Death for Young Slayer of Death for Young Slayer
In St. Clairsville on December 23, Johnnie Woods a 14 year old slayer had a death sentence lifted and will be returned to the Boys Industrial School in Lancaster. The Welfare Department and Bureau of Juvenile Research will study the case before a new disposition is made. His attorneys told him he would plead guilty to second degree murder avoiding first degree trial. He suffered a heart attack two days earlier while jailed. A 17 year old accomplice in the holdup and killing of an elderly farmer last September remains in consideration or serving a life sentence.
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ST. Clairsville
Johnnie Woods
State Welfare Department
Common Pleas
W. W. Cowen
Johnnie
Cowen
Lancaster
Welfare Department
Bureau of Juvenile Esearch
Biere
John
David H. James
Willian T. Dixon
Belmont County
George C. McKelvey
Common
Ohio Penitentiary
Belmont youth murder case praised by Public Welfare
Mrs. Lucia J. Bing of Athens lauds Belmont County Common Pleas Court for handling the 14 year old Johnnie Woods murder case. She hopes the killer may be transferred to a special institution for criminal detectives as recommended by Governor Cooper's Welfare Advisory Commission.
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Columbus
O.R
Public Welfare Department
Johnnie Woods
Belmont County Common Pleas Court
Lucia J. Bing
Athens
Division of Charities
Bing
Cooper
Prisoner Jailed After Prison Escape and Robbery
Raymond Stickler who escaped from the State Penitentiary by kidnapping the warden was captured in a Phoenix restaurant after a chase. He kidnapped Warden Lorenzo Wright to Florence for supplies, robbed him of 58 dollars and a revolver, then fled in the warden’s car. A restaurant patron’s blow with a coffee cup aided by a deputy sheriff crash ended the pursuit.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Dee
U.P
State
Raymond Stickler
Lorenzo Wright
Florence
Stickler
Bevis and Lawlor Named to State Finance and Guard Posts
Columbus December 23. Governor-Elect George W White announces Howard L Bev is appointed state director of finance for 6500 dollars a year. Lt Col Ed Lawlor of Columbus named joint quartermaster general of the Ohio National Guard with a salary around 6800 dollars.
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Columbus
U.P
Howard
Lawlor
J. Earl Ports
Mansfield
100 Children In Athens County Need Toys For Christmas
The Messenger Toy Shop issues an appeal for 1090 Athens County children in need. After repairs and packing, 100 more requests arrived as output exhausted supplies. Mrs. Eugene Shafer oversees distribution. W. A. Casley directed repairs and a truck with toys was sent to Glouster.
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Athens County
Messenger Toy Shop
Eugene Shafer
W. A. Casley
Glouster
Gas Company
South Court Street
London Fog Paralyzes City with Fatal Accidents
London endures its heaviest fog in years as eight people die in accidents and travel chaos grips the capital. Shoppers struggle, trains run late, and half a million residents are stranded while police guide pedestrians through the dense whiteness.
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London
Wall Street Coughs But Not Yet Strong
At a resort for consumptives one man tells his neighbor you are coughing better this morning. The passage notes commodity prices turning upward and low inventories as good signs while bonds recover from a fainting spell. Wall Street is coughing better but still coughing.
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Wall Street
Old broker recalls changing farm economics and bumper crops
A veteran broker laments shifts in farming fortunes noting earlier bumper crops brought abundance and railroads profits, while modern large harvests prompt government storage and reduced railroad transport, leaving farmers with less to sell. He asks what changed and why prices and sentiment turned sour.
Ascetic American James Brandon Dies After Vision Seizure
In a cave near an old Hindu temple in India, James Brandon lived as an ascetic devoting years to occultism and mystic healing. A theft of his spectacles, which he claimed let him see God, preceded his death, according to the account.
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India
James Brandon
Ivan of Russia and the unicorn horn hoax
The tale recounts Ivan the Great requesting a unicorn horn as he neared death. He believed the narwhal tusk horn came from a mythical unicorn and drew a circle on the table with it. Continued on Page 4.
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Ivan
Russia
Borah Pushes For Post March Extra Session
Senator William E. Borah Idaho voices support for an extra Congressional session after March 4 opposing President Hoover. He urges the session to tackle interstate motorbus regulation power and railroad legislation the Anti Injunction Bill and farm relief via the export debenture plan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U.P
William E. Borah
Idaho
Congress
Borah
Hoover
Morrison Starts Senate Career with Christmas Prices Talk
Will Rogers notes North Carolina senator Morrison trying to discuss prices and deliveries for Christmas goods with colleagues soon after taking office. He faces unwritten rules that limit a new member's speech and that subsequent talk may lack impact. Morrison defends a friend from his state amid playful jabs by another senator.
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Burbank
Calif
North Carolina
Morrison
Wili
Ohio Farmers' Co-Operative to Run 30 Elevators
Ed win G Craun told Seneca County farmers at a Union Grange meeting that thirty elevators will be operated by the newly organized Ohio Farmers' Co-Operative Association once organized. The co op will take over the Sneath Cunningham Company elevators in TIFFIN with C B Latshaw outlining plans from Defiance as secretary of the Farmers' Elevator Association.
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Tiffin
U.P
Ohio Farmers’ Co-Operative Association
Edwin G. Craun
Seneca County
Union Grange
Sneath-Cunningham Company
Latchaw
Defiance
Farmers’ Elevator Association
Train Kills Five In Fog At Cranford Junction Tower
A New Jersey commuter train struck a section gang in dense fog at Cranford Junction Tower. Five laborers were killed and another was critically injured. Three escaped to safety as the express appeared, while six were struck by the engine cowcatcher and thrown along the right of way. Hugo Nolte was hospitalized at Elizabeth General Hospital.
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Cranford
N. J
U.P
New Jersey
Cranford Junction Tower
Hugo Nolte
Elizabeth General Hospital
Prisoners, officers hurt in Route 28 wreck near Delaware
A jail car carrying five prisoners, two deputy sheriffs and a city police officer wrecked head on with a machine driven by Ben T. Godfrey five miles south of Delaware on Route 28. All inmates and officers were uninjured and transported to Columbus by deputies Ralph Paul and Robert Willison from Mansfield Reformatory.
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Cuyahoga County
Ben T. Godfrey
Delaware
Columbus
Ralph Paul
Robert Willison
Mansfield Reformatory
Lonely Christmas for killer Loestiner in Ohio
George Loestiner who killed a policeman over 11 years ago will enter solitary confinement at Ohio State Prison on Christmas Day. The judge who sent him to prison mandated the convict spend each Christmas in solitary confinement.
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Columbus
George Loestiner
Ohio State Prison
Loestiner
Joyful and sorrowful tales mix as Christmas nears
A collage of life stories from cities across the U S including Chicago Springfield and Danville features a wife asking a clerk to charge to Mrs Santy a department purchase a Christmas plan for the poor and a Salvation Army coin pot theft at a post office building. In Springfield negroes plan to visit Abraham Lincoln's grave on Christmas Eve to sing carols in tribute.
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Chicago
U.R
Santy
Springfield
U.P
Abraham Lincoln
Oak Ridge Cemetery
Danville
Salvation Army
Man Finds Work After Farm Fowl Poisoning Sheds Hope
In Syracuse New York a family faced a Christmas without income when their barnyard birds died from strychnine poisoning. Thomas Tomczak, previously jobless, found work on the way home from a walk after the tragedy, restoring some holiday prospects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Syracuse
Thomas Tomczak
Tomczak
Mayor Grants Wish For Detroit Christmas Tree Light-Up
Virginia Pikuia an eight year old girl with a crippled condition in Detroit faced a cheerless Christmas until Mayor Frank Murphy invited her to throw the switch that lights the municipal Christmas tree. She asked to wear a Santa suit and the mayor approved.
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Detroit
U.P
Virginia Pikuia
Frank Murphy
NineYearold Watts Steger Buys Christmas Bicycle
In Pulaski Virginia Watts Steger aged nine saved money for a year to buy a Christmas bicycle. A passerby told him many people in town would go hungry that year prompting Watts to consider buying five barrels of flour for those in need.
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Pulaski
U.R
Watts Steger
Watts
Girl Swallows Glass Eye From Teddy Bear
Two year old Lilian Correia of New Bedford Massachusetts is hospitalized after swallowing a glass eye from a teddy bear. The incident leaves her in care as Christmas approaches with her condition described as serious.
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New Bedford
Mass
Dee
U.P
Lillian Correia
Young Man Wishes To Live For Christmas
Eighteen year old Joseph Daniels, with a fractured skull, told doctors at Emergency Hospital in Buffalo that his only wish was to live until Christmas. His faith in recovery framed his recent plans for celebration before burial at Pine Hill Cemetery.
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Buffalo
N.Y
Theo
U.R
Joseph Daniels
Dectors
Pine Hill Cemetery
Fisherman Karl Thompson Seeks Christmas Dinner Catch
In Olympia Washington on the Fourth Street Bridge Karl Thompson has stood for days hoping to catch a fish for Christmas dinner. So far his efforts have been unsuccessful.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Olympia
Wash
U.ph
Karl Thompson
Fourth Street
Bar Um Christmas Leaves Family in Hard Times
Chicago dispatch reports a chauffeur nicknamed Bar Um Christmas and his wife face unemployment and a bleak Christmas with two young children. He laments no job for four months and the absence of Santa Claus in their home.
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Chicago
U.P
Barum
Athens Postoffice reports heaviest Christmas mail
Athens Postoffice handled Christmas mail heavier than ever before. Postmaster H W McKinstry said Monday was the peak day with high volumes of letters and greeting cards both incoming and outgoing. Parcel post packages remained numerous but below prior years. extra staff worked full time and deliveries would conclude by Wednesday with no rural or city mail on Christmas Day.
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Athens
H. W. McKinstry
McKinstry
Government sets highest wage scale for labor in contracts
President Hoover announced a policy to maintain the highest prevailing wage levels in construction contracts. The plan, first adopted last year, applies to current government building projects and future contracts, guaranteeing private sector workers on federal jobs receive the top district wage rate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hoover
Washington
White House
California police seek end to extortion ring linking gambler Karas
California authorities moved to break up an extortion ring in which two members allegedly extorted 50 000 dollars from KF L Zeke Karas a Tijuana sportsman. Karas and his wife and a Japanese servant were abducted and taken to a house in Arcadia. Karas was forced to write checks totaling 50 000 dollars and to telephone gambling resort proprietor George Branzeman to cash them after a gun battle that wounded a policeman.
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Los Angeles
U.P
California
KF. L
Zeke” Karas
Karas
Arcadia
George Branzeman
Modern Robin Hood says he gave funds to vendors and charities
Clarence Halderman alias Miller, 22, admitted cashing over 200 worthless checks in Detroit in recent months and escaping Mansfield reformatory last June. He claimed to have turned half the proceeds to downtown apple vendors, charities, and hospitals while boasting of knife throwing skills to detectives.
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Detroit
Dee
Mansfield
Clarence Halderman
Miller
Officer Hero in Bold Cincinnati Racketeers Capture
Five bandits attempted a hold up on a Cincinnati Street Railway Co branch. Patrolman Bernard McAvoy arrested the quintet as they prepared to flee after company employees refused to open the door to the locked second floor office containing Monday's receipts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
U.P
Cincinnati Street Railway Co
Hernard McAvoy
McAvoy
Commutation Enables Moorehead to Spend Christmas at Home
CC Forgey Moorehead former Springfield city auditor received a gubernatorial commutation allowing him to spend Christmas Day with his wife and son. Convicted of embezzling city funds, he entered the penitentiary December 12, 1927, and was moved to the London Prison Farm on March 2, 1928, where he has remained.
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Columbus
U.R
Forgey Moorehead
Springfield
Myers Y. Cooper
Moorehead
London Pison
Partridge Named to Senate Vacancy in Vermont
Frank C. Partridge, president of the Vermont Marble Company, was appointed by Governor John E. Weeks to fill the temporary vacancy caused by the death of United States Senator Frank Lester Greene.
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Montpelier, Vt
Frank C. Partridge
The
Vermont Marble Company
John E. Weeks
United States
Frank Lester Greene
Industrial Leaders Realize High Pay Standards Help Economy
Washington dispatch reports Arthur Woods says U.S. industry aims to keep wages high during downturns. Leaders favor keeping workers employed, maintaining unit wages, undertaking repairs, and assisting laid-off employees with no-interest loans to weather unemployment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U.P
United States
Arthur Woods
Hoover
Emergency Committee On
United Press
Married While Drunk Prompted Annulment Say Orrville Man
Joseph Sell of Orrville, age 60, testified he was drugged and married to Wilma Sell of Cuyahoga Falls after a party and drinks. He said a friend suggested marriage and neighbors later led him to hire a lawyer. the union was annulled after he learned the wife had a prior Michigan court acquittal for shooting a former husband.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bell
Wilma Sell
Cuyahoga Falls
Man Frank Robinson arraigned on shooting with intent to kill
Stewart man Frank Robinson appeared before Magistrate C H Porter today on a charge of shooting with intent to kill. He pleaded not guilty and is bound over to the court in 2000 dollars. Laughlin says the shot narrowly missed his head as he lay in bed Sunday night. Robinson was arrested by Athens County deputies. Also arraigned were Hiram and Gaylor Radcliffe Jake Darnell and Donald Laughlin all of Cananonville on drunkenness charges and released on 300-dollar bonds each.
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Frank Robinson
Stewart
C. H. Porter
Robinson
Fred Laughlin
Laughlin
Athens County
Hiram and
Gaylor Radcliffe
Jake Darnell
Donald Laughlin
Canaonville
Porter
California financier Beesemyer to be sentenced for grand theft
Judge Walton J Wood in Los Angeles announced that Gilbert H Beesemyer a prominent California financier will be sentenced Friday for misappropriating about 8 000 000 from the Guaranty Building and Loan Co Beesemyer pleaded guilty to ten counts of the indictment charging grand theft The judge refused an immediate sentence to allow a fuller fact investigation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Walton J. Wood
Gilbert H. Beesemyer
California
Guaranty Building and Loan Co
Beesemyer
Wood
Major Is Confident He Will Get New Trial
Maj. Charles A. Shepard, 69, sentenced to life for murdering his wife Zenana M. Shepard, prepares to return to duties as a tuberculosis specialist in a Denver government hospital. He was found guilty of poisoning her with bichloride of mercury to wed Grace Brandon, a San Antonio stenographer. Jury deliberated nearly 48 hours.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
U.R
Charles A. Shepard
Denver
Zenana M. Shepard
Grace Brandon
Dbdiende
San Antonio
Tex
Kansas
Innocent Man Remains in Jail on Christmas Day
Frank Howell 29, jailed since November 1929 for a gas station robbery, proclaims innocence after Irene Schroeder and Glenn Dague confessed to the holdup. Howell laments missing Christmas with his wife Norma and three children as his 405th day in a cell passes.
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Moundsville
W. Va
Frank Howell
Howell
Irene Schroeder
Glenn Dague
Pennsylvania
Irene
Waynesburg
Moundsville Pike
Tenti Mony
Norma
Frank
Badwin Re
New Martinaville
New Castle
Yvone Dague
Liar Comes From Legge in Farm Board clash
Chairman Alexander Legge attacked Senators Borah and Thomas over farm board policies. He ridiculed Borah’s opposition to the $150 million Farm Board Appropriation Bill and dismissed critics as spreading false claims about depressing prices to aid consumers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U.R
Alexander Legge
Farm Board
Legge
William E. Borah
Idaho
Elmer Thomas
Oklahoma
Congress
Borah
Hoover
Thomas
Widen Akron Canton Road Four Miles To Go Under Plan
Preliminary details reveal a $460,000 project to widen the Akron Canton artery from the county line to Akron city limits. County Engineer H G Soure says the four mile section will gain an 80 foot right of way with foot pavement for part of the distance while retaining the existing right of way along the rest.
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Akron
U.R
Canton
H. G. Soure
Akron -Canton
Stark
Sours
Polaty
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