New search for Melvin continues after Arnold verdict
Investigators resume work from Wayne to pursue a fresh lead in the Melvin Horst abduction case. Marion Craven says Walter Mougey will stay on the case indefinitely, while Elias and Arthur Arnold deny involvement and maintain silence after their conviction for child stealing.
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United Press
Wooster
Melvin Horst
Wayne
Marion Graven
Wayne Co
Walter J. Mougey
Elias
Arthur Arnold
Craven
Mougey
Arnolds
Federal Rebels Clash Over Torreon Battle Details
Reports from Torreon describe conflicting claims as government and rebel forces clash for control of the city. Mexico City says federal troops win at two points and attack plans are underway, while rebels claim sweeping victories and capture of 1,200 troops near Torreon and Benavides. Federal planes bomb Torreon during the week.
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Torreon
J. Gonzales Escobar
Mexico City
San Pedro
Escobar
Benavides
Asunzolo
Sailor Held in Leviathan Bond Robbery
Federal agents in Houston say a Mallory tanker crewman, possibly Walter Ringer, is held as a suspect in the $60,000 Leviathan bond theft. The June 18, 1928 robbery on the Leviathan is under investigation with possible transfer to New York if identification is confirmed.
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Sailor
Walter Ringer
Houston
Tex
Malabar
New York
Ringer
Dr Charles Brush Celebrates 80th Birthday in Cleveland
Dr Charles F Brush inventor of the arc light marked his 80th birthday with a quiet celebration in Cleveland as congratulatory telegrams poured in. Henry Ford sent a note praising his contributions to the science of light and wishing him health and happiness.
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Cleveland
Charles F. Brush
Henry Ford
Parade Street Proposed to Spare City Traffic
A letter from Will Rogers suggests designating a single Parade Street away from business to host marches. He argues parades disturb urban life and crowds only the marchers and their families, proposing dedicated route for all organizations.
Hex doctor held in death case in Allentown
Police detain 29 year old East Allentown mechanic Charles T Belles as a suspect in what authorities call Pennsylvania second hex murder within a year. Verma Octavia Del 21 died from three poisons shortly after visiting the hex doctor for the seventh time. The body was found by hunters near an air mail field. Coroner says poisons caused death and no containers were found. Belles was arrested after being missing on a hunting trip and denied giving the charms found on the body.
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Allentown
Charles T. Belles
East Allentown
Pennsylvania
Verma
Octavia del
Belles
Ethan Allen Hearhart
Frederick R. Bausch
Explosion Destroys Clairton Building and Grocer Shop
A gas explosion in a two story brick building in Clairton Pennsylvania early today caused a fire that razed the structure. The ground floor housed the Peter Gills grocery with vacant apartments above.
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Clairton
Peter Gills
Grain Scandal Leads to Expulsion of Kuban Officials
London Observer Moscow correspondent reports a special investigating committee decided to expel authorities in charge of the Kuban district over serious abuses in grain collection.
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London
London Observer
Moscow
King George Walks In Bath Chair At Bognor
King George convalescing at Craigwell House spent part of the morning seated in a bath chair outdoors. He yesterday walked a distance without assistance for the first time since his illness began.
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Bognor
England
King George
Craigwell House
More Troopers Requested for Flood Stricken Area
Martial law spreads in Elba and Geneva as Col. W E Persons acts after Col. Milton Stone reports insufficient guardsmen to manage flood zones. Looting rises while public health says disease is contained. guards urge evacuees to report to rescue camps for inoculation. Continued on page 2.
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Troy
Ala
Elba
Geneva
W. E. Persons
Alabama National Guard
Milton Stone
Bibb Graves
Public Health Service
The
Health Service
Col. Persons
Plans Action Against Mayor for Airport Bonds
Mandamus action to compel Mayor C. C. Curtis to sign bonds totaling 78 375 for the airport will be started late Monday by City Solicitor James E. Kinnison. The move rests on a municipal code requirement that a city official perform ministerial duties. The city has approved the purchase. the mayor may cite referendum petitions as a delay defense, though petitions were said to be late. A similar mandamus action against Service Director Gerald E. Mudge to press purchase may follow if delays occur after bonds are signed.
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James E. Kinnison
Public Property and Building Committee of Council
Curtis
Harrisburg Rd
Gerald E. Mudge
Chamber of Commerce
City Board of Control
Two Prisoners Escape Jail In Hillsboro
Wayne Harris of Greenfield and Roy Stultz of Hillsboro escaped from the county jail in Hillsboro early today. Sheriff C. S. Miller reported saws likely smuggled to the inmates and is investigating the breach.
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Hillsboro
Wayne Harris
Greenfield
Roy, Stultz
C. S. Miller
Influenza Death Toll Reported in Scutari Epidemic
Politika reports 1,000 deaths from an influenza outbreak in Scutari Albania. The Belgrade newspaper notes the toll as of March 14.
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Berlin
Belgrade
Politika
Scutari
Albania
TODAY'S Special features and comic page tease
A college art prize story involves The Major who wins a prize but quickly loses the prize money after Mrs Hoople discovers the issue. The page teases include Our Boarding House, Short Turns, Looking Back, and Amusement reviews on the upcoming sections with a mix of features and columns.
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Fishbein
Manting
Daween
Doris Oeerees
Judith Smith
Pnt
Noun Ood
Girl Flyer Sets New Air Endurance Record
Louise Thaden, 23, lands Travel Air biplane at Oakland Airport after a solo 22 hours 3 minutes 12 seconds aloft to break the women’s endurance record. She notes with more fuel she could have matched the men’s roughly 35 hour mark. Comments on potential for women to threaten long held aviation records.
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Girl Flyer
San Francisco
Wright Brothers
Louise McPherridge Thaden
Jetta Gondal to Receive $31,000 in Breach Suit
In Los Angeles March 18 film star Jetta Gondal faced Superior Judge Leon Yankwitch in a breach of contract case against De Mille Pictures Corp now Pathe. The judge said he would award $31,000 and declared actresses have the right to be temperamental though Gondal sought $90,000 for the remaining three years of a five year contract. The company argued she was temperamental citing set disputes and profile preferences. The judge also noted obedience of artists is not the obedience of menials.
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United Press
Los Angeles
Jetta Gondal
Leon Yankwitch
de Mille Pictures Corp
Yankwitch
Miss Goudal
de Mille Company
Pathe
Ireland Protests Council of State Rule Over England
Dublin dispatch reports President Cosgrave rejects any council of State governing England during King George's illness. Cosgrave refuses non royal signers, recalling Smiddy and appointing Mac White to Washington. Queen Mary, the Prince of Wales, and the Duke of York signed documents.
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London
Council of State
England
George
Dublin
Daily Chronicle
William T. Cosgrave
Free State
Chronicle
Timothy A. Smiddy
Washington
Mac White
Queen Mary
Prince of Wales
Duke of York
Prohibition Drive Intensifies in Boston
Boston enforcers operate on a high pressure campaign with federal and local agencies coordinating to curb liquor. Jonathan S. Lewis heads the New England prohibition forces and confirms a concerted crackdown is under way, with six raids reported Saturday as a possible nationwide start.
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Boston
Jonathan 8. Lewis
New England Prohibition Forces
Allen B. Pond Dies In Chicago At 70
Funeral services set for Allen B. Pond, noted architect and reform leader, who died after a six day illness in Chicago. Pond, age 70, had long been involved with educational activities and social reform efforts.
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Chicago
Allen B. Pond
Pond
Grand jurors begin probe of Stark co workhouse finances
Grand jurors opened a special session Monday to probe the Stark county workhouse finances under former superintendent John M. Boyer. State examiners reported a temporary $14,000 shortfall, later made up before Boyer’s resignation as investigation involves nine years of receipts and expenditures with about a dozen witnesses.
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Stark Co
John M. Boyer
Henry W. Harter, Jr
Boyer
Body of Missing Woman Found Near Berlin
The body of a woman believed to be Mrs. Bessie Moss Thoman formerly of Philadelphia was found in woods in a northern Berlin suburb. She had disappeared months ago after a shopping trip and was tracked to a downtown store by police with no further clues.
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Berlin
Bessie Moss Thoman
Philadelphia
Classified ads tease offers in Canton Daily News
Bits of news from today's classified section advertise furnished rooms and bath for 40 dollars including heat and hot water. Listings include Ford cars from 1825 and 1927 models with prices 40 and 150 dollars. Also a half brick double house on a bus line with a large lawn. A lost small black terrier named Mickey and a request for two dogs named Mouschoeees.
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Canton Daily News
Floods Sweep Peru as Rivers Burst Their Banks
Coastal rivers in Peru rose sharply after weekend rains in the mountains. Bridges were washed away, roads flooded, and crops damaged in coastal and inland districts around Lima and beyond. Local authorities issued warnings as emergency crews mobilized to assist affected communities.
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Lima
Peru
March 20 Deadline to Secure Garbage Discount
Please be advised March 20 is the last day to pay garbage service to secure a discount offered by the finance department.
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TTT Te Finance
Trio Arrested on Gun Charges in Canton Chase
Wilber Holdbauer of Benton and Sam and Alles Davis from Millersburg were arrested early Monday on carrying concealed weapons charges after a pursuit from Tuscarawas Street West to Bellflower Avenue. A .22 revolver was found on Holdbauer and two other pistols plus 150 automobile keys were recovered.
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Benton
Sam
Alles Davis
Millersburg
Tuscarawas St W
Bellflower Av
Oster
Derby
Rock and Heckman
McKinley Av
Holdbauer
Canton Automobile Club
Screen star Mabel Normand improves under care
Hollywood March 18 distribution reports improvement in the exhiuation of Mabel Normand screen actress seriously ill from a lung infection says her physician. She will be under care for months while likely to gain steadily. Lew Cody her husband is en route to Palm Springs from New York after a nervous breakdown and tour cancellation.
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Hollywood
Mabel Normand
Miss Normand
Lew Cody
Palm Springs
Cal
New York
Revised Geneva draft of World Court protocol submitted
A complete revised draft of the 1926 protocol of the permanent court of international justice was submitted for revision. Elihu Root and Sir Cecil Hurst prepared the draft to accommodate United States reservations to the World Court.
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Geneva
Permanent Court of International Justice
Commission of Jurists
Commission
Elihu Root
Cecil Hurst
England
United States
World Court
14 Die In Newark Air Crash After Plane Hits Freight Train
Delmont Parsons died in St James Hospital today elevating the death toll to 14 after a sightseeing plane crashed into a freight train near Newark New Jersey. Pilot Lou Foote survived but with severe skull fractures as officials say he attempted a landing when the engines failed. The plane carried sightseers and had just departed from the metropolitan airport for a flight over New York City.
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Newark
N. J
Rarsons
Lou Foote
Foote
Colonial Airways, Inc
United Press
Metropolitan
New York City
Casper Lamonte
Chicago launches liquor crackdown in Loop drive
Chicago officials and federal, state, and city leaders meet to curb bootlegging with indictments under the Jones law. U.S. Attorney George E. Q. Johnson says 259 indictments monthly and a special court will handle minor dry law cases to drain liquor flow at the source.
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Chicago
George E. Q. Johnson
United States
William F. Russell
Harry Olson
Alexander C. Jamie
Harold Keele
EF. C. Yellowley
Johnson
Alligators Turn Up As Coast Guard Tries to Seize Contraband
Warrant Officer Frederick W Swimme boards the Nautilus off Wildwood New Jersey looking for liquor. Three men drop a packing case overboard an alibi collapses and 200 alligators spill onto the deck.
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Wildwood
N. J
Frederick W Swimme
Coast Guard
Josh Shivers
Swimme
Capt. Shivers
Officer Swimme
Hull Sounds Economy Plea In Government
Rep Cordell Hull urges strict economy to curb future taxes as a 1930 deficit looms. He warns of a $45 million back pay bill for railway mail carriers and big agriculture relief costs while predicting tariff measures may not boost revenue and urging cautious tax increases.
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United Press
Washington
Rep
Cordell Hull
Tenn
Hull
Ways and Means
Treasury
Congress
House
Senate
Lindy Alters Flying Route Loudly in California
Col. Charles A. Lindbergh landed at Grand Central Airport in Glendale last night but diverted to Long Beach today without notifying Glendale officials. Airport lights at Glendale and Van Nuys were kept on as authorities traced Lindbergh via messages to Kingman, Ariz, where he had been seen earlier.
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Long Beach
Cal
Charles A. Lindbergh
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