Confession Tied to Dickinson Slaying Emerges
Prosecutors reveal a confession tying Ferris and three others to the Dickinson murder. Young witnesses describe planning and the motive to kill Dickinson, with statements about a fear of identification and a plan to eliminate him. The case centers on the quartet including Miller and Jackson amid questions of motive.
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Howard Carter
York
Ferris
Dickinson
Admis
Srence Jackson
Kuranc
Jean Miller
Ottawa riot shocks city as police quell strike march
Canadian authorities used tear gas to break up a riot of relief camp strikers in Saska-Three. One officer and a striker were seriously hurt, with several police injured as authorities arrested 27 people during clashes across streets surrounding the city hall.
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Saska
Canadian Mounted
Cath
Ottawa
Charles Miller
Rew
Francis
Miller
County Girl Dead After Auto Collision
Five year old girl from McCune County died Monday after being struck by an auto. The victim was identified as a local resident and the incident remains under investigation by authorities.
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Ite
McCune County
Punishment and the Crime in historic China noted
The Messenger advertises a historical note about China’s oldest hospital and a thousand year anniversary. A fragment mentions an erring employee and an ominous fate implied by impalement, followed by a brisk classified boat sale listing for a 15 ft boat with a 16 h p inboard engine.
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Peking
China
Chance
Middleport Votes to Issue Bonds for Municipal Gas System
Middleport council approves an ordinance to issue 175000 in bonds to fund a village gas system and seeks 45 percent aid from the PWA. Raymond L. Crist will negotiate bond sales. gas supplied by Columbian Carbon and Fuel Co. Consumers would pay no more than 45 cents per thousand cubic feet, with bonds repaid from company revenue, not taxpayers.
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Middleport
PWA
Raymond L. Crist
Immigration
Crist
Columbian Carbon and Fuel Company
hi@ve
Youth Killed in Prison Break at Indiana Reformatory
Pendleton Ind Slugs from a sawed off shotgun killed one youth and wounded another as four prisoners attempted an escape from the Indiana State Reformatory One prisoner was killed Simon Dyer Robert McAllister gravely wounded and Robert Sanders recaptured The escapees prompted guards and nearby officers to fan out at dawn seeking Darrell Paul Jones the suspected ringleader believed wounded.
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Pendleton
Ind
Indiana State
A. F. Miles
Simon Dyer
Robert McAllister
Robert Sanders
Darrell Paul Jones
Currency official seeks condition reports for banks
Washington the comptroller of the currency issued a call for the status of all national banks at the close of business Saturday June 29.
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Washington
Comptroller of the Currency
English Press Flares Eden Offer of Land to Ethiopia
British press blasts Eden for proposing to grant Ethiopia a seaport in Somaliland to end Mussolini’s war build up. Capt Anthony Eden told the House of Commons the plan would require Ethiopia’s concessions in exchange for peace.
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London
Great Britain
Ethiopia
East Africa
Anthony Eden
Eden
House of Commons
Benito Mussolini
Britain
British Somaliland
East African
Italy
1I Duce
Two CCC Boys Killed By Hit-Skip Driver
Two CCC workers were killed on Akron Cleveland Road eight miles north of Akron by a hit-skip driver while returning to the Virginia Kendall camp after an evening in Akron. The victims were William Davis 20 of Sugar Grove Ohio and John Hoskins 19 of Deerfield Ohio.
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Akron
CCC
Akron-Cleveland Road
Here
Virginia Kendall Camp
William Davis
Sugar Grove
John Hoskins
Deerfield
Warm Reception Greets Ohio University's New President
Dr Herman G James arrives in Athens as new Ohio University president with wife and elder daughter Margaret Helen. They register at Hotel Berry and visit friends before driving to Columbus and Chicago. James plans to assume duties tomorrow and live on East Union Street. The family plans to move to Vermillion South Carolina in August.
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Herman G. James
Ohio University
James
Athens
Nashville
Tenn
Margaret Helen
Berry
T. R. Biddle
Park Place
Columbus
East Union Street
Genevieve
Germany
Herman
Chicago
Marshall Fies
Mussolini Openly Acknowledges Abyssinian War Length
Beverly Hills column notes Mussolini claims five year war in Abyssinia with fifteen year mop up, questions oil prospects if geologists miss. The writer sympathetically ironizes on Dauncey’s oil speculation and dwindling European war talk.
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Beverly Hills
Calif
Mussolini
Abyssinia
Europe
Boston Broker And Two Sons Die in Ocean
A Boston realty broker and his two sons perished at sea after a gale while trying to rescue him. Charles Tillinghast and two Boston companions reached Sydney Harbor with a crippled ketch Hamrah. Richard and Harry Ames were lost in the attempt, leaving Mrs. Ames unaware of the tragedy abroad.
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Sydney
Boston
Royal Cape Breton Yacht Club
Charles Tillinghast
Providence
R. I
Helen Moody Jacobs Reach Wimbledon Semi Finals
In Wimbledon action Dorothy Round falls to Joan Hartigan in a three set upset. Helens Moody and Miss Jacobs advance to the semi finals likely renewing their long standing rivalry with Mrs Moody facing Rene Mathieu in the next round. Fraulein Sperling beats Katherine Stammers to join Jacobs in the semis.
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Wimbledon
Eng
Dorothy Round
England
America
Helens
Moody
Miss Jacobs
Joan Hartigan
Australia
Miss Round
Germany
Fraulein Sperling
Katherine Stammers
Earnest Kennedy Dies at Parents Home at 39
Earnest E Kennedy aged 39 died Monday night at 8 45 at his parents home 7 South McKinney Avenue He had been ill for years Funeral services set for 10 Thursday at Good Shepherd Episcopal Church Rev Lloyd W Clarke to officiate Burial in Friendship six miles south of Portsmouth He served in World War I was a Mason and Ohio University alumnus He leaves his parents and sister Laura Friends may call Wednesday from 8 am to 6 pm
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Earnest E. Kennedy
R. A. Kennedy
McKinney Avenue
Good Shepherd Episcopal Church
Lloyd W. Clarke
Friendship
Portsmouth
Kennedy
Masonic
Ohio University
Laura
Hopkins Promises Aid to Miami Valley Taxpayers
A Dayton Middletown and Hamilton delegation returned with assurances from federal relief administrator Harry L Hopkins that the government will seek to relieve Miami Valley taxpayers burdened by flood control assessments set after the 1913 flood.
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Hopkins
Miami Valley
Washington
Dayton
Middletown
Hamilton
Harry L. Hopkins
Key Brothers Win Endurance Flight After 27 Days
Meridan Miss report says Fred and Al Key returned after 27 days aloft aboard the Ole Miss plane. They described the flight as not fun while setting new records for sustained flying and landing at 7 06 p m Monday.
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Meridian
Miss
Earth
Fred
al Key
Ole Miss
House Votes Against Death Sentence On Utility Holding Companies
Athens County relief budget in July reduced by 256 to 75259 as 2879 families and 3830 singles expected aid. Direct relief 47004, work projects 25000, allocations for administration and schools. Ohio totals show 197422 families and 61359 singles on relief with state funding 9,552,766. Federal Hopkins said 7.5 million for July relief. Myrna Loy freckles note ends.
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House
Ohio
Athens County
H. M. Spang
Spang Sail
City of
Athens
Moore
Curran
Hocking County
Gallia County
Meigs County
Vinton County
Harry L. Hopkins
Washington
Funds Held Up On River Work By Cost Query
The Ohio State Control Board delayed a 355000 dollar allotment for the Muskingum Watershed Conservancy Project awaiting expenditure review. A 2000000 dollar state appropriation may be insufficient as only 5179 acres of land have been acquired for 14 reservoirs, with rising land costs and critique that federal dam construction preceded land purchase.
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Columbus
State Control Board
Dale Duniton
Ohio
Duniton
Julius Headington
Mt Vernon
Dunifont
Former Athens Pastor Buried in Columbus
Funeral services for the Rev. W. P. Cassidy former pastor of Richland Avenue Methodist Protestant Church were held at White Hall Church East Main Street Columbus Monday at 2 pm. He died at White Cross Hospital Columbus Friday after an operation recently he served as pastor at Hamden.
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W. P. Cassidy
Richland Avenue Methodist Protestant Church
White Hall Church
East Main Street
Columbus
White Cross Hosital
Hamden
Two Men Hurt in Auto Wreck Near Enterprise
Logan Thomas Monroe and Thomas Maxwell, both of Columbus, were injured in an automobile wreck near Enterprise at 34 m. this morning. They were taken to Cherrington Hospital with Monroe suffering a fractured left shoulder blade and Maxwell with two fractured ribs and facial injuries.
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Logan
Thomas Monroe
Thomas Maxwell
Columbus
Enterprise
Cherrington Hospital
Monroe
Maxwell
Geography lesson costs Collingswood liquor sale
Mrs Mary Pisark of Woodlynne pled ignorance after selling liquor in a parlor that lay in Col lingswood, a dry town. Judge Frank Neutze imposed a 30 day jail term, noting the error and promising a sharper focus on geography.
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Collingswood
N. J
Mary Pisark
Woodlynne
Frank Neutze
Thrill Slayer Is Arraigned In Quiet Upstate Village
Alfred E Volckmann confessed killer of nine year old Helen Glenn was arraigned on first degree murder charges at dawn in Greenville New York He was held for action by the Greene County grand jury in September The surprise arraignment followed a voyage from Catskill to Greenville with troopers and a brief ten minute hearing before Justice Laverne Smith
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Greenville
N. Y
Alfred E. Volckmann
Helen Glenn
Thereene County
Hudson River
Catskill
Hudson
J. Walter Wheeler
Memorial Hospital
Volckmann
Poleon
Justice of the
Laverne Smith
Justice Smith
Voickrmann
Coroner Probes Cleveland Drowning Case
Coroner A J Pearse continued the investigation into the Lake Erie drowning of Miss Mildred Brockman after Safety Director Martin Lavelle testified she fell overboard while moving to change seats on the boat ride.
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Cleveland
A. J. Pearse
Mildred Brockman
Lake Erie
Martin Lavelle
Miss Brockman
Theft probe at Ohio Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home suspends seven cooks
An investigation into grocery and merchandise thefts at the Ohio Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home led to the suspension of seven African American cooks on Monday.
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Xenia
Ohio Soldiers and Sailors Orphans’ Home
Curtis Urges New GOP Chairman Amid Tax and Bureaucracy Talk
In Washington, Curtis, Hoover era vice president, calls for a change at the Republican National Committee chair, criticizing slow work and pushing for tax cuts via reducing boards and commissions. He cites a Topeka 1942 speech attacking bureaucracy and notes at least a dozen GOP figures who could beat Roosevelt in 1996.
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Washington
Charles Curtis
Hoover
Henry P. Fletcher
Fletcher
Herbert Hoover
Curtis
Topeka
Kas
Andrew Mellon
Treasury
Republican Party
Roosevelt
Business Increases At Cleveland Airport
Major John Berry, manager of the Cleveland airport, announced that 15,748 passengers arrived or departed last month, surpassing the previous record of 13,700 set in August 1933.
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Cleveland
John Berry
Kansas Governor Landsons Balanced Budget Claim
Kansas Governor Al M. Landon, a Republican, announced to a radio audience that Kansas closed its fiscal year with a balanced budget. Supporters said the endorsement boosted his national presidential prospects while downplaying political implications.
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Kansas City
al M. Landon
Kansas
Value of a 58 Year Old Man to His Family in Court Decision
Judge O F Rowland of Athens County Common Pleas Court granted new trials in the estate case of Daniel McPherson against the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. He ruled the 58 year old man’s value to his wife and family is not a mere monetary sum and criticized the verdict as a compromise.
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Judge Rowland
O. F Rowland
Athens County Common Pleas Court
Daniel McPherson
Stewart
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
McPherson
Beth Sides
Rowland
House approves bill giving securities commission power over holding companies
The House passed legislation to regulate public utilities with discretionary authority for the Securities Commission over holding companies after rejecting Roosevelt's plan to outlaw unnecessary holding firms. The substitute measure won 246 to 143, transferring issues to a conference committee to reconcile Senate and House positions.
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Washington
House
Roosevelt
Securities Commission
Senate
The
Conference Committee
House Dike
Akron salesman kills visitor in quarrel
Police questioned Carl P. Williams age 37 a furnace salesman at his Akron home after a quarrel with William Smith 37 unemployed rubber worker who was shot to death. Authorities said Williams had threatened to kill Smith and was shot when he went to Williams home after drinking at a tavern with Mrs. Williams.
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Akron
Carl P. Williaew
Wiliam Smith
Goniee
Williams
Ship Subsidy Bill Buried in Senate Files
Apparent plan for a large ship subsidy measure stalled in the Senate committee, remaining buried in the file stack after passage stalled. Clerk of the committee comments the bill will not advance. A Zanesville man, O. Phillips, was arrested for license tag violations on a truck operated in Athens. He posted $25 bond.
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Washington
Senate
Senator Clerk
D. Mo
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