Babe Ruth Denies Blackmail Charge In $50,000 Suit
New York AP report says Babe Ruth authorized his attorney to fight a $50,000 lawsuit by Dolores Dixon age 19 claiming he took her motoring last summer. Ruth, at Yankee camp in New Orleans, says the charge is blackmail and unknown to him.
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New York
Babe Ruth
Dolores Dixon
Nyman Bushnell
Ruth
Miss Dixon
George Feinberg
Bushell
New Orleans
Riverside Drive
Feery
Hot Springs
Ark
Dixon
King’s County Court
Barbara B. Escoe
Babe'’ Ruth
Court to Hear Case as Ruth Denies Blackmail Claim
Mrs Ruth calls the case absurd and says her husband will fight the charges in court. Ruth says he must obtain approval to travel to New York before proceeding and vows a swift defense against the girl’s accusations.
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New Orleans
Ruth
New York
Court Dismisses Murder Charge in Los Angeles Case
The murder count against Helen T. McClung for killing neighbor Mary Hogan over a belief she was spreading witch powder was dismissed in superior court on district attorney motion. McClung, once found insane after a sanity test following the October killing, has recovered enough to be considered no longer a menace if freed.
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Los Angeles
Helen T. McClung
Mary Hogan
Tokyo murders spike over six weeks ending February
More than 120 men were murdered in Tokyo during the six weeks ending February 14, a record. In several cases, entire families were killed by robbers and other killers.
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Tokio
Associated Press
German Miners Strike Against the Invasion
London reports labor voices abroad as four Scottish laborites toured the Ruhr. the British Labour Party plans an official deputation to Germany while the House of Commons rejects a bid to reopen Ruhr policy debate, 249 to 201. Berlin protests French reprisals over killings at Buer.
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London
British Labor Party
Ruhr
Germany
Daily Telegraph
House of Commons
Roland McNeill
John Simon
Asquith
Berlin
Buer
Ruhr Miners Strike Over Coke Plant Seizure
Sixteen thousand miners in Recklinghausen governorships protest the occupation of the Westerholt coke plant seized by engineers and French troops. French say the strike may last only days as sabotage escalates with hostage use on French Belgian railway trains. A section of railroad near Steele was destroyed in the sabotage wave.
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Essen
Recklinghausen
Ruhr
Westerbolt
Steele
Turkish Women Take Hold of Civilized Customs in Angora
In Angora March 14 AP reports the Nationalist regime aims to emancipate Turkish women. Halliday Edibe Hanum and Mme Kemal Pasha push rights, challenging Mahometan dress codes. Mme Kemal travels with Western style, foreshadowing changes in conduct, dress, and family norms as veils fade and women gain public life access.
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Angora
Turkey
Halliday Edibe Hanum
American Girls’ College
Constantinople
Mme
Kemal Pasha
Mustapha Kemal Pasha
Halliday Edibe Tanum
United States
Ann Arbor
Michigan
Madame Kemal Pasha
Angola
Smyrna
Madame Kemal
Mahomet
New
Rotary Fifth District opens conference in Pocatello
The first session of Rotary’s Fifth district conference will assemble in Pocatello Thursday morning with four hundred to five hundred Rotarians and guests from twenty-one Utah and Idaho clubs. Principal guest is Robert Patterson of Dayton Ohio, now Rotary International vice president, with Mrs Patterson. Governor Charles P McCarthy of Boise will deliver the main address. Mrs McCarthy will attend with him.
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Rotary
Utah
Idaho
Pocatello
Montana
Missoula
Mont
Blackfoot
Boise
Buhl
Burley
Coeur d’Alene
Idaho Falls
Lewiston
Moscow
Nampa
Rexburg
Rupert
Twin Falls
Preston
Brigham City
Logan
Ogden
Price
Provo
Salt Lake City
Spanish Fork
Robert Patterson
Dayton
Rotary International
Patternson
Ohio
Patterson
Los Angeles
Brennan Now In A Hospital After Knockout
New York March 14 AP Bill Brennan Chicago heavyweight knocked out by Luis Firpo at Madison Square Garden Monday night and moved to Jewish Memorial Hospital with possible brain concussion. Doctor Spitzer reported swelling behind left ear and a lump on the head after the powerful blow.
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New York
Bill Brennan
Chicago
Luis Firpo
Madison Square Garden
Jewish Memorial Hospital
Brennan
Edward L. Spitzer
Shopmen Laid Off at Utah Rails Shops
Lack of work forces 176 workers in Denver and Rio Grande Western railway car repair and locomotive shops in Salt Lake City Utah. Upward of fifty men also laid off at Soldier Summit.
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Salt Lake City
Utah
Denver and Rio Grande Western Railway
Soldier Summit
Mother saves son as forgery charge reduced in Utah
In Ogden Utah on March 14 the mother of George W Brown charged with forgery offered to sacrifice her small home to shield her son from a state prison record The charge was reduced to a misdemeanor and Brown fined 200 The judge said he had a moral duty to repay his mother The mother pledged to pay any fine and reimburse state expenses.
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Ogden
Utah
George W. Brown
Brown
Minimum Wage Law Attacked in Supreme Court
Federal and state minimum wage laws faced challenges in the Supreme Court. The cases, tied to the District of Columbia act, draw briefs from six states and feature plaintiffs Children’s Hospital and Willie A. Lyons arguing the laws violate freedom of contract. Proponents frame the laws as police powers promoting public welfare.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Congress
District of Columbia
California
Kansas
New York
Oregon
Wisconsin
The
Children’s Hospital
Willie A. Lyons
Minimum Wage Board
Mrs. Saludes Sentenced for Murder of Insurance Broker
New York, March 14. Paulette Saludes was convicted of murdering Oscar Martelliere, an insurance broker, and was sentenced today to 20 years to life in Auburn women’s prison.
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New York
Paulette Saludes
Oscar Martelliere
Auburn
Influenza toll climbs in Tokyo with rising new cases
Tokio reports more than 7,590 deaths from influenza since January 1 with daily increases in new cases. Official figures attribute the surge to the ongoing outbreak.
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Tokio
Japan
Noted Surgeon and Author Dr G Frank Lydston Dies
Dr G Frank Lydston a famed Los Angeles surgeon physician and author died at his residence from pneumonia He was 65 and once a professor of medicine at the University of Illinois He helped pioneer ideas on gland transplanting
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Los Angeles
G. Frank Lydston
University of Illinois
World Fliers Postpone Trip Amid Passport Delays
Paris reports a two year flight around the world by five French aviators has been postponed to April 1 due to passport difficulties in Persia and India. The plan calls for starting at Nice and routing east through Asia to Japan, Nome, Alaska, and down the Pacific coast to South America, then across the Atlantic from Pernambuco to Dakar before returning to Nice.
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Paris
Persia
India
Nice
Asia
Japan
Nome
Alaska
Pacific
America
Chiles
Argentina
Atlantic
Pernambuco
Brazil
Dakar
Washington Post prints affidavit denying raid list as auto prospects
Washington March 14 AP The Washington Post published James M Conner affidavit denying that a list seized by prohibition agents in the raid on his home contained army navy and marine corps officials or others named for liquor sales. Conner claims the more than 400 names were listed as automobile sales prospects and not liquor buyers.
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Washington
Washington Post
James M. Conner
Jere
A.n
Army
Navy
Lst
Conner
Vom
More Terror Is Necessary More Terror Is Necessary
Vladivostok March 14 AP reports after removals of old commissars a new batch is sent from Moscow to bolster fear and show government strength. Officials say the measure aims to terrorize the district and press the public to accept stronger control.
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Vladivostok
Mar
Atricterids Ss
Moscow
Russia
Natives of Formosa Demand Home Rule in Tokyo
Formosan delegates petition Japanese government and diet for a Formosan assembly. They reject current administration by Japan as unsatisfactory and seek self rule. The move comes amid hopes for local governance and autonomy within the empire.
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Tokio
Formosa
Mystery Deepens In Priest Missing Case In Virden
Clues on Father John Vraniak's car suggest he fled through rural fields. Scratched paint reads We Won, corn stalks cling to machinery, and a Saint Christopher medal is missing. Parishioners and locals join a large search from St. Louis to Virden.
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Virden
Ill
John A. Vraniak
Sacred Heart Catholic Church
Saint Christopher
Father Vraniak
St. Louis
Bishop Tuttle Nearing the End in Coma State
The 86 year old right Reverend Daniel S. Tuttle presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States was incoma at his home in St Louis. Doctors said death might come at any hour as the aged church leader, the oldest active Anglican bishop, suffered from grippe and several sinking spells amid a fragile rally earlier in the day.
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St. Louis
Mar
Daniel
Tuttle
Episcopal
United States
Ogden Motorist Proposes $3.50 Mud Rescue Bill
An Ogden motorist presented a bill for 3.50 to city commissioners claiming he paid the amount to be pulled out of mud from a city street. The claim involves a Sunday meter trip and an appeal to the city’s officials.
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Ogden
Utah
Ogden City
Don’t Treat Em Rough Says Judge in Divorce Trial
Judge J W Summerfield of Los Angeles County Superior Court urged that the caveman approach is obsolete in divorce cases. He advised men to be soft and considerate, arguing love will show if a man is kind. The remark came during a trial in which he heard multiple divorce actions.
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Los Angeles
J. W. Summerfield
Los Angeles County Superior Court
Japan Rejects Chinese Plan in Treaty Abrogation Row
Washington reports Japan rejects China’s bid to abrogate the 1915 China-Japan treaties and notes dated text from Tokyo stating the proposals are contrary to international practice and will not advance friendship. The reply asserts the 1915 agreements were lawfully formed and cannot be canceled unilaterally.
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Washington
China
Japan
Tokio
Peking
Toto
Irish Plot Exposed in Late Arrests Across Britain
London reports reflect unease over Irish raids and possible deportations under the restoration of order in Ireland act. The Daily Sketch claims an assassination plot against Bonar Law Lloyd George and Greenwood, with female members spying from households and facilitating disturbances by Irish agitators.
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Ireland
England
Mount Joy
Daily Sketch
Great Britain
Bonar Law
David Lloyd George
Hamar Greenwood
Polish Woman Sentenced to Life for Murder in Cook County
Mrs Tillie Klimek the Polish widow known for de cent black attire was the only woman in Cook County history sentenced to life for murder. On first ballot four jurors sought death, then on later ballots life imprisonment was agreed. She was charged with poisoning her third husband Frank Kupczyk and faces trial with cousin Mrs Nellie Koulik for conspiracy to murder other husbands and relatives.
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Chicago
Tillie Klimek
Cook County
Liquidation of All Russian Banks Declared Nationalized
Vladivostok reports that all local Russian banks have been liquidated and nationalized under a decree of the All Russian Soviets and the provincial revolutionary committee dated February 5, effective February 8.
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Vladivostok
All Russian Soviets
Ten Hurt in Shell Oil Plant Explosion at Martinez
Ten men were injured in a Shell Oil Company plant explosion and fire in Martinez California. Four workers were seriously hurt and damage was estimated at about $50 000. The blast preceded the fire.
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Martinez
Cal. Mar
Shell Oil Company
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