Dinner is Given Woman Tells of Whole Hearted Support
Myers Y Cooper Republican governor candidate spoke to a Hamilton County dinner in Athens County about energizing state finances to aid farmers Ohio highway expansion educational legislation faster workmen compensation and a broad conservation and welfare building program He urged an agriculture director who is a practical farmer with marketing and financing know how and promised to depoliticize the department of agriculture The event drew about 200 residents and Mrs Claude Thompson voiced party support
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Ohio
Department of Welfare
Myers Y. Cooper
Cooper
Berry
Claude Thompson
Cincinnati
Athens
Middleport
Hamilton
Athens County
W. D. Robinson
Far Managers’ Association
Bond Furnished For Strike Rioters
New Bedford Mass August 2 a majority of 240 strike pickets convicted of rioting were released on bond from the house of correction. Examination of sureties was started by Walter R Mitchell clerk of third district court and staff as lines of relatives and friends gathered before the jail for bonds. Bail ranged from 500 to 1500 dollars.
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New Bedford
Mass
House of Correction
Walter R. Mitchell
Third District Court
Putman Awarded State Highway Contract in Guernsey County
Isaac Putman of Van Wert received a $43 725 65 contract from the state highway department for grading and drainage structures on section H of state route 107 in Guernsey county.
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Columbus
U.P
Isaac Putman
van Wert
State Highway Department
Guernsey County
Deserter suit claims back pay for Canadian sergeant
Sergeant F. Cooke sues Exchequer Court for 4000 dollars alleging clerical errors led to him being posted as a deserter from the British army. He says he served 16 years in the Imperial Army, was prisoner of war in Germany, escaped to Holland, and later found in a military hospital. His wife and three children' allowances were halted when marked a deserter.
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NEA Service
Vancouver
B. C
Imperial Army
F. Cooke
Cooke
le Havre
Passchendale
Holland
Names Sought for Pomeroy Bridge Creating Local Buzz
POMEROY Aug 2 Willard Fugate paymaster for Mt Vernon Bridge Co returns to Pomeroy with news of progress on the new river bridge. Ends should meet within a month with aluminum finish and spray painted cement deck. Opening ceremonies planned around Armistice Day amid hundreds of suggested names from Golden Rainbow to Kiwanis. Ornament globes ommitted on this bridge as location matters more to travelers.
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Pomeroy
Willard Fugate
Willard
Millard
Mt. Vernon
Golden Rainbow
Buckeye-Dixie
Kiwanis
Pomeroy Bridge
Pomeroy Bend
Hoover Finds Public Question While Fishing on Campaign Trip
Herbert Hoover and his son Allan fished at Medicine Lake during a five day trip through Oregon and California with the candidate catching only 12 small brook trout on one day and none on two. He plans to deliver his acceptance speech in Palo Alto on August 11 before continuing his campaign.
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Medicine Lake
Hoover
Allan
Oregon
California
Palo Alto
McCloud Lumber Company
Ohio Power files new light rates for 300 towns
The Ohio Power company based in Canton filed with the Public Utilities commission new residential and commercial lighting schedules affecting about 300 Ohio cities. Effective September 4, the plans promise uniform base rates and a projected annual bill reduction of about 400000 dollars. The base rate is eight cents per kilowatt hour for the first 30 kWh, seven cents for the next 30, six cents for the next 40, and five cents for over 100 kWh, with contract options including a $1 minimum and rates as low as four cents.
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Columbus
Ohio Power Company
Canton
Public Utilities Commission
Ohio
K. W
K. W.h
Zanesville Population Est. 44 106 in New Directories
ZANESVILLE Aug. 2 New city directories issued show an estimated population of 44 106 within the corporate limits. The number comes from 22 053 names doubled to account for children under 15 and married women not counted, with annexation of outlying residential areas cited as a major factor.
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Zanesville
Yacht seen sparks hope for missing Azara in Atlantic race
In Santander Spain an unconfirmed report from Comillas says a large yacht was seen offshore at 5 p.m. today that may be the missing Azara from the New York to Santander race. Newspapers discuss fate with some guessing safety while others note no need to sail. King Alfonso leads a wide ocean search for the unreported American yacht.
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Santander
Spain
U.R
Comillas
Here
New York-Santander
Alfonso
New York
Atlantic
Kellogg Seeks Permission to Publish British Note on Naval Pact
The state department received a British note through the American embassy in London detailing a secret British French naval compromise. Kellogg ordered the embassy to seek permission to publish the document.
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Washington
U.P
League of Nations
State Department
London
Kellogg
Roome estimates $10 million monthly stock withdrawal
Reginald Roome, president of a bank, says savings banks are seeing about $10,000,000 a month withdrawn for stock speculation.
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New York
Reginald Roome
Postmaster General forecasts over 100 million deficit for 1929
Washington August 2 Post master General New predicts a deficit of more than 100 million dollars for the post office department in fiscal 1929. He cites 77 million in pay raises 16 million lost revenue and 15 million in higher railroad payments. He notes the 1928 deficit was about 32 million and cites an Interstate Commerce Commission rate increase of 15 percent as yielding a lump sum of about 45 million retroactive to July 1925.
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Washington
New
Post Office Department
Interstate Commerce Commission
New York Stock Exchange Raises Membership Value
The value of membership at the New York Stock Exchange has risen after a slump from record highs. Another seat was arranged for sale at 350000 dollars, up 12500 from the price set a day or two earlier.
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New York
New York Stock Exchange
Ralso
Split in Anti-Saloon league over Cooper and Begg endorsements
In Columbus Ohio a rift forms within the Anti-Saloon league over its neutral stance on Republican gubernatorial hopefuls James Begg and Myers Cooper. Marked ballots allegedly favor Cooper, despite a nonpartisan committee’s effort for neutrality and objections from E R Root Norman Sherwood and others. Root accuses Moore and Dustman of pushing Cooper endorsement.
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Anti-Saloon League
Columbus
U.P
James T. Begg
Sandusky
Myers Y. Cooper
Cincinnati
F E. J. Moore
League
Cooper
Begg
Root
Medina
Moore
Man Waltzed Into Victory in 44 Mile Marathon
Louwis Lerner won a 44 mile dance marathon from Providence to Boston in 12 hours 12 minutes finishing at Park Square. Harry Wiseman trailed far behind as Lerner set a pace 2 hours 1% minutes below the walking record set by Eleonora Sears in 1926. Beth Calvin was among Lerner’s relay partners finishing with him.
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Boston
U.P
Louwis Lerner
Park Square
Providence
R. L
Harry Wiseman
Lerner
Eleonora Sears
Hos‘ton Society
Beth Calvin
Mexico Praised by Ambassador at Chamber Dinner
Ambassador Dwight W. Morrow praised Mexico’s calm government and people after the assassination of President-elect Alvaro Obregon. He urged Americans and foreigners to show faith in Mexico and to support orderly legal processes for the nation’s future.
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Mexico City
Mexico
Dwight W. Morrow
American Chamber of Commerce
Morrow
Alvaro Obregon
Airplane Friendship Bought For Air Service Venture
In New York Aug 2 the airplane Friendship used by Amelia Earhart for the Atlantic flight was sold for 60000 dollars to Donald Woodward of Leroy New York and Harry Rogers who intends to operate an air service attaching an emphasis on establishing passenger routes.
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New York
Amelia Earhart
Donald Woodward
Farmer
Leroy, N. Y
Harry Rogers
League rift widens as backer demands Dustman and Moore ousted
Medina Ohio August 2 United Press reports E R Root a founder and major backer of the Anti Saloon League repeats that he will seek the removal of Freeman L Dustman editor of the leagues American Issue and Dr E J Moore league superintendent He says he still believes in the league but condemns the Columbus tactics and calls for their departure
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Medina
U.P
E. R. Root
Freeman L. Dustman
E. J. Moore
League
Root
United Press
Columbus
Ohio Farm Bureau warns on seed wheat for fall planting
The Ohio Farm Bureau broadcasts a warning to farmers to secure quality seed wheat for seeding this fall due to a anticipated shortage from the year's crop. Officials fear inferior wheat may be imported from outside states and contaminate seed stocks unsuited to Ohio conditions. Ohio producers focus on soft red winter wheats, deemed best adapted.
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Ohio Farm Bureau
Ohio
Farm Bureau
Alleged Radical Captured Today in Cambridge
Cambridge August 2 Lewis Miller 45 of Pittsburgh is held on charges of shooting with intent to kill linked to radical labor union movements. Miller identified with Pennsylvania radicals for years and is said to have wounded a strike breaker and an officer during a prior escape into West Virginia.
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Cambridge
Lewis’ Miller
Pittsburgh
Arel
Pennsylvania
Miller
West Virginia
Fliers Between Azores and Newfoundland One Stop Stage
Captain Frank T. Courtney and three British companions landed at sea midway between the Azores and Newfoundland while attempting the second leg of a Lisbon to North America non stop flight. Ships including Minnewaska President Hayes Cedric Celtic and Columbus rushed to aid as radio networks relayed the position at latitude 42° N longitude 41° W.
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Azores
Newfoundland
Cedric
Byrelia
Chatham
Mass
Minnewaska
President Hayes
Minnetonka
Viere
London
U.P
Wier
Hayes
Frank T. Courtney
New York
Azores Islands
Lisbon
North America
Courtney
Celtic
Horta
Gripsholm
Radio Marine Corporation
E. B. Hosmer
Montreal
Fred Pierce
E. W. Gilmour
Atlantic
Johnson
Lloyd
Columbus
Dornier Napier Flying Boat
Franconia
Watkins Returns to Hartford in Embezzlement Case
R W Watkins brought back to Hartford to face embezzlement charges of 600000 from investors in National Associated Investors Inc, a bankrupt firm where he acted as fiscal agent. He is wanted in Memphis Cleveland Chicago and Pittsburgh for illegal financial dealings and was captured in Loran after a nationwide chase.
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Hartford
Conn
U.P
Roger W. Watkins
National Associated Investors, Inc
Watkins
Memphis
Cleveland
Chicago
Pittsburgh
E. Harrison Hotchkiss
Edward J. Hickey
Sandusky
Loran
Nationalist Government to assume faulted loan responsibilities
Sun Fo Chinese minister of reconstruction said the new Nationalist Government would take full responsibility for the long list of public and private loans in default and seek satisfactory adjustments.
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New York
Sun Fo
Moore Split In Anti-Saloon League Affects Ohio Races
A factional split in the Ohio Anti-Saloon League looms as Dr. BE J Moore and Freeman Dustman clash over endorsements. The policy committee did not back Cooper or Begg for governor, but a compromise included Begg, Cooper and Edward C Turner, provoking charges that Moore and Dustman favored Cooper and should be removed.
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Columbus
Doctor Moore
Cooper
Moore
Begg
Atorney
Edward C. Turner
Dustman
E. R. Root
Medina
N. Gwood Fremont
League
Root
League split rumor swirls over Begg Myers Cooper noms
U N G Sherwood warns U S Saloon League peers of a looming split over the Republican gubernatorial nominee with Begg and Myers Cooper both shown on ballots. He opposes editorials opposing Begg and Myers Cooper and calls for new league officials. Meanwhile in Marietta a plane ride left William Atkins unable to speak after an air derby ride.
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Fremont
U.2
N. G Sherwood
Myers’ Cooper
James T. Begg
Begg
Sherwood
Myers
Cooper
Marietta, Ga
Willliam Atkins
Atkins
Atlanta
Banks? Never Liberty Bonds Hidden Under Carpet
A Columbus resident in the Tenth Ohio district hid four $100 Liberty Bonds under a carpet to avoid banks. During house cleaning a thief found the bonds with old newspapers and burned them, leaving four uncharred duplicates later recovered by Congressman Tom Jenkins as the owner seeks treasury recovery.
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Columbus
Ohio
Bnig
Tom Jenkins
Treasury Department
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Hamilton County
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United States
Washington Information Bureau
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Washington, D. C
Paul R. Mallon
San Francisco
Herbert Hoover
Norman Sherwood
Official League
Man
Adress
R. W. Watkins
BE. J. Moore
Freeman
Su P Myers Y. Cooper
James Te Begg
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