Davis says Mississippi flood control must be solved by itself
Secretary of War Dwight F. Davis declares the Mississippi flood control problem a self-contained national issue needing sufficient funds and non political handling. He urges a complete plan under congressional authorization with yearly appropriations as needed and argues engineering can match past Panama Canal feats.
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Washington
United Press
Dwight F. Davis
Davis
Congress
Panama Canal
Teammates Aid Teen in Battle to Save Life
Carl Berry, 16, collapsed after a football injury in Prolong his life palacios Texas. His teammates applied artificial respiration through relays of chest presses and releases to keep air flowing into his lungs. Doctors had lost hope, but the players persisted through Sunday night.
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Palacios
Tex
U.P
Carl Berry
Ohio student killed in California auto crash
Robert Ritter, a sophomore at Ohio University and Phi Delta Theta member, died yesterday in California in an automobile accident where he was working. His body will be sent to his home in St. Louis for burial.
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Robert Ritter
Ohio University
Phi Delta Theta Fraternity
California
St. Louis
Too Frightened Says Youth in Explaining Why He Did Not Stop
Ronald Monroe an 18 year old hotel bus boy confessed to police that fear of detection drove him to flee after hitting and killing 80 year old Mrs Louise Lang in Columbus last week. He said he was too frightened to stop and had never before caused an accident. A manslaughter charge will be filed.
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Columbus
U.P
Ronald Monroe
Louise Lang
Monroe
Truant Bride Dora Dozer Changes Name to Dora Jones
Truant officers search for 15 year old Dora Dozer of Can nerville Ohio who has changed her name to Dora Jones. They find she is canning fruit and caring for a husband, so she cannot attend school.
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Dora Dozer
Cannerville, O
Dora
Dora Jones
Labor, migration and war policy to top AFL issues
At Los Angeles the American Federation of Labor enters its second week as international affairs dominate discussion. A resolutions committee report is to be made a special order after Friday's adjournment, with action due by noon. Topics include Mexican immigration limits, U S armed forces in Nicaragua and China, Boulder Dam, Swing-Johnson bill, Sherman act repeal, Porto Rico self government, and injunctions against strikes.
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Los Angeles
U.P
American Federation of Labor
California
Catalina Island
Resolutions Committee
Nicaragua
China
Boulder Dam
Porto Rico
Police Seek Italians Believed Bomb Makers After City Explosion
New York police search for two young Italian men who rented a room in a three story tenement demolished by a recent explosion. Five people died and 11 were injured as debris revealed an un exploded bomb matching a device found in the East River tunnel last July. One missing man may be an unidentified victim.
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New York
U.R
East River
Tension Eases Between Bulgaria and Yugoslavia
Relations between Bulgaria and Yugoslavia appeared calmer after a meeting between the Yugoslav foreign minister and Bulgaria's foreign minister. The earlier hostility followed the killing of General Kovachevitch by Bulgarian bandits last week, heightening tensions between the nations.
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Bulgaria
Jugo-Slavia
Sofia
U.R
Kovachevitch
Rioting Reported in Alla Abad India
The Morn ing Post correspondent at Alla Abad reports serious Hindu Moslem rioting in India.
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India
London
Morning Post
Alla Abad Today
Negro man held on bond in murder case at Tiffin
Sol Green aged 30 was held on five thousand dollars bond in Tiffin today charged with the murder of Wilmer Jones 33 of Amsden Alabama last night.
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Tiffin
Sol Green
Wilmer Jones
Nnegro
Amsden
Alabama
Domestic Troubles End in Murder Suicide Near Dale
Henry Blind age 45 killed his wife Alice Phipps Blind at their home six miles north of Bartlett then killed himself after years of domestic strife. Children found the bodies on returning from school and officials from Mc Connelsville investigated. Mrs Blind survived by a sister in Bartlett and several brothers in the West.
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Marietta
Dale
Morgan County
Henry Blind
McConnelsville
Blind
Bartlett
Alice Phipps
Weeley Township
Stockport
West
Body of Scott May Be Turned Over to Scientists Today
The body of Russell Scott, a convicted murderer who hanged himself in the Cook County jail, is to be given to scientists for brain examination. Scott killed Joseph Maurer in a 1924 pharmacy robbery and had a long legal fight over his death sentence before his suicide.
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Scott
Chicago
U.R
Russell Scott
Joseph Maurer
Robert
Maurer
Russell
Cook County
State Department approves French loan funding plan
Washington reports the State Department has no objections to a proposed 6 percent funding by New York bankers of France’s 78 million dollar 8 percent loan. Formal assurances to bankers and to France are expected within the next four hours.
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Washington
State Department
New York
France
Stoutsville Man Killed After Auto Collision
Kirbey Greager aged 47 of Stoutsville Fairfield county died in a Columbus hospital from injuries received when struck by an automobile while crossing a street in Stoutsville Friday.
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Columbus
Kirbey Greager
Stoutsville
Fairfield County
Revival of Former Independent Republicans Discussed in Senate
Western senators float revival of the old independent movement as a protest against 1928 Republican candidates. A meeting is set to discuss options with Borah Norris Brookhart Frazier Nye LaFollette Blaine Shipstead and others. They oppose the committee decision favoring renomination of Coolidge and Dawes and seek a farm bloc candidate over Lowden.
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Paul R. Mallon
United Press
Washington
U.R
Borah
Idaho
Norris
Nebraska
Brookhart
Iowa
Frazier
Nye
N. C
LaFollette
Blaine
Wisconsin
Shipstead
Farmer Labor
Minnesota
Coolidge
Dawes
Commerce
Hoover
Charles E. Hughes
Frank O. Lowden
Illinois
Auto dealers oppose Marshall bill as wet-anti-west squabble
The Ohio Council of the National Automobile Dealers Association joins the state automobile club in condemning the Marshall bill as a vicious principle of legislation. Officials say it would victimize motorists and that its aims could be achieved without infringing on drivers rights.
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Auto Dealers’ Association
Auto Club
Marshall Bill
Columbus
U.P
Ohio Council of the
National Automobile Dealers’ Association
State Automobile Club
Tax cut proposal targets trade groups and tax reform
The U S Chamber of Commerce urges a 400 million dollar federal tax cut to 1500 chambers and trade groups. It would reduce the corporate income tax from 13.5 to 10 percent and repeal inheritance and wartime excise taxes, with about 200 million in the current year and the full amount in the next year. The plan cites corporate taxes as overly onerous despite large state and local levies.
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Chambers of Commerce
U. S. Chamber of Commerce
Padlock squads to act Washington
Operation of padlock squads to trap liquor law violators was authorized today in new orders. Prohibition Commissioner Doran sent dry administrators to enforce.
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Washington
Prohibition
Doran
Water shutoff on Grosvenor street for pipe extension
City water will be off on Grosvenor street from 7 to 11 a.m. Tuesday to install new pipes for enhanced fire protection.
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City Water
Grosvenor Street
Four Hundred Children Enter Bird Coloring Contest Week Three
Four hundred pictures were submitted in the third week of Messenger's Bird Coloring Contest with the Red Headed Woodpecker the featured image. Winners include LaVerne Lamborn 8 and Eve n Wolfe 6 in Class I and Esther Ellen Williams 9 and Cath erine Talbert 12 in Class II.
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Bird Man
LaVerne Lamborn
Town Street
Glouster
Miss McKee
Even Wolfe
Walnut Street
Nelsonville
Miss Lane
Esther Ellen Williams
Alma Parker
Oakdale
Catherine Talbert
Jacksonville
Faye Reed
Bird picture coloring contest extends forty seven weeks
The Bird Man announces more prizes for the bird picture coloring contest to run forty seven additional weeks in the Messenger. Prizes will be offered to participants in school rooms.
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Athens
Meigs
Hocking
Spoils Divided After World Series Victory
New York October 10 Yankees split a record 167 765 08 from world series receipts among players staff and officials. Regulars received 5702 each with full shares to Miller Huggins Art Fletcher Charley O Leary and other staff. Don Miller trainer Doc Wood Roth Bennett Schneck and assistant received varied shares. Four years earlier players earned 5143.
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Yankees
Miller Huggins
Art Fletcher
Charley O'Leary
Don Miller
Doc
Wood
Mark Roth
Benny Bennett
Schneck
Yankee
Giants
Judge Crow Opens Meigs Court With Divorce Case Rules
Judge F. W. Crow sat in his first Meigs county common pleas court case a divorce. He announced that only the first Monday and Tuesday of each month would hear divorces, except emergencies, and ordered a grand jury to be drawn the same day. A Detroit woman’s daughter discussed clemency for her father, serving a life term for an alleged conspiracy in a cremation murder.
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F. W. Crow
Meigs County Common Pleas Court
Crow
Willock
Bengel
Tim O'Brien
Detroit
Ohio Penitentiary
Susan Rhoades
Willys Hill
Miners' Officers Deny Murray Meeting Rumor
Nelsonville officials deny knowledge of a mass miners meeting planned for tomorrow at Murray City ball park. Secretary-Treasurer Conrad Wein says he has nothing to do with calling it, and Oral Daugherty the sub-district president says he knew nothing about the gathering. The report suggests the meeting aims to achieve some objective.
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Nelsonville
Murray City
Conrad Wein
Wein
Oral Daugherty
Norfolk man’s hen sets egg record as Lady Babe Ruth
A Norfolk Nebraska man A R Landers names his hen Lady Norfolk but calls her Lady Babe Ruth The bird laid 160 eggs in as many days earning a world record Landers and the hen are pictured together highlighting the achievement.
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A. R. Landers
Norfolk
Neb
Babe Ruth
Landers
Calles Builds Long Mexican Battle as 5000 Troops Arrive
President Calles plans a drawn out clash with rebels in Vera Cruz as 5000 more federal troops reach the capital and the state. Navy orders coastal patrols to block escape by sea while desertions leave equipment in rebel hands. Palavicini's habeas corpus appeal adds diplomatic attention.
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Mexico City
U.R
Calles
Mexico
Vera Cruz
Sonora
Vera Crus
Gomez
Almada
Unclear meeting rumors denied by Daugherty
Mr Daugherty says rumors of a belt meeting are probably untrue and that funds are sought from the national organization.
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Lief
National Organization
Daugherty
French Aviators Begin Their Flight To South America
Dieudonne Coste and Joseph Le Brix of France started a bold voyage from Le Bourget at 9 40 am toward Saint Louis Senegal with a 2500 mile plan. They aim to reach Natal Brazil after crossing the Atlantic in stages and may use the full moon for timing.
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Atlantic
Natal
Brazil
Bayonne
Madrid
St. Louis
Weather Report Highlights Cold Morning Rise and Rainfall
The morning opened at 39 degrees and climbed to 62 by early afternoon. Rain totaled .21 inches from Friday noon to Sunday noon, with temperatures ranging from 70 to 39 degrees through the period and into Monday morning.
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