May Day in New York Sparks Police Preparedness
United Press reports May Day protests in New York with three major events by Veterans of Foreign Wars, Communists, and Socialist Progressive Wing. Police prepared for potential demonstrations in Union Square and other cities including Philadelphia and Detroit as tensions run high.
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New York
U.P
United States
Canada
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Coliseum
Labor Movement
Philadelphia
Cleveland
Detroit
Chicago
Pacific Coast
Union Square
Advocates of Revolution
May Day demonstrations end under heavy security across Europe Far East
London reports May Day protests across Europe and the Far East ended quietly amid vast police and military presence. Police quickly quelled violence in cities permitting Communist gatherings, with widespread arrests in the Balkans and other regions including Europe China and Japan.
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London
U.R
Europe
Far East
Balkans
China
Japan
Ray 7 5 N oo He NS Ste
Ray 7 5 refers to a fragmentary OCR readout with unclear context. The readable content does not establish a complete event or identifiable entities to summarize.
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Ray
Convicts Run Affairs At Ohio Penitentiary After Fire
Ohio Penitentiary housed about 1300 inmates in The White City cell house. Prisoners formed their own government with a parliament, passing laws and holding life and death power, effectively running the prison while guards reduced to near insignificance.
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White City
Britain Faces Treachery Risk in India for Native Troops
The article notes anxiety over native troops and police in India amid intense nationalist feeling, with official reports citing unsatisfactory conduct and fears natives might not fire on fellow Indians. It contrasts Britain's small colonial force with India's 300 million Hindus and cites shifting troops as a concern. It also reports Wall Street declines and travel costs cuts by the Pennsylvania Railroad, including air-lifted fares and time savings between New York and the Southwest.
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Britain
India
New York
Southwest
Dallas
Texas
Oklahoma City
Pennsylvania Railroad
General Atterbury
Pennsylvania
Litteral May Get Reprieve From Governor
Gov Ayers Y Cooper grants a reprieve until June 13 for Akers, a Cleveland a Negro inmate, scheduled to die tomorrow night for a filling station murder. State Board of Pardons recommended stay. James Amberly awaiting death for murder of a war veteran. five other inmates were moved to the State Penitentiary this week.
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U.R
Gov- Ayers Y. Cooper
Akers
Cleveland
State Board of
James Liamberly
A Tale of a Fake Party Leads to Jail Time
Jones, 19, of Cleveland Illinois faced a theft charge after alleging Sheriff Miller ran beer parties. The case unraveled as Jones and Moore, 21, described a false story to officials to support the claim.
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Hilead
U.R
Jones
Cleveland
Iil
Miller
Ees
Moore
Voters Weigh Naval Pact at League Convention
In Illinois Kentucky May 1 delegates consider supporting the three and five war pacts as a step to formulate the league program. The National League of Women Voters debates pacifist options at its anniversary convention and aims to promote international peace.
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Ille
U.R
National League of Oters
Theniversary
Dew
Prisoners form a self governed parliament in Ohio jail
In a bold act inmates elect two representatives to a prison parliament that governs debates and rules inside. During Governor's fire probe Attorney General Bettman heard from Murray Wolfe, a forger with prison ties, who boasted Stanford credentials and warned inmates will not work until Warden Thomas is removed.
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State of Ohio
Bettman
Ohio
Murray Wolfe
Leland Stanford University
Folsom
San Quentin
Wolfe
P. E. Thomas
Ohio Penitentiary prisoners to move to Mansfield
Plans are set to transfer 200 more Ohio Penitentiary inmates to the State Reformatory at Mansfield. The decision, made at a conference with Warden P E B Thomas and Superintendent T C Jenkins, increases Mansfield totals to 350 and avoids moving prisoners to the Federal Reformatory at Chillicothe.
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Columbus
U.P
Ohio
Mansfield
Hal H. Griswold
P. EB. Thomas
T. C. Jenkins
Reformatory
Griswold
Federal Reformatory
Chillicothe
Moses Nuby Dies at Home in Athens
Moses Nuby six year old Negro child died at 8 45 PM Wednesday at his mother Elizabeth Nuby's home on Second Street from dropsy. He leaves his mother three brothers William Waverly Jess and James and his father William. Five sisters and two brothers preceded him in death. Funeral services set for Sunday at 2 PM at Mt Zions Baptist Church.
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Moses Nuby
Elizabeth Nuby
Second Street
William Nuby
Waverly
Jess Nuby
Columbus
James Nuby
Athens
Mt. Zions Baptist Church
Reds Held in Akron as May Day Plans Move Forward
Six alleged Communists were jailed in Akron after midnight for passing out handbills at B F Goodrich entrances. Three women freed after questioning, detained earlier while distributing Communists literature at the State City Employment Bureau, as May Day actions proceeded.
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Akron
U.P
B. F. Goodrich Company
State City Employment Bureau
Explosion destroys barn. two stills found amid ruins
STILL EXPLODES CLEVELAND May 1 10 A two story barn was demolished by a heavy explosion awakening scores. Firemen found two stills in the ruins, one 50 gallon and one 150 gallon capacity. One still had been in operation. explosion caused by cooking alcohol overflow.
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Cleveland
Cohen Re elected President of Bnai B’rith at Cincinnati Convention
Alfred M. Cohen of Cincinnati was re elected president of the International Order of B nam B rith at the close of the order's quinquennial convention in Cincinnati.
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Cincinnati
Alfred M. Cohen
International Order of B'nai B'rith
Meigs County Ponzi Susan Kraus in Toledo with Paroled Status
Mrs Susan Kraus once dubbed the Meigs County Ponzi by local residents arrived in Toledo with her husband to live at their son’s home. Once accused of swindling spinsters farmers and businesspeople out of 300000 to 500000, she served time in Marysville prison and was paroled this January.
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Toledo
U.R
Susan Kraus
Meigs County
Kraus
Pomeroy
Marysville
George
Mrs. Kraus
Ohio
Boston
Charles Ponzi
Leonard Howell Named City Manager of Tronton
Leonard Howell, city engineer for 10 years prior to 1926, assumed the post today as city manager in Tronton, replacing E W Fassett who was removed by the City Council.
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Tronton
Leonard Howell
E. W. Fassett
Ashtabula
Fugitive Tennant Captured After Escape at Ohio Penitentiary
Toledo reports Guy Tennant a 30 year old fugitive who escaped from the Ohio Penitentiary by scaling the wall last November was held in the city today.
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Toledo
Guy Tennant
Ohio Penitentiary
Cabbage crop ruined by last week's freeze in Washington County
Lloyd Stacy of Adams Township and a Washington County truck gardening representative on the Chamber of Commerce directory estimate that about one third of the cabbage crop was ruined by the prior week's freezing weather in Marietta on April 30.
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Marietta
Washington County
Lloyd Stacy
Adams Township
the Chamber of Commerce
Children Die In Home Fire In Flat Top Mercer County
In Mercer County Bluefield May 1 two children died and two others were seriously hurt when a fire at W J Rogers home in Flat Top started as Straley Richmond 14 and Lando Rogers four tried to light a kitchen stove with kerosene. The dead are Pearl Rogers two and her two months old brother Lowell.
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Bluefield
W. Va
UPR
W. J Rogers
Flat Top
Mercer County
Straley Richmond
Rogers
Lando Rogers
Pearl Rogers
Lowell
New US cruiser design aims for 10000-ton type under London Treaty
Washington reports a proposed cruiser of about 10000 tons would use six inch guns in the main battery to comply with the London Naval Treaty. The plan follows US insistence for 10000 ton ships with eight inch guns and seeks support in Senate hearings led by Chairman Borah after talks with Secretary Stimson.
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Washington
U.P
Senate
América
United States
Borah
Senate Foreign Affairs Committee
State Stimson
Committee
Ruth Hanna McCormick seeks campaign cost ruling
Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick told the Senate Primary Investigating Committee she did not know how much she spent to win the Illinois Republican senatorial nomination. She submitted her books showing total expenses of 252572.30 but argued not all should be campaign expense.
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Washington
U.P
Ruth Hanna McCormick
Senate
Illinois
McCormick
Bank Robbery Near Cincinnati Foils After Alarm
May 1 report says two bandits robbed the Silverton Bank near Cincinnati yesterday grabbing 100 dollars from the till before fleeing when a burglar alarm sounded by bookkeeper Miss Martha Beck frightened them away. Authorities sought the suspects today.
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Cincinnati
Silverton Bank
Here
Martha Beck
Blast damages grocery in Willoughby shock rattles village
A dynamite bomb partially wrecked a Willoughby grocery store early today. Dozens awakened as windows shattered and the blast felt across the village. Authorities investigated the incident as the explosion caused extensive property damage.
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Willoughby
U.R
McArthur Vinton County Desk Established in The Messenger
The Athens Messenger expands McArthur and Vinton County coverage starting today with T. C. Kelly as the local representative. News letters appear three times weekly Tuesday Thursday and Sunday under a departmental heading. The McArthur edition delivers current news from Messenger writers plus world markets comics and features. Mr. Kelly, a long time McArthur editor, will handle subscriptions advertising and coverage. His appointment is effective today.
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McArthur
Vinton County
Athens Messenger
Messenger
T. C. Kelly
Vinton
Kelly
the Messenger
News of the World
Tolliver Trial Reaches Jury Verdict Stage
Prosecution and defense rested at noon in the Melvin Tolliver murder case. Tolliver, a Batley Run mine foreman, described a rear attack and firing his revolver during a scuffle at White Ash Mine No. 68 on March 6. The jury was instructed to decide Tolliver’s fate after witness testimony and defense cross examination.
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Batley Run
Floyd Katzenbach
White Ash
Tolliver
Katzenbach
Peter Barrows
Atgte
G. Imboden
White Ash Mine No. 68
Dee
Arthur Smith
Athens
Meigs
Hocking
Guernsey
Bargains Today In Classifieds From The Megenger
Classified ad notes car wash for one dollar for a few days and a 1929 Ford Tudor sedan in excellent condition at a reasonable price. It also offers a 1928 Chevrolet roadster with 6 000 miles in excellent condition for 350 dollars and mentions garden plants including mango pepper salvia and delphinium.
Prisoners protest with pig placard at Columbus jail
In Columbus on May 1 prisoners at a White City penitentiary, demanding Warden P. E. Thomas's resignation, hung a placard bearing the image of a pig and labeling him murderer. The adjacent convict barracks held a transformed warehouse.
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Columbus
A.R
P. EB. Thomas
White City
P. E. Thomas
Cooper
Gilbert Hettman
Rea
L. R. Bostwick
Madison County
Late Yeaterday
London
Lonte
Marconi Interview Draws Global Radio Attention
Senator Guglielmo Marconi spoke from his yacht Electra near Civita Vecchia while Karl A. Bickel of United Press conducted the interview in New York. Listeners across two continents heard Marconi discuss the Vatican radio station and the possibility of U S Italian television conversations soon, under suitable transmission conditions.
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New York
U.R
Gugliemlo Marconi
Karl A. Bickel
The
United Press
Fifth Avenue
Senator Marconi
Civita Vecchia
Italy
Public Safety Director Held on Riot Charges in Philadelphia
Major Lemuel B. Schofield, director of public safety, was held in 6000 bail by Magistrate John J. O Malley after Pennsylvania University student riot in West Philadelphia. Hearing delayed as Schofield failed to appear. warrants issued for body arrest and later registration at Woodlawn Police Station.
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Philadelphia
U.P
Lemuel B. Schofield
Public Safety
John J. O'Malley
University of Pennsylvania
West Philadelphia
O'Malley
Schofield
Woodlawn Police Staon
Rum runners arrested after coast guard chase on Lake Erie
Two alleged rum runners surrendered to coast guardsmen after a pursuit in Lake Erie. In a separate dispatch Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, carrying the northbound mail, departed France Field at 8 a.m. for Nicaragua on schedule.
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Sandusky
Lake Erie
Lindy
Balboa
Charles A. Lindbergh
France Field
Nicaragua
Miners Reinstated After Water-related Work Stoppage
Imbo den learns of a miners agreement allowing suspension if four or more cannot work due to water. The men were reinstated following this understanding, confirming a settlement to avoid unsafe conditions from wet gear and flooded shafts.
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Imboden
Mutiny Ended at Ohio State Penitentiary After Guards Quell Rebellion
Mutineers were confined behind barbed wire enclosures as Guardsmen moved in to regain control. drills and escape attempts were found while repair crews began restoring cell doors. Governor Cooper announced plans for fortress repairs at an estimated cost of about 100000 to restore the penitentiary to normal operation.
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Harry W
United Press
Robert. Haubrich
Naei
Saia
Celle7
Colonel Hall
P. E. Thomas
Malcy
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