Alexander Very Ill as Son Returns Profits From Equitable Deal
James W. Alexander lay ill at his daughter's home as his son Henry M. Alexander repaid the Equitable Life Assurance Society for the son’s share of syndicate profits from underwritings the society purchased. The restitution signals intensified state pressure on officials tied to the Equitable affair and hints at further recoveries. Attorney General Mayer and aides explore possible actions against directors and officers.
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Equitable
Frick
Hendricks
State Insurance Department
Alexander
East Sixty-fifth Street
Onteora Parl
Adirondacks
Merton
Equitable Board
Henry M. Alexander
Morton
Murray
The
Mayer
Julius M. Mayer
State Superintendent of Insurance
Alexander & Colby
Fiquitable
Broadway
Julius Mayer
Wiliam Street
New York
Paul Morton
Equitable. Life Assurance Society
Jones
W. ‘Alexander
H. M. Alexander
Equitable . Life Assurance Society
Equitable Life Assurance Society
James W. Alexander
Hendricks Mde
Metropolitan Street Railway
Inladelinia
Baltimore and Washingand
Railroad
Pittsburg
Cleveland, Chicago ,and
St. Louis
Norfolk and Western
Port IE
Ae EO So Oy
Imperial Japanese
Oahare Ee
Atchison, Topeka
Santa Fe
Ces
Sinica
Oregon Short Line
Sheriff Defies Folk Over Detmar Track Raid Standoff
Special to The New York Times reports Sheriff Herpel of St Louis County defied Gov Folk by resisting militia deployment for raids at Del mar Race Track. He warned troops would be shot if sent, while three bookmakers and deputies were briefly detained then bonded. Gov Folk pledged action against the sheriff and county prosecutor for oath violations.
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New York Times
ST. Louis
Folk
Delmar
Herpert
Charles Noel
William Flynn
Herper
Gardner
St. Louis County
Herpel
National Guard
Jefferson City
Detmar
Johnston
Pigeons Begin 1500 Mile Relay From St Louis
Six homing pigeons released at 8 am carry messages to Boston via relays from Louisville Cincinnati Pittsburgh New York and Pawtucket seventy-five hours air distance about 1500 miles. Messages carry greetings from St Louis to Boston mayor and showcase long flight prospects.
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New York Times
ST. Louis
Louisville
Boston
Mass
Cincinnati
Pittsburg
Penn
Washington
New York
Pawtucket
City of
Burglars in Evening Dress Rob HarMarville Homes
In HarMarville a pair of burglars dressed in evening clothes and driving a red car visited three homes last night. They seized over $400 in cash and valuables, first waking Amos Coss and taking two gold watches and silver, then Edward Brooks for $50 cash and silver, and finally robbing an Italian workers camp of more than $150 at gunpoint.
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New York Times
Pittsburg
Harmarville
Amos Coss
Edward Brooks
Italijan
Harvard funds pour in endowment drive reaches limit
Cambridge Mass June 24 Bishop Lawrence's Alumni Committee seeks a 2500000 endowment for Harvard. Subscriptions before next week's alumni meeting will reveal if the full sum is pledged or within fifty thousand dollars. More than two million already pledged.
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New York Times
Cambridge
Mass
Bishop Lawrence
Harvard
Lawrence
Intercollegiate Regatta on Poughkeepsie Highland Course
Observation train tickets go on sale at West Shore State office in New York City. The event will be held on Wednesday June 28 on the Poughkeepsie Highland course.
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West Shore
East 42d Street
New York
German Concession to France Reported
Berlin reports a plan to handle the Morocco issue by negotiating each point separately with France. Germany would drop the Morocco conference demand if Paris agrees, while Paris weighs a possible conference if Germany explains its aims. France warns of war fever as publics and armies await responses.
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France
Germany
Morocco
Paris
Rouvier
la Liberté
Prince von Biselow
Trustees urge Carter to stay as Hawaii governor
In Honolulu on June 24 the Trustees of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association formed a committee to interview Governor Carter. The panel will seek to assure him of continued support and ask him to reconsider his resignation.
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Honolulu
The
Hawaiian Sugar Planters’ Association
Carter
Rockefeller's Joke Delights Euclid Avenue Baptists
John D. Rockefeller attended a prayer meeting at Euclid Avenue Baptist Church in Cleveland on a Friday night. He jokes about talking too long and not being selfish, drawing a broad grin and warm applause from the congregation.
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New York Times
Cleveland
Ohio
John D. Rockefeller
Euclid Avenue Baptist Church
Baptists
Americans Rob Americans in London Invasion
London officials report a surge of American visitors last week with crowded hotels and growing numbers of suspects. Scotland Yard notes rising confidence men and card sharpers preying on Americans, who increasingly fall victim. Ascot week also brings multiple police reports as cases rise.
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London
Atlantic
Secret Service
Scotland Yard
England
Ascot
Evidence favors Mitchell in federal ethics trial
Cross examination of ex Judge A H Tanner, the key government witness in the trial of United States Senator John H Mitchell for practicing before federal departments, yielded testimony favorable to Mitchell. Tanner testified Mitchell warned him not to involve the Senator in department matters and not to take payment for services.
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Portland
Ore
A. H. Tanner
United States
John H. Mitchell
Mitchell
Tanner
Washington
Frederick Kribs
Kribs
Mitchell & Tanner
Kirbs
Lirtles
General Office
Disston Weds Eliza Maxwell in Philadelphia
Miss Elizabeth May Maxwell and Samuel Horace Disston were married at noon in the Bethlehem Presbyterian Church parsonage attended by the bride’s family. Disston’s mother, Mrs. Henry C. Disston, attended. plans to wed at Bellevue-Stratford were altered. The bride, daughter of John Maxwell, taught at Mifflin Public School before resigning three years ago. The engagement had been kept secret for about two years.
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New York Times
Philadelphia
Elizabeth May
Maxwell
Samuel Horace Disston
Bethlehem Presbyterian Church
Disston
Bellevue-Stratford
Henry C. Disston
John Maxwell
North Broad Street
Greenfield Selectman Martin Sauter Dead by Gunshot
Greenfield Mass June 24 Martin Sauter a Selectman of Greenfield shot himself at South Deerfield early today A notebook on his person said he had been speculating and ruined and that illness and fear of insanity led him to seek an insane hospital Superintendent visit failed Family says his speculation claim may reflect a disordered imagination He was forty five and unmarried
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Berlin
Foreign Office
Morocco
William
Prince von Bislow
von Bislow
von Biilow
Greenfield
Mass
Martin Sauter
South Deerfield
Sauter
Northampton
Texas and Pacific Resists Texas Franchise Tax
The Texas and Pacific Railroad Company notified the Attorney General it will resist in court the new state law taxing railroad franchise based on capital stock. The company argues the law conflicts with its Federal charter. It has $38 million capital stock tied to its Louisiana and Texas lines and would owe tax if upheld.
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New York Times
Austin
Texas
Texas and Pacific Railroad Company
Texas and Pacific
Louisiana and
Rockefeller Church May Sell Its Property
Prominent Baptists in New York oppose dissolving the Fifth Avenue Baptist Church known as Rockefellers Church and consolidating with Epiphany Church at Madison Avenue and Sixty-fourth Street. A plan to sell Forty-sixth Street property worth 350000 to 400000 would fund west side missions and contribute to Epiphany, amid objections over erasing the Rockefeller church name and access issues.
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Fifth Avenue
Fifth Avenue Church
Rockefeller
Europe
Forty-sixth Street
West Side
Armitage Chapel
W. S. Richardson
Fifth Avenue Baptist Church
Tenth Avenue
Mr. Rockefeller
Mendelssohn Hall
German Feminists Split Over Matrimony Debate
Berlin June 24. A rift in Germanys feminist leaders widens as Anita Augspurg and Minna Cauer oppose marriage calling it slavery and degrading to women. Excitement rises as a proposal to expel the two figures from the women’s rights society circulates.
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NEW York Times
Berlin
Germany
Fraiulein Anita Augspurg
Frau Minna Cauer
Fraiulein Augspurg
Frau Cauer
President Stops Contract For 72 Lanston Typesetters
President Roosevelt ordered a halt on the 72 Lanston typesetting machines contract for the Government Printing Office to allow a review of the Lanston versus Mergenthaler merits. Philip P. Dodge of Mergenthaler urged the pause claiming irregular award. Officials note legal requisition timing concerns and cost comparisons between the machines.
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New York Times
Washington
Roosevelt
Lanston
Government Printing Office
Mergenthaler
Palmer
Philip P. Dodge
Mergenthaler Company
White House
Divorces Question Public Policy After Judge Johnson Ruling
Denver observers worry more than 100 divorce decrees issued by Judge Henry V. Johnson may be void under the Supreme Court ruling that he and other county officers lacked authority. Some divorced parties have remarried and children have been born since the decrees.
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New York Times
Denver
Henry V. Johnson
Supreme Court
Johnson
Bulldog Kills Tiny Girl in Chicago Death
Yvonne Davis aged eighteen months was killed by a bulldog owned by her father in Chicago. The child picked up a ball near the dog and was bitten when it lunged. A neighbor beat the dog with an iron bar and fired eight bullets. after the dog died the jaws were pried apart to free the girl. She died within ten minutes.
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Chicago
Yvonne Davis
Paul Koriwortz
Cornell Canoeist Drowns on Mohawk River
Amsterdam N Y June 24 Jay Halsey Decatur of Peekskill a Cornell student in a party of canoeists was drowned this morning at Sprakers while navigating a river rift. A canoe containing three youths filled with water and all jumped out two reached shore but Decatur was lost.
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Amsterdam
N. Y
Jay Halsey Decatur
Peekskill
Cornell
Mohawk
Sprakers
Decatur
American Smelting and Refining Pays $200000 Bonus
The firm distributes an annual bonus based on surplus earnings. This year about 15 percent of earnings over 7.5 million dollars amounts to roughly 200000 dollars. The company likely earned about 8.8 million in total and about 1.3 million above the threshold.
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American Smelting and Refining Company
Motor Boat Ablaze Off Rockaway Bay
A gasoline tank on the motor boat Harry Lee caught fire yesterday in Jamaica Bay opposite Eastern Avenue Rockaway Beach. Owners Agger Lehman and Edward Mott of Bayswater sustained burns to hands and face. A responding boat aided them while Dr Daly treated injuries. Damages to the vessel are about 1000 dollars.
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Harry Lee
Jamaica Bay
Eastern Avenue
Rockaway Beach
Agger Lehman
Bayswater
Edward Mott
Far Rockaway
Mott
Lehman
Dr. Daly
Helmer Sanitarium
Rock Island Limited Wreck Near Iowa City Claims Engineer
Engineer Barnhart of Stuart Iowa was killed and pica Higgins badly injured when the Rock Island eastbound limited derailed near Iowa City. The engine and two cars left the track after following a freight too closely. the switchman lacked time to reset the switch after the freight moved to a siding. No passengers were hurt.
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Iowa City
Iowa
Barnhart
Stuart
Pica Higgins
Rock Island Eastbound Limited
Steamboat Sinks Launch In East River Collision
Three men in a launch were struck down in the East River near East 132nd Street around 9:30 pm. The Nantasket towed them ashore after rescuers found them afloat. names listed as Charles Swanson and John and Gustave Matinger. None were seriously harmed.
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East River
Pier 13
F. W. Carroll
Thirty-first Street
Charles Swanson
East
Tundred
Thirty-third Street
John Matinger
East One Hundred and Thirty-fourth Street
Gustave Matinger
H. Johnson
Launch cuts shell in two on Hudson River
Stephen Connelly and Tony Hoffman of the Hudson Boat Club were rowed in a double-oared shell when a steam launch collided, splitting the boat off One Hundred and Fifty-seventh Street. Rescued by Joseph Schultz and James Connelly, they were brought to the boathouse at One Hundred Twenty-seventh Street. shell towed away.
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Stephen Connelly
Tony Hoffman
Hudson Boat Club
Hudson
Joseph Schultz
Tiudson Boat Club
James Connelly
Connelly
Hoffman
Harvard Relic Recovered Louisburg Cross Restored at Harvard
Boston reports the Louisburg Cross, a famed Harvard relic seized by Massachusetts soldiers in 1745 during the French war, has been recovered and restored. Dean Hurlbut declines to discuss details. The article also notes unconfirmed talk of restoring Sever Hall pictures long stolen.
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New York Times
Boston
Harvard
Dean Hurlbut
Massachusetts
Louisburg
Med. Fac
Sever Hall
Pain's Fireworks for the Fourth at Park Place
Ady notes stickless rockets and novelties available at 12 Park Place in New York for Independence Day celebrations.
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Pain
Park Place
New York
Lodz Riots Reach New Height Amid Citywide Unrest
Troops drove back rioters in Lodz as shops closed and fighting persisted. Reinforcements from Warsaw arrived, casualties rose into the hundreds, and both sides suffered from vandalism, killings, and scenes likened to a war zone. Socialists and Jewish bands amplified agitation while civilians faced deadly clashes.
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Equitable Father's Syndicate
Equitable Life Assurance
Mr. Alexander
Raffles
Bunny
Kaiser
Frontier
Ger
Senator
Samuel H. Disston
Elizabeth M. Maxwell
Selectman
Rockefeller Church
Bulldog
Tiny Girl
American Smelting and Refining Co
Rock Island Limited
SMASH
Steamboat Sinks Launch
East One Hundred and Thirty-second Street
Health Department
Sea Cliff
Lodz
Ing
Warsaw
Ener
Baluty
Neumann
Social Democrats
Jewish Bund
St. Petersburg
Mors
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