Treasury clears border patrolman in Minnesota killing
Emmet J. White is cleared of culpability in the killing of Henry Virkula, a Big Falls confectioner, as Treasury officials reject colored reports and say White acted within his authority. Virkula was shot while driving with his family. no liquor was found. Similar actions followed two other federal operatives who shot alleged bootleggers this week.
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Cecil Owen
United Press
Washington
The
Treasury Today
Customs
Emmet J. White
Henry Virkula
Big Falls
Treasury
Congress
United States
Lowman
Lindberg
Duluth
Virkula
White
U. S
Lacuardia
Republican
New York
Wets
Drya
Laguardia
Emmett White
Minn
Nelsonville Man Fined in Prohibition Raid
Thomas Varity of Nelsonville was arrested on possessing intoxicating liquor after a raid found 48 bottles of beer, some cash, and whisky. He pleaded guilty and was fined 150 dollars plus costs by Magistrate M. H. Porter in Athens. default would send him to the county jail. Deputies Wilson Ator and Harry Dalton, Prohibition Officer W. R. Leonard, and Nelsonville police chief George Bateman helped conduct the raid.
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Thomas Varity
Nelsonville
M. H. Porter
Athens
Wilson Ator
Harry Dalton
W. R. Leonard
George Bateman
Athens Messenger Presents Booklet on Girls Dresses
The Athens Messenger offers a short illustrated guide with simple directions for making dresses at home for the little girl. It suggests patterns for school and play, explains materials and methods, and promotes neat practical garments from inexpensive materials for everyday wear. Use the coupon to obtain the booklet.
Portland Parents Believe Son Stowed Away on Yellow Bird
The parents of 22 year old Arthur Schreiber of Portland insist their son hid aboard the French monoplane Yellow Bird bound for Paris after rumors spread that a youth climbed into the cabin. A letter from the supposed stowaway, dated before the Green Flash Rome crossing, urged calm and implied he acted alone.
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Portland
Paris
Old Orchard
Arthur Schreiber
Alexander Jordan
Schreiber
Morris R. Schreiber
Armeno Lotti
Arthur
Government hires 200 to curb whisky smuggling to Detroit
Government announces a campaign to hire 200 men to stop Canada to Detroit whisky smuggling. A reliable source says smugglers now use torpedoes and buoy attached cases, then retrieve them with waiting boats guided by a flare. An official aboard a rum running boat reports assurances from Canadian authorities.
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Canada
Detroit
Bond firm settles with Athens over Moore mayoral shortage
United States Fidelity & Guaranty Company paid Athens 893.47 to cover a 955.53 shortfall in former Mayor Alex M. Moore’s accounts, after deducting 58.96 for his March salary. Moore resigned in March and faced criminal charges, later posting bond in Common Pleas Court. He had begun a second term two years earlier with bond covering 2,000.
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United States Fidelity & Guaranty Company
Baltimore
Athens
Alex M. Moore
Moore
Common Pleas Court
Pretty nurse slain during an auto ride in Independence
Miss Margaret White twenty who had been dating Elmer Cales was found shot dead in a ditch near a Caney area after an automobile ride from a party. Cales held for questioning in Northern Oklahoma and remained mute as officers sought details of the fatal evening.
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Independence
Kan
Caney
Margaret White
Elmer Cales
Oklahoma
Cales
Miss White
City Wins Ruling Over Gas Firm On Service Rights
Cleveland court of appeals rules East Ohio Gas Company cannot shut off service at will. The decision upholds the Miller Act as constitutional and aligns with Public Utilities Commission on preventing unilateral contract termination.
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Court of Appeals
Cleveland
City
East Ohio Gas Company
Public Utilities Commission
Willis Vickry
Court of Honor To Be Held by Athens Scouts
The Athens Boy Scouts will hold a Court of Honor tonight at 7 o clock in the scout cabin at Strouds Run. First and second class badges merit badges and other honors will be awarded.
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Athens
Strouds Run
John Coulter Dies by Self Inflicted Shooting in Columbus
John Coulter aged 73 of 1574 South Third Street killed himself Thursday in a vacant lot at 1562 South High Street after despondency. Harry Sigfield, repairing an auto nearby, witnessed the act and reported to police. Survived by two sisters, a brother, a son, a nephew and a Columbus Railway official. body to be taken to Nelsonville for burial at Green Lawn Cemetery with services likely Saturday.
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Columbus
John Coulter
South Third Street
Coulter
South High Street
Harry Sigfield
Joseph Smith
Athens
Joseph Slater
Franklin Park South
Sam Coulter
Hanford Street
Roy Coulter
Harrisburg
C. C. Slater
Columbus Railway, Power and Light Co
Nelsonville
Greenlawn Cemetery
Fairmont Guests Headed to Columbus and Marion
Mr and Mrs B F Eliason and Mr and Mrs J B Phillips with daughters Freda and Marjorie Phillips of Fairmont West Virginia travel today from Canaanville Road to Columbus and Marion to visit friends. Mrs Alpha Sutton of Athens was also a guest of Mrs Sutton Thursday.
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B. F. Eliason
J. B. Phillips
Freda and
Marjorie Phillips
Fairmont
W. Va
R. E. Sutton
Canaanville Road
Columbus
Marion
Alpha Sutton
Athens
Sutton
Former Athens County Man Sentenced for Embezzlement
Herbert B. Brown 25 of Athens County and Columbus based Union Loan Company manager pleaded guilty to embezzling 20000 dollars. Judge Charles S. Bell sentenced him to four years in the penitentiary after Brown said he gambled the money away in Newport Kentucky.
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Cincinnati
U.P
Herbert B. Brown
Union Loan Company
Columbus
Charles S. Bell
Brown
Newport
Athens County
Woman's body found. police probe near Columbus rifle range
In Columbus on June 14 a young woman's body was discovered by local police at the central rifle range outside town. Authorities are investigating the death as a suspected murder with a possible crime scene at the range.
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Columbus
Central Rifle Range
Here
Senators Battle Heat In Senate Chamber
Warm weather assaults the chamber as temperatures reach startling levels. Senators shed vests and wear light linen suits while big fans sit unused during a ventilation and refrigeration system upgrade.
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U.P
Senate
Yellow Bird Hedges Atlantic toward Azores fuel runs low
The French monoplane Yellow Bird pushes eastward from Old Orchard Maine toward Paris as fuel dwindles and weather worsens. Reports say the craft nears the Azores and Portuguese coast while gales threaten the crossing.
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Azores
New York
Atlantic
Europe
Yellow Bird
Old Orchard
Paris
Orly
Rochambeau
Cunard
Laconia
Smoke Screen on Auto Fails and Columbus Rum Runner Caught
Earl Chili Fisher, 26, Columbus rum runner, was arrested by federal prohibition agents after a two mile chase on the Three C Highway. Fisher, said to haul over 10 000 gallons of liquor weekly from Cleveland to Columbus, fled a failing smokesscreen device and was captured after leaping from his car and being run down. He was found with more than 100 gallons of whiskey. Earlier arrest reports note Joe Conrad, 246, Columbus, bound for Grand Jury on booze transport charges.
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Columbus
Earl “Chili” Fisher
Capital City
U.P
Earl “Chili
Fisher
Cleveland
Three C
Jelloway
Fred
Joe Conrad
Colummbus
Conrad
Federal Grand Jury
Lodi Township Board hires bus driver and meets in concern
The Lodi Township Board of Education considered transportation for pupils and hired teachers Wilma Cowan Angie Ball Jerseyville Berdena Hawk Munn Ida Allison Kinney and Gertrude Weisenbach Blackwood. They will use a self funded bus for two trips from Mooretown to Jerseyville and north of Jerseyville to the school with license bond and $19000 indemnity insurance required. Carthage Township considers a similar contract for Jasper Hill Saunders and Mills to Lottridge with same conditions. Coal contracts were awarded to Flaa Sapp for Jerseyville schools at 13.5 cents and Elmer Robo for all Lodi Township one room schools at 15 cents. Canton June 14 Seven people received a share of a $1000 reward for Edward Kaltenbaugh’s capture. Kaltenbaugh is in Lima State Hospital for the Criminal Insane and confessed slayer of John Oser and Bertha Oser. Rewards paid to Gertrude Featos John Young two others from New Castle and other locals.
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Wilma Cowan
Angie Ball
Jerseyville
Berdena Hawk
Munn
Ida Allison
Kinney
Gertrude
Weisenbach
Blackwood
Angel Ridge
Judson
Hickory
Mooretown
Aida
Carthage Township
Board of Education
Jasper Hill
Saunders
Mills
Lottridge
Lodi Township
Boards of Education
Flaa Sapp
Elmer Robo
Canton
Edward Kaltenbaugh
Kaltenbaugh
Lima
John Oser
Bertha
Canal Fulton
Gertrude Featos
New Castle
Gladys Kapy
John (. Young
A. & Leslie
Peter Hillers
Ed Gibson
Grove City
John Blasko
Amsterdam
Gibson
L. C. Lawrence
Oser
Gibson Kaltenbaugh
Antlers Club Raid Ends With Fine For Daugherty
NEW LEXINGTON June 14 A second raid on the Antlers Club at New Straitsville leads to John Daugherty of New Straitsville being fined 199 dollars plus costs by Mayor L N Sines after he pled guilty to illegal possession of liquor. He was recharged with first offense.
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New Lexington
Antlers Club
New Straitsville
John Daugherty
L. N. Sines
Public Health Association Endorsed for Expansion in Ohio
Dr Robert M. Bishop Jr of Cleveland, president of the Ohio Public Health Association, announced that Dr W H Hyde of Nelsonville was among the first health commissioners to endorse the state health director Charles A Neal. The association has fought tuberculosis in Ohio for 28 years, cutting the death rate by over 50 percent and plans to apply its methods to other diseases. Dr Hyde praised the expansion and urged citizens to endorse the program.
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Cleveland
Robert M. Bishop, Jr
Ohio Public Health Association
W. H. Hyde
Nelsonville
Charles A. Neal
Ohio
Doctor Hyde
Doctor Bishop
Ohio Bar Association backs Hoover law enforcement study
Columbus June 14 The Ohio State Bar Association offers cooperation to President Hoover's commission formed to study existing law enforcement agencies.
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Columbus
U.P
Ohio State Bar Association
Hoover
Flag Day Facts Trace Old Glory History and Origins
On Flag Day American Legion posts display flags along Court and Union Streets and banners appear at businesses. The article traces flag history with multiple predating designs, notes shifts in stripes and colors since 1705, mentions Betsy Ross, Washington, and Captain Driver, and highlights that the flag’s design evolved through wars and voyages.
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American Legion
Court
Union
America
George Washington
Boston
Philadelphia
Betsy Ross
United
Columbia
William Driver
Charles Daggett
South Pacific
Senate Moves To End 140 Year Old Secrecy Rule On Ballot Rolls
Conferees reach agreement to publish all future secret roll calls and authorizes public disclosure of presidential nominations in executive sessions. Senate action follows House approval lapses and near summer recess as Nye repeal and national origins debates stall. Hoover facing opposition from Republicans and some progressives.
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Senate
Washington
Congress
House
Hoover
Reed
Pennsylvania
Jones
Moses
New Hampshire
Ohio Supreme Court Adjourns Until Fall
Columbus June 14 The Ohio Supreme Court adjourned for summer vacation and will reconvene October 2. Decisions on ongoing cases will be announced next Wednesday. Only emergency matters may be decided during the recess before the fall session resumes.
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Columbus
U.pha
Ohio Supreme Court
Akon Man Identified After Car Exhaust Suicide
Akron deputy identifies John C. Morgan of Akron as the man who died by asphyxiation in a sealed coupe near Long yesterday. The death was ruled a self-inflicted action by filling the car with exhaust fumes. The widow said they argued Wednesday night before the tragedy.
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Akron
U.R
Long
John C. Morgan
Clarence Cunningham
Cunningham
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Arthur Burishank
King Features Incorporated
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Kansas
Gale
Portugal
Bordeaux
Atlantic Ocean
Bar Harbor
B.S. T
United States Shipping Board
Wytheville
Lindbergh
Arthur Schreider
Slayer
Antlers
Daugherty
DR. Hyde
Public Health Association
East India Company
Glory
Paul BR. Mallon
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