Saunders Made Monkeys Wall Street Shares
Memphis AP report states Clarence Saunders, president of Piggly Wiggly Stores, refuses to sell stock to short sellers at any price. He notes about 25,000 shares owed but only 140 delivered Friday, and says he will sell directly to the people. He also says yesterday’s $100 offer cannot be extended and no shares will be used for delivery to shorts.
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Memphis
Tenn
Mar
Piggly Wiggly Common
Clarence Saunders
Piggly Wiggly Stores, Inc
Saunders
Piggly Wiggly Stores Inc
Naval Pact Backed By Critics Faces Strain From Modernization
Washington March 24 Expert naval officers warn the five five three ratio at the Washington arms conference will fail if the United States does not modernize its capital ships. Some say Britain United States and Japan navies fit a six five four standard, urging official statements on each side. State Department and President Harding hold final decision on advancing modernization despite British hints.
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Washington
Mar
United States
Navy Department
Great Britain
Japan
State Department
Harding
Congress
Wheat Growers to adopt new rapid settlement plan
Spokane news reports the Washington Wheat Growers' Association announces a new basis for settlements. Deliveries will be graded by Northwest Wheat Grower officials and final payments will be issued within 30 or 60 days of delivery.
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Spokane
Wash
A. C. Adams
Washington Wheat Growers’ Association
Northwest Wheat Grower
Associated
Marketing Organization of the
Northwest
American Comedy Fatal to English man in London cinema
An elderly man, Joseph Chatfield, died in a London cinema after laughing at a leading American comedian. Doctors said his burst heart caused the death, the result of uncontrollable laughter in the theatre, with a woman sitting beside him.
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London
Joseph Chatfield
Chatfield
Robber Leaves Finger Memento After Chinatown Robbery
Tou Joi, an elderly Chinese man, was robbed of 20 by two men in San Jose. Joi presented Chief J. N. Black with a bottle containing a preserved finger tip found in alcohol, claiming he bit the thief during the struggle and recovered the token in the scuffle.
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San Jose
Wal
Tou Joi
J. N. Black
Joi
Sugar Trusts Court Inquiry Debate Over Sugar Prices
Salt Lake City march 24 Stephen H Love president of the United States Sugar Manufacturing association backs any government inquiry into sugar prices. He warns against runaway markets and notes the US only produces a small share of consumed sugar while foreign control dominates. prices are set by the world market and contracts bind beet and cane growers to manufacturers.
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Salt Lake City
United States
Department of Justice
Stephen H. Love
United States Sugar Manufacturing Association
Love
Sugar Price Conspiracy Reply Says Hoover Had No Knowledge
Washington March 24 AP says Julius Klein director of the commerce department bureau of foreign and domestic commerce rejected what he called false innuendos about secretary Hoover. Klein said Hoover had no knowledge of the department’s sugar production announcement before it was made public and that Klein alone bore responsibility for the release. Klein’s statement responded to Basil Manley of the People’s Legislative Service whose group helped organize the progressive bloc in Congress with La Follette and others.
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Washington
Mar
Hoover
Julius Klein
Commerce Department
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
Department
Klein
Basil Manley
The
People’s Legislative Service
Progressive Bloc
Congress
Senator la Follette
Woolen Mills Lost by Fire in Washougal
Three buildings of the Washougal Woolen mills were practically destroyed by a midnight fire in Washougal Washington causing about 100000 in damages insured. The blaze alarmed about 1000 residents who aided in firefighting and guarding homes. by 2 am all buildings except three were saved.
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Washougal, Wash
Washougal
Women killed by raiding party in Longford
An eighty year old woman and her daughter were shot dead at Aughafin Longford by a raiding party. The daughter's husband is a national officer and may sue. A mine wrecked the Dublin theatre lobby with rifle and machine gun fire injuring one man. Irregulars attacked national troops at Mullingar station and reservoir but were repulsed.
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Dublin
Mar
Aughafin
Longford
Motion Picture Theatre
Mullingar
Ireland
Sreservoir
Piutes Escape Captors Rejoin Band in Utah
Chief Old Posey leads the Allen Canyon band of renegade Piutes hunted by posses in southeast Utah. He is reported wounded in the leg, while Cowboy Charivy's son was killed and five braves plus four squaws captured. Captives broke loose and rejoined the renegades near Blanding.
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Salt Lake
Old Posey
Allen Canyon
Utah
Charivy
Blanding
Salt Lake City
Sampa
Liberty
United States
Marshall J. Ray Ward
Crockett
Prisoners to be given aid under veterans bureau plan
Washington reports the effort to extend vocational training and rehabilitation services to about 18 000 World War I veterans in federal and state prisons. The plan, backed by Director Hines and approved by Acting Attorney General Mour, aims to assess war records for war wounds and provide guardianship and rehabilitative care, with initial trials at Atlanta Leavenworth and McNeil Island.
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Washington
Mar
Hines
Veterans Bureau
Department of Justice
American Legion
Bureau
The
Red Cross
Mour
Atlanta
Leavenworth
McNeil Island
Tacoma
Wash
Colorado Senator Nicholson in critical condition due to stomach tumor
Denver physicians said U. S. Senator Samuel D. Nicholson remained critically ill as doctors disclosed a stomach tumor. The reforming statement noted no improvement and stressed the life-saving efforts continued with no clear prognosis.
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Denver
Colo
U. S
Samuel D. Nicholson
Wells Feeding Costly Blaze In Tonkawa Field
In Ponca City AP report a fire tore through seventeen Comar Oil storage tanks in the Tonkawa field. Oil from nearby wells fed the blaze as crews failed to halt flow into the tanks, with extensive potential losses due to the field’s high gravity crude.
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Ponca City
Comar Oil Company
Tonkaway
Tonkawa
Snow Said to Spark Coal Fires in Montana Beds
Miles City Montana March 23 AP Two hundred fires are invading vast coal beds in the Bear Creek field southeastern Montana. Thoman Edison Smith former coal company manager says snow on surface deposits triggers spontaneous combustion and fires spread where snow melts slowly on southern slopes.
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Miles City
Mont
Montana
Thoman Edison Smith
Bear Creek
Idaho Reports Jump in State Mineral Output for 1922
Boise, Mar. 23 AP The total value of all lead, silver, gold, copper and mine products mined and marketed in Idaho during 1922 was 619 196 403 71 an increase of 2 632 389 12 over 1921 The report notes more copper and zinc but declines in gold silver and lead Lead production fell by 4 967 606 pounds from 1921 Higher market prices pushed the value of lead mined to 11 762 302 60 versus 9 559
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Boise
Idaho
Inspector of Mines
Inmate John A Magee Found to Have Swallowed Key
AP reports Kansas inmate John A Magee hospitalized after surgery revealed 27 silver swallowed keys in his stomach. Doctors fear possible death.
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John A Magee
Kansas
Big business curbing urged by Senator Ladd in 1924 forecast
Senator Ladd, Republican of North Dakota, demanded an investigation of the sugar corner and warned that big business would trigger major political and economic surprises in 1924. He attacked sugar prices as graft, called for prosecutions, and argued that packers and monopolies threaten American households and faith in old party lines.
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Washington
Ladd
Republican
North Dakota
Federal Reserve
United States
Aliens Coming Sparks Air Smuggling Concern at Border
El Paso March 24 AP Smuggling of aliens into the United States by airplane has become a problem says Robert Carr White second assistant secretary of labor. He toured immigration points along the Mexican border from Tijuana to El Paso and warned about Chinese smugglers using muffled engines to avoid detection after United States entry. White then departed for San Antonio.
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el Paso
Mar
United States
Robert Carr White
Tijuana
Mexico
White
California
San Antonio
Irish Bugs on Pacific Isle
The Society Islands are described as an insect paradise by Frederick L. Washburn of the University of Minnesota who visited en route home from a South Pacific hunting trip. He notes a grasshopper sample on a pad and a striking green beetle among the findings.
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San Francisco
Mar
Society Islands
Frederick L. Washburn
University of Minnesota
South Pacific
Professor Washburn
Record Flight Sets 75 Mile Distance Speed Break
Major Leo G. Feffernan piloted a DH 4 B aircraft from Nogales Arizona to Fort Bliss Texas covering 75 miles in 18 minutes at an average speed of 250 miles per hour. Sergeant Jensen accompanied as an official observer during the flight.
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Washington
Mar
Army Air Service
War Department
Leo G. Feffernan
Nogales
Ariz
Fort Bliss
Tex
Columbus
N. M
Texas Post
Heffernan
Jensen
Greece's Venizelos Pushes for Arbitration on War Claims
Former Greek premier Venizelos appeared before the Allied financial sub committee to discuss Lausanne peace treaty financial clauses. He stated Greece would seek indemnities if Turkey refuses, proposing mutual claims be settled by a neutral arbitral tribunal.
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London
Venizelos
Greece
Angora
Antolia
Asia Minor
Booth elected president of international chamber
Willis H. Booth of New York and Los Angeles was chosen president of the International Chamber of Commerce. Booth is vice president of Guaranty Trust Company of New York and has previously served as vice president of the organization.
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Roma
Marc
Willis H. Booth
New York
Los Angeles
International Chamber of Commerce Today
Booth
Guaranty Trust Company of
Rio Grande Western seeks IC authority to issue trust certificates
The Denver and Rio Grande Western receiver asked the Interstate Commerce Commission for permission to assume obligation to pay interest and principal on a $400 million equipment trust. Proceeds would finance fifty new locomotives 800 freight cars and other railroad gear.
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Washington, Mar
Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad
Interstate Commerce Commission
Republics at the Round Table Opens Fifth Conference
Santisto Chile March 24 AP Santiago founded in 1541 hosts the gala for tomorrow’s opening of the fifth conference of the American republics. Delegations from 18 republics attend though Mexico Peru and Bolivia are absent. Agenda includes armament limits expenditures and closer ties with non American powers.
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Santisto
Chili
Mar
Santiago
Mexico
Peru
Bolivia
Own Your Home Day Observed in Chicago
Chicago marks the one hundredth anniversary of John Howard Payne’s Home Sweet Home as the annual Own Your Own Home observance opens. President Harding lauds home ownership for citizenship, Hoover notes boarding houses, and Oregon’s Ben W Olcott stresses the nation’s welfare tied to homes.
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Chicago
John Howard Payne
Harding
Hoover
Ben W. Olcott
Ore
Ice Gorge Threatens Two Thousand Farms in Missouri River Spill
Unprecedented mammoth ice jam formed in the Missouri River near Vermillion South Dakota and Sioux City threatening floods across ten counties in South Dakota Iowa and Nebraska and endangering about two thousand farms and hundreds of homes. Gorges formed near Brassfield Island Sergeant Bluff and Elk Point with rapid rises in Big Sioux river. Continued on page eight.
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Omaha
Neb
Missouri River
Vermillion
South Dakota
Sioux City
Onawa
Iowa
Dakota City
Nebraska
Brassfield Island
Sergeant Bluff
Plymouth
Bury
Monona
Sheffield firms rebuffed as American orders divert to Ruhr
London dispatch reports that Sheffield rolling mills have an American order for 3000 specimens intended for Ruhr, but cannot be filled by them due to Fordney tariff pressures. Local firms refuse to delay English orders for American competitors, citing lack of consideration from America to Sheffield.
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London
Sheffield
Vaela Forsa Gazette
America
House of David Trial Speeds Up
Federal court in Grand Rapids orders faster proceedings in the John Hansell case seeking a financial settlement with the Israelite House of David of Benton Harbor Michigan. Judge John W Sater set Thursday as tentative conclusion date after defense called four witnesses for the plaintiff inner circle.
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Grand Rapids
Mich
John Hansell
House of David
Benton Harbor
John W. Sater
Trial of William Eago in 1938 on alleged dalliance law breach
A readable fragment notes the trial of William Eago in St. Joseph Nebraska for alleged violation of a dilealism law, mentioned as taking place over the weekend with limited details available.
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St. Joseph
William Eago
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Sugar Trusts Court Inquiry
Piutes
Southern Utah Posse
Veterans’ ‘Bureau
Colorado
Ae Ra
Pacific
Key
RIO Grande Western
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