Tornado Toll Rises Across East Central Texas Towns
A night of tornadoes in East Central and Gulf Coast Texas left 83 dead in ten towns and millions in damage. Frost Nordheim Waco Kennedy Bynum Ennis San Antonio and Dallas area communities suffered extensive loss as power failed and rescue workers labored through darkened ruins.
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Rees
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Oklahoma
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All Children Criminals by Instinct Declared at Congress
Dr. Frans Alexander of Berlin told the First International Congress on Mental Hygiene that if children could act on instinct they would be criminals and that people are born criminals. He cited mental science and noted high neurotic client figures in early practice. Dr. Edward A. Strecker of Philadelphia urged physicians to address mental and emotional health, not just physical ailments.
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U.R
Frans Alexander
Berlin
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Edward A. Strecker
Philadelphia
Congress
Today Sick Sicker Better Shaming Dime Novels
A compact notice notes a shift in public sentiment with a playful take on health, media trends, and the return of popular dime novels amid changing tastes. The column hints at evolving entertainment and mood without naming specific figures.
Harvard Economic Society predicts commodity market uncertainty ends
The piece notes Harvard College through its Economic Society predicts an end to market uncertainty. It contrasts this with a sharp Wall Street swing last Saturday and Monday and reports 8,270,600 shares traded, the day’s peak since a prior wind day.
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Wall Street
Harvard College
Economic Society
Lambs
Chatley Addresses Meeting of Athens Pastors on Islam
The Rev. M. E. Chatley of Ath ens First Christian Church spoke at the Athens County Ministerial Association gathering. He said Islam shows intellectual, economic, social and religious improvements while old swordsman doctrines fade and tensions with Hindus flare in rare riots.
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M. E. Chatley
Athens
Chatley
Senate seeks secrets on London Naval Treaty history
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee questioned the unwritten history of the London Naval Treaty as Chairman Britten pushed a ten year building program of 1.0 billion dollars to lift the American Navy to parity with Britain. The Navy Appropriation Bill for 1931 was set for reporting to the House, signaling how the London Conference altered U S naval plans.
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U.P
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Britten
House Naval Affairs Committee
House
Elks Host Mother's Day Program Sunday
The Athens Lodge of Elks No 973 presents a 7 pm Mother’s Day program at the Cline Building club rooms. Public invited with special music and Lodge ritual honoring mothers. Committee chair David Johnson is aided by Arch Dunfee and Roy Shirley.
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Ohio University student badly hurt in auto crash near Athens
Alton Coriell 20, Sciotoville Ohio University junior, is in critical condition at Sheltering Arms Hospital after a light roadster struck a tree near Cozy Corners on The Plains Road. Ruth Beerman and Virginia Carpenter sustained minor injuries, were treated, and remained at the hospital with Coriell.
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Ohio University
Sciotoville
Sheltering Arms Hospital
Cozy Corners
Plains Road
Athens
Ruth Beerman
Shawnee
Virginia Carpenter
Trimble
Cornell
Miss Beerman
Chillicothe
Cornel
Miss Carpenter
Columbus
Audrey Beerman
Correll
Damaging Earthquake Crashes Burmese Buddhist Shrine
In Rangoon and Pegu an earthquake killed hundreds and injured thousands. The Shwedagon Pagoda near Rangoon suffered severe damage including the loss of its jewel studded weather vane valued at 1 250 000 dollars. The octagonal tower 870 feet high, dating to 534 B C, saw widespread destruction and fires followed the quake.
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Burma
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Pegu
Golden Tower
Bomb Blasts Home as Cleveland Strike Tension Surges
A sputtering dynamite bomb was tossed into the front yard of a two family house in Cleveland at dawn. The explosion shattered windows in several homes and woke residents. Police tied the bombing to the garment workers strike targeting three Scher-Hirst Company workers living nearby.
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U.ri
Garment Workers
Scher-Hirst Company
Future of the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Bill in Senate
The Hawley-Smoot Tariff Bill faced an uncertain Senate fate on its first anniversary. Conference report due for submission, with leaders undecided on consideration and contested items. Smoot planned to urge concurrence in the conferees’ partial report, agreeing on most differences.
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Washington
U.R
Hawley
Smoot
Senate Finance Committee
Senate
House
Hocking Man Sentenced to Indefinite Term at Reformatory
William Warren of Hocking was sentenced to an indefinite term at Ohio State Reformatory Mansfield after pleading guilty to a statutory charge in Common Pleas Court. Warren had been confined in Athens County Jail since January awaiting bond.
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Hocking
Ohio State Reformatory
Mansfield
L. G. Worstell
Common Pleas
Warren
Athens County
Ohio University Glee Club Sings at Convocation
Baritone Joe Dando soloed as the Ohio University Men's Glee Club performed a program of songs at convocation Wednesday morning. This marked the second appearance before convocation audiences this year, directed by Prof. C. C. Robinson.
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Joe Dando
Ohio University Men's Glee Club
C. C. Robinson
Cooper Tours Convict Farm to Aid Ohio Penitentiary
Governor Cooper and State Welfare Director Griswold visited the London Prison Farm to study expansion plans. Preliminary designs for 1000 prisoner capacity and quarters for 500 are under way, with financing from existing state funds and a completion target of about three months. The move aims to relieve overcrowding while a ten year program addresses future needs and prisoner employment. Expansion at the London farm may not require abandoning the Ohio Penitentiary.
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Columbus
Cooper
State Welfare
Griswold
London
Ohio Penitentiary
London Farm
Making Cellars Dry booklet offered by The Athens Messenger
The Athens Messenger presents the Government bulletin MAKING CELLARS DRY via its Washington Bureau. The guide explains remedies for damp basements and cellars, stressing proper location and construction. Homeowners and builders are urged to request a copy today using the coupon.
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Athens Messenger
Washington
Request for booklet MAKING CELLARS DRY
The writer, Frederic J. Haskin, Director of the Information Bureau, Washington DC, encloses four cents in coin or stamps to obtain a copy of the booklet MAKING CELLARS DRY and provides name street city state.
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The
Athens Messenger Information Bureau
Washington, D. Cc
Tragic Cincinnati mother shoots her children then harms herself
Mrs Ethel Geller 41 murdered 11 children or attempted to, shooting seven before turning the gun on herself. She survived with injuries and faced charges as police investigate motive despair from overwork. The family had a soldiers, a husband in prison, and a recent shopping trip for new clothes.
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Darby
Mildred
Farm Bargains In Classifieds In Ada
Farm items offered include eight and one half pound friers at 1.25 each a galvanized milk stool for 1 a set of used double harness for 26 a Delco light plant in good condition offered in trade for a good work horse.
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Delco
London Treaty Report Issued On Naval Appropriation Plan
Washington May 7 The House Appropriations Committee reported the 1931 naval bill totaling 379,036,086 allocating 49,400,000 for new ship construction under the London treaty. It funds 10 of 16 cruisers begun in 1929, plus 7,050,000 for three Pensacola class cruisers and other submarine and carrier work. The panel notes possible long term savings from the treaty and predicts major reductions in battleship maintenance and replacement costs.
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Washington
U.A
House Appropriations Committee
Hoover
Senate committee to open hearings on London Naval Treaty
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee will begin open hearings on the London Naval Treaty starting Monday. Secretary of State Stimson will testify first, followed by Secretary of the Navy Adams and naval experts. All hearings will be open as Senate debate on the pact proceeds openly.
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Washington
U.P
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Stimson
Navy
Adams
Senate
Drowns in Muskingum River in Ohio incident
Manuel Francis aged 26 from Beverly Washington County drowned in the Muskingum River after slipping into the stream while filling water barrels near Zanesville. Local authorities reported the accident occurred on May 7 with U P noting the tragedy.
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Muskingum Zanesville
Tragedy Endures As Family Notes Reveal Final Plea
A distressed note describes a private funeral and requests blankets for babies. Mil dred urged to dispose of personal effects. A final exhortation pleads for right living as the mother admits inability to care for the rest. A neighbor warned she could be killed. A brother, Vernon, learns of the events after newsboys deliver papers.
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Mildred
Vernon
Tragic Ohio mother shoots seven of her twelve children
In Columbus on May 17 Mrs. Ethel Geller, wife of a former newspaper vendor, killed seven of her twelve children and wounded herself, saying she could not go on and had reached the end of her string. Nurses and a nun comforted the grieving family as Mildred Gel ler, the sole surviving daughter, remained by her side.
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