Green Leader Decries Private Delegation of Police Powers
William Green, head of the American Federation of Labor, urged an immediate probe into alleged abuses by coal and iron police in western Pennsylvania. Governor Fisher promised intensified inquiry after a three hour meeting with labor leaders amid 85,000 striking miners. Green called it outrageous for the state to delegate police powers to private interests.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
John 8. Fisher
Green Heads
William Green
American Federation of Labor
Fisher
Pittsburgh
Federation of Labor
Coolidge
Green
Romanian cabinet to discuss fight against threatened bloc campaign
Rome reports the Romanian cabinet planned to discuss measures to counter a threatened campaign by a bloc formed by national people's and peasants' parties. The move follows tensions in Vienna on November 17.
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Vienna
People's and Peasants
Hearing Delayed in Newark Dempsey Suit Action
Newark reports say the $33 833.33 suit of Jack Kearns against Jack Dempsey was postponed today until Monday and may be settled out of court.
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Newark
N. J
Jack Kearns
Jack Dempsey
Weather report with cold rain and low 37 degree noon
A cold rain pushed the temperature to 37 degrees at noon for the 24 hour period. The high was 2 degrees at 2 pm yesterday. Rainfall measured .02 inches with temperatures listed for the following day.
Hunters Question Game Law Open Season booklet
Government game law booklet answers hunters questions on season dates, species, licensing costs, limits, interstate and local sale rules. Send name and address with four cents for return postage and a copy of the booklet. Frederic J. Haskin directs the Information Bureau in Washington, D C.
Freezing Weather Reaches Ohio As Rain Turns To Sleet
A cold front driven by a biting north wind settles over Ohio. Rain from yesterday ongoing last night is expected to turn to sleet this day. The freezing point is anticipated to be reached by evening as the cold spreads eastward from the Midwest.
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Ohio
Columbus
U.P
Midwest
Homemaking as Profession Highlighted in Athens Cooking School
Mrs George O Thurn argues homemaking is a profession and announces a five day cooking school at Athens high school starting Monday at 2 pm under the Messenger. The program will cover scientific and practical homemaking, new tools, modern cookery, and books to aid kitchen work.
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Athens
George O. Thurn
Athens High School
The
Messenger
United States
New York
Thurn
Business Club
Delayed Takeoff Halts Hawaii-Australia Flight Plan
Captain Frederick Giles postponed his Honolulu flight after deciding the muddy runway at Mills Field San Francisco made his heavily loaded plane unable to take off for the first leg toward Australia.
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Mills Field
San Francisco
Cal
U.P
Frederick Giles
Honolulu
Australia
Giles
Harmless Impersonator Ivor Darnell Pleads Guilty
Ivor Darnell of Canaanville pleaded guilty before Judge L. G. Worstell this morning to impersonating an officer. He was fined 256 dollars plus costs after flashing a badge at a local Canaanville dance and offering to keep order, per Sheriff William Williams.
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Ivor Darnell
Canaanville
L. G. Worstell
Darnell
Canaonville
William Williams
Resources of 7604 banks report record $27,213000
Washington November 17 Comptroller of Currency McIntosh announced the resources of 7 604 reporting national banks in the United States Alaska and Hawaii on Oct. 10 totaled 27 213 24 000 the largest amount ever reported in the history of the system
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Washington
McIntosh
United States
Alaska
Hawaii
Hunter Is Found Pinned Beneath Overturned Auto
D Hayes of Columbus was pulled from beneath his wrecked car on a river bank six miles north of Upper Sandusky after spending the night trapped. He was taken to Tiffin in an ambulance, unconscious from exposure, with a sprained back. He had skidded and plunged over a 10 foot embankment, calling for help to passing motorists.
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Tiffin
Hayes
Ed Calmes
Ohio Supreme Court Sets December 13 Hearing for Hewitt Appeal
The Ohio Supreme Court announced a hearing for Floyd Hewitt, 17, of Conneaut, on December 13 regarding his appeal from a sentence to the electric chair. Hewitt, initially slated for execution on November 25, received an indefinite stay after his appeal was filed yesterday.
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Columbus
U.P
Ohio Supreme Court
Floyd Hewitt
Hewitt
Supreme Court
Fever Licenses Issued Fall Short of Normal Hunts
Thurman J L Morgan, Common Pleas Court Clerk, reports 720 hunting licenses issued so far this season, about 300 to 460 fewer than normal years. The rabbit season ends at midnight January 1, and hunting on the last day requires a 1928 license.
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Common Pleas Court
Thurman JL. Morgan
Delaware Man Killed After Truck Strike
Emmett Snow aged 75 died after being struck by a truck driven by Irvin Swindler as he stepped from the curb between two lanes of machines and failed to reach the sidewalk.
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Delaware
Emmett Snow
Irvin Swindler
Perry County Grand Jury Probes Murder and Attempted Assassination
Judge F D Price urged the Perry County Grand Jury in New Lexington Ohio to expand its murder probe the murder of John Weakley a brick plant guard and the attempted assassination of New Straitsville city officers last Saturday Indictments were rumored as federal agents Teal Davis and Dixon raided an old mine near the battleground recovering a 100 gallon still thirteen mash barrels and liquor without interference
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New Lexington
F. DD. Price
Perry County
John Weakley
New Straitsville
Teal, Davis
Dixon
First Hocking County hunting accident costs Shawnee miner life
Logan November 17. James Jones 47 a Shawnee miner was killed when a twelve gauge shotgun discharged near a rail fence two miles south of Webb Summit. Coroner J W Miller ordered Turnbull questioned after investigators found no shell in the gun.
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Hocking County
James Jones
Robert Turnhill
Logan
Shawnee
Ellen Mohler
Webb Summit
J. W Miller
Jones
Robert Turnbull
William Geiger
Turnbull
Mohler
Miller
Athens auto dealer rescued after crash in Sugar Creek
Pedestrians at Sugar Creek highway pulled A E Algeo Athens automobile dealer from his car after it careened into a ditch and submerged upside down in the creek at 6 o clock last night. The roadster was a total wreck and two dozen locals assisted in the rescue.
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Sugar Creek
A. KE. Algeo
Athens
Algeo
Parents Seek Damages for Ohio State Death
Ohio State University students and the parents of Ira Miller of Delphos filed a $25,000 claim with the sun-dry claims board for the death of Miller, a senior electro engineering student electrocuted during a prescribed experiment in the university lab. Fellow students say lab equipment is unsafe and dangerous. The board will investigate responsibility and parental dependency in the accident.
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Columbus
U.P
State of Ohio
Ira Miller
Electrical Engineering Laboratory
Ohio State University
Sundries Claims Board
Delphos
Miller
Engineering
Old Damascus sword blade tale told by Carnes
The Cincinnati Rotary club heard Dr. W. Stuart Carnes describe the lost art of Damascus blade making. He demonstrated a sword he forged that remains flexible to touch the hilt, a result of his vanadium discovery after Peru’s ore arrived in the United States. He shaved with it, pierced a one inch steel plate, and cut glass and spikes.
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Cincinnati
U.P
Rotary Club
W. Stuart Carnes
Car-Van_ Steel company
Canton
Carnes
Peru
French captives freed by mountain tribesmen arrive at lines
Four French women and two Frenchmen released from captivity by mountain tribesmen entered the French lines at 11 a.m. and were to reach the first outpost of troops by noon today near Casablanca Morocco.
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Casablanca
Morocco
Dissolve Order Blocks Rail Lease Revival
The U S circuit court of appeals dissolved a previous injunction that blocked New York Central from completing a 9 year lease of the Big Four line. Minority stockholders had challenged the arrangement, but the dissolution allows the lease process to proceed.
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Cincinnati
Big Four Railroad
New York Central Railroad
U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Sleet and Snow Causing Fatal Weather Across Ohio
In Columbus the U P reports sleet and snow driven by gusts of wind contributed to three deaths in Ohio. Two traffic deaths in Cleveland stemmed from impaired vision, and a Cincinnati pedestrian was struck by a car. Weather caused power lines to fall and flood drains to fail in cities. forecasts expect continued rain sleet and a temperature drop with snow statewide.
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Columbus
U.P
Ohio
Cleveland
Cincinnati
Warning on household hazards from city inspector
Tiffin reports Columbus building inspector W. S. Winnard warns high school pupils that using dynamite for a tack hammer is as unsafe as using gasoline for cleaning, stressing the greater danger of the former.
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Tiffin
W. Ss. Winnard
Columbus
Winmard
Tiffin High School
Witness Douglas Catchim Photoed After Grand Jury Session
Private detective Douglas S. Catchim of A. M. C. and Burns International Detective Agency testified before the grand jury probing alleged tampering with the Mall Sinclair trial jury in Washington. He was photographed as he exited the grand jury room.
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Douglas S. Catchim
Burns International Detective Agency
Mall-Sinclair
Washington
Railroads Defy Rates Cut On Lake Coal
In Washington on November 17 the Interstate Commerce Commission signaled it would not tolerate southern railroads cutting Lake cargo coal rates by 20 cents a ton to offset a new differential. J. W. Dewberry of L. and N. attempted to justify the move while hearings continue. The commission ordered the southern rates suspended, with Commissioner Campbell hinting that suspension may become permanent, granting Ohio and Pennsylvania mines the 20 cent differential.
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Washington, D. C
U.P
Southern Railroads
Interstate Commerce Commission
J. W. Dewberry
L. & N. Railroad
Southern
J. B. Campbell
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Teapot Dome saga continues with $100000 seized
The Teapot Dome case advances as $100,000 was seized from Harry M. Blackmer, who is in Europe. Possible Denver property seizure looms to satisfy a penalty, while the grand jury resumes tomorrow with final evidence and guidance from U S Attorney Peyton Gordon on the case law.
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Harry M. Blackmer
Blackmer
Europe
U. S
Denver
Peyton Gordon
Blackmer to Stay in France to Avoid U S Testimony
Harry M. Blackmer, a witness in the Fall-Sinclair conspiracy case, says he will not return to the United States to testify. His lawyer told UPI that Blackmer will remain in France to avoid American court jurisdiction, despite a potential $100,000 of his probe money being seized.
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France
Paris
Harry M. Blackmer
United States
United Press
Blackmer
FIGHTERS FINED FOR FIGHTING IN PLEASANT PLAIN COURT
Dave Powers known as Rags Terrell of The Plains and Roy Price of Athens pleaded guilty to fighting and disturbing the peace before Mayor Alex Moore. Each was fined five dollars and costs. Powers said Price owed him for coal and Price admitted the debt and promised to pay Chief Parker this afternoon.
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Rags Terrell
Plains
Dave Powers
Roy Price
Athens
Alex Moore
Moore
Powers
Price
Herbert Parker
Parker
Remus seeks married jurors in murder trial
Cincinnati dispatch reports George Remus directing his own defense in juror selection. He has indicated a preference for a jury of married men, denying in court that he wants to exclude women or bachelors, while co-counsel disputes the claim.
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George Remus
Cincinnati
U.P
Charles H. Elston
Remus
Imogene
Ironton Treasurer Arrested Over $47,862 Shortage
Frank Jk Melvin Lawrence county treasurer was arrested after books showed a shortage of 47,862.36 dollars. He admitted the shortage and confessed attempting to cover it by giving the state examiner false balance statements forged signatures of Ironton bank officials.
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Ironton
Frank Jk. Melvin
Lawrence County
James Collier
Melvin
Ironton Bank
First Rainfall in Weeks Exceeds Two Inches in 24 Hours
Athens and surrounding area received more than 2 inches of rain in the last 24 hours. Farmers welcomed the steady downpour as wells had dried up and streams that nearly ceased flow became small torrents.
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Athens
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