Grand Jury Weighs Findings in Vulcan Mine Slayings
Meigs courthouse tense as grand jurors probe the double killing at the Vulcan mine in Pomeroy. Prosecutor Davis gathers testimony while James Miller is kept isolated. Miners fund lawyers for Miller. his wife and eight children receive support. Bodies of Swanner and Reynolds shipped to Charleston. Questions linger on doped whiskey and state witness roles. several lawyers and officials arrive to monitor proceedings.
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Miller
C. FE. Peoples
F. W. Crow
Miners in West Virginia probe over killings in Pomeroy
Grand jury in Pomeroy, West Virginia, to report into the double slayings of W. Swanner and Edward Reynolds at James W. Miller’s home. Indictment for first degree murder expected against Miller who admits the shooting but claims it aimed to stop kidnaping. Union leaders defend, while prosecutors and operators clash over motives.
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Pomeroy O
West Virginia
W. Swanner
Edward Reyn
James W. Miller
Sonal
Miller
United Workers of America
Petty
District 17
FF. L. Ballard
National
G. M. Belcher
Charleston
Mooney
Inides
John Lewtt
Hia Oteanienlian
United Murderers of America
Balccher
L. Gray Davis
Swanner
Reynolds
Forthcomine
C. F. Keeney
Greene District No
County
W. Va
Inquiry into historic May snow date sparks local memory
A Messenger reader questions the exact date of a heavy May snow about 27 years ago. He recalls corn planted and being worked when the snow arrived and the Hocking River rising quickly to flood stage.
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the Messenger
Swiss killer confesses revenge motive in Vorovsky death
Alexander Conradi a Swiss shooter at the Near East peace conference dining room attack says he sought vengeance for torture of his father and uncle. He mentions wanting to kill Tchitcherin the Moscow foreign affairs commissar. Vorovsky is dead. Brilkovsky and Ahrens are wounded.
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Lausanne
George Tchitcherin
Alexander Conradi
M. Vorovsky
Cecil
Vorovsky
Tchitcherin
Tchitchrin
Moscow
Rome
Russia
J. D. Brilkovsky
Conradi
M. Ahrens
Russian Telegraph Agency
Gypsy Parents Mourn Baby as Doctors Delayed Aid
In Lima Ohio on May 11 a gypsy family attended a funeral for George Pete Zerke, a baby. The parents accuse three physicians of refusing to respond to emergency calls, claiming the child could have been saved.
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Lima
W. I. Zierer
First Methodist Church
George Pete Zerke
Williams Receives Offer as Assistant Secretary of Commerce
Ralph E. Williams of Portland Oregon Republican National Committee vice chairman who recently turned down the treasury secretary post has been offered the job of assistant secretary of commerce by Secretary Hoover.
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Ralph E. Williams
Portland
Ore
Republican National Committee
Secretary of the Treasury
Oe Commerce
Hoover
Bandits Escape With Much Loot In Two Robberies
Five armed gunmen robbed two separate sites in Cleveland Ohio early today. They took about $3200 in cash and jewelry valued at $3000 from Mr and Mrs William W Kelly as they drove home. Two other men were robbed of cash minutes later. No arrests have been made.
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Cleveland, O
William W. Kelly
National suffrage push seeks equal sex rights amendment
Miss Alice Paul reveals a plan for a national campaign to adopt a twentieth amendment guaranteeing equal rights for women in all courts. President Harding reportedly approves. The draft bars gender distinction in inheritance, homestead, domicile, and divorce laws, and allows married women to own homes and share husband's property while sharing family support duties.
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Washington
America
Alice Paul
Mussolini
Italy
International
Paul
Seneca Falls
N. Y
United States
Harding
Curtis
Kansas
Republica
Senate
Senato Fess
Ohio
Republican
Divorce Request by Jessie Landenberg in Elyria
Jessie Landenberg seeks a divorce from Lenhart Landenberg claiming coercion to work in fields while raising a family and handling household duties. The husband is described as a wealthy Carlisle farmer.
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Elyria
Jessie Landenberg
Lenhart Landenberg
Cartlisie
Athens Board Faces High School Bid Dilemma
The Athens board of education must choose between rebidding the construction of a new high school with modifications or delaying the project into next year hoping for lower costs. Bids opened after noon Thursday show total construction bids around 40 074 with available funds about 294 000 including architect fees. The lowest general bid came from March Brothers Construction Co. of St Louis at 24 090, while FE W Latham Co of Columbus bid 255 4. Moran Construction Co of Akron bid 364 000. Plumbing and HVAC bids totaled 86 184 by H P Meyer Co of Indianapolis for three contracts. Electrical work saw Sanborn Electric Co of Indianapolis bid 9 840 as the lowest. Continuous cost alternatives could reduce bids.
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Athens Board of Education
Aerchitect
March Brothers Construction Co
St. Louis
FE. Y W. Latham Co
Columbus
Moran Construction Co
Akron
H. P. Meyer Co
Indianapolis
Sanborn Electric Co
Thursday closing starts in June in Athens
Athens banks will begin summer Thursday afternoon closings with half holidays for workers. The Athens Merchants' Association announced that the practice begins June 7 and will continue through June July and August on Thursday afternoons.
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Athens
Athens Merchants’ Association
Merchant's Association
Missing 15 Year Old Edith Sipple Feared Lured for Stardom
Police search Cincinnati Ohio for Edith Sipple age 15 reported missing from London Kentucky. London reports say nationwide hunt may begin if she was lured to Cincinnati or Louisville by a fake motion picture stardom offer.
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Cincinnati
Edith Sipple
London
Louisville
Worth Millions Seventeen-Year-Old Heiress Inherits 13 Million
Argall Yates, age 14, recently inherited about 13 million dollars from her father Porter B. Yates of Milwaukee. Porter headed the Yates Machine Works with Beloit and Ontario operations, placing Argall among America's wealthiest children.
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Argall Yates
America
Porter B. Yates
Milwaukee
Yates Machine Works
Beloit and Onitario
Weary worker Fannie Smith leaps from bridge into Ohio River
Fannie Smith, 21, a shirt factory worker from Cincinnati, leaped last night from the high bridge to Newport, Kentucky. She survived a 125 foot fall into the cold Ohio River with only bruises from impact.
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Cincinnati
Fannie Smith
Newport
Miss Smith
Ohio
Deadlock hits Baltimore shopcrafts seniority plan
The Baltimore agreement commission set in 1922 to settle shopcrafts seniority is hopelessly deadlocked. Chairman Hooper of the railroad labor board confirms the split, noting the equal roster of workers and executives and rising doubts among railroads not party to the pact.
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Jack Cesnar
I. N.S
Chicago
Baltimore Agreement Commission
Bert M Jewell
Daniel Willard
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Ben W. Hooper
United States Railroad Labor Board
International News Service Today
Hooper
Edward Tegtmeyer
Baltimore
T Railroad
Tegtmeyer
Inspector Appointed in Automobile Division in Ohio
George W. Roche of Steubenville is named an inspector in the automobile division effective July 1. He previously served as an oil inspector under Governor Davis and is a Jefferson County Republican leader. The Brown administration is extending eastern Ohio Republican appointments, including Belmont and Mahoning counties, with another inspector to follow from Trumbull County.
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Columbus
George W. Roche
Steubenville
Thad Hown
Roche
Department of Commerce
Davis
Jefferson County
Republican Executive Committee
Brown
Ohio
William V. Bennett
Belmont County
Mahoning Iounty
George D. Gessman
Trumbull County
Police seize manhunt for kidnapped patrolman in Cleveland
A police squad armed with riot guns searched Cleveland for Patrolman Dennis Griffin who police believe was kidnapped by a prisoner he was transporting to the station earlier today.
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Cleveland, O
Dennis Griffin
Progress on Ohio farms reports harsh weather and slow crops
The Ohio weather was dry and unusually cool with cold nights and frost in northern counties. While farm work advanced and planting continued, warmth and moisture were scarce, wheat and oats made poor progress, and corn land preparation neared completion with substantial planting delayed. gardening activity occurred despite conditions.
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Ohio
Charges Filed After Auto Incident Involving Bardin Lumber Employee
W B R Coleman a Bardin Lumber Co employee living near Stewart was arrested by Constable L P Tucker on a charge of assault and battery Lucile Rowland 16 said she was struck by Colemans car on East State street near the children's home on her way home from school Monday afternoon The driver remained unknown at first but later identified as Coleman He pleaded not guilty when arraigned before Magistrate Helwig and was bound over to the grand jury in 400 bond.
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W. BR. Coleman
Bardin Lumber Company
Stewart
Lucile Rowland
Coleman
Lower East State Street
Helwig
Club women reject Harding court plan at convention
In Atlanta on May 19 the Club Women of the United States rejected President Harding’s call for unqualified support of the international court project and offered a substitute resolution at the annual convention.
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Atlanta
United States
Harding
Tenure-old diamond found by doctor’s son in yard
After twelve years in Martins Ferry Ohio Dr F W Arbaugh’s son Chas found a lost diamond stud last week while cleaning the yard where furnace registers had been piled during remodeling. The sparkler’s recovery ends a long search.
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Martins Ferry
F. W. Arbaugh
Chas
Pennsylvan ia Railroad Plans $500000 Terminal Upgrade
Crestline Ohio reports the Pennsylvania Railroad will spend about half a million dollars to improve terminal facilities here. The announcement indicates upgrades to docks yards and related infrastructure to boost efficiency and capacity.
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Crestline
Pennsyvania Railroad Company
Two Men Arrested On Secret Indictments In Old Gases Case
Deputy Sheriff Cady seized Harry Milliron of Athens and Art Cooksey of Sugar Creek on secret indictments from the May grand jury. Both pleaded not guilty in common pleas court and posted $2000 bonds. Milliron faces indecent exposure charges linked to alleged activity with Ohio University girls. Cooksey, indicted for perjury, had previously been convicted in a related Sugar Creek boy cache case, fined $100, and jailed 30 days.
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Cady
Common Pleas
Harry Milliron
Athens
Art Cooksey
Sugar Creek
Milliron
Grabber
Ohio University
Worstell Cooksey
Cooksey
Miller Alienation Suit Seeks 50000 From Father-in-Law
Mrs. Hilda Miller sues John Miller for 50000 claiming he maligned her and caused her husband Harry Miller to leave their home. The suit cites alleged malicious and scandalous talk by the father-in-law as the basis for alienation of affections.
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Columbus
John Miller
Hilda Miller
Harry Miller
Evidence of coaching in House of David inquiry cited by judge
Judge Harry J. Dingeman announced a recess in his one man grand jury inquiry into the House of David case due to evidence that many witnesses were coached and perjury may have occurred. He set the next session for Monday.
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ST. Joseph, Mich
House of David
Harry J. Dingeman
Trains in England Cause Roughly Thirty Accidents Annually
A study notes that falling from trains in England results in about 30 accidents per year on average.
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England
Interior Department Names John H Edwards Chief Counsel
John H Edwards will lead the Department of the Interior legal staff directing more than 20 attorneys. Edwards formerly served as solicitor in the Post Office Department before moving to the interior office with Waris, taking charge of government legal work.
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Department of the Interior
John H. Edwards
Edward
Post Office
Interior Office
Anvatars Waris
Chinese minister to apologize to President Harding
Dr. Alfred Sze, Chinese minister, will apologize to President Harding in a formal démarche after an arranged hour long conference. He plans to address the House at 3 p.m. Washington notes regret over the Shantung train outrage and will report to the President this afternoon.
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Washington
Shantung
Harding
Alfred Sze
Sze
London Northeastern Railway Cuts Baggage Charge
London Northeastern Railway announces a new baggage fee of one shilling per package for transporting luggage from hotels or patrons to all stations. The arrangement aims to simplify and reduce costs for travelers and their belongings.
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London
London Northeastern Railway
Passing Up Germans Amid War Trade Shifts
London reports the British industry is gradually killing oil and German trade as all factors in land work steadily. Some 19,000 persons are depicted as affected or captured in this trade shift.
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London
Monoplane Trials First Atlantic to Pacific Flight
The aircraft named T-% has completed the first leg of its east to west journey, landing in San Diego after departing the Atlantic coast. The pilot announced the milestone today as the plane heads toward Washington.
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Washington
San Die Cal
Atlantic
Pacific
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