Attorneys Fight New Trial For Daugherty In Bank Case
Attorneys for Mal S Daugherty prepared a motion for new trial after a jury found him guilty on five counts of violating state banking laws as president of Ohio State Bank. They contest juror prejudice and plan appeals if denied, while Daugherty remains free on a 40000 bond.
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Washington D. H
U.P
Mal S. Daugherty
Ohio State Bank
Daugherty
Norman JL. McLean
Charles S. Bell
State Banking Department
Oil Burner Explosion Halts Operations at Wheeling Township Mine
Adena Ohio March 5 A UP report says the Wheeling Township Coal Company suspended operations after an oil burner exploded in a shop and powerhouse. Loss is pegged at 40000 with power lines severed until repair today. Over 100 workers employed in the mines. Henry Warner and John Robert escaped.
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ADENA
U.P
Wheeling Township Coal Company
Henry Warner
John Robert
Coal Company
Ohio State Treasurer reports February general fund balance
State Treasurer Harry B. Day announced a February end balance of 16,335,121 dollars in Ohio's General Revenue Fund. January balance was 11,646,702 dollars. February receipts reached 9,588,086 dollars with expenditures of 9,899,617 dollars. Also reported were 49,540,952 dollars in the Workmen's Compensation Fund and 49,726,745 dollars in the Teachers' Retirement Fund.
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Columbus
U.P
Harry
Will Rogers on California Politics and Chicago Weather
Will Rogers humorously notes Governor Rolph’s first meeting and a lost watch. He mocks Senate delays over minor issues while debating Chicago and New Jersey weather and Al Capone’s private life, then cites the dry Colorado versus New York population gap.
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Beverly Hills
Calif
California
Sunny Jimmy" Rolph
Highway ‘Commission
Senate
Chicago
New Jersey
al Capone
Colorado
New York
Yeurs
Will
Today By Arthur Brisbane
Arthur Brisbane editorial reflects on contemporary events and public sentiment with concise opinion and social critique characteristic of his syndicated column. The piece surveys trends, politics, and public figures shaping current affairs in a brisk, opinionated voice.
Hopi Grant Einstein Tribal Name The Great Relative
The Hopi Indians of the Grand Canyon adopt Professor Einstein as a tribal name The Great Relative in tribute to Relativity theory. Despite his struggles he remains in the public eye.
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Grand Canyon
Arizona
Einstein
Einstein on Religion and the Fearful Origins of God
Professor Einstein argues religion began in fear as savage people imagined a powerful, vengeful being and offered sacrifices including human ones in a theory aligned with Herbert Spencer and others. The piece notes this disquisition continues on page four.
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Einstein
God
Herbert Spencer
Bucyrus Seeks to Block Rail Shop Move to Cleveland
In Bucyrus Ohio Judge Clarence U Ah blocked New York Central Railroad plans to move shops with over 200 workers to Cleveland. City files for a lien and mandatory injunction to keep operations in Bucyrus awaiting further hearing on the restraining order.
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Bucyrus, CO
New York Central Railroad
Cleveland
Clarence U. Ah
Common Pleas
Charles F. Schaber
Bucyrus
L. 8
Emery
Columbus
Policeman Slain in Union City Shootout
Police Sergeant James Knight was killed in Union City New Jersey when three gangsters opened fire on his patrol car after a sedan suspected of theft passed. Knight died from a head wound and Patrolman Joseph Cuny survived the ambush. The gunmen reportedly had stolen a truck carrying $40,000 worth of silk shortly before the shooting.
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Union City
N. J
U.P
James Knight
Knight
Joseph Cuny
Weather Summary and Temperature Outlook
Yesterday's highs reached 80 in Phoenix 74 in Los Angeles and 70 in El Paso. Tonight expect rain as the southwest low moves east and temperatures rise slowly over 36 hours. North to west winds forecast from 25 to 35 mph with gusts up to 59 mph in the west.
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Phoenix
Los Angeles
el Paso
Minnedosa
Winnipeg
Shippers
East
Bonds To Get Relief Funds Are Favored
The Pringle Roberts Bill to authorize emergency bonds for charity and unemployment relief was slated for Senate passage today a special order after which it returns to the House for minor amendments. The session also reviewed a wage prevailing rate contract proposal and other measures including stink bomb penalties and Kennedy's wrongful imprisonment compensation.
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Columbus
U.P
Pringle-Roberts
Senate
House
W. T. Roberts
Belmont County
Bills Aim to Mark State Property to Foil Theft
Columbus March 5 The Benevolent and Penal Institutions Committee was urged to approve two Addison bills to mark state property preventing theft. Addison said enactment would save the state thousands. Action postponed until next week. Senate Labor and House Insurance Committees heard the unemployment insurance bill by Senator Reynolds who condemned the bill noting the dole system in England as a failure.
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Columbus
U.P
Benevolent and Penal Institutions Committee
House of the Legislature
Addison
Senate Labor
House Insurance
Reynolds
Cleveland
England
Chief of Police Finsterwald III Infected by Influenza
Chief Edward Finsterwald III is confined to his home at 14 Franklin Avenue with influenza. His condition is reported improved and he is expected to return to duties at the City Building soon.
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Finsterwald III
Edward
Finsterwald
Franklin Avenue
Bargains in The Messenger Classified Ads
A snapshot of bargains from The Messenger classifieds. Seed oats offered for sale at cents per bushel, doors in good condition cheap, a 20x20 barn with galvanized roof available, and wheat straw priced at $12 per ton. Hurry for quickest deals.
Four Die From Poison Liquor at Bridgeport Party
A Bridgeport drinking party at the Schwanberger home left four dead from poison liquor. A fifth related death, from a month earlier, is listed in Belmont County records. Samuel Berghoff and Harry Church also died. authorities probe the liquor seller as a bottle with poison traces was found amid numerous beer and whisky bottles.
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Bridgeport
U.P
Ambrose Schwanberger
Belmont County
Schwanberger
Samuel Berghoff
Wheeling
W. Va
Harry
Kitty) Church
Berghoff
Einstein departs New York after grand farewell dinner
Dr. Albert Einstein left New York on the Hamburg America liner Deutschland. His final American day closed with a farewell dinner at the Hotel Astor attended by about 800 guests, many prominent in the Jewish community, charged at $100 a plate to honor the renowned scientist.
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New York
U.P
Albert Einstein
America
Hotel Astor
Trial colorfully unsettled as exhumation tests old evidence
Virgil Kirkland’s murder trial in Valparaiso revolves after Arlene Draves’ body was reburied to challenge autopsy findings. Medical views back the initial cause of death as exposure and drunken party attacks, while defense seeks exhumation to impeach Dr. James Burcham’s earlier testimony. Kirkland, 20, remains jailed. his attorneys argue the case reflects the jazz age.
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Valparaiso
Ind
U.P
Virgil Kirkland
Valparraiso
Arlene Draves
James Burcham
Kirkland
Arlene
Burcham
Gary
Reynolds
Three Attempts Made To Wreck Pennsylvania Trains
Three attempts were made to wreck trains on the Stroudsburg Philadelphia line of the Pennsylvania Railroad. An unexploded dynamite stick was found beside the track near the Paulsville trestle between Stockton and Lambertville New Jersey. A 50 pound rock and a battered switch box were found nearby as investigators said the aim was to force a derailment.
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Stroudsburg
Philadelphia
Trenton
U.P
Pennsylvania Railroad
Paulsville
Stockton
Lambertville
N. J
Parachutist Spud Manning Sets 15,265 Foot Free Fall Record
Spud Manning, a 41 year old oil worker, reports in Los Angeles how his 15,265 foot fall from 16,665 feet reached speeds near 240 mph before opening his parachute. He fell head first after 10,000 feet and landed in an orange tree, stating he would try again if someone beats his mark. The jump elapsed 44 seconds from plane door to chute deployment, surpassing Rex Harker's 9,600 foot record.
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Los Angeles
U.P
FE 8S
Spud Manning
Manning
Rex Harker
Cincinnati
Benita Bachott Death Linked to Mother’s Underworld Life
In a first interview, John Bischoff says 16 year old Benita Bachott killed herself after learning her mother Vivian Gordon was a New York racketeer. He notes the diary of Benita will be buried with her, refusing publication despite offers.
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United Press Audubon
N. J
Benita Iachott
Ashe
Vivian Gordon
New York
Benita
United Press Today
John Bischoff
Bischoff
Prison escape twist as convict leaps from train
Alfred McGaw alias Ralph Brown fled across the United States with two Eastern Penitentiary guards, leaping from a Pennsylvania Railroad train near Tyrone to avoid return to custody. He had been transported from Salt Lake City after parole violation and was captured recently in Utah.
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Huntingdon
U.R
Alfred McGaw
Sunbury
Tyrone
Eastern Penitentiary
Salt Lake City
Utah
McGaw
Ralph Brown
Red Cross Distributes Cut Plug Tobacco in Malden
Malden Missouri reports relief efforts as the Red Cross distributes five hundred pounds of cut plug tobacco from its headquarters with a national company providing the supply for needy residents.
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Red Cross
Malden
U.P
Domestic word erased from Wheeling city directories
In Wheeling West Virginia March 5 a legal dispute led to the removal of the eight letter word Domestic after Mrs Sarah Crow name in 8200 city directories by six men and an attorney A compromise with publishers R L Polk and Company halted a threatened suit and the erasure continued.
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United States Senate
J. Thomas Heflin
Alabama
al Smith
Purnifold M. Simmons
North Carolina
Charles 8S. Deneen
Illinois
Ruth Hanna McCormick
Coleman J. Blease
South Carolina
Guy D. Goff
West Virginia
Frederic H. Gillett
Massachusetts
Wheeling
W. Va
Sarah Crow
Coast Hit By Severe Storm Across Atlantic Seaboard
A March coastal storm brought high tides and heavy damage from Maine to New Jersey. The worst impact occurred along Massachusetts coast near Cape Cod with Nahant flooded, Plymouth Rock submerged, and coastal towns including Boston and Portland facing wrecked waterfronts and disrupted transit. Five rescues were made at Hampton Beach as ships delayed and rail service halted.
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U.P
Atlantic Seaboard
Maine
New Jersey
Massachusetts
Cape Cod
Nahant
United States
Henry Cabot Lodge
Plymouth Rock
Boston
Portland
Hampton Beach
N. H
Hampton
New England
Robert E. Lee
Eastern Steamship Lines
Grecian
Norfolk
Cape Cod Canal
Boston & Maine
Malden-Everett
Long Island
Atlantic City
King Lardner
Granthand Rice
East Hampton
L. He
President To Turn Tourist
President Hoover plans a summer trip to meet the country with multiple speeches. The route may span a northern path to Palo Alto with a possible southern return, covering about half the states, and a brief vacation to Florida or a southern state for about 10 days.
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Washington
U.P
Hoover
Palo Alto
Calif
White House
Florida
Veterans Apply for Relief Loans at Athens Red Cross
Forty five Athens County World War veterans have applied for veteran relief loans at the Athens County Red Cross office. Executive secretary Miss Pearl French said applicants should call between 9 and 12 in the morning.
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Athens County
Red Cross
Miss Pearl French
Miss French
Loophole Allows Hoover to Appoint 300 Postmasters
White House officials say a legal loophole enables President Hoover to appoint all 300 postmasters who failed Senate confirmation. The pay for work done will continue until nominations are confirmed or rejected by the Senate next December. Of the 300 nominations 171 are reappointments and 129 are new appointments.
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Senate
Washington
Ben
Hoover
White House
Ohio voters to sign petitions for prohibition referendum
Ohio Senator Joseph N. Ackerman plans a wetdry referendum initiative with 300000 qualified voters in 60 days to place prohibition on the November ballot. Attorney General Gilbert Bettman denies any submitted petition form and says no action has been taken.
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Columbus
Ohio
Joseph N. Ackerman
Cleveland
Ackerman
Gilbert Bettman
Bettman
Themaelo Yy
Judiciary Committee
Nena
Caat
Ball
Bitter session leaves Congress with 25 probes pending
Trains depart Union Station carrying memories of a bitter Congress session. The Senate leaves 25 investigations to continue during the recess and the House 3. Many members stay to push inquiries. others will return for ongoing business and to participate in proceedings.
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Washington
U.rb
Union Station
Congress
Senate
House
Plea for Man's Life To Save Murderer In Supreme Court
Attorneys for James Roméo asked the Ohio Supreme Court to spare his life. Roméo, condemned in Stark County for the July 16 murder of Charles N. Ribley, a guard at the First National Bank of Canton, during a holdup tied to $60,000 in bank currency en route to the Federal Reserve. The case was heard March 5 in Columbus.
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Columbus
U. Be
James Roméo
Stark County
Charles N. Ribley
First National Bank of Canton
State Supreme Court
Ribley
Ley
Federal Reserve Bank
Cinton
Bell System Surpasses Five Billion Asset Milestone in 1930
New York March 5 The Bell Telephone System assets crossed the five billion dollar mark in 1930 reaching 5,000,195,802 up from 4,229,430,088 in 1929. The gain places it atop all corporations worldwide as AT&T assets total 3,162,926,191 included in the Bell System.
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New York
U.R
Bell Telephone System
American Telephone & Telegraph Company
Bell System
Strick Gillilan Sees Loophole Saved In Prohibition Debate
Washington report notes Morris Sheppard securing a saving paragraph in Volstead act regarding juices for home use. Mabel Willebrant calls it a loophole, Amos Weed Cock warns about home alcohol, and a comical misadventure with a bloodhound and a cracked screwdriver ends with a burned keg scene.
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Washington, D. C
Morris Sheppard
Am Volstead
Mabel Willebrant
Amos Weedcock
Bob How
Morry Sheppard
Mabel
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