Tragic Bolling Field Crash Kills Five Including Rep Raynor
Five men die in a quick Bolling Field crash as Representative Raynor and his secretary Stanley Lowe perish en route to Christmas plans. Capt Harry Dinger and Private Vladimir Kuwma die in the cockpit. Arthur McGill, a friend of Raynor, among the cabin victims. Hoover learns of the crash as Maj. Gen. Summerall praises Dinger.
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Washington
U.P
Bolling Field
Raynor
Massachusetts
Stanley B. Lowe
William K. Raynor
Springfield
Mass
House
Harry A. Dinger
James
Vladimir Kuwma
Army Air Corps
Arthur A. McGill
Lowe
National Guard
Hartford
Fokker
Cuddihy
Tce Navy
Dinger
Kuwma
Hoover
Hurley
Summerall
McGill
Kaynor
Athens Messenger Publishes Modern Manners Booklet
Our Washington Information Bureau compiles a brief etiquette handbook titled Modern Manners. The 2 page booklet covers dress, behavior, entertaining, correspondence, paying calls, walking and social conduct with chapters for reference. Send six cent postage and handling using the coupon.
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Washington Information Bureau
Pioneer of Wooster field dies penniless at home
Homer B. Odenkirk, 76, a Wooster Field pioneer who promoted early oil ventures, died at the Masonic Home in Dayton after decades of failed deals. Despite promoting leases and later selling prime acres, he left with little to his name while the field yielded millions from wells drilled by others.
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Wooster Wells
Wooster
O.R
Dayton
Homer B. Odenkirk
Odenkirk
Wayne County
Columbia Chemical Company
Barberton
Columbia Group
Ohio Oil Company
Ohio Braces as Snow Storm Gives Way to Deep Freeze
Rural and metropolitan Ohio wrestled with one of the worst snow storms in years. A bitter cold gripped the state with near zero temperatures expected tonight. Roads remained impassable in places though some routes were opening. power lines and communications were down in sections. one man found dead in Youngstown with exposure cited as a partial cause.
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Columbus
U.R
Ohio
Youngstown
State Highway Department
Today By Arthur Brisbane On Russia Flies
This item by Arthur Brisbane notes a claim that Russia flies with high casualties and uncertainty as the death toll rises. The column contrasts public figures and asks about a Mr Burke while commenting on pace and frequency of events.
Fifty Seven Die in Oklahoma Coal Mine Disaster
The article notes fifty seven miners died in an Oklahoma coal mine, a somber milestone in industrial progress. It argues the tragedy should spur better pay and safety gear, contrasting grim losses with rapid technological progress and forecasts of easy transoceanic flights and future air power. It warns politicians may shift focus from battleships to aerial danger from Europe or Japan.
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Oklahoma
Pacific
Atlantic
Europe
Japan
Our Proud Nation Flatly Rejects Russian Actions
The text argues against recognizing Russian moves while praising American sales to Russia. It laments revolutionary origins of government titles and warns Anglo American arrogance, noting Russia’s industrial progress and potential as the world’s largest cash customer in the future.
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Russia
Russia Spends Largest Share on Aviation in 1929
All the world's aircraft reports that Russia allocated the highest percentage of public funds to aviation in 1929, highlighting a period of heavy investment. Continued on Page 4.
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Rrussia
Davison's tri motor plane flight to Massachusetts
Representative Raynor asked Assistant Secretary of War Davison for a plane to Massachusetts. Davison assigned his own tri motor Fokker with a desk as an aerial office. Capt. Dinger was chosen as pilot for his high reputation. Witnesses said takeoff was perfect but a prior Middletown crash involved Lieut. Angel and seven men in a tri motor.
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Sullivan
Burgess
Scarsdale
N. Y
Raynor
Davison
Massachusetts
Fokker
Capt. Dinger
Dinger
Robert Angel
Middletown
Angel
Ghost acquittal ends Ozark murder mystery in Mountain View
Connie Franklin’s “ghost” case ends as a jury of mountain men acquits four men of his murder after 20 hours of deliberation. Two defendants, Hubert Hester and Herman Green, await trial next May on assault charges linked to the 17 year old girl Tiller Ruminer who claimed Franklin was beaten and burned. Connie Franklin grins declaring the verdict proves he was not murdered.
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Mountain View
Ark
U.R
Connie Franklin
Ozark
S. M. Bones
Hubert Hester
Herman Greenaway
Tiller Ruminer
Franklin
Connie
Two Brothers Hang For Killing a Man
Montreal dispatch reports Norman Menard twenty one and Lawrence Menard nineteen were hanged back to back in Bordeaux Jail for the murder of John Earl Durham during a February holdup. Officials declined access to reporters. both brothers reportedly faced the scaffold without flinching. Their mother was believed to reside in Detroit and their father in Ford City.
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Montreal
U.P
Bordeaux
Norman Menard
Lawrence
John Earl Durham
Detroit
Ford City
Farm worker burned to death near Newport
Arthur C. Grant aged 39 of Marion died after falling into a fire he tended on the William Kuhl farm near Newport Kentucky. His charred body was found by Mrs. Kuhl and the accident was reported today.
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Newport
Arthur C. Grant
Marion
William Kuhl
Circleville Merchant Peace Officer Shoots Self
Isaac Goff aged 75 a merchant peace officer in Circleville shot and killed himself at his home last night authorities reported.
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Circleville
Pri— Isaac Goff
Midwest Blizzard Paralyzes Midwest Hurts Many as Storm Strikes
The Chicago area and Midwest endure a severe blizzard and cold wave with more than 15 inches of snow in many places, 14.8 inches in Chicago, over 40 deaths, widespread outages, and transportation shutdowns. Eastward the storm advances as fires and drifts compound damages.
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Chicago
U.R
Mid- America
Mid-West
Actress Helen Lee Worthing Rejoins Negro Husband in Hollywood
Hollywood reports Helen Lee Worthing, once a Broadway and screen star, has returned to her husband Dr. Eugene C. Nelson, a Black physician. She says she left stage and screen to marry him in 1927 and now cares only to be together despite public opinion.
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Hollywood
Calif
Uri
Helen Lee Worthing
Broadway
Eugene C. Nelson
Senate probes sugar levy talk with Hoover
A Senate committee uncovered a letter suggesting Edwin P. Shattuck, attorney for the Cuba Company, discussed the sugar take off with President Hoover, despite Shattuck’s denial. The disclosure adds to investigations on lobbying influence.
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Washington
U.R
Edwin P. Shattuck
Cuba Company
Hoover
Shattuck
Senate Lobby
Gift Idea Shop-o-Scope Specials Offer Sleds and Chains
Local ad notes Piexbhlo Myer sleds and fruitcake by the pound. A chain set is advertised for four dollars and fifty cents. The message urges shoppers to purchase items today.
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Messeneri Shop-o-Scope
Dadoon
Christa
Cooper Talks on Tax Reform Urges Fair Burden Shifts
Governor Cooper addressed the Committee of 120 in Columbus on Ohio tax reform under the Tax Classification Amendment. He warned against shifting burdens to farmers and small homeowners while noting potential new revenue from about 16 billion dollars of intangibles not taxed under the current system.
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Ohio
Cooper
West General Assembly
Merger Plan of Railroads Is Completed
The Interstate Commerce Commission completed a railroad consolidation plan with five major eastern trunk lines including the Pennsylvania and New York Central. The plan groups New Haven and Posten plus Southern Railway and others in the South and consolidates Great Northern and Northern Pacific in the West, subject to Burlington exclusion.
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New York
U.P
Washington
Dow Jones Company
Interstate Commerce Commission
Dow Jones
Astern
Pennsylvania
New York Central
Baltimore and Chin
Chesapeake and Olio
Thy Wabash
New Waeland
New Haven
Posten
Mone
Southern
Stolilmoy
Atlantic Coast Line
Klinustral
Great Northcven
Northern Pacific
Burlington
Atchison
Missouri Pacific
Rock Island
Union Pacific
Northavern
Larry Davidson faces Toledo transfer under federal indictment
Suave Larry Davidson once head of federal prohibition agents in this district awaits transfer from county jail to Toledo. He is charged in a federal indictment with conspiracy to violate prohibition laws. Davidson, once a top agent, allegedly became a bootlegger and was arrested in a downtown Cleveland hotel about a month ago.
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Cleveland
Pec
Larry Davidson
Jury Gets Case in Murders of Six Strikers at Marion
In Burnsville New York a Yancey County jury received the case against seven Methwell County deputy sheriffs and a constable charged with second degree murder in the deaths of six strikers at Marion on October 2.
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Burnsville
N. Y
Methwell County
Marion
Yancey
Westerville postmistress Mary Lee ousted amid league charges
Mary Lee blames the Anti Saloon League and assistant Lester Whitehead for her dismissal as Westerville postmistress. She cites discriminatory treatment and political pressure while Arch Coleman says an inquiry found the removal justified. Lee vows to fight until her term ends January 1 1931.
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Columbus
Anti Saloon League
Lester E. Whitehead
Mary Lee
Westerville
Suldahe
Savid Stampa
Lee Denne
Coleman
Mes. Lee
Man captured after threat to blast home
In Norwalk Dee 20 a blackmailer targeting wealthy retired merchant William P. Taber was captured after a police stakeout. The suspect, Michael Cheeotel, a railway worker, fled near the Widlar Canning Company but was caught. He allegedly demanded 3000 dollars to avoid blowing up Taber’s home and said he needed funds for a radio, car payments, and Christmas gifts.
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Norwalk
Dee
U.R
William P. Taber
Michael Cheeotel
Yober
Wme
Frank Adelman
David Kerry
Edward Chegory, Jr
Widlar Canning Company
Pilots Seek Missing Capt. Elelson and Borland Across Bering Straits
In Nome Alaska on December 20 pilots Joe Crossen and Charley Gillam took off from Teller to search the Bering Straits for Capt. Elelson and Elmer Borland who have been missing for over a month. The plan faced severe weather and poor visibility hazards during the rescue mission.
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Nome
Alaska
Joe Crossen
Charley Gillam
Teller
Bering Straits
Liberty
Ben Elelson
Elmer Borland
Ohio Briefs approve WW dead memorial plan in Remembrance end
Governor Myers Y. Cooper endorsed a two day inspection trip over the Remembrance end memorial to Ohio World War dead. In TIFFIN Bishop Samuel A Strich of Toledo invested Monsignor Francis L Hultgen as domestic prelate at St Josephs Church. Over 200 attended. Hultgen has led St Josephs for 25 years.
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Ammtabula
Ohio
Myers Y. Cooper
Tiffin
U.F
Samuel A. Strich
Toledo
Francis L. Hultgen
St. Joseph's Catholic Church
Hultgen
St. Joseph's
Chicago gangster sentenced in Lifet Port bank holdup case
William Mutkowski, 29, Chicago, described as a gangster, was sentenced to 24 years and 11 months in the State Penitentiary for the United Banking and Trust Company holdup in Cleveland. The December 20 report cites the court decision and Mutkowski’s charges.
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Cleveland
William Mutkowski
Chicago
State Penitentiary
United Banking & Trust Company
Robbers Kidnap Victim Then Drop Him From Car
Youngstown police hunted a group of urban bandits who abducted Gust Inwers of Struthers during a mist and forced him into a car. They robbed him and then threw him from the vehicle in an unknown location.
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Youngstown
Gust 'Inwers
Struthers
Tobacco Grower Injured In Gallia County Crash
A. T. L. Travis, 23, married Gallia County farmer, was fatally injured when his truck left the road near Gallipolis after returning from Maysville Kentucky to dispose of a tobacco crop. He suffered a fractured skull when the vehicle struck a telephone pole.
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Gallipolis
A. TL. Travis
Gallia County
Maysville
Travis
Motorcycle Swap Ends With Jail Time For Three
In Sidney on December 20, police say John Brown swapped his motorcycle to Kil Cotterman for Brown’s wife and child. Cotterman, owner of the motorcycle, exchanged it to Brown. Brown was arrested at Quincy and his wife and Cotterman were taken into custody at Anna. The trio were fined 2100 each and sentenced to three months in jail.
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Sidney
U.P
John Brown
Kil Cotterman
Brown
Cotterman
Quincy
Anna
Here
Johnson Protests Rival Schedule In Ohio Bus Route Fight
Earl FE Johnson, operator of bus service linking Athens Glouster MacConnellville and Caldwell, filed a protest with the Public Utilities Commission against rival J F Chadwell Jr schedule approved by the commission. Johnson argues the rival timetable conflicts with his own, in operation since September 30 1927.
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Columbus
U.R
Earl FE. Johnson
Athens
Glouster
MacConnellville
Caldwell
Public Utilities Commission
J. F. Chadwell, Jr
Johnson
Bis Own
Hoover Prison Expansion Bills Favorably Reported
Five bills to build two new Federal penitentiaries a hospital for insane convicts and changes in prison administration received favorable reports from the House Judiciary Committee.
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Washington
Dec
Hoover
House Judiciary Committee
Wages Set New Mark for Seven Year Period
In Nelbonville mining districts the two weeks ending December 16 yield over a quarter of a million dollars in extra Christmas pay for about 4 000 workers at Matellat mines. Payroll totals show a seven year high, with $208 208.02 recorded back to 1933. All mines to pay next Monday and Tuesday, promising relief and happier holidays for many families.
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Hocking
Creek
Matelat
Avera Yours Ia
Thea & W
National Guard
Outside Interests Control Ohio Telephone Companies
Columbus December 20 A State Public Utilities Commission accountant E W Wood reports that several small independent Ohio telephone firms are steered by out of state financial interests. Findings in the Cambridge Home Telephone Company rate case suggest transfers by holding companies affect rate earnings. The report says the Cambridge system does not involve a direct tie between the Ohio Telephone Company and the Illinois Telephone & Telegraph Company.
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Columbus
Ohio
E. W. Wood
State Public Utilities Commission
Cambridge Home Telephone
Wood
Cambridge
Wooed
Ohio Telephone Company
Ican Telephone & Telegraphpany
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