French cabinet named as franc sinks amid unrest
Paris July 20 United Press reports the franc nears two cent value on the bourse as Herriot forms a caretaker cabinet. Talk of a Dawes plan for France rises with fears of collapse, while prices climb and political chaos continues. Edouard Herriot leads a cabinet including Crrat De Monzie Chautemps Painleve Renoult Loucheur Queille Pasquet Hesse Daladier Dariac Bonnnet and under secretaries Milhaud Jacquier Morel Dumeanil Robagna Mattre Madarme Bazile.
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Paris
Rapolly
Herriot
Edouard Herriot
France
S Y
Chamber of Deputies
Doumergue
Maurice C@rrat
Anatol de Monzie
Camile Chautemps
Paul Painleve
Rene Renoult
Louis Loucheur
Henri Queille
Louis Pasquet
Andrew Hesse
Edouard Daladier
Adrien Dariac
George Bonnet
Albert Milhaud
Paul Jacquier
Treasury
Paul Morel
Jacques Dumeanil
Bathele
Francs Fall In Early London Exchange Trading
Paris markets showed a new franc weakness as Premier riot forms a cabinet while Belgium and Italian currencies also edged lower. The franc opened at 232.50 to the pound, up from 225.50. Belgium franc opened at 214.50, versus 210 prior. Italian lira opened at 146.75, up from 145.50.
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London
France
Swimming the ideal exercise promotes health and lungs
The article extols swimming as the perfect healthful activity, noting its circulation benefits and muscle work. It urges readers who cannot swim to request the free Swimming Booklet from the Washington Bureau, prepared by the American Red Cross, with two cents for postage.
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Washington
American Red Cross
No New Light In McPherson Case As Fourth Jury Opens
Los Angeles July 20. The fourth grand jury in the disappearance of Aimee Semple McPherson opened with little promise of action. District Attorney Asato said Kenneth Ormiston’s letter offers no new or vital information and merely denies involvement in the case. Ormiston had been missing since the evangelist was reported drowned.
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Los Angeles
Calif
U.P
Aimee Semple McPherson
Kenneth Ormiston
Angelus Temple
Asato
Ormiston
New York
McPherson
President proposes coal labor board model from railways
President Coolidge aims to adapt the railroad labor board structure to the coal industry. A spokesman said coal experts favored the mechanical form of the railway board as the best possible coal legislation.
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Paul
Smith
N. Y
U.P
Coolidge
Railroad Labor Board
Railway Board
Donahey Addresses Ohio at Sesqui Centennial Exposition
Governor A V Donahey helped dedicate the Ohio building in Philadelphia Penn in a ceremony at the Sesqui Centennial exposition. Several hundred Ohioans heard the Ohio chief executive speak of the Buckeye state and its people’s historic contributions amid an impressive setting.
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Philadelphia
Penn
Ohio
A. V. Donahey
Canton vows clean government after publisher murder
Canton, July 20 A murder of Don Mellett, Canton Daily News publisher, triggers a civic drive to clean up vice and politics. A committee of 100 leaders forms to purge the city, while a reward up to 50 000 is offered for the killer or killers.
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Lewis Barnard
Consolidated Pres
Canton
United States
Don Mellett
Canton Daily News
Mellett
Ohio State Penitentiary
W.P
P. E. Thomas
Don R. Mellett
Thomas
Atlantic City
N. J
Joseph D. Cleary
Columbus
Donahey
Ohio
Washington
O.S
Inubusher
Three Hocking Foxes Confiscated and Sent to Game Farm
Logan July 20 Three young foxes were confiscated from Cyrus Carpenter of Falls township by Deputy Protector Higgins. The live game was shipped to the Roosevelt game farm in Scioto county for safekeeping and care.
Detective Ora Slater Appointed in Canton Murder Case
Cincinnati detective Ora Slater, famed for solving the Jake Nesbitt murder, is retained to help solve the death of Donald R. Mellott, Canton publisher. Scripps-Howard newspapers of Ohio initially retained him but later surrendered their claim to the Canton county prosecutor.
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Ora Slater
Cincinnati
Donald R. Mellett
Canton
Slater
Jake Nesbitt
Troy
Ohio
Scripps-Howard Newspapers
Flyer and Engine Crash In Chicago Wreck Injures Score
CHICAGO July 20 U R A speeding Illinois Central suburban train derailed after colliding with a switch engine at Twenty sixth Street. A score of passengers and the fireman were injured and rushed to nearby hospitals. Traffic blocked as ambulances were dispatched. cause not yet clear.
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Chicago
U.R
Illinois Central
Twenty Sixth Street
Illinois Central Railroad
Highball Limited
Canton's Don Mellett murder probes widen with arrests
Canton Canton Daily News editor Don R. Mellett was murdered in Canton Ohio. George the Greek Psilias 29 surrendered to authorities and was held on a suspicious person charge after alibi reviews and travel to Warren and Pittsburgh. Detectives pursued inconsistencies in his Warren movements seeking habeas corpus relief. Jerome Lamont convicted in Warren for shooting with intent to kill and paroled. Rewards for Mellett slayers total 26450 plus over 10000 for investigators.
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George Psilias
George
Canton
Pete Conners
Pittsburgh
Don Mellett
The
Canton News
Conners
Psilias
Sam Rosenberg
Ora Slater
Mellett
Cincinnati
Don R. Mellett
Canton Daily News
Peter Conner
Warren
George the Greek
Conner
Psillas
Youngstown
Ohio
U.R
Jimmy Lamont
Lamont
Dan Runyan
Five Shot In Officers Raid In Muskogee Oklahoma
Five people were shot and four others clubbed unconscious during a nighttime raid on three Muskogee rooming houses. Deputies Paul Davis and Wes Carmack were overpowered after firing many shots and injuring a bystander before capture.
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Muskogee
Okla
Ateas
Paul Davis
Wes Carmack
Paddock Defends Hollywood Gals Over Red Grange Rumors
Hollywood star Red Grange quit films citing movie girls as less skilled at romance than college coeds. Charlie Paddock says Hollywood girls are no different and bets Grange belongs back in Wheaton driving an ice wagon. He calls Red a joke as a Hollywood Don Juan.
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Hollywood
Calif
U.P
Charlie Paddock
Red Grange
Red
Wheaton
Bebe Daniels
Charlie
Paddock
Don Juan
Blame Miners War for Fire at Paisley Coal Store
In Belmont county officials blame the miners war for a blaze that destroyed the Paisley Coal Company's store at Oco near St Clairsville. Traces of powder and gasoline found in the ruins, with disgruntled miners suspected after a nighttime auto collision with a traction car. McKennie’s wife leaped to safety as the crash occurred while the couple traveled from their farm to Clyde Ohio.
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ST. Clairsville
Paisley Coal Company
Oco
Belmont County
Here
McKennie
McKennies
Clyde
Ohio
Two Convicts Escape Mansfield Reformatory
Authorities seek two convicts who escaped from Mansfield reformatory on Monday. Oscar Sparks, jailed January 14 for assault from Ross County, and Arthur Drexel, jailed February 16 from Hamilton County for automobile theft, fled from a field where workers were. Roll call failed to reveal the escape. both had indeterminate terms.
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Mansfield
Mansfield Reformatory
Oscar Sparks
Ross County
Arthur Drexel
Hamilton County
Two Die in Fremont Tragedy as Farmer and Daughter Killed
Elmer McKennie, 48, a Fremont farmer, and his daughter Mabel, 16, were killed in a fatal incident reported July 20. Police investigation ongoing.
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Fremont
U.P
Elmer McKennie
Mabel
Mrs Moler Seriously Hurt In Lancaster Auto Crash
An Ohio accident at Lancaster near Lancaster City hospital left Mrs. William Moler 35 North College Athens badly cut with severe bruises after her car collided with her son Frank Moler’s vehicle. Mrs. C B Russell and driver Linton Sickles were also injured. all were taken to hospital.
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William Moler
North College Street
Athens
Lancaster
Britain Presses U S Debt Policy In Parliament
In London debates the House of Commons criticizes American war debt stance calling the U S a financial shylock while Sir Philip Snowden and Winston Churchill question misstatements. In Washington the debt funding pact with France proceeds with no private loans until ratified and payments expected to begin once France stabilizes its economy.
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London
U.P
America
House of Commons
United States
Philip Snowden
Hilton Young
Zeebrugge
Winston Churchill
Exchequer
Washington
American Debt Funding Commission
France
Treasury
Winston
Heat Wave Rules Central States with Record Temperatures
A heat wave grips Ohio and the Midwest with readings near 99 to 112 degrees. Yuma Arizona hits 112 while towns in Ohio report multiple deaths and prostrations. Forecasters warn of continuing heat and high humidity as crops suffer and inland areas swelter.
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Hocking Valley
Central States
Ohio
Kent
West Virginia
Portsmouth
Ironton
United States Weather Bureau
Cleveland
Chicago
Weather Bureau
Ohio River
Cincinnati
Dayton
United States
Yuma
Liisbon
N. D
Mitchell
S. D
Omaha
Neb
Minnesota
Araska
Missouri
Ilnois
Middlewest
Fers
Central Plains
Waa
Jay Gould
M . Game and Fish
St. Paul
Twin Cities
Beaver
Split Rock
Minn
Explosion damages suit filed over gasoline blast
Kelley of Ironton sues the peak Ohio railroad for 50000 dollars claiming a gasoline explosion last July caused damage and injuries. The suit says juries were made the basis of the action and cites fear the blast occurred near Cincinnati.
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Cincinnati
Kelley, Ironton, Agalhat, Thepeake
Ohio Railroad
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