Hoover Plans 135000 Radio Blitz to Reach Voters
United Press reports Herbert Hoover and campaign advisers will run a 45 night radio campaign starting late September with half hour broadcasts on alternating networks. Costs include 3000 dollars per night plus speaker fees and production for the schedule. Hoover will deliver four major speeches from Newark New Jersey October New York City and Boston. The Newark address on Labor issues is set for September 17 and New York City for October 17.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herbert Hoover
Republican
National Broadcasting Network
Columbia Broadcasting Network
Hoover
Newark
N. J
Tennessee
North Carolina
New York City
New England
Boston
French Plane Resumes Long Distance Hop
In Casablanca on September 5 the French monoplane Yellow Bird resumed its long distance flight. Adjutant Jean Assolant and Sgt. LeFevre with stowaway Armando Lotti departed Casablanca aiming for Dakar to refuel before a Rio de Janeiro leg and a one stop to New York. They had left Paris yesterday from Le Bourget.
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Casablanca
Morocco
Yellow Bird
Dakar
Africa
Jean Assolant
Mene LeFevre
Rio de Janeiro
New York
Assolant and LeFevre
Armando Lotti
LeBourget Field
Paris
Floods kill seventy five in Srinagar area
In Kashmir near Srinagar the Jhelum River overflowed causing flooding that killed seventy five people and left many more missing or endangered. Local authorities warned of continuing danger as rescue efforts continued and relief supplies were organized.
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Karachi
India
Jhelum
Srinagar
Athens Messenger Publishes Vacation Safety Booklet
The Athens Messenger releases a 24 page booklet in simple language from Ashington Information area with rules to prevent vacation troubles. It covers first aid for emergencies including wounds poisons fractures sunburn bites stings burns and other summer ailments and urges readers to use the coupon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ashington
Attempt To Break Wife's Will Fails
A Cleveland man George Luke lost his bid to overturn his wife Catherine Luke's will. The Ohio jury ruled the child born before her death was stillborn, upholding the last will and rejecting Luke's contention that a prior will was invalidated by a live birth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
U.P
George Luke
Catherine
Ohio
Luke
Salvation Army seeks 1000 more for Grimm home purchase
The Salvation Army local board reports 2500 raised toward buying the Grimm home on West Union Street for a Salvation Army center. The National Headquarters will add 500 if 3500 more is raised, plus a 28 by 40 foot addition for meeting space. Kiwanis Rotary and Chamber of Commerce involvement is sought as canvassing continues. Ownership stays with the local Salvation Army board.
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Grimm
West Union Street
Salvation Army
L. W. Roberts
Mr. Roberts
The
Kiwanis and
Rotary Clubs
Chamber of Commerce
National
Lancaster Street Closed for Brick Paving and Detours
Lancaster Street will be closed to traffic for several weeks to allow brick paving on a concrete base and related repaving work. Detour routes are set via The Plains road, Columbia avenue, Highland street, Woodward avenue, Congress street, and Mush Run road. limited Highland street width will be warned.
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Lancaster Street
Ler
Courtney Hill
Marietta
Sugar Creek
Columbia Avenue
Highland Street
Woodward Avenue
Congress Street
Amesville
Athens
Canaanville
Trans Continental Air Races Open With 20+ Aviators In Line
Fair skies and chilly air greet over two dozen aviators as the Class A trans continental race starts from Roosevelt Field. Albert R. Jacobs leads the field in a Waco 10 at 6 43 am heading to Harrisburg then McKeesport Columbus and Mines Field Los Angeles with 16 stops total. J W Hunt from Moundsville WV is fourth to depart. Goebel looms as notable rival with a recent California to New York record.
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Roosevelt Field
L. IL
U.R
Harrisburg
Albert R. Jacobs
Philadelphia
McKeesport
Columbus
Mines Field
Los Angeles
J. W. Hunt
Hunt
Moundsville
West Virginia
Col
Arthur Goebel
California
New York
Wisconsin Returns Favor Conservatives in Primary
Regular Republican Walter J. Kohler led Joseph Beck in Wisconsin governor race as of yesterday's primary returns. Governor Fred Zimmerman lagged far behind. Robert LaFollette Jr. won the U S Senate nomination over George Mead, marking the first Wisconsin governor not seeking a second term in 38 years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madison
Wis
U.P
Walter J. Kohler
Joseph D. Beck
Fred Zimmerman
la Follette
Wisconsin
Robert LaFollette
Bob
United States Senate
George W. Mead
Homecoming for Murray City Miners During Labor Day
Labor Day drew former Murray City residents back for the holiday as the coal mine strike pushed miners to seek work elsewhere. Over 100 people returned to the village while hundreds from Ward township toured jobs in Detroit Barberton Akron and Columbus industrial plants, seeking steady employment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Logan
Murray City
Ward Township
Detroit
Barberton
Akron
Columbus
Curtis Seeks Support Today on East Shore
Senator Charles Curtis, Republican vice presidential candidate, campaigned in Boston and Norumbega Park urging tariff protection for industry. He framed the choice in November as tariff for protection versus tariff for revenue only, criticizing the 1913 Underwood law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Curtis
East Shore
Boston
Mass
Charles Curtis
New England
Norumbega Park
Houston
Two Convicts Escape London Prison Farm
Columbus dispatch reports authorities hunted for two convicts who walked away from the London prison farm Monday night as of Sept 5.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
U.R
London
Commissioners Approve New Equipment for Athens County Roads
At the county commissioners monthly meeting in Athens County, provisions were made to acquire an additional tractor and grader, bringing the total to four caterpillar tractors and four caterpillar graders. Chairman John Grosvenor said the purchases aim to finish this year’s road work. Clerk R P Tompkins traveled to Columbus to obtain cost details for the Sharpsburg section of the Marietta Athens road from the state highway department.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Athens County
John Grosvenor
Board of Commissioners
R. P. Tompkins
Columbus
Sharpsburg
Marietta-Athens
State Highway Department
Jacksonville Mine to Resume Operation at Jacksonville
GLOUSTER Sept 5 The Ohio Mining Company reports Ohio Mine 1 at Jacksonville will soon reopen on an open shop basis. Three men were working to replace ropes on the cages and a larger crew may be hired later this week to ready the mine to load coal. The mine sits on the Coe farm at Jacksonville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glouster
Ohio Mine
Jacksonville
Coe
The
Ohio Mining Company
Wrigley World Long Distance Championship Opens
The $35,000 Wrigley Swimming race of 15 miles for the world long distance championship began in cold weather at 11 a.m. E.D.T. today in Toronto Ontario with competitors braving brisk conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toronto
Ont
AU RI
Bandits Kill Watchman in Bitter Night Fight
Toledo dispatch reports Abraham Singer, 55, an employer at Frank and Messer Iron and Metal, died in a night assault to defend company property. He fought two bandits who bound his body with inner tube strips and fled without stealing anything.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toledo
UPR
Abraham Singer
Frank and Messer Iron and Metal Company
Singer
Seven die as Idaho air crash devastates mail flight
A large Super Universal monoplane carrying mail and passengers crashed near Pocatello Idaho killing seven people. The craft, in service just over a month from Salt Lake City to Great Falls, reportedly suffered a wing collapse before plunging 150 feet to the ground. Victims include pilot Paul Wheatley secretary Jesse Richards Ogden Utah Chamber of Commerce Floyd Timmerman Ogden newspaperman and a Spokane Washington resident along with a woman and two young children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pocatello
Ida
U.P
Salt Lake City
Utah
Great Falls
Mant
Paul Wheatley
Jesse
Girl Thought Lost Found in Chicago Relative Home
A two day search for Katherine Louise Phillips 13 daughter of Rev and Mrs Vernon Phillips Columbus ended when she was located at a relative's home in Chicago. She had traveled there via the bum ming route after disappearing from home Monday morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
U.ri
Katherine Louise Phillips
Vernon
Phillips
Chicago
Wichita pilot first to land at Norton Field in derby
Earl Rowland of Wichita Kansas, piloting an Acessna monoplane, led entrants by becoming the first to land at Norton Field Columbus today during the national air derby.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norton Field
Columbus
Earl Rowland
Wichita
Kas
Earhart Takes Off From Muskogee For World Flight
Miss Amelia Earhart, the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic, departed Hatbox Field in Muskogee Oklahoma at 7 am in a four cylinder Avro Avian. She headed southwest and would not reveal her next destination.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Muskogee
Okla
U.P
Amelia Earhart
Hatbox Field
Air derby fleet all accounted for at noon
All thirty seven airplanes that left Roosevelt field this morning in the trans continental air derby had been accounted for in Middletown at noon today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middletown
Roosevelt Field
Tight? His Wife Has the Details About That To Excite Any Judge
In Cleveland in Common Pleas court a divorce case involves Arthur W. Jackson suing Alice M. Jackson for desertion and neglect. Attorney Maurice Singer portrayed Jackson as frugal and controlling, citing incidents from Jacksonville and Pepper Pike land sales to illustrate alleged penuriousness. The lawyers said temporary alimony terms were agreed but not disclosed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
U.R
Maurice ‘Singer
Alice M. Jackson
Washington Court
Lorain
Samuel H. Silbert
Common Pleas Court
Arthur W. Jackson
Chagrin Falls
Singer
Jacksonville
Mra. Jackson
Canton Officials Weigh Grand Jury After Elton Slaying
Stark county officials delayed further action in the Dorothy Evanovich murder pending the next grand jury meeting. Coroner McQuate expects a first degree murder indictment against a woman held on circumstantial evidence amid threats of lynching in Elton, twelve miles northwest of Canton.
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Canton
U.P
Stark County
Dorothy Evanvich
Elton
Here
T. C. McQuare
Dorothy
Painting Court Street Lights by Athens City Service
The Athens city service department began painting street light standards along Court Street and West Union Street this morning. The standards are being brushed and scraped before applying black paint, with fire plugs to receive orange afterward. Previously many fire plugs were painted red or green.
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Court Street
West Union Street
Athens
Plan to Open Party Headquarters in Athens Discussed
Plans for opening Republican headquarters for the county in Athens will be discussed at a meeting of the executive committee tonight at 7 30 in Hotel Palmer. Headquarters for the building will be opened probably next week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Athens
Republican Central Committee
Palmer
Robert S. Wood
Mr. Wood
Motorcycle Youth Dies After Collision Near Hamilton
Paul Randolph 20 of Kings Mills died from motor cycle collision injuries sustained when his bike hit an auto driven by Leroy Bowen. The fatal crash occurred near Hamilton today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hamilton
U.2
Paul Randolph
Leroy Bowen
Randolph
Kings Mills
Red Cross Office Reopens After Ten-Week Closure
After a ten week closure the Red Cross office on the fifth floor of the Security Bank building is open daily from 1 to 2 30 p m Miss Thelma Grubb serves as executive secretary in charge
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Cross
Security Bank
Thelma Grubb
Thousands Gather For Religious Meet In Sydney
Thousands from around the world attended the opening of the twenty-ninth International Eucharistic congress in Sydney Queensland today. Priests and laymen joined in a solemn and colorful ceremony as devotion to the Eucharist drew 40 000 people to the Queen City of the Antipodes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sydney
S. W
the Antipodes
FRGT BAPTIST CHURCH MOVES TO TEMPORARY LOCATION
The local First Baptist church moved today from its corner of Carpenter and Lancaster to a temporary brick building on Morris avenue. Sunday services will be held there until the new tabernacle on Morris avenue is ready. Rev. B. T. Kimbrough said plans for the tabernacle are progressing, with a district committee and state board meeting at Granville on September 20. The old building will be moved out of the city this week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First Baptist Church
Carpenter and
Lancaster Streets
Morris Avenue
B. T. Kimbrough
Kimbrough
State Board
Granville
Columbus Association
Wesleyan Included in Cadet List in 1929 Schedule
West Point announces 1929 football schedule omits Navy with Illinois added in a two year home and away agreement. The Cadets travel to California to face Stanford and host Ohio Wesleyan on November 23 in a season framed by the Illinois series.
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West Point
N. Y
U.P
Military Academy
Navy
University of Illinois
Illinois
California
Leland Stanford University
Ohio Wesleyan
Trusty Who Escaped Back in Jail Again
Ralph Frye thirty one, a state penitentiary trusty who walked away from the Roseville Brick Plant August 26, surrendered to the Mt Vernon sheriff yesterday and returned to Columbus unguarded. He entered Warden Thomas office and asked to be locked up again, saying he did not wish to be a trusty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
U.P
Ralph Frye
State Penitentiary
Roseville
Frye
Mt. Vernon
Thomas
Smith weighs Prohibition stance as campaign unfolds
Gov. Alfred E. Smith plans a detailed policy on liquor during his campaign tour, aiming to please both dry and wet factions. He will defend enforcement of the Eighteenth Amendment while outlining modification ideas and possible changes in enforcement machinery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albany
N. Y
Alfred E. Smith
New York
New York State
Intrikate
Smith
Grange Debating Meeting Delayed
The Athens and Canaan granges postpone their 7:30 pm Thursday meeting at Jackville school house to two weeks later. A debate between teams from the two granges is the featured program. The new date is set for September 20 at 7:30 pm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Athens and
Canaan
Jackville
Renew Search for Cleveland Killer Escaped Inmate
Statewide search for Clarence Beard the Cleveland killer who escaped from the state criminal insane hospital was renewed after Thomas McKenna the Lima slayer who fled with him was captured on the Scioto river bank in Marion by two Erie railroad detectives. He had an injured foot and hid in bushes after slipping from Lima.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lima
U.P
Clarence Beard
Cleveland
Thomas McKenna
McKenna
Scioto
Marion
Erie Railroad
Logan Man Named Elks District Deputy for South Central Group
Logan resident Melrose Harbaugh was appointed district deputy of the Elks South Central group, covering fourteen lodges in Franklin Fairfield Licking Union Athens Pickaway Ross Gallia Jackson and Washington counties. This is the Logan lodge’s first such honor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Logan
Murray Hulbert
Elks Lodge of the World
Melrose Harbaugh
Harbaugh
South Central
Logan Lodge
Fraklin
Fairfield
Licking
Union
Athens
Pickaway
Ross
Galtia
Jackson
Washington
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Rann
Columbia
Paul R. Mallon
United Press
South America
Frederick Haskin
Information Bureau
Washington DC
Fred Beck
Beckler
Romine
Nelsonville
Chauncey
Plains Road
Wrigley Swim
Watchman
John W. Bolin
M. D. Hughes
Idaho
Miss Earhart
Frgt Baptist Church
Wesleyan
Trusty
Thomas L. Stokes
Logan Man
Elks
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