D A R Members Nominate Seven for Vice President General
Delegates to the Congress of the D A R voted amid an attempted poison pen attack on a candidate whose husband favored repeal of the eighteenth amendment. Mrs Waiteman Harrison Conaway of West Virginia was among seven nominees for vice president general as Secretary James J. Davis praised the society and urged focus on its work despite critics.
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Washington
Congress of the
D. A
Labor
James J. Davis
Waiteman
Wiliam Sherman Alker
D. A. R. National Defense Committee
Walker
Wilbur
House Naval Affairs Committee
National Organization
Davis
Union Leader Hits Man and Pays His Fine
In Glouster on April 19 a miners union row ended with Oral Daugherty sub district president striking Milt Sands after an exchange near Rabbit Morris’s residence. Daugherty then went to the police, pleaded guilty, and paid a $5 fine plus costs. Sands reportedly began circulating a petition to remove Daugherty after last Thursday’s mass meeting, with alleged statements blamed for the incident.
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Milt Sands of
Trimble
Oral Daugherty
Miners’ Organization
Daugherty
Sands
Rabbit” Morris
Would-Be Burglar Shot by Policeman
Youngstown police say no arrest made after an attempted burglary in which Danny Webster 21 and Robert Coulton 19 entered the Hricho residence through a second story window and assaulted two daughters. Webster was shot in both hips and hospitalized. Coulton fled.
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Youngstown
Danny Webster
Webster
Robert Coulton
John Hricho
Hhicho
Plunge 18s Agent Steinbarger Dies In Auto Crash
Youngstown reports Western Maryland Railroad agent red Steinbarger died from injuries after his car plunged down an embankment and overturned.
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Youngstown
U.R
Red Steinbarger
Western Maryland Railroad
Truck driver booms bandits with automobile crank
Charles Poff, 21, a poultry firm truck driver in Columbus, warded off three robbers with an automobile crank after a break in on his running board. A robber smashed a door and flashed a revolver, but Poff defended himself, injuring one assailant and driving the others away.
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Columbus
U.P
Charles Poff
Poff
Unusual Ohio coal strike unrest at Shadyside mine
Authorities in Bridgeport arrest 32 union sympathizers, including five women, for rioting at Shadyside Coal mine on Wheeling Creek as workers continue under the Jacksonville wage scale. Deputies guard the site ahead of today’s preliminary riot hearing. workers reportedly remain employed amid mixed union loyalties.
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Ohio
Shadyside Coal Company
Wheeling Creek
Shadyside
Jacksonville
Jacksonvn
Shadyside m
United Mine Workers of America
Former Football Star Faces Arrest For Reckless Driving
Wilmer E. Isabel once a standout halfback for Ohio State collided with law enforcement in Columbus. He was arrested for reckless driving after allegedly ramming a county car driven by Deputy Crumley, and then reportedly tried to fight officers when he went to headquarters to discuss the incident.
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Columbus
O.R
Wilmer E. Isabel
Ohio State
Isabel
Crumley
Twenty Free Scholarships Offered by Ohio State College
Examinations will be held statewide tomorrow for 20 free agricultural scholarships at Ohio State University. The state is divided into four districts with five scholarships per district. Each scholarship worth $240 covers four years and pays $20 per quarter, beginning September 1.
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Columbus
College of Agriculture
Ohio State University
Three Men Injured as Auto Struck by Transit Car
In Cleveland on April 19 a westbound rapid transit car struck an automobile injuring three men. The victims were Nicholas Darghici 48 Gabriel Balsz 48 and Nicholas Furtos 48 with Darghici listed as in critical condition.
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U.P
Nicholas Darghici
Gabriel Balsz
Nicholas Furtos
Furtos
Self-Confessed Slayer Holds in Oklahoma Jail
A 29 year old man, Elwin E. K. Allen, confessed to the Hall Mills murder claiming he was hired by a dentist relative of Mrs. Eleanor Mills. Authorities question the details as New Jersey officials verify the story while Allen awaits movement back to Essex County. He says a female accomplice helped kill the Rev. Edward Wheeler Hall and Mrs. Mills in New Brunswick in 1922 and that he received five thousand dollars and a car.
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United Press
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Okio
Hall-Mills
Elwin EK. Allen
New Jersey
Allen
Eleanor Mills
Edward Wheeler Hall
New Brunswick
N. J
Elizabeth
T. C. Shacklett
Connecticut
Oklahoma
Essex County
Hall
McAlester
Okla
Shackleet
W. P. Morrison
William Hutchins
Somerville
O.R
Edward F. Allen
New Jersey Probes Hall Mills Kill Claim
Somerville authorities show caution toward Edward F. Allen confession in the Hall and Mills killings and pledge a thorough investigation of the claim.
White Slave Ring Believed Broken In Cleveland
Federal authorities believe they smashed an alleged white slave ring with the detention for deportation of Gust Exedahtelos, 41, former Ashtabula hotel operator. After two months of inquiry, inspector F. W. Murphy linked smuggled girls from Canada to Exedahtelos' hotel and on to Cleveland Akron and Canton.
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U.S
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Ashtabula, O
F. .W. Murphy
Exedahtelos
Akron
Canton
Prohibition Agent Reassigned After Sheriff Run
Columbus April 19 The state prohibition department plans to relocate Agent Louis Wilcox from Canton Akron to Lorain county after O E Rankin Elyria resigns to seek Lorain County sheriff seat.
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Columbus
U.P
State Prohibition Department
Louis Wilcox
Canton-Akron
Lorain County
O. E. Rankin
Elyria
Fraulein Junkers Aims to Fly From Greenly Island by Sunday
Fraulein Herta Junkers says she hopes Baron Von Huene, Capt. Koeh, and Maj. James Fitzmaurice can fly from Greenly Island by week’s end perhaps Sunday. She will remain at Murray Bay to arrange supplies repairs for the Bremen and coordinate cargo for multiple planes.
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Greenly Island
Carl D. Groat
United Press
Montreal
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Rhineland
Baron von Huenefeld
Koeh
James Fitzmaurice
Curtis 8 Company
Junkers
New York
Bremén
Curtiss Company
Feldmarschall
Latham Named President of Iowa State Teachers College
Professor Orville Ray Latham, longtime educator at Ohio university, is set to become president of Iowa State Teachers College Cedar Falls pending release. He has been on leave since 1927 and will complete a master’s degree at Two State before assuming duties.
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Elmer B. Bryan
Ohio University
Orville Ray Latham
Iowa State Teachers’ College
Cedar Falls
Iowa
Latham
Iowa State University
Iowa City
Teacher's College
W. A. Jessup
Bryan
T. C. McCracken
Ohio
Homer H.beerley
Seosiey
Teachers’ College
United States
Two State
Athens
Dean McCracken
Burton Sees Hoover Nomination Chance Rising
Dayton April 19. Congressman Theodore Burton of Cleveland told a Montgomery County Hoover For President meeting that Herbert Hoover has stronger prospects for the Republican nomination than any other candidate. He said his support is for the country and party, noting voters favor Hoover but may back the Democratic candidate if needed.
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U.P
Herbert Hoover
Theodore Burton
Cleveland
Montgomery County
Hoover
Kansas City
First Degree Murder Indictment Returned in Steubenville
A grand jury charged Angelo Lamburro, 23, with killing Scott Roe, a police lieutenant, during the annual policemen's ball in Steubenville. Roe died from a fractured skull. Lamburro contests that the officer fell. Martin Roman, 22, Paterson, N J, was held on $5,000 bond as a material witness.
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U.P
Angelo Lamburro
Scott Roe
Roe
Lamburro
Martin Roman
Paterson
N. J
Wall Collapse at Plamon Don School Kills Two Children
In Chicago on April 19 a wall at the Plamon Don school collapsed injuring a dozen others and killing two children. The tragedy prompted emergency services to respond as investigators began assessing the cause of the collapse.
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Chicago
O.R
Plamondon School
Steps Taken to Abandon 5 Mines in Ohio
Cambridge, April 19. The Cambridge Collieries company moves to abandon five mines in the Cambridge Coalfield amid ongoing wage disputes between unions and mine officials. The affected mines are Trail Run No. 2, Banner, Buffalo, Coal Ridge, and Majestic, with equipment to be sold at junk prices. Dismantling has begun. other idle Cambridge field mines may follow.
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Cambridge *Collieries Company
Cambridge Coalfield
Union
Jacksonville
H. E. Cameron
Concern
Ohio
Trail Run No. 2
Banner
Buffalo
Coal Ridge
Majestic
Heflin denies Asheville speech ban charges
Senator Heflin terms a North Carolina report that he cannot speak there a vilainous lie. He says he will go to Winston Salem and Durham and repudiates the New York World story signed by Frank L. Hopkins. Senator Simmons agrees the report is unfounded.
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Washington
U.P
North Carolina
Heflin
Alabama
Smith
New York
Senate
New York World
Frank L. Hopkins
Asheville
N. C
Winston- Salem
Durham
Simmons
Democrat
Woman Found Asphyxiated in Cleveland Home
Police report Mrs. Anna Barko aged 54 was found dead by asphyxiation at her Cleveland residence and authorities believe she may have taken her own life.
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Cleveland
U.P
Anna Barko
Sinclairs Defense Rested in Teapot Dome Trial
The defense in Harry F. Sinclair's conspiracy trial abruptly rested at 11:12 a.m. without calling Sinclair or presenting the 200,000-word Fall deposition. The case concerns a 1922 lease at Teapot Dome and Fall's receipt of 233000 in Liberty Bonds as a legal payment for a one third interest in Fall's New Mexico ranches.
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U.P
Harry F. Sinclair
Sinclair
Albert B. Fall
Martin W. Littleton
Fall
Teapot Dome Naval Reserve
Jennings Bailey
District of Columbia
Phoebe Sinclair
Monsignor Farrell
Wichita
Kans
Arbitration Treaty With Italy Signed In Washington
Secretary of State Kellogg and Italian Ambassador de Martino signed an arbitration treaty in Washington. The pact mirrors the February 6 French agreement and completes negotiations begun March 8 as the second in a series of 18 treaties with different nations.
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Washington
U.R
Kellogg
de Martino
United States
Italy
State Department
Aim of Mine Union Called Great Danger
In a Senate committee probe of the soft coal industry Landon C. Bell of Columbus Ohio for Red Jacket Coal and Coke defended his company contract against being called a yellow dog agreement. He argued the union seeks to impose its policies under the guise of law coercing owners and others to accept collective bargaining terms, threatening owners freedom to contract.
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Washington
United Mine Workers
Senate Committee
Landon C. Bell
Columbus
Red Jacket Coal and Coke Company
West Virginia
Bell
John L. Lewis
Flood relief compromise drafted at Washington conference
A Mississippi flood relief compromise was drafted today at a White House conference of Republican House leaders and Southern Mississippi valley congressmen. The plan will be sent to President Coolidge for approval with details to be announced later to avoid disrupting negotiations.
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Washington
U.P
Mississippi
Feaders
Mississippi Valley
Coolidge
Bridge fire blocks Wolf Run mine you transportation halted
A New York Central railroad bridge to the Warner Collieries Wolf Run mine was burned early today in Steubenville. County authorities blame strikers or strike sympathizers. The mine has operated with non union workers and no coal can be moved until the bridge is rebuilt. Another nearby bridge was burned recently.
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Steubenville
New York Central
Wolf Run
Warner Collieries Company
Island Creek Coal official argues against Senate inquiry
W H Coolidge of Boston, Island Creek Coal chairman, testifies to the Interstate Commerce committee that the Senate coal investigation aims to raise prices and benefit 600,000 miners. He says conditions at Holden West Virginia are good and that 1927 average earnings across Island Creek mines were $1,820.88 surpassing other industries.
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Washington
Senate Coal Investigation
W. H.coolidge
Boston
The
Island Creek Coal Company
Coolidge
Interstate Commerce Committee
Senate
United Mine Workers
West Virginia
Island Creeks
Farmers Bring Prize Cattle to Cincinnati Contest
Farmers from Ohio Indiana Kentucky and West Virginia bring champion cattle to Union stockyards in Cincinnati for judging of Shorthorn Hereford and Angus bulls and heifers. Prizes will be awarded today and the sales are set for tomorrow.
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Cincinnati
U.P
Ohio
Indiana
Kentucky
West Virginia
Union
Mine to Open If Union Agrees to Scale
Caldwell April 1 9 Officials of the Cambridge Collieries company plan to open a mine employing 500 men about May 1 providing union miners will agree to return to the $5 a day scale of the 1917 wage plan. Mine union officials say 90 percent of their members want to return to work with objections from a few radicals. If unions refuse, owners will open on a non union basis. Another Cambridge mine nearby is being dismantled.
Birger Hanged in Illinois Murder Conspiracy Case
Charlie Birger died on the gallows at 9 51 am in Benton Illinois. He faced charges of conspiring to murder Mayor Joe Adams of West City Illinois in a noted gang leadership case.
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Birger
Benton, Ill
Charlie Birger
Illinois
Joe Adams
West City
Irish pilot plans Bremen transatlantic flight to New York
Major Fitzmaurice confirms Bremen crew hopes to depart Greenly Island for Quebec then New York. He denies plans to sail by steamer, thanks Canadian authorities for support, and says repairs are needed before the flight resumes.
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Ghey
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United Press
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National Railway
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Quebec
Ottawa
New Yorke
Rural School Pupils Attend County Meet at Athens
Friday is a holiday for Athens county schools to allow pupils to attend the county high school meet at the fair grounds in Athens. The program starts early, with events throughout the day and an evening program at 6:30. Several thousand people expected in Athens for the event.
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Athens County
Oreer
Athens
Ath High School
Literary
Athens Messenger offers a booklet of 144 candy recipes
The Athens Messenger promotes a 144 recipe candy booklet from its National Bureau. The notice invites readers to obtain the guide by enclosing stamps and coupons, highlighting at home candy making for dinners, gifts, and parties with deemed novelty and utility.
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Athens
Yoanation Bureau
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