Trustee recalls Des Moines riot at university campus
Des Moines University trustee A R E Roberts describes a student riot that smashed windows and showered administrators with eggs. He cites faculty unrest over biblical governance, fraternities banned, and off campus activity restricted as sparks, while recounting police escort from Levelland to safety.
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Levelland
A.r—E. Roberts
Des Moines University
Baptist Fundamentalist
Mnen
Baptist Bible Union of North America
Minister Stands Firm Amid Boothbay Church War
Rev. Mart A. Spencer faced threats and a lynching image as he led a rift at Boothbay Maine. Voters ousted him from the Booth Baptist Church, pads locked the doors, and he organized a new group named the First Baptist Church of Christ.
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Town Hall
Spencer
Booth Baptist Church
The
First Baptist Church of Christ
National Hospital Day Reflections By President Hoover
President Hoover calls for guaranteed medical care for the nation’s poorest children and lonely rural mothers. He notes obstetric care is a recent, limited resource and criticizes past reliance on unscientific midwives while urging trained surgeons and better hospital access for childbirth safety.
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Nationa Hospital
Hoover
Man Slaughter Charge Prepared In Fatal Wreck Near Diamond
Logan May 14 Staff Special An affidavit charging man slaughter was being prepared by Prosecutor Phil A. Henderson to be filed against Stanley Lowe Columbus driver of the automobile in which Gilbert Glover Happy Hollow died Sunday evening in a crash near The Diamond Lowe was jailed after being brought to the county jail by C C Robinett Sheriff Lloyd investigated as Mrs Lloyd asked for his detention Prosecutor Henderson and Sheriff Lloyd planned Tuesday arraignment before Magistrate E E Bright Coroner J P Miller begins final report on the death within days.
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Lloyd
Lowe
Henderson
Lave
E. E. Bright
J. P. Miller
Nelsonville
Strife in Elizabethton as National Guard arrests rise
In Elizabethton Tennessee on May 14 disorders erupted in the strike torn textile town. National guardsmen arrested more than 200 picketing strikers. Several were injured, one perhaps fatally.
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Elizabethton
Tenn
National
First Torch Slay Trial Set For June 10
The metropolitan area's alleged torch slayer Henry Colin Close also known as Henry Colin Campbell faces first degree murder trial after a grand jury in Elizabeth New Jersey returned the indictment. Close is described as an engineer and author and is identified as a confessed bigamist. The date for trial was set for June 10.
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New York
U.P
Henry Colin Close
Henry Colin Campbell
Elizabeth
N. J
Gramm Trial Set for Liquor Case in Jacksonville
Walter Gramm brother in law of Congressman M A Michaelson of Illinois will face liquor law violation charges at the December term of Federal Court after being indicted by a grand jury in Jacksonville.
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Jacksonville
Fia
Walter Gramm
M. A. Michaelson
Illinois
Orchard Forecast Predicts Fair Apple Crops in Meigs and Vinton
Logan fruit dealer Tipton reports the Meigs and Vinton County orchards show fair potential despite late freezes. Grimes Golden may yield about 75 percent, Delicious around 26 percent, Stayman’s Winesaps about 75 percent, and Rome Beauty from 45 to 75 percent, with blooms on wood growth suggesting possible 90 percent if fruit sets. About 2,000 bearing trees are in the affected orchards this year.
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Lagan
Meigs
Vinton
A. Tipton
Logan Fruit Dealer
Ohio
Stayman
Rome
Fruit trees in Pomeroy expect half crop despite cold snaps
Local survey finds apples peaches and cherries hit by cold snaps yet grapes blackberries and raspberries show good prospects. Home grown strawberries of high grade already in markets, indicating early bloom survived.
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Pomeroy
Weather Delays Planting For Letart Tomato Growers
The May 14 Letart report notes truckers are held up by wet weather delaying tomato plant outflow. Cold frame beds crowd and grow spindling, seeking space and air. Some cabbage has emerged but fares poorly without better conditions.
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Letart Falls
Wickersham Named Head of Prohibition Enforcement Panel
George W. Wickersham will chair President Hoover’s law enforcement commission. The 70 year old lawyer and former attorney general will lead investigations into prohibition and other enforcement issues, after consenting to join the panel.
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Washington
U.P
George W. Wickersham
Hoover
Law Enforcement Commission
Wickersham
Taft
American Bar Association
Police fail to trace Sidney jeweler missing in Columbus
Columbus May 14 police said no trace of William H Kah 43 Sidney Ohio jeweler who disappeared from a downtown hotel room Sunday night.
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Columbus
William H. Kah
Sidney
Ohio
Waid Names Assistant Columbus
Columbus May 14 Frank L Aschie of Cincinnati is appointed assistant state highway director by State Highway Director Robert N Waid.
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Waid
Columbus
U.P
Robert N. Waid
Frankl. Aschie
Cincinnati
Car left in sheriff's lot lacks plates and lights
Deputy Hammond found an old model car parked in the county sheriff's private lot missing a license tag a headlight and a tail light. Owner H Graffis of near Rockbridge was told to leave the vehicle and observe equipment rules, with no objection to the space being used.
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Logan
Ll. F. Hammond
H. Graffis
Rockbridge
Lioyd
Wholesalers Visit Athens on Good Will Tour
About 130 representatives of the Wholesalers and Manufacturers Association from Columbus arrived in Athens by a special train at 12 26 pm to spend an hour and a half visiting local merchants. The Athens Chamber of Commerce and Retail Merchants' Association provided autos and welcomed them. The visit is part of a yearly Good Will tour and marks the first inclusion of local merchants in several years. No entertainment was planned. officials coordinated a cordial welcome and help in showing the visitors around. The group will travel by train to Marietta to stay overnight, with the Columbus branch tied to the Columbus Chamber of Commerce.
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Columbia
Athens
Athens Chamber of Commerce
Retail Merchants’ Association
Columbus
Clarence Tt. Gill
Gill
Chamber of Commerce and Retail Merchants' Association
Columbus Houses
S. M. Johnson
New Low Scale Reported at Sharp Mine No 68
LOUSTER May 14 A new wage scale posted at Sharp Mine No 68 Redtown Monday morning reportedly cuts about 1 percent across all day labor classifications and reduces loading coal price to 52 cents per ton according to mine workers.
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Louster
Sharp
Redtown
Social scene in Senate splits over seating rivals
Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth and Mrs. Delly Curtin Gann clashed in Capital society as they met in the Senate gallery. An accidental elevator encounter led to a temporary seating dispute, with Longworth leaving the Vice Presidential row while Gann remained to listen to the debate.
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Washington
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Delly Curtin Gann
Shoul
Senate
Gann
Hartes H. McGawn
Omaha
Mra Longworth
Longworth
Eugene Meyer
Capital Society
Brookhart
Iowa
United States
Crow bounty war erupts in Meigs County as 80 heads claimed
Rival bidders for crow bounty clash in Pomeroy with Donahue of Letart winning 80 crows and $20, while Chorby posted 49 crow scalps and $17.24. County records show ongoing head bounty payments from 12 townships as the $400 annual fund nears exhaustion.
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Pomeroy
Metes County
Don Chorby
Salem Township
Meiga
Roy Donahue
Letart
Donahue
Sub-District UMW Officials Dropped From Payroll
The United Mine Workers retrenchment cuts pay for all sub district presidents except the Pinstern Oto Patriot. George W. Savage cites poor business as the reason. officials remain on the state executive board. Names released include Robert Bell Murray City Richard Campbell Pomeroy John Jones Berghels Thomas Price Magsilion John Walker Cambridge.
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United Mine Workers
Covumebls
Sute
George W. Savage
Sauvage
rMemissal
Sivage
Robert Bell
Murray City
Richard Campbell
Pomeroy
John i. Jones
Berghels
Thomas Price
Young Eckener to work as Akron Zeppelin engineer
Knute Eckener son of Graf Zeppelin commander Hugo Eckener will disembark at Lakehurst during the Graf Zeppelin flight to the United States and proceed to Akron to take a construction engineer position with a zeppelin corporation building two Navy dirigibles. He gained fame earlier for repairing the disabled Graf Zeppelin in a storm.
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Graf
United States
Lakehurst
Graf Zeppelin
Young Beckener
Akron
Zeppelin Corporation
United States Navy
Fate of Cole and Little to Be Considered
Edward Little and John Q Cole, suspended dry agents, will have their future in the State Prohibition Department decided tomorrow, according to Commissioner Rupert R Beetham. They were removed April 20 after it was disclosed they used Lancaster girls to obtain evidence against bootleggers. No action has been taken yet. Beetham also reviewed Fairfield county liquor enforcement during his Georgia trip.
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Columbus
Edward Little
John QO. Cole
State Prohibition Department
Prohibition
Rupert R. Beetham
Little
Cole
Lancaster
Fairfield County
Georgia
Uncertain Graf Zeppelin Decides Flight Route
Berlin May 14 United Press The Graf Zeppelin faces last minute decision on its second trans Atlantic flight pilot Dr Hugo Eckener weighing three routes Bordeaux Azores Bermuda Gibraltar Bermuda wind route passage may hinge on hour to departure passengers nervously await their voyage even Missy the gorilla prepared for Chicago zoo trip despite a male companion being refused with details not disclosed by officials.
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Eric Keyser
United Press
Berlin
U PR
Friedrichshafen
Hugo Erkener
Missy
Chicago Zoo
Eckener
Bordeaux
Azores
Bermuda
Clyde Barber Accidentally Shot in Body
Clyde Harber of this community was accidentally shot when a revolver discharged in the woods about a mile from his home. The cartridge struck his left side above the heart. He was taken to Nelsonville and then to the hospital in Nelsonville where Dr Hill noted the wound not serious.
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Carbondale
Clyde Harber
Kew
Barber
Northwestern student leaders calm after punch incident
Evanston May 14 The two Northwestern leaders Stolley F. Myers and James Austin admitted to an investigation board they toned up the fraternity smoker punch with gin and were asked to leave school. Fraternities backed the board action while a faculty member defended the two, saying the party was orderly and drinking is a personal matter if done decently.
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Evanston
Lil
Northwestern University
Stolley FP
Myers
James Austin
Austin
New York City Faces Industrial Crisis Ahead of May 15
New York City is bracing for a five day week disruption and a $160 million building boom impact as 75,000 building trades workers face possible lockout at 6 pm tomorrow after a unanimous board vote by the Building Trades Employers' Association following sympathy strikes by the building trades council and electrical workers.
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New York
New York City
Building Trades
Building Trades Employers’ Association
Board of Governors
Building Trades Council
Baltimore Prohibition Debate Ends With Heavy Snarling Remarks
In Baltimore a large audience debated prohibition with Clarence Darrow denouncing bans and mockingly labeling Hoover as a civil engineer while Dr. Clarence True Wilson defended prohibition. The crowd jeered Wilson as Darrow attacked the city’s liquor laws and leaders, arguing prohibition harms politics and prosperity.
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Clarence Darrow
Baltimore
Baltiemore
Clarence Darerow
Chicago
Clarence Trt Wilson
Methodist Board of Prohibition
Temperance
Wilson
Darrow
Kent State Normal elects new board officers
Norman Senhouser of New Philadelphia is elected president of the board of trustees, the board without a president since January. W. Seiberling of Akron is named vice president and on May 18 Alma Zinniner of Canton becomes secretary, succeeding Russell Burt.
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Kent
Norman Senhouser
New Philadelphia
Kent State Normal
W. Seiberling
Akron
Alma Zinniner
Canton
Russell Burt
Day agent killed near Brewyn Maryland
Dana M. Jackly aged 55 a day agent pursuing a suspected bootlegger was killed when the car he rode in skidded or was forced off the road and struck a telephone pole near Brewyn Maryland the report said.
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Washington
Dana M. Jackly
Brewyn
Good Proportions in the Diet booklet promoted
The States Relation Service of the Department of Agriculture promotes a booklet on well balanced meals. It explains adequacy wholesomeness attractiveness and cost, details food types and portions and offers menus. A coupon and four cents cover return postage for households needing the book.
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States Relation Service
Department of Agriculture
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