Leopold and Loeb Trial Opens With Psychiatric Debate
Chicago July 29. The Leopold and Loeb case opens into a clash of alienists as defense and prosecution seek to classify the youths as sane or morally deranged. Dr Healy and other experts test the boys’ intellectual and emotional status while state experts argue for ample punishment. The trial foregoes the word insanity as taboo and focuses on whether the defendants can be held legally responsible.
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George R. Holmes
N. S
Chicago
Nathan Leopold, Jr
Richard A. Loch
Little Beoby
Esterday
Hulburt
Man
Babe
Dicky
William Healy
Boston
Leopold
Healy
Lespold
John R. Caverly
Hans
Don Battle
Loeb
Eves
Mars
Crowe
NFL Schedule Meeting Set in Chicago July 26 27
National Football League officials announced a meeting in Chicago on July 26 and 27 where twenty clubs will be represented. Franchises will be issued to Philadelphia and City, with action on two Hyer arse city applications. Clubs must post 1000 to guarantee non interference with college eligible players.
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Chicago
Columbus
Philadelphia
Man Injured as Steel Falls in Factory Accident
C L Orians injured after a pile of steel collapsed in a factory, fracturing a collarbone and trapping him beneath the debris. Emergency crews responded, and he was removed from the wreckage with injuries described as serious but non fatal.
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L. J. Orians
Tonnage tax proposed to aid Ohio mining counties
A survey for the Ohio State Teachers association notes hill counties in southern and southeastern Ohio rely on state aid for schools. In mining townships miners’ large families inflate per-child costs while coal wealth flows out, prompting a proposed tonnage tax to fund education in these areas.
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Columbus
Ohio
Ohio State Teachers Association
W. G. Wolfe
Cambridge
Guernsey County
Hill Counties
Cate
Candidates urged to attend Athens meeting on August fifth
The Athens County League of Women Voters invites all district and county office candidates to a mass meeting August 5 at 7 p m in the courthouse to discuss state national and international questions. If a candidate cannot attend a substitute speaker may attend. Replies are due by August 2. The league plans a house to house canvass and will leave candidate lists at homes.
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League OF Women Voters
Athens County Voters
Court House
Athens County League of Women Voters
Lucia J. Bing
Maila
League
Five youths held in whiskey venders ring near Athens Armory
Five youths were arrested Monday afternoon in a crackdown on a suspected gang selling liquor near the Athens Armory. Dan Burchfield 18 Paul Ayers 19 Elmer Meighen Thomas Penrod and Duke Shafer were arraigned Tuesday on liquor possession charges. Ayers and Burchfield pled guilty and paid the minimum fine of 100 dollars plus costs. Penrod Meighen and Shafer had cases continued or were released without bond. Ernest Wilkins 17 who earlier pled guilty was sent to probate court. Local officers including Constable Mariner Chief Parker Captain Maple and Officers Davis and Jacks Oson led the investigation.
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Athens
Dan Burchfield
Paul Ayers
Elmer Meighen
Thomas Penrod
Duke Shafer
Helwig
Burchfield
Ayres
Glenn Young to Face Herrin Court
United States Judge Walter C. Lindley remanded 21 of 23 Williamson county riot cases back to Williamson county courts for trial. Glenn Young, linked to the Ku Klux Klan, faced 19 of the defendants and now must stand trial at Herrin or Marion Illinois.
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East 8St. Louis
Ill
United States
Walter C. Lindley
Williamson County
Glenn Young
Ku Klux Klan
Herrin Or
Marion, Ii
Former Chicago broker held on fugitive charge in Cincinnati
Samuel Mintzer, once with the Victor-Phillips company, is detained in Cincinnati on a fugitive from justice charge. The firm’s some employees are said to have used the mails to defraud customers.
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Cincinnati
Samuel Mintzer
Chicago
Victor-Phillips Company
Front Page World Turmoil and Mob Justice Echoes
A montage of violent episodes and political turmoil. A Maryland teen is mobbed and tarred and feathered. a married woman faces jealousy and scandal. Imbrie, a vice consul, is murdered by fanatics in Perala. Persian unrest shows in refugee displacements as Armenians flee Greek actions.
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Maryland
Lee Ee Peete
Imbrie
Perala
Greece
Prohibition Not Key in Progressive Campaign Says La Follette
The Progressive Party states economic issues predominate in this year's race and prohibition is not a campaign issue. La Follette supporters note he voted against the Volstead Act amendments and anti prescription bill, while Coolidge and Davis back strict enforcement. A top lieutenant added La Follette may comment on prohibition later.
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Washington
New Progressive Party
Robert M. LaFollette
Anti- Saloon League
LaFollette
White House
Lo Ollette
Cleveland
Conference For Progressive Political Action
League
Coolidge
Davis
la Follette
Leutenants
Progressive Party
Chicago Plans Organized Charity To Curb Begging
Chicago outlines a coordinated charity system through United Charities to help the needy more fairly. Merchants and households will join, issue membership cards, and donate regularly to fund aid via charity officials who assess and distribute support.
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Chicago
United Charities of
Martin H. Bickham
Charities Organization
Charit
Pleads for Real National Feeling at Paris Ceremony
Secretary Hughes urged better understanding between nations after addressing the welcome at the French bar ceremonies in Paris. He said exchanges should deepen fellowship in common cause and worship of justice beyond race or country.
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Paris
Charles E. Hughes
Palace of Justice
Hughes
Davis to cut vacation short as campaign work resumes
Democratic presidential candidate John W. Davis plans to end his Maine stay, leaving Seven Hundred Acre Island on the 6:25 train to New York on Friday. He will meet Governor Smith to urge a bid for re election and discuss acceptance speech points with advisers and associates including George Robles Andrew Peters and Daniel McGillicuddy.
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David Sentner
Dark Harbor
Islesboro
John W. Davis
Davis
New York
Charles Dana Gibson
Rockland
Smith
West Virginian's Chance To Carry New York. George Robles
Vermont
Federal Trade Commission
Andrew J. Peters
Boston
Daniel McGillicuddy
Maine
Inter-Allied conference hones bond protection proposal
French experts and American observers at the inter allied conference draft a compromise to protect bond holders of the proposed 200 million dollar German loan. Arbitration may be sought if sanctions harm investors while officials consider delaying penalties until loan rotation. The Big Five meet seeking consensus on American Belgian and French ideas to safeguard the loan.
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London
Germany
James TL. Logan
United States
Test Street To Be Paved In Asphalt Demonstration
Athens council approves a trial asphalt resurfacing on a 160 foot section of East State Street hill in the Grandview Highland Addition. Middletown firm says the method has proven successful on old brick streets and the cost will not exceed $500. The test will be laid next week and monitored through fall and winter to gauge value for further use.
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Middletown
Grandview Highland Addition
State Street
Athens City
Essete
Mons Besenaae
Lorain Storm Triggers Panic As Theaters Evacuate
A severe wind storm with thunder and hail struck Lorain on July 29 causing panicked evacuations at Pantheon and Elyria Theaters. Hundreds fled as rear doors blew open. no serious injuries reported. A clothing store was struck by lightning and a fire caused by the storm is estimated at 15 1000.
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Lorain
Pantheon
Elyria
Evangelist E G Masters to Visit Athens County
Evangelist E G Masters born in Athens County, now of Oklahoma City, plans lectures in New York City and Athens on July 29 en route to Denver. He will tour his old home county and end with a 7 30 p m lecture at the Church of God on Hocking Street using a pictorial chart titled A Panorama of the Agenda.
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E. G. Masters
Athens County
Oklahoma City
Okla
Church of God
New York City
Athens
Denver
Colorado
Masters
Hocking Street
Farmer Entitled to Plumber's Pay
State teachers gathered for a vocational agriculture conference in Columbus Ohio to hear State Director Truax. Dean Alfred Vivian of Ohio State University urged higher output per acre to cut production costs and argued farmers deserve wages equal to or above plumbers' wages, currently higher than farmers' earnings.
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Columbus
Vocational Agriculture Teachers Today
Truax
Alfred Vivian
College of Agriculture
Ohio State University
Floods in India Cause Fatal Collapses and Homelessness
July reports from Madras describe a deadly scene as a school building collapsed in Cochin amid flooding killing sixty five people. Flood damage extends to Calicut and most of Malabar left homeless with livestock swept away.
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Madras
India
Cochin
Calicut
Malabar
Williams visits Iowa State after long bus ride
Coach from Rome era Williams travels to Ames State University for a visit after a 30 hour trip featuring a motor journey from Bucyrus to Iowa. He meets staff and discusses program plans and training priorities.
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Bucyrus
Rome
Prohibition Views From Lords Stir Debate On Alcohol Use
London July 29 Lord Dawson of Westminster argues moderation in alcohol can aid health and society while praising access to wine as a social facilitator. He cites medical opinion and notes benefits to nerves and work, while urging regulated use. A Dutch mine dispute and other local items follow in the dateline.
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Luther A. Huston
London
Dawson
Penn
George V
England
Lori Daween
Seri
Lord Dasra
Bihop
Aleshia Taxen
Unclear OCR fragment on Washington post
Fragmentary text mentions Frederic J. Haskin in Washington DC and other stray words about drinks and positions, with no clear event or identifiable entities to summarize into a full news item.
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Lloyd Shank
Frederick
Dorothy Grandon
Myersburg
Herrin Court
Arthur Brisbane
Labor
Kenneth Clark
I. N.S. Staff Corp
France
New York State
Bankers Meeting
BY David M. Church
Magee
Carl C. Magee
The
New Mexico State Tribune
Las Vegas
N. M
NEA
America
David Leahy
Test Street
Dering Gee
A. A. Carroll
International Association of Onsee
Grand Rapids
Mich
Pole Mier
Secrive
Aly
Bret ¢Ffenberg
T.i EU
Frank
Powhatan
C & Western Coal Company
New Coal Mine
Mengan
Betayeen
Teed
Rae
Wrederic J.” Haskin, A Rintee
Hughnees
Taeeeena Inleshington
D.C
CY Remonen
Choseciey
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