German Government Threatened By Two Dangerous Foes
During a Public Service Commission hearing in the Y M C A auditorium citizens debated whether Hagerstown should build a municipal light plant under a 300000 bond or buy power from the American Water Works and Electrical Company. Ex Mayor Bloom urged municipal ownership while warning against reliance on the private utility. The session stressed nonpolitical aims, with Grubmyer testifying on the city plant's status.
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Public Service Commission
Hagerstown City
American Water Works
Elec- Bat Fnee
Zie Company
William Milnes Maloy
Ezra B. Whitman
J. Frank Harper
Hagerstown
American Water Works and Electrical Company
Maloy
Bloomn
Bloom
Man Maloy
Grubmyer
A. DB. Grubmyer
City Electric Light Plant
Turbulent Berlin Faces Dual Threats After War
Berlin governments confront a perilous moment as Bavaria defies Berlin and threatens Red Saxony, while the Rhine island movement surges. Cities including Munich Gladbach and Crefeld join the Rhenish republican drive amid renewed efforts to quell the Bavarian crisis.
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S. D. Weyer
Ny International Mews Service
Berlin
Bavaria
Red Saxony
Muenchen
Gladbach
Crefeld
Injunction Sought to Halt Oak Hill Building Plan
Keedy Lane and H P Martman lawyers sue Lee Oster and Hvar Ro Hunt to stop a proposed gasoline filling station within Oak Hill restrictions. Plaintiffs allege violations of the 50 foot curb line rule and ban on business use. Oster holds title. Hunt financing sale. work halted pending hearing.
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Keedy and Lane
H. P.martman
Daniel W. Sank
Lee Oster
Hvar Ro Hunt
Oak Hill
Hovey
Waganin
Oster
Hunt
TNS
Tramp nabbed near Shippensburg linked to murder case
Information from Shippensburg led authorities to arrest a tramp described as the man seen at the Baumgardner farm near Amsterdam Franklin County. A bloodstained derby hat and shoes found in a barn are cited as clues. State’s Attorney Wolfinger sent Deputy Albert Crampton to Shippensburg to bring the suspect here for further investigation.
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Shippensburg
Marshall Baumgardner
Amsterdam
Franklin County
Wolfinger
Albert Crampton
Baumgardner
Glen Furney
Washington County
Len
Living cost still leaps says Labor figures
US cost of living rose 20.5 percent from June 1920 to September 1923 and 3.5 percent in the past year, with a 1.4 percent rise since June this year. Increases from June to September 1923 ranged from 62 percent in Kansas City to 27 percent in Boston, per the Department of Labor.
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US International News Service
Washington
United States
Department of Labor
Kansas City
Boston
73 Year Old Millionaire Ends Divorce Case
William Earl Dodge Stokes a 73 year old millionaire today ended his divorce suit from Helen Elwood Stokes after 21 witnesses claimed she was seen with Edgar T Wallace. Samuel Untermyer cast doubt on a detective's seance claim and pressed for Stokes to testify but the judge denied the move.
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Ny International News Service
New York
William Earl Dodge Stokes
Helen Elwood Stokes
Edgar T. Wallace
Mrs. Stokes
Wallace
Jove
Fifth Avenue
Ine Corenponuco
Stokes
Mra. Stokes
Samuel Untermyer
Mra
Coal men deny 200 percent profit claim
Washington October 22. Charges by the U S Coal Commission that wholesalers gouged the public with profits from 1913 to 1923 were denounced as ridiculous by the American Wholesale Coal Association. The commission noted the wholesale group had advocated an unfair profit standard in its report.
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Washington
U. S. Coal Commission
Korn
American Wholesale Coal Association
Commmissar
Swearingen Named General Secretary of Presbyterian Board
Dr Henry C Swearingen of St Paul has been elected general secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Christian Education following the board reorganization and consolidation overall church structure.
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Henry C. Swearingen
St. Paul
Presbyterian Board of Christian Education
Presbyterian Boards
France Neutral In Rhineland Republic Plan
Paris dispatch reports France orders M Tirard to stay neutral on Rhineland republic movement while preserving order. Observers say success hinges on Catholic center party support. Dr Adenauer leads Cologne secessionists and Herr Mothe is named regent candidate in Brussels notes.
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France
Rhineland
German Catholic Center Party
Adenaur
Cologne
Herr ‘Othe
Hrussels
Cummins Slated for Senate Head amid La Follette revolt
Washington Oct 22 The La Follette Independents oppose Republican moves to name Albert B Cummins of Iowa as presiding officer in a Senate reorganization The group objects to Cummins retaining Interstate Commerce Commission chairmanship which controls railroad legislation Cummins, president pro tempore for four years, would gain the vice presidential salary and social standing with the vacancy created by Coolidge's White House elevation
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Ny International News Service
Washington
LaFolette
West Senate
Albert B. Cummins
Iowa
Capitol
la- Follette
Cummins
Angry Wife Forces Court Censure on Drunk Husband
A Hagerstown woman confronted police and fined husband for intoxication, paying $360 in fines. She battered him in the station as he resisted, while officers urged no interference. The quarrel followed prior warnings about his moonshine habits and potential arrests.
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Police
Hagerstown
Coolidge Pressured To Enforce Prohibition Policy
Washington dispatch reports growing pressure for President Coolidge to take personal command of city prohibition enforcement. Governor Gifford Pinchot urges direct federal responsibility, while the Methodist Episcopal board calls for removal of Mellon, Haynes and Jones from enforcement duties. Weighed by party factions and public morale concerns, the push frames enforcement as a national test of leadership.
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George R. Holmes
Star
Intersame News Service
Washington
White House
President Coolidge
Gifford Pinchot
Pennsylvania
Coolidge
Board of Temperance, Prohibition
Methodist Episcopal Church
Tinchot
Secretary of the Treasury
Andrew W. Mellon
Internal Revenue
Blair
Prohibition
James Jones
Haynes
Cities vie to host 1924 Republican convention
Washington Oct 22 Critics who want to entertain the 1924 Republican national convention will be invited to present invitations and argue the merits of their municipalities at a Republican National Committee subcommittee meeting in Washington on November 15, it was announced today.
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Washington
Republican National Committee
Germans Seek Work in Ruhr War Relief Data
Paris October 2 The Foreign Office announced that 80 493 German railway workers have applied for work in the Ruhr They must apply to the Reichs The German government has ceased supplying funds to pay wages whether the men worked or not.
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Paris
Foreign Office
Ruhr
Germany
German reparations note expected to be sent to Inter-Allied
The Dy International News Service reports a new German reparations note anticipated tomorrow. It is understood that German Minister Kerr Von Mayer will transmit the document to the Inter-Allied Reparations Committee.
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Dy International News Service
Panis
Kerr von Mayer
Inter-Allied
Chorus Girl Sobs As Poison Tale Emerges
Pegsy Neil a 21 year old Chicago chorus girl told detectives she swallowed poison in Philadelphia after being released from a theater company. She sobbed that she hoped for help and described loan requests to return home. Police link heartbreak and romance to the act amid reports of a wealthy family connection.
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International News Service
Philaaelphia
The
Jefferson Hospital
Pegsy Neil
Chicago
Schubert Theater
Walton Hotel
Dancing Girl
Mayence Rioting Over Rhenish Republic Move
International News Service reports Mayence seen as scene of clashes as Rhineland troops enter the city at 4 30 p m. Two secessionists wounded, troops withdrawn to outskirts to prevent bloodshed. Proclamation of Mayence joining the Rhenish republic possible by tomorrow or Wednesday. Berlin and Cologne talks urged to discuss a Rhineland republic with dual aims and foreign protection. Earlier, at Melsen near Dresden, severe fighting occurred between Reichswehr and communists.
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Mayence
Rhineland
Cologne
Berlin
France
Belgium
Dresden
Melsen
Reichswehr
Potomac Synod Meets Today in Frederick
The fifty first annual session of the Potomac Synod of the Reformed Church opens in Frederick with three days in session. Rev. Walter W. Rowe will preach the sermon and administer Holy Communion Tuesday morning. The fiftieth anniversary is observed Tuesday evening with Rev. Samuel Henry Stein of York presiding and Rev. H. M. J. Kline of Franklin Marshall College delivering the anniversary address.
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Potomac Synod of the Reformed Church
Frederick
Tobs
Walter W. Rowe
Samuel Henry Stein
York
H. M. J. Kline
Franklin-Marshall College
Impeachment Trial Of Walton Begins In Oklahoma Today
Oklahoma Governor J C Walton faces impeachment charges filed by the House with 35 pages of charges and hundreds of pages of evidence. Walton refuses to resign as the impeachment process opens, following his militia involvement in a Ku Klux Klan clash.
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Walton
Oklahoma
House of Representatives
Y International News Service
Oklahoma City
J. C
Iron Jack) Walton
House
Alleged bootlegger faces trial in auto killing
Martinsburg October 22. William R. Drightwell an alleged Frederick boot legger will go to trial in Martinsburg before Circuit Judge J M Woods November 5. He was indicted for voluntary manslaughter after his automobile struck and killed Kenneth Knelsley a local school boy in June.
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Martinsburg
William R. Drightwell
Frederick Bootlegger
Kenneth Knelsley
J. M. Woods
Drightwell
Jones Spring Man Faces Grave Statutory Charge
Martinsburg West Virginia Oct 23 Nu International News Service reports Fred Everhart 24 a Jones Spring resident is charged with a statutory offense carrying the death penalty He allegedly failed to appear pledging bond while a reputed family member denies guilt The case centers on the birth of an infant to Yearold Yeu geart of the same area and Meerkart is named as the alleged father
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Nu International News Service
Martinsburg
W. Va
West Virginia
Fred Everhart
Janes Spring
Hall
Buss Euiltlesa
Meerkart
Acti
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French Foreign Office
Sen. Cummins
Senate
LaFollette Group
Jowan
Betty Martin
Bil Reynolds
Methodist Church Board
Pinchot
Zion Lutheran Church
Williamsport
Manheim
Baden
Potomac Synod
Jones Spring
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