Seven leaders jailed and fined in pottery industry conspiracy
Seven leaders in the pottery industry were jailed and thirteen others fined after a federal court found a conspiracy to keep cheaper bathroom tiles off the market to raise prices. Archibald Maddock led the group with a 10 month sentence and $5,000 fine, while others received six months and $3,000 fines. Additional executives faced $5,000 fines as part of the action, all appeals filed.
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Pottery
Asseed Press
New York
Archibald M. Maddock
Thomas Maddock & Sons Co
van Fleet
Federal District Court
J. E. Wright
Wheeling Sanitary Manufacturing Company
Elzey S. Aitken
Trenton Pottery Company
George C. Ratbfleisch
The
Sanitary Manufacturing Company
Pharty
Lambertsville Pottery Company
Archibald Meddock
James E. Slater
Abingdon (II) Manufacturing E Company
Bert O. Tilden
Acme Sanitary Pottery Company
Munros Dobbins
Camden Pottery Company
Theodore H. Barker
Chicago Pottery Company
Edward V. Brigham
Kalamazoo’ Pottery, Company
Rioters seize Muelheim as police restore order
German officials attribute the unrest to syndicalists and communists who stirred hungry workers. Those unable to find firearms used sharpened sticks and moved behind armed comrades as authorities struggle to control the mob.
The Commoner Discontinued By Bryan Brothers
Lincoln Neb April 20 Gov Charles W Bryan announces on his and William Jennings Bryan behalf the discontinuance of The Commoner after 22 years. The paper has been the personal organ of William J Bryan with his personal management and issue supervision. The publishers plan to transfer unexpired subscriptions to other publications as the Bryans devote time to new projects.
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Lincoln, Neb
Charles W. Bryan
William Jennings Bryan
Willian J. Bryan
Bryan
W. J. Breap
American People Thru Magazine
Canfield Named U S Conciliator in Labor Board
Fred A. Canfield of Cedar Rapids, former president of the Iowa Federation of Labor, has been appointed by Secretary of Labor Davis to the federal board of conciliation in the justice department. The appointment is effective immediately and makes him one of 18 commissioners representing the government in industrial disputes.
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Cedar Rapids
Fred A. Canfield
Iowa Federation of Labor
Davis
Federal Board of Consiltation
Department of Justice
Canfield
Glenutes
Paris
Cabinel
Tawa Federation of Labor
International Lathers
Uction
Des Moines Police Seek Trio in Torture Robbery Fire
Des Moines police hunt a three person gang a man two men and a woman after they tortured Mrs Ellen Greenbaum 44 at her home 152 East Wilson street until she fainted then looted her purse of 100 and set the house afire rescuers moved the unconscious woman to a hospital where doctors report her condition critical The assailants were after gems and jewelry from the safe deposit vaults noted the day before
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Des Moines
Ellen “Greenbaum
East Wilson Street
Greenbaum
McArthur named receiver for Travelers Casualty
Des Moines April 26 W W C McArthur was named receiver for the Travelers Casualty association after charges that the company was a vehicle for fraud, causing disorganization and the loss of about 28 000 policy holders since 1915. The attorney general alleged violations of Iowa insurance laws and by laws amid internal strife and falsified statements. More than 30 000 policyholders are affected in Iowa.
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Des Moines
Apri
Ww. C. McArthur
National Travelers’ Casualty Association
Ben Gibson
District Court
Kesney General
Sibson
Association
Iowa
Ames Opens Second Radio Short Course
Nearly 400 radio enthusiasts registered by noon for the second annual Iowa radio short course and convention at Iowa State College Ames. Speakers include R H G Mathews from Chicago E M Packman Valparaiso Ind F M Lanz Clarinda Ia C Miky Jr Minneapolis Minn H R Skifter St Olaf College Northfield Minn and H S Deal Iowa State College radio station coordinator.
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Ames
Iowa Radio
Iowa Stata
D. G C. Faber
R. H. G. Mathews
Chicago
E. M. Packman
Valparaiso
Ind
F. M. Lanz
Clarinda
C. Miky, Jr
Minneapolis
Minn
H.R. Skifter
St. Olaf College
Northfield
H. 8. Deal
Iowa State College
WOL
Gasmens Convention Advocates Advertising as Necessity
Mason City Iowa April 20 Dr Harry M Gage president of Coa college spoke at the Iowa District Gas association banquet at the Hotel Stanford Thursday evening. He argued that advertising is professionalized service and will benefit everyone as public utilities become more commercialized. Earlier Thursday Howard W Harrington of Moline Ill urged broader more intelligent advertising. A technical paper titled a story of a Sas pill was read on office management. Des Moines
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Mason City
Harry M. Gage
Coa College
Iowa District Gas Association
Stanford
saBe
Howard W. Harrington
Moline
Ill
A. W. Senmitz
Des Moines
Plumbers End Des Moines Strike Return To Work
Des Moines resumes building operations as Plumbers and Steamfitters union members end a three week strike. Workers return with a wage increase of one dollar to nine dollars a day, rising to nineteen dollars on May 1 1924 per the contract.
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Des Moines
Master Builders’ Association
Davenport Gas Company Wins Longest Continuous Service Award
Davenport Peoples Light company received the Iowa committee on public utility information prize for uninterrupted gas service to its patrons. The winner reported 68 years of continuous operation with only 42 hours of interruption, while eleven other firms reported long runs. Burlington Gas Light neared the record.
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Mason City
People’s Light Company of
Davenport
Iowa Committee On P Public Utility
Owa Gas Company
Lawn District
Inscaston
Peoples’ Light Company
Clinton Gas & Electric Co
Citizens Gas & Elcomvie Co
Cosnch Bluffs
Cedar Rapid Gas Company
Is Ears
Fort Nodge Gas & Elec
LeMarq Gas
Boone Gas Company
Maquoketa Light & Heat ‘Co
Northern Town Gas & Electric Company
Utility Gas Company
Storm Lake
Burlington Gas Light Company
Oskaloosa Light & Fuel Co
Fidelity Life Risk Companies Combine Accused Slayer Arrested
Des Moines and Clinton reports confirm the consolidation of National Fidelity Life Insurance of Sioux City with Fidelity Life of Kansas City. Ralph H. Rice becomes president of the merged company. Davenport reports say Joseph Richards, long sought for the Willam Gabel murder in Rock Island, was arrested in Clinton.
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Fidelity Life Risk Companies Combine
Slayer of
Gabel
Des Moines
Local Insurance Commission
National Fidelity Life Insurance Companiys
Sioux City
Kansas City
Ralph H. Rice
Consolidated Company
Clinton
Polior
Davenport
Joseph Richards
Gadzer
Willam Gabel
Rock Island
Machine Reveals Hidden Character Secrets in Test
An article reports Northwestern University presenting a machine by Prof. Delton Howard to read character. The device uses pedals and levers with flashing signals to assess traits like leadership, decisiveness, and temperaments. It aims to replace phrenology in selecting talents for varied careers.
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International News Wire
Chicago
Northwestern University
Delton 3. Howard
Disturbance Gert Seen in Prosperity
D. C. Wills, chairman of the Cleveland Federal Reserve Bank, says the next months will prove how people temper the economy. He notes prosperity, full employment, moveable goods, ample credit, and cautious building while warning overreaching hopes could trigger a downturn.
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United Press
Clevelan
D. C
Iowa Actress Lying Unconscious in New York Street
Miss Zoe Garland a 20 year old vaudeville actress from Iowa was found unconscious on a sidewalk before the Fonks dance studio in New York City. She was taken to Knickerbocker hospital in critical condition with a brain concussion. Police were alerted when a passerby found her bag containing her name address Hotel Planders a rail road ticket and jewelry. Mrs. Joseph McMurray a vaudeville agent said Garland had been engaged for a act and missed a rehearsal last night.
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New York
Zoe Garland
Vaudevilla
Iowa
Fonks
Knickerbocker Hospital
Joseph McMurray
Miss Garland
Hempstead
Des Moines Briefs Report 2 Dancing Marsihen Arrest Threat
Des Moines police threatened arrest for anyone who staged a dancing marsihen while Chief Ham mond, seriously ill at the city hospital, blocked an attempt at a United Commercial Travelers dance to spark Des Moines devotion after a long-distance record. Ames: Count Hanns Ahlefeldt Lauri left for Denmark to seek parental permission for poultry lourse stay as co-eds remain hopeful of his return amid financial ac tults. Atlantic: Harry Marsh escaped penalty when a jury did not connect him to bootleg liquor transport. authorities keep it in the hooch museum. Chicago: Prof Edwin D Starbuck addressed the Lakeshore division of the Illinois State Teachers association on The Work of the Child. Kansas City: Nina Wolfhorn, 23, exhausted from hours of wandering, found in a dazed condition in Des Moines.
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Des Moines
Marsihen
Hammond
United Commercial Travelers
Ames
Town State College
Hanns Ahlefeldt Lauri l
Denmark
Atlantic
Harry Marsh
Marsh
Hooch Museum
Chicago
Edwin D. Starbuck
University of Town
Lakeshore
Illinois State ‘Teachers’ Association
Evanston
Kansas City
Nina Wolfhorn
Road Conditions Generally Good in the Middlewest
United Press reports weekend road conditions broadly good across the middle west with hard surface highways from Chicago to St. Louis and Davenport in good shape. Southern Illinois shows heavy traffic improving roads. seven dirt roads in Illinois fair, Missouri rough. Des Moines area primary 7 fair east west. Nebraska routes largely unaffected by rains. Wisconsin roads muddy in spots but improving. northern regions still with snow and ice.
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United Press
Chicago
Middlewest
St. Louis
Davenport
Indiana State Line
Illnois
Illinois
Missouri
Nebraska
Des Moines
Wisconsin
Expected arrests in St Louis mail truck robbery case
More than twenty arrests were anticipated after police announced the loot from the April 2 mail truck robbery had been found at the home of William F Whitney Doering. Doering and a companion who arrived during the search and seven other suspects remain in custody for questioning. The recovered assets included two million dollars in federal land bank bonds and other securities, with a government motor truck and nine sacks of mail stolen.
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St. Louuis
Coneception
William F. “Whitney” Doering
Chicago Plane Rescues Island Cast From Ice
A Chicago aircraft dispatched by Thomas I. Wilson, packer, rescued two of three marooned men on an island in Northport Michigan. The plane returned at 2:88 p m with two survivors aboard and pilot Tatin Miller planned another trip to retrieve the remaining man icebound.
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Northport
Mich
Chicago
Thomas I. Wilson
Packer
Tatin Miller
Iowa Girl Held in Chicago After Man's Suicide Attempt
A Council Bluffs woman identified as Rose Hummer was questioned in Chicago after police found 64 year old millinery salesman Edward Kelley in a hotel room with carbolic acid poisoning. A farewell note to Hummer was discovered and Kelley’s condition was life threatening.
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Chicago
Rose Hummer
Council Bluffs
Edward Kelley
County Hospital
Miss Hummer
Capt Skipwith Gives Bond in Klan Case Under 13 Charges
Bastrop Louisiana April 2 Fifteen of the eighteen Morehouse parish citizens charged in connection with masked mob activities that led to the Richards killings had surrendered or posted bonds. Captain J K Skipwith exalted Cyclops of the Ku Klux Klan faced thirteen bills of information and appeared to give bonds totaling seven thousand one hundred dollars. Others charged with crimes including assault to murder surrendered and posted bonds.
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Bastrop
Morehouse Parish
Watt
Daniel
Thomas Richards
J. K. Skipwith
Cyclops
Ku Klux Klan
Florida Boy Dies of Beating in Michigan
Orlando Florida April 20 The 20 year old son of Mr and Mrs James Patterson died Tuesday in the Michigan reformatory from an inhuman beating in which several reformatory officials took part according to a letter to the boy s parents from another inmate Nurses in Moscow hospitals are paid one and one half million rubles a month which amounts in American money to little more than one dollar
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Orlando, Wia
James!atterson
Dlown, Mich
Moscow
Central Holiness University Plans for Homecoming
Oskaloosa Iowa April 20 The Thai Alumni Association of Central Holiness University begins preparations for the first homecoming set for June 4 5 with the Seventeenth university commencement and the national and Iowa Holiness association camp meeting June 11. Bishop Homer Stuntz of the M E church will be commencement orator. The camp meeting workers include Dr J C Morrison Widmore Ky Rev C W Ruth Indianapolis Ind and Rev S P Gouthey Seattle Wash. More than 2000 alumni are expected including missionaries evangelists pastors bankers and other professionals. Free board and lodging will be provided during the rally days with reduced railroad rates being sought. The committee hopes to contact every former student and anticipates one of the largest and most cordial gatherings in the university history.
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Oskaloosa
Central Holiness University
Hig
Seventeenth University
National
Iowa Holiness Associaion
Homer, Stuntz
M, EB. Church
J. C. Morrison
Widmore
C.W. Ruth
Indianapolis
Inud
P. Gouthey
Seattle
Wash
Chinese Bar White Men From Outing to Protect Pocketbooks
New York April 20 Four hundred Chinese members of the Chinese merchants association look forward to their Bear Mountain Hudson outing next July with watches on chains and purses in pockets One member Foo Joe Foo notes past outings had many white attendees and reports numerous pocketbook losses In response this year no white men will be invited without an association card to the trip with hopes of preventing further thefts
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New York
Chinese Merchants Association
Bear Mountain
Ithe Hudson
Foo Joe Foo
Hudson
Cleveland dancer sets 90 hour record in city
Miss Lune Curry completed 90 hours and 10 minutes of continuous dancing, a record declared final in Cleveland after authorities ordered no more marathons. The 9 10 p m finish followed last night. Arthur Klein previously held the longest at 93 hours and 18 minutes.
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Cleveland
Lune Curry
Convict Leasing in Florida Abolished in Bill
Tallahassee Fla April 20 The Florida senate passed the MacWilliams bill to abolish convict leasing by a vote of thirty one to one with only a dissenting veto. The measure ends the system in the state and moves toward reform in penal labor. The text notes a separate investigation into the deaths of Martin Tabort and North Dakota with hearings resuming Saturday morning. The Putnem Lumber company camp guards and other witnesses are listed for testimony.
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International News Wire
Tallahassee
Fla
Florida Senate
MacWilliams
Martin Tabort
North
Dakota
Putnem
Hoover Sees Ames Visit Highlight Iowa State College
During a stop in Iowa last week Herbert Hoover visited Ames to learn about Iowa State College. He stressed agriculture and the role of agricultural colleges in national prosperity and praised Iowa as a model of wealth, homes, intelligence, living standards, and moral quality.
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Toover
Iowa
Des Moines
Herbert Hoover
Ames
Iowa State College
Hoover
Mrs Anthony Wayne Cook Wins DAR Presidency in Bitter Election
Mrs Anthony Wayne Cook of Pennsylvania is elected president general of the Daughters of the American Revolution after a tense contest. Cook secured 940 votes while her opponent Mrs G Wallace Hanger earned 779. The congress adjourned with a loud demonstration in Washington as police and firemen helped maintain order during the voting.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
Anthony Wayne Cook
Pennsylvania
The
Daughters of the American Revolution
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G. Wallace Hanger
Washington, D.C
Hanger
Thomas A. Edison
New Jersey
Rhett Goode
Alabama
Cack
Altho
Edison
Abs
Frank H. Briggs
Maine
PF. P. Shumway
Massachusetts
William S. Walker
Washington
James H. Stansfield
Milnais
A. J. Brosseam
Michigan
George Debolt
West Virginia
A. H. Connelly
Missouri
Large Anderson
District of Columbia
Charles 8. Whitman
New York
Henry A. Beck
Indiana
Charles R. Booth
California
E. G. Drake
Nebraska
Gerald L. Schuyler
Colorado
Beary A . Fitts
Illiaan McGee Wilson
Ohio
Hundred Workmen Buried by Factory Explosion in Budapest
An explosion at a cellulose factory in Budapest buries 100 workers in the cellar. Twenty bodies have been recovered. the fate of the remaining victims is unknown. Local authorities and rescue teams continue to search the ruins.
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Budapest
Science Would Save Snakes of America as Farm Assets
Washington April reports scientist Remington Kellogg of the U S Department of Agriculture declares snakes aid farms by eating mice rats and other pests. He notes bull and gopher snakes and rattlers help control ground squirrels prairie dogs and pocket gophers and urges protection rather than extermination.
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Science
America
Washington, D
D. C
Saint Patrick
Remington Kelloge
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Kellogg
Linden Hinden Notes and School Meetings Report
Linden Hinden April 29 report notes Mrs. Joan Aker hosting Lifes Aid Society Thursday. Edson Gillett returned from Hampton and Ta. Lafayette PTA met with officers elected: Agnes Hoover president, Mira Neben dahl and J B Howe vice presidents, Minnie Eubanks secretary, Loban treasurer. Paul Penne couple welcomed daughter Helen Louise Friday at St Francis hospital. Grandma Chapman celebrated 81st birthday at Mrs. J W Chapman’s home. St Francis hospital referenced in Happy news.
First Witnesses in Ruthenberg Trial Asks Court to Define Syndicalism
St Joseph Mich April 20 The first witnesses in the Ruthenberg trial were called as the state begins presentation on charges of violating Michigan's antisyndicalism law. Prosecutor Gore outlines that Ruthenberg and co defendants allegedly advocated sabotage and violence to reform government while defense argues over party affiliation and intent.
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Associated Press
St. Joseph
Mich
George Bridgison
Berrien
Charles B. Ruthenbers
Cleveland
Michigan
Frank P. Walsh
Ruchenberg
Communist Party
Workers’ Party
Walsh
Charles Gore
Berrien County
Ruthenberg
Foster
Francis Merrow
Department of Justice
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Answers by Richards continue in Saturday column
The feature presents reader questions on promotions marriage travel and missing relatives with Richards' advice. It notes a forthcoming final installment and mentions Benjamin West succeeding Sir Joshua Reynolds as Royal Academy president in 1792.
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Benjamin West
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Royal Academy
Tendon
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