Allies demand Russian recognition of war debts for aid
Genoa May 1 Allied note final text insists Russia must unconditionally recognize its war debts before aid. British and French delegates show more harmony though Lloyd George and Barthou clash. Pope Pius praises conference progress as Poincare rebuffs Genoa meeting, suggesting Nice instead. Tchitcherin says treaty with Germany has no secret clauses and Russia remains not hostile to France.
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Associated Press
Genoa
Russia
Lloyd George
M. Barthou
Ytonoga
Poincare
Paris
Pope
Pope Pius
United Press
Tchitcherin
Floyd George
Supreme Council
San Remo
Italian Riviera
Nice
Germany
Political Commission
Europe
Cardinal Gasparri
Timely Courier Delivery Instructions and Contact
The Courier should be delivered at your home before 5 30. If you do not receive the paper by then due to carrier error or other cause call 3330 and a copy will be sent. Phone calls must reach this office before 6 34 pm.
Condemned Inmates Complain of Daylight Saving Time
William Bell and Jacob Rosenwasser, condemned to die within a week at Sing Sing, told Warden Lawes that daylight saving is fine for golfers but tough for inmates facing the long walk. They urged a return to regular time schedules.
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Sing Sing
Death House
Lawes
William Bell
Jacob Rosenwasser
Robbery at 713 Logan Avenue Ends with Getaway
Proprietors Mr and Mrs Estrin of the grocery at 713 Logan Avenue were robbed of 116 04 in cash at 1030 pm by two young gunmen who forced them to stand against a wall then fled in an automobile. Detectives obtained a description and police were notified. Two other suspects confessed to a Forum barber shop burglary stealing 30 and razors. Dope peddlers Jay Thomas and J D B Walker were arrested after a room search found six morphine bottles. They were held for federal agents.
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HW. B. Estrin
Logan Avenue
John Beebe
Myrie Pond
Bog Fry
Ralph Davis
O. B. Beckwith
P. K. Walker
H. T. Wagner
Jay Thomas
J. DB. Walker
Thomas
Independence Road
Filipinas Seek Autonomy After 24 Years US Rule
Philippine independence mission led by President Quezon and House Speaker Osmena departed Manila aboard the Keystone State for Seattle then Washington to press Congress and the President for self government in the islands, marking 24 years since Dewey’s Manila Bay victory.
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Manila
P. I
Dewey
Manila Bay
United States
Philippine Islands
Washington
Manuel Quezon
Senate
Osmena
Keystone State
Seattle
Congress
Interstate Commerce suspends lumber freight rate hikes
The Interstate Commerce Commission suspended until August 29 the proposed freight rate increases on lumber from California producing points to Minnesota and Wisconsin. Current coast group rates are 664 cents per 100 pounds and 6214 cents from Truckee and Halleyl groups, with proposed new rates of 73 cents and 0 cents, respectively.
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Washington, D. C
Interstate Commerce Commission
California
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Truckee
Halwyl
Weather Report Shows Rural Roads Improve in Iowa Minnesota
In Charles City Iowa May 1 1922 the report covers towns Albert Lea Algona Charles City Cedar Rapids Davenport Des Moines Dubuque Faribault St Paul La Crosse Mason City New Hampton Postville Waterloo Waverly and more. Summary notes improved rods for main roads and food relief prospects with likely showers tonight and Tuesday and moderate temperatures.
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U.S. Department of Agriculture Weather Bureau
Charles City
Albert Lea
Minn
Algona
Cedar Raplds
Davenport
Dew Moines
Dubuque
Faribault
Stinn
la Crosse
Wis
Mason City
Starahalte
New Hampton
Postville
Watertow
Waverly
Summaeyt
Government says business steady with improving conditions
Washington officials of the department of commerce report that a U S business boom is unlikely due to Europe’s slow reconstruction yet fundamental conditions are improving. They cite higher production, stable prices, and larger exports in iron and steel autos fuels newsprint construction and foodstuffs with wholesale prices about 50 percent above prewar levels while retail prices trend down.
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Washington, D. C
United States
Europe
Department of Commerce
Gov Russell Defends Former Secretary's Criminal Charges
Jackson Mississippi May 1 The trial of a $100000 suit by Frances Birkhead against Governor Russell opened in federal court. Birkhead, formerly his stenographer, accuses him of seduction and says she later went to Memphis for an operation at his instigation. Russell calls the allegations a frame-up by insurance company officials.
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United Press
Jackson
Miss
Frances Birkhead
Gov. Russell
Mississippi
Miss Birkhead
Russell
Shai
Memphis
Pianist Grainger's Mother Dies in Fall
News reports that Perey Grainger, renowned pianist, rushed from Los Angeles to New York to investigate his mother Rose Grainger's death from a sixteenth floor office window. Police attribute it to self inflicted death, though friends offer no motive beyond poor health.
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New York
Perey Grainger
Los Angeles
Rose Grainger
Path for elopers would be barred by bill by Codd
Washington D C May 1 Uncle Sam as the daddy of all the young people of romantic and marriageable age will legislatively sit down on elopements if Representative George P Codd Michigan has his way Codd former mayor of Detroit and for more than 10 years a circuit court judge in Michigan has a resolution before the house judiciary committee which would give congress the right through a constitutional amendment to establish uniform law on marriage and divorce If he can get the resolution through congress and secure ratification by two thirds of the states Codd proposed to follow that up with a bill which would require lovers to wait for a week or 10 days after license before they could wed The bill would help parents and ban impulsive matches from ending in divorce court
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United Press
Washington, D. C
Sam
George P. Codd
Michigan
Codd
Detroit
House Judiciary Committee
Congress
Battle for Peking intensifies as Wu forces press south
Reports from Peking describe Gen Wu Pei Fu driving toward the capital while Gen Chang Tso Lin withdraws from Changsintien. artillery roars near the southern walls as Wu Fup s forces push a flanking move alongside the Hun River.
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Peking
Wu Pei-I Fu
Chang Tsodin
Changsintien
Chang Tso-Lin
Wu Pei-Fu
Chang
Marco Polo
Hun River
Paotingfu
Chang so-Lin
London
United Press
Tien Tsin
China
Geo
Wu Pei Fu
Pekin
Chang Pao Lin
Japan
Justin Brandt
Shanghai
Pekin-Mukden
Brandt
Chang Tso Lin
Des Moines May Day Report on China Crisis
UNCONFIRMED dispatches report Premier Liankao or Liang resigning amid the Peking crisis as Wu Peifu and Zhang Zuolin fight for control. In Washington an American force of 127 sailors 23 marines and six officers from the USS Albany arrived at Peking to bolster the legation guard amid the civil war and Sherman seeks a transport boat to Tien Tsin for American interests.
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Associated Press
Washington, D.C
Wu Pei-Py
Chang -Tso Lin
Peking
Tien ‘Txin
Legation
Des Moines
Ohit
Washington
BD. C
United States
Albany
China
Sherman
State Department
Admiral Straus
Tien Tsin
Flags Will Fly on All Gov't Buildings on Mother's Day
Postmaster General Work urges nationwide display of flags on all federal buildings for Mother's Day. He notes widespread flag-raising at post offices and other government offices as a symbol of pride in mothers and national respect.
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Washington
United States
Night Raiders to Surrender in Mass Protest
Fifty six members of the Inglewood night raiders agreed to surrender in a body at the district attorney's office as the grand jury prepares indictments. Ku Klux Klan member Coburn announced the planned mass surrender ahead of the grand jury's Thursday session.
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Tintled Press
Line Angeles
Cal
Inglewood
Woadxine
Tba
Cobur T
Wifteen
District Attorney's Office
Ku Klux Klan
Admit Miss Baer Too Late for Date with President Harding
New York delegate in the Women's International League for Peace was detained on arrival from Germany by the Department of Justice suspected as a communist agitator. A special board of inquiry released her, but too late for a planned meeting with President Harding.
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New York
Mar
Gertrude Baer
Women's International League For Peace
Washington
Germany
Deepartment of Justice
Miss Baer
Harding
O Leary Bets $1000 on Weather Predictions
Chicago gambler Jim O Leary said he collected $1000 after predicting rain would arrive in April. He claims a European federation plan centers on cooperation and consultative world governance led by an apostle type figure. The article ties him to Father Siurzo, a Sicilian priest and political leader described as advancing a Catholic popular party platform.
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Chicago
Jim O'Leary
O'Leary
Siurzo
Ijlo
Constitution Democracy
Csaltagirone
Sicily
Yaira I
La Follette Nephew Divorced From Actress Wife
Granting a secret decree of divorce to Jessa J. M. LaFollette nephew of Senator Robert M. LaFollette from Georgia Howard an actress was revealed in Chicago on May 1. The divorce on desertion grounds was uncontested. Evidence included letters allegedly written by Mrs LaFollette to other men. The couple married four years ago in San Francisco.
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Chicago
Jessa J. M. LaFollette
Robert M. LaFollette
Wisconsin
Georgia Howard
LaFollette
Ideal Weather Opens Mississippi Valley League Season
In Cedar Rapids and Waterloo the M V league opens this afternoon under prospects of ideal weather. Managers Speas and Ragan say their squads are ready for a strong start despite past rain. The Ottawa opening program includes ceremonies and a downtown parade at the ballpark.
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Associated Press
Cedar Rapids
Waterloo
Speas
Ragan
Ottumwa
Ottumwe Cardinals
Marshallstown Ansons
Marshalltown
Dimamic Drahab
Davenport Bond Issue Defeated In Special Election
In Davenport Iowa the proposed 250000 bonds for two new primary schools were defeated by 229 votes in a special election. A prior regular election had approved the measure by 186 votes but was ruled illegal for insufficient advance advertising. The case cites the two week notice versus four weeks required by law. In Sedalia Missouri four bandits from a touring car slugged two watchmen at the Liberty theatre and fled with cash.
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Davenport
KOB Theatre
Sedana. Mo
Liberty Theatre
Man Attempts Drowning in Shallow Pond
Oshkosh Nebraska May 1 An Austrian immigrant named A Piesterman tried to drown himself in a shallow ranch pond dragging an anvil to his neck and lying under a foot of water He could not keep his head under and the body was recovered later according to a dispatch.
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Oshkosh, Neb
A. Piesterman
Cardinal O'Connell Returns After Rome Journey
Cardinal O'Connell arrives in Boston after a trip to Rome and views the New York skyline from the steamer Arabic as he comes home. He did not participate in the Pony Mus XI event due to late arrival.
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Cardinal O'Connell
Boston
Rome
Pra
Han
America
Elpetinn
Pony Mus XI
New York
Chicago May Be Mayor as Business Leader Emerges
Chicago on May 1 reports Mrs. Jacob Bauer described as “best business woman” by supporters as potential next mayor. Bauer, widow of Julius Bauer head of a carbon company, has managed the family business since his death in 1942.
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Chicago
Jacob Pauer
Baer
Chicago Postimaster
Jacob Bauer
Liquint Carbonin Company
AL Bauer
Dilihan Races to Bedside in Rapid Mexico to New York Run
New York May 1 In a special Mexico City to New York train via San Antonio Texas Marry F Sin elatr chairman of the Sinclatr Consolidatedt OH corporation hurries to the bedside of his six year old son Harry Sinclair Jr seriously ill after an operation for double mastoids The trip may be the fastest railroad run on record Sinclair left Mexico City yesterday noon and is due to reach home Thursday morning
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New York
Mexico City
San Antonio
Tex
F. Sinelatr
Sinclatr Consolidatedt OH Corporation
Harry
Sinclair, Jr
Sinclair
Omaha Fire Captain Fatally Injured In Early Morning Explosion
Fire department captain Robert Dunlap was fatally injured and 14 others, including Chleft Salter, burned when an explosion hurled them down stairs during a blaze in Omaha. The estimated loss stood at 310,000 dollars.
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Omaha
Robert Dunlap
Chleft Salter
Tratteries at St Louis Cleveland St Louis
Readable fragments note Tratteries involving Kolp and Sev at St Louis in Cleveland area. No clear event details or outcomes available.
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St Louis
Cleveland St. Louis
I Kolp
Sev
Motorist jumps to safety as train hits car
J. H. Davis of Glen-Woot Street leaped from his car just before a Winois Central freight train struck it on the belt line crossing at Riehl Street. The car was crushed, but Davis escaped injury. Hundreds gathered to view the wreckage as Davis explained the near miss and a second incident with a moving train left a man, Mar viea Garcia, briefly knocked senseless after a switchpost collision.
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J. H. Davis
Glen- Woot Street
Frank Bros
Winois Central
Riehl Street
Davis
Frein
Wesk
Incomotiva
Marviea Garcia
C. G. W. Sycamore Street
J. C. Jensen
Cannibalism Report Grows Among Ukrainian Peasants
International relief head Dr. Fridtjof Nansen received a letter from Capt. Quisling in Ukraine urging swift aid. The message cites food scarcity affecting millions, with daily hunger deaths over ten thousand and reports of 276 starvation deaths in Odessa during the first week of April.
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Associated Presa Geneva
Fridtiot Nansen
International Russian Relief Organization
Quissing
Ukraine
Quisling
Odessa
Five Die in Rooming House Blast in Kansas City
Five people were killed and more than 50 injured when an explosion wrecked a Kansas City rooming house. A fire followed the blast, and investigators say a gas leak in the cellar likely caused the disaster.
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Kansas City
Maj Gen McAndrew Dies of Heart Attack at 39
Maj Gen James McAndrew former chief of staff of the A E F during World War I died at Walter Reed hospital in Washington D C last night from arterial hardening and valvular heart disease He was 39 years old.
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James McAndrew
Walter Reed Hospital
Whittier Tanker Crew Rescued Off Point Arena
Captain Lohen and 13 crewmen of the Union Oil tanker Whittier were landed at Point Arena California at 7 am after abandoning ship on rocks offshore. They spent about three hours in open boats before reaching port.
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Point Arena
Cal
Lohen
Union Oil Company
Whittier
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