Governor to Probe Anti-Saloon League Enforcement Claims
Columbus reports Gov Vic Donahey will actively investigate charges by Senator Paul Herbert that the Ohio Anti-Saloon League sponsored dishonest law enforcement tactics. The list alleges planting liquor, transferring confiscated liquor, using inspectors for league aims, usurping prosecutorial prerogatives, pardoning bootleggers, silencing critics, and forged warrants.
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Columbus
Vic Donahey
Paul Herbert
Republican
Ohio Anti-Saloon League
United Press
Herbert
MacDonald
Anti-Sanoon League
Anti-Saloon League
League of
Canton
McDonald
Donahey
Weather report shows mild drop with cool morning
The temperature fell to 54 degrees by noon marking the lowest since Saturday while the high reached 73 degrees by 2 pm yesterday. Readings show a sequence of temperatures from mid 70s to mid 50s across Tuesday and Wednesday mornings and afternoons.
Lorain Coal & Dock to Abandon Five Ohio Mines
Lorain Coal & Dock ordered superintendents at five Belmont county mines to prepare abandonment by Nov 14 after unions rejected a $6 a day wage offer. About 1,500 workers and 10,000 tons of coal daily will be affected as pumps and fans are removed and properties boarded up. The firm may shift operations to a 12,000 acre tract near Wheeling West Virginia to run non union.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbies
Ohio
Lorain Coal & Dock Company
Lorain Company
Crescent
Lincoln
Stanley
Blaine
Wheeling Creek
Belmont County
Roy L.wildermuth
Wheeling
W. Va
Investigation Into Clash Of Miners In Missouri
Adjutant General Adams opened an inquiry into Monday’s clash between regular and independent miners in Lexington Missouri. Regulars strike for 7.50 a day while independents continue working for 5. Pickets block four Consolidated company mines prompting troops to protect property. Adams reports to the governor as sheriff sought military aid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lexington
U.P
Adams
Consolidated Company
Bay Village Seeks Pyromaniac Amid Fire Spree
Bay Village officials hunt a pyromaniac blamed for nine fires since January. Police guard homes of Councilman Yank Mitchell and his daughter Minerva Brandt after two Brandt fires totaling 2000 dollars were deemed incendiary. A vigilante committee is to be formed at a mass meeting this week.
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Cleveland
Bay Village
Yank Mitchell
Minerva Brandt
Brandt
German aviator Koennecke leaves India for Alaska flight
Otto Koennecke the Germany round the world aviator departed Flying In India BOMBARACHU for Allahabad at 7 20 a m today. He plans to fly to the United States possibly via Alaska continuing his round the world attempt.
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India
Bombarachu
Otto Koennecke
Germany
Allahabad
Koennecke
United States
Alaska
Lessons Printed Daily in The Newspapers
In Lexington Kentucky the closing of some schools due to an infantile paralysis outbreak leads Superintendent M A Cassidy to arrange for daily pupil lessons to be printed in the local newspapers. He urges parents to ensure students keep up their work.
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M.A. Cassidy
Lexington Newspapers
Cassidy
Believed solved arson at Lancaster Boy Scout camp
The Lancaster sheriff said the burning of the E. Burdell camp near Lancaster is believed solved after seven local youths were arrested as a suspected gang. Several admitted arson for the tire fire but said the blaze resulted from a mattress catching fire after they left the cabin they occupied.
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Lancaster
Burdell
Columbus
McNaughten
Fairfield County
Sherif McNaughten
Newspaper Declared Best and Cheapest Advertising Medium
J W Griest of the Athens Retail Merchants Institute at a Tuesday luncheon lauded newspapers as the best and cheapest advertising medium. He highlighted advertising’s growth since 1910, urged truthful, targeted and persistent campaigns, and outlined six core qualities for effective ads.
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J. W. Griest
Chicago
Athens Retail Merchants’ Institute
Mine to Close Indefinitely at Bailey Run
The White Ash Coal company mine at Bailey Run near Nelsonville will suspend operations indefinitely. Manager C. hr. Weltzheimer says motors pumps and machinery are being removed and stored outside. About 125 men were employed prior to the April 1 suspension.
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Nelsonville
Navy
Star Special
White Ash Coal Company
Bailey Run
Jury Links Mercy in Parkersburg Assault Case
Ralph Smith, 19, was convicted by a Parkersburg jury of criminal assault on Virginia Coulter, 11, and spared the death penalty as mercy was recommended. The verdict came after a brief deliberation. Smith faces a penitentiary term of five to twenty years and joked after the verdict. He is a cousin of Wesley Homer Swain, who tomorrow faces trial for criminal assault on Ellere Starcher, 5.
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Parkersburg
Navy
Ralph Smith
Virginia Coulter
Smith
Wesley Homer Swain
Ellere Starcher
Explosive found under rail near Massapequa
MASSAPEQUA N Y Nov 2 An apparent attempt to blow a Long Island railroad train was foiled when a track walker uncovered 100 sticks of dynamite under the third rail at a joint just east of the village. Police believed the dynamite was set to explode with an eastbound train. Two trains passed between midnight and daybreak unharmed.
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Massapequa
N. Y
Long Island
Death of Samuel Phillips Found in Cornfield
Samuel Phillips aged 61 was found dead in a cornfield near Plain City Marysville Coroner Foster ruled heart trouble caused the death Phillips worked on the Charles Prugh farm and lived as a bachelor in the area.
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Marysville
Samuel Phillips
Plain City
Foster
Phillips
Charles Prugh
Golfer’s Drive Destroys Six Teeth at Glenview Course
Robert Clayton suffered the loss of six teeth when a golf ball struck him during play at Glenview. The incident occurred as another golfer drove the ball, causing facial injuries and dental damage.
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Glenview, Til
Robert Clayton
Old Age Happiness: Grandparents Foster Four Grandchildren
Middleport and Leading Creek district residents Mr. and Mrs. HP Skinner, aged 70 plus, have adopted four grandchildren. They host Mrs. Amanda Johnson, 94, the skinner matriarch, who enjoyed the Halloween frolic with the family before returning home.
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Middleport
HP. Skinner
Leading Creek
Amanda Johnson
Skinner
Corporation Tax Reduction Debate In Congress
Republicans and Democrats agree on reducing the corporate income tax with hearings ongoing. Garner backs a 10 percent rate costing about 300 million dollars, while Mellon proposes 12 percent. Simmons and business groups push for deeper cuts.
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United Press
Washington
U.P
House
Ways and Means Committee
Treasury Mellon
Rep
Garner
Mellon
Simmons
Senate Finance Committee
Booklet Helps Fit Dresses and Patterns
The Athens Messenger advertises a 30 page bulletin with simple methods to alter patterns and fit necks shoulders and sleeves. It explains how to adjust garments already made and how to achieve correct fit in future dresses. Send four cents in stamps to Frederic J. Haskin director Information Bureau Washington DC for a copy.
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Washington Information Bureau
Inquiry urged on proposed rail merger by Van Sweringen firms
Washington Nov 2 The Justice Department investigation of O P and M J Van Sweringen Cleveland rail financiers was recommended to the Interstate Commerce Commission by Henry W Anderson counsel for minority stockholders opposing the merger of the Chesapeake Pere Marquette and the Erie railroads.
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Washington
Justice Department
O. P
M. J. Way Sweringen
Cleveland
Ohio
Interstate Commerce Commission
Henry W. Anderson
van Sweringens
Chesapeake
Pere Marquette
Erie
Sum Sought for Care Is Basis of Suit Against Bank
A claim for 685.71 for board lodging and care of Minerva Nice is the basis of a suit against Bank of Athens N B A administrator of the Nice estate. The statement showed 685.71 due April 15 1927 and the claim was rejected May 21. The plaintiff says the amount remains unpaid.
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Stella Creamer
Minerva Nice
Bank of Athens, N. B. A
Nice
I. A. Tewksbury
Wade Heckert
Tewksbury
Heckert
Vinton
Athens County
Columbia Casualty Company
Neva Bolton
Lawrence Bolton
Jacob N. Cady
Indiana Governor Jackson Faces Bribery Conspiracy Motions
Interest in Indiana politics shifts from Indianapolis mayoralty to state affairs as a motion to quash bribery conspiracy charges against Governor Ed Jackson and two aides is filed before Judge James A. Collins. Jackson, Coffin, and Marsh were set for arraignment Monday. Collins scheduled arguments Friday.
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Indianapolis
Ind
U.P
Indiana
Ed Jacksson
James A. Collins
Jackson
George W. Coffin
Robert I. Marsh
Oil spy trial ends in mistrial over jury tampering charges
The Fall Sinclair and Fall oil conspiracy trial ends after affidavits claim a juror boasted of profit from an acquittal and detectives probed jurors. Judge Siddons declares mistrial and government asks for a new trial in January as a grand jury investigates the case.
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Sinclair
Herbert Little
United Press
Washington, D. C
U.P
Frederick L. Siddons
Harry F. Sinclair
Albert B. Fall
Teapot Dome Naval Oil Reserve
Burns
Roberts
Justice Siddons
Edward Kidwell
Jtwo
Mene Siddons
Siddons
Fall
GUT IN RATES OF RAILROADS MAY FOLLOW
Washington November 2 UPI The house ways and means committee heard economist Dr C B Duncan of the association of railway executives urge a 10 percent corporation tax cut as a path to possible railroad rate reductions. Chester Gray for the American Park Bureau federation urged debt reduction first and argued current tax burdens are not equally distributed by ability to pay.
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House
Ways and Means Committee
C. 8. Duncan
Association of Railway Executives
Chester Gray
American Park Bureau Federation
Letter reveals Burns detectives surveilling Sinclair jurors
Washington reports a public release of a letter from O. G. Ruddy Burns detective manager to W. Sherman Burns of New York. It notes four operatives being withdrawn as the client only needed certain members watched. Neil Burkinshaw, U. S. attorney, questions Harry F. Sinclair as the client.
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Washington
O. G. Ruddy
Burns
W. Sherman Burns
New York
Sinclair
Neil Burkinshaw
U. S
Harry F
Secretary of Ohio State Alumni Says Toledo Is Wrong
Columbus reports say the Ohio State University Alumni association of Toledo requesting Dr J W Wilces removal as football coach does not reflect majority alumni sentiment. J L Morrell secretary of the National Alumni association and J B Nordholt Toledo former president support this view. Morrell calls the Toledo action misrepresentative of alumni opinion and loyalty across Ohio.
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Ohio State
Toledo
Columbus
U.P
Ohio State University Alumni Association of Toledo
J. W. Wilce
J. L. Morrell
National Alumni Association
Morril
J. B. Nordholdt
Morrill
Toledo Association
Oral Toledo
Mprmis
Spo
Ohio
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B. F. McDonald
Prohibition
Green Township
J. M. Cooley
Warner Avenue
University of Oklahoma At
Missouri
Kentucky
Griest
Paul R. Mallon
Athens
Frederic J. Haskin
Information Bureau
Washington, D. DC
UAGE
Nice Estate
Owen J. Roberts
UPI
Cal's Red Cross
President Coolidge
Red Cross
Mrs. Coolidge
White House
Wilce
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