Edge Viewed as Possible Ambassador to France
Senator Walter Edge of New Jersey is reportedly under consideration for the Paris ambassador post. White House officials are silent but evidence from recent White House visits by New Jersey Republicans supports the possibility. Edge, allied with Hoover since 1928, could leave his Senate seat open next year amid a likely Republican primary fight.
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New Jersey
France
Lawrence Sullivan
United Press
Washington
U.R
Walter EK
Edge
White House
Hamilton Keene
Republican National Committee
Daniel E. Pomeroy
Hoover
Paris Post
Hoover Star
Myron T. Herrick
Senate
State Building Act Questioned As To Legality
Columbus April 16 Attorney General Gilbert Bettman considered a request from Governor Myers Y Cooper for a legal ruling on the Morgan Roche Act. The act provides for a new state office building with a two tenths of a mill levy and a site selection commission. If legally within tax levy laws it could become effective when signed by the governor.
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Columbus
Gilbert Bettman
Myers Y. Cooper
Cooper
Reinstatement Denied by D A R at Congress
Boston woman Helen Tufts Bailie failed to regain DAR membership at a closed session of the annual congress. Only one vote dissenting officials said. Bailie had been ousted last year by the Board of Managers over exposure of speakers blacklists kept by some chapters.
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Washington
U.2
Helen Tufts Bailie
Boston
Daughters of the American Revolution
Bailie
Herrick's Sorrowing Friends Return Home
Sorrowing friends of Myron T. Herrick returned to their homes after paying respects to the late ambassador to France. Herrick's body lay in Lake View Cemetery following services at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Cleveland.
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Cleveland
U.P
Myron T. Herric
BRU
Ambasador
France
Herrick
Lake View
Trinity Episcopal Cathedral
Man Kills Himself After Return From Amesville
Mansfield April 16 Eugene Hackley 22 years old returned from Amesville Virginia became despondent borrowed a neighbor gun and killed himself authorities reported in this cityHe had recently come home from Amesville Va to Mansfield and took his own life.
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Mansfield
Amesville
Eugene Hackley
Body of Emmett Smith Found Near Hawkwatch Hills
Emmett E. Smith, 50, was found shot to death beside a log in the hills near Minersville after a hawk hunting trip. Dogs guarded the body. investigators question whether the wound was self inflicted or accidental. Burial is set for Gilmore Cemetery. Smith leaves a mother, a brother, and three sisters.
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Emmett Smith
Minersville
Emmett E. Smith
Ben Ewing
John Becht
Charlies Houdeschelt
Gilmore Cemetery
Smith
RK. H. Bickers
Indianapolis
Indiana
Clarence Custer
Long Beach
Washington
Earl Hearn
Shela
Dear Little Miss Tex Guinan Freed by Jury
A smiling jury frees Tex Guinan described as earning about $5,000 weekly as the life of a nightclub. She testified she was only an employee and believed no one sold drinks in her neighborhood, saying she aimed to make people happy. The piece praises the jury system as protecting individual rights.
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Tex" Guinan
Pacific
Guinan
Cause of Death Investigated in Diphtheria Injection Case
Cleveland report states coroner to determine why nine year old Leon Krabel died minutes after receiving diphtheria serum. sister Eleanore ill with diphtheria. mother Josephine Krabel and two other children also vaccinated after physician advised. boy collapsed shortly after injections.
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Cleveland
Leon Krabel
A. J. Pearse
Leon
Eleanore
Josephine Krabel
Viola
Governor signs act adding judges for Cuyahoga and Trumbull
Governor Myers Y. Cooper signed the Bohn act authorizing three new Common Pleas Court judges for Cuyahoga County and one for Trumbull County. The additional judges will be chosen in 1920.
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Columbus
Myers Y. Cooper
Bohn
Common Pleas
Cuyahoga County
Trumbull County
Toledo Girl Drowns in Bathtub From Gas Jet Leak
Hazel Augustine, 13, suffocated in a bathtub in Toledo when fumes from a leaky gas jet overcame her. Authorities investigated the accident as a fatal gas incident.
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Toledo
Hazel Augustine
Wants Rum Stock Off Curb Market
Congressman L. C. Dyer of St. Louis asked the New York Curb Market Association to reimburse him for losses after selling Hiram Walker Common stock and learning it was a Canadian whisky distillery. He argued listing such stock violated U.S. prohibition laws, labeling himself a wet.
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L. C. Dyer
St. Louis
Board of Governors
New York Curb Market Association
Hiram Walker Common
Candy Racket's Men Hit with Fines in Court
In Chicago on April 16 1930 United States District Judge Walter C Lindley sentenced 16 former Chicago Candy Jobbers Association members to prison terms nine to three months and fines from 3000 to 500 for Sherman Antitrust Act violations. Mary G Connor led the prosecution in the case for the Attorney General's office.
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Chicago
United States
Walter C. Lindley
Chicago Candy Jobbers Association
Mary G. Connor
New England
Attorney General's Department
Dawes and Dixon Nominations Confirmed by Senate
The Senate speedily confirmed Charles G. Dawes as ambassador to London and Joseph I. Dixon as Assistant Secretary of Interior in a vote honoring their past service with the Senate.
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Washington
Charles G. Dawes
London
Joseph I. Dixon
Montana
Senate
Syndicate Formed Aimed at Third Great Steel Company
A $30,000,000 syndicate was formed in Cleveland as the first step toward creating the country’s third major steel corporation. It plans to acquire steel stocks and potentially merge Youngstown Sheet and Tube of Youngstown Inland Steel of Chicago and Republic Iron and Steel of Canton and Massillon, Ohio.
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Cleveland
U.R
Great Steel Corporation
Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company
Youngstown
Inland Steel Company
Chicago
Republic Iron and Steel Company
Canton and
Massillon
Ohio
Toledo Vice Squad Raids Net 42 Arrests
Toledo authorities conducted raids last night leading to forty two arrests. Four teen raids were part of the operation with multiple suspects taken into custody.
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Toledo
Vice
Athens Implement Building Replaced by Modern Service Station
The 1875 Athens Implement Company building on North Court Street is being torn down by owner Herbert Brooks to make way for a one story crescent shaped automobile service station. Clyde Williams secured the contract. the station will be rented to the Robinson Brothers and sit about 20 feet from the sidewalk.
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Athens Implement Company
North Court Street
Herbert Brooks
C. H. Grosvenor
Thomas A Beaton
Athens City
W. DB. Foster
Grosvenor
Beaton
Warren
John Finster
Athens
J. B. Allen
Brooks
Clyde Williams
Robinson Brothers
Former Publisher James R. Alexander Dies in Mt Vernon
James R. Alexander former publisher of the Zanesville Signal died suddenly in Mt Vernon after delivering a speech at a Mt Vernon Presbytery meeting He was traveling to Zanesville for funeral services and burial and was a well known figure across the state
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MT. Vernon
U.R
James R. Alexander
Zanesville
Alexander
Presby
Tery
State
Hoover Proposes Farm Board to Tackle Waste and Markets
President Hoover outlines an agricultural program emphasizing waterways tariff adjustments production diversification and improved marketing. A federal farm board would investigate causes devise remedies and remove waste from farmer to consumer while guiding production and land use. The revolving fund figure is not specified in his message though the House bill cites 500 million.
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Hoover
Federal Farm Board
Farm Board
House Agricultural Committee
Inssotts
Hoover Sends First Message To Congress by Executive Clerk
President Hoover transmitted his first message to Congress via his executive clerk Maurice Latta. The document outlined farm relief and tariff revision, with nominations for Senate confirmation also sent. Readings occurred in both chambers, with the House to tackle a $560,000,000 cooperative marketing bill next. The Senate faces delays on farm tariff bills and a long summer ahead with planned recesses to avoid unwanted legislation.
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Congress
Paul BR. Malion
Washington
Congresa
Maurice Latta
Mr. Hoover
Con
Gresa
Sesson
Senate
House
Senate Agriculture Committee
Bender Presents Plan for Equalized Representation Amendment
Ohio state Senator George H. Bender of Cleveland submitted a synopsis of a proposed constitutional amendment to Attorney General Gilbert Bettman. The plan would grant elites equalized representation in the Ohio House and calls for a ruling on the amendment’s form before circulating petitions to place it on the ballot in November.
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Columbus
U.P
George H. Bender
Cleveland
Gilbert C. Bettman
House of Representatives
Bender
Evanger Runs Aground At Huntington Beach
The Norwegian steamer Evanger bound from Buenos Aires and Santos with a full cargo and several passengers ran ashore at Huntington Beach in San Pedro. The incident was reported by the Marine Exchange.
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San Pedro
Calif
Evanger
Buenos Aires
Santos
Huntington Beach
Marine Exchange
Pretty Rita Doran Found Guilty of Highway Robbery
Lancaster jury convicts Rita Doran the Iown farm girl linked to a New York City study period and implicated in the kidnapping of a Pennsylvania state highway patrolman. The verdict comes amid a case highlighting crime and regional investigation.
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Lancaster
Rita Doran
New York City
Pennsylvania
Campbell Confesses To Murder Of Mrs Mowry In New Jersey
Henry Colin Campbell, proclaimed murderer of Mrs Mildred Mowry, admits a long criminal history. He details marriages and crimes across states, including grand larceny and forgery, and says his real name is Henry C Close. He previously ran a Montclair sanitarium.
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Elizabeth
N. J
U.P
Henry Colin Campbell
Mildred) Mowry
Henry C. ‘Close
New York
Chihuahua
Sing Sing
California
Michigan
Connecticut
Montclair
Mowry
Ruth May Be Married This Week as Public Hears Rumor
Babe Ruth enters New York City license bureau with Clara Merritt Hodgson, 28, mother of a daughter, seeking a license. Ruth denies engagement but plans a marriage this week, while 80 friends await confirmation. Hodgson, known from Ziegfeld Follies and Liberty Loan posters, formerly Clara Merritt of Athens Georgia.
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New York
UPR
Babe Ruth
Babe
Claire Hodgson
Ruth
Liberty Loan
Poston Co Mine To Be Closed Tonight
The Poston Consoli dated Coal Company mine in Millfield will close tonight for about 20 days. Officials said the exact duration cannot be announced as the company’s plans are not yet completed.
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Poston Co
Poston Consolidated Coal Company
Millfield
Limited Tariff Change Demanded in Hoover Address to Congress
President Hoover called for a broad legislative program to lay foundations for a new day in agriculture, urging limited tariff revision, reorganization of the Federal Tariff Commission, customs red tape removal, repeal of the National Origins immigration formula, and decennial census funding for 1930. He emphasized farmer owned and controlled agencies and warned against bureaucratic domination, price fixing, or duplicative government facilities.
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United Press
Washington
Hoover
Congress
Federal Tariff Commission
House of Representatives
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