foreign office prepared a note for Washington reflecting steamship operators opposition to the ban on transporting liquor within U S territorial waters. Washington moves cautiously to apply the Supreme Court liquor edict to foreign vessels, with the state department preparing for a diplomatic clash over regulatory rights.
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Paris
Washington
United States
Associated Press
Supreme Court
Blair
Harding
State Department
Department
Poincare
Italy
German reparations proposals may spark negotiations
London reports liberal papers see German notes as opening a path to talks despite French rejection. The Daily News questions Poincaré’s stance but sees the German terms as a starting point. The Westminster Gazette notes a possible door to negotiation while Berlin dispatches foresee a swift fall of the Cuno government and a socialist cabinet rising to challenge industry power.
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Associated Press
London
France
Germany
Daily News
Poincare
Westminster Gazette
Berlin
Cuno
Cloudbursts Collapse Roads in North Mississippi Rail Lines
Memphis report says cloud bursts last night caused washouts that damaged large sections of Mobile and Ohio and Southern Railway tracks near Corinth Mississippi. Trains were halted for several hours on both lines as crews assessed the washouts and delays mounted.
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Associated Press
Memphis
Tenn
Mobile and
Ohio
Southern Railway
Corinth
Miss
Standard Oil Surprise in Probe Before Public Service Commission
New Orleans May 4 investigation into Standard Pipe Line by the Public Service Commission at City Hall was brief. Thomas M Milling attorney for Standard Oil admitted the company is a common carrier and asked the state board’s jurisdiction be recognized while offering written evidence that tariffs on the lines are fair and just. Huey Long said the commission would study the evidence and render a decision later.
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Associated Proag
New Orleans
Public Service Commission
Standard
City Hall
Thomas M. Milling
Standard Oil
Huey Long
State Board
Ward Eight liquor maker arrested by parish officers
Tom Edwards a reputed bootlegger in ward 8 was captured by Deputy Sheriffs D L Roper and Tom Hicks after a chase through swamps. He denied possessing whiskey but was overpowered as he reached for a gun and later charged with liquor possession and sale plus related neglect accusations.
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Tom Edwards
Ward 8
D. L. Roper
Tom Hicks
Edwards
Roper
Mr. Roper
Hicks
Liberty
Dixie Highway to Be Built Asserted by Ch man Peterman
John M. Breard Jr of Ouachita police jury announced a Richland parish board setback over the Lafourche swamp link of the Dixie Overland highway. Chairman Peterman of the Louisiana Highway Commission telegrammed Baton Rouge saying the commission will not allow local issues to block the project and will press for early construction.
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John M. Breard, Jr
Ouachita
North
Louisiana
Peterman
Louisiana Highway Commission
Baton Rouge
Highway Commission
Breard
Louisiana State Highway Commission
Richland Parish
Lafourche
Rienland Parish
Lafourche Swamp
North Louisiana
Esa
Telegraphers Wage and Rule Dispute Amicably Adjusted
The wage and rule dispute between the Order of Railroad Telegraphers and Illinois Central Railroad has been settled with a one year contract signed at union offices in St Louis. The issue traced to a December decision by the railroad labor board that cut wages for certain telegraphers. Terms remain undisclosed.
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Assocated Press
St. Louis
Ilinois Central
United States Railroad Labor Board
Shipping Situation of World Highlighted at Trade Council
New Orleans May 4 The tenth annual National Foreign Trade Council session closed with talks by James A Farrell U S Steel president on the world shipping situation and C H Markham Illinois Central on railway service for foreign trade Other speakers included W P Simpson and regional delegates who addressed Far East trade financing export advertising and group sessions Delegates to dedicate the industrial canal and inner harbor the following day
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New Orleans
James A. Farrell
United States Steel Corporation
C. H. Markham
Ilinois Gentral Railroad
National Foreign Trade Council
W. P. Simpson
New Orleans Association of Commerce
Edwin J. Dingle
San Francisco
John P. Hausman
Seattle
S. S. Sandberg
Los Angles
L. E. Williams
Portland
Ore
Far East
Robert H. Bean
New York
Eugene M. Stevens
Chicago
G. Greenville Hunter
UNCLE SAM AND JOHN BULL MAY WAR
A Sulgrave Institution report released in New York on May 4 warns of deteriorating relations between the United States and Great Britain. It cites waning war passions, allied agitators, renewed commercial rivalry, biased American news, and British views of American films as factors straining ties.
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New York
Great Britain
Sulgrave Institution
United States
George Washington
Airship pioneers fly coast to coast nonstop in record time
In a historic test at Rockwell Field San Diego Lt Oakley G Kelly and Lt John A MacReady flew a single aircraft from Hempstead New York to San Diego covering 2625 miles in 26 hours 50 minutes 48 25 seconds setting a new sustained flight record and planning further attempts to fly around the world. The feat followed earlier trials halted by fog and engine failure but established a dominant pace in American aviation.
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Associated Press
San Diego
Cal
Kitty Hawk Field
Orville Wright
America
Rockwell Field
Hempstead
N. Y
New York
Oakley G. Kelly
John A. MacReady
American
Here
Indianapolis
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