Daugherty Oui Extends Over Many Subjects
Washington March 19 The senate public trial of Atty Gen Harry M Daugherty moved into liquor deals lottery swindles and land frauds The Wheeler Brookhart committee followed a trail that often touched Daugherty or his friends recalling William A Orr and Mace Stewart to learn about liquor withdrawals permits and possible payments from druggists to Orr for Mannington The day’s focus included cross examination of Stewart by A G counsel.
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Washington
Senate
Harry M. Daugherty
Dempsey-Carpentier Firm
Wheeler-Brookhart Committee
William A. Orr
Whitman
New York
Orr
Howard Mannington
Daugherty
Mannington
Mace Stewart
Galveston
Tex Stewart
Fight Movies Banned in Ohio
Daily News Bureau reports Ohio bans Dempsey Firpo film showings after senate disclosure and possible evasion of law. Vernon M Riegel, State Education Director, revokes Cleveland Film Exchange certificate citing conspiracy and harmful exhibition. Edward Sullivan notified.
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Dempsey-Carpenter Pictures
Alarm Clock Saves Lives in Bucyrus Fire Rescue
Insistent alarm saved Burlin Jacobs, superintendent of the state arsenal, and his wife from gas fumes in their Columbus apartment. The clock awakened Mrs Jacobs who woke her husband and managed to turn off the gas and open the windows, ending a dangerous situation today.
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Bucyrus
Burlin
State Arsenal
Columbus
Mra Jacobs
Orh
Small Pox Jumps Columbus March 19
Smallpox cases rose in Ohio with 832 reported to the state health department between March 1 and 15. Officials said the outbreak remains mainly in western counties and the disease is restricted there.
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Columbus
Ohio
State Department of Health
Oon
Turned Down Offer Over Shady Oil Land Deals
Maj Gen Leonard Wood rejected an oil interests bid at the Chicago convention to back him for secretary of the interior. Gilmore testified that Wood paced the room before saying the deal was shady and he would not have anything to do with it. The testimony also named Harry F Sinclair and others connected to the Teapot Dome lease scandal and noted discussions of land near Bakersfield California.
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Washington
Leonard Wood
Chicago
Oif
Riffin Gilmore
Ohio
Senate
O} Lands Committee
Gilmore
Wood
Harry F. Sinclair
Teapot Dome Oil Reserve
West
Senate Public Lands Committee
G. W. Wahlberg
Archie Roosevelt
Sinclair
Oil Committee
George Sunday
Billy Sunday
Charles H. Gerry
Harry T Weef
George Berber
Harry A. Mackenzie
Harvey C. Smith
Robert F Wolf
Ohio State Journal
Carmin Thompson
Carmi Thompson
Cleveland
Thompson
Walsh
Gen. Wood
Bigeret
Bursum
New Mexico
Bakersfield
Cal
Oklahoma
Jake Hamon
McGraw National
McGraw
Des Moines
Spencer
Missouri
Moonshine Mary Held in Death Conviction
In Chicago on March 19 Moonshine Mary Wazeniak of Brookfield Illinois became the first woman bootlegger convicted of manslaughter for selling poison moonshine. The verdict carries an indeterminate sentence from one year to life as wood alcohol in the liquor she sold killed a man who drank it.
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Chicago
Mary” Wazeniak
Brookfield
Ohio to Probe Days Enforcement Methods
Ohio officials announce a statewide probe into prohibition enforcement methods after charges of blackmail extortion and brutality by Lucas County magistrates and officers. Attorney General Crabbe plans to dispatch staff to Toledo to review documentary evidence and may urge immediate action by the prosecutor.
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Columbus
Crabbe
Lucasco
Killits
Toledo
Donahey
Ohio
Slayer suspect attempts suicide in jail cell
Aris tolies Xanthales, indicted for George Salinas murder, tried to beat his head against cell bars and then shot himself in his first attempt, found semi conscious with head and face bleeding by Deputy Sheriff Closseter in Burus.
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Bucyrus
County
Jal
Bucyrus O
Xanthales
George Salinas
Hi Closseter
Sherif
Lengel Never Was Real Head of Police
Folster's Note-W. Bernard Rodgers, former Canton Daily News reporter, argues Lengel never led Canton police in practice. He contends Mayor Curtis suspended Lengel for insubordination while the safety director Ed Curtis has dominated the force for three years, with Lengel only acting in a theoretical role.
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Lengel
Folster
W. Bernard Rodgers
City Hall
Canton Daily News
Canton
Rodgers
Stat Lenger
Polie
Youth Flees As Kidnapper Fires Up Pipe
Cleveland March 19 A 13 year old boy James Landfear son of Lucius I Landfear Bedford Village wealthy solicitor was seized by two men as he left his home and forced into a car. He escaped when one kidnapper lit his pipe. Police seek the suspects.
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James Landfear
Young Landfear
Lucius I. Landfear
Bedford Village
Here
Cleveland
Landsear
Mystery surrounds widow's murder in Kansas City home
Police probe a mysterious circle of friends to identify the killer of Dr Zoe Wilkins widow of Thomas Cunningham. The Joplin banker’s fortune is noted as context. A rusty pocket knife, with stab wounds to the forehead and neck, lay beside the body in her Kansas City residence.
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Kansas City
Zoe Wilkins
Thomas Cunningham
Joplin
Wheeling Girl Dies In Auto Crash Fatality Near Wheeling
In Wheeling West Virginia Helen McNeill 27 died in a local hospital after an auto crash east of the city last Sunday in which Leah Wurtzbacher 15 was killed. Four young men in the party were bruised as the car crashed into a wall and plunged into a creek. Coroner R G Hobbs postponed the investigation to cover both fatalities.
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Wheeling
W. Va
Helen McNeill
Leah Wurtzbacher
R. G. Hobbs
Blue Jackets Land to Save Embassy in Honduras
Nine officers and 167 bluejackets landed from the US cruiser Milwaukee at Amatala Honduras and march on Tendgalpa to rescue the American embassy and residents, according to a dispatch to the state department from United States minister Franklin Morales.
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Washington
Milwaukee
Amatala
Honduras
Tendgalpa
State Department
United States
Franklin Morales
Governor Donahey approves limited clemency for liquor violators
Prosecutor C B McClintock says there will be no wholesale releases from the workhouse under Governor A V Donahey's clemency plan. The governor requires recommendations from the state prohibition director the trial judge and the prosecuting attorney before any pardon. McClintock notes only two mayoral liquor violator pardons under his term. He forecasts higher fines as judges adjust sentences amid possible pardons after service of months or a year.
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A. V. Donahey
C. B. McClintock
McClintock
Donahey
Mqyor
Mike Rousewick
A W. Agier
Box Enlarged For Jurors In Murder Trial
The jury box in Judge Charles Krichbaum's common pleas court has been enlarged for the first degree murder trial of Claude Osterholt. Osterholt, a former Akron policeman, is charged with the murder of Policeman William Quinn in Massillon four years ago. Pete Billis, brought back from Pennsylvania as a witness, has been moved from the tuberculosis hospital to the county jail to be ready for the trial.
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Charles Krichbaum
Common Pleas Court
Claude Osterholt
Stark Co
Osterholt
Akron
William Quinn
Massillon
Pete Billis
Pennsylvania
84 St NE
Meadiness
Coolidge Likely to Sign Insurance Bonus Measure
President Coolidge is expected to sign the endowment policy insurance bill passed by the house for veterans and dependents from the European War, if the senate does not materially alter it. He had opposed costly bonuses for able bodied veterans earlier but the measure now aims to aid veterans nearing old age or facing acute need.
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David Lawrence Copeneet
Canton Daily News
Ashlington
March
Coolidge
House
Senate
Big Top Star Billy Showles Dying at Bellevue
New York dispatch reports Billy Showles famed bareback rider and former star of the big top with Barnum and Bailey Ringling Brothers and Forepaugh Sells is dying at Bellevue Hospital His wife Kitty says he believes the show continues and he may recover while cirus folk gather at his bedside amid delirium and fading health
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New York
Billy Showles
Bellevue Hospital
Barnum and Bailey
Ringling Brothers
Forepaugh-Sells
William Showles
Showles
Kitty
Billy
Five Die As Japanese Blimp Burns In Flight
Torio dispatch reports five men aboard the 883 airship perished when the latest Japanese blimp burst into flames mid air and plunged to the ground. A naval investigation team has traveled to the crash site to determine the cause.
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TORIO
Naval Investigation Board
Buckins Street Bridge Contract Awarded for Massillon Canal
The county commissioners let the contract for the Buckins street bridge over the canal at Massillon to A. F Wendling Co Massillon for 8400 dollars. The bridge will be a concrete arch structure.
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Buckins St
Massillon
A. F Wendling Co
Divorce suits filed by Tribble and Wingert couples
Josephine Tribble Maassillon sues William Tribble for divorce alleging neglect. Attorney Milton B. Haines represents the plaintiff. Carl O Wingert of Alliance sues Evelyn Wingert for divorce on neglect grounds. Hart & Koehler filed the petition.
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Josephine Tribble Maassillon
William Tribble
Milton B Haines
Carl O Wingert
Alliance
Evelyn Wingert
Hart & Koehler
Mayor Silent in Lengel Suspension Case Sparks Police Shakeup
Mayor C C Curtin remains silent on a 30 day suspension firing of Police Chief A Lengel amid conflict over discipline. Detective Chief Ed Swope acts as interim head as Lengel’s charges of insincerity prompt tempers and political maneuvering within the department.
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C. C. Curtin
A. Lengel
Lengel
Curtis
Ely
Lengela
Fd. Swope
Lengel-Curtis
Reporter Muma leaps into headlines in one swoop
The 1924 Canton Daily News profile describes Jap Muma, veteran New York reporter for the Cincinnati Enquirer, central to a Senate justice department inquiry and the Prize at Film episode. Described as a dying breed, he is famed for broad reach, humor, and a lifelong habit of helping others despite disastrous outcomes.
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Robert T. Small
Canton Daily News
Washington
Jap” Muma
Broadway
Senate
Department of Justice
Muma
Capitol Hill
New York
Mumata
Cincinnati Enquirer
John R. McLean
Ned McLean
The
Enquirer
Ohifo
United States
Senate Committee
Mumma
Ohio
Jasper
J. C. Muma
Mumaugh
Mura
Jail Sentence for Motorist in Massillon Slaying
Albert J. Fedder, Massillon mill worker, was sentenced by Judge Charles Krrchbaum to one to 20 years in the penitentiary for man slaughter after a Canton Massillon road accident that killed Frank Lonas, Massillon photographer. A motion for new trial was overruled and an appeal to the court of appeals was announced. Fedder was on bond as the case progressed through retrial after a hung jury.
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Albert J. Fedder
Massillon
Charles Krrchbaum
Common Pleas
Pedder
Court of Appeals
Fedder
Frank Lonas
Canton-Massillon Rdt
Forbes Denies Federal Conspiracy Charge in Chicago Court
In Chicago on March 19 Col Charles R Forbes former U S veteran and John W Thompson a St Louis contractor pleaded not guilty to conspiracy charges. The defense requested permission to file demurrers to the charges as plea entered.
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Chicago
Charles R. Forbes
United States
John W. Thompson
St. Louis
Veterans Bureau
Forbes
Admiral Fullam to speak at Canton Chamber forum
Women members of the Canton Chamber of Commerce are invited to a Forum meeting at the Courtland hotel Thursday at 11 45 am. Rear Admiral W F Fullam will discuss aviation progress and present a motion picture on aviation development. He will wear full dress naval uniform. The Forum Steering committee, chaired by Judge Hubert C Pontius, will oversee the event.
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Canton Chamber of Commerce
Courtland Hotel
W. F. Fullam
Fullam
Hubert C Pontius
News Want Ad Prompt for Selling Items
Short advertisement encourages readers to place a speedy news want ad to sell old items like tables and chairs. It highlights attic and downstairs storage as sources and notes buyers are seeking usable pieces. The call to action emphasizes fast placement to reach interested customers.
Nobil Shoe Co. Sues Massillon Firm in Court
The Nobil Shoe Co. of Canton filed a common pleas suit Wednesday to restrain the Liff-Mason Shoe Co. of Massillon from copying its name style of advertising and color schemes. The petition seeks to bar use of "Nobil's" in ads and from imitating slogans and newspaper ads. Attorney Harry Nusbaum represents the plaintiff.
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Nobil Shoe Co
Canton
Common Pleas
Liff-Mason Shoe Co
Massillon
Nobil'’s
Harry Nusbaum
Akron move to forbid school whipping protests after boy’s injuries
Akron officials began a push to ban corporal punishment in public schools following a brutal whipping of 10 year old Alex George at Miller school by teacher Rhoda Keeman. The boy is hospitalized with severe flesh marks. superintendent Carrell halted the team pending investigation.
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Akron
Alex George
Rhoda Keeman
Miller School
Carrell
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Albert Fedder
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