Squabble Over Desert Blocks Parley Says
Cleveland April 3 A childlike squabble between France and Italy over desert sands in Northern Africa is blamed for blocking progress at the London arms talks. Newton D. Baker cites secret 1914 treaties that would have brought Italy into WWI on the Allies side and promises territory south of Tripoli to near Lake Chad.
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Cleveland
U.P
France
Italy
Africa
London
Newton D. Baker
Tripoli
Chad
England
Baker
Mussolini
Explosions at Pennsylvan ia plant kill ten injure many
Prematurely detonated fireworks at the Pennsylvania Wireworks near Devon set off blasts that shook New Jersey and Pennsylvania. At least 10 workers died and about 80 were injured as fires raced through the plant and surrounding sheds. Rescue efforts and hospital arrivals followed as crews fought fires and searched for additional victims.
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Pennsylvania Wireworks Company
Devon
Trenton
N. J
Pennsyvania Road
Hair Service
Rower verdict clears railroad in accidental death case
Coroner L Haynes of Greene County rules the Pennsylvanian crossing crash that killed Arley B Nelson and Frances J Nelson as accidental death. He notes unobstructed view and functioning bell signal at Baumgartner Crossing on Route 42 three miles from Cedarville. The Nelsons were returning from Cincinnati via Columbus when their sedan was struck by an eastbound train.
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L. Haynes
Greene County
Cedarville
Arley B. Nelson
Athens
Mer Brant
Frances J. Nelson
Eth
Haynes
Nelson
Atheny
Cincinnati
Columbus
Baumgartner’s Crossing
Route 42
Timony
Edgar Little
Booklet on Paint Published by The Athens Messenger
The Athens Messenger publishes an official government booklet detailing how to paint any surface from automobiles to shingles. It covers paint mixing, surface preparation, and whitewashing methods for large jobs. Readers are urged to send for a copy with a spring clean-up coupon.
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The
Athens Messenger
Hays Announces New Picture Morals Code for Talkie Era
Will Hays unveils a new film morals code aimed at preventing corruption as sound pictures expand. He cites audiences of 22,000 U.S. theaters and 250 million weekly global viewers.
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Hodge
Calif
Will Hays
American Pictures Weekly
No Sympathy with Crime Policy Stated in Editorial
The piece denounces sensationalizing crime and emphasizes respect for law. It calls for preserving marriage and home life, condemns adultery, and rejects ridicule of religion and clergy while condemning obscenity and cruelty. It argues for careful treatment of severe punishments and prohibition-era concerns.
Hays Keeps Industry on the Moral Path Says Moses
The article notes Moses praising the voluntary acceptance of a new moral code by the motion picture industry. It credits Will Hays with guiding the industry toward staying on a straight moral path.
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Moses
Will Hays
Gangsters Plan Fatal Inside Job Against Partner
Charles M. Curry and Harry Morhan plotted to kill and rob their partner Angelo Freni, proposing a scheme within their ranks. The confession outlines a conspiracy to carry out the deadly robbery.
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Will Hays
Charles M. Curry
Harry Morhan
Angelo Freni
Group conscripts man for burying in bank vault plot
They forced a man to carry a shovel to a car and dig a grave for buried “soup” described as hazardous material to be used on a bank vault. The accomplices then overpowered him and buried him as part of the plan.
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Freni
Nelsons of Athens Remembered in Obituary Row
The Nelson couple born in 1883 and married since 1901 shared a life in Burlingham Parkersburg and Athens. He worked at Manhattan Stores and Union Grocery while she aided family ties and affiliations. They left surviving relatives in Ohio and Washington, D. C. with both parents previously living at Mapleweed Drive.
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Athens
Sprague
Columbus
Nelson
Hemlock Grove
Burlingham
Meigs County
Leroy Jones
Parkersburg
Mr. Nelson
Hocking Valley
Mine Company
Manhattan
Nelsonville
Hollister
Buchtel
Athens and Meigs officers search hills for shooting suspect
Virgil Good, sought for shooting Troy Fields, eluded authorities after leaving his Vore Ridge home Sunday. Deputies trailed sightings near Albany Jerseyville Snowville as city ferries and bridges were alerted. Good, six feet tall, 150 to 165 pounds, wearing blue overalls and jacket, dark tan hat, carries a dark overcoat.
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Virgil Good
Troy Fields
Athens
Meigs County
Athens County
Good
Jerseyville
Gus Reeves
Dick Hamilton
Reeves
Hamilton
Wayne Wingett
J. A. Willock
Ohio River
Fred Heck
Delbert Welker
Ben Morris
Snowville
Kenton seeks accounting from West Ohio Gas for appliances sales
Special counsel for the City of Kenton will demand an accounting from West Ohio Gas Co. detailing proceeds and profits from retail gas and electrical appliance sales to Kenton consumers. E L Heyser, rate expert for the company, testified at the Public Utilities Commission hearing on the rate appeal that his valuation report did not allocate sums from appliance sales.
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Columbus
U.R
Kenton
West Ohio Gas Company
E. L. Heyser
Philadelphia
Public Utilities Commission
Illinois Senate Battle Heads Toward Polls in Chicago Aura
Two midwest politicians Ruth Hanna McCormick and Charles S. Deneen duel for the GOP nomination in a high profile Chicago campaign. With three days left voters head to the state polls after intensified radio and street strategy. McCormick returns to Rockford for a speech before closing in on the Palmer House in Chicago.
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Ruth Hanna McCormick
Charles S. Deneen
Congress
President Maker
Merton T.akers
United Press
Chicago
Middle West
Charleae S. Deneen
McCormick
Mark Hanna
Deneen
McKendree College
Steel and Oil Struggles Threaten War Ties
Washington April 3 Two vital commodities steel and oil dominate global tension as five naval powers seek peace safeguards in London. In Youngstown Ohio Cyrus Eaton fights to stop the merger of Youngstown Sheet and Tube with Bethlehem Steel led by Charles Schwab and E G Grace. Hoover links prosperity to exports amid world market battles.
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Washington
London
Youngstown
Cyrus 8. Eaton
Charles M. Schwab
E. G. Grace
Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company
Bethlehem Steel Company
United States
Europe
Hoover
America
Hawks resumes transcontinental glider flight in Tulsa
Captain Frank Hawks resumed his transcontinental flight after a four hour fog delay at Garland Airport Tulsa. He took off at 10 05 am and will continue to Springfield Missouri then on to St Louis as weather remained favorable.
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Hawks
Tulsa
Okla
U.R
Frank Hawks
Garland
Springfield
St. Louis
Eight more bodies pulled from Pioneer Coal Mine crevice
Kettle Island Kentucky April 2 eight more bodies were recovered from the Pioneer Coal Company Mine, leaving only one of sixteen victims still inside. The search continued for foreman J E Hill as rescuers pressed on.
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Kettle Island
Pioneer Coal Company
J. E. Hill
Folly of asking a jury to send dying woman to electric chair
Lila Jimerson a 35 year old Indian model ill with tuberculosis faced a mistrial in a second degree murder case tied to the death plot of sculptor Henri Marchand's wife. Attorneys and Judge Thorne planned for a later trial, with DA Guy Moore calling it folly to seek the death penalty while she remains gravely ill.
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Harry van Langer
United Press
Buffalo
N. Y
Lila Jimerson
Henri Marchand
Lila
John V. Maloney
F. Bret Thorne
Guy Moore
Moore
Change in Jones Law Opposed by U S Attorney
U P filed report that Attorney General Mitchell opposed changing the Jones five and ten prohibition law via a House Judiciary Committee bill. He urged adoption of the Law Enforcement Commission plan with minor amendments, saying the Stobbs bill would emacculate the Jones Law and give prosecutors less discretion.
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U.S
Mitchell
Washington
U.P
House
House Judiciary Committee
Law Enforcement Commission
George W. Wickersham
Commission
Stobbs
Ciary
U. S
Slayer of two is killed by Florida man
In Sebring Florida April 3 racial tensions rose over the murders of Mrs William Carver and her two and a half year old son Townsend by Ben Whitehead a 28 year old black employee. Mrs Carver screamed as the attacker ransacked the room and killed the pair with a hatchet. Carver shot the intruder with a shotgun. Carver a novelist and newspaper writer.
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Sebring
Fia
William Carver
Townsend
Ben Whitehead
Carver
County Sends More Men to Ohio Prisons
Six prisoners were conveyed to Ohio penal institutions Wednesday from Athens County Jail under Sheriff Williams and Deputy Wilson Ator. Lester Riggs James Palmer and Carl Huston were sent to Ohio State Penitentiary for one year each after conviction for failure to provide for legitimate children. Everett West and Frank Connell were sent to Mansfield Reformatory to remain until discharge. Fred Tippie, who violated his parole from the state penitentiary, was returned to the state parole officer at Columbus.
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Ohio Penal Institutions
Athens County
William Williams
Wilson Ator
Lester Riggs
James Palmer
Carl Huston
Ohio State Penitentiary
Everett West
Frank Connell
Mansfield Reformatory
Fred Tippie
Ohio State
Columbus
Death of A. A. Humphrey in Roanoke
A. A. Humphrey 39 of the National Detective Bureau Roanoke died at 8 this morning at J H Griffiths Garfield Avenue home where he had a room. He came from Columbus Tuesday night and fell ill Wednesday night. a physician found him unconscious. The body lies with John Jager funeral partners awaiting word from his father T H Humphrey contractor of Roanoke. He leaves a wife a daughter his parents and a sister.
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A. A. Humphrey
National Detective Bureau
Roanoke
J. H. Griffith
Garfield Avenue
Columbus
John Jagers
Prohibition raid dumps 1400 gallons at Decicco home
More than 1,400 gallons of whisky beer and wine seized in a raid led by State Prohibition Agent Lewis at the home of Tom Decicco were dumped into the gutter. Decicco was arrested for investigation though officers doubt he owned the property.
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Campbell
O.R
Lewis
Tom Decicco
Decicco
Stalin Warns Communists to Avoid Violence
Moscow report states Stalin urges Russian Communists to stop violence against peasant masses. He warns the party faces breaking with the masses and the pro letarian dictatorship unless it corrects mistakes in collectivization and allows withdrawal of unready peasants while focusing on spring sowing.
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Moscow
A.r—Jones Stalin
Russia
Communist Party
Stalin
Cooper to Run for Governor in August Primaries
Governor Cooper plans to seek another term as petitions for candidacy are prepared in the State House. Under the new code, 1000 signatures from partisans across two-thirds of counties are needed for filing. Cooper was in Oxford today.
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Columbus
U.P
Cooper
State House
Oxford
General approves $135000 bonds for Ohio schools
Columbus April 3 The legality of 135000 bonds bought by the State Teachers Retirement System from the Tiffin City School District was approved by Attorney General Bettman. The bonds financed a new Minerva school the expansion at the existing site and a remodeling addition at Columbia school. Both schools are in Jim Titda.
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Columbus
U.R
State
Teachers’ Retirement System
Tiffin City
Atorney General Bettman
Minerva
Columbia
Jim Titda
Fire blast at Devon Pennsylvania plant sparks mass casualties
Eyewitness Hy E J Regan recalls the Devon factory explosions near Darby Pa. as a train stood nearby and smoke enveloped the disputed powder plant. Firefighters and volunteers rushed to aid the wounded while crowds gathered, with many injured and dead recovered amid collapsing structures and shattered windows.
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Hy E. J. Regan
Penns, Rails Road
Darby
United Darby
Philadelphia
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