Kidnapping Mystery Grips Two Towns Over Sister Cecilia
Police in Frederick and Baltimore hunt a mysterious man and woman believed to have abducted Sister Cecilia, a Catholic teacher, from Notre Dame convent. She escaped in Baltimore after being held for hours, describing foreigners and phrases like ransom and 500 dollars. The taxi driver Cathcart who brought her back faced questions as authorities seek the house of confinement.
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Frederick
Baltimore
Sister Ce
Baltimare
Loase
Justitarion
Stewart Cathcart
Cecilia
Mest Mlehl
Father Kane
Cathcart
W. J. Kane
Notre Baume
Hou
Kane
Pather Kane
Cerilia
Frederic
Servie
Sloney
Frederick W
Cecilix
Ceciliz
Marie Whalen
Verona
Pittsburgehk
Robert L. Osborne
Ra Road
Osborne
Ares
Riot trial may last two months in Antonio Malkovitch death case
Marion Ontario locals report the trial of six men charged with murder in the June Tin mine riot over Antonio Malkovitch’s death. Jury selection continued in Williamson County circuit court with additional talesmen awaiting examination. Prosecution reduced defendants from twenty five to six to expedite proceedings and present crucial evidence.
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Marion
Babia
Altot Heys
Antonio Malkovitch
Erle
Williamson' Enubty
Prie
Bell
Ria
Iowa Prosperity Tone at Builders Expo Address
Hes Moines reports Iowa leaders tout prosperity amid deflation concerns. Lieutenant governor extols agriculture wealth and breadth of state growth, citing crop values versus national citrus. Convention sessions open with Mills presiding and plans advanced for economic recovery messaging.
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Taluu
United States
Guy ©. Mills
Webster ‘Ily
Contractors Beaten in Attempt to Have Camp Profits Split
Des Moines registrants seeking a share of Camp Jodge profits under a federal contract lost their suit in the Iowa Supreme Court. The court ruling held the plaintiffs did not prove a joint venture or an accounting contract with Charles Weitz & Son and that the Des Moines Master Builders' Association, being a corporation, could not enter into such contracts. The decision reaffirmed that no binding agreement existed and noted the court issued thirty opinions today.
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Les Moines
Des Moines
Weitz
Master Builders Association
Supreme Court
Iona Mann Memo Trials Land Notes in California Case
In Chicago edition 13 and Crawfordsville records, the trial of 12 Daniel Mayes company officials for conspiracy to defraud via mall ties proceeded in federal court. Edgar testified he paid 1000 dollars as part payment for 80 acres of land in California, with officials estimating proceeds surpassing 34 million. Edgar said the memos he signed were land sale instruments.
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Chicago
Widd. Edgar
Crawfordsvile
Daniel Mayes Company
California
Edgar
Des Moines Sorority Wins Dance Fight
Des Moines February 13 The toes Zeta Delta Kappa sorority triumphed in a legal skirmish against the National Delta Kappa when Justice Peters ruled the local sorority could host a dance last night. The national sorority had sought to stop it by injunction alleging trademark use of the name Zeta Delta Kappa. A decision on the main matter will come later in court.
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Des Moines
Zeta Delta Kappa
4A Delta Kappa
Vistereti Dudge Peters
Nation
Iowa Hardware Dealers Hold Open Session in Des Moines
Des Moines February 1 3. Tobart R Heatty of Chicago former Illinois Hardware Dealers Association president delivered the opening address at the Iowa Hardware Dealers Association fungal meeting. B McCarroll Ottumwa president opened with the keynote. The convention continues Friday.
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Des Moines
Tobart R. Heatty
Chicago
Ilinois Hardware Dealers’ Association
Iowa Re‘hur Hardware Dealers Association
B. McCarroll
Ottumwa
Iowa Associaten
Independents Plan Policy on Gas Tax
Independent oil men at Iowa met in annual convention to determine policy toward the proposed state tax on gasoline. A definite policy was to be formulated before adjournment late this afternoon. The convention was held in executive session. officers were to be elected later today.
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Feo
Iowa
Boozer Endures Brutal Failed Suicide Attempt in Sioux City
William Vanderburg, 50, amid a drunken party episode, used a sledge hammer to strike himself and then slashed his throat. Paramedics reported the incident but Vanderburg survived the initial self harm. He has a large family and is receiving medical care.
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Sioux City
William Vanderburg
Soviet Move to Nationalize Harvester Plant in Moscow
A February 13 proposal in Moscow seeks nationalization of the International Harvester plant there as Westinghouse’sYaroslav plant remains private. The I H plant reportedly continues private management while officials in Moscow say the firm is in an awkward position amid the nationalization push. The report notes differing fates for neighboring plants amid economic strain and Russian operations.
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Moscow
International Harvester Company
Tee Cane Wit Company
Deaths in Dawson Disaster Put at 120
Dawson New Mexico February 13 The Phelps Dodge mine was fully explored and all entombed miners were confirmed dead The known death toll rose to 100 early today and 14 others remained unaccounted for after the explosion last Thursday afternoon Fourteen miners were still in tunnels when the blast occurred leaving only hopes for survivors.
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Preas
Dawson, N.M
Dawson
Phelps- Dodge Corporation
Mie
Sweden
Shade of Columbus Flutters Over Voliva Trial
The courtroom hosted a surreal scene as Judge Flapkins resumed the Wilbur Green Voliya trial. Rev Thomas Nelson accuses Voliya of srimingsibel while A V Smith questions school leaders. Judge sustains defense objections during chaotic exchanges in a Chicago session.
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Shade
Christopher Columbus
Voliva
Wired
Chicago
Flapkins
Wilbur Green Voliya
Thomas AW Nelson
Srimingsibel
Voliya
Zion
Btale
A. V. Smith
T. A. Simpson
President to Call Another Governors Parley on Dry Laws
President Harding will call a further conference of state governors in Washington to discuss prohibition enforcement. No date is set. the White House said the call will go out after state legislatures adjourn and governors can focus on enforcement questions.
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Washington
D. C
Harding
White House
Wan Who Gave His Fiancee Gin Jailed on Assault Charge
New York police arrested Clifford Klin after a night with his fiancée Marie Spence. He allegedly gave her bootleg gin causing her to become unconscious. Authorities filed an assault charge after investigation at a local residence.
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Wan
Gin
New York
Clifford
Klin
Cliford
Marie Spence
Hoaire
Man shot in Osage according to St Paul report
A man named Thomas Zuvaa S in a St Paul hospital today with a gunshot wound to the left leg says he received the wound in a gunfight with the marshal at Osage Iowa. Officials here believe he is a whisky runner and he is being held.
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St. Paul
Osage
Child Labor Amendment Wins Committee Victory
Washington February 16 The constitutional amendment to prohibit child labor won a preliminary victory as a motion to send the amending resolution to a subcommittee of the senate judiciary committee was defeated 6 to 5. The committee postponed further action until next Monday.
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Washington, D. C
Senate Judiciary Committee
President to Seek Global Rubber Investigation Aid
President Harding in Washington plans to request funds to probe the world rubber situation and fund experiments in rubber production, aiming to advance investigations and potential remedies likely to involve international cooperation and domestic programs.
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Washington, D. C
Harding
Important Turkish Conference Held at Smyrna
An important Turkish military and state council was summoned at Smyrna to discuss near east issues. Ismet Pasha announced he would depart for Smyrna immediately rather than Angora, while others suggested moderates favor acceptance of the Lausanne treaty with minimal changes. Britain signals willingness to sign the near east treaty as given at Lausanne.
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London
Smyrna
Constantinople
Ismet Pasha
Lausanne
Angora
Samet
Near East
Mustapha Keval Pasha
Kemal
Isriel
Turkey
United States
Britain
Thengar East
Gulf of Ismid
Athens
Thrace
Maritza
Harrington
Curzon
Shoot Chauffeur of Bank Car and Escape with $100,000
In Los Angeles on February 13 two bandits shot and killed the bank chauffeur Sam McGee and escaped with a mail sack containing $100,000 from the First National Bank auto. The car was under guard by QO. L. Callen and W. Blizzard.
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Los Angeles
First National Bank
Sam McGee
QO. L. Callen
W. Blizzard
Oppose 8 Hour Day for Illinois Women
Illinois manufacturers mobilize against an eight hour day for women and plan to present opposition at the state capitol in Springfield on February 20. Officials claim 90 percent of the state's industries favor opposing the proposed measure.
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Chicago
Illinois
State Capitol
Springfields
Illinois’ Manufacturers’ Association
Clerks on Burlington Road Given Increase
Galesburg Ill Feb 13 An increase in wages for clerks on the Chicago Burlington and Quincy railroad effective March 1 was decided at a meeting of general and division superintendents held here yesterday The raise averages about 2 cents an hour for the various grades of way officials said the wage question was the only item before the conference in Chicago Feb 13
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Ill
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
Chicago
Hall Mills Witness Illness Delays Murders Probe
Mrs Jane Gibson a chief prosecution witness in the Hall Mills apple tree murders case is critically ill in New Brunswick New Jersey doctors refuse to disclose the illness Her brother reports she muttered deliriously about a mysterious Bastrop La and a Klansman while two men sought to eject her from a front porch delayed by illness as a grand jury selection proceeds in Morehouse parish pending district judge F P L Odom's term.
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New Brunswick
N. JL
Jane Gibson
Hall-Mills
Bastrop
Ka Kius Klan
Morehouse
Gibson
ML Odom
Maren
Odom
Profit for Chewing Gum Maker in 1922 Six Million
Chicago February 13 Net profits for the Willam Wrigley Jr company Chicago manufacture 278 for 1922 were 6 146 635 after deducting all charges and federal taxes it became kagwi today That amounted to a profit of 12 40 a Bhara on the 539 054 shares of 25 par common stock outstanding before the declaration of a 16 per cent stock dividend rate In December Net profits in 1921 were 4 910 677.
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Chicago
Willam Wrigley, Jr., Company
Kagwi
McCormick Reweds Ganna Walska in Chicago Home
McCormick and Ganna Walska remarried today at the McCormick home in Lake Forest. Rev. Fred Hawley conducted the ceremony. Walska, age 31, born June 7, 1891 in the Department of Seine Paris, is known as Ganna Walska Puacz. McCormick, 50, born May 2, 1873, resides in Lake Forest.
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Chicago
Areid McCornick
Mme. Walska
Fune
Department of Seine
Paris
Ganna Walske Puacz
McCormick
Lake Forest
King George Opens Parliament Amid Ruhr Strain and Turkish Hopes
King George opened the second session of the fourth parliament, stressing Britain cannot concur in Ruhr operations while aiding allies, and signaling resolve on the American debt settlement. He urged progress on Turkish questions and addressed unemployment, as ceremonies marked a pivotal postwar session.
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Associated Press
London
George
Great Britain
Mary
Davenport Cement Storage in Transit Hearing
Chicago, Feb 13 hearing on suspending the storage in transit privilege at Davenport Ia for cement continued before Interstate Commerce Commission examiner Robert Me Quirk. The privilege allows cement from the factory to Davenport stored up to six months then shipped at a thru rate. Participants included Lehigh Portland Cement, Petoskey Portland Cement, and Sandusky Cement companies.
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Chicago
Davenport
Robert &. Quirk
Interstate Commerce Commission
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad
Lehigh Portland Cement Company
Petoskey Portland Cement Company
Sandusky Cement Company
Harding to reshuffle cabinet with Work and Walt
Washington reports President Harding plans to move Postmaster General Work to Secretary of the Interior, replacing Albert B. Fall as of March 4. Senator Harry W. Hawes of Indiana would become postmaster general, enabling both men to assume their new roles as Fall retires and a formal announcement is near.
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Washington
D. C
Harding
Shania
Albert B. Walt
Harry Wew
Indiana
Work
Senate Passes Inauguration Date Amendment
Washington February 13 The Norris amendment to the federal constitution altering the present session of Congress and changing the presidential inauguration from March 4 to the third Monday in January was approved by the Senate after brief debate by 62 votes. It now goes to the House with approval deemed uncertain before adjournment of Congress.
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Washington, D. C
Muarch
Senate
House
Farmers Flee from Flood in Louisiana
Monrer La Feb 18 Farmers and their families fled the Ouachita river bottom between here and Smackover as the swollen river inundates the countryside. No loss of life reported though stock loss is heavy. The river likely to rise several feet more. Monroe not expected to be in danger for days.
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Monrer
Ouachita
Here
Smackover
Monroe
Urges Passage of Wheat Price Bill by Senate Committee
Washington Feb. 13 The Senate Agricultural Committee recommended enactment of the Goading Bill creating a 300,000,000 federal corporation to stabilize wheat prices. They urged the Senate to consider the measure at the present session.
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Washington, D.C
Senate Agricultural Committee
Senate
Great Britain Cables Challenge for Davis Trophy
London February 12 Great Britain has cabled a challenge to the Americas for the Davis era international lawn tennis trophy. Great Britain will compete in the European story as contestants.
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London
Great Britain
Americas
Ship Owners Join Federal Drug Fight Effort in 1940s
Washington February 13 American trans oceanic principal steamship operators pledged cooperation with the government to stop ship crews from smuggling narcotics. Investigations have shown a large illicit drug flow entering by newly recruited crews aboard ships. Operators have been provided lists of suspects.
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Washington
DD. C
Shin
Bethy
Two Killed as Train Smashes Streetcar in Louisville
A Louisville & Nashville flyer bound for Cincinnati collided with a streetcar at Fourth and A streets in Louisville today. Two men were killed and four others injured. The dead are salesman William B. Tanner, 44, and Solomon Blum, 86, vice president of Blum Brothers Florsheim Company.
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Louisville
Louisville & Nashville Flyer
Cincinnati
New Orleans
Fourth
William B. Tanner
Solomon Blum
Blum Brothers-Florsheim Company
Railway shopmen guests of Y. M. today event
About 160 shop men attended a noon entertainment by the Railway Y M C A featuring a film titled National Capital Highways. Tonight residents of the north district will attend a community meeting at Mase Park Presbyterian church. Rev D H Middents will lead the third in a series of shop meetings in the boilershop with special music.
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Milneis Central Com- Dsay
YM. C. A
Mase Park Presbyterian Church
North District
I. C
D. Hmiddents
East Park Presbyterian Church
Former Waterloo Girl Dies at Des Moines
Mrs. Larry Perkins formerly Edith Potter and daughter of Mrs. John Gensert of 410 Dane Street Waterloo died at her Des Moines home at 2 30 P M Monday. Mrs Gensert and Rex Puller brother of the decedent have gone to Des Moines for funeral services. Besides her mother husband and four children Harold Lova Seth and Bobbie Des Moines are named relatives.
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Larry Perkins
John Gensert
Dane Street
Des Moines
Gensert
Rex Puller
New board meets in first gathering with strong attendance
President Stephen D Brown presided at the initial meeting of the board of the Center Waterworks association. A near full attendance amid stormy weather showed strong support as John F E Sweeney and Burr Lichy became first and second vice presidents and W A Lane was elected treasurer. Committees were appointed to assist officers across finance house industrial membership publicity convention road and aug attrities.
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Stephen D. Brown
C~eater Waterlogs Association
John FE. Sweeney
Burr Lich
W. A. Lane
Wight
Firesides Beckon as OV Man Winter Goes on Big Spree
Waterloo endures a snowy thaw as Old Man Winter unleashes sleet then hail before noon. Snow accumulates to seven tenths of an inch, with nearly an inch more by 1 p.m. Temperature drops from 31 to 22 degrees F. Late day clouds linger and outlook calls for colder weather. Streetcar service slows. crews fight drifted tracks while wind and coal fears loom.
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Firesides Beckon
OV Man
Winter
Jack Frost
North Wind
Waterloo
Aleet
Hall
Bréat Quan
Bight
Lincoln Deeds as Told at Noon Alwanians Meeting
Fred J. Miller of East High described Abraham Lincoln as a national marvel during a luncheon at Hotel Russell-Samson. He traced Lincoln from log cabin origins through New Orleans and the Illinois legislature to Congress, praising his moral sense, reason, and common sense.
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Kentucky
Salem
United States
Abraham Lincoln
Fred J. Miller
East High
Hotel Russell-Samson
Elis
Mr. Miller
New Orleans
Illinois
Congress
Miller
Lincoln
Troop 13 Leads Pen Attendance in Scout Rally
West High auditorium hosted a Boy Scout rally judged by A B Jury. Troop 13 topped the attendance tally with the highest ticket numbers, followed by Troop 14 and Troop 15 in various contest listings.
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Troop 13
West High Auditorium
A. B. Jury
Troop 73
Troop 14
Troop T
Secon
Troop 17
Troop
Mrs Olga M Thielman Dies at 32 O'clock
Mrs Olga M Thielman wife of Henry J Thielman a building contractor of 1827 Prautiy street died today at St Francis Hospital The body was removed to Vijje man Gindt undertaking parlors pending funeral arrangements
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Henry 'Ttielman
Olga M. Thielman
Henry J. Thielman
Prautiy Street
St. Francis Kostal
Vijjeman & Gindt
Fire at Orphanage Rescues 173 Children in Franklin
A blaze at the New Hampshire Orban home in Franklin on February 13 led to the rescue of 173 children. Fireman Peter Savote was fatally injured during the incident.
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Franklin
New Hampshire
Orban
Peter Savote
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