Greeks Bombard Bulgarian Towns Amid Macedonia Invasion
Greek artillery renewed attacks on Petric h as Bulgarian evacuees flee in fear and hunger. Reports say Greece occupies up to 240 square miles, seizing food while civilians suffer cold and famine. The League of Nations prepares a Paris meeting to push arbitration under covenant rules.
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Associated Press
League of Nations
Council of the League
Petrich
Macedonia
Athens
Bulgaria
Greece
Eife
Sofia
Council of the League of Nations
Paris
Aristide Briand
Women in Pacific Coast mail robbery linked loot
Chicago police say Mrs. Dorothy Lee of Los Angeles confessed to taking eight hundred dollars in cash and jewelry from her husband and tying into a sixty thousand dollar Pacific coast mail robbery. She and Genevieve Gurino were arrested after a Los Angeles holdup and face removal to California for federal charges.
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Chicago
Dorothy Lee O
Los Angeles
Genevieve Gurino
Ear
Tesiano
Gurino
United States
California
Mallet Robber Strikes London Jewelers, Escapes With Rings
A young man wielding a mallet shattered a window at a premier London jewellers on Bond Street at noon. He escaped with a tray holding rings valued at 30 000 pounds about 150 000 dollars as noon crowds looked on.
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London
Bond Street
Foolish women swindler Weidmeier faces bond forfeiture
In St. Louis on October 24 AP reports John W. Weidmeier failed to appear in court on multiple fraud charges involving six women met under aliases. His $5,000 bond was forfeited while he faces a Mann act charge in federal court next Wednesday tied to an elopement with Chicago fur dealer wife Margaretta Hoffman. The case links to other victims including Miss Virginia Martin, Mrs Rose Berken, Miss Carrie Hymans and Mrs Ada Frank, who identified him in photographs. In Washington, Mrs Virginia Beaverbrook admitted to turning over jewelry valued at $53,000 and identified Weidmeier as the man she married as Lord Beaverbrook and received gifts from him.
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St. Louis
John W. Weidmeier
Chicago
Esther Wexler
Weidmeier
Ernest A. Fisher
Margaretta Hoffman
Virginia Martin
Washington, D. C
Rose Berken
New York
Carrie Hymans
Ada Frank
Detroit
Wei
Washington
Virginia M. Beaverbrook
J. W. Weidmeier
Weidemeier
Beaverbrook
Martin
Canton
Miss
Gloria Swanson Fined by Referee in Separation Case
New York Oct 94 AP Gloria Swanson film actress was fined 250 dollars by referee Robert M Marsh after missing her witness appearance in the separation suit Janet Beecher versus Dr Richard H Hoff Swanson sailed for Europe and will owe the fine on return plus explanation for her absence
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New York
Gloria Swanson
Robert M. Marsh
Janet Beecher
Richard H. Hoff
Miss Swanson
Europe
Forty Vessels Lost in Cyclone Ravaging Persian Gulf
A fierce cyclone in the Persian Gulf sinks forty ships with a reported death toll from 1,000 to 7,000. Reports from Burshire, Persia, describe the storm as the worst of the current generation, with crews missing and ships abandoned.
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Karachi
India
Persia Gulf
Burshire
Persia
Official Greek denial on Petrich bombardment report
The Greek legation issued a statement denying a city bombardment at Petrich saying no general bombardment occurred. It noted a few shells near the railroad station to hinder Bulgarian troop transfers from Doudnitsa via the narrow gauge line.
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Washington
Doscena
Petrich
Doudnitsa
Mauretania Sails With Gold and Leverhulme Treasures
The Cunard liner Mauretania departs for New York carrying gold valued at 2,000,000 pounds sterling and the first consignment of the late Lord Leverhulme’s art treasures slated for sale in the United States.
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Southampton
England
Cunard
New York
Lord Leverhulme
United States
Taft Elected President of North American YMCA
Charles P. Taft, 28, of Cincinnati, was elected president of the International Convention of YMCA associations in Washington on October 24. He becomes the youngest person to hold the office as sessions began.
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Wasington
Charles P. Taft
Cincinnati
International Convention of Young Men's Christian Associations of North America
Street car overturn injures Benson students in downtown Portland
A street car carrying Benson Polytechnic high school boys overturned on a downtown curve in Portland yesterday afternoon. About twenty boys were injured and rushed to a hospital as they traveled to a football game.
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Portland
Ore
Benson Polytechnic High School
Fragments Describe Airplane Event At 2:15 Mountain Time
Fragmentary notes refer to an airplane event at 2 15 mountain standard time. The garbled text mentions an air plane and timing but provides no clear names places or outcomes.
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Eyenne
Bootleggers Battle Ends in Three Deaths in New York Basement
In a basement rooming house battle among about fifteen bootleggers early today three men were killed and others fled as tables and chairs were wrecked. Two victims dying in the hallway from rear shots and a third in a hospital from a brain wound. Police arrested John Magliorretti on suspicion of homicide. Names identified include Michael Orza of Yonkers and Vincenzo Schiamameo of Manhattan. another man known only as Willie. Eight quarts of liquor were found, allegedly from a rum ship and a patrol boat involved in rum row incidents.
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New York
John Magliorretti
Michael Orza
Yonkers
N. Y
Vincenzo Schiamameo
Manhattan
Willie
Palma
Whitehead
Noank
Priest Sees Early Settlement Of Anthracite Strike
In Philadelphia Reverend John J. Curran of St. Marys Wilkes Barre predicts an early end to the anthracite mine strike after meeting UMWA President John L. Lewis. He cites dwindling coal supplies and rising prices as the conflict unfolds, noting retail costs up to 22 dollars a ton for chestnut and stove coal.
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Philadelphia
John J. Curran
St. Mary’s
Wilkesbarre
Father Curran
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Atlantic City
Bodies Identified From Sunken Submarine S-51 Near Milton
Newport R I Oct 24 AP identification linked one body from the S-51 engine room to James Dudley Hazelden Jr Milton SC and the other to Robert E Noble Merrimac Mass a 25 year old motor machinist first class. Fingerprints and a wallet in pajamas aided identification.
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Newport
R. T
James Dudley Hazelden
Leutenant
Milton
South Carolina
Robert 8. Noble
Merrimac
Maes
Azelden
Troops Massing on the Frontier Between Greece and Bulgaria
Bulgarian Telegraph Agency reports large Greek forces moving toward the Bulgarian border signaling an expanded offensive. Bulgarian troops reportedly penetrated seven miles into Bulgaria on a twenty mile front as Greece presses actions. Sofia appeals to the League of Nations for decision and notes a failed attempt at direct parleys with Greece.
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Sofia
Bulgaria
Athena
Greece
League of Nations Council
Fronter
League
Pronsen
Pourparre
Pave
Couple killed while hunting in backwoods
Eureka California October 24 The body of Carmen Wagner 18 a Ferndale beauty parlor owner found buried in a remote wooded area near Eureka shot to death her dog Pronto buried nearby Henry Sweet her hunting companion was found murdered beside his car near the scene Walter David 24 a half breed Indian was arrested with scratches on his face Jack Ryan 22 half brother of David hunted for remains authorities seek motive and wonder if Wagner was held after Sweet was killed.
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Eureka
Calif
Carmen Wagner
Ferndale
Here
Pronto
Henry Sweet
Henry Sweet, Youthful Companion of Miss Wagner
Misa Wagner
Sweet
Miss Wagner
Walter David
Jack Ryan
David
Eggs figure in an election at Glasgow University
Glasgow voters elected Austen Chamberlain as lord rector in a contest against K. Ghesterton and Sidney Webb. Meanwhile the university campus endured a chaotic final campaign marked by shells and decayed missiles, as eggs and other items were hurled during battles that morning.
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Glasgow
Glasgow University
Austen Chamberlain
K. Ghesterton
Sidney Webb
Board of Trade
Seat of
Learning
Embryo
Judge Calls Volstead Act A Serious Mistake
Judge Joseph B. David of the municipal court said enforcement would jail 75 percent of Chicago's population under prohibition. He called legislators hypocrites and said he would advocate repeal of the Volstead Act. He upbraided two police for a liquor raid on Walter Jusowieg's home above his store.
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Ciena
Joseph B. David
Municipal Court Today
Chicago
David
Walter Jusowieg
Eskimo Slayer Sentenced to Fifteen Years
Beattie October AP reports Timothy Dienouluck an Eskimo from a Yukon village 60 miles south of Nome was sent to McNeil Island federal prison for fifteen years after shooting a tribe medicine man with a shotgun following his father’s death, a spell cast by a mage.
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Beattie
Timothy Dienouluck
South Fork
Yukon River
Nome
McNeil
Federal
Dienouluck
Magijan
British Incensed at the Charge
London reports British authorities react to Brigadier General J Y Charteris statement denying German use of bodies for fats in munition production. If authentic, the war office may launch an inquiry into the claim.
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London
J. Y. Charteris
New York
War Office
Patrol Boats Accused of Aiding Rum Runners
New London Conn Oct 24 officials claim new evidence shows collusion between liquor transports in rum row and coast guard patrol boats blockading the rum runners. Two Filipinos Guillino Manalli of the destroyer Trippe and Felix Palma of patrol boat CG-187 were arrested.
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New London
Conn
Coast Guard
Guillino Manalli
United States
Trippe
Felix Palma
Reds Working Among Negroes
Washington reports communist agitators seek to recruit American Negroes through the American Negro Labor Congress meeting in Chicago. The manifesto, circulated by the Third International, seeks racial harmony while calling for abolition of Jim Crow and global Negro unity, drawing warnings from the AFL President.
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Washington
American Negro Labor Congress
Chicago
America
Atlantic
Third Internationale
Lovett Ford- Whitman
American Federation of Labor
William Green
Congress
North America
Conress
Planes Collide Off North Island. One Killed
Two Navy planes from the North Island naval air station collided off Oceanside 45 miles north of San Diego. Lieutenant Edger L. Adams was killed and two other men injured, Lieutenant L C Stevens and Chief Machinist's Mate J Mills sustaining minor injuries.
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San Diego
Edger L. Adams
U.S. N
Battle Fleet
North Island Naval Air Station
Oceanside
Here
L. C. Stevens
J. Mills
Greeks Order Advance Against Rupel Pass
A communique from Athens states the Greek commander ordered an early advance to seize the Rupel pass, a route used by Bulgarians in incursions into Greek territory, and the legation in Vienna confirms the directive.
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Vienna
Athens
Greece and Bulgaria in escalating border clash in Neuilly era
Bulgarian authorities announce troops sent into the field amid the Greco Bulgarian dispute. Sofia vows to stand firm as Greek advances threaten Rupel Pass and Struma Valley while the League of Nations faces delay in convening. Bulgarian forces are limited by Neuilly treaty to 20,000 men with restricted artillery and garrison.
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Presa
League of Nations
Petrich
Struma
Rupel Pass
Rosia
Bulgaria
League Council
Paris
Sofia
Neuilly
Thies
Yor Naval Aires
Greek Greek-Turkish border tension and Bulgarian troop move
Dispatches from Vienna and Belgrade report forty comitadjis bands en route to Melnik to reinforce the army as Greek shelling earlier targeted Demirhissar. In Geneva the Greek government signaled a first gesture toward the League of Nations amid Greco Bulgar dispute with Bulgarian troops occupying a block house on Greek territory north of Demirhissar.
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Vienna
Belgrade
Comitadjis
Melnik
Pet‘rich
Geneva
Cdomnianins
League
Demirhissar
Forests Going Under the Axe
Census figures show last year cutting of lumber from American forests totaled 35.29 billion board feet, down 3.3 percent from the prior year. Washington produced over six million feet, a 6.1 percent drop. Mississippi rose 43 percent to near three billion. California and Nevada and Louisiana also fell. Greeley warns regions rely on virgin timber from the south and far west while domestic growth lags.
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Washington
Census Bureau
W. B. Greeley
Forestry Service
Louisiana
Migesissippi
California
Nevada
League resumes Monday as council to probe Greco Bulgarian dispute
Paris October 24 The League of Nations council opens Monday at the Quai d Orsay to probe the Greco Bulgarian dispute amid concerns over a potential breach of treaty obligations. Foreign Minister presides as the inquiry begins.
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Paris
League of Nations Council
Pet
Quai D’orsay
Walules
Dent
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