51 New Bills Debated by Ohio General Assembly
Columbus reports adjournment after a day that added 51 new measures to the 436 total. Proposals include malt possession penalties, licensing for retail stores and chain outlets, higher gasoline tax, compulsory auto liability insurance, cigaret sales tax, and workmen compensation reforms aimed at speeding claims. Revenue projections for several bills run into millions.
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Senate
House
Ilegal
State Industrial Commission
G. F E. Sharp
Vinton County
Dallas Sullivan
Union County
When Hoover Visited Buenos Aires
The scene in Buenos Aires mixed cheers and jeers as President-Elect Hoover arrived. Police halted a small communist demonstration after sabers were withdrawn, and Merritt Wilson Jr. of Lancaster Street, posing as a newspaper man, mingled with the crowd and observed the event. Read Wilson’s letter in The Messenger magazine next Sunday February 17.
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Hoover
Buenos Aires
Merritt Wilson, Jr
F. 8. Wolfe
Lancaster Street
the Messenger
Wilson
Diamond in can of lard worth seven hundred dollars found in Huntington
Mrs. E. O. Young bought a can of lard for 30 cents in Huntington. When she opened it her hand touched a small hard object and she found a diamond valued at 700 dollars. The find occurred on February 15.
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Huntington
W. Va
E. O. Young
Congressional Senate fights for precedence in jammed closing days
The long standing legislative jam at end of short sessions extends to the Senate as bills clash for priority. Senate leaders face a crowded schedule with rival measures obstructing floor action and complicating passage.
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Paul R. Mallon
United Press
Washington
Congress
Senate
Senate and House committees consider bills and hearings
Senate: Considers Jones Prohibition bill. Debates Walsh Salt Creek report and Public Lands routine bills. Interstate Commerce continues Audit and Control to review proposed expenditures for Indian investigation. House: Considers private calendar bills. Ways and Means records tariff revision hearing.
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Senate
Walsh Salt Creek
Public Lands Committee
Interstate Commerce Committee
Executive Audit and Control
House
Ways and Means
Woman Killed and Injured in Pomeroy Road Accidents
Mrs. C. Y. Bridgeman of Syracuse, near Pomeroy, fell from a speeding auto when a door latch failed, was flung 15 feet into the road and struck a concrete culvert. She is in Holzer Hospital Gallipolis with injuries while her husband stopped the car after veering into a ditch.
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Pomeroy
C. Y. Bridgeman
Syracuse
Mary Hammond
Columbus
Holzer Hospital
Gallipolis
Bridgemans
Bridgeman
Finsterwald
Clarence Metters
Take Boy to Hospital After Father Conviction
Roy Wendle a seven year old tubercular boy was taken to the state sanitarium in Mt Vernon Tuesday by county health nurse Miss Rhoda Barker. Two weeks earlier the mother was left without funds to support her three children when Eugene Wendle was convicted for possession of intoxicating liquor. No aid for the mother and her two other children has been reported.
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Roy Wendle
Eugene Wendle
Mt. Vernon
Rhoda Barker
Roy
Hazardous con test bills move in Congress amid stalled measures
The piece notes battles over Naval Cruisers appropriations and a House bill on reapportionment, plus the Edge Bill for a Nicaragua canal study and the Jones Bill tightening prohibition penalties. Several measures face likely failure if not acted before noon March 4, including a $24 million prohibition enforcement increase. The Norris Constitutional Amendment is shelved, and the Prohibition Bill won late yesterday after the reapportionment bill was defeated 47 to 37.
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House
Atlantic
Pacific
Nicaragua
Twenty enroll in plane mechanic and engineering classes
Twenty men from Athers and vicinity enroll in airplane mechanic and engineering courses run by World Airplane Manufacturing Company. Classes begin February 18 in Security Savings Bank Building, three sessions weekly for seven months, with flight instruction planned within two weeks at a field on East State street or at The Plains.
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Athers and
World
R. F. Humbert
Security Savings Bank
Humbert
East State Street
the Plains
Canton youth sent to state hospital for criminal insane
Edward Kaltenbaugh of Grace City Pa. who murdered John Oser of Canal Fulton and his wife Bertha was taken to the state hospital for the criminal insane at Tim a today.
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Canton
Edward Kaltenbaugh
Grace City
John Oser
Canal Fulton Dairyman
Bertha
State Hospital For
Tima
More Murders in Chicago Linked to Capone Era Bloodshed
Chicago February 15 behind the execution of seven gangsters rests a bloody saga of assassinations for control of illicit liquor profits. The violence traces from the 1924 murder of Dion O'Banion to the Capone era, with looming reprisals and possible fresh gunfire from imported gunmen.
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Chicago
Dion O’ Banion
Scarface al” Capone
Capone
An Old Fashioned Mother staged by local talents
An audience of 250 attended the final performance of the play An Old Fashioned Mother directed by Mrs. Lucy Sutton and Mrs. Merwin Mansfield at Canaanville High School Thursday night. The show, set to be repeated tonight, was endorsed by R. Bruce Tom OSU dramatic director who conducted three one day conferences in Athens on home talent plays.
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Lucy Sutton
Merwin Mansfield
Canaanville High School
R. Bruce Tom
Ohio State University
Athens
Young Girl Loses Three Fingers in Dynamite Cap Accident
Agnes Chapman, young daughter of Mr and Mrs E V Chapman of Gallipolis, had three fingers on her right hand amputated at a local hospital after she found a dynamite cap and placed it on a hot stove during play at home.
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Gallipolis
Agnes Chapman
E. V. Chapman
Hooper Funeral Set at Family Home Saturday Afternoon
Funeral for Stephen F Hooper to be held at 91 North Lancaster Street on Saturday at 2 o clock. Friends may call at any time. Burial planned at Union Street Cemetery.
Dollar or Daughter: Lindbergh Marriage Update and Fallout
Arthur Brisbane discusses Colonel Lindbergh's expected marriage to Miss Morrow and the public reaction. He notes constellations of ancestry, and the piece reflects optimism about a national hero uniting American imagery with high society while contrasting a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette column about a coal mining tragedy and alleged violence by the Coal and Iron Police.
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Dollar
Europe
Arthur Brisbane
King Features Incorporated
Lindbergh
Miss Morrow
Mexico
Atlantic
Pacific
Chicago
Pennsylvania Limited
Paul Block
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
John Bercoveskie
Pennsylvania
Coal and Iron
Ludden Seeks New Trial After Manslaughter Conviction
George Ludden of Lick Run filed a motion for a new trial in Athens County Common Pleas Court for the manslaughter conviction in the January 6 shooting of John Lent at Lick Run hollow. Judge Worstell’s return from Cleveland is needed before action. if denied, appeal possible. Lent died about 24 hours after being shot.
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Athens County Common Pleas Court
George Ludden
Lick Run
John Lent
Miner
L. G. Worstell
Cleveland
Ludden
R. D. Williams
District Court of Appeals
Secon
Common Pleas Court
Lent
Lick Run Hollow
Fred Dresher
Ernest Shivers
Woman Killed by Freight Train Near Red Bird Mine
Mrs. Maggie Frazier aged 55 died after being struck by New York Central Train No. 696 at the Red Bird mine tipple in Pomeroy. She was picking up coal along the track and apparently did not hear the approach of the freight. Coroner B. H. Ewing investigated and the body was taken to Rawlings Undertaking. She leaves a husband James Frazier and several small children.
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Pomeroy
New York Central
Maggie Frazier
James Frazier
Red Bird Mine
Gallipolis
Worley Brown J
Jim Beverage
Frazier
B. H. Ewing
Rawlings Undertaking
Middleport
Forbid Priests To Join Rotary Clubs
Rome reports that Catholic clergy will not be permitted to join Rotary Clubs. The consistorial congregation announced the opposition following an Osservatore Romano editorial which warned that Rotary clubs’ secular stance could foster Masonry.
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Rotary Clubs
Rome
Consistorial
Osservatore Romano
Hunger Strike Man Loses Fifty Pounds in New Hampshire
Fred Conrad a 24 year old inter urban station agent began a hunger strike during a revival meeting vowing to fast until the devil is cast out of every sinner in New Hampshire. He started at 200 pounds and after thirty three days weighs 150 pounds.
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New Hampshire
Fred Conrad
Conrad
Interurban
Intensive Dry Program Forecast As Funds for Work Boosted
A proposed expansion of Prohibition enforcement funding to Congress outlines larger totals for Justice Department 10 million and Prohibition Bureau 15 million plus Customs Service 20 million. The plan includes 400 extra dry agents, a bigger staff, and more border enforcement starting with the Hoover era.
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Congress
Washington
Hoover
Customs Service
Coast Enforcement
Conguard
Treasury
Justice Departments
James Treasury
R. Doran
Justice Department
York Harbor
Trolmen
Hoover Administration
House Ap
Bodies Found After Avalanche Buries Father and Son
Creede Colorado reports twelve searchers recovered the bodies of James Wolfe 50 and his son James Jr 17 from snow drift on Cochetopa Mountain after a three day hunt. They reached the cabin refuge and faced danger of further slides while the rescue effort moved six miles from Ralph Powell’s ranch.
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Creede, Cotp
O.R
Creede
James Wolfe
James, Jr
Cochetopa Mountain
van Aken
Wolfe
Ralph Powell
Bloodbath on Valentine's Day rocks Chicago rackets
Gunfire exploded at a North Side beer warehouse killing seven men in the Moran camp as Capone’s power wavered. Police doubt rival Alelto or Capone were present, with rumors of Moran’s wounding and Detroit gunmen floated as theories. A lone police dog watched, chained to a beer truck, amid the carnage and shell casings.
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George “Bugs
Moran
St. Valentine's Day
Scarface al" Capone
Execu
Toria
Capone
Joe Alelto
Alelto
Detroit
St. George Moran
Chicago
William C. Clifford Dead in Columbus at 53
William C. Clifford, 53, formerly of Corning, died of carcinoma Thursday evening in White Cross Hospital. Survived by widow Mary and five sons, three daughters, four brothers, three sisters. He moved to Columbus two years ago and worked for Sunday Creek Coal Co. at Corning.
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Columbus
William C. Clifford
Corning
White Cross Hospital
Mary Clifford
Harry J
Center Ave
Carl F
Delaware Ave
Patrick L
W. Eighth Ave
James M
John T. Clifford
David C. Chawning
Cleveland
Mart Barnett
Mary Elizabeth Clifford
Michael J
Bulllivant Ave
James
Pomeroy
Patrick H. Clifford
George Clifford
Lancaster
Frank Karns
Kelton Ave
Karns
George Sauders
Middleport
Charles Fry
Wilkinsburg
Clifford
Sunday Creek Coal Co
School Boy Dies After Fist Fight
Stronton Ky February 15 A R Curtis Herron a Rus sel Ky High School junior died at Marting Hospital from injuries tied to a fist fight at the school Wednesday night.
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Stronton
A.R— Curtis Herron
Russel, Ky
Marting Hospital
Pilot Starts On New Record Flight Today
Lieut. Harry Johnson of Selfridge Field launches from Wright Field at 11 27 a m aiming to set a world altitude record. He flies the same plane as before, previously reaching 39 000 feet but not a record. Temperatures 76 degrees below zero and ice crystals hinder visibility during the ascent.
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Dayton
U.P
Harry Johnson
Selfridge Field
Mich
Wright Field
Johnson
Norton Field
Columbus
C. C. Champion
Navy
Famine and Cold Grip Europe Across Cities
Reports from London dated February 15 note growing food, fuel, and water shortages in major European cities under a record cold spell. Wildlife migrates closer to towns as wolves and boars attack settlements. at least 126 deaths attributed to the frost in six days, with bodies found on Lake Constance and many other fatalities feared. Charles Kelley Dies At Crane Mo Home.
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London
U.P
French Riviera
Lake Constance
Charles Kelley
Crane
Death in Crane Missouri Claims Charles Kelly at 72
Word has arrived of the death of Charles Kelly at his Crane Missouri home at age 72 from influenza complications. He was born near Shade and married Ida Howard who survives him along with six children Lillie Douglas Pratts Fork Maywood Knoxville Town Wilbur Crane Laura Kist Batesville Bertha Stowe Miami Mary Kelly at home. A brother William Kelly lives near Guysville and a sister Francia Kanode resides in Logan. Two half brothers Wilbur and Herbert Downey live in Athens County. Burial was held at Crane. One son Burton is dead.
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Charles Kelly
Crane
Shade
Ida Howard
Lillie Douglas
Pratts Fork
Maywood
Knoxville
Wilbur
Laura Kist
Batesville
Ark
Bertha Stowe
Miami
Okla
Mary Kelly
William Kelly
Guysville
Francia ‘Kanode
Logan
Wibur
Herbert Downey
Athens County
Sen
Burton
Everett Koon Faces Death Row After Marion County Murder
Columbus reports Everett Koon, 28, of Athens County, in a bid to delay with an eleventh hour reprieve. He was convicted of killing Henry Foos during a May 1925 Marion County robbery and later linked to other prior crimes. A prior appeal failed and a death sentence looms unless clemency intervenes.
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Henry Foos
Marion County
Columbus
Everett Koon
Athens County
Foos
Isaiah Koon
Nelson
State Penitentiary
Cooper
Court of Appeals
Supreme Court
Cecil Dean
Koon
Nelsonville
H Lin
Foosehi
Marion
Hen Foos
Bridget Donahue
Wi Thomas
Ohio Mobile Dealers elect Harry B. in Columbus meeting
The Ohio Council of the National Mobile Dealers Association met in Columbus on February 5 and elected Harry B. C. of Columbus as managing official. The move aims to strengthen regional operations and leadership.
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Ohio
General Assembly
G. M. Forney
Hancock County
Forney
F. Willard Piper
Belmont County
Worstell
Devil
Silverton
Needleton
Scarface
al” Capone
Dayton Field
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