Bar Association backs U S World Court pact and compulsory Constitution teaching
Atlantic City report notes American Bar Association approval of the United States adhering to the World Court pact. It also cites plans to urge compulsory, historically framed teaching of the U S Constitution in public schools and calls for interstate motor vehicle regulation as common carriers on public highways.
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Atlantic City
N. J
W.P
American Bar Association
United States
Committee On International Law
James B. Scott
Washington, D. C
F. Dumont Smith
Hutchinson
Kansas
Committee On
Association
Committee On Commerce
Swope Plan Seeks Federal Supervision of Trades
New York Sept 18 United Press survey finds mixed reactions to Gerard Swope plan for General Electric calling for industry trade associations standard accounting and price stabilization. It proposes broader labor security including workmen compensation life disability insurance old age pensions and unemployment insurance under a federal board.
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New York
U.P
Gerard Swope
General Electric Company
United Press
Swope
National Electric Manufacturers’ Association
Ac’ Nize
Taft Highway dedication set in Frankfort Kentucky
Hundreds of Taft Highway Association members from Jackson Michigan to southern points will attend the dedication of the Kentucky section in Frankfort Kentucky on September 22.
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Ottawa
William Howard Taft Highway Association
Jackson
Mich
Cima
Kentucky
Frankfort
Adoption of Unemployment Insurance Is Said Inevitable
Dr. William M. Leiserson, former restaurant flapjack feeder to Wisconsin lawmakers, now Antioch College economist, told the state interim committee that unemployment insurance will be adopted. He argued industry bears the dole burdens in slack periods, with taxpayers funding supports during idle times.
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Madison
Wis
U.R
William M. Leiserson
Wisconsin
University of Wisconsin
Antioch College
Yellow Springs
Leiserson
Final Chapter in Railways Case Supports 15 Percent Increase
A general brief filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission argues that a 15 percent rise in all freight rates and charges is the proper course to supply needed extra revenue for U S railroads. The filing represents carrier interests and states the increase is justified to maintain service and financial stability.
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Washington
U.P
Interstate Commerce Commission
Commission
Railroads seek new revenue method in federal case
A special committee of counsel for eastern western and southern rail groups filed the brief in the federal revenue case before the commission. They argue the railroads need more revenue and if the commission rejects current methods it must choose another. From 1923 to 1930 railroads invested 6.742 billion dollars in improvements funded largely by borrowed capital on public faith.
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Eastern
Western
Southern Rail
Merchants in Boston Hope for Sharper Spring Retail
Boston merchants from many cities discuss retailing and its problems. They sense a shift as unseasonably hot weather ends and promise better business for Massachusetts markets.
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Boston
Mass
Massachusetts
Massachusetts Governor Ely Foresees Conditions Improving
At eight thirty Thursday morning Governor Ely of Massachusetts, speaking at breakfast, declared conditions are better and will continue improving. The Democratic governor, praised for his long tenure, is described as an able individual with a keen eye and strong chin, ready to confront any challenge if needed. Boston notes his appointments have been favorable.
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Ely
Massachusetts
Boston
Governor's Cape Cod mosquito program costs $250000
The governor plans employing idle workers to drain Cape Cod wetlands fighting mosquitoes at a cost of 250000. Wages go to laborers who dig narrow drainage ditches, with anticipated gains in land values and tax revenue for the state.
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Cape Cod
Professor Held in Wife's Death Off Chesapeake Bay
Professor Elisha Kent Kane of the University of Tennessee is jailed in Hampton Virginia after the drowning of his wife Mrs Jenny Graham Kane off Grand View Lighthouse in Chesapeake Bay. He claims the incident was accidental as police investigate.
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Jenny Graham Kane
Chesapeake Bay
Elisha Kent Kane
Hampton, Va
Kane
Grand View
University of Tennessee
Hampton
Bandits Rob Bank President’s Home Nightly Standoff
Five bandits held banker John A. Paul and his family in their Milton Junction residence overnight. They later forced Paul to guide them to the Farmers Bank where they looted the safe of bundles of cash totaling about 5 000 dollars before fleeing. The family described the robbers as courteous and masked, with Miss Paul unable to identify them. Authorities linked the raid to a nearby Citizens National Bank theft.
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Milton Junction
Wis
John A. Paul
Farmers Bank
Paul
Paul, Jr
Malcolm
Janet
Pauls
University of Sin
Citizens National Bank
Stoughton
William C. Miller Dies in Mt. Vernon Hospital
William Clinton Miller 32 former Perry County recorder died of jaundice at Mt. Vernon Hospital. He will be taken to Shawnee for funeral services at 2 p.m. in the M E Church. Survived by his wife Ida J. Miller and three children, plus four brothers and two sisters. Miller, born November 1 1878 in Meiga County, also worked as teacher, adjuster, and postmaster at Dixie. Married Ida J. Bell July 26 1916 at Dixie.
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New Lexington
William Clinton Miller
Ida J. Miller
Perry County
Mt. Vernon Hospital
Shawnee
M. E
Miller
John
Mt. Vernon
John Robert
Anna Lee
James
Randolph
Toledo
Harry
Columbus
Vernon
Dana
William E. McCarter
George Williams
Lima
Meiga County
Dixie
Ida J. Bell
J. W. Steen
Carthon
Strange sights noted in Boston barbershop scene
A manicure lady in a Boston barbershop wears horn rim spectacles and lacks dyed blonde hair or waves. Nearby a New York cloak-and-suit man, getting nails manicured to an odd pink, seems bored by the process.
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Boston
Currey
King Features, Inc
New York
Boston Police Signal Chief Aims Fast Man On Street
Unusual Boston police commissioner Eugene C Hultman an engineer pushes rapid police response promising a man on the street within two minutes after new signals are functional A writer at a signal station triggered a scene with three motorcycles a patrol wagon and two cars arriving continuing on Page 4.
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Boston
Eugene C. Hultman
Weather summary for regional areas with mild cooling trend
Yesterday highs reached 100 in Phoenix 98 in Oklahoma City and 96 in St Louis. Today's lows dip to Minnedosa 28 Qu Appelle 30 and The Pas 32. General conditions: favorable to fair and slightly cooler tonight then increasing clouds with showers Saturday night or Sunday.
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Phoenix
Oklahoma City
St. Louis
Minnedosa
Swope to Present Plan to Stabilize Business
Washington dispatch reports Gerard Swope General Electric president will present his plan to stabilize business before the Hebert Wagner Unemployment Insurance Committee around Oct 1. The plan drew mixed reaction with farm representatives in Congress opposing large industrial combinations.
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Washington
U.P
Gerard P. Swope
General Electric
Congress
Swope
Hebert-Wagner
Silas Strawn
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
William Z. Ripley
Harvard
Simeon D. Fess
Ohio
Republican National Committee
Rep. Burns
Tennessee
Appropriations Committee
Brookhart
Iowa
Rioting Breaks Out at Newcastle County Work House
Rioting at the Newcastle County work house near Wilmington left two men shot. Guard Anthony B. Hayden and prisoner Clarence Cole were injured. Cole, ring leader of the outbreak, was recaptured after a shoulder wound. Fourteen prisoners escaped, most long term inmates.
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Wilmington
Del
U.P
Newcastle County
Anthony B. Hayden
Clarence Cole
Cole
Texas Cotton Fight Sparks Mockery in Observations
Beverly Hills diary notes Texas accused of being influenced by lobbyists after a defeated war with Governor Murray. The entry calls Governor Long a liar and praises cotton ideas, predicting Texas will flood markets with cotton to spite Young.
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Texas
Beverly Hills
Calif
Murray
Long
Young
Wil
Daughter of Athens Council Member Dies
Mrs. Margaret Norris, 38, wife of Everett Norris of Columbus and daughter of Councilman Bert Russell of Athens, died at White Cross Hospital Columbus from complications after a surgical operation. She had worked as a floor walker at Lazarus Company Store and lived in Columbus the past decade. She leaves three brothers Clifford John and Everett Russell and an Athens aunt Mrs Frank Dean.
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Margaret Norris
Everett
Norris
Columbus
Bert Russell
Athens
White Cross Hospital
Lazarus Company
Athens County
Clifford
John
Everett Russell
Jackson, Mich
Frank Dean
Burke and Shute Even in P G A Semi Final
Bill Burke of Greenwich Connecticut and Densmore Shute of Hudson New Hampshire were all square at the end of the morning round of their 36 hole semi final match in the PGA championship at Rumford on September 18.
Rich Widow Faces Noose at Nogales Trial
Mrs Louise T Marshall, 72, rich widow and former University of Arizona instructor, stands trial in Nogales Arizona for the murder of her 58 year old husband Thomas. If convicted she faces possible hanging.
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Louise T. Marshall
Thomas
Nogales
Ariz
University of Arizona
Shoe Factory Offered in Exchange for Light Plant
Henry L. Doherty Company proposes trading the town of Oarville Ohio's municipal light plant for a shoe factory. The deal would create about 400 women and 300 men employed at the new plant, boosting an offer the industrial committee calls tempting. The town's utility is debt free with $56,000 in the bank after a prior dispute with Ohio Public Service.
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Oarville
U.P
Henry L. Doherty
T. O. Kennedy
Ohio Public Service Company
Doherty
Chamber of Commerce
Howard Pontius
Bari
Maiden Flight of Akron To Be Made Monday
Akron prepares for the United States Navy dirigible Akron’s maiden flight at 2 pm Monday if weather allows. Commander Charles E. Rosendahl will command the takeoff, signaling a bid for air supremacy. Thousands are expected to witness the launch as radio confirms the event.
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Akron
U.P
Charlies E. Rosendahl
United States
Rosendahl
Gark
Navy
Bank warns of possible fall in pound amid British unrest
The Bank of England officials urged the government to deny plans for a near term general election as an Atlantic Fleet mutiny and pay cut protests roil the economy. Sailors return home Saturday after suspending maneuvers. Sir Austen Chamberlain urged forgetting the past in the Commons.
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London
U.R
Great Britain
Bank of England
Daily Mail
Austen Chamberlain
Admiralty
House of Commons
Sir Austen
Swope plan hailed as landmark in economic stabilizing effort
Herbert Fleishacker, a San Francisco financier and shipping magnate, called the Gerard Swope economic stabilization plan a landmark in the fight to conquer low mood. He praised General Electric's president for backing the plan and urged serious consideration of its purpose.
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San Francisco
U.P
Gerard Swope
Herbert Fleishhacker
General Electric
Swope
Freeman Sentenced to Ohio State Penitentiary in Ohio Court
Clifford Freeman of Jacksonville was sentenced by Judge O F Rowland in Athens County Common Pleas Court on a failure to provide charge brought by his wife. Under a new state law sentences to the penitentiary are indefinite except for first degree murder and treason, court officials stated.
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Clifford Freeman
Jacksonville
Ohio State Penitentiary
O. F. Rowland
Athens County
Family mourns 15 year old found dead at Mt Glen Farm
Private funeral services will be held tomorrow for Samuel Livingston Mather Jr. at the Mather Country home Mt Glen Farm in Mentor. The boy was found hanging in his bedroom on Wednesday. His father Livingston Mather, en route to Europe, announced he would sail for home on the Greg boat.
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Cleveland
Samuel Livingston Mather, Jr
Mather
Mt. Glen Farm
Mentor
Livingston Mather
Europe
Greg
1930 Tag Sale Now Exceeded
Licenses for automobiles sold in the Courthouse office have surpassed the 1930 annual total by 300. Through the year there are 4000 passenger car licenses issued, with 4300 sold in all of 1930. Deputy commissioner David Johnson expects about 100 more by year end. First consignments numbered 4100 and 600 for the Southeast Ohio Motor Club have been disposed of, with new series starting at K18561. Trucks total 550 licenses this year, and 30 motorcycle and 30 passenger commercial permits have been issued.
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David Johnson
Johnect
Ohio
Automobile Club
Further Rains Are Predicted for Ohio Weekend
Columbus report says the Weather Bureau forecasts cloudiness and showers Saturday night or Sunday with cooler air possible. Two Ohioans died from heat prostration and a man was killed by lightning at a Brown's Chapel fish fry. Several others were burned or stunned as storms hit central Ohio.
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Columbus
U.P
Ohio
United States Weather Bureau
Brown's Chapel
Clarksburg
Ross County
Weather Bureau
Shoes Go to Pieces During Long Hike
Albert Zanke a 28 year old from New Philadelphia Ohio walked 1200 miles in socks and stockings after a 40 mile trek from Middletown to Milford Police held him overnight saying he wore out his shoes while seeking work in a lengthy hike through New England and beyond.
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Milford
Conn
U.R
Albert Zanke
New Philadelphia
Zanke
Middletown
Marlboro
Mass
Hunter Sought in Chillicothe After Going on Hunting Trip
Sept 18 U R search under way for Frank Camelin 22 a meat market employee of Chillicothe who failed to return home after starting a hunting trip.
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Chillicothe
New Zealand to Form Coalition Government Amid Crisis
Wellington Sept 18. New Zealand will form a coalition government following Britain’s lead to confront the financial crisis. The move aims to unite major parties to stabilize the economy and address budget shortfalls. Leaders from key parties plan to meet soon to designate a premiership and cabinet roles.
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Wellington
N. Z
UPR
New Zealand
Great Britain
Relief Workers Form Committee to Raise War Relief Funds
Owen D Young leads a meeting of business leaders to launch a national and local fundraising drive for wartime relief. The group aims to energize private and state contributions to reduce dependence on federal appropriations, with Walter Gifford guiding the campaign strategy.
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Washington
Owen D. Young
Hoover
Young
Nang
Counite
General Electric
Walter
Walter 8. Gifford
Young Committee
Gifford
Restrain Courts Plea on Receivers for Building Societies
Ohio Attorney General Gilbert Bettman seeks to bar common pleas courts from entertaining petitions to appoint receivers for building and loan associations. He asks the Ohio Supreme Court for a writ of prohibition to limit such appointments to actions by the state superintendent, arguing it standardizes handling with state and national banks.
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Columbus
Common Pleas Courts
Ohio
Gilbertman
Bettman
Ohio Supreme
Franklin County Common Court
All && Common Pleas Courte
Cae
Music Schedule Followed in Athens County Schools
Miss Edith Keller completed the county music schedule for Athens County schools. She confered with County Superintendent Alex Root and visited music instructors at the schools. New instructors this term are Weinrich in vocal and Herbert Spiler in instrumental.
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Edith Keller
Athens
Alex Root
Weinrich
Herbert Spler
Gandhi Threatens Withdrawal Over Speed of Indian Talks
Gandhi attends Federal Structure Committee session in London urging quicker deliberations on India. He warned he might withdraw at a reasonable opportunity to press for definite action, reiterating he is ready to withdraw if harmony requires it.
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London
U.P
Karma M. K. Gandhi
Federal Structure Committee
India
Gandhi
Ohio Dairy Products to hold annual convention
Convention date set for Akron January 25 to 27. Secretary Bred L. Berger says topics include economics sales and credits. Association unites Ohio ice cream manufacturers creamery owners and distributors with BE J Helbing of Canton as president.
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Columbus
Ohio Dairy Products
Akron
Bred L.berger
Ohio Dairy Products Association
Ohio Amagsciation
BE. J. Helbiug
Canton
Ohio Association of Creamery Owners
Maneger
Ohio Mile
Tributons Association
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Rene Ief Eteer
Covington
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