Independent steel companies form major U S consolidation
Reports confirm a merger of seven or more independent steel firms in the financial district. Bethlehem Steel and Jones and Laughlin are excluded. The approximate capitalization is 500 million dollars, linking Midvale Iron and Steel Republic Iron and Steel Lackawanna Steel Youngstown Sheet and Tube Inland Steel Briar Hill Steel and Steel and Tube of America. If completed it would rank second to United States Steel.
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Associated Press
Gamner
New York
Bethlehem Steel Corporation
Jones and Laughlin Company
Pittsburgh
Irron
Midvale Steel and Ordnance Company
Republic Iron and Steel Company
Lackawanna Steel Company
Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company
Inland Sto! Company
Briar Hill Steel Company
The
Steel and Tube Company of America
United States Steel Corporation
Gold stolen by eight bandits in Argonaut mine raid
A month’s supply of gold amalgam valued at 60 000 to 70 000 dollars was taken from the Argonaut mine in Jackson California. Eight men bound two mill workers and escaped in automobiles after entering the safe.
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Associated
Jackson, Cal
Argonaut
Well Near Martinsburg Yields 10 Barrel Berea Find
Report from Adrian farm describes a Berea well near Martinsburg drilled on Tuesday by Becker and Wigton. The 10 barrel estimate marks a promising early result, drawing attention from local observers and indicating potential gains in the area.
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J, A, Becker
W. H. Wigton
Adrian
Berea
Martinsburg
Taylor Simmons Dies Near Sparta
Taylor Simmons aged 55 a retired farmer died at his home near Sparta after months of heart trouble. Survived by wife two sons Thomas and Carl and daughter Marie all at home. Funeral services set for Saturday at 2 pm at Presbyterian Church Chesterville with burial in Chesterville cemetery.
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Sparta
Taylor Simmons
Thomas
Carl
Marie
Presbyterian Church
Chesterville
Deputy resigns amid county funds shortfall probe
Xenia December 1 Deputy J H B Sutton under J S McVey for four years county treasurer who faced scrutiny over a suspected county funds shortage has resigned. Sutton paid 2676 dollars with a personal check to the county last week to cover the shortfall.
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Xenia
J. HB. Sutton
J. 5. McVey
Sutton
Henry Landau Sentenced to Guillotine Demands Justice
Paris reports Henry Landau proclaims he seeks justice not mercy as a receivership plan for Germany surfaces. Allies may push for German bankruptcy governance with an autonomous Rhineland to extract reparations, seen as France's alternative to any Briton moratorium.
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Henry Landau
Prem
Paris
Germany
Rhineland
France
Great Britain
Bullet Removed From Boy’s Hand After Accident
The young son of Mr and Mrs Clay Potro was accidentally shot in the hand by his father this week. He was taken to MS Vernon hospital Wednesday afternoon where X ray showed the bullet lodged in the middle finger joint. An operation removed the bullet.
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Clay Potro
MS. Vernon Hospital
Trades Education May Be Obtained In Ohio Towns
Ohio state director of vocational training J. L. Heusch pushes trades education across Columbus Cincinnati and Springfield. Programs use federal and state funds to offer paid vocational classes and hands on shop work, arguing many youths leave school unsure how Latin or Greek helps them earn a living with their hands.
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Associated Press
Columbus
J. L. Heusch
Heusch
Cincinnati
Springfeld
Yotational Fund
Shire
Heusch Haw
Housch
John
Thank You Gentlemen Said Sandra After Guilty Verdict
Versailes December 1 Menrch Can dra known as the Blue Beard of Gambis was found guilty by a jury of slaying ten women and a boy. Judge Gilbert sentenced him to the guillotine and Candra refused mercy or a petition for life imprisonment. He thanked the jury as he was led to the Versailles jail and said he wanted justice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Versailles
Menrh Can
Millerand
Defer Action On New Rules For Rail Shop Crafts
Chicago December 1 Action on the 172 revised shop rules by the United States railroad labor board will be deferred until after the new year. X M Jewell president of the railway employes department AFL said the delay follows pending wage increase requests and regional conferences with carriers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frese
Chicago
United States Railroad Labor
X. M. Jewell
American Federation of Labor
Sla
Beewise
Jaweli
Marie Dressler's Husband Dies After Illness
J H Dalton husband of actress Marie Dressler died in Chicago from a complication of diseases. Mrs. Dalton left the city a week ago to fulfill an out of town engagement.
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Chicago
J. H. Dalton
Marie Dressler
U S Plans Adviser to Bankers Conference
The Federal Reserve Board will send an advisor to the forthcoming conference of foreign bankers called by the reparations commission to discuss exchange stabilization, according to an official treasury statement.
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U.S
Bankers Conference
Ly Associated Prena
Washington
Federal Reserve Board
Reparations Commission
Treasury
Man Arrested With Revolver Charged With Concealed Weapon
A man identifying as Elden Deeren was arrested early this morning by Patrolmen McAiroynd Pronch. Officers found a revolver in his pocket and a charge of carrying concealed weapons was filed this afternoon. He is to be arraigned before Mayor Iger tonight.
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Elden Deeren
McAiroynd
Deeren
Iger
Two Men Held for Collapse of Theatre
Sylvenster Rosenthal and Samuel Moskowitz owners and contractors of the Amerian Theater in Brooklyn were held without bail for manslaughter after a collapse killed nearly 50 workers. A writ of habeas corpus reduced bond to 15000 with a surety company.
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Iry
New York
Sylvenster Rosenthal
Samuel Moskowitz
Ameriam ‘Theater
Brooklyn
Lido
Supreme Court
Kelley
1 Surety Company
Belmont Ordered to Appear Before Court
The State Transit Commission served subpoenas on seven directors of the Inter-Borough Rapid Transit Company for 1917 to 1919 dealings. August Belmont, chairman, along with Cornelius Vanderbilt Howard J. Berwind and Morgan J. O Brien were among those targeted for testimony.
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Associated Preka
New York
State” Transit Commission
Inter-Borough
Rapid Transit Go
Belmont
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Howard J. Berwind
Morgan J. O'Bries
Father of Eight Slain by Robbers in Cleveland
Hugh Usugyn father of eight children died in a Cleveland hospital after being shot by two gunmen in a soft drink shop raid. The attack followed an order to raise hands and occurred the night before a third murder in the city since Friday. His wife was hospitalized after an operation.
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iPr
Prem
Cleveland
Hugh Usugyn
Gaugyn
Guugyn
Auto Bandits Loot Post Office in Chandlersville Visit
Auto bandits visited Chandlersville in eastern Muskingum county last night and blew open the post office safe with dynamite. Residents learned of the break when going to work. The loot was small and the exact amount will be confirmed by post office officials.
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SBY
Proas
Zanesville
Chandlersville
Muskingum County
Postoffice
China delegates open talks on Shantung dispute
Washington December 1 Chinese arms conference delegation in direct negotiations on the Shantung question opens with Chinese spokesmen saying two points govern negotiations Japan's demand for open port at Tsing-Tao and respect for vested interests. China holds at Versailles that Shantung must be returned unconditionally. Delegates silent before talks, Chinese circles call Hughes Balfour offer troubling.
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Associated Press
Washington
Shantung
China
Japan
Tsing-Tao
Versailles
No Deadlock In Conference Reported By British Delegate
Washington reports a British spokesman said no deadlock exists yet in the naval conference as delegates pack up. The failure of naval experts to agree on tonnage ratio remains unresolved, with Secretary Hughes and others to decide if the five powers fail to concur.
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Washington
Hughes
Me Balfour
Haron Kato
Destroyer to Intercept Paris for Morse Return
The U S Navy reportedly plans to send a destroyer from a French port to intercept the French liner Paris and bring back Charles W Morse of New York amid a grand jury probe of his ship contracts. Morse, a noted financier, earlier faced a 15 year federal sentence for misapplication of funds but was commuted by President Taft in 1912 on medical advice.
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Morse
National Banke
Atlanta
Taft
Keteral
Army
Morese
Body Found in Washboiler and Murder Suspect in Chicago
In Chicago on December 1 following an all nights search for three year old Margaret Coughlin her body was found in a wash boiler at the home of Mrs. Ralph Pensis 52 a neighbor. Soon after Mrs. Pensis was found dead on the second floor with a throat cut. Police began a search for the husband.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Margaret Coughlin
Ralph Pensis
Torch Relay to Visit Mt Vernon by Newark Y M C A
A bronze torch carried by five Vernon delegates from Newark Y M C A will visit Mt Vernon as part of a statewide Older Boys conference in Dayton Ohio. Delegates carried the Cleveland made torch one mile each, passing it along toward every association in Ohio.
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Mt. Vernon
Newark
Cleveland
Dayton
Ohio
Airplanes crash mid air kill four aviators near Fort Sill
Four aviation crew members two officers and two privates died when the two planes in combat duty drills collided at about two thousand feet and crashed near the Fort Sill field in Lawton Oklahoma President says military air safety inquiry will follow the tragedy
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Munnert Lawton
Oki
Hoc
Pont Neld
Sill
Olea
Six Die in Oregon and Washington Train Wreck
Associated Press reports a head on collision on the Oregon and Washington Railroad near Celilo left six dead and twenty two injured. Among the dead is A. H. McBride a marine mail guard.
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Associated Press
Portland
Ore
Oregon & Washington
Celilo
A. H. McBride
Marine Mail
Rioting in Vienna After Demonstration Before Parliament
Associated Press reports violent rioting in Vienna as crowds gathered before the parliament building. Demonstrators raised improvised flags, smashed shop windows, looted goods, and attacked hotels, with lodging and furniture thrown into the streets as the mob moved through the area.
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Associated Press
Vienna
Mrs Emma Barber Claimed By Death
Mrs Emma Barber aged 60 died at 9 o clock Wednesday at the home of her stepson William Barber in Rich Hill after several days of illness from a complication. She leaves two stepsons Clinton and William Barbos. Funeral services will be Friday at 1 PM at Rich Hill church with Rev. R. W. Litzenburg officiating. Burial will be in Bloomfield cemetery.
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Centerburg
Emma Barber
Stenson
Willian Barber
Rich Hilly
Clinton
William Barebos
Rich Hill Church
R. W. Litzenburg
Bloomfield Cemetery
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National Victory Memorial
Sixth and Streets, N. W
Sandra
U. S. Railway Labor Board
Hughes-Balfour
Bagk
Charles W. Morse
America
Cecil Forester
English Royal Mouse Guards
Leutenant
Lord Forester
Henry VIII
Forester
MIT
Vernon
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