Little Hocking Bridge Opens on Route 50 South Highway
The inverted cantilever type bridge over the Little Hocking River on U. S. 50 South Highway opened with 1500 attendees. The $51,728 concrete steel span, first of its type in Ohio, improves traffic and marks the first major bridge project on the route. Officials from Belpre Coolville Athens and West Virginia attended along with the South East Ohio Motor Club and Belpre High School band.
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Little Hocking
Little Hocking River
Ohio
Waite Cutfit
Tdttle Hocking
C. L. Holstein
Belpre
Z. 8
Dorby
R. C. Sharpe
Charles Weeks
Marietta
State Highway Department
Robert Dodge
Dodge and Hussey, Inc
Belpre High School
Weeks
Coolville
Athens
West Virginia
Roosevelt Granddaughter Enters Private Cincinnati School
Pauline Longworth, Theodore Roosevelt’s granddaughter, has completed kindergarten in Brightwood Washington and begins first grade at a private Cincinnati school. Alice Roosevelt Longworth’s daughter is already proficient in French with a vocabulary near 200 words.
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Washington
U.P
Pauline Longworth
Theodore Roosevelt
Cincinnati
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Guggenheim Talks Cuba Situation With White in Washington
American Ambassador to Cuba Harry F. Guggenheim arrived in Washington for a conference with Assistant Secretary of State John J. White on Cuba's political conditions.
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Washington
Harry F. Guggenheim
Cuba
White
Athens Messenger Promotes Modern Manners Booklet
The Athens Messenger highlights a booklet on modern manners offering advice on polite calling etiquette. It warns against apologizing for staying long and delaying departure, noting small social missteps can harm manners. A coupon with six cents covers handling and postage.
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Athens
Torches Dropped From Plane Halt Kentucky Mine Work
In Madisonville Kentucky a second air raid on Western Kentucky coal mines stops operations at the Ross Company Fields. Aerial torches set fires, with miners fearing to work amid ongoing labor troubles and picket lines. Aviator James Malone of Murphysboro among six indicted in a Providence attack. federal grand jury probe ongoing in Louisville.
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Madisonville
U.P
Kentucky
Ross Company
James Smith
Providence
James Malone
Murphysboro
Louisville
Today by Arthur Brisbane
Daily column by Arthur Brisbane offering commentary on current events and social issues, reflecting the tone and concerns of the era with brisk observations and pointed judgments.
Wall Street Reacts to President Speech Sparks Boost
Wall Street traders regained confidence after the President’s Cleveland address, circulated to newspapers with publication reserved. The optimistic, fact based speech eased a somber market, lifting stock prices by one to five points and soothing anxious investors.
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Wall Street
Cleveland
George Reynolds Reflects On Banking Longevity And Recovery
George M. Reynolds, head of Continental Illinois Bank and Trust Company of Chicago, marks fifty years in banking. He declares depressions do not kill people and predicts a rapid recovery, stating that business volume will soon surprise the nation.
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George M. Reynolds
Continental Illinois Bank and Trust Company of
Chicago
NYC banks cut savings rate from 4 to 4 percent
Eleven major New York City savings banks announce a rate reduction from four percent to four and a fraction. Money piles up as rates remain low and investors grow wary, with a chorus that the issue is timidity rather than danger.
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New York City
Snowbound Gary Cooper Lily Da mita News Item
Gary Cooper and Lily Da mita, better known in the United States than Thales and Pythagoras, were snowbound. Continued on Page 4.
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Gary Cooper
Lily Damita
United States
Thales
Pythagoras
Hoover Speech Triggers Cleveland Riot Arrests
In Cleveland on October 3 four men were arrested for taking part in a riot tied to President Hoover's speech at Public Hall. About 1,500 marchers, many described as Communists, tried to break from a police escort and surge toward the hall. Police deployed clubs and exhaust to break the crowd as rioters damaged storefronts and glass windows.
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Cleveland
Hoover
Young Workers League
International Labor Defense League
General Gouraud Visits Washington D.C. In Official Round
General Henri Gouraud, famed commander of the Rainbow Division in France, arrives in Washington for a round of calls. He meets President Hoover at the White House after visits to Secretary Stimson, Assistant Secretary Paine, and Major General Brown, dean of the Army staff.
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Washington
U.R
Henri Gouraud
Rainbow
France
Uader
Paul Clauder
Hoover
White House
Stimson
Paine
Preston Brown
Army
Counterfeiting gang leader targeted in federal warrant
Toledo report says Lee N. Marlin assistant United States attorney obtained a federal warrant charging conspiracy to violate the counterfeit laws. Milan Ladish described as the gang's leader and brains was sought for removal from Indiana following Monday's arrest in Toledo.
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Toledo
Lee N. Marlin
United States
Indiana
Milan Ladish
Kelley Agrees to Tell More in Oil Scandal
Kelley the suspended chief of the Field Division of the General Land Office at Denver agrees to detail to Senator Nye the charges that the Interior Department aided big oil companies to obtain title to oil shale fields. The Senate investigation and Justice Department probe were both expected to begin today.
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Washington
U.R
Ralph Kelley
Kelley
Gerald P. Nye
Senate Public Lands Committee
Department of Justice
General Land Office
Denver
Nye
Interior Department
Seth W. Richardson
Justice Department
Longview Hospital Overstaffed, Examiner Recommends Cuts
In Cincinnati, Longview State Hospital faces an overabundance of attendants and nurses. State Examiner Hoopengarner urges the Welfare Department and the superintendent to review staff levels and eliminate nonessential positions.
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Longview Hospital
Columbus
U.P
Longview State Hospital
Cincinnati
Tracy
I’. M. Hoopengarner
Hoppengarner
Welfare Department
Turks in raid destroy villages and massacre civilians
A Jerusalem dispatch reported by United Press that Turkish forces killed and massacred 4,500 people including women and children in the Zilan District and bombarded districts at Ejeulmarek Agri and Tendruk, with unconfirmed claims of widespread civilian deaths.
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London
U.R
Exchange Telegraph
Jerusalem
Zilan
Ejeulmarek
Agri
Tendruk
English Missionaries Executed by Chinese Bandits
Miss Edith Nettleton of Halifax Yorkshire and Miss Eleanor Jane Harrison of Cookley Worcestershire were shot dead after being held captive since June 28. The two English women missionaries were seized aboard a steamer en route to Foochow from Chungan.
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London
U.R
Church Missionary Society
Foochow
Edith Nettleton
Halifax
Yorkshire
Eleanor Jane Harrison
Cookley
Worcestershire
Miss Nettleton
Chungan
Koochow
Missionary Society
Communists seize Hsuchang in key railway city
Communist forces capture Hsuchang, a strategic city on the Peiping Hankow Railway, from government troops. Analysts say the fall may hasten Chengchow’s collapse, shifting the balance against Nationalist forces led by Chiang Kai-shek and opposing Feng Yuh-liang.
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Hankow
China
U.P
Hsuchang
British Missionaries Said Executed In China Reports Unconfirmed
London reports from Shanghai say two British women missionaries Edith Nettleton and Eleanor Jane Harrison were allegedly executed by Chinese bandits but the British legation has not confirmed the incident.
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Peiping
China
London
Edith Nettleton
Eleanor Jane Harrison
Shanghai
Circleville asks P U C for rail removal order
Circleville has applied to the Public Utilities Commission for a rehearing on the Scioto Valley Railway and Power Company abandonment of its Columbus to Lancaster and Chillicothe lines. The city seeks a modified order binding removal of steel rails embedded in Circleville streets before abandonment, a request not granted.
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Columbuls
U.R
Circleville
Public Utilities Commission
Scioto Valley Railway & Power Company
Columbus
Lancaster
Chillicothe
Ohio University Butler Football Contest Tonight
A leased wire from Butler Stadium in Indianapolis will provide a detailed account of the Ohio University Butler football game tonight to the Athens Elks Club. Elks members are invited to the Cline Building quarters at 7:30 p.m. and may bring friends. Western Union extended the leased wire to the Biks club rooms, with several hundred persons expected for the season opener.
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Butler
Indianapolis
Ohio University- Butler
Athens Elks
Elka
Cline
Lodge
Biks
Western Union Telegraph Company
Bobcats
Cuba crisis tests U S stance on Machado regime
Washington reports growing opposition to President Gerardo Machado in Cuba raises concern at the State Department. Officials reaffirm non intervention unless order must be restored, noting a student protest and the university closure until after October 15 elections.
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Washington
Cuba
Gerardo Machado
State Department
Machado
Union Nacionalista
United States
Latin America
Nicaragua
National University
Bishop James Cannon Jr Faces Methodist Charges Probe
Bishop James Cannon Jr. refused to discuss a conference with Bishop W N Ainsworth of the Methodist Church South amid charges filed by four ministers. Bishop Ainsworth was reported to be returning to Birmingham to name a 12 member committee to investigate the Cannon charges.
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Washington
U.R
James Cannon, Jr
W. N. Ainsworth
Methodist Church South
Ainsworth
Birmingham
Ala
Ohio Trail to be Dedicated October 10th
Columbus reports the dedication of the Ohio Revolutionary Memorial Trail and new state park at Piqua Battlefield set for October 10. A. L D. Hosterman of the memorial commission announced the event and noted the Piqua site as a key marker on the Ohio memorial trails system. Work on trail markers will begin early next week per State Highway Director Robert N. Waid.
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Columbus
U.P
New State Park
Piqua Battlefield
A. L D. Hosterman
Springfield
George Rogers Clark
Piqua
America
Wheeling
W. Va
Robert N. Waid
Tragedy in Toledo: Mrs Marion Lowry Takes Own Life
The 30 year old Toledo sportswoman Marion Lowry shot herself in her studio apartment Thursday. The body will be moved to Berlin Heights home of her former husband John Lowry. A seven year old son survives. A diary showed she feared a mental calamity.
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Toledo
Marion Lowry
Berlin Heights
John Lowry
Lowry
Court to hear 336 cases in Ath ens fall term
Judge L. G. Worstell of the Ath ens County Common Pleas Court will hear 336 cases in the fall term. Civil actions total 189 with 97 to be heard by jury while 147 criminal cases are to be decided. The term opens Monday and runs until January 6.
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L. G. Worstell
Athens County Common Pleas Court
Bomb Explodes in Mail Van in London
A bomb exploded today inside a London mail van carrying mail from Ireland. Four Post Office workers were injured and the vehicle demolished.
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London
U.2
Ireland
Weds Fifth Time Then Divorced on Cruelty Grounds
Carr ie Morris of Uhrichsville, aged 58, became a divorcee for the third time today when Common Pleas Judge Kebk Lindsey granted a divorce from her fifth husband, 75 year old Samuel Morris, on grounds of extreme cruelty. Morris had been married four times.
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New Philadelphia
Carrie Morris
Uhrichsville
Common Pleas
Kebk, Lindsay
Samuel Morris
Morris
Civil War Veteran Hawke Dies Before 64th Wedding Anniversary
Michael A. Hawke, 84 or 85, Maynard Colorado area, last surviving Civil War veteran, died suddenly on the eve of his planned quiet 64th wedding anniversary celebration at his home. Hawke and his wife had arranged details for the party when he fell ill and passed away just hours before guests were to arrive.
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Maynard, CO
U.P
Michael A. Havke
Hawke
Giants Battle Over Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroad Resumed
The Taplins and Van Sweringens clashed before the Interstate Commerce Commission in Washington on October 5 over control of the Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroad and its Lorain & West Virginia subsidiary. Pittsburgh & West Virginia, owned by the Taplins, asked the commission to override Burnside’s proposed report and grant a conditional order authorizing the acquisition, while Burnside urged denial.
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Washington
U.R
Taplins and
van Sweringens
Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroad
Interstate Commerce Commission
Pittsburgh & West Virginia
Taplins
V. Burnside
Wheeling & Lake Erie
Lorain & West Virginia
Burnside
Hoover Urges Self-Reliance to Restore Normal Business
President Hoover denounces lowering the American standard of living in a speech to 12,000 bankers at the American Bankers Association convention in Cleveland. He urged reliance on own strength to return to normal business as nations face difficulties, with the speech broadcast nationally before he departed for Washington.
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America
Hoover
Cleveland
American Bankers’ Association
Alatforms
Transfer of veteran funds to highway repair upheld
Attorney General Gilbert Bettman ruled the State Emergency Board action legal as it transferred 1.3 million dollars from the veteran's adjusted compensation fund to the Highway Department maintenance and repair fund. The sum, not needed for soldiers' bonus bond payments, will be repaid from gasoline tax receipts per Bettman's opinion to State Auditor Tracy.
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Columburb
State Emergency Board
Highway Department
Gilbert Bettman
Bettman
Tracy
Women Assist Bureau Added To Democratic State Headquarters
The Democratic State Headquarters in Columbus announced a new Women’s Bureau led by Mrs Bernice Pyke of Cleveland and Miss Mary White of Marietta. The group aims to boost young women's interest in government affairs and party activities.
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Columbus
Women's Organization
Democratic
Henry G. Brunner
Tew
Mra
Bernice Pyke
Cleveland
Mary White
Marietta
George White
Pyke
Hard to repeal capital gains tax blunts growth, officials say
President Hoover signaled a study of his capital gains tax in Cleveland. Officials noted the tax is deeply embedded in the income tax structure, making repeal difficult despite possible inflationary effects and impact on land and securities movement.
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Washington
U.R
Hoover
Cleveland
Curry Refuses Immunity Testimony in Grand Jury Probe
John Ff. Curry a Tammany leader declines to waive immunity and testify before the grand jury probing alleged office buying in New York County. He is not a city official, affecting the stance of nine Tammany district leaders amid Mayor Walker's demand for waivers or resignation.
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New York
John Ff. Curry
Tammany Teader
Kward Grand
New York County
Curry
Walker
Tammany
French aviator plans New York to Baghdad flight in Question Mark
Paris reports that Paul Co des plans a New York to Baghdad flight using Dieudonne Costes and Maurice Bellonte’s trans Atlantic aircraft Question Mark. The venture follows the earlier crash a hour after take off on the Indo China attempt.
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PARI
UPI
Paul Codes
Dieudonne Costes
Maurice Bellonte
New York
Bagdad
Costes
le Journal
Murder inquiry opens over unidentified body found roadside
Dennison Oct 3 A county grand jury will start an investigation into the ears murder of an unidentified man whose mutilated body was found in a roadside ditch County Prosecutor J F Kuhns said today The case hinges on the discovery and pending review by the grand jury next Wednesday
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Dennison
PR County
J. F. Kuhns
Hoover Rests After Cleveland Speech
President Hoover returns to Washington from Cleveland where he addressed the American Bankers Association last night. He plans a weekend rest before resuming his speaking tour to Boston Monday and Kings Mountain South Carolina Tuesday.
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Hoover
Washington
Cleveland
American Bankers Association
Boston
Kings Mountain
South Carolina
Hoover on bankers lead to restore prosperity on way to D C
On his special train to Washington President Hoover urged bankers to drive recovery. In Cleveland he told 6,000 American Bankers Association members that living standards should rise through invention and diffusion, while defending the expansion of the industrial program.
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President Hoover
Washington
Hoover
Cleveland
Attack with bricks shocks Akron home in three nights
In Akron on October 3 a mystery assault struck the home of Sam Bagtia. Two windows were broken before dawn as bricks were hurled at the house, with no injuries reported and police investigating the aim of the attack.
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Akron
Sam Bagtia
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