Striking mine stage marches to recruit recruits
In western Pennsylvania strikers stage demos near six mines in the Pittsburgh area to enlist replacements. Vincent Kemenovich warns officials to change tack as a mass meeting at Walkersville draws armed miners. Five women arrested for participating, one deputy wounded at Gallatin. Lutz released on bail after shooting near Warden mine. Philip Murray meets Governor Pinchot as N M U and UMWA dispute wage and union checks. Plans for hunger marches to Washington and unemployment marches to Harrisburg announced by National Miners' Union executive committee.
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Pmitteburzh
Pennsylvania
Vincent Kemenovich
National Miners’ Union
Pittsburgh
Robert §. Cain
Gallatin
Lawrence Shaw
Kemenovich
Walkersville
M. C. Lutz
George W. Murren
Allegheny County
Shaw
Robert S. Cain
Lutz
Felonius
Murren
Pittsburgh Coal Company
Warden
Pricedale
Westmoreland County
Frank Borich
Borich
Triniiy
Springfield
Illinois
Unrest in Ohio coal region as deputies arm for strike struggle
In St Clairsville Ohio the Jefferson Belmont coal belts tense as sheriffs deputies armed with machine guns and tear gas aim to curb a week old strike by more than 1200 miners seeking an eight hour day and union rights. Ten percent of workers depart New Lafferty mine while leaders Leo Thompson Tony Gizigna and Fanta Spontano hunger strike in jail after a jail attack by 2000.
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St. Clairsville
Ohio
Jefferson
Belmont Counties
Lafferty
M. A. Hanna Coal Company
Belmont County
New Lafferty
Leo Thompson
Pittsburgh
Tony C. Gizigna
Fanta Spontano
Thompson
Woman faces death in electric chair at Jefferson Ohio
Nonvicted at Jefferson Ohio of the murder last year of Mrs. Clara Smith wife of her sweetheart Mrs Maude Lowther 23 year old West Virginia mountain girl with Indian ancestry faces death in the electric chair This is the second time in the history of Ohio that the death sentence has been imposed on a woman Her paramour Tilby Smith is awaiting electrocution August 17 Mrs Lowthor is shown below.
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Jefferson
Ohio
Clara Smith
Maude Lowther
West Virginia
Tilby Smith
Aggressive Campaign Planned for 1932 At White House
Washington June 12 The conference of young Republicans focused on President Hoover as cabinet officers and party speakers urged an aggressive campaign in 1932. Secretary Hurley praised Hoover’s leadership and policies as progressive and aggressive while criticizing critics. Hoover welcomed the group at the White House as speakers urged intensified campaign work and party activities.
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Washington
Conference of
Young Republicans
Hoover
Hurley
Republican Party
White House
Robert H. Lucas
Republican National Committee
Hyde
New Willard Hotel
Lakas
War Department
Chester J. Hinton
Indiana
Daisy De Boe Must Serve Eighteen Month Jail Term
Daisy De Boe former secretary to film star Clara Bow must serve an eighteen month sentence after the district court of appeals ruled today. The case arose from a grand theft conviction for stealing an $874 fur coat from Miss Bow during her employment. De Boe was released on bail pending appeal and remanded to custody immediately.
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Los Angeles
Daisy de Boe
Clara Bow
District Court of Appeals
Mise de Boe
William Beirne
Miss de Boe
Miss Bow
Earhart Wrecks Autogiro in Texas Parking Lot
Amelia Earhart Putnam narrowly escapes injury when her autogiro fails to gain altitude after takeoff from Abilene airport. She maneuvers to a parking lot, grazing three cars, with mechanic Eddie De Vaught unharmed. She will proceed to Oklahoma City for a replacement autogiro from Philadelphia as repairs are arranged.
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Abilene
Texas
Amelia Earhart Putnam
Eddie de Vaught
California
Oklahoma City
Philadelphia
Lukens Lands Autogiro at Wright Field After Flight from Willow Grove
Dayton report states J Paul Lukens landed at Wright Field at 7 pm in an autogiro from Willow Grove PA en route to Oklahoma City. He denied the craft was for Mrs Amelia Earhart Putnam, who crashed at Abilene, Texas earlier today. Lukens planned an early departure tomorrow for a quick flight to Oklahoma City where Putnam said she would receive another ship from Philadelphia.
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Dayton
Ohio
J. Paul Lukens
Willow Grove
Oklahoma City
Wright Field
Amelia Earhart Putnam
Abilene
Texas
Lukens
Yost’s Old 83 Unfits Label. Michigan’s Mastermind Extends Era
Ann Arbor reports veteran coach Fielding H. Yost, nicknamed Hurry Up in earlier days, has outgrown the title as Michigan’s strategic football figure. The 1931 profile highlights his creation of the Old 83 play, his athletic expansion at the university, and his enduring influence on Michigan football and athletic program development.
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Associated Press
Ann Arbor
Yost
Willie Heston
Walter Eckernall
University of Michigan
Old Man West
Michigan
H. Yost
Irish Prisoners End 11 Day Hunger Strike
Dublin June 12 An 11 day hunger strike by Sean McGuinness and George Mooney republican prisoners in Mountjoy ended today in protest at prison regulations. The adjutant general of the Irish Republican Army urged a stop and the men replied that they had struck after being tied and brutally assaulted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dublin
Irish Free State
Sean McGuinness
George Mooney
Mountjoy Pington
Irish Republican Army
Bankers Hitch-Hiking Daughter In Hospital
Mary Elizabeth Wardwell, 24, daughter of a retired Watertown banker, was found by a filling station attendant near South Bend after a weeklong hitchhiking spree. Police picked her up as she walked along the highway seeking a ride to Hobart. Her father Addison F. Wardwell traveled from Gary to take her to a hospital for treatment.
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South Bend
Ind
Mary Elizabeth Wardwell
Watertown
N. P
Associated Press
Hobart
Addison F. Wardwell
Gary
Aoa
Several Grilled in Beauty Murder in Mineola
Nassau County detectives probe the Starr Faithfull case with a taxi trail leading to a Flushing drugstore and a crematorium cue. District Attorney Edwards seeks indictments naming two alleged killers while witnesses include family members cruise director Hamlin and Boston family links.
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Mineola
N. Y
Starr Faithfull
Flushing
Chanin
Manhattan
Queens
Greenwich Village
Long Beach
Nassau County
Stanley BH. Faithfull
Starr
Sy Beckman
Elvin N. Edwards
John Doe
Richard Roe
Frank Wymann
Boston
Tucker
Edwards
Francis Peabody Hamlin
Cunard Line
New England
Death of Starr Faithfull draws transatlantic inquiries
London reporters ring families and District Attorney Elvin Edwards in New York as Starr Faithfull's death, now under investigation, triggers global public interest. Edwards says no Englishman is implicated. Dr. G Jameson Carr, surgeon aboard the Cunarder Franconia, remains missing. Cunard officials stay reticent while New York dispatches say Faithfull visited Carr aboard the liner. Scotland Yard denies involvement.
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London
Starr Faithful
Beig
New York City
Elvin N. Edwards
Edwards
Evening Standard
G. Jameson Carr
Franconia
Cunard
New York
Miss Faithfull
Dr. Carr
Scotland Yard
Planned Visit to England Mentioned in Faithfull Letters
London reports that Miss Starr Faithfull, whose New York death is under investigation, wrote from St Luke's Place that she planned to travel to England on the Franconia, sailing May 30, and that she would believe in God fairies and Santa Claus after passing the Statue of Liberty.
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England
London
The
Daily Mail Today
Starr Faithfull
New York
Franconia
Santa Claus
St. Luke’s Place
Miss Faithfull
Branerton Street
Cheleet
Thelma Woods Murder at Ohio Stone Quarry
Lima Ohio June 12 a former sweetheart of 17 year old Thelma Woods was held for questioning after her body tied with a rope and weighted with a 30 pound stone was found at an old stone quarry. Officials pumped water to locate missing escort Earl Truesdale 20 Elida and the abandoned car was recovered. The coroner said she was murdered and officials sought clues in a draining pit with potential further discoveries.
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Lima
Ohio
Thelma Woods
Decoration Day
Frank Smith
Earl Truesdale
Elida
Miss Woods
Truesdale
O. J. Roush
Allen County
Miss Wood
Offinale
Automo Officiala
President Rubio to attend funeral rites in Morelia
Mexico City reports President Ortiz Rubio canceled plans to open a Pachuca Huejutla road due to funeral rites in Morelia for his cousin Emilio Cortes Rubio and for Manuel Garcia Gomez, two students killed by a deputy sheriff at Ardmore, Oklahoma. The youths’ bodies were en route home to Morelia aboard a train arriving tomorrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico City
Ortiz Rubio
Pachuca
Huejutla
Morelia
Emilio Cortes Rubio
Manuell Garcia Gomez
Ardmore
Okla
United States
Waving Law Clears Greenwich Society Wedding
Greenwich Connecticut June 12 Charles Arthur Moore Jr and Miss Rhea Logan Munroe, Greenwich and New York social figures, win permission from Probate Judge William C Rungee to wed despite lacking a license. Invitations to 3500 prominent NY and Chicago guests issued as elaborate plans proceed.
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Greenwich
Conn
Charles Arthur Moore Jr
Rhea Logan Munroe
New York
William C. Rungee
Chicago
Moore
President Hoover Reaches Mountain Camp
President and Mrs Hoover reached their fishing camp in the mountains near Orange Virginia after a leisurely trip from Washington. The president plans a day of work and recreation, finishing his Springfield Ohio address in the morning and fishing in the afternoon.
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Orange
Hoover
Here
Washington
Springfield
Ohio
Pittsburgh Taxicab Drivers To Strike
Pittsburgh taxicab drivers who previously voted to strike were ordered by their union to take their cabs to garages at 2 a.m. and quit work. The action, prompted by alleged operator violations of an earlier agreement, marks a renewed protest after a yearlong lull in labor disputes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
Banker Free as Former Union Bank President Cleared
Philadelphia June 12 Joseph S McCulloch former president of the Union Bank and Trust company now merged with another institution was acquitted today of embezzling 280000 dollars from the bank he headed the verdict ends a high profile case against a prominent local banker and former leader of the bank's administration
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Joseph S. McCulloch
Union Bank & Trust Company
Capone and Allies Face Five Thousand Charges
Chicago June 12 Capone known as Scarface and sixty eight associates were indicted by a federal grand jury on five thousand charges of beer manufacture and transport since 1920. The beer empire formed Capone's base of power in Chicago and the indictment lists aliases and twenty nineteen overt acts. The case centers on Capone’s beer interests rather than gambling or vice and labor rackets. Ralph Capone and Jack Guzik are absent due to separate convictions. The indictment names Joseph Fusco as beer boss and notes bond remains at fifty thousand dollars. Johnson said the government must prove at least one overt act for conviction.
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Chicago
Scarface
Capone
America
Eixty
George E. Johnson
al Brown
United States
Alphonse Capone
al Costa
Albert Costa
Frank Ross
Brown
Snorky Capone
Frank Hart
Louis Hart
Ralph Sam
Jack Guzik
Frank Nitto
Johnson
Anil Executives Discuss Combine Plans For Rail Merger
New York June 12 railroad executives reviewed final details of a merger plan aimed at creating four large systems led by Pennsylvania, New York Central, Baltimore and Ohio, and the Van Sweringens. The meeting sought I C C action by July to unlock capital and gain operating economies. A board arbitration on Nickel Plate trackage rights between Ashtabula and Brocton was pending, with New York Central opposing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Pennsylvania Railroad
Interstate Commerce Commission
Pennsylvania
New York Central
Baltimore and Ohio
van Sweringen
Ashtabula
Brocton
N. Y
Farm Board Averts Price Crash In Wheat Market
Manhattan Kansas June 12 Chairman James C Stone of the federal farm board said a crash in wheat prices that would have cost the country billions was averted when the board stepped into the wheat market last November He said the stabilization operation in wheat and cotton has been fully justified and that wheat in Chicago would have fallen to 50 cents a bushel or lower without the boards action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manhattan
Kan
James C. Stone
Federal Farm Board
Stone
American Institute of Cooperation
Chicago
U S Grants License for Arms Shipments
Washington reports the state department has issued export licenses for arms shipments to China at Beijing’s request. The move follows Nanking government pressure and comes as Chinese minister Dr. Wu resigns amid warlike preparations. Undersecretary Castle says future bona fide requests via the Peiping legation will be treated similarly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Nanking
State Department
China
Peiping
United States
Canton
Castle
Pantages Denies Girl Market Charge in San Diego Testimony
Alexander Pantages testified he had no advance knowledge of an alleged hotel party and denied involvement with Lydia Nitto in the so called girl market case. He said his visit to San Diego was tied to an $80,000 note and that he acted only on business with Jesse Shreve.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Diego
Cal
Alexander Pantages
Aote
Lydia Nitto
Pantages
Oean
Eo Owseyr
Jesse H. Shreve
Shreve
Olive Clark Day
William Jobelman
Hollywood
Miss Nitto
Daley
Mies Nitto
Jesse
Mills
Vatican and State Near Agreement Forecast
Rome reports a quick settlement of Vatican Italy differences as the pope hands a note to Papal Nuncio Borgongini-Duca for delivery to Italy's foreign minister. Vatican hopes for a reply tomorrow and a near term accord within a week, aiming to lift the prohibition on religious processions and clarify the status of dissolved Catholic clubs joining new societies. Italy shows no great hurry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
Vatican
Italy
Borgongini-Duca
Vision restoration operations for West Virginia blind school
Dr J E Blaydes conducted free eye surgeries at St Lukes hospital to restore vision for thirty children at the West Virginia school for the blind. The first three patients Woodrow Hawse Junior Lee Chadwell and George Brown show promising results with follow up operations planned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Virginia
Hawse
State Board of Control
School of the Blind
Blaydes
Groun
St. Luke’s
Romney
Wayne County
Member of Rondout Robber Gang Slain
Stilwell Kansas June 12 Herbert Holliday a Rondout robbery gang member died from an officer’s bullet while attempting to steal four automobile tires at a railway station. Companion J S Harmon an ex convict was wounded and held with Mrs Holliday in custody at Clathe as. Holliday had been paroled from Leavenworth after six years of a 25 year sentence for the Rondout robbery.
One marriage enough says Stillman on arrival
Southampton June 12 One marriage should be enough for any man James A Stillman New York banker said on arrival aboard the Olympic He and his wife divorced in Westchester county New York a few days ago and remain on the best terms He did not attend her wedding but sent a wedding present He is en route to London for three weeks then a month on the continent A new National City Bank branch in which he is a heavy stock holder will open in Paris
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southampton
England
James A. Stillman
New York
Stillman
Westchester County
London
Continent
National City Bank
Paris
Two Wheeling Boys Apprehended by Police in Burgettstown
Harold Ripley aged 11 and Russell Kantuck aged 12 from Wheeling grammar school were taken into custody in Burgettstown, Pennsylvania. Local officers were alerted and Wheeling police were dispatched to bring them home.
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Wheeling
W. Va
Harold Ripley
Russell Kantuck
Wheeling Grammar School
Burgettstown
Tocal
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Pinchot
United Mine Workers of America
United Mine Workers
Picket Road
Amelia Earhart
Craft Lands
Gridiron
Slayer of
Rubio
Mrs. Hoover
U. S
Mutiple
Beer Interests
ANIL
Combine
Eastern Lines
Girl Mart
State
J. E. Blades
West Virginia School For
Gratis
Rondout
Roy
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