Morris plan urged to revive desperate coal field
In Nelsonville W E Tytus, Columbus, president of Sunday Creek Coal Co, endorses the Morris plan for a mutual miners and operators group to set future wages and aid resumption of coal mining. He argues without such a program the district faces continued idleness and property depreciation. He denies rumors of WV non union mine interests and praises the plan as sound and necessary. President Coolidge returns from Havana after Pan American conference to bolster inter American cooperation.
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Nelsonville
Morris
Sunday Creek Coal Company
Hocking
West Virginia
W. E. Tytus
Columbus
Sunday Creek Company
Ohio
Mr. Tytus
Tytus
P. C. Morris
New York Coal Company
Will Gets Groggy As He Listens to 21 National Anthems
Havana Cuba January 19 editor notes after a conference where 21 nations played their national anthems. A suggestion for an international anthem by Irving Berlin is offered to unite nations and simplify the ritual.
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Will
Havana
Cuba
Irving Berlin
Zour Eet
Senate Unable to Study Coal Situation for Some Time
Washington Jan 19 The Senate Interstate Commerce committee cannot take up the Ohio Pennsylvania coal field investigation resolution for some time chairman Watson said. The panel is tied up with radio and power trust resolutions nominations and cannot act until these matters are disposed of.
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Senate
Washington
U.P
Senate Interstate Commerce Committee
Ohio-Pennsylvania
Watson
Power Trust
Optimism Grows Among Pittsburg Mining Company Employes
In Pomeroy on January 19, local executives report a more hopeful mood among Pittsburg Mining Company workers. Most mines may stay open under cooperative management except No 73 which will be dismantled. Plans for new cooperative approaches are being developed but kept private. The Bend area recovers optimism after the initial boom shock to the coal field.
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Pomeroy
Pittsburg Mining Company
Pittsburines
Pomeroy Bend
Retail Merchants In Athens Elect Coe as President
The Athens Retail Merchants Association elected W. W. Coe of the Coe Shoe store as president for the year at the Berry Hotel banquet. H. G. Householder became vice president and O. P. Bingman was chosen treasurer. Judge S. M. Johnson remains secretary, receiving a leather Gladstone bag. The group also decided stores will stay open Thursday afternoons during the summer months.
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Athens Retail Merchants’ Association
Berry Hotel
W.W. Coe
Coe Shoe Store
H. G. Householder
Householder, Grocery
O. P. Bingman
Swanson Furniture Company
M. Johnson
T. W. Craig
Miners Offered 60 Percent Share to Leave Union
Operators in the district reportedly circulated an offer giving 60 percent of gross receipts to miners who quit union ranks and accept work at the Wheeling and Lake Erie mine and other large properties, according to Circulation reports.
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ST. Clairsville
Dan
Wheeling & Lake Eirle
Delinquent Taxes Reach Over Fifteen Thousand, Treasurer Says
Athens county treasurer R. R. Johnson announced more than 3 000 notices were sent to delinquent taxpayers. The total amount due exceeds 15000 dollars. Delinquent taxes now are being collected while the 1927 tax payment is postponed until March or later.
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R. R. Johnson
Athens County
Bandits Sought After Lima Filling Station Ambush
Two Sidney Ohio men in a large automobile ambushed Lima officers and fled uninjured. Police tracked the car toward Lima then Beaver Dam as search intensified. Officers fired but the robbers escaped, last seen heading toward Beaver Dam.
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Lima
U.P
Sidney, O
Beaver Dam
Justice James Gibson Pardoned by Governor Donahey
James Gibson former justice of peace in Youngstown was pardoned by Governor Donahey after serving the minimum term for embezzling $125. He had been in the state penitentiary since January 11 1926 and faced a potential 1 to 21 year sentence.
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Columbus
James Gibson
Youngstown
Donahey
Gibson
Slayer of Girl Sentenced to Life at Hard Labor
Adolph Hotelling was sentenced to life with solitary confinement for the murder of Dorothy Schneider in Flint. Judge Fred W. Brennan declared the crime nearly meriting capital punishment after Hotelling pleaded guilty. The father of the slain girl assaulted Hotelling in court, and Hotelling admitted further attacks on two Owosso girls.
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Flint Mich
U.R
Adolph Hotelling
Dorothy Schneider
Marquette Branch
Frank A. Green
Hotelling
Flint
Fred W. Brennan
Genessee County
Leslie Schneider
Brennan
Schneider
Pragner
William Seegmiller
Owosso
Carpenter
Mason
Hickman
Deadly twister devastates Cincinnati area with widespread damage
A rare January storm tore from Cumminsville through Newtown Hamilton and Washington D C causing at least one death, over 30 injuries, and roughly 500000 dollars in damage. Rescue crews searched debris while transit service paused and Red Cross relief moved in.
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Cincinnati
Cumminsville
Miami Valley
Newtown
Hamilton
Washington D. C
Richard Kruger
Dayton, CO
Washington D. H
General Hospital
Red Cross
Ohio
Kentucky
Middletown
William Copeland
Barney Houston
Street Railway Company
Harmeyer & Brand Company
Dayton
Washington Do. H
Kruger
Louisville, Ky
Aid planned for destitute miners by Ohio guards and churches
Ohio National Guard facilities will aid destitute miners families in the Hocking Valley. Adjutant General Henderson said guards trucks will move clothing and supplies from Nelsonville to mining colonies. Churches in Glouster offered their facilities to Governor Donahey for relief work and pledged cooperation.
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Columbus
Ohio National Guard
Ohio
Frank P. Henderson
Henderson
National Guard
Nelsonville
American Legion
Donahey
Glouster
Hocking Valley
E. Roberts
Church of Christ
D. L. Browning
Athens Man Bitten By Rabid Dog Prompts 60 Day Dog Ties
Ernest McNeal was bitten by his own dog in Athens and the animal later died with rabies. Health officials ordered all city and township dogs tied for 60 days and warned that loose dogs will be shot. Dog owners face fines, including a $1 surcharge after January 20 for those without 1928 license tags.
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Athens
Athe
Ernest McNeal
West Union Street
J. M. Higgins
McNeal
State Health Department
Columbus
Higgins
A. J. Wilson
Union Official Denounces Plan On Coal Wages
J Bender secretary treasurer of Sub-district No 4 MWA denounces a plan by a UMWA leader to fix coal wages in Hocking and Sunday Creek fields. He questions local price ties and argues for a national standard rather than locality specific cures. He cites run-of-mine prices and 1917 scale to warn of potential unrest.
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Tan
J. Bender
Zanesville
M. W
Py Morris
Nelsonville
Hing
Sunday Creek
Aber
Crookville
Bender's Distr
Hockings
Ohio
Hocking and
Sun
Crooksville
Sub-Dial
United Mine Wers of America
Jacksonville
America
House Committee Expected To Act On Arms Export
Washington January 19 The House foreign affairs committee is expected to act favorably soon on a strengthened resolution prohibiting arms exports to nations at war unless Congress authorizes. Rep Burton Ohio Republican author said committee members are willing to go further than his original measure.
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Washington
House Foreign Affairs Committee
United States
Congress
Rep
Burton
Republican
Ohio
Truck Driver Electrocuted by Rotten Wire
Belford Thompson aged 24 a truck driver was electrocuted in Columbus when he touched a fallen rotted light wire. Authorities reported the accident occurred today as the wire sparked and collapsed onto the ground near his vehicle.
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Columbus
Belford Thompson
Derby winner Black Gold dies after racing misfortune
Black Gold the famed Kentucky Derby winner from 1924 has died in New Orleans. The horse was shot after breaking a foreleg during the Salome Handicap at Churchill Downs’ successor event.
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New Orleans
Black Gold
Churchill Downs
Treasuer of Mine Local Is Shot by Unknown Assailant
Thomas Lillis a 45 year old treasurer of United Mine Workers Local 1607 and noted labor leader was ambushed and fatally shot in Brownton near Pittston Pa His body was found by a friend and a policeman about a mile from his home Police think the killing stems from a local union dispute and Lillis recently won a local office.
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Pittston
U.P
Thomas Lillis
United Mine Workers
Brownton
Lillis
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