Graf Zeppelin Reaches Europe After Atlantic Crossing
The Graf Zeppelin lands at Corunna Spain at 5 15 p m local time after a swift Atlantic passage battling storms. The airship heads toward France along the northwestern Spanish coast with officials predicting a new Atlantic speed record.
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Corunna
Spain
Atlantic
Bay of Biscay
France
North Atlantic
Europe
Lakehurst
N. J
Friedrichshafen
Hamburg-American Line
Graf Zeppelin Moved By Gale Off Azores Bound for Europe
Radio from the Graf Zeppelin reports Captain Ernest Lehmann steering south of the Azores after a gale forced the dirigible off course. The airship traced positions near 2°N 26.43°W then 5.53°N 24°W as it aimed toward Gibraltar, with a return plan to circle back around the Azores.
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U. S. America
U.R
Friedrichshafen
Dirigible
Ernest Lehmann
Lehmann
Graf
Rigible
Zores
Europe
Greenwich
Azores
Graf Zeppelin
Gibraltar
Nelsonville Woman Gets 6500 Award
The af te industrial commission announced six death awards under the workmen's compensation act. Mrs Eva Kerr of Nelsonville, 66, received 600 for death of her husband Clifford Kerr. Mrs Ethel Morris of Athens was granted 6500 for her husband’s death by electrocution while employed by Southern Ohio Electric Company.
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Columbus
U.P
af @te industrial commission
Eva Kerr
Nelsonville
Clifford Kerr
Ethel Morris
Athens
Southern Ohio Electric Company
British see Arab border situation in control in Palestine
British authorities in Palestine tightened frontier patrols and ordered aviators to watch for cross border Arab incursions as rioting continued between Arabs and Jews in the north. Leaflets of High Commissioner Sir John Robert Chancellor were distributed across populated areas.
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Jerusalem
Transjordania
Syria
Palestine
John Robert Chancellor
New Forney Act Requires Stop for School Bus Passengers
Columbus reports the Forney Act becomes operative with the opening of public schools. Drivers must stop completely when approaching school buses outside city limits. Vehicles must stay at least 10 feet away and remain until children board or alight and reach the roadside.
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Columbus
U.P
Bond Issue Proposed For Jerseyville High School Addition
The Shade Consolidated Rural School District approved a 7000 bond issue to fund a Jerseyville High School addition. Athens County, aided by a 5000 state donation, plans a 373000 total program with 75000 state share. McVay notes state aid requires a nine and a half mill levy.
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Jerseyville
Shade Consolidated
Athens County
H. R. McVay
Water outage affects streets near filling station work
Water will be off three hours from 7 to 10 am in East State Street from Court to Townsend, Franklin and Grosvenor Avenues, Morris Avenue, Carpenter Street, Court Street, Fern to Carpenter, and Montrose Avenue due to moving a water plug for the Retiners Oil station on East State Street. The work is funded by the oil company.
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Retiners Oil Corporation
East State Street
G. M. Romine
Carpenter Street
Oil Company
Romine
Court Street
Townsend
Franklin Avenue
Grosvenor Street
Morris Avenue
East State
Cable
Congress
Fern
Carpenter
Montrose Avenue
Former Athens mayor faces 10 counts of embezzlement
The trial of Alex M. Moore, former mayor of Athens, opened with testimonies from police Chief Finsterwald and others. Indictments allege a $956.53 shortage from 1927 to 1929, tied to fines collected but not turned over to the city treasury. Moore pleaded not guilty and posted $2,800 bond.
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Alex M. Moore
Athens
Athens County
Athens County Common Pleas Court
E. S. Finsterwald
George Feth
Jake Feth
Griff H. Evans
Feth
Joseph Tracy
George B. Rector
Parkersburg
E. C. Woodworth
Moore
Bear Returns Killed After Kidnapping Attempt Near Winnipeg
A nine foot 450 pound black bear, which fled its forest home to kidnap and devour a three year old, returned to the scene and was shot by a provincial policeman using a machine gun. Neighbors and police waited at Fred Ghorrichuk's home in Lowland Manitoba as two volleys halted the bear's charge.
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Winnipeg
Man
Fred Ghorrichuk
Lowland
Manitoba
Murder May Result in Checking Powers of Private Officers
Three Pennsylvania coal company guards including Lieutenant W J Lyster and Officers Frank Slapska and H P Watts face murder trials in Pittsburgh for the beating death of John Barcoski, a farmer miner. The case spurred reform talk as the Pittsburgh Coal Company paid about 12000 to Barcoski’s widow.
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Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania Coal and Tron
W. J. Lyster
Frank Slapska
H. P. Watts
John Barcoski
Pittsburgh Coal Company
Santiago
John
Fisher
Barcoski
Slapika
Watts
Lyater
Pennsylvania Coal Company
John Bartcoski
Prank Slapska
It Is Measurable? Yale Profs Explain “It” At Psy Congress
At the Ninth International Psychology Congress in New Haven Yale's Mark A. May defines personality as an individual's social stimulus value. He says room presence alters conversation tone and confirms if someone lacks "It" and has zero stimulus value. He foresees a future method to measure personality akin to weighing with scales, though no current method satisfies science.
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Sam Love
United Press
New Haven
Conn
UPI
John Gilbert
Ciara
Mark A. May
Yale of
Cleopatra
May
Professor May
Dr Eckener Stays Awhile In Postwar Pause
Arthur Brisbane notes the German dirigemaker’s prolonged stay hints at postwar recovery. The column weighs newspaper usefulness amid regional tensions and reflects on the Palestine tragedy and wartime oil dynamics shaping public interest.
Doctor Eckener’s globe voyage backed by Hearst support
A celebrated navigator and businessman Doctor Eckener circled the earth in four hops named America Europe Japan California New York and now sends his boat home while heading to Ohio to aid American Zeppelina construction. William Randolph Hearst financed the expedition showing the impact of mass media funding on major ventures.
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Doctor Eckener
Earth
America
Europe
Japan
California
New York
Ohio
William Randolph Hearst
ERRORGRAMS Challenge Debuts as Puzzles Take Center Stage
A bold new puzzle line, ERRORGRAMS, is launched promising to outshine past puzzles. The teaser hints at a first installment designed to stump readers with clever wordplay and a bold challenge.
Hearst Plans and Actions in Spanish American War
Hearst organized a British steamer to block the Suez entrance if Spanish warships moved toward Manila. The plan, under Hearst's orders, would scuttle the Collier ahead of the Spaniards and keep it sunk for days with a British flag aiding the tactic. Paul Block spoke at the Eckener luncheon describing these costly enterprises.
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Hearst
Suez Canal
Manila
Hoover Returns to White House After Weekend at Camp
President Hoover and Mrs. Hoover returned to Washington after a weekend at Blue Ridge Camp. They stopped for a picnic dinner en route, while Allan Hoover and some guests stayed behind at the camp.
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Washington
Hoover
White House
Blue Ridge Mountain
AF of Labor Aims Five Day Week and Higher Wages
Baltimore Sept 3 The American Federation of Labor led by President William Green presses for a five day work week for all workers higher wages and more humane employment conditions as its central goal through organized action and advocacy.
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Baltimore
American Federation of Labor
William Green
Amesville-Lathrop Crash Kills Young Meats Clerk
Arthur P. Newman 20 of Athens died when a Columbia Dispatch truck overturned on Route 50 North between Amesville and Lathrop after a sharp curve. Three others, Carl Wolfe Kay Wilden and Oscar Brealey, were seriously injured. Wolfe rushed to Athens Sheltering Arms Hospital while Wilson Stealey were treated at Columbus hospitals. Newman had worked at Smith Meat Market in Athens.
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Arthur P. Newman
Athens
W. R. Goddard
Route 50
Amesaville
Lathrop
Carl D. Wolfe
Marietta
Kay Wilden
Oscar Brealey
Columbua
Newman
Smiths
Powhattan
Columbia Dispatch
Ray Wilson
Wolfe
Wilson
Stealey
Federal Creek
Columbus
Jagers
Walburn
Smith Meat Market
Sugar Creek
Charles Mills
Grosvenor Street
Mills
Non Stop Trip Continues To New York Flight
Captain Ira C. Baker and Lieutenant Bernard Thompson completed the first leg of a non stop refueling coast to coast flight and were to refuel at Cleveland airport around noon before heading to New York City. The westward leg faced very unfavorable weather.
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Cleveland
U.R
Ira C. Baker
Bernard Thompson
New York City
Young and Jeff Stone Fly-Aboard Rescue Flight
Captain DL H Young fell from a Norton Field plane during a whip stall as his belt issued. The parachute opened. Jeff Stone in the forward cockpit continued the flight solo at about 1000 feet and landed safely at Port Columbus. The second captain’s name was withheld for army reasons.
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Columbus
U.P
DL. H H. Young
Norton Field
Port Columbus
Steamer Mayon Sinks as Philippine Storm Rages
A hurricane like storm battered the Philippine Islands sinking the Steamer Mayon off Pasacao near Regay Gulf. Only nine of 47 crew were rescued, with 28 feared lost. Cebu Tayabas Rizal and other areas suffered floods and widespread damage while government offices and schools closed.
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Manila
Pal
Philippine Islands
Pasacao
Regay Gulf
Mamarines Hur
Cebu
Tayabas
Luzon
Rizal
Philippines
Planta
Romance Ends When Couple Dies in Toledo Crash
Five killed and over twenty injured in Toledo highway crash. Edward Lynch 20 and Mrs Leola Lynch 18 were newly married. Nichol as Watters 29 Melvine William 23 and Paul L Cowell 23 also perished. Harry Luzny 42 survived serious injuries.
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Toledo
Tvo
Edward Lynch
Leola Lynch
Nicholas Watters
Melvine William
Paul L. Cowell
Harry Luzny
Lynch
Bank Heist at Cosmopolitan Savings in Cleveland
Two gunmen robbed the Cosmopolitan Savings and Loan in Cleveland today, holding bank officials at gunpoint and escaping with about $6090 in currency. It was the second robbery at the same institution this year.
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Cleveland
U.ph Ithe Cosmopolitan Savings and Loan Company
Refuel Plane in Cheyenne for Transcontinental Flight
Preparations were under way in Cheyenne Wyoming to refuel the Boeing Shuttle endurance plane piloted by Captain Ira Eaker as it prepares for a transcontinental flight.
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Cheyenne
Wyo
Boeing Shuttle
Ira Eaker
Tiny mouse stirs panic at Pomeroy church service
A big-eared mouse emerged from a Sunday Schoolroom column at the Pomeroy Methodist Church during union services and moved cautiously among shoes and pianissimo notes. The lone observer kept silent as the creature skittered behind the piano, avoiding a stampede.
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Pomeroy
Pomeroy Methodist Church
Ohio holiday auto deaths toll rises across state
Twelve people died in Ohio over the holiday from traffic crashes, drownings, and liquor poisons. To lead the toll, five killed in Toledo when a car slammed into a pole. other fatalities occurred in Cleveland Lima Van Wert Dayton Akron Youngstown and Ravenna with additional drownings near Akron and Lake Stafford.
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Ohio
United Press
Athena
Pomeroy
Toledo
Edward Lynch
Mra
Leola Lynch
Nicholas Watters
Melvine Wilelama
Paul L. Cowell
van Wert
James Stetler
Ohio City
Dayton
Marie Hofferberth
Rumwsell Schaeffer
Mary Helmick
Willard Helmick
Akron
Bernard Termennan
M E Conference Meets In Ohio Session Opens
The Ohio Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church convenes its annual session with a memorial sermon by Dr. T Campbell of North Broadway M E Church followed by Communion. Two constitutional amendments from 1928 seek ratification on lay membership in annual conferences and electing bishops by conferences in foreign fields.
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Colimels
Ohio
MacDonald Pleads For Peace At League Assembly
Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald urged the League of Nations to back international peace and a forthcoming Anglo American naval arms limitation pact. He said the accord is not directed at anyone and called for hard work to strengthen foundations of global peace.
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Geneva
R—Premeter
J. Ramsay MacDonald
England
League of Nations Assembly
League
Breakfast and Dinner Menu for Wednesday
Breakfast includes grapes and berries, cereal and bran, gra bread coffee. Lunch offers dried or cold roast beef, pear salad, bran muffins, milk. Dinner features tomato soup, chicken, broiled mushrooms cauliflower, lettuce and green pepper salad, whole wheat bread, pineapple and demi tasse.
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Bhat Zeppelin
Bulletin
By Ralph Heinzen
Bond Vaal
Shade District
Lex M. Moore
Bear Returns
Said
Lyster
Arthur Brisbane
King Features Incorporated
Paul Block
Eckjener
Jules
Lage
Arthur Newman
Amesville
Mouse
Bethany Methodist Church
Peace Evangelical Church
Simpson M. E. Church
Joseph W. Mermidt
Penneinsula
Ohio State University
Weet Reservoir
Jim
Frank Calhoun
Hiehfeld
Carl Harrison
Lake Stafford
Ravenna
Polson Hauer
Youngstown
Harold Reckner
Mika Yenseo
M. E. Conference
MacDonald
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