Ruth Snyder faces stay of execution as death row extends
In New York and Ossining reports, Ruth Brown Snyder awakens to a possible delay in her electric chair sentence. Justice Levy granted a stay to 10 am Friday to allow a witness in an insurance suit, potentially prolonging the fate of Snyder and her co defendant Henry Judd Gray. The stay follows efforts by Snyder’s mother and daughter to keep her alive while the case against fraud in a $95,000 policy proceeds. Snyder’s demeanor shifts to hysteria as counsel notes, and Governor Smith had earlier refused clemency.
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Ossining
N. Y
UPI
Ruth Brown Snyder
Aaron Levy
New York
Albert
Lawes
Henry Judd Gray
Prudential Life Insurance Company
Snyder
Joseph Lonardo
Andreas Brown
Rogers Has Right Men Duly Picked
Washington dispatch reports draft guesses for national tickets from Jolley of the Mayflower Hotel. Hoover to lead the ticket with Dawes as running mate. Farmers favor Lowdon and others weigh Coolidge Smith Heflin George of Georgia and Donahey as possible contenders. Will Rogers passes along the chatter as a news lead.
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Washington
Jolley
Mayflower
Hoover
Dawes
Banks
Lowdon
Coolidge
Smith
Ripper Strikes City as Two Columbus Girls Slashed
In Columbus on January 12 two teenage sisters Lula Thompson 18 and Mabel Thompson 13 were slashed by a shadowy assailant described as tall with a long slender knife. The first victim Thelma Weaver 13 was wounded in the back and required forty stitches. Lula Thompson narrowly escaped death. Police questioned Eugene Carpenter, amid a wider investigation and theories of misidentity and motive.
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Columbus
U.R
West Side
Thelma Weaver
Lula
Mabel
A Thompson
Tula
Ripper
Eugene Carpenter
Worthington
Carpenter
Weaver
Thompson
Miss Weaver
Miss Thompson
Donahey Drops Plan for Ohio Mine Peace Conference
Ohio coal operators and United Mine Workers in Ohio remain far apart over wage differences that idle mines since April. Governor Donahey cuts peace efforts, saying he will take no further action unless a workable result is guaranteed. Lee Hall accuses operators of fighting the union rather than wage scales, while union officials express willingness to meet anytime with operators to discuss an agreement.
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Columbus
Ohio
Donahey
Lee Hall
United Mine Workers
Hall
Twenty Year Navy Plan Urged by Wilbur
Secretary of Navy Wilbur urged a twenty year building and replacement program costing 5.366 billion dollars. He told the house naval affairs committee the plan would allow a subsequent twenty year cycle to sustain required strength and discussed an immediate 800 thousand to 900 thousand dollar five year program.
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Wilbur
Navy
Washington
Jan
U.R
House Naval Affairs Committee
Velma West Faces Grand Jury Indictment in Hammer Slaying
Velma West, the first woman charged in Lake County for murder, trembled in her jail cell as a grand jury prepared to indict her for killing her husband T. Edward West with a hammer. Sheriff Rasmussen cited looming indictment and press coverage of Ruth Snyder’s planned electrocution as reasons for her breakdown.
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Painesville
U.R
Velma West
Lake County
T. Edward
West
Edward T. Rasmussen
Ruth Snyder
Sing Sing Prison
New York
Prisoner Judd Gray Accepts Death Sentence With Calm
Simple words marked his demeanor as he faced execution. He signed writs with differing signatures and, after conviction, chose a final day of prayer, Bible reading, and quiet visits with relatives at the prison. He showed complete resignation to the state's verdict.
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Judd Gray
Ohio ruling frees unlicensed firms from accident policy ads
Columbus January 12 The statute prohibiting unlicensed life insurers from selling in Ohio does not apply to accident insurance firms Attorney General Thorner informed Insurance Superintendent W C Safford The opinion states unlicensed foreign accident associations may advertise policy terms in Ohio newspapers this is not unlawful
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Columbus
Jan
U.R
Ohio
Thorner
W. C. Safford
Nicaraguan Affairs Should Not Be on Conference Plans
Secretary of State Kellogg said U S Nicaragua relations are a political question not fit for the Pan American conference agenda in Havana. He denied reports that the State Department instructed South American reps to bar discussion of American intervention in Nicaragua. Kellogg issued no such orders. actions of other governments remain their own business.
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Washington
U.P
United States
Nicaragua
Havana
Kellogg
Santiago
Chile
State Department
Cooper Re elected President Of Ohio Managers Assn
Myers Y. Cooper of Cincinnati was re elected president of the Ohio Managers Association for the eleventh time at the close of the annual convention in Columbus today.
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Columbus
U.P
Myers Y. Cooper
Cincinnati
Ohiolah Managers’ Association
Pretty Wife Believed Held Hostage By Bootleggers
Police and William Dore hunt for Florence Dore 22 in Lorain after she vanished Monday morning. A muffled phone call and a later misidentified call to police raise doubts about her fate as investigators say she may be being held over unpaid liquor bills.
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Lorain
Florence Dore
Brunet
Mrs. Dore
Theodore Walker
Walker
Dore
Roadhouses May Be Locked Against Drinkers of Ohio
In Columbus on January 12 federal prohibition administrator W H Walker announced padlock proceedings against Columbus night clubs and road houses allowing drinking. The department has already filed affidavits to padlock Castle Farm in Cincinnati and aims to close similar venues across Ohio if successful, viewing Castle Farm as a test case.
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Columbus
W. H. Walker
Walker
Castle Farm
Cincinnati
Ohio
Robbery Report In Floodwood Involving Three Men
Sheriff Williams said three men in a large sedan drove into Floodwood last Saturday and tried to buy 50 gallons of liquor. After obtaining 21 gallons, two men produced guns and ordered the crowd to retreat before driving off with the liquor.
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William Williams
Plane trip to Managua by Major Bourne and crew
Major L. B. Bourne and two companions left Anacostia naval air station at 6 35 a m in a large tri motored Fokker monoplane bound for Managua Nicaragua They plan to transfer the craft to U S Marines engaged against rebel chief General Sandine.
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Washington
L. B. Bourne
Anacostia Naval Air Station
Managua
Nicaragua
U. S
Sandine
Safety chief in Kent eyed new uniform
Cleveland dispatch reports Safety Director John W. Echelberry asked Edwin D. Berry if a police chief can wear a uniform. Berry answered yes, noting he tells his own chief to wear whatever he demands. The Kent chief is expected to adopt a uniform with shiny buttons.
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Cleveland
John W. Echelberry
Kent
Edwin D.berry
Echelberry
Barry
Cleveland Firms Named Defendants in Bankruptcy Petition
Three shoe stores from Mt. Vernon New Lexington and Akron linked to a Cleveland headquarters company were named as defendants in voluntary bankruptcy proceedings filed in federal court. The Herman Rothman company Akron Factory To You Stores company New Lexington and the Jeno Stores company Mt. Vernon are involved.
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Cleveland
U.9
Mt. Vernon
New Lexington
Akron
Hugh Wells
Herman Rothman Company
Factory To You Stores Company
Jeno Stores Company
Weather Update Temperatures Rise After Night Freeze
The temperature rose rapidly today after a frosty night when it fell to 21 degrees. By noon on Wednesday the mercury stood at 42 degrees with warmer afternoon readings.
Tear Away the Red Tape Build More Roads Theme at Convention
County highways officials at the American Road Builders association twenty fifth convention in Cleveland urged cutting red tape to accelerate road building. They stressed current progress only scratches the surface of needed development and warned millions of miles remain suitable only for buggies and wagons, signaling a new era in American highway policy.
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American Road Builders’ Association
Cleveland
U.R
Navy drafts 20 year building plan not made public
Secretary Wilbur announced a 20 year Navy building program totaling about 168 million dollars a year, with an 80 million dollar five year start. He said details would not be released now and stressed the plan is not intended to threaten Britain, while Congress pressed for more clarity.
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Washington
Secretary of the Navy
Wilbur
Navy
Kitten
Ilinois
Navy Department
Gambrill
Maryland
Great Britain
Butler
United States
Congress
Endurance Flight Attempt From Roosevelt Field
Clarence Chamberlin and Lester Williams began another bid to reclaim the world endurance flight record for the United States, taking off at 10:11 a.m. from Roosevelt Field New York. The prior day’s attempt ended after four hours when a gasoline pump failed, halting fuel flow from the Bellanca plane’s storage tanks to wing gravity tanks.
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Roosevelt Field
N. Y
U.R
Clarence Chamberlin
Lecer Willams
Roosevelt Feld
United States
Bellanca
Grand Juror Illness Delays Indictment Action
In Painesville on January 12 the Lake County grand jury delayed proceedings on Velma West’s case due to a juror’s illness. The panel did not meet in the morning but was slated to resume later in the day.
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Painesville
Lake County
Velma West
Cleveland
Last Member of Chapman's Gang Is Given Life Term
Indiana news reports Charles One-Armed Wolfe the last of Gerald Chapman's gang must serve life in prison for the murder of Mr and Mrs Ben Hanee. The state supreme court denied Wolfe's appeal. The Hanes were killed for information that led to the capture of Chapman who was later hanged in Connecticut. Dutch Anderson another gang member was killed in Michigan.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Charles
Woalfe
Gerald Chapman
Ben Hanee
Muneie
State Supreme Court
Wolfe
Hanee
Vchapman
Connecticut
Dutch” Anderson
Michigan
First World War pension bill introduced in Congress
Washington January 12 World War veterans gain a direct pension bill in Congress. Rep Rathbone Republican Illinois offers a plan granting pensions from twenty to fifty dollars for those who served and become incapacitated for work, exceeding existing compensation.
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Washington
U.R
Congress
Rathbone
Ilinois
United States Army
Will Rogers Appears Before Flood Control Committee
Will Rogers spoke to the House flood control committee in Washington as a congressman at large, telling a packed caucus room that he was among the few lawmakers who had heard of the flood.
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Washington
U.R
Will Rogers
House
Indictments Reported by Athens County Grand Jury
Twelve true bills were returned in the January session of the Athens County grand jury. Second degree murder charges were filed against Mile Six, Carbondale, and Thadders Draper for deaths in Carbondale and near Buechtel. Other indictments included concealed weapon charges, shooting with intent to maim, abandoning legitimate children, grand larceny, and manufacturing intoxicating liquor. Jurors inspected the county jail and heard about 234 witnesses before adjourning at 1:30 PM.
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Athens County
Mile Six
Carbondale
Eifort Prater
Carbonedale
Thadders Draper
Blanche Cooper
Buechtel
Cooper
Orbiston
Bueh
Richard Richardson
Zanesville
Herschel Wooley
Nelsonyil Logan Highway
Orange GQ
Marietta
Siduehter
Wilford, Pickett
Haydenville
Nelsonvil
Logan
Nober 13
Marshall Slisher
Hocking Valley Company
Ivor Darnell
Rank Darnell
Water service shutoff and new main hookup planned
Water will be turned from the mains tomorrow morning between 7 29 and 11 o'clock to enable the connection of a new water main into the Witt Boden plant. A four inch main will be run directly into the plant for fire protection.
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Elliott and Stimpson Torrow
Thewitt & Boden
Navy Picture Book Promotes U S Naval History
The Athens Messenger advertises a booklet on the United States Navy offering historical facts about current and rival fleets. It explains Geneva debates and the 1921 Washington Conference, with illustrations to help citizens understand naval power and policy.
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THE
Athens Messenger
NAVY
United States Navy
Geneva
Washington
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