Grand Jury to Convene Over Mine Disorders in Athens County
A special Athens County Grand Jury will meet June 23 to consider indictments against several men arrested in recent mine disturbances. Clinton Oxley, a Chauncey miner, had his car damaged by stones on the way to work near Hebbardsville. Similar unrest reported in Cadiz and Clairsville with strikes and dynamite blasts.
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Clinton Oxley
Wayne Wingett
Oxley
Flying Glass
Albany
Ageks
Manhattan Coal Company
Chauncey
Hebbardsville
Athens County
Grand Jury
John W. Bolin
Bolin
Cadiz
U.R
Morrows Sail for England Amid Lindbergh Case Ties
Mrs Dwight Morrow Constance and Dwight Jr depart New York aboard the Europa with bodyguards to visit Elisabeth Morrow in England. Violet Sharpe, Englewood servant linked to the Lindbergh kidnapping, killed herself after learning she would be questioned. Colonel Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh stay in Englewood as burial plans proceed. The maid’s death is to be investigated by British consul Edward Shepherd.
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New York
U.R
Dwight Morrow
Constance and
Dwight, Jr
England
Europa
Morrows
Elisabeth Morrow
Englewood
Violet Sharpe
Lindbergh
Miss Sharpe
Edward H. G. Shepherd
Great Britain
Ohio Delegates Likely to Back Curtis for Republican Ticket
Ohio Republicans at the national convention lean toward renomination of Vice President Charles Curtis unless Charles G. Dawes declines the post. Senator Fess, delegation chair, says a strong Ohio majority will support Curtis if a floor fight occurs on Thursday.
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Chicago
Ohio
Charles Curtis
Charles G. Dawes
Hoover
Kansan
Senator Fess
Curtis
Dawes Leaves Public Office for Private Life
Charles Gates Dawes announced he will retire from public service and return to private banking in Chicago. He denied seeking the vice presidency and pledged support for Hoover’s re election, ending his term as president of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation.
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Washington
Charles Gates Dawes
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Hoover
Chicago
Dawes
United Press
Charles G. Dawes
Republ
Nine Nations Study German Poverty Plea
The June reparations conference in Lausanne will decide how rich Germany is at home and abroad and how much can be levied without harming the economy. Germany insists on paying no more, while Hoover Moratorium relief had begun. In Berlin the Prussian Diet passed a motion for Germany to resign from the League of Nations with Communist support.
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Lausanne
U.P
Germany
Hoover
Basle
Berlin
League of Nations
Reich
Army Denies Medical Care as Bonus Army Ties to Pay Bill
Washington faces rapid House action on the Patman Bill to fund 2.4 billion dollars for World War veterans. The Sixth Marine Reserve headquarters clinic is closed after treatment of about three thousand destitute troops in three weeks. Senate leaders seek an early vote with a veto looming.
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Washington
U.R
Sixth Marine Reserve
Jon Knowlton
Marine Reserves
Senate
Buckeye Lake Teen Dies After Drowning Incident
Russell Tudor 17 of Lancaster Ohio collapsed and drowned while swimming with three companions near the Cal Fisher boat landing Buckeye Lake Park yesterday.
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Buckeye Lake
Russell Tudor
Lancaster
Cal Fisher
Buckeye Lake Park
Sailor Requests Advice On Whiskers From Senator Smoot
A U S Navy man seeks guidance from Senator Smoot about growing whiskers to please his sweetheart while obeying his captain. The Washington daily notes Smoot’s stance and points readers to the Messenger classifieds where seed plants and ivy are advertised, with the ad highlighting shrubbery offerings.
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U. S
U.S
Smoot
Washington Daily
Messenger
Garden Plants List for Canaanville Area
Catalog of tomato, cabbage, mango, pie mento, salvia, daisy, calendula, petunia, columbine and delphinium plants from G. C. Sutton in Canaanville. Includes plant types and supplier reference in a local listing.
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G. C. Sutton
Canaanville
Eye-Witness McLemore on Convention Caucus Satire
Eye-Witness McLemore explains caucus culture with sharp satire. The Chicago dispatch describes a cramped hotel room, cigars, and a rowdy gathering of delegates debating trivial matters while hints of drink and mischief appear, illustrating political theater at a South Carolina sponsored caucus.
Road Contract Sold
Additional highway improvement contracts from the June 10 letting were awarded by State Highway Director O W Merrell. Vinton County McArthur Athens road in McArthur Village Elk Township 2488 miles awarded to Dodge Hunsey Inc and Robert S Beightler Columbus for 110419.22. Hocking Valley Brick Company Columbus to furnish and deliver brick for 5713.26.
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Columbus
U.P
O. W. Merrell
Vinton County
McArthur
Athens
McArthur Village
Elk Township
Dodge-Hunsey, Inc
Robert S. Beightler
Hocking Valley Brick Company
Open New Park Flourishes Again
WELLSTON June 15 U P Lake Alma once a popular pleasure resort will flourish again Thursday as Ohio's newest state park. The lake one mile from Wellston will be formally accepted by Governor George White and other officials as a fishing preserve and public playground. Hundreds of men have been employed in improving the tract during the past six months. Preparations are being made to accommodate 20 000 people during the opening day festivities. There will be an air show in which 10 army and National Guard planes and the blimp Puritan will take part.
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Wellston
U.P
Alma
Ohio
George White
Army
National Guard
Senate to Vote on Two Unemployment Relief Measures
Senate action expected by Friday on a $1.5 billion Reconstruction Finance expansion and a $500 million public works bond to aid jobless, with House and Senate seeking common ground. Hearings set on the Wagner Bill for immediate relief loans of $300 million, Speaker Garner to testify. Senate also seeks budget savings via a Hoover-recommended plan.
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Senate
Washington
House
Reconstruction Corporation
Nan
Administration
House Banking Committee
Garner
Hoover
Robinson
Mr. Hoover
Clover Farm Banquet Draws 300 Attendees at Hotel Berry
More than 300 persons attended the Clover Farm meeting and dinner sponsored by the F J Beasley Company. Lester H Lipton announced 45 stores applied to join Clover Farm, detailing cooperative operations across multiple states and the national organization structure. A second dinner is planned tonight at the Lafayette Hotel in Marietta with Beasley Company service to new members.
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Clover Farm
Berry
F. J. Beasley Company
Clover Farm Organization
Lester H. Lipton
Mr. Lipton
Kentucky
North Carolina
Georgian
West Virginia
Florida
Texas
Middle Atlantic
Midwest
Lipton
Culver Farm Association
Beastey Company
Athens
Marietta
Lancaster
McConnelaville
Jackson
Logan
Parkersburg
Point Pleasant
W. Va
T. Blair Willison
L. H. Lipton, Jr
C. F. Shanahan
R. A. Clark
F. J. Beasley
R. C. Hess
Carl Beasley
Robert S. Wood
F. D. Forsyth
Fred Sands
J. S. Sherrard
J. H. McClure
A. E. Whaley
Frank Kayser
G. K. Bush
P. O. Nichols
George Moore
Steubenville
C. Palmer Meredith
Steel & Meredith Company
Springfield
Frank Milligan
Southwestern Ohio
Fred Carney
P. J. Collins
Collins
Meredith
Mr. Milligan
Lafayette Hotel
Beasley Company
Senator Hugo Black Nears renomination in Alabama
Birmingham report says United States Senator Hugo L. Black appears virtually assured of renomination after today’s events. The longtime Democrat faced no strong opposition as June proceedings concluded in the state.
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Birmingham
Ala
United States
Hugo L. Black
Boy tells of four months chained to bed by father and stepmother
Twelve year old Paul James Fiest testified in the county jail how his father Oscar Fiest and his stepmother kept him chained by the neck to a bed for four months. The sheriff arrested the father on cruelty charges while the stepmother faced no charges at present.
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U.P
Paul James Fiest
Paul
Oscar Fiest
Powhatan
Hilda
Howard A. Dutt
Nell
Liverpool
Curtis Dawes to Become Vice President and Cade Reconstruction Policies
The letter claims Charley Dawes will be drafted into the vice presidency and later head the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, with Bo Dawes returning to the ambassador post to Britain and a 1937 comeback. It asserts Curtis Charney will lose his job, and labels prohibition as a political straddle.
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Chicago
Charney Curtis
Indiana
Charley Dawes
Dawes
Bo Dawes
Goen
Great Britain
Reconstrucction Finance Corporation
Floover and Dawes
Will
Firestone Joins Drive to Repeal Prohibition
Harvey Firestone the Akron tire magnate and early sponsor of the Eighteenth Amendment has announced his support for repeal. The Akron industrialist long a prohibition defender sent a brief wire to Republican leaders in Chicago and prompted swift comment among delegates awaiting the resolutions committee report. Firestone’s stance aligns with Henry Ford and John D. Rockefeller Jr. in opposing dry policy.
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Chicago
U.P
Harvey Firestone
Akron Tire
J. N. Nutt
Firestone
Resolutions Committee
Henry Ford
Columbus Board Sets Special Session for Contracts
The Columbus Board of Education will meet Thursday night to approve teaching contracts for the coming school year. The board will refuse contracts to both spouses employed by the district, affecting about 14 teachers and staff. Earlier efforts sought to oust all married teachers, estimated at 200, but the new policy limits contracts for married couples only.
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Columbus
Columbus Board of Education
Snell Attacks Democrats as Fault-Finding Minority
Chicago June 15 Rep Bertrand H Snell of New York spoke as permanent chairman at the Republican National Convention praising Hoover and his admin and ridiculing the Democrats as a fault-finding minority. He warned Republicans to stay united and oppose quack remedies. He avoided Prohibition references like Sen Dickinson.
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Chicago
O.P
Bertrand H. Snell
New York
Hoover
George Washington
Republican Party
Dickinson
Snell
Cupid Sparks Quick Wedding in Athens
Ethel Collins aged 23 of Athens and Ralph Bodkina 26 of Cleveland wed two hours after meeting. They obtained a license from Probate Judge Johnson at 7 PM, then married in the study of Rev. A Y Wilcox with a friend attending.
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Dan Cupid
Ethel Collins
Athens
Ralph P. Bodkina
Cleveland
Bodkin
Athena
Miss Collins
M. Johnson
A. Y. Wilcox
Divorce Awarded in Kelley Case and Custody Denied
Pearl Kelley received divorce alimony and custody of two minor children in Athens County Common Pleas Court on Tuesday. Ruth F. Davis accuses her husband Henry Davis of gross neglect of duty and extreme cruelty in a petition filed in Common Pleas Court today.
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Pearl Kelley
Herbert L. Kelley
Athens County Common Pleas Court
Ruth F. Davis
Henry Davis
Common Pleas Court
Means Gets 15 Years For Lindbergh Kidnap Case
Washington reports Gaston B. Means was sentenced to fifteen years in prison after being convicted of taking part in a ransom plot to recover the Lindbergh baby for Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McLean. Prosecutors described the scheme as a planned theft of one hundred thousand dollars.
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Washington
U.S
Gaston B. Means
Evalyn Walsh McLean
Lindbergh
Plan drafts platform easing prohibition and Dawes declines VP bid
The Republican platform committee finished a draft that would seek retention of Congress power to regulate liquor if the Eighteenth Amendment is modified. Dawes declined a vice presidential bid after relinquishing the Reconstruction Finance Corporation presidency. Pennsylvania backed immediate Volstead Act modification and repeal at a state caucus, with S. Hagett proposing reconvening the delegation to declare sentiment.
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Congress
IL A. m
Bertram Muell
New York
Chicago
U.P
James M. Hag
Court Decides Against Wilson in Estate Case
In Athens County and Columbus, the state supreme court upheld a decision adverse to Anthony Wilson regarding the estate of the late John L. Wilson of Nelsonville. Emma L. Wilson, his widow, sued as administratrix after Anthony died June 5, 1928. Allegations claim Anthony took bonds valued between twenty five thousand and three hundred thousand from a safety box. The case centers on whether bonds were gifts to him during illness. Lower courts had ruled for Emma Wildson.
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Columbus
U.R
Appeals Court
Athsena County
Anthony Wilson
John L. Wilson
Nelsonville
State Supreme Court
Emma L. Wilson
Emma
Citizens Central Bank
Sonville
Bee
Anthony
Wilson State
Anythony
Emma Wildson
Hashman Arraigned in Millfield Burglary Case
Averd Hashman of Millfield faced a burglary charge after Athens County officers linked him to a recent break in at the Fred store. He pleaded not guilty before Magistrate C. H. Porter and was bound over to Athens County Common Pleas Court under $500 bond. Also arrested were Fred Bentley Gerald Bentley and Cecil Smith with Smith admitting involvement.
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Tipple
Clarkson Coal Company
Provident
St. Clairsville
James Somers
Robyville
Francis Majors
Ohio & Pennsylvania Coal Company
Unionvale
Harrison County
Marine Hospital
Bishop
James Cannon, Jr
Cannon
McLemore
Guardian of Press
Henry United Press
Connolly
South Carolina
Lumbus Firm
Old Pleasure Resort
Democratic
The
Senate Banking Committee
Beasley Organization
Alabama
Clairsville, O
Betty
Maude
King
Rockefeller
Ford
Columbus Board Fights
Nedra Wilhelm
Byron I. Duncan
Iberia
Heta
Cupid
Cleveland Man
Athens Girl
Means
Consid
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Hy Lyle
Wilson United Press
Congress Hotel
Resolutiona
Wilson
Hashman
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