08 Sep 1921
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Newspaper
Canton Daily News
Location
Canton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1921
Page
1
A dynamite blast on the Atlanta Birmingham & Atlantic line near Atlanta kills Engineer John T. Morris and injures several crew as the locomotive derails and overturns. Strikers and labor tensions prompt calls for state military guards to protect trains and property.
Solovitz and Joe Reiner join Ben Rudner in a federal indictment detailing a conspiracy to violate the Volstead act from January 16, 1920, to April 1, in Pittsburgh and Ohio's eastern district. Judge Orr rejected moving the defendants to Cleveland for trial, calling the charges insufficiently specific. The case prompts appeals as to indictment clarity and the government’s burden to prove the exact offenses.
War erupts between Manhattan and Brooklyn gangs with gunfire across city streets. Brooklyn gunmen in automobiles engage rivals in Manhattan. police join gun battle. spectator Paul Michelid, 59, shot in the arm. Five men arrested on suspicion.
Mayor Herman R. Witter proposes appointing a traffic expert to head Canton’s police traffic squad and teach laws to motorists. The plan, modeled after St Louis and other cities, would fund the expert’s salary via the city and local clubs, with duties including weekly classes for officers and motorists.
Stringtown miners on the Kentucky side of Tug River move toward surrender after an emissary visits the Williamson courthouse. Major Davis will lead armed State police squads to Merrimac to negotiate terms, amid fears of a trap. A second trial jury for the Matewan battle prepares to convene, with 150 to 200 miners still mobilized nearby. Citizens and deputies vow to defend Rosiclare and Elizabethtown as nearly 1,000 miners mass in surrounding hills.
W V a Sept 8 Part of the Overalls army which fortified itself in the hills on the Kentucky side of Tug river ends its fight and surrenders.
Seth McCormick 23 a World War veteran killed himself with an army pistol in a wood near Middlebranch after awaiting a reunion with comrade John Gibson who had just left an army hospital Gibson had returned home while McCormick’s body was found by a local in a dense woods with a letter from a brother who warned of divine punishment Coroner McQuate blamed the brotherly worry for the act McCormick had planned the May reunion after leaving his home in Bureau Colorado and working as an electrician at Diamond Portland Cement Co in Canton he had hoped to meet a girl from New York whom he had long written to and the separation led to the tragedy.
Auction notice for a nine and a half acre farm in Mship three miles from rs rd to be sold at court t auction Saturday morning. Appraised value $3,000. W. administrator Central Sar k Bidg.ady. Weather notes show unsettled mild temperatures in Ohio tonight with a piano department reference and unclear lines.
The Japanese labor federation announced it has invited Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, to Japan. The visit was proposed for next April. Ady Coal advertised cheap ranges at 124 Fourth St.
Canton and Akron police teams staged the first Canton department field meet at Meyers Lake stadium with Akron winning 42 to 37. Events featured pilots Leon Sherrick and Homer Miller, and top placers included Clark and Fetters of Canton and Talley and Olson of Akron. A post event dinner judged by officials favored the visiting police, with music from the Grand Army band and an Akron band.
Mayor Bampton of Navarre faces a potential jury verdict after Tuesday to Thursday testimony. Harry Cordes, a former special marshal who fired toward the ground, says the mayor warned against injuring anyone. Cordes, under indigent sentence, testified he acted without mayoral orders to shoot speeders. The trial follows a Massillon killing earlier, and Bampton acknowledged past arrests tied to enforcement actions. A subsequent rebuttal recalled Cordes stating he had been told to "plug 'em" if speeders did not stop. Arthur's Leather Show ad appears at 204 Market ay N.
Citizens in Elizabethtown and Rosiclare await Governor Small's representatives as about 800 striking miners mass about 12 miles away. Miners camp in a valley after quitting work a year ago and clash with mine guards. four prisoners reported. wires to towns cut. No casualties reported.
Ohio Kentucky and Indiana milk producers formed the Tri State Cooperative Milk Marketing Association to pool and market their product in Cincinnati without a middleman. The non profit plan aims to centralize distribution through the new cooperative in the Cincinnati territory.
Federal and state prohibition officers across the country prepare a fall offensive to enforce prohibition. Raids will target large liquor stocks with warrants issued in advance to ensure fair process and swift seizures. Ohio officials meet in Columbus to coordinate efforts with national and state leaders. Delaware coast guards watch cape approaches for rum shipments amid reports of two schooners.
The Board of Education passed September estimates totaling about 150000 for work at McKinley high school. The board will meet Friday evening to receive bids for coal and conduct other business.
London dispatch notes British cabinet plans for a conference with Irish plenipotentiaries at Inverness. The note to De Valera rejects a republic and sets terms for further talks while aiming to keep Ireland within the empire. Optimism centers on a possible peace if Sinn Fein accepts.
Exclusive dispatch from Moscow reports starvation in the Samara famine area with images of dead children and haggard survivors. Quaker observer Margaret Thorpe describes rampant disease, emptied stations, and mothers hoping cholera will hasten death to spare slow starvation. Scarcity of vaccines medicines and food cited as urgent needs.
Advertises the Room for Rent Want Ada in The Daily News as the fastest easiest and cheapest way to find tenants. Encourages readers with rooms to rent to place a classified ad and to call 2500 for insertion.
The rise in cotton prices is seen as breaking a logjam in prosperity across industry. A survey of major cotton brokerage houses shows renewed confidence among banks merchants and manufacturers, with raw cotton value finally aligning with real demand and spurring broader economic activity.
Secretary of Commerce Shipover announced that President Harding will call an unemployment congress within two weeks. About 30 delegates will attend, with agriculture to be represented, in Washington this September.
All members meet at lodge rooms at 7 tonight to pay last respects to Bro F J Snyder. Members with cars should bring them. By order of the councilor.
Notice from Gehman Co at 814 Tase-st B advises how to reach the store Da-Ko-Ma Letherman. Telephone users K reply to many calls about access with both phones listed 2871.
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