Senate debates debenture plan amid Fess letter clash
Senate moves to pass the farm bill as House tariff debate continues. Senator Fess criticizes so called pseudo Republicans who backed the debenture, prompting replies from Borah Nye and Brookhart. Leaders say no punishment for debenture supporters and aim to finish tariff debate within a week.
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House
Hoover
Fess
Ohio
Borah
Idaho
Nye
North Dakota
Brookhart
Iowa
State Football Star Dick Larkins Secretly Married
Columbus May 10 Dick Larkins Ohio State University tackle has married Miss Killeen Toff assistant cashier of the People's National Bank Wellsville since last August. Fellow All American end Wesley Fessler learned of the marriage today, previously unaware of the union.
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U.P
Dick Larkins
Ohio State University
Killeen Toff
People’s National Bank
Wellsville
Wesley Fessler
Larkins
First Aid Tips Booklet for Home and Travel
A 24 page booklet compiled by the Washington Information Bureau offers concise, plain language first aid guidance for sudden illness and accidents. It emphasizes immediate care before a doctor arrives and notes usefulness for homes, vacations, camps, and tourists with a handy index and coupon offer.
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Washington Information Bureau
Tariff Fight Polarizes Hoover Era as Rates Spark Debate
The article reports Democratic plans to attack the Hoover administration over the Hawley Smoot tariff push. It notes White House unease with higher rates, Senate insurgency led by Idaho’s Borah, and projected living-cost increases of 306 to 500 million dollars yearly. It cites Fletcher’s figures on 1928 profits across industries to argue tariffs may not need further government aid.
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Senate
Borah
Idaho
Fletcher
Florida
Manufacturers News of
Chicago
Calvin Coolidge Reflects On Father’s Early Trading Life
In a June Cosmopolitan Magazine essay Scenes of My Childhood Calvin Coolidge recalls his father as a good trader. He notes his father bought a house a blacksmith shop a barn and two acres of land for 375 and later sold one barn for 100, illustrating frugal enterprise.
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Cosmopolitan Magazine
Calvin Coolidge
Paris reports modern trading in postwar settlement talks
The report notes Allied demand for 600 million dollars in gold annually for fifty eight years, while Schacht for Germany proposed 420 million dollars yearly for thirty seven years and France offered to settle at 500 million dollars per year.
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Schacht
Germany
France
Settlement Likely But Costs Fall Short for Germany
The talks suggest a settlement will be reached with a total under what Germany would have spent to maintain its large navy and army. Germany pays and prospers while neighbors bear defense burdens aimed at restraining German power.
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Germany
Vatican Moves Osservatore Romano to Vatican City
The Vatican decides to relocate the Osservatore Romano offices to Vatican City as Italy recognizes the Pope's temporal authority in the small enclave. The move underscores the official status of the Vatican within Italian governance and signals a shift in the paper's geographic base.
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Osservatore Romano
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Italy
Probe in Death of School Boy May Be Reopened
In Columbus May 10 U P officials said the investigation into Hamilton Jett 17 of Marietta who died at the Boys Industrial School in Lancaster is unlikely to be reopened. Washington County officials Creighton Myers and Sprague urged the governor to reconsider noting local feeling remains strong. They also planned to ask Welfare Director Griswold to request a new inquiry. The boy died from pneumonia but his mother claimed a disciplinarian beating contributed. the disciplinarian was reassigned.
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U.P
Hamilton Jett
Marietta
Lancaster
Statehouse
O. S. Creighton
Fred Myers
Ray Sprague
Washington County
Half H. Griswold
Don’t Mix Liquor With Golf Warns Clubs
Cleveland reports a preliminary appeal from George C. Southwell of the Dry Maintenance League urging U S Attorney Wilfred J Mahon to warn golf clubs against stocking lockers with liquor. The note cites a Chicago example where clubs faced government padlocks.
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U.P
Federal District Attorney's Office
U. S
Wilfred J. Mahon
George C. Southwell
Dry Maintenance League
Southwell
E. ©. Johnson
Chicago
Now It's Buyer Who Faces Booze Charge
Elgin report states Helen Ambrose owner of a local hotel faces a liquor purchase charge in what may be an unprecedented case. State's Attorney George D. Car bary led the dry raid that sparked the Aurora case. He expects the trial next week could set a legal precedent reversing common practice.
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U.R
Helen Ambrose
George D. Carbary
Lillian de King
Aurora
Explosion of Chlorine Gas Tank At Solvay Plant
SYRACUSE N Y May 10 Residents of the suburbs of Solvay and Liverpool fled their homes today when a tank containing several thousand cubic feet of chlorine gas exploded at the Solvay Process Company's plant near here. Fifteen workers were reported overcome.
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No Honeymoon For John Hollywood In Film Capital Return
John Gilbert and Ina Claire wed yesterday in Las Vegas and left for Hollywood to resume work. The impetuous screen idol and his actress bride canceled plans for a honeymoon and returned by plane to continue making motion pictures today.
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Man Dies as Slate Collapse Hits Syracuse Mine
A heavy slate fall in the Es sex Mine above Syracuse fatally crushed 64 year old George Rutter, a coal loader from Hocking Valley, trapping co worker Walter Falk who was injured. Rutter's body was taken to a funeral home by Coroner B H Ewing. Edward N Thompson, 65, in Middleport, shot himself in a separate incident at his Walnut Street home after a nervous breakdown. He leaves a wife, three daughters and two sons.
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George Rutter
Hocking Valley
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B. H. Ewing
Pomeroy
Walter Falk
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Thomas Fork
Ewing
Middleport
Edward N. Thompson
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Ross Wise
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Henry Kelso
Ironton
Ella Corbin
Ripley
Ohio
Bandit Still At Large After Max Axner Store Hold Up
Police pursued leads but had no trace of the bandit who held up the Max Axner general store at Barbertown yesterday and escaped with 2447 dollars. The heist occurred yesterday evening prompting a sweep of area roads and checks of nearby towns. No arrests have been made and the search continues.
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U.P
Max Axner
Textile strike violence erupts as home of former employee is dynamited
In Elizabethton Tennessee on May 19 violence surged in the textile strike zone after the home of Mac Elliott a former mechanic at the American Glanz staff Corporation plant was dynamited and wrecked.
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Tenn
U.P
Mac Elliott
American Glanzstaff Corporation
Grand Jury Indictments Delayed To Monday in Athens County
The Athens County Courthouse announced that grand jury indictments will not be reported until late Monday due to an unusually large term. The January session heard 63 witnesses over a lengthy day, extending beyond the five days initially predicted.
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Athens County
R. D. Williams
Drive for Auto Club Members a Great Success
The South Fast Motor Club reports a successful membership drive with strong cooperation from Athens members. A. E. Whaley announces that teams worked hard to recruit new members and may award boxes of apples to teams adding over ten new members. A. G. Oliver of Parkersburg joined local members for the effort.
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A. E. Whaley
Athena
Auto Club
Whatley
Army Airmen Meet in Ohio for Maneuvers
A large concentration of army airplanes is underway in Ohio for maneuvers starting Thursday. Twenty-one planes from Rockwell Field California will head to Norton Field Columbus and Wright Field Dayton arriving Monday. The Columbus bound planes form the 11th Bombardment Squadron with heavy carry capacity. Wright Field will host the 5th pursuit squadron small planes maneuvering at 140 mph en route via Tucson El Paso Midland Ft Sill Muskogee and Scott Field.
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A.P
Dayton
Rockwell Field
Coronado
Calif
Norton Field
Wright Field
Tucson
el Paso
Midland
Ft. Sill
Muskogee
Scott Field
Byrd to Seek Abingdon Report on Hendrick Shooting
Governor Harry Byrd will request Abingdon city officials provide a report on the shooting of 17 year old Emory and Henry College student James Hendrick by two deputy sheriffs and a city policeman.
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Richmond
Harry Byrd
Abingdon
James Hendrick
Emory and Henry College
Re Elect Mrs Levan President Of Ohio Republican Women
Mrs Wilma Sinclair Levan of Steubenville was re elected president of the Ohio Council of Republican Women at the closing session of the council's annual conference in Columbus on May 19.
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Levan Columbus
Wilma Sinclair Levan
Steubenville
Ohio Council of Republican Women
Engines Dynamited in Five Mile Race of 1900s
In Pomeroy a five mile country race ends with a $6000 telegram offer for two turbine engines after Pittsburgh Coal Company dismantles Forest Run mine. Junk men buy the plant for a modest sum and dynamite reduces large pieces to scrap. A last minute telegram arrives offering $6000 cash for the engines, prompting a dramatic dash to the wreck site as an explosion erupts.
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Pittsburgh Coal Company
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Columbus
Hotel razed in Cleveland over Terminal development
The $3,000,000 Hotel Cleveland on the public square is to be razed as part of Union Terminal plans. A new mam moth hotel, likely 14 stories and up to 500 rooms, will replace it to join the terminal group, with underpinning the old building deemed unwise.
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Union Terminal
Ixpense
Enormouia
Terminal Group
Sheriff Foils Jailbreak as Five Prisoners Are Recaptured
Canton report states Sheriff Ed Gibson stopped an attempted jail delivery when five prisoners were caught sawing their cell bars. Far Burris, released Tuesday, was seized in the block and accused of suspicion. Gibson suspects Burris smuggled saws in during a visit.
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U PR
Ed Gibson
Far Burris
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Uurris
Boy's Killing Described as Outrage by Solon
Washington May 10. Rep Black Democrat New York called the shooting of Joseph Kendrick a damnable outrage. The 17 year old wealthy college student was killed near Abingdon Virginia. Black faulted police for misinterpreting the law and warned the Jones act may target bootleggers rather than students. House members indicated they may discuss the incident on the floor.
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U.P
Joseph Kendrick
Abingdon
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New York
Black
Congress
Miss Mary McVay Wins Pianist Contest Trip
Miss Mary McVay daughter of Mr and Mrs Hal McVay former Athens County residents won first place in a Denver Colorado contest of young pianists earning a trip to Boston in June Eight contestants entered from Colorado and New Mexico Hal McVay formerly a New Marshfield schools superintendent is now a West resident Miss McVay a University of Denver junior and pianist for the Denver Y M C A and First Baptist Church
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New Mexico
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Richman Brothers Co Celebrates 50th Anniversary in Cleveland
The Richman Brothers Company marked its 50th anniversary in Cleveland on May 10. Officials stated the celebration included gifts totaling millions for the firm’s employees, with the company employing about 4,500 workers.
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Cleveland
Richman Brothers Company
State Prohibition Chief to Rule on Cole and Little
Columbus May 10. State Prohibition Commissioner Rupert Beetham may decide soon on the suspensions of city agents John Cole and Edward Little who used two Lancaster schoolgirls to entrap alleged bootleggers. Beetham plans a personal probe in Lancaster and rumors say the two officers will be dismissed. Sam Beetham, acting chief assistant, retires soon with temporary appointment.
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U.2
Rupert Beetham
John ©. Cole
Edward Little
Lancaster
Keetham
Statehouse
Little
Cole
Horner
Mias
Catherine Grunion
Carrie Walton
Sam Beetham
Prohibition Department
Beetham
New Tariff May Raise Cost of Living
Washington May 9. Representative Rainey estimates the administration tariff bill will lift annual living costs by 300 to 600 million dollars for American consumers. Sugar alone could add 100.6 million dollars yearly, boosting retail sugar by about a half cent per pound and raising prices on garments and fabrics from suits to stockings accordingly.
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Representative Rainey
Ilinois
Rainey
Fayona
Driver Blamed in Lake Shore Collision Near Bellevue
Fid ward Butler, bus driver in the Bellevue Ohio collision with a Lake Shore electric train on January 23, is held responsible in a Bureau of Safety report to the Interstate Commerce Commission. The crash killed 20 passengers and injured 14.
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Fidward Butler
Lake Shore
Bellevue
Bureau of Safety
Interstate Commerce Commission
Weekly brothers lose two kin in Fairmont death toll
Frank Weekly of Athens and his brother S A Weekly of Euclid W Va were summoned to Fairmont by the deaths of their siblings Charles Weekly and Mrs Mary Garrison each dying today after paralytic strokes leaving a swift family loss in West Virginia.
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Athens
S. A
Euclid
W. Va
Fairmont
Charles
Mary Garrison
Garrison
Noses Around the Athens County Courthouse History
A reporter explores the Athens County Courthouse via creaking stairs and cobwebbed corners. Dusty ledgers reveal records dating to September 10, 1808, tracing the evolution from a log cabin to the present building. Feature appears on May 12 in The Sunday Messenger.
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Athens
Sunday Messenger
Messenger
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