Manslaughter Heads Grand Jury Schedule
Grand jury in Athens County is slated to hear 65 cases in the May term, including four manslaughter charges. Prosecutor John W Bolin reports 878 witnesses summoned. Cases involve Gladys Deer, John Rife, James Lewis, Charles Clark, and Carl Dickens among others. Jury marches include Edward Rickey and 18 others from various townships.
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Athens County
Grand Jury
John W. Bolin
Gladys Deer
Nelsonville
Buchtel
Rite
James Lewis
Lathrop
George Rusp
Peter Barrows
Richard Matthews
Edward Rickey
Lee Township
Carl Hines
Ames Township
William Williams
Trimble Township
H. T. Mulligan
Lodi Township
Frank Daugherty
Dover Township
Ralph Allen
Carthage Township
Edward Donaldson
Death on the Guillotine in Regensburg Trial Ends
Hine Kurt Tetzner, convicted of murder, died by the guillotine today in Regensburg with authorities and a priest present. He allegedly killed a ramp and burned the car to fake his own death before fleeing to another part of Germany with plans for his wife to join after insurance money. Police charged.
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Regensburg
Germany
Hine-Kurt Tetzner
Rotine
Yes
Etzner
Tetzner
Twelve Rural Schools Compete in Athens Field Meet
Twelve rural high schools will compete in the tenth annual field meet of the Athens County High School Athletic and Oratorical Association on Friday at Ohio University Stadium, with events for boys and girls, a muscle and oratorical contest in Memorial Auditorium, and medals, cups, and banners for top places.
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Ohio University Stadium
C. E. Bird
Athens County High School Athletic and Oratorical Association
Athens
Alex Root
Bird
University
Memorial Auditorium
Gibraltar
Hayes
Delfaye
Athens County
G, Gibson
May Day contrasts and world unrest amid Europe and Russia
The piece notes peaceful May Day events abroad with scattered protests, a fatal shooting in Ber Min, and Barcelona clashes as Russia marks five-year plan progress. It also highlights United States Children’s Day, urging strong care for 27 million students and 16 million young children as the future of the nation.
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AY J
Lebor
Europe
Ber- Min
Barcelona
Spain
Russia
Alda de Acosta Breckenridge
United States
Hollywood Cuts Half of Husbands to Ease Burden
Hollywood reports a satirical May Day mood as residents joke about cutting alimony and reducing husbands by 50 percent to match postwar cost pressures. The piece notes a shift in behavior with fewer distinctions between Reda and taxpayers, and a public sense of lowered overhead.
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Hollywood
Reda
Red
Feywood
Your
Wil
Prof Morse Involved In Clark Street Gambit Incident
Chicago May 2 U F North Clark Street proves a misadventure site as Prof Horace T Morse of the University of Minnesota returns between planes to teach history and instead encounters a curious gamble with strangers. After pennies dimes and dollars cycle, Morse loses seventy dollars and his new acquaintances vanish, leaving him to report the incident to police.
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Chicago
U.F
North
Clark Street
Horace T. Morse
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis
Profesor Morse
Morse
U S Business Improves Says Chamber Canvass
A United Press survey of industrial readers at a U S Chamber of Commerce meeting in Atlantic City reports signs of gradual improvement in business. Leaders caution recovery will be slow, with the nation still enduring hardship and unemployment.
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United Press
Atlantic City
N. J
U. S. Chamber of Commerce
Stresf
Secretary of Commerce
Robert P. Lamont
Unemployment totals urged by AFL survey in 1929 figures
The AFL monthly business conditions survey says 5.5 to 6 million Americans are jobless. It notes slower improvement than hoped, with gains in building and services but weakness in metal trades and printing. The report warns of risk from a loss of confidence and a cautious business mood, though activity rose for the first time since July 1929.
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Washington
American Federation of Labor
Kiss Worth Ten Thousand In Suit At Cleveland Court
Marie Low, 24, testifies in Common Pleas Court that a neighbor Ludwig allegedly stolen kisses worth ten thousand dollars while her husband was away. Ludwig claims the suit is an extortion plot to obtain money from him.
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Cleveland
Marie Low
Ludwig
Ais Omna
Mayer
Divorce Mill Busy Reno Weekend Rush At Courts
Reno officials prepared for a peak in filings as a six week residence law took effect. Three hundred cases were expected under the new rule, with Washoe County clerk’s office opening at 6 a.m. to handle the backlog and courts clearing calendars for the surge.
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Reno
Nev
U.pi
Washoe County
Observance of Humiliation Days Begins May 3 in Peiping
May 2 note reports Chinese patriotic organizations plan a series of humiliation days starting tomorrow to spotlight perceived impositions by foreign groups and nations in recent years.
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Peiping
Rumors of coal land development in Eastern Meigs County
Page 2 notes a rouse of interest over coal land development in Eastern Meigs County while fruit trees in Pome roy Bend are harmed by recent cold. Garden seed sent to York Town ship for Red Cross distribution and a Nelsonville cleanup campaign are mentioned. Logan Chamber of Commerce begins a membership drive. Big business warns against government aid. New York jewel thefts worth $50,000. Jeffrey Snyder writes of home life in Holland. Glouster Schools hold May Day.
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Meigs County
Pomeroy Bend
Harmen
York Township
Red Cross
Nelsonville
Logan Chamber of Commerce
Pax
New York
Eric
Marian Bush Snyder
Holland
Glouster
Educator Re elected Athens County Superintendent
On Friday night the educator was elected superintendent of the Athens County schools for the fifth time. Mr Root has long served as a teacher and educator in Athens County and is known for his years of service in the local schools.
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Athens County
Root
Root Named School Head For 3 Years
Alex Hoot, superintendent of county schools, was re elected for a three year term beginning Aug. 1 at a meeting of the Athens County Board of Education. Root has led the county schools since 1916 and also held earlier terms, with health issues shaping his career. He is noted for long service as teacher and principal in several schools and for degrees from Oslo University and Columbus University.
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Lewis
Matthews
Lathrop
Pyautelde
Matthi
Wecutor Bolin
Charles Clark
George Reed
Egress
Grant Hospital
Io Columbus
Dickens
Feed
Alex Hoot
Athans County Board of Education
Root
TR McVay
Athens County
Jungal
Achoola
Rome
Goolville
Lhe Pladus
Jacksonville
Oslo University
Eiduualton
Columbua University
P. Lanscoall
Athans County
Eleanor
Chauncey
Burns $4,000 After Quarrel in Columbus
Mrs. Mary Belle Albanese, 40, confessed to police she burned $4,000 in a living room stove during a domestic quarrel amid fear her husband would harm her. Police found remnants of a pocket boot in the stove. her husband doubts the money was in the pocketbook and suspects she may have hidden it or taken it to relatives in Ironton.
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Columbus
Mary Belle Albanese
Iola
Central Felice Station
Albanese
Dunnt
Joseph
Ironton
Embezzlement hits Danish Lutheran funds case
Des Moines Iowa May 2. Treas Wilbur N Hostrop of the Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church In America admits taking about 113000 from Grand View College endowment and Danish Lutheran Old People's Home. Funds were spent in stock market speculation per Rev 8 D Redholm and corroborated by Rev H Jorgenson who said Hostrop confessed by letter.
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Des Moines
Wilbur N. Hostrop
Sunday Movie Bill Is Signed by White Veto Turmoil in Ohio Legislature
Ohio Governor White vetoed the Ackerman barber licensing bill and the Hyre instrumental music act, shelving major education and health regulation changes. He cited health regulations already adequate, cost concerns for village schools, and unclear educational authority, while noting other measures to tighten juror pay, civil service appeals, and prison-made brick distribution to counties.
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Columbus
Aulre
Ackerman
White
Joseph N. Ackerman
Cleveland
Senate
House
Aame
Hyre
Arusta
Schweller Bih
Ericication
Ainca
Atnic
Barber Rhopa
Boards of Education
Tonea No
Ranson
Phowid
Patel
Lorhah
Cincinnati
Roberta
Stack County
Common Pleas Court
Civil Service Commissions
Marshall
All Quiet May Day
May Day celebrations worldwide showed tensions in Portugal and Cuba with fatalities. Across continents protests ranged from peaceful to violent while Moscow’s Red Square parade led in scale. Spain’s Madrid march was quiet though Barcelona saw a fatal gunfight.
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London
Portugal
United Press
Moscow
Red Square
New Republic of Spain
Madrid
Barcelona
Cuba
Geo F Baker Dies Rich Financier At 91 In New York
George F Baker 52 died tonight of pneumonia at his Madison Avenue home after a brief illness. The financier headed First National Bank of New York and sat on boards including New York Central Erie United States Steel Pullman AT&T. He had just returned from a Brunswick Georgia vacation and was in apparently good health.
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New York
George F. Baker
Madison Avenue
Baker
First National Bank of New York
New York Central Railroad Company
Erie Railroad Company
United States Steel Corp
The
Pullman Company
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Brunswick
Left Handed Edition Proposed By French Ministry
U S equality for left handers reaches France as the Ministry of Public Instruction, after a suggestion from a reform minded official, asks publishers to issue left handed editions of major works. The pages would begin at the end and readers would proceed backward toward the title page.
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Faris
U.S
France
Ministry of Public Instruction
High School Scholars Compete In Athens County Contest
Nearly 1,000 students from Southeastern Ohio gathered in Athens on Saturday for the annual scholastic contest for team and individual honors. Students from 46 counties, 14 electons and 10 exempted villages competed in subjects from algebra and chemistry to Latin and U.S. history. Team and individual prizes awarded. state scholarship invites May 1 in Columbus. Athens City, Athens County, and exempted villages lists accompany the results with Washington County High School topping the state team standings and Barnesville leading exempted villages.
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Ohuo
Athena
Nna
Gotrarad Aclonun
Ohta Blata University
Columbua
Athens County
Charten Lawry
Iome
Maris Howard
Ameas-Hern
Shomat Biddison
Rome
Charles Capchind
Jack Winner
Pauline Sinabsaugh
Greens
Renny Cisudine Richardson
Fame
Venla Marek
Prank Kearns
Jack
Onvilla
Albany
Rayemond
Dean
Ames-Bern
Rbesnis Tarnhoune
Dorothy Barker
Waterloo
oSylvia Mull
Charien Matthews
Repa
Anllizon
the Plains
Edith Thaker
Jackonvillay Trimble
Cella Bansfield
Amen-Bern
Hamons
Moore
Cleo Dugg
Jacksonvile- Trimble
Leona
Barnesville
Maita-McConnelsville
Bridgeport
Caldwell
Pomeroy
Glouster
Hoover Criticized Over Federal Pay Increases Policy
Senator Brookhart of Iowa condemned President Hoover for backing a decision to withhold normal annual pay raises for federal employees. The National Federation of Federal Employees and Labor officials led by Doak called the move a breach of faith, citing the 1923 Classification Act and Welch Pay Act as entitling raises during vacancies or upon demonstrated efficiency. Carnegie Hero Fund honors twenty three acts of heroism with bronze medals at the Pittsburgh meeting.
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Washington
Brookhart
Iowa
Hoover
National Federaon of
Federal Exoployee
Secretary of Labor
Doak
Glso
Welch
Pittsburgh
Carnegie Hero Fund Commission
Northern Ohio
Aim
Ohio governor signs Sunday movie measure amid state revolt
Columbus May 2 Governor George White signed the Sunday movie bill ending a bitter statewide dispute. The measure allows films after noon on Sundays and becomes effective in 90 days. White praised the amended Senate Bill No. 7 after careful consideration and urged cities along the Ohio River to comply.
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Columbus
A.R
George White
Ohio River
Saldt
Two Theaters Here Open Sunday as City Debates Law
Two local theaters the Ohio and the Columbia announced plans to open Sunday matinees at the same times as on weekdays. Managers Custer and Byrne said the Sunday program would follow the weekday schedule, with debate on Sunday motion pictures reflecting evolving local enforcement of the law and public opinion. The governor also vetoed two measures including a labor contract ban known as the Yellow Dog Bill, which outlaws agreements not to join unions, taking effect in 90 days.
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Athena
Custer
Ohio
Byrne
Columbia
Dianing
Nelaonyia Walla
Aile Zena
Tony
Hocking County
Rush Creek
State Highway Department
Rirely
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Arthur Brisbane
Klog Features, Inc
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Junnosike Inouye
Mother Jones
Federation of Labor
William Butterworth
News Index
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Burns
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Geo. Baker
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