Balloonist race near Atlantic hazard cited in report
The Gordon Bennett Cup balloon race saw American entries into peril as several balloons were reported down or at sea off France and Belgium. W T VanOrman and C K Wellan of Akron survived a rough crossing aboard Vaterland while others were rescued by ships and crews.
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Atlantic
France
Liberte
Brussels
Belgium
Annevillec
Word
Yor Bienanne
Mught
Anneville
Belgian Aero Club
Ameri
The
Aero Club
Atlantic Ocean
Eng
Father Freed to Go to Funeral in Portsmouth
Wil Morrison, 55, was released today to attend the funeral of his 28-year-old son James and his 23-year-old daughter-in-law Trene. Morrison said he heard a quick succession of sounds about 150 yards from the house, then found them dead. investigators say he shot and killed himself.
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Portsmouth
Wil Morrison
James
Trene
Morrison
PXE DEAD, ANOTHER HURT IN CRASHES
June 9 report describes multiple auto crashes causing a fatality and injuries. Arthur 1. 6, and Siebert Antonelli, 6, are named among the victims. one car driver struck a boy named Flanagan and drove away.
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Arthur
Siebert Antonelli
Flanagan Boy
Mysterious Woman Dary Can Feature In Dames Section
A cryptic note hints at a production pitched to a female audience. It references Ne Ric Marc McDermott and The Cortez, mentions two people at an office and ticker changes. Details are fragmented but point to a film or photo feature in a dames section.
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Dary
Ric
Marc McDermott
Cortez
Minnesota to See Big Naval Ship After All
The dirigible Los Angeles, crippled by engine trouble, is rushed for repairs at Lakehurst and expected to depart within 48 hours for Minneapolis. After abandoning its western flight, the airship will resume its Twin Cities itinerary for the Norse centennial with a late tomorrow departure.
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Lakehurst
N. J
Los Angeles
Minneapolis
Wilbur
Twin
Minnesota
Seven Candidates Enter Canton Mayor Race
Seven candidates are now in the race for mayor of Canton after new petitions. Democratic entrant is Stanford M. Swarts, nicknamed Major, a Spanish American War veteran. Other Republicans include Mayor Charles M. Moll, ex mayor C. C. Curtis, Samuel J. Love, and Vin to. I. Stanshberg, a city council member, plus Jack Morris, Harry M. Kimbel, C. Ray Wonderly. Alliance figures C. S. Westover and James Miller also seek mayoral posts. Massillon entries include Harold McClelland and Clarence W. Jenior seeking council seats.
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Canton
Stanford M. Swarts
Keller E. Huff
J. B. Parker
Vinto
I. Stanshberg
Charles M. Moll
C. C. Curtis
Samuel J. Love
Swarts
Major
Stansberg
Jack Morris
Harry M. Kimbel
Fifth Ward
C. Ray Wonderly
Alliance
C. S. Westover
James “. Miller
Counciman
Massillon
Harold McClelland
Clarence W. Jenior
Third Ward
Axe Murder Remains Unsolved in LSU Professor Death
Baton Rouge authorities probe the axe killing of Prof. Oscar B. Turner of Louisiana State University. After two days of police work and the coroner's inquest resuming, investigators lack sufficient evidence for an arrest and have summoned more students as suspects tied to stolen final exams.
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Baton Rouge
Oscar B. Turner
Louisiana State University
Turner
Missing Marxes Brother Comedian Leo Vanishes After Show
Detroit police fail to locate Leo Marx after a fifty hour search. The comedian left the theatre hatless Saturday night during a local playhouse performance with about $500 on his person. Two of his brothers perform with him in the act.
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Detroit
Leo Marx
Marx
Coolidge Train Speeds Back Toward Washington
President Coolidge travels by special train through Wisconsin toward Chicago and the national capital after a Norse-American centennial appearance. Crowds greet the journey with enthusiasm despite rain and wind, as Mrs. Coolidge accompanies him.
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President Coolidge
Washington
Minneapolis
St. Paul
Gangs Kill Cleveland Real Estate Leader Gus Rini
In Cleveland Ohio on June 9 three youths killed Gus Rini president of his namesake realty company and a noted Italian political figure. They fired six shots as he stood outside his offices then fled in a waiting car with another gang member driving. He died en route to a hospital after police chased the getaway car.
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Cleveland, O
Gus Rini
Rini
Shepherd murder trial jury nearing completion
Chicago June 9 State's Attorney Crowe opened the Shepherd murder case, aiming to finish the jury. Eight jurors seated with a ninth tentatively accepted, as witnesses from various states prepare to testify against William P D Shepherd, charged with killing his ward Billy McClintock to secure a million dollar estate.
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Chicago
Robert E. Crowe
Crowe
Willam PD
Shepherd
Billy McClintock
Church papers merged in Cincinnati Presbyterian publications unite
Cincinnati June 9 The Herald and Presbyterian weekly organ of the Presbyterian Church for 96 years will merge with another church publication announced by Dr F C Montfort publisher of the Herald and Presbyter. The last issue of the Herald and Presbyter will be printed tomorrow.
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Cincinnati
Herald and Presbyter
The
Presbyterian Church
Presbyterian
F. C. Montfort
Buckeye News Briefs From Columbus Area June 9
Lightning storm kills one man and injuries another near Columbus. Andrew Miller, 65, died under a tree at Winding Hollow golf course while Charles Barnhart, 33, is in critical condition at Grant hospital after being struck unconscious. Also reported Harold Wing with 16 killed near Orient when a team drove to a road roller. Former State Senator W. N. Shaffer dies at 65 from acute indigestion, noted Ohio Democrat and former finance commission head. Police hunt two highwaymen at a Chillicothe oil station. $70 stolen. Akron school superintendent George McCord named by a four to three vote, resignations follow. Kondrat Gwozdenkow sentenced to death on June 12.
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Westerville
Orient
Shaffer
Chillicothe
Columbus
Andrew Miller
Winding Hollow
Charles Barnhart
Grant Hospital
Paulding
W. N. Shaffer
Ohio
Harmon
Showers for All East Forecast Proclaimed by Weather Bureau
Washington reports the weather bureau proclaims the end of the late heat wave with thundershowers forecast for every state east of the Mississippi. Partly cloudy tonight and Wednesday, with likely showers and thundershowers across Alabama to Maine.
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Washington
Weather Bureau
Mississippi River
Alabama
Maine
Sunday Dancing Ban Expanded to Mayors, Probate Judges
Columbus June 8 Atty Gen Crabbe ruled the act empowering probate judges to license public dancing places outside municipalities also authorizes mayors to ban Sunday dances. The sweeping interpretation broadens local enforcement powers over weekend dancing in the state.
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Atty
Gen
Crabbe
Pay The Parson For His Prayer
An editor notes a tale of a widow buried but the preacher unpaid for his funeral sermon and prayer. A husband contemplates settling the debt by giving the pastor his cat after the cat’s sorrowful meows and a lifetime of keeping house. The moral wittily questions payment in kind in a humorous, antiquated tone.
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First Christian Church
Essad Minia Released After Court Hearing
Essad Minia was released by Judge Bowman in Criminal court Tuesday morning after being charged with molesting women.
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Essad Minia
Bowman
Three Groups to Seek Amundsen
Three searching parties have been arranged to hunt for the missing Amundsen polar flyers. The Norwegian government has started the steamer Ingertre toward Spitzbergen carrying airplanes to scout the ice fields. The American MacMillan expedition is set to depart for Utah at month’s end to maintain a lookout for Amundsen. A third expedition will be led by Jean Charcot, French polar explorer, who is about to leave France for Greenland. Prominent arctic experts still believe Amundsen may be found, though his food supply will run out in about a week, forcing reliance on game.
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Spitzbergen
MacMillan
Utah
Amundsen
Jean Charcot
France
Greenland
Americans Suffer Wounding as Civil War Fire Strikes Crossing
In Hong Kong on June 9 Yunnanese troops clashed with Cantonese forces. Four Americans, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Frampton and Mr. and Mrs. Montgomery Ogden, were aboard a launch flying the American flag and were wounded by glass splinters as they attempted to cross from Honan Island to Canton. Mrs. Frampton sustained an arm injury.
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Hong Kong
China
Frank Frampton
Montgomery Ogden
Honan Island
Canton
Beer Baron Walter O'Donnell Dies in Chicago Shooting
Walter O'Donnell a Chicago beer baron died from bullet wounds received in a saloon fight on Sunday. He died in Chicago on June 9. Five men including two former prohibition agents are in custody in connection with the incident.
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Chicago
Walter O'Donnell
Prohibition
Nine Die In Queensland Mail Train Derailment
Nine people were killed and 40 injured when a mail train derailed at the Travestone Creek bridge near Gympie Queensland Australia as it crossed the bridge today according to a Sydney dispatch to the Central News.
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London
Travestone Creek Bridge
Gympie
Queensland
Australia
Sydney
Central News
Local Man Survives Broken Neck Return Home
Carl Dallois aged 52 has returned home to Grand Rapids with a broken neck cast after a cement step collapse hurled him to the ground. He was discharged Monday from St. Marys Hospital.
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Grand Rapids
Carl Dallois
St. Mary’s Hospital
Decision awaited in Ed Curtis bribery case
In Columbus Ohio on June 9 the supreme court did not hand down a decision in the Ed E Curtis bribery case. Curtis former Canton safety director was convicted on bribery charges linked to illegal liquor traffic after being ousted by Gov Donahey and indicted by a grand jury. He faces 2 to 20 years and has appealed. the court of appeals upheld the lower court and a final high court ruling is expected soon, possibly next week.
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PD. C. Weatenhaver
Joshua FE. Russell
Prohibition
Ohio
Merle B. Copeland
Warren FE. Barnett
Columbus
John Mart
Weatenhaver
Hayner
Troy
Russell
Copeland
Matt
Mart
D. C. Westenhaver
Westenhaver
Supreme Court
Ed E. Curtis
Canton
Curtis
Stark Co
Gov. Donahey
Court of Appeals
State Supreme Court
Firebug's attempt to kill five thwarted in rooming house
In Cleveland a firebug forced entry to a basement at around 3 am and started fires at the front and rear of a rooming house. Proprietor J. D. Tavin detected the smoke, investigated, and raised the alarm as flames spread beneath the stairways. Police said the motive was to trap inmates.
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Cleveland
J. D. Tavin
Rotorship to Be Given Test in Charles River
America's first rotorship to make a test trip in the Charles River basin Cambridge Mass. The 45 foot craft is propelled by a rotating mast nine and a half feet high and three and a half feet in diameter. Seven knots an hour is expected with a fifteen mile wind, according to the designers.
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Cambridge
Mass
America
Charles River
Bodies Searched as Mine Tragedy Toll Rises at Sturgis
In Sturgis Kentucky rescue workers continued the hunt for the remaining seven to nine miners trapped after the West Kentucky Coal Company Mine No. 9 explosion. Four bodies had been recovered and six men survived. Authorities expected nine fatalities among the trapped workers, five white and four colored, with responders pressing through the wreckage.
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Sturgis
West Kentucky
Body found in Hackensack River after murder in Secaucus
Police recovered a burned unidentified man’s body from the Hackensack River in Secaucus New Jersey. He had been encased in lead sheets and comforters and his killers had subjected him to torture by fire before the death.
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Secaucus
N. J
Hackensack
G A R Business Session Opens at Mount Vernon
The fifty ninth state encampment of the G a R opened its first business session today at 1 pm in Mount Vernon Ohio. The Women’s Relief Corps presented a flag to the local high school and the Sons of Veterans presented a flag to the Boy Scouts. A novelty parade of city youth was scheduled for this afternoon.
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Mount Vernon
Women's Relief Corps
Sons of Veterans
Boy Scouts
German to be taught again in Cleveland schools
Cleveland resumes German instruction after wartime ban. German had been prohibited since June 1918, and the move marks a return to language instruction in local schools. Mayor and school officials oversee the reversal of the wartime policy.
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Cleveland
Woman's body found in Licking River sparks foul play probe
In Newark Ohio the corpse of an unidentified 65 year old woman was recovered from the north fork of the Licking River early today. Coroner E S Richards suspects foul play and believes she was dead before entering the river. Further details pending official findings.
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Newark, CO
North Fork
Licking River
E. S. Richards
President of Ohio University resigns
Athens June 9 Dr EB B Bryan president of Ohio University has resigned effective September 1 In the announcement he said he planned to retire from active educational work at age 60 to devote his remaining years to writing and lecturing
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Athens
EB B Bryan
Ohio University
Bryan
Supreme Court Upholds State Law Against Anarchy Preaching
Washington dispatch reports the Supreme Court ruling that New York's law against preaching anarchy is valid, paving the way for stronger anti communism statutes. Justices Sanford state states may punish incitement to overthrow the government, while dissenters Holmes and Brandeis warn of curbing free speech too far. The decision is seen as a reaction to Soviet propaganda and a defense of public order over individual rights.
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Canton Daily News
Washington
Supreme Court of the United States
New York State
Supreme Court
Sanford
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Louis Brandeis
Justice Holmes
Brandeis
New York
Veterans Open Meet in Port Huron Encampment Begins
The sixth annual Veterans of Foreign Wars encampment opens in Port Huron with three sessions starting today. About 5000 visitors are expected or present, with invitations sent to General Pershing Admiral Sims and Vice President Dawes.
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Midh
Veterans of Foreign Wars
General Pershing
Admiral Sims
Dawes
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