Hall Mills Case Deepens as Unidentified Man Remains Key
In Somerville New Jersey, the Hall Mills murder case widens with Mrs Frances Stevens Hall freed on 15000 bail as investigators seek arrest of an unidentified man seen at Phillips farm the night of the killings. State secrecy blocks details while prosecutors press for grand jury action and a broader inquiry.
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Paul W. White
United Press
Somerville
WN. J
Wigan
Phillips Farm
Edward W. Hall
Eleanor Mills
Hall-Mills
Frances Stevens Hall
Hall
Alexander Simpson
Jersey City
A. Harry Moore
Gummere
Bergen
Order to remove mining machinery from three coal firms
In Common Pleas court on Friday the North Hill 128 Company Big Balley Coal Company and Carrain Coal Company were ordered to remove all mining machinery and equipment. FR Hackton acting as receiver was granted a court order to store the equipment unless it had already been removed from four of the companies’ mines.
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North Hill 128 Company
Big Balley Coal
Carrain Coal GtPany
Common Pleas
FR. Hackton
Tires
Ofl, Sra “Cose
PIG WOMAN AND GRANDEE SOMMERVILLE IN MYSTERY DRAMA
In New Jersey Aug 31 Frances Stevens Hall a-prima donna of aristocracy and Jane Gibson a rural worker confront each other as witnesses in the Hall Mills murder case. Descriptions call Mrs Hall an iron or stone woman while Gibson speaks of trouble and a new litter of pigs. The grand jury meets as authorities press on.
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Sommerville
N. J
Frances Stevens Hall
Jane Gibson
Hall-Mills
New Brunswick
Mall-Mills
Hall
Mexican Church measures sharpen Mexico’s religious conflict
United Press reports that on June 24 President Calles issued a decree reforming the penal code to enforce the 1857 constitution as reaffirmed by 1917. It requires ministers to be Mexican, places church property under state, dissolves religious orders, and secularizes all schools. Churches began closing as Catholics rushed to obtain sacraments before doors shut.
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United Press
Mexico
LL Plntaren Calles
Galles
Igh Conneellon
Catholic League of Religious Defense
Man Wins Right to Kill Dry Raider in Home Defense
Steubenville jurors acquitted Frank Risler in the killing of prohibition agent John McCoy, ruling that a homeowner may defend his dwelling. McCoy entered the Risler home with an allegedly improper warrant and threatened Risler and his wife, who testified to his hostile stance. Prosecution argued jurors should ignore personal views on prohibition. In Miami meanwhile Baron Michael Royte-Garrett, crippled Russian nobleman, was found under a tree preparing a suicide pact with his wife after she leaped to her death Friday from a Coral Gables hotel. He said they planned to die together tomorrow.
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Coy
Risler
Sirler
McCoy
Miami
Fla
Michael Royte-Garrett
Little River
Here
Coral Gables
Bishops of Mexico May Act Tomorrow
Rome July 31 The bishops of Mexico are expected to impose a virtual interdict tomorrow though the Holy See will not promulgate it now. If used it would halt all religious ceremonies but preserve last rites. The move follows dispatches of bloodshed and soldiers in valleys near worshipers and children, and echoes Pius X era practice.
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Rome
Mexico
Vatican
Holy See
Ponn Pius X
Monsignor
Caron
Genoa
Logan Splash Party Provides Cool Evening Fun
Logan July 31 Staff Special Members of the Logan fire department and Rotary club joined to give kids a splash party on South Market Street near the courthouse. A hose from the courthouse corner sprayed spectators and about twenty boys and girls in bathing suits enjoyed the cooling spray. Organizers included L. C. Lanbe Capt C F Lauer C BE Lyke Art Dollmaisch and Ed Eberst.
Brains Added to Paint Does Work at Chicago Convention
A cosmetic convention in Chicago featured Ruth J. Maurer presenting a provocative line about beauty as a route to marriage. She claimed adjusting cheeks with carmine lips and shaded eyebrows, then adding “brains” would help a girl win a millionaire, framing beauty as a social tool.
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Chicago
U.ari
Ruth J. Maurer
Carmine Lipa
Powder Now Takes Place of the Stocking
London fashion notes reveal legs bare yet not bare, as powder creates the illusion of stockings. The lighter stocking shades remain in vogue, with women matching tint to dresses and one Savoy ballroom attendee drawing seam lines down the back of her calves to mimic stockings.
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London
U.R
Savoy
Chauncey Struck by Severe Thunderstorm Damage
A major electrical storm hit Chauncey on Saturday with high winds and heavy rain. A roof was badly damaged at Safe Crosser in Lexington Avenue, a large tree near Glyde Jordan’s Mill Street home had top branches torn, and rural telephone lines were knocked out. Vegetation suffered extensive damage as well. In Detroit, Ford disclosed producing 14,000,000 motors in seventeen years, nine months, and twenty-one days, with motor No. 14,006,000 completing on July 21, 1926.
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Chauncey
Staff Specia
Safe Crosser
Lexington Avenue
Hght
Glyde Jordan
Mill Street
Téion
Ben
Detroit
A.R Henry Ford
France Will Not Repudiate Debts Declared by Poincare
Paris July 31 Premier Poincare told the Chamber of Deputies there is no question of France repudiating its debts and foreign nations must know France never dreams of repudiating engagements after the chamber voted confidence 380 to 180. Communists and Socialists attacked the measures.
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Paris
Poincare
Chamber of Deputies
France
Chamber
Methodist Bishop Says No Religious Persecution in Mexico
New York July reports Bishop George A Miller of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Mexico City declares there is no religious persecution in Mexico. He calls the clerical dispute a political fight over state sovereignty and notes Protestant missions have complied with law by using native Mexican clergy.
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Mexico
New York
George A. Miller
Mexico City
Bar Harbor
Miller
Aexico
United States
Pardon Granted to Hocking Man in Ohio Commutation
Governor Donahkey Jroday commuted the sentence of Charles Poynter of Logan from one to twenty years for stabbing after clemency review. Judge Worstell and Prosecutor Wright supported the commutation. Poynter had previously received a suspended minimum term in 1926 before being returned to the penitentiary. A separate item notes BD W Radskin filing with the Public Utilities Commission to operate a bus between Marietta and Athens via Amenville as the Marietta and Athens Bus Company.
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Columbus
U.P
Ohio Board of Clemency
Donahkey Jroday
Charles Poynter
Logan
Ohio
L. G. Worstel
Athens
Eugene Wright
Hocking County
Poynter
NEW Bus Life
Marietta
Athena
Amenville
Public Utilities Compission Today
BD. W. Radskin
Rockland
Vice Crusader to Be Chief's Counsel
Canton officials announce Vice Crusader will serve as Chief's counsel as local liquor interests face intensified scrutiny from Joseph Roach. The move signals a push to tighten oversight amid ongoing political tension in the region.
Canton appoints Roach to lead crime crackdown
Canton authorities appoint Chicago attorney Joseph R. Roach as advisory counsel to acting Chief Kart Hexamer to purge vice and liquor interests tied to publisher Don R. Mellett's murder. Funds from Inter-civic organizations back his pay as he represents city clubs and groups in the murder probe. Meanwhile P H McDermott remains at large with investigators tracing leads and a jail informant holds a key witness. Contos, a suspect in Mellott murder, is released on writ of habeas corpus.
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Canton
U.P
Joseph R. Roach
Chicago
Kart Hexamer
S. M. Swarts
Hquor
Don R. Mellett
Reform
Inter-civic
Roach
Terre Haute
Indianapolis
P. H. McDermott
Melrett
McDermott
Youngstown
Contos
Don R. Mellstt
Mexican Church in Mexico City Clash Sparks Violence
Riots flare as church-state fight escalates in Mexico. Government troops guard churches nationwide while authorities seize church property and bar millions of Catholics from shrines. At least six killed and many injured amid upheaval over secularization and new constitutional provisions.
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A. W. Folger
United Press
Steff Weller
Mexico City
Mexico
Iva
Strother Nation
Willant Green
Feder Idm
Labor
United States
Federation
Antonio Catro-Leal
Count Iry
Parsons
Bassellica
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Willie Stevens
Pat
Frances Hall
Timothy Pfeiffer
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