Four Die in Fire at Glouster and Langsville Shooting
Rutland man Max Hawkins, 35, was fatally shot in Langsville after a car trip with Dewey Donahue and Frank Grant. Donahue was arrested. Grant supplied a signed statement. Hawkins died at Holzer Hospital as officers pursued motive amid a mine strike discussion.
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Glouster
Rutland
Langsville
Malcolm Hartley
Pomeroy
Max Hawkins
Langa
Dewey Donahue
Hawkins
Frank Grant
Grant
Donahue
Floyd Miller
Max
Dewey
Langeville
Hawkine
Hocking Valley
Gas Company Foreman Dies in Route 71 Crash
Ed wards William W. 49 a veteran Ohio Fuel Gas worker and South Bloomingville district foreman died when his truck overturned on Route 71 near Ash Cave. A coal truck driver found the wreck Sunday morning. Coroner Miller ruled accidental death. He left a wife and eight children Laurelville Cecilene Harold Audrey Thelma Donabelle Norman at home. Funeral plans pending.
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William W. Edwards
South Bloomingville
Ash Cave
Logan
Edwards
Ohio Fuel Gas Company
Bloomingville
Fiosate Swackhammer
Marie Karshner
Laurelville
Cecilene
Harold
Audrey
Thelma
Donabelle
Norman
Miller
Wrong Doses Kill 3 Babies
New York authorities indicated no criminal action against a nurse after three newborns died from erroneous doses at New York Hospital and Cornell Medical Center. The third infant died yesterday from boric acid mistaken for saline, officials said. The nurse, a three year veteran, is unnamed.
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New York
New York Hospital
Cornel Medical Center
License Tag Sales Lag Behind Last Year in Athens County
Deputy motor vehicle commissioner David S. Johnson reports Athens County sold 310 passenger tag sets last week earning 1302 dollars at 7 each, 880 dollars at 10 each, and 125 dollars at 15 each. Trucks brought 22 tag sets for 701.15 dollars and six trailer plates for 26 dollars. Total income 8390.18 dollars.
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Athens County
David &S. Johnson
River Packets Waging Fight Against Iloes
Marietta December 19. The packet Senator Cordill battles ice on the Ohio River en route from Cincinnati to Pittsburgh with Christman cargo. River traffic blocked by largest December floe in years. Liberty blocked at Gallipolis. Muskingum frozen from Zanesville to Marietta.
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Marietta
Cordill
Old Man River
Christman
Ohio River
Cincinnati
Pittsburgh
New Martinsville
W. Va
Liberty
Gallipolis
Muskingum River
Muskingum
Zaneaville
Trial of Loren Truesdale Nears End in Lima Case
The twelfth day of the Loren E. Truesdale murder trial in Lima Ohio saw four rebuttal witnesses for the state. The defense rested earlier with an inmate's testimony echoed by another reformatory inmate, who claimed Truesdale was innocent and named three others as the real killers.
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Lima
Loren E. Truesdale
Earl
Thelma Woods
Common Pleas
Donald Ruppert
Mansfield Reformatory
Lioyd Zeigler
Reformatory
Logan Family Of 3 Injured In Car Crash
Attorney Edwin Ricketts his wife Lydia Bell Ricketts and their son H M Ricketts were severely injured in a head on collision at Canal Winchester Sunday night. The Beavers of Columbus another cutter at a local shoe factory was believed to drive the other car. Mrs Ricketts suffered multiple fractures and head injuries. The others had cuts and back injuries. They were taken to a Canal Winchester physician then to a Columbus hospital. The family was en route to Columbus to visit Merrill Ricketts and his family.
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Donahue
Miller
H. M. Crumsey
Rutland
Langesville
Hawkins
Martha Swink
Middleport
Logan
Edwin Ricketts
Lydia Bell Ricketts
H. M. Ricketts
Collison
Canal Winchester
John Beavers
Columbia
Columbus
Merrill Ricketts
Glouster
High Street
Tme
Johial Alien
Town Street
Fiza Morris
City Mail
Morris
Wilson Morrie
Clyde Craig
Albany
Matthews
Spring Street
Marcellius Matthews
Joseph Richards
Little Italy
Oklahoma Governor Reinstates Students After Flogging Incident
Governor W H Murray signed an executive order to reinstate 14 University of Oklahoma students expelled by the Board of Regents for the night flogging of a student newspaper correspondent. Ten of those reinstated were athletes. the "Deep Dark Mystery Club" was dissolved after a midnight conference at the executive mansion.
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Oklahoma City
Okla
W. H Murray Toda
University of Oklahoma
Board of Regents
Murray
Ohio Bell Rate Case Resumed Before Utilities Panel
Public Utilities Commission resumed hearings in the nine year old statewide Ohio Bell Telephone rate case this week. The case began October 14, 1924, consolidating municipal rate disputes into a state wide investigation affecting about 700 90 telephone subscribers.
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Columbus
U.R
Ohio Bell Telephone Company
Public Utilities Commission
Baby adopted after seduction trial convict
Charlotte Gibson's baby girl was born Sunday in Tappan New York. Robert Gibson announced the child will be adopted by the Gibsons and taken from the county, scene of Sidney Homewood riding master’s seduction conviction brought by Charlotte's father.
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Tappan, NY
Charlotte Gibson
Robert Gibson
Charlotte
Gibsons
Sidney Homewood
Empire Steel Mansfield Plant Opens At Full Capacity
Empire Steel Corp restarts operations in Mansfield with 120 workers as the plant begins at capacity. Fourteen milig will run on four six hour shifts daily until orders are filled.
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Mansfield
Empire Steel Corporation
Milig
Machines Crash Price System Prompts New Era Proposal
New York December 19 Machine driven critique urges a new national price system based on energy as Howe ard Beott cautions Harper's Magazine. He argues machines eliminate jobs reduce consuming power while profits reinvest in production driving continuous growth and wages.
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Howeard Beott
Harper's Magazine
Poet Edmund Vance Cooke Sr Dies Suddenly
Cleveland reporter confirms the sudden death of Edmund Vance Cooke Sr a noted poet and author at his Cleveland home on Sunday due to acute indigestion.
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Cleveland
Edmund Vance Cooke
Sprague and Hill Wedding Notices Listed
Clarence A. Sprague aged 24 of Athens son of Mr and Mrs C L Sprague and Juanita Irene Hill of Athena daughter of Mr and Mrs C L Hill are named in marriage notice.
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Clarence A. Sprague
Athens
Trains Delayed Hit Athens Area Daily Newsletter
Due to the holiday season nearly all railroad trains on lines passing through Athens were late today which prevented the Gallipolis and Gallia County daily newsletter from arriving in time for publication in Athens.
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Athens
Gallipolis
Gallia County
Tragic Glouster Fire Claims Matthews Family
A mother aged 23 and her husband aged 23 with their two children Gerald five and Junior three died in a Glouster Town Street fire. Neighbor reports flames erupting at 1 am and a shotgun sounded to rouse volunteers. Coroner and deputy fire marshal open investigation.
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Tots
Glouster
Town Street
Rolland Matthews
Gerald
Junior
We Pool
J. FL Jones
Athena
Robert Bell
Murray City
League of Nations Seeks Accord on Manchurian Crisis
Geneva December 19 The League of Nations opened efforts to craft a conciliatory formula acceptable to China and Japan in the Manchurian dispute amid continued friction and uncertainty about possible resolutions.
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Geneva
League of Nations
China
Japan
Christmas Toy Drive for Athens County Children
In Athens County a Toy Shop appeal seeks doll and toy donations to aid 1,500 children who wrote to Santa. Mrs. Eugene Shafer leads the effort, with Headquarters by the Hotel Berry Coffee Shop. call 532 to arrange pickup or drop off gifts for a Christmas this year.
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Athens County
Dolla
Banta
Eugene Shafer
Santa
Hotel Berry Coffee Shop
Predict Milder Weather Before Christmas Comes
Nationwide relief from cold as warmer conditions spread from the northern half of the United States to the Northeast and New England. Flooding reported along the Pearl River basin in Mississippi, with hundreds displaced and cattle losses, while New York and New England cope with snow and traffic issues.
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United States
Ferief
New York
New England
New York City
Waaneton
D.C
Jackson
Mise
Pearl River
Hoover Signals War Debt Review Goes to Congress
President Hoover nears sending a special message to Congress on European war debts. He may appoint a board to review obligations, though Congress doubts a commission will be created. Debtor nations will get careful consideration but action hinges on the Roosevelt transition. Paris reports Joseph Boncour seeks to ease Franco American tensions and will not declare a stance on the $10,201,492 defaulted debt.
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Washington
Hoover
Congress
Paris
Joseph Paul Boncour
United Press Today
Pilot Claire Vance Dies in Rocky Ridge Crash
Investigators blame failure to judge altitude by ten feet in dense fog for the death of airwoman Claire K. Vance when her plane wrecked on Rocky Ridge after a two and a half hour search.
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Oakland
Cal
Claire K. Vance
Rocky Ridge
Martial Law Sought for Ohio Veterans Home
State Senator Joseph Ackerman urged Gov. White to declare martial law within a mile of the Soldiers and Sailors Home in Sandusky to stop bootlegging tied to Homeville. He said five inmates were poisoned after drinking poison rum sold by a county bootlegger amid a community of bootlegging, prostitution, and gambling.
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Sandusky
George White
Joseph N. Ackerman
Ackkerman
Homeville
Ackerman
Donts for Christmas Season in the Home
Fire Chief F R Laughlin issued safety guidelines to Athena residents planning Christmas trees This caution urges securing trees to prevent knocking over avoiding inflammable decorations and using mineral wool or asheston for imitation snow He warns against wiring changes without an electrician and defective electrical gear on trees and advises smokers not to handle lit cigars or matches near trees and to store matches only in metal or clay boxes He notes defective chimneys cause fires and will be checked for cracks.
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Laughlin
New Robbery Insurance Rates Set for Territory One
Cleveland says a new scale of robbery insurance rates becomes effective today. The National Bureau of Casualty and Surety Underwriters places Coyenage County in Territory One, near the highest holdup class. Local firm warns the increase will be considerable.
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Cleveland
National Bureau of Casualty and Surety Underwriters
Coyenage County
William Blackburn Dies After Being Struck by Truck
William Blackburn 75 former Morgan County recorder died from injuries after a state highway truck struck him near his McConnellville home. The accident happened Saturday afternoon with death nine hours later on Sunday morning.
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McConnellville Dee
William Blackburn
Morgan County
Hoover plans South Seas cruise after leaving White House
Reported from Palo Alto on December 19 that President Hoover will cruise the South Seas after his March 4 retirement. He may rest briefly at his Stanford home with secretary French Strothers joining, signaling possible post office plans.
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Palo Alto
Cal
Hoover Plana
South Seas
Stanford
Hoover
White House
Hunter Shoots Fish on Ice Near Port Clinton
Dec 19 report from Port Clinton describes Ernest Mayle accidentally shooting a six pound carp while aiming for a duck in marsh ice. Companions Vane da Brown and Charles Sibrel retrieved the fish as the duck appeared to escape beyond reeds.
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Port Clinton
Ernest Mayle
Vaneda Brown
Charles Sibrel
Ohio Retail Council urges early shopping week
Record breaking sales reported by stores statewide prompted the Ohio Council of Retail Merchants to predict record pre Christmas shopping. The council urged shoppers to shop early this week and finish by Friday to avoid crowds and ensure service.
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Olumbus
Ohio Coone
Yahio
Ohio Retail Council
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Mers
Meigs
Holzer Hospital
Tracy
Gas Company
By Clinton Weber
Messenger
Lancaster
Hue
Joe Farbearn
J. P. Miller
Newport
Washington County
Ohio
Milda Shaw
Mark
Senator Cordill
Lima Ca
Ziegler
Truesdale
James May
Robert White
Don Haggard
Ricketts
Canal
Winchester
Alfalfa Bill
Gibson Baby
Mans
Scott
Wen
Father
W. A. Crapt Messenger
Ohio Mining Company
Jacksonville
City Mall
Bart Paires
Wolse
Mercury
Disay
Mra
France
County Weather Observer
State Hospital
Aventanes
McConnellyville
Union Street
Christemas
Virginia
Poteman
Weeshington
Ku Kius Kien
Kien
Joseph M. Baird
Rooseveltt
Clare
Ohio Veterans Home
F. R. Laughno
Asheston
Rumor Save
Hunter
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