Mount Etna Eruption Ravages Sicilian Towns and Rages On
News from June 19 reports Mount Etna lava flows threatening Linguagossa and coastal areas near Messina. Troops assist evacuation as residents flee the advancing lava and ash clouds. Authorities warn of heavy losses, with many homeless and livestock displaced. Civil relief teams coordinate shelter with local fascist officials aiding the operation.
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Mount Etna
Vesuvius
Pompeii
Giarre
Bitna
Inglossa
Etna
Victor Emanuel
of Public Works
Miet
Informa Messina
Pos
Woman enters ace for council in Cleveland race
Mrs Morlock files as sole entrant in the Cleveland council race to gain a 25 member body elected by districts under a proportional representation plan. Her petition carries 1200 signatures and aims to push a city manager and council structure slated for January 1.
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Coun
Morlock
Cleveland
Path to Mellerwum through justice says Hughes at Dartmouth
Secretary of State Charles Hughes, at Dartmouth alumni luncheon in Hanover, argues there is no millennium path but justice. He promotes the permanent international court as America’s best recourse for justice and criticizes partisan voices that threaten unity.
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Mellerwum
Hughes
World Court
Dartmouth College
Hanover
N. H
Charles HK. Hughes
Permanent Court of International Justice
United States
America
Amercia
Two Chinese Students Attend Ohio University Summer School
Two natives of Shanghai, Shan tung China, T. T. Tsai and S. Y. Fang, join Ohio University summer session in the School of Commerce. They are first-time visitors to America and plan to stay two years as they complete the two year Commercial course. Alfred Hudson, daughter of a Shanghai missionary, helped them settle in Athens. Tsai speaks English well though notes dialect differences.
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Ohio University
Shantung
China
T. T. Tsai
S. Y. Fang
America
School of Commerce
University
Tsai
Alfred Hudson
Shanghai
Hudson
Fang
Athens
Railway men back farmers in push for price stabilization
Warren S. Stone, grand chief of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, announced that railway unions support federal action to stabilize farm prices. He endorsed the Norris Sinclair bill creating a government marketing corporation to buy farm products at a fair price and sell them domestically and abroad.
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Cleveland
Congress
Warren Ss. Stone
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
United States
Stone
Ratway
Norris-Sinclair
Average man peaks in muscular power in early thirties
A historical note states that the average man reaches the height of his muscular power during his thirtieth and thirty-first years, suggesting peak physical capability in early adulthood.
Former Sheriff Placed in Works
TIFFIN Ohio June 19 Police officials said they would commit to the Toledo workhouse Charles Bare former Seneca county sheriff and present constable in a justice court pleaded guilty before Mayor Unger to bootlegging Bare was fined 500 which he said he could not pay The affidavit against Bare was filed by George Schmidutz who resigned from the Tiffin police force under charges of drunkenness while on duty Bare sold the liquor to Schmidutz while the latter was in uniform
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Tiffin
Toledo
Charles Bare
Seneca County
Unger
Bare
George Schmidutz
Schmidutz
Opposition to Dry Ship Edict Sparks British Debate
London June 19 Sir William Davison a Tory in the house of commons pressed Premier Stanley Baldwin to toughen Britain's policy toward the United States over the dry ship edict prohibiting foreign ships from entering American ports with liquor aboard. Baldwin declined to reveal any retaliatory plans regarding American prohibition decisions affecting foreign ships.
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Davison
House of ‘Commons
Great Britain
United States
Stanley Baldwin
Harding to Drive Economic Message in Grain Belt Campaign
President Harding vows to press a businesslike govern ment image as the government posts a 290 million dollar surplus this fiscal year. Republican managers plan to use economy and tax relief as core talking points on a western swing from Washington to Alaska and Porto Rico, with Representative Maddén pushing for immediate income tax revision.
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George R. Holmes
N.S
Washington
Harding
United States
Alaska
Porto Rico
Congress
Martin B. Madden
Illinois
Appropriations Committee
House
Youth Attacks Friend With Knife in Akron Scene
In Akron Ohio on June 19 Nick Crane nine attacked Anthony Leone eleven with a knife over a rose Leone wore. Leone was badly carved and bled heavily before reaching the hospital. Crane faces juvenile court after being beaten by his father for the act.
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Akron
Nick Crane
Anthony Leone
Leone
Nick
Jteone
Crane
Police arrest impersonator in murder case in Chicago
Police in Chicago say Fred Thompson living a double life as a man and woman may be the "girl bandit" in the June 5 murder of Richard C. Tesmer, an affluent insured man. Thompson, dressed in women's clothes, is linked to a marriage with Frank Garrick, an auto mechanic, and Mrs Tesmer is the sole witness to the holdup killing.
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Chicago
Fred Thompson
Richard C. Tesmer
Thompson
Frank Garrick
Insolvency Forces Bank to Shut Doors
SANDUSKY, C., June 19. The First National Bank of Huron organized in 1892 with capital of 569099 closed its doors today on orders of national bank examiner W C Griswold who declares the bank insolvent due to alleged bad checks by T M Sprowl eighty cash ier for 32 until he was removed last February. President A Wunderly says depositors will be protected in full.
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Sandusky
First National Bank of Huron
Here
National Bank
W. C. Griswold
T. M. Sprowl
A. Wunderly
Bank Defaulter Sought After Large Cash Shortage
Wichita Kansas June 19 P A Irum 28 cashier of the American State Bank vanished after confessing a shortage estimated around one and a half million dollars in bonds and securities loaned to concerns in which he was interested Investigations close the bank pending inquiry and search for the defaulter continue
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Wichita Kaz
P. A I’rum
American State Bank
Ivnsas
Amherst College crisis stirs student strike over leadership
Dr. Alexander Meikiejohn, Amherst College president, is at the center of a dispute about education methods. Students planned a senior class commencement strike to protest trustees possibly ousting the president.
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Alexander Meikiejohn
Amherst College
Bristem Fuller and McGee Sentenced for Bucket Shop Felony
Edward M. Fuller and W. Frank McGee, partners in EE. M. Fuller & Co., pleaded guilty to operating a bucket shop after a $5,000,000 failure. Judge Nott sentenced them to 1 year 3 months to 4 years at Sing Sing. They had spent about seven weeks in Ludlow Street jail. Contempt detainer by federal authorities led to transfer to state custody for trial. The district attorney probes asset loss and names such as Charles A. Stoneham and Sheriff Foley figure in the inquiry.
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New York
Edward M. Fuller
W. Frank McGee
EE. M. Fuller & Co
Nott
General Sessions
Sing Sing
Ludlow Street
Lima votes on $609000 hospital bond issue
Lima prepares to put a $609 000 bond issue for a new city hospital to the voters at the August 14 primary election after the city commission adopted the necessary resolution.
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Lima
Lima City
City Commission
Steubenville Prohibition Warned by Officials
In Steubenville Ohio Attorney General C C Crabbe and State Prohibition Commissioner W H McDonald told Jefferson County magistrates to enforce liquor laws. A mass meeting of dry supporters followed with calls for drastic action if warnings are ignored.
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Steubenville
Jefferson County
C. C. Crabbe
W. H. McDonald
Anti-Saloon League
Drys
McDonald
Dry
Donahey
Saturday Bath Day Strains Bellaire Water Reserve
City service staff report a surge in Saturday baths in Bellaire as mid-summer heat drives households to bathe more. One worker warns the Saturday drain on the reserve is now severe, making batht-day nearly as hard as Monday wash day to keep the reservoir filled.
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Bellaire
City Service Department
Plan to enroll aliens for citizenship check proposed
Secretary of Labor James L Davis proposes compulsory enrollment of all aliens to screen for undesirables and deport others. Davis will tour the country to push the plan, aiming to locate and deport about a million illegitimate entrants and curb alien bootlegging.
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Davis
Washington
Labor
James L. Davia
International News Service Today
United States
Leap into the Ohio river ends in rescue at Dayton
Miss Alberta Berry, 22, leapt from the central bridge into the Ohio River in Dayton, Kentucky. Deputy game warden Thomas Hoskins Sr. swam to her aid and pulled her from the water. At Speers hospital doctors sought motive but she replied I dont know. Her hand purse contained five pennies.
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Cincinnati
Speers’ Hospital
Dayton
Alberta Berry
Ohio River
Zoo keeper dies in Cleveland truck collision
Kenneth Bailey, 44, of Akron, died from shock after a Cleveland to Akron limited train carrying him as a passenger hit a truck on Broadway. Bailey formerly worked at Brookside Zoo as keeper of Minnie the elephant funded by Cleveland schoolchildren.
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Cleveland, O
Kenneth Bailey
Akron
Cleveland-Akron Limited
Broadway
Beailey
Brookside Zoo
Minnie
Cleveland
Dr Alex Rochester in critical condition after operation
Word has come to Athens friends that Dr. Alex Rochester formerly of Logan is in a critical state following an operation at Oglethorpe hospital in Savannah Georgia. He served as a first lieutenant in the medical corps during World War I and is the son of Frank C Rochester a former financial officer at the Athens state hospital. Mr and Mrs Rochester formerly lived in Logan and have resided in Hollywood California for several years. Dr Rochesters wife and mother are with him in Savannah.
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Athens
Alex Rochester
Logan
Oglethorpe Hospital
Savannah
Two Mothers-in-Law receive $2000 bequests in will
Canton reports Charles Reilly of York Pa left 2000 to each of his two mothers-in-law Mrs Mary Eckinger of Canton and Mrs Effie Herrman of Peoria Ill. Both wives had died before him.
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Canton
Charles Reilly
York
Mary Eckinger
Effie Herrman
Peora
Ill
Great airplane fleet to combat ram smugglers
Mrs. Maggie Morris of Winfield West Virginia becomes the first woman member of the state board of equalization and review. She was chosen over two male applicants and has been active in politics for several years.
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Maggie Morris
Winfield
W. Va
Air fleet to combat rum smuggling off the Atlantic
Washington reports the government will modify a large seaplane fleet to chase smugglers off the Atlantic coast. Prohibition officials and lawmakers favor the plan as a cheaper, potentially more effective method, with a $10 million appropriation urged for immediate use. The fleet would be controlled by the prohibition commissioner and built as part of his unit once Congress authorizes a large-scale program.
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Washington
Abelantice
Roy A. Hinynes
Rum
Congress
United States Navy
Coast Guard
Air Fleet
New York
New Jersey
Atlantic Coast
Prohibition
Wll
Ory
House
Senate
Leviathan Set for Trial Run in Boston Harbor
The Leviathan, formerly the German liner Vaterland, prepares for its five to six day trial trip from Boston at 2 PM with Captain Tartley in command. The reconditioned vessel carries 609 government officials and media, aiming to prove fitness for trans Atlantic passenger service.
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Boston
Leviathan
Tartley
New York
Vaterland
Congress
Marine Engineers
Meno
Albert Dpd. Lasker
United States Shipping Board
Pasenger
Youthful hikers plan two year transcontinental trek
Jack Young and KF J Dietach, both 22 from Detroit, passed through Athens en route to Pomeroy. They began two weeks ago with government packs aiming for a two year tour by foot and boat visiting Cincinnati St Louis San Antonio Colorado Yellowstone Los Angeles Canada then England and Europe.
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Jack Young
KF. J. Dietach
Detroit
Michigan
Athens
Pomeroy
Rom Pomeroy
Cincinnati
St. Louis
San Antonio
Texas
Colorado
Yellowstone National Park
Los Angeles
Canada
Atlantic
England
Europe
Bankrupt Brokerages List Assets and Liabilities
Cincinnati June 19. Tiabili ties of 1 795 259 41 and assets of 704 949 53 were listed late yesterday in a schedule filed by Reagell Chatfield bankrupt brokerage house. Of the assets listed almost 536 000 took the form of promissory notes.
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Cincinnati
Reagell & Chatfield
Hand Crocheted Jumpers Develop Wing Sleeve Fashion
Hand crocheted jumpers and silk crepe bound with braid are developing wing sleeves that are noted as most attractive in current style reports.
Heatwave Claims Two Victims In Cleveland
Cleveland reports the death of Stanley B. Smith 77 of Detroit from heat prostration after a day of record heat. Anna Domlash is recovering from heat illness as the city endures the hottest day of the season with temperatures near 89 degrees at dusk.
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Cleveland
Stanley B. Smith
Detroit
Anna Domlash
Mercury
Smith
PIGES FOSTER FOR GOVERNOR
Washington rumor says Judge Harvey C. Smith will not seek the Republican nomination next year. Speculation centers on Representative Izzy Foster as the likely heir to southern Ohio support and mining region backing. Foster’s backers claim strong labor ties and wide miner support, with forty thousand workers said to be ready to vote for him.
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Washington, D.C
Frank M. Ransbottom
Zanesville
Shriners Che
Ohio
Washington
Harvey C. Smith
Ransbottom
Smith
Izzy’ Foster
Foster
Koster
Lorain Electric Use Advances in April
Commercial use of electricity in Lorain and surrounding county rose 78 percent in April from the previous year. Local factories are operating to capacity.
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Lorain
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Bristem
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Zoo
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