Ford flivver starts non stop flight to Miami
Ford Motor pilot Harry Brooks begins endurance flight from Detroit in a two cylinder flivver carrying 60 gallons of gasoline and 6 gallons of oil. He aims to reach Miami in about 15 hours following the N and W railroad tracks toward Portsmouth. Brooks previously piloted Mrs. Lindbergh to Mexico City.
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Chillicothe
Harry Brooks
Ford Motor Company
Miami
Fla
Portsmouth
Ford Airport
Detroit
Mich
U.P
Brooks
Evangeline Lindbergh
Mexico City
Col
Charles A. Lindbergh
Ford
Relief meeting clarifies role of state aid in Athens County
Athens County Associated Committee on Relief discussed Guard cooperation with local charities and feeding plans for children under sixteen. Capt Shafer outlined rolling kitchens and meals per day amid concerns over misperceptions of state relief.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio
Athens County Associated Committee On Relief
Presbyterian Church
Ohio National Guard
Guard
Theatre Shafer
Ohio National Guard to aid Hocking valley relief effort
Adjutant General Frank D. Henderson Col Robert Haubrich and Lt Col John S. Shepler with Dr John E. Monger state health director arrived in Nelsonville for an inspection and to organize relief for needy in Hocking valley mining camps. A carload of groceries from the Columbus state warehouse and four truckloads of clothing and supplies were sent for immediate relief. Major Emil Marks is to investigate conditions in Steubenville and eastern mining camps while local committees are urged to handle relief needs locally.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nelsonville
Frank D. Henderson
Robert Haubrich
John 8. Shepler
Ohio National Guard
John E. Monger
Hocking Valley
Hocking Valley Railroad
Columbus
Ohio
John P. Brennan
Henderson
Emil Marks
National Guard
Steubenville
Haubrich
Automobiles Damaged in Icy Athens-Pomeroy Road Crash
Two Athens cars skidded on ice near Rocksprings on the Athens Pomeroy road. One vehicle struck a bank with no injuries reported. A second sedan driven by Frank Betts of 1168 Morris Avenue Athens rolled over. gas tank and top were crushed but Betts and companion O. C. McGrew of Parkersburg escaped harm.
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Athens
Athens-Pomeroy
Alarge
Frank Betts
Morris Avenue
O. C. McGrew
Parkersburg
County Guard to Map Overlap With Existing Groups
Shafer notes a second meeting will be held next Saturday or Monday to allow Guard members time to learn the county problem and to discuss how their duties may overlap and be adjusted with current county organizations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shafer
Guard
Aging Mason J Hal Matthews Dies in Xenia At 93
J Hal Matthews, 93, one of the oldest masons in the United States, died in Xenia today. He served as ryler for three Xenia imagonic lodges for 23 years.
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Xenia
J. Hal Matthews
United States
Ryler
Union of Miners Seeks Bootlegger Crackdown in Coal Camps
The United Mine Workers of America petitioned the Treasury to drive bootleggers and dope peddlers from Western Pennsylvania coal camps. Philip Murray cites over 100 murders linked to bootleg liquor and calls for a broader probe into narcotics trafficking, while Prohibition Commissioner Doran defends current enforcement.
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Washington
U.R
United Mine Workers of America
Treasury
Department
Pennsylvania
Philip Murray
United Mine Workers
Doran
Murray
J. D. Pennington
Owners in Local Field to Reopen Mines at Once
Nelsonville officials announce mines in Hocking and Sunday Creek valleys Crooksville district will reopen Wednesday under the Morris plan for a joint miners and operators association. The plan sets a $6 daily wage basis on $1.80 coal price, with formal endorsements from Ohio Collieries Sunday Creek Coal Co NY Coal Essex Poston interests and others. Union officials condemn the move as breaking the union and birthing non union groups, threatening four-man governing board to set wage rules and conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. H. Bartlett
Messenger
Nelsonville
Hocking
Sunday Creek
Crooksville
George M. Jones and
Ohio Collieries
Sunday Creek Coal Company
Morris
P. C. Morris
New York Coal Company
Exen
Ohio Collieries Company
Sunday Creek Valley
Essex Properties
Poston
Mutual Association
Columbus
U.R
United Mine Workers of America
Ohio
Hocking Valley
Sunday Creek Coal
Essex Coal Company
Ohio Colors Company
Aral Daugherty
United Mine Workers
Daugherty
Hocking Mutual Mining Association
Morris Plan
Mine Workers’ Union
Lee Hall
United Mine Workers of Ohio
Girl sought after taxi ride confession to Frances Smith
A girl who hired a taxicab Sunday night and admitted to the driver that she may be Frances St. John Smith but asked him not to tell police was sought in Washington today.
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Washington
Frances St. John Smith
Goddard Mine in Bern Destroyed by Night Fire
Fire destroyed the engine house and blacksmith shop at the W. R. Goddard & Son coal mine near Amesville on the Amesville Lathrop road around midnight. Damages are about 7000 dollars, insured. Rebuilding and resuming work planned. twenty men were employed at peak. An explosion was rumored, but owner cites a tall chimney collapse as the likely sound.
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W. R. Goddard & Son
Amesville
Amesville-Lathrop Road
Dewey Goddard
Goddard
Automobilist Killed in Ohio Pike Crash
Plain city dispatch reports a Detroit man Albert Gardner killed when his automobile skidded off the Columbus Marysville pike. Another negro passenger was injured in the crash.
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Plain, City
Albert Gardner
Detroit
Columbus- Marysville ‘Pike
Last Rite For Man On Deathbed Sentences Him
In Columbus on January 24 U jarence Simington age 27 lying near death in the county jail was sentenced to 10 years in the state penitentiary by Judge Dana F Reynolds who traveled to the prisoner's bedside to deliver the ruling. Simington convicted of robbing several Columbus homes cannot live, doctors say. He has been in jail since November and after sentence was pronounced was moved to the penitentiary hospital ward.
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Columbus
Jarence Simington
Dana F. Reynolds
Simington
Opposes Changes At Pan American Conference
Louis Jay Heath reports from Havana on January 24 as the sixth Pan American conference hears two contrasting views on strengthening regional cooperation. Charles Evans Hughes argues for a community of interests and a permanent director, while Argentine ambassador Honorio Pudreydon urges reducing trade barriers and customs duties among nations.
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Havana
Americas
Committee On
Charles Evans Hughes
United States
Honorio ‘Pudfreydon
Cities Seek More Evidence in Gas Rate Case
Seven cities including Marion Athens Ashland Chillicothe Bucyrus Crestline and Bellevue urged the Public Utilities Commission to require Logan Gas to file exhibits for the record. They want each leased land parcel and its cost and every company parcel and its cost. The hearing on higher rates resumes Thursday after a December postponement.
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Columbus
U.R
Logan Gas Company
Public Utilities Commission
Marion
Athens
Ashland
Chillisoothe
Bucyrus
Crestline
Bellevue
Coolidge Says Nation Faces No Immediate Danger
Washington January 24 President Coolidge was represented as feeling the country is not in danger of attack. No reference was made to Rear Admiral Plunkett's reported assertions of a looming U S England conflict. The President is said to see no need for alarm.
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Washington
Coolidge
White House
Charles Plunkett
United States
England
Hearing delayed at Teapot Dome inquiry
Washington January 24 The Teapot Dome hearing was delayed until 2 PM because Senate Lands Committee members were absent. Only three of nine subpoenaed witnesses were present while others promised to testify later this afternoon.
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Washington
Teapot Dome
Senate Lands Committee
Ky trio held without bond in torture slaying case
Robert Pitts of Greenup and his housekeeper Marie Frazier are jailed in Winchester on charges of torturing and killing three year old Mary Magdalene. The woman alleges the father ordered the abuse with the housekeeper holding the child over a stove causing back blistering and salt and turpentine applied to wounds.
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Robert Pitts
Greenup
Marie Frazier
Winchester
Mary Magdalene
Bush Reelected President Of Associated Ohio Dailies
C Snyder of the Norwalk Reflector Herald was re elected president of the Associated Ohio Dailies at their forty second annual convention. Other officers re elected include E E Cook first vice president F W Bush second vice president Alfred Hasnel treasurer and O C Hooper secretary.
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C. Snyder
Norwalk Reflector-Herald
Associated Ohio Dailies
E. E. Cook
Columbus Citizens
Scripps-Howard
F. W. Bush
Athens Messenger
Alfred Hasneh
Bowling Green Sentinel-Tribune
O. C. Hooper
Columbus Dispatch
Hickman's Mother Stands by Son as Trial Looms
The mother of William Edwards Hickman refused to admit his guilt on the eve of his trial for the Marian Parker murder in Los Angeles. Mrs Hickman, crushed by the tragedy, clung to hope that a mistake occurred, and after a brief meeting at the county jail she cried that Edward has done a very bad thing but she cannot believe it.
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Los Angeles
Calif
California
William Ed
Madden bill would lease Muscle Shoals to Cyanamid
Washington January 24 The House military committee indicated it would report to the House the Madden bill leasing Muscle Shoals to the American Cyanamid Company.
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Washington
House Military Committee
House
American _Cyanamid company
Sanitary Code Urged at Pan American Conference
Havana January 24 The committee on social problems at the sixth Pan American conference has adopted a resolution urging a sanitary code. The action aims to improve public health measures across member nations.
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Havana
U.2
Norwich river tragedy claims Whitaker family victims
Rescue workers searched the Thames near Norwich for two missing children after a car veered off a road and plunged into the river. Seven members of the Whitaker family died in the incident as the car sank in thirty feet of water and a body was recovered from the sedan.
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Norwich
Cond
Uae
Thames
Fot
Leita
Herbert Fy
Whitaker
Jer
Preston
Resolution seeks full security holdings of Senators
Washington January 24 a Senate resolution calls for all senators representatives and government officials to disclose their security holdings in power companies and other industrials to reveal conflicts of interest connected with the Walsh power legislation. The measure mirrors a similar proposal in the Senate finance committee and follows prior efforts buried earlier in 1924.
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Washington
Senate
Frageer
Republican
North Dakota
Walsh Power
Power Trust
Frasier
Inter-State Bus Route Proposal From Colusbus to Ironton
A proposed inter state bus line would run from Colusbus through Wheeling and Chillicothe to Waverly and Ironton. The project aims to connect multiple Ohio and nearby city corridors boosting regional transport options.
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Colusbus
Wheeling
Chillicothe
Waverly
Ironton
Veterans Ragan and George W. Civil War vets pass away
John W. Ragan aged 83 and George W. 88, Civil War veterans, died late Monday at the Ohio Sailors Home in Sandusky.
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Sandusky
John W. Ragan
George W
Ohio
Eee
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Captain Shafer
Carl H. Porter
Porter
Athens County
Associated Committee On Relief
Walter Ludwig
D. L. Browning
Glouster
County Ministers’ Association
Pp. T. A
Carl Porter
Hollister Disiet
Gilbert Courtney
Chauncey
Athens- Pomeroy Road
Mme. C. Boas de Jouvenel
France
Mme. de Jouvenel
America
Union of Miners
W. H. Brown
John C. Baird
L. J. Eberle
Bern
Hughes
Louis Jay Heath
United Press
Bush
Hickman
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