Ohio Traffic Toll rises with crash and horse riding death
A deadly weekend in Ohio claims multiple lives in traffic and a horse riding accident. A Detroit-Pittsburgh bus crashed into a halted truck near Canton killing Jacob Hubrd and an unidentified woman, with 2 dead and 14 injured overall. Grace Dennis Springer, a Ohio State University co ed, died when her horse bolted on wet pavement in Columbus. Additional fatalities occur in Reynoldsburg, Bedford, Cincinnati, and Zanesville as cars and buses collide and skid on slick roads.
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United Press A Today
Canton
Detroit
Pittsburgh
Edward Rasher
Carl Craig
Lester Newell
Knutsenucking Company
Cleveland
Newell
Ken
Akron
Grace Dennis
Springer
N. M
State University
Columbus
Uni-Fifty
William T. Brinker
Veterinary
Cole
Missinis
Beme
Chorus to Sing at Chapel at Ohio University
The Ohio University Chorus of 130 voices will give a concert at the Ohio University convention at 9 40 o clock Wednesday evening. Thelma Thomas soprano and sophomore in the School of Music will sing solo leads. Selections include Irish Folk Song By Marston By The Waters of Minnetonka Lieurance and Motet Gallia Gou nod The chorus is directed by Prof C C Robinson and accompanied at the piano by Mrs Robinson.
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Ohio University
Erning
Thelma Thomas
Sophoore
School of Music
Marston
Minnetonka
Lieurce
Gallia
Gounod
C. C. Robinson
Mra. Robinson
Briand Proposes European Federation Effort
Aristide Briand, speaking for France, urges a European federation modeled on a united forty eight state system to boost prosperity and deter war. He sent outlines to twenty six European states while noting gaps in bridging long standing ethnic and religious hostilities. Continued on page 4.
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Aristide Briand
Ireland
Russia
Briand
Graf Zeppelin charts new Atlantic route from Friedrichshafen
The Graf Zeppelin advances toward Seville signaling a trail blazing commercial route to South America and the United States. Four Americans aboard from Friedrichshafen plus one to join in Seville. The dirigible departed after delays and carried 7,000 spectators as it crossed into Switzerland and France en route west.
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Germany
U.pr
Seville
Spain
South America
United States
Cape Palos
Switzerland
France
Rhone River
George Crouse
Syracuse
N. Y
Laura Crouse Durston
Harry Shoemaker
Karl von Wiegand
Berlin
Baby Arrested as Technical Warrant Returns Child to Mother
Six months old Carolyn Borgese faces cameras at the Newark police station after a warrant secured by her mother, Mrs. Adolphe Borgese, restores possession of the child taken by the father who faces desertion charges.
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Carolyn Borgese
Newark, N. J
Adolphe Borgese
Roberts Wing Senate Favor Roberts Wing Senate Favor
The Senate Judiciary Committee favorably reported Owen J. Roberts for associate justice of the U S Supreme Court. The vote was unanimous and action is expected in the Senate within a day or so. No protests were received aside from a socialist request to question Roberts on economic and social questions.
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Washington
U.R
Owen J. Roberts
U. S. Supreme Court
Senate Judiciary Committee
Senate
Roberts
Borah
Idaho
Herbert
Rhode Island
Overman
North Carolina
Norman Thomas
Socialist Party
Thomas
Mother Urges Mercy for Slayer of Son in New York Trial
A Denver visitor, Mrs. Clara aw, the mother of Henry Gaw murdered last year, pleads for mercy for James Baker aka Texas Jim, charged with Gaw’s death and nine other killings. Baker testifies at his December 27, 1928 murder trial at Guggenheim Laboratories. The mother seeks confinement rather than execution, citing possible unhappiness behind the crimes.
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Nnew
York
O.R
Henry Gaw
Denver
Clara @aw
James E. McDonald
James Baker
Texas
Jim
Baker
Guggenheim Laboratories
McDonald
Ohio Reformatory Report Urges Building Plans By Engineers
A Mansfield reformatory report to the Ohio Auditor urged using the state engineering department and wards for new buildings. It cited the Ohio Penitentiary the State House and London Prison Farm as models and proposed inmate battery manufacturing along with improving amusement fund use during 1928 to 1930 under manager T. C. Jenkins.
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Columbus
Ohio State Fieformatory
Mansfield
Joseph Tracy
F. M. Hoppengarner
Ohio Penitentiary
State House
London
Reformatory
T. C. Jenkins
Veteran Slain in Marion During Jewelry Store Theft
William B. Harris 29 of Fostoria, WW veteran and parolee, was shot and killed by a Marion officer after Harris broke a window at the May Company Jewelry Store and fled with 29 rings and two watches. The officer said Harris refused to halt and was hit in the head by a bullet at 3 am as the streets lay deserted.
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Marion
U.P
William B. Harris
Fostoria
Harris
May Company
Elyria Chosen For 1931 Walter League Ohio Meeting
Elyria was selected as the 1931 meeting place for the Ohio district of the Walter League, an organization of young Lutherans, at the closing session of the 1930 convention in Akron.
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Akron
Elyria
Ohio
Walter League
Coolidge Encourages Faith in Party Government
Former President Calvin Coolidge told 100 attendees in Northampton Mass that Americans should not expect perfection in government especially under opposition. He urged the necessity of political parties to sustain free government and prevent revolutionary changes in countries lacking organized parties.
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Coolidge
School of Politics
Northampton
Mass
U.P
Calvin Coolidge
White House
Northhampton
Commonwealth
Republican State Committee
Hotel Northampton
Jesse A. G. Andre
Friends
Bristol voices opposition to naval limitation treaty
Washington May 19 Rear Admiral Mark L Bristol chairman of the Naval General Board says a naval limitation treaty is unnecessary at this time He argues the treaty lacks absolute limits and that the United States should first build its navy to a stronger level before negotiating for equality with other nations.
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Washington
U.R
Mark L. Bristol
Naval General Board
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Bristol
Congress
Ohio University Hosts Fall Convention of College Journalists
Ohio University will host the Ohio College Newspaper Association fall convention at Denison University Granville after a spring assembly. David Stein editor of the Green and White led the bid unopposed. The event will include group discussions, talks by Columbus and Cleveland editors, and a closing dance.
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Ohio University
Ohio College Newspaper Association
Denison University
Granville
David Stein
Green and White
Ohio
Columbus
Cleveland
University of Akron Buchtelite
Charlea Conway
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Akron
James W. Havighurst
Ohio Wesleyan Transcript
Columbus Dispatch
Charles Etsinger
Harry Kelley
Condition of Injured Miner Improves After Explosive Accident
James Pierce of Buchtel who suffered facial and upper body burns in Friday’s Lick Run Mine explosion was reported improved today at Sheltering Arms Hospital. A fellow worker, Charles Mc Donald, died Saturday morning at the same hospital from injuries suffered in the blast.
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James Pierce, Buchtel
Lick Run
Sheltering Arms Hospital
Charles McDonald
Senate resumes hearings on Hoover London Treaty basis
Hearings opened as scrutiny fell on Navy General Board's stance after intimations it was persuaded against the President's negotiated basis for a naval limitation treaty with Britain and Japan.
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Washington
Navy General Board
Hoover
Great Britain
Japan
Senate
French Evacuate Paris Orders to Rhineland Troop Move
May 19 In a directive Prime Minister Anare Tardieu ordered immediate evacuation of French troops from the third and final zone of the German Rhineland. General Guillaumat, in command of the occupation forces, received the orders.
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Paris
U.R
Rhineland
Anare Tardieu
Guillaumat
Prison riot fears at State Penitentiary with guards amid unrest
Warden FP E Thomas reports a small Sunday fire at the State Penitentiary may be accidental or a challenge amid rumors of plots. National Guardsmen aided, 800 inmates moved to other blocks as 7 riot gas guns are ordered for tower guards.
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Warden Thomas
Pen
Columbus
U.R
FP. E. Thomas
State Penitentiary
Bandit with Knife Robs Couples in Parked Cars
West Side police sought a large dark man in greasy overalls who wielded a long shiny knife and wounded a man who fought back. Three couples were robbed late last night and early today in Cleveland, according to U.R. dispatches.
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Cleveland
U.R
West Side
Raid on Vandala salt pans leads to mass arrests
Seventy two volunteers were arrested as 150 Indian passive resisters swarmed the Vandala salt pans from multiple directions. The action followed a National Congress Committee plan after yesterday’s major raid, allocating daily raids this week and a large rally scheduled for next Sunday.
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Bombay
U.P
Vandala
National Congress Committee
Two Bodies Found in Lake Erie Spark Double Murder Suspicions
In Avon on May 19 authorities found two floating bodies in Lake Erie. One victim was identified as John Snowbrick, 22, of Cleveland, with a fractured skull and no water in the lungs, suggesting death by foul play rather than drowning, possibly linked to smugglers.
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AVON
U.P
Lake Erie
John Snowbrick
Cleveland
Hoover to View Fleet at Old Point Comfort
President Hoover returns to Washington from a fishing weekend and plans a night departure to Old Point Comfort to review the United States Fleet Tuesday off the Virginia capes. It will be the first presidential fleet viewing since 1927.
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Washington
U.P
Hoover
Old Point Comfort
United States
Virginia Capes
Bomber Caught in Chicago as Breakup of Racketeering Aims
In a North Clark Street alley investigators caught Frank R. Phillips as he prepared to ignite a pineapple bomb. He admitted two other bombings and identified his employer known as The Greek, leader of a protective association racketeering scheme targeting Chicago restaurants.
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Chicago
U.P
Protective Association
Clark Street
Frank R. Phillips
Phillipa
Branded Guilty Denied Testimony in Evelyn Lee Case
In Des Moines on May 19 two suspects Carl McCune and Elmer Gibson faced hours of questioning with a lie detector after the murder of nine year old Evelyn Lee. They denied the crime as the polygraph indicated inconsistencies in their answers.
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Des Moines
U.R
Evelyn Lee
Carl McCune
Elmer Gibson
Leonard Keeler
Young Lancaster Mother Dies Leaving One Week Old Daughter
Mrs. Mary Hawk Francis aged 20 wife of Kenneth Francis of Lancaster died Sunday at 7 pm in Lancaster hospital. She leaves a one week old daughter living with her aunt Mrs Herbert Kelley. Daughter of Mr and Mrs Guy Hawk of near Luhrig. Body sent to Dowler Funeral Home. Arrangements incomplete. No other children.
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Mary Hawk Francis
Kenneth Francis
Lancaster
Lancaster Hospital
Herbert Kelley
Francis
Dowler Funeral
Guy Hawk
Luhrig
Trinity Freshman O Keefe suspended over drinking rule
Arthur B. O Keefe Jr Trinity College freshman who offered to testify before Congress has been suspended for violating college drinking rules. O Keefe, son of a West Haven attorney, was invited to testify at Washington before the House Judiciary Committee but his father opposed the trip, saying he was too young to have ideas on prohibition.
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Hartford
Conn
U.P
Arthur B. O'Keefe
Trinity College
Congress
O'Keefe
West Haven
Washington
House Judiciary Committee
Hundreds Flee as Floods and Tornadoes Roar Across Southwest
United Press reports severe weather over the weekend battered Arkansas and Texas. Tornadoes and floods killed at least nineteen people, many of them African American, and left hundreds homeless. Lame Brook in Arkansas suffered a twister that cut a wide path, while Tekin saw a second tornado in two weeks. Rivers rose across Oklahoma and Texas forcing evacuations and boat rescues as Red River floods intensified. Thousands sought refuge in Texas and Arkansas amid record rains and rising streams.
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Arkansas
Texas
Helena
Ark
Lamebrook
Susie Day
Tekan
Oklahoma
Red River
Texarkana
Tex
U.R
Weather toll rises as Texas flood and tornadoes claim lives
Torrential rains and cyclonic winds sweep across Texas over the weekend. Unseasonably cold weather adds hardship as floods force people from homes and casualties are reported, with three deaths and dozens injured in the storm’s path.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
Dallas
Tex
E Counties
Texas
Tornado Devastates Plantations Near Helena Arkansas
Scores of Negro shanties were destroyed with at least sixteen killed across three plantation communities on river bottoms near Helena. Lambert of Lambert Empress Company of St Louis reported disturbances. Two deaths were reported at Wabash and Elaine with property damage near ten thousand dollars and disrupted communication across the area.
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Helena
Ark
R. B. Lambert
Lambert Eidrmpes) Company
St. Louis
Wabash
Elaine
1 Tenn
Courthouse Square
Mrs Elizabeth Scott 68 Dies at New Marshfield Home
Mrs Elizabeth Scott, 68, died at her New Marshfield home after a long illness. Widow of George Scott, she leaves three sons Silas Scott and A Scott, two daughters Minnie Baughman and Carpenter, and two more names. Funeral services set for 2 PM Tuesday at Marshfield Methodist Church with Rev J Bright. burial in New Marshfield Cemetery.
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New Marshfield
Elizabeth Scott
Scott
George Scott
Silas Scott
Minnie Baughman
Rev
J. Bright
New Marshfield Cemetery
Body Found on Brace Beach in Cleveland
A young woman was found dead on Brace Beach under minimal clothing. Police are investigating the scene and circumstances of the death.
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