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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1924
Page
2
Springfield Mass vote 802 to 18 approves unification of church branches. Highlights include 1924 Hawaii sugar estimate 622380 tons revised upward, and three more items on tuberculosis funding, peace league leadership, colonist shipment to Bolivia, and bank closures linked to frozen assets.
Maryland backs Coolidge 12 to 1 over an uninstructed delegation. California voters favor Coolidge and McAdoo in party primaries. Indiana delivers a large Coolidge win in the Republican primary. St Paul reelects Mayor Nelson over labor-backed Siegel. McAdoo gains Oklahoma Democratic support. Texas returns hint at McAdoo majority. Day announces smoking restrictions for the Democratic convention in Madison Square Garden.
A Washington dispatch reports the proposed international first aid and mine rescue meeting planned for West Virginia in September has been canceled due to depression in the coal industry. An education week will be held November 17 to 23, with the Interior Bureau of Education coordinating from Washington.
Edward Leach fifty eight former grand exalted ruler of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks dies in New York. Mary Bolling Lee widow of Gen. W H F Lee and daughter of Gen Robert E Lee dies in Richmond Virginia. Mrs Hubert Bland poet and novelist dies in London writing as L Nesbit.
Protests in Tokyo over China's exclusion reach Foreign Minister Matsui. London flags a 12 mile search limit in an Anglo American pact. Paris cites delaying German economic unity until reparations plan starts. Moscow notes Red troop mobilizations on the Dniester and Balkans builds. Greece readies to aid Romania against Bulgaria. Eilenbercten Germany reduced to rubble by cyclone. Berlin reports anti Jewish riots at Dransfeld with cemetery damage. Ruhr idle half a million workers amid a miner strike. Havana says Santa Clara and Oriente provinces see revolutionary spread. Nicaraguan plots foiled in San Salvador to capture barracks and kidnap President Martinez. Seville notes war minister readying planes for Morocco. Stockholm hosts Swedish Ford company with 1 million kroner capital. Jerusalem dispatches report French air raids destroying sixty Syrian villages. Leningrad court cases luridly pursue 42 officials for immunity grants.
A string of Ohio items reports Leonard Wright near South Charleston killing a bald eagle after it killed three lambs. A Greendale oil gush near Logan. a Perry county fire destroys a farm home in Junction City with $5,000 loss. Marion man Ferdinand Gorensio killed by switch engine. Robberies in Cleveland and Cincinnati. bandits return a note with cash. A young man found dead with a butcher knife nearby in Youngstown. Two teens confess to multiple robberies and kidnappings in Cleveland. Multiple accidents, drownings, and fires across the state. Governor Donahey commutes a chicken-theft sentence. music week proclaimed. Postmasters named. gas well hits near Pomeroy. Prison, court, and local election notes follow.
In Halle Saxony German Fascists led by Ludendorff and ranks of veterans 70 000 strong overran the city crushing Communist resistance. Militia and armored cars stormed a brewery capturing 500 prisoners and killing several Communists while 20 to 35 were dead 50 wounded and 10 missing on the Communist side.
Anthony Freese and Albert Janis, residents of Allison near Brownsville, were wounded when two masked robbers held up a card game at a boarding house. Both victims were taken to Brownsville General Hospital in critical condition. Freese was struck in the right lung while Janis suffered six bullet wounds as the two robbers opened fire when the men tried to reach for their revolvers.
Albert D. Alcorn of Cincinnati national commander of the Spanish American War Veterans says Senate support for the Bursum pension bill is strong enough to overcome the President's veto and make it law.
Four persons died when a Chicago and Northwestern train struck an auto at Keating Avenue on the northwestern outskirts of Chicago. The mangled bodies defied immediate identification.
The Norwegian transport Neko loaded with oil from South Georgia for Scotland sank 200 miles from Cape Saint Thomas on the Bravillian coast. The Sevilla rescued the crew aboard.
In a rapid daytime scene, bandits stole a taxicab, smashed into a shoe store, and escaped with a safe containing $174 after the copper on the beat grabbed a midnight coffee and was away about ten minutes.
Havana officials describe the insurrectionary movement in Santa Clara as ended, signaling a closure to the revolt in the province involving local authorities and government forces.
The Washington amalgamation of the American Automobile Association and the National Motorists Association has been ratified at AAA headquarters. Final action came at a New York meeting where the proposed merger was approved after a Wellington session weeks earlier, uniting branches and ending rival organization activity in cities.
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