Radical laws propose full alcohol system under new enforcement
The American Chemical Society's committee on industrial alcohol warned at its 77th annual meeting in Columbus that shifting prohibition enforcement from the Treasury to the Justice Department would cause untold hardships for chemical industries. More than 2,000 chemists from two continents attended the first session.
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U.R
Treasury Department
Department of Justice
Committee On Industrial Alcohol
American Chemical Society
Society
Kickless Alcohol Threatens Bootlegging Trade
Columbus April 29 The era of kickless alcohol has arrived to harass bootlegging. Prof James F Morris director of MIT chemical research labs told the American Chemical Society that the liquid is isopropyl derived from crude oil wastes and instead of a kick it deadens the senses.
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Columbus
Rrof
James F. Morris
Chemical Research Laboratories
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
American Chemical Society
Morris
Alcohol enforcement push faces radical new legislation
The report notes moves to vest the Justice Department with full prohibition enforcement and warns that current enforcement is far from effective. It calls for radical new laws that could expand the alcohol permissive system while acknowledging the legitimate trade’s rights and the limits of legislation alone to curb abuses.
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Congress
Woman Walks Free After Murder Conviction Dropped
Chicago April 29 Mrs Catherine Cassler walks from court to freedom as the state drops murder charges after a key witness dies in prison and another refuses to testify leaving no press of the homicide case remaining.
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Hicago
Catherine Cassler
Dress Fitting Booklet for Home Sewing Available
The Athens Messenger offers readers a booklet on dress fitting. It explains how to plan and cut dresses to fit, with illustrated guidance on necks shoulders armholes sleeves hips bust and other parts. Washington Information Bureau has a limited supply and will mail a copy for four cents plus postage.
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Washington Information Bureau
65 Killed As Tourists Swarm Roads Sunday
United Press reports at least 65 deaths in automobile accidents across the nation as spring travel surges. East regions bore the heaviest toll with families struck by grade crossing and collision incidents in New Hampton New York Jeffersonville Indiana and Chicago area. A Brewster New York youth died after plunging from a damaged railroad bridge near Danbury Connecticut following a wrecking crane incident.
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New Hampton
N. Y
Bristol
Ind
Jeffersonville
New York
Chicago
Brewster
Danbury
Conn
Shipwreck Lifeboat Survivors Endure Eight Days at Sea
Eleven men abandoned the James E. Coburn after it foundered on a voyage from Baltimore to Martinique. Four days in without food or water, three white workers and eight others including a 60 year old cook died or went mad during the voyage. Captain Pereira and Captain McLaughlin reported the peril and rescue by the Amida 15 miles off course.
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James E. Coburn
Coburn
Baltimore
Martinique
W. BF. Milliken
W. Sargent
Cook
Jose J. Pereira
Sydney McLaughlin
American dye venture formed with German trust links
Charles E. Mitchell Edsel Ford and Walter F Teagle join Farbenindustrie AG to create a dye industry in partnership with German experts. The plan aims to bring light to those who tried seizing German property in wartime. A police shooting in Washington kills 21 year old Ottmer Fleming amid bootlegging articles. Congressmen react with mixed cheers and denunciations on the dry issue.
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Charles E. Mitchell
Edsel Ford
Walter F. Teagle
Farbenindustrie Aktiengesellschaft
Washington
Ottmer Fleming
America agrees to adopt majority view on Armies
A Geneva dispatch reports a shift as Congress remains divided over the propriety of firing on bystanders during bootleg pursuits. The piece notes public debate and urges cautious action, reflecting tense wartime sentiment.
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America
Geneva
Senate Approves Fruit Fly Extermination Aid
The Senate approved without debate a House joint resolution to appropriate 4 250 000 dollars to aid extermination of the fruit fly now infesting Florida farms.
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Senate
Washington
House
Florida
Grant Birthday Tribute Marked at Point Pleasant
In Batavia on April 29 the 107th anniversary of General Ulysses S Grant's birth was celebrated at Point Pleasant with more than 1200 attendees. A bronze marker commemorating Grant was unveiled at the event.
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Batavia
General A. 8
Grant
Point Pleasant
Here
Captain Pereira's seamanship saves crew after James E Coburn foundering
In a gale the four mast schooner James E Coburn sank and Captain Jose J Pereira and his crew fled in an open boat with torn blankets for sails. They kept course for Bermuda for eight days despite starvation and thirst until Amida rescued them. one man died, survivors credited to Pereira's seamanship.
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James E. Coburn
Jose J. Pereira
Bermuda
Amida
Reira
Nine Die in Ohio Crashes Sunday Toll Rises
A Sunday of crashes across Ohio claimed at least nine lives in train, traffic, and grade-crossing incidents. A major tragedy occurred near Springfield when 10 year old Francis Gatewood and his 12 year old sister Gladys were killed as their car was struck by a Big Four train. Their companion William Spellman, 55, of Washington, D. C. was mortally injured.
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Columbus
U.P
Ohio
Springfeld
Francis Gatewood
Gladys
William
Spellman
Washington, D. H
Knight Arrested Over Alleged Support Failure
Gilbert L. Knight was arrested by Constable Harry L. Dalton in Carnegie Library for alleged failure to provide for Ira Knight. He will be arraigned today before Magistrate Carl H. Porter.
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Gilbert L. Knight
Carnegie Library
Harry L. Dalton
Ira Knight
Knight
Carl H. Porter
Tacna Arica dispute settlement announced in Chile
Santiago Chile April 29 newspapers Mercurio and Nación say the Tacna Arica problem is finally settled and that the agreement will be announced this week by the parties involved.
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Santiago
Chile
Mercurio and
Nacion
Society Shooting Remains Mystery
Evansville sources report a shooting mystery with Mrs. Joseph Green Conrad 27 a divorcee and Miss Margaret Maley 25 both heiresses injured. Mrs Conrad allegedly cried I did it I did it and apologized. acquaintances note the women had been friends since childhood.
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Evansville
Ind
Joseph Green Conrad
Margaret Maley
Rum Violator Sentenced to One Year in Ohio Penitentiary
Arthur Morris of Meigs County pleaded guilty to a third offense liquor charge and was sentenced by Judge Fred Crow to one year in the Ohio Penitentiary with a $600 fine. The report notes many jail inmates, including West Virginia natives, and describes intensive efforts by local officers and state prohibition agents in old coal mine tunnels to locate liquor makers.
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Pomeroy
Arthur Morris
Meigs County
West Virginia
Scipio Township
Fred Crow
Ohio
West Virgina
Stillers
Prohibition Force
Slander Charge Dismissed in Plains Case
Mrs. Estella Lowery filed slander charges against Mrs. Maude Cunningham both from The Plains. Magistrate Carl H. Porter dismissed the case after Cunningham pleaded not guilty.
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Estella Lowery
Anxious Parents Await Update On Missing Ohio Student
Athens officers search statewide for Joseph Freneau, 20, of Bainbridge missing since Saturday afternoon after leaving Athens to meet his parents in Chillicothe. He drove a 1927 Chevrolet with plate 95919. The case follows a separate Athens County Common Pleas Court calendar noting damages claims in the Greens Run Camp riot aftermath.
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Joseph Freneau
Bainbridge
Athens
Ohio State University
Chillicothe
Zacriff
William Williame
Freneau
Columbus
Chillcothe
Greens Run
Trimble Township
Athens County Common Pleas Court
Dewey
Harry Garrison
Ohio Collieries Mining Company
Athens County Commissioners
Harry
Ross Smith
Board of County Commissioners
Smith
Insurance Pays Widow 1300 on Gloeckner Estate Mystery
Frank Gloeckner, fatally struck near Middleport in late March, left a rumored vast hoard of diamonds and cash. Messenger Insurance issued a 1300 draft to his widow, confirming a 1000 death benefit plus three years of renewal benefits, ending the estate mystery.
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Gloeckners
Frank G. Gloeckner
North Second ‘Street
Gloeckner
Holzer Hos
Pital
Gallophlis
Athens Youth Pleads Guilty in Armed Courtroom Standoff
Glenn Burson, an Athens youth, pled guilty at arraignment on carrying concealed weapons charges after being arrested in the Athens County Courthouse while allegedly on a mission to reach Probate Judge Johnson with a gun knife and razor. Bail set at 400 dollars, he was remanded to the county jail to await the May Grand Jury. The suspect had previously requested permission to drive a factory vehicle, a request reportedly denied by Judge Johnson.
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Glenn Burson
Athens
Carl H. Porter
RB. D. Willams
Burson
S&sm
Johnson
Hurson
Bhurnon
Fraser
Pomeroy Plans $300000 Summer Labor Road Upgrades
Pomeroy outlines a summer program spending about 300000 for labor and materials on public improvements along State Route No 7 from Pomeroy to Mill Street in Middleport and a four mile stretch on the front. Middleport will finance its own street work with state aid and a fall bond vote planned to extend to the lower line. Construction aims to start after May 24 and finish by November with half the street built at a time due to traffic constraints.
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West Fined for Whisky Find Faces Public Work Sentence
Elderberry West was fined 100 dollars plus costs after six pints of whisky were found at his Riverside Drive home. Unable to pay, he must work the fine off on city streets. Officers on the case included Chief Finsterwald and Captain Maple. Edward Carsey was also arrested for intoxication and jailed awaiting arraignment before Mayor Woodworth.
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West
Riverside Drive
BE. C. Woodworth
Finsterwald
Charles Maple
Tom Johnson
Edward
Skid) Carsey
Court Street
Maple
Woodworth
South Side beer war flares with gang murders in Chicago
Chicago on April 29 faced renewed South Side gang violence as Enrico Tony front, a noted bootlegger, was killed and another man wounded in a scene linked to the era’s vice overlords Johnny Torrio, Joe Saltis, and Al Capone, amid continuing organized crime feuds.
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Chicago
Johnny Torrio
Polack
Joe” Saltis
Scarface
al” Capone
Enrico Tony Front Perry
Wealthy Rutland Woman Ends Life at Meigs Poor Farm
The once rich Clara B. Strong of Meigs County, 67, now an inmate of the county poor farm, treasures nature and animals. Friends cite robbed fortune and shattered status while she clings to memories of better days amid Christmas trees and humbling poverty.
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Pomeroy
Meigs County
Rutland Township
Clara B. Strong
Miss Strong
Chauncey Boy Hit by Auto Survives Severe Head Gash
Chauncey resident Dicky Joe McCafferty, son of Postmaster C. K. and Mia McCafferty, was struck by a machine on Matin Street near the Post Office Sunday afternoon. He was thrown to the brick road, sustaining a deep head gash that required several stitches at Dr. Warren V. Sprague’s office before he could be treated.
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Chauncey
Dicky Joe McCafferty
C. KE
Mia. McCafferty
Matin Street
Postoffice
Warren V. Sprague
Atia
Body found near Hay Bridge linked to three Fremont men
Sandusky authorities recovered the body of a man believed to be Marl W. Fought, a mail carrier, at Hay Bridge seven miles west of Sandusky. Fought, grocer J. C. Clem Metentine, and salesman Carl Graves of Fremont disappeared three weeks earlier while fishing on Sandusky Bay.
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Sandusky
Marl W. Fought
Hay Hridge
Here
Fought
J. C
Clem” Metentine
Grocer
Carl Graves
Fremont
Sandusky Bay
Young and Aide Seek Germany Reparations Compromise
Owen D. Young and his colleagues on the unofficial American delegation resumed efforts to secure a compromise between Germany and the Allies on war reparations at the conference of international experts in Paris.
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Paris
Owen D. Young
Conference of International Experts
Germany
Youngest University Head Named at Chicago
Robert Maynard Hutchins, former Yale Law School dean, is appointed president of the University of Chicago. At age 30 he becomes the youngest person to head a major American university, succeeding Max Mason who moves to the Rockefeller Foundation in a scientific role.
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Robert Maynard Hutchins
Yale University
University of Chicago
Hutchins
Max Mason
Rockefeller Foundation
Auto crash leaves three Logan men unharmed on road
Frank McGonagle of New Lexington drove a car carrying his brother John and two sons Edwin and James of Logan when a vehicle with a Went Heense plate struck and toppled their auto into Rush Creek between Bremen and Logan. James sustained a facial scratch. Frank and the others escaped uninjured. Hen Fisher found unconscious the next day at the Cherrington hotel.
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Logan
New Lexington
Bremen
Rush Creek
Frank McGonagle
Newington
John McGonagie
Edwin
James
Lancaster
James McGonagle
Logan Veterans Band members chosen for France trip
Logan April 29 Three Logan American Legion band members Frank W. Harden Harold W. Larimer and Roger W. Friend were picked to join the 47 Division band bound for France this fall to dedicate a memorial. The selectees will travel with 41 other musicians to depart September 11 and return October 21. Larimer is expected to join but may stay behind for work at the Hocking Brick plant. A combined band will perform at the 37 Division reunion in Youngstown before departure. A separate note from Columbus reports Ruth Ludwick 18 whose father is Rev L G Ludwick charged with a warrant offense. she received 20 days in jail and a $9 fine with deferment.
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Columbus
France
Youngstown
Larimer
Hocking
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