France Uses Mailed Fist to Reparation Pressure
France and Belgium seize the Ruhr basin to extract payment from Germany. The region hosts immense iron ore and coal deposits with key plants and firms like Krupp in Essen and Stinnes enterprises near Duisburg. The Good Hope Properties near Duisburg employ about 60,000 workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Germany
Ruhr
Belgium
Hanin
Zseen
Krupp
Mulhelm
Stinnes
Rum Robbery and Legislation in Ohio Ledger
A fragment from an old Ohio news digest reports a burglary case at a Huron Street filling station involving John D. Loschesky, 17, with over $500 in checks missing. It also outlines proposed laws on rural police, bank supervision, primary election issue control, a 13th juror, raccoon hunting season dates, lake fisheries probes, and harsher penalties for poisonous liquor manufacturers and distributors.
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John D. Loschesky
Town Ring Road
Town
B. Richards
Park Avenue
Huron Street
Mr. Richards
Richards
Oschesky
Lora
Lancasterus Trial School
Grand Jury
Lancaster
International News Service
Columbus
Cope
Columbiana County
King
Star County
Burke
Lorain County
Morgan
Cuyahoga County
McClintock
Noble County
Atwood
Franklin County
House
Bender
Cuyahota
Hamlin named new clerk of Ty Council amid resignations
David Hamlin son of attorney D Hamlin was elected clerk of the city council last evening. Ex service man and war veteran Hamlin succeeds Dan B Symons who resigned with thanks for his service. Council members praised Hamlin while noting his military background and qualifications.
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David Hamlin
D. Hamlin
Lawte Fay
Hamlin
Chateauery
Ler
Symons
Dan B. Symons
JT. Rawson
Mr. Simons
Lorain man paroled to support wife and child
Ed McAndrews of Lorain was paroled by county commissioners on condition he gain employment and pay 25 dollars monthly until 200 dollars is paid. He previously assaulted Tom Artress, a stranger, in March, kicked him in the face, leaving him unconscious. Artress urged release to care for his wife and child despite a 200 dollar fine and ongoing jail time since April 1.
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McAndrews
Lorain
Tom Artress
Artress
TWO BUS OWNERS ASK FOR LICENSE CUT
Co. W. Higgins of the Eastern Heights bus line told the council last evening to reduce bus license fees. He estimated a yearly cost near $200 plus a $500 indemnity bond. Grover Tucker of the East avenue line said his receipts are lower. Both seek relief. the matter was referred to the ordinance committee for a report at the next meeting.
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Co. W. Higgins
Eastern Heights
Grover Tucker
East Avenue
Protest Trains Block Olive Street Crossing
Factory workers petitioned the council to stop long trains from blocking Olive Street. Councilman Mueller reported trains blocked streets for ten minutes to half an hour, hindering commutes and streetcar access. The clerk will write to the railroad, and affidavits would be drafted if signed.
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Olive Street
Mueller
West Avenue route sparks council stalemate over street railway franchise
Elyria city council debated the West avenue route for a street railway, with Councilman Carson threatening resignation and others backing West avenue. The body authorized talks with residents for consent while weighing Coen's plan to tear up tracks. A water filtration superintendent issue prompted a long session, with FP H Waring endorsing trained leadership and noting past water quality problems tied to the old plant.
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Carson
Coen
West Avenue
Rawson
Jones
Mayor and Street Railroad Committee
State Board of Health
State Board
FP. H. Waring
Elyria
Lorain Passes Bus Ordinance Over Mayor Veto
Lorain city council approved a new bus ordinance despite Mayor Grall’s veto restricting operation. It imposes a license fee of 150 to 200 dollars per bus annually and requires indemnity bonds from 25 000 to 40 000 dollars per bus. The measure is seen as prohibitory since few can meet the heavy bond and franchise terms.
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Lorain
Jan
Grall
Electric increase ordinance passes amid council debate
January 16 report notes prohibition era tensions and the three mile limit law. William Jennings Bryan defends enforcement and piracy analogy while local officials discuss a mayor veto on an electric light ordinance and franchise length. The council approves the measure with one dissent.
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Washington
William Jennings Bryan
Bryan
United States
Short change artist nets $10 from clerk
A man operated at Paul Poor’s store at the corner of Lodi Street and Floral Court yesterday afternoon. He requested a bill change and then requested a different denomination. After he left the store the young clerk discovered she had given him $10 too much.
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Paul Poor
Lodi Street
Floral Court
Lacy
Arkansas Troops Sought After Harrison Lynching
Citizens in Harrison Arkansas request Governor McRae send troops after the body of C. E. Gregor a striking railroad worker was found hanged from a trestle along the Missouri and North Arkansas line. State officials opened an investigation into the incident and related arson at railroad bridges.
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Little Rock
Ark
Harrison
aArk
C. E. Cregor
McRae
Missouri and North Arkansas
C. E. Gregor
Arkansas
Here
Gregor
French Demand Coal From Ruhr as Paris Seizes Dortmund
German coal magnates refuse to deliver coal and coke to the allies, defying French orders. Paris seizes Dortmund and declares a coal famine threatening Germany, with 50 000 troops encircling 300 square miles of newly occupied territory.
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Essen
Ruhr
de Goutte
Dortmund
Berlin
Paris
Germany
Bochum
Degoutte
Dusseldorf
France
Poland
Czecho-Slovakia
French occupy Dortmund as Ruhr seizure completes
Paris reports French troops move to secure the Ruhr with Bochum clashes leaving a German youth dead. Tensions rise in Bochum Essen Gelsenkirchen and Dortmund as French and Belgian forces prepare a new customs barrier. An autopsy shows the Bochum youth was shot by a pistol not a machine gun.
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Essen
Dortmund
Ruhr
Berlin
Bochum
Rhineland
Dariac
Bre
Dusseldorf
Gelzenkirchen
Dort- Mund
Ihem
Paris
Falk
Lithuanians Seize Memel in Baltic Crisis
Memel in the Baltic region reports Lithuanian regulars seizing the city after disarming German police and forcing French troops to surrender. Two French soldiers were killed in the fighting and workmen strike in protest. A separate incident near Bochum involved German police firing on French guards with one dead and three wounded.
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Riga
Van
Memel
Faris
Foreign Office
Bochum
Germany Declares Germany in Default on Reparations
Paris report says an inter allied reparations commission found Germany in voluntary default on coal and cattle deliveries. Chairman Louis Barthou moved that Germany be held in default for failure to deliver.
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Paris
Inter-Aided
Germany
Louis Barthou
France
Cattle Tuts and Versailles Vote Split
France Belgium and Italy voted in favor of the defaults on cattle measures at Versailles. Great Britain did not participate with Sir John Bradbury absent from the ballot.
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France
Belgium
Italy
Sir John Bradbury
Great Britain
French Officers Threaten Martial Law in Bochum
dispatch from Essen reports French officers vow to impose martial law in Bochum if attacks on French troops continue. Paris sources say Ruhr government weighs appealing to the League of Nations to declare the German Rhine region an autonomous buffer state including the Ruhr coal fields.
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Tron
Bochum
Essen
League of Nations
Rhineland
Ruhr
France
Germany
England May Protest Invasion
A garbled London despatch reports Britain weighing a formal protest to France over Rhine occupation. The text is incomplete but implies potential government action and a ruler’s stance.
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England
London
Great Bri
al ‘Tain
Advicgbilty
Tively
France
Rhine
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