Ex-Chief Refused Return to Canton Police Post
Former Canton police chief Saranus A. Lengel lost a bid to regain his old job as the state supreme court overruled a motion to review the appeals court decision denying Lengel’s reinstatement. He may pursue a rehearing or seek an appeal in common pleas court on his ouster by the civil service commission in August 1926.
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Saranus A. Lengel
Canton
State Supreme Court
Court of Appeals
Lengel
W. Bernard Rodgers
Common Pleas Court
Civil Service Commission
Commission
Ohio
Rodgers
Supreme Court
Toledoo District Court of Appeals
Order of Common Pleas
William P. Stephenson
Adams Co
Probe charge against N. O. P.
Akron city council authorized an investigation into alleged unfair transportation charges by Northern Ohio Power and Light Co. Council debate centered on drivers refusing change for nickels and dimes, with policies tied to an 8 cent fare when exact change is used and 10 cents otherwise. The transfer fee and penny change rules were also discussed under a May 24 franchise.
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Akron
Northern Ohio Power & Light Co
E. L. Marting
Council Public Utilities Committee
O Vice
Se N. O. P
City of
Universal Air Lines System Buys Central Air Lines
Kansas City June 4 Universal Air Lines System announced the purchase of Central Air Lines of Wichita. EB A Watkins president of Central Co said Universal would assume operation today.
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Kansas City
Central Air Lines
Wichite
Universal Air Lines System
EB. A. Watkins
The
Central Co
Universal People
All Missing People In Beverly Hills
Will Rogers writes from Beverly Hills describing his homecoming audience of neighbors and celebrities practicing speech and song. He notes locals behind on talkies learning to talk and song writers crafting a theme song amid traffic stops.
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Beverly Hills
Will Rogers
Cal
Nybody
Debenture Plan Struck From Farm Relief Bill
Congress reports a final agreement on the farm relief measure after house and senate conferees remove the debenture plan opposed by President Hoover and administration leaders. The house remains firm against the tariff bounty, shaping the final compromise.
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Paul R. Mallon
United Press
Washington
Hoover
House
Senate
Debenture plan eliminated in senate conference vote
Senate conferees voted 8 to 2 to abandon the farm debenture plan linked to the agricultural marketing act. The bill’s title was revised, and stabilization corporations were granted new rights to serve cooperatives. The nine member federal farm board salaries and regional representation were set, with a House vote likely after a final reading.
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Senate
McNary
Capper
Kansas
Ransdell
Louisiana
Norris
Nebraska
Smith
South Carolina
House
Agricultural Marketing Act
Federal Farm Board
Dems Party Is Far From Dead In Washington HQ
Rodney Dutcher reports from Washington on the Democratic Party's revived national headquarters with new chairman Jowett Shouse. The article notes the party’s efforts to stay cohesive and functional between campaigns and invites Democrats to inspect the setup.
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Canton Daily News
Ashington
Democratic Party
Washington
Mr. Jowett
Three Escape Prison Plant Spree Ends With Wounding
Three convicts fled from the state penitentiary brick plant in Junction City Ohio as guards and posses hunted woodlands and abandoned mines. Stanley Starr, 20, was shot while attempting to scale the high wire fence and was taken to Columbus penitentiary hospital in serious condition. The others Henry Schara Cuya hogaco Ray Crooks and Clarence Ragland all short termers, disappeared into surrounding woods after the fusillade.
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Junction City
State Penitentiary
Stanley Starr
Penitentiary
Columbus
Starr
Surounding
Henry Schara
Cuyahogaco
Ray Crooks
Clarence Ragland
Lucasco
Ex congressman Wharton jailed for Evergreen mail robbery
Charles Wharton once a star assistant to Robert Crowe and former congressman must serve two years at Leavenworth. The U S circuit court of appeals ruled he participated in the $133 000 Evergreen mail robbery about a year and a half ago. He was convicted for letting the Limpy Cleaver gang use his suburban home as a hideout and for receiving part of the loot.
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Chicago
Charles
Wharton
Robert E. Crowe
Leavenworth
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
War debt to toil ends in German reparations accord
After a decade of negotiations the Reich accepts a long term debt burden, to be carried for 68 years, under Owen D. Youngs plan. The Dawes committee completed four months of work and the plan awaits formal signatures and ratification by allied powers and Germany.
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United Press
Paris
Reich
Dawes Committee
Owen PD. Young
Conference of Reparations
Germany
Shots Fire At Fess Son Near Hamilton
C Sumner Fess son of Senator Simeon D Fess said two bullets whizzed past as he drove over Gregory Creek between Hamilton and Middletown Ohio He reported the shooting to police and they seek an unidentified driver possible intoxicated from a passing car.
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Hamilton
C. Sumner Fess
United States
Simeon D. Fess
Gregory Creek
Middletown
Fess
Cincinnati
Succumbs at Grave of Wife in Memorial Day Tragedy
An elderly man visits Forest Hill Cemetery in Kansas City to read the gravesite inscription Susan Carter 1855 1924 and C C Carter 1855. A memorial bouquet wilts as an ambulance doctor notes heart disease. A stone cutter adds 1929 to C C Carter’s epitaph.
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Kansas City, Mo
Forest Hill Cemetery
Susan Carter
C. C. Carter
Vesuvius eruption traps students during dramatic lava flow
Twenty students were trapped by a lava flow at Mount Vesuvius as the eruption intensified. Several were injured while fleeing the bursting lava. flames rose to 1,500 feet and the eruption was described as possibly the most spectacular since 79 A.D. A crater overflow and landslides forced tourists to seek safety as incandescent lava fell nearby. The lava flow volume was about 10.46 million cubic yards, roughly half of 1926’s overflow.
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United Press
Naples
Italy
Mt. Vesuvius
Pompeii
Herculaneum
Hell Valley
Aged Massillon craftsman finds woodpecker carved flute
An elderly Massillon violin maker discovers a flute carved by a woodpecker’s bill in a curious find. The brief note hints at an illustrated feature on page 3 with the author Dan Thomas and page references for other items.
Three Hurt As Sears Building Collapses in Pittsburgh
Three men were injured when a portion of a Sears Roebuck Co building under construction in East Pittsburgh collapsed. The victims, Johnston 29 James Gore 22 and John Fonman 48, were treated at a hospital. About 275 workers were employed on site as the third floor concrete poured, and police kept onlookers back from the scene.
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Pittsburgh
Sears Roebuck Co
Johnston
James Gore
John Fonman
Boy Hurt in City Street Auto Crash
Donald Eugene Schumacher four, son of Mr and Mrs Raymond Schumacher of 1217 4th street NE, is at Mercy Hospital with head injuries after being struck at the corner of 5th street and Bender court NE Tuesday night by an automobile driven east on 5th by Ralph Drayer of 1446 6th street NW. Drayer says the child ran into the street. Condition listed as fair.
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Donald Eugene Shumacher
Raymond Shumacher
4Th St
Mercy Hospital
5Th St
Bender Ct NE
Ralph Drayer
6Th St
Sth St
Drayer
Hoover congratulates Owen D Young on reparations committee work
President Hoover cabled congratulations to Owen D Young as the experts’ committee concludes work on the reparations problem. Other American members at the conference include J P Morgan Thomas W Lamont of Morgan Bank and Thomas Nelson Perkins of Boston.
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Washington
Hoover
Owen D. Young
J P Morgan
Thomas W. Lamont
Morgan Banking House
Thomas Nelson Perkins
Boston
Three Die In Triple Explosion At Cities Service Plant
A trio of explosions at the Cities Service Refining Co. plant in East Braintree, Massachusetts, killed Henry Ford of Chelmsford and two workers, Grant Chase and Wallace Minot, with about 100 others injured. Fire raged two hours, causing an estimated half million dollars in damage as flames spread to Weymouth, Braintree, and beyond.
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United Press
East Bralnt Rel
Mass
Cities Service Refining Co
Henry Ford
Chelmsford
Quincy City Hospital
Grant Chase
Wallace Minot
Boston
Weymouth
Braintree
Provincetown
West Quincy
Woman Defeated in Luzerne 12th District Race
Mrs. Sarah Casey appears defeated in the special election to succeed her husband, the late John Casey, as congressman from Pennsylvania's 12th Luzerne district. With 394 precincts reported, C. Murray Turpin leads Mrs. Casey by over 400 votes.
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Wilkes-Barre
Sarah Casey
John Casey
Luzerneco
Pennsylvania
C. Murray Turpin
Casey
Opened Central Park Casino with three jazz bands and $10 charge
New York report notes the Central Park Casino opened to the public with three jazz bands and a $10 cover, while invitations limited entry to about 600 guests. The menu offered French dishes and seafood as Joseph Urban distributed poems praising the decor he designed.
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United Press
New York
Central Park Casino
Deauville
Manhattan Island
Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, Jr
City must take referendum on airplane field
The Ohio supreme court ruled airports are public utilities and subject to referendums, bringing the Canton airport controversy to a likely fall election. The decision followed petitions asking a vote on purchasing the Harrisburg road site for a municipal airport amid council and mayoral veto clashes.
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State Supreme Court
Canton
Columbus
Harrisburg Road
Samuel E. Barr
C.C. Curtis
Curtis
City Legal Department
Supreme Court
Weyland Chandler
Texas
Oregon
Oklahoma
MacDonald Accepted to Form Britain’s Next Government
J Ramsey MacDonald, labor leader, was asked by the king to form a government after last Thursday's general election and accepted. Baldwin resigned as prime minister amid a political shift with no crowd at Windsor Castle.
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Windsor
England
J. Ramsey MacDonald
Great Britain
MacDonald
Lloyd George
Stanley Baldwin
Baldwin
Castle
St. George's Gate
Elizabeth
London
Col. Seymour
Windsor Castle
Afghan bandit-king enters Kandahar without opposition
Reports from Simla say Gen. Abdul Qaiyum commander of regular troops for Bacha Sakao has entered Kandahar without bloodshed. Kandahar had been headquarters of former King Amanullah before his departure from Afghanistan.
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Calcutta
Abdul Qualiyum
Bacha Sakoa
Afghanistan
Kandahar
Simla
Amanullah
Notables Break Ground for Mercy Hospital Wing
Notables led by clergy and nurses break ground for a Mercy Hospital wing near the McKinley front porch. The ceremony drew a large crowd and was marked by low chants and singing, recalling McKinley era speeches.
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William McKinley
Mercy Hospital
McKinley
McKinley yard ceremony opens earth turning
The scene shows bright blue sky above new green leaves in the McKinley yard. Nurses in trim uniforms form a half circle as the first shovelful of earth is turned. Msgr Clement V Treiber in red satin robes leads assisting priests and altar boys around the site.
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McKinley
McKinley Yard
Msgr
Clement V. Treiber
Four Killed in Canadian Pacific Train Crash at Moncton
Four persons died and one was injured when a Canadian Pacific freight train struck an automobile at a grade crossing near Moncton Ontario. The deceased are Octave Geroux aged 55 of Cobalt Laura Geroux Rose Geroux and Wilfred Pherrien of Sudbury who was driving the car. Mrs Octave Geroux lies in Smiths Falls Hospital with head wounds in serious but improving condition.
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Cornwall
Ont
Canadian Pacific
Moncton
Here
Octave Geroux
Cobalt
Laura
Rose Geroux
Wilfred Pherrien
Sudbury
Smith's Falls Hospital
Theater burns in New York destroys historic Old Bowery landmark
The Old Bowery Theater at Manhattan burned today in a spectacular blaze visible across Manhattan Brooklyn and New Jersey. The century old venue once hosted Booth Forrest and Gilbert and was called the cradle of early American actors and actresses.
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New York
Bowery Theater
Booth
Forrest
Gilbert
Manhattan
Brooklyn
New Jersey
British Winners Each Take $300,000 in Derby Stakes
In London June 5 Trigo won the English Derby and a Calcutta sweep stake produced $300,000 for each holder of two tickets. The Leeds haberdasher J. L. Brill and an army major stationed in Rajputana held the tickets. A bookmaker said about $50,000,000 was wagered, a Derby record. A record crowd of women attended the event with many early travelers to Epsom Downs.
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London
Leeds
Rajputna
India
Trigo
Calcutta
J. L. Brill
Epsom Downs
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