New Ohio Recodification Draft Aims Wide Reforms
The Ohio State Bar special committee led by Judge H. Darby drafts recodification proposals. Key ideas include insanity defense handling at Lima State Hospital, simplified indictments, optional trial by judge after plea, habitual criminal law for major offenses, general summons for minor offenses, police notification by garage keepers, tighter search warrants, transfer of criminal jurisdiction from probate courts, and revised bail procedures.
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Columbus
O.R
Lima State Hospital
Ohio State Bar Association
Thommas H. Darby
Cincinnati
Darby
Columbus Bar Association
Bar Association
Cedar Point
Maryland
New York
Michigan
Probate Judge Thomas N. Craig Dies in Fayette County
Washington D C April 20 The death of 84 year old Thomas N. Craig two term Fayette county probate judge follows an illness of several weeks. He served as Fayette County probate judge for two terms and was a longtime public servant.
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Washington, D. H
Thomas N. Craig
Fayette County
Maryland Lets All Drink but Horses Says Will Rogers
Reporter in Parkersburg notes Maryland saloons ban racehorses while the D A R criticizes politics. Senator Goff of West Virginia campaigns for Jim Watson, coal mine economic concerns overshadow presidential talk, Coolidge acted as substitute, and regional flood relief remains unaddressed.
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Maryland
Will Rogers
the Messenger
Parkersburg
W. Va
Sinclair
Senator Goff
West Virginia
Jim Watson
Wiliam Randolph
Emporia White
President Coolidge
Man Killed in Wreck Near Albany
An automobile collision six and a half miles west of Albany near Bolins Mill at 1 p m left one man dead and four others injured. Willie Radcliffe 65 was killed with head injuries. Mrs Frank Martin was seriously hurt along with Ermel Martin driver and Harley Townsend a running board passenger. The Indiana car driver suffered head and facial cuts.
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Albany
Bolins Mill
Willie Radcliffe
Frank Martin
Radcliffe
Ermel Martin
Union Leader Strikes Man. Victim Fractures Hip
Milt Sands of Trimble, struck by Oral Daugherty head of the Hocking coal miners, has a fractured hip and is hospitalized in Columbus. The clash followed Daugherty's strike rhetoric urging miners to stay, leave, or return to work. Sands sought Daugherty’s removal, and the altercation reportedly arose from prior statements about him.
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Glouster
Daugherty
Sands
Bank President Rittenout Dies in Waverly Home
Thornton F. Rittenout 63 president of Piketon National Bank and Scioto Valley Landowners died of heart disease at his Waverly home. He leaves one son George W. Rittenout a member of the state board of agriculture.
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Waverly
U.R
Thornton F. Rittenout
Piketon National Bank
Scioto Valley
Rittenout
George W. Rittenout
State Board of Agriculture
Bre men may visit Canada after transcontinental trip plans
May visit Canada as Maj James Fitzmaurice says the Bremen crew may tour Ottawa Montreal Quebec and Toronto after an American coast to coast air cruise. The Ford relief plane carries spare parts to Greenly Island for the Bremen and Germans await supplies including clothing and tobacco.
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Montreal
Que
North Atlantic
James Fitzmaurice
Lake St. Agnes
Murray Bay
United Press Today
United States
New York
Washington
Ottawa
Quebec
Toronto
U. S
San Francisco
Fitzmaurice
Evacuate Shantung Amid Chinese Civil Strife
The American legation in Pekin advises all Americans to leave Shantung Province as clashes erupt among Chinese factions. Reports say Nationalists captured Yenchowfu, Shantung defenses weaken, and General Feng Yu Hsiang allies advance north with up to 500000 troops involved in fighting.
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Pekin
China
U.P
Legation
Shantung Province
Pekins
Yenchowfu
Shantung
Feng Yu Hsiang
Three Days of Flying Exhibitions Planned By Messenger
The Athens Messenger and the American Society for the Promotion of Aviation announce a three day series of free flying exhibitions at Rowland Farm Field next week from Tuesday to Thursday. Gates Flying Circus pilots will perform battle formations and stunt flights over the Hocking River with Aaron F. Krantz onboard for hazardous feats. No admission charge, noon flights each day, and air delivery of Messenger editions will be demonstrated.
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American Society For the Promotion of Aviation
Athens Messenger
Gates Flying Circus
Aviation Corporation
Rowland Farm Field
Athens
The
Messenger
Hocking
Aaron F. Krantz
Aviation Society
Thomas L. Hill
Hill
Teterboro
Hasbrouck Heights
N. J
Gates Organization
California
Maine
Gates
Department of Commerce
Sinclair defense in Teapot Dome case described as lies
Prosecutor Owen J. Roberts told the conspiracy jury that Harry F. Sinclair's defense of his role in the Teapot Dome lease was filled with lies and falsehoods as of April 20 in Washington.
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Washington
U.P
Harry F. Sinclair
Teapot Dome
Sinclair
Owen J. Roberts
Relief Plane Set From Ford Airport Aims North Island Hop
A tri motor plane piloted by Floyd Bennett and Bernt Balchen departed Ford Airport at 7 15 a m today to deliver supplies to the stranded German Bremen crew on Greenly Island. The crew planned to reach Murray Bay Quebec non stop to load parts for Bremen and then ski to the island for an ice land ing.
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Ford Airport
Floyd Bennett
Bernt Balchen
Bremen
Greenly Island
Murray Bay
Que
Athens county high school field meet draws large crowd
About fifteen hundred people attended the Athens county high school field meet on the fair grounds in Athens. All 14 county high schools entered events for boys and girls with a program of track field and relay races followed by an evening of oratorical and musical contests at Athens High School auditorium.
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Athens County
Athens
Tl Athens High School
Mildred Barber
Paul McConnell
Maria Brown
Ellis Gibson
Earl Brandenberg
Velma Johnson
Foster Sayre
John Mingus
Lauretta Fielder
Thelma Nida
Alice Wilson
Charles Minister
Mildred Pugh
Chester Niemi
Marjorie Morrison
Sam Baker
Denver White
Priscilla Wells
Florence Cline
Bert Tolliver
Howard Starlin
Merritt Dixon
Carroll Thorne
Lawrence Bowe
Democratic State Convention Opens in Des Moines
Senator Dan Steck delivered the keynote at the Iowa Democratic convention focusing on farm relief and failing Republican promises. The prohibition issue looms as the likely battleground, with E. T. Meredith challenging Governor A. Smith’s control of delegates.
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Des Moines
U.P
Dan Steck
Steck
E. T. Meredith
A. Smith
Hydrophobia Fatal From Dog Bite in Glouster
Prescott Christman, 24, died after hydrophobia developed from a dog bite at a brick plant last summer. His sister Esther, 18, was also bitten while helping him. Survived by parents Ellis and Mrs Christman and two sisters Mary and Esther. Services held at home. burial at Maplewood cemetery. Pasteur treatment arranged for Miss Esther Christman.
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Glouster
Prescott Christman
Ellis Christman
East Branch
Esther Christman
Mary
Esther
Maplewood
Christman
LeFever
Better Brakes Week Declared by Athens Mayor
Athens launches Better Brakes Week to reduce traffic accidents. Mayor Alex M. Moore proclaims April 28 week, urging motor clubs to test brakes and designates Lorain avenue between State and Lincoln for the event under the South East Ohio Motor Club.
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Athens
South East Ohio Motor Club
Lorain Avenue
State
Lincoln
Ohio
Methods For Voting At Primary Election Outlined at Meeting
The League of Women Voters pressed officials at the courthouse meeting about primary voting procedures in Athens. Clerk David Johnson outlined three disqualifying actions while noting ballots marked with fountain pen or blue pencil should often be counted.
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Ohio University
Athens
League of Women Voters
Board of Elections
Fred R. Bougher
David Johnson
Johnson
S. H. Bing
Mr. Johnson
Sam Johnson
Anxious fliers await relief plane for Bremen Berlin flight
Murray Bay Canada April 20 A trio of anxious fliers including Bernt Balchen and Floyd Bennett await a relief Ford tri motor from the United States to Greenly Island with repair parts for the Bremen. If weather holds they will launch Saturday to Greenly Island for parts and the Bremen will be reconditioned for departure early next week toward New York with Major James Fitzmaurice Captain Herman Koehl and Baron Gunther Von Huenefeld aboard.
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Bremen
Europe
Fitzmaurice
Baron Huenefeld
Hermann Kochl
Ford
Detroit
Murray Bay
Greenly Island
Tiaulein Herta Junkers
Koehl
Que
United States
Berlin
New York
Bernt Balchen
Floyd Bennett
James Fitzmaurice
Herman Koehl
Baron Gunther von Huenefeld
Fremont Settles Gas Rate Case With Logan Gas
Fremont City Council approved a 10 year gas franchise rate plan from Logan Gas company. Fremont will pay 1 for 500 cubic feet and 50 cents per extra during year one and two, 1 for 500 and 60 cents for extra in year three, then 1.50 for 500 and 60 cents per extra thereafter. About 3 of 72 cities in the initial protest reached agreement with Logan Gas.
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Columbus
Fremont City Council
Logan Gas Company
R. W. Cross
Fremon
Fremont
Inquiry Set By Oil Committee On Teapot Dome Leases
Washington April 20 a Senate Teapot Dome committee inquiry is expected into Teapot Dome leases. The probe will examine John Barton Payne secretary of interior actions in the Wilson era allowing drilling on the Big Salt creek Wyoming fields once deemed the world’s greatest oil field. The audit and control committee favored reporting next week with Bell’s January 1921 fraud charge as key evidence.
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Washington
Senate
John Barton Payne
Interior
Salt Creek
Wyoming
Senate Audit and Control Committee
Bell
Interior Department
Mayor Fines Five For Traffic Light Violations
In police court last night Mayor Alex Moore fined five persons one dollar each after guilty pleas to traffic law violations. Miss Maxine Pilchard paid one dollar for passing a car at an intersection. Guy Wanless Charles Fitzer E J Person and Lawrence Hayes were fined one dollar each for driving with one light.
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Alex Moore
Maxine Pilchard
Guy Wanless
Charles Fitzer
E. J. Person
Lawrence Hayes
State contest opens at Delaware April 20
The annual state high school ex tempore speaking and literary interpretation contests opened today at Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware.
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Delaware
U.P
Ohio Wesleyan University
Duty to vote urged as large turnout predicted in Ohio
In Columbus on April 20, officials led by Secretary of State Clarence J. Brown urged a big turnout for the presidential preference primary. Congressman Theodore Burton lauded Hoover, pressed loyalty to the GOP, and defended Republican prospects while noting oil scandal concerns. The Burton speech was among his final campaign addresses before the primary.
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Columbus
Theodore B
Secretary of Commerce
H Hoover
Clarence J. Brown
Burton
Prie
Hoover
Reiter
Frank Es Willis
Wilis
Herbert Hoover
Republican Party
Woman Uses Auto Exhaust To Kill Self
In Cleveland on April 20, Mrs. Jennie Herrin, 53, wife of Charles L. Herrin for 33 years with the Pennsylvania railroad, died by suicide using carbon monoxide from car exhaust. Her body was found in the family car in the garage with the doors closed and a note indicating her intent.
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Cleveland
U.re
Jennie Herrin
Charles L. Herrin
Pennsylvania Railroad
Herrin
Booklet of 1144 Candy Recipes Promises Home Confections
The Athens Messenger advertises a booklet of 144 recipes from the War Information Bureau guiding readers to make candies at home. It emphasizes easy methods without special equipment and promotes gifts for parties and piano evenings, with a coupon offer and a six cent price.
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Athens Messenger
Wation Bureau
Tsea
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