State Will Close WIM KILLED. Case Against Snook At Today's Session
Bluffton Ohio August 5 The wrecking of a Greyhound bus on the Dixie Highway five miles south of Bluffton left Miss Edna Paule of Detroit dead and eight others seriously hurt with thirteen more slightly injured Coroner Harold Crosby will question driver Sam Bowles as Sheriff O Willford tests the brakes The bus ran into a ditch after a front axle shackle broke Bowles said he could not control the vehicle with the damaged front end Eleven passengers were hospitalized with varying injuries including skull fractures and facial wounds The list of injured included Oliver Lee Alexander Oliver Oaks Altrue Williams Harry Ebers Jack Coyles Edward Herbert and Floyd Davis
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Bluffton
Greyhound
Dixie Highway
Here
Edna Paule
Detroit
Harold O. Crosby
Findlay
Sam Bowles
O. Willford
Bowles
Paule
Dayton
Cincinnati
O Oliver Lee Alexander
Birmingham
Ala
Oliver Oats
Altrue Williams
River Rouge
Mich
Harry Ebers
Jack Coyles
Perrysville
Edward Herbert
Floyd Davis
Oliver Springs
Tenn
Graf May Not Start First Lap of World Tour Til Thursday
At Lakehurst New Jersey considerable doubt hung on whether the Graf Zeppelin can begin her world circumnavigation as scheduled late Wednesday night. Hydrogen buoyancy needs were higher than expected prompting refueling delays while three eight hour service crews prepare to finish by the deadline to sail. The voyage will run Lakehurst Friedrichshafen Tokio Los Angeles back to Lakehurst with End World Tour date set for September 3.
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Graf
New York World News Service
Lakehurst
N. J
Naval Air Station
Eckener
Friedricshafen
Atlantic
Navy
Los Angeles
Globe
Friedrichshafen
Tokio
G O P Leader Back Huston For RNC Chairmanship
Washington dispatch indicates Claudius H. Huston of Chattanooga Tennessee is expected to win the Republican National Committee chairmanship at the September 9 meeting in Washington. The session at the Willard Hotel will also consider a Second Vice Chairman and other vacancies with President Hoover’s view guiding the choice. Ralph Williams of Oregon and George Woodruff of Chicago are among other names mentioned. Huston previously served in the Commerce Department under Hoover and has solid support for a majority vote.
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Washington
Claudius H. Huston
Chattanooga
Tenn
Republican National Committee
Denver
Hubert Work
New Willard Hotel
White House
Ralph Williams
Oregon
George Woodruff
Chicago
Huston Long
Hoover
Latters
Commerce Department
Huston
Tax rate to stay at 21.60 per thousand in Hamilton County
Hamilton County Budget Commission opened with assurance that the 1929 tax rate of 21.60 mills per $1,000 valuation will remain unchanged after removing .52 mill to fit within the 15 mill limit. The commission faced reductions from the county budget to meet the limit while city and school budgets stay as proposed.
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Hamilton County
County
Nelson Schwab
William F. Hess
Samuel Ach
Cincinnati
Wife of Ex Dry Informer in Penitentiary Involved in Fatal Wreck
Three killed when a Dayton to Cincinnati car sideswiped another vehicle and plunged into Cooper Creek. Victims include Nellie Weiler 29 and two women, one blond 30. driver Patrick Farmer 26 survived. Weiler, wife of a former dry informer in Atlanta Penitentiary, had prior fatal crash involving her son.
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Dayton
Cincinnati
Reading Road
Cooper Creek
Nellie Weiler
Walnut Street
Slim
East Fifth Street
Patrick Farmer
Kredman
Farmer
Chandler
Weiler
Atlanta
Milton Avenue
Illiam
Darke County
North Bend
Childdren
Snook admits killing coed Theora Hix in Ohio murder case
Dr James H Snook testified he killed Theora Hix and left her body at the New York Central rifle range after a quarrel. Newsmen William Howells and James Fusco relayed his confession in a post arrest interview. Prosecutor Chester used the interview to support the case while defense sought to challenge its voluntariness. Howell testified Snook admitted beating the girl with a hammer.
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Kenneth Hopping
Associated Press
Columeus
James H. Snook
Theora Hix
New York Central
William C. Howells
Cleveland
James E. Fusco
Columbus
Henry L. Scarlett
Howells
Fusco
Demurrer Overruled in Sprague Impeachment Case
In Portsmouth Ohio the Common Pleas Court overruled a defense demurrer to an impeachment petition against Municipal Judge William R. Sprague. The petition by the Law Enforcement Committee of the Portsmouth Ministerial Association alleges lenient handling of Sunday movie theater rulings and seeks removal, with 2,200 signatures collected.
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Portsmouth, O
William R. Sprague
Portsmouth
Common Pleas
Will P. Stephenson
West Union
Common Pleas Court
Sprague
Portsmouth Ministerial Association
Judge Sprague
Judge Spragues
Ministerial Association
Peaches Advertised For Sale At Fruit Farm
Want ad notes ripe white peaches available at a local fruit farm. Prices described as reasonable and invites readers to bring baskets to purchase directly.
Four room cottage for sale in Hamlet with acre yard
A newly built four room cottage with one acre of ground is offered for sale in Hamlet. Room and board for two gentlemen is available in a private home in Walnut Hills.
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Walnut Hills
Seven room brick store for sale in Dayton Kentucky
Immediate possession of up town store will be given. Fixtures, counter and general equipment included. Modern seven room brick, desirably located in Dayton, Ky., can be rented reasonable. Turn now to the Want Ad page for other Want Ad news. For quick and sure results telephone your Ad to The Commercial Tribune, Canal 6300.
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Uptown
Dayton
Want
The
Commercial Tribune
Canal 6300
Shaw Defends Window Dressing in Political Debate
George Bernard Shaw addressed the Independent Labour party students at Welwyn defending political window dressing. He said Conservatives lost the May general election by failing to advertise a good program. He blasted Communists as dreaming and Liberal decline as a system issue while noting Labour was not unpopular and voters chose it over hopeless others.
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London
George Bernard Shaw
Europe
Independent Labor Party
Welwyn
Shaw
Liberal Party
Labor Party
Labor
Duel Ends Deadly on Marion Street Over Woman
In Marion Ohio on August 5, Charles Worline aged 55 was shot and killed after a gun duel with Joseph M. Mitchell 51. Mitchell was wounded in the leg and Mrs Margaret Knachel 48, the woman involved, was also injured. Mitchell, a night watchman, and Mrs Knachel, mother of Eddie Knachel, were walking home when Worline allegedly ambushed Mitchell. Mitchell fired in defense fatally wounding Worline. both Knachel and Mitchell are expected to recover.
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Marion, CO
Charles Worline
Margaret Knachel
Joseph M. Mitchell
Worline
Father of 24 Freed After Dry Law Raid
George McCann father of twenty four children had the case dismissed after a hearing on dry law charges. He testified he had reared twenty four children and is 63. United States Commissioner Abercrombie praised his conduct as the raid was ruled illegal for lacking a warrant. Prohibition agents arrested him at his home near Monkton after purchasing two bottles of beer.
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New York World
News Service
Baltimore
George McCann
McCann
United States
Abercrombie
Prohibition
Monkton
Wisdom of a Black Cat Helps Solve Fish Theft Case
Fifty pounds of fresh fish were stolen from Arthur Watts at 3395 Southside Avenue yesterday afternoon. Patrolman Bruestle, sidelined by a cold, brought his grandmother's black cat to the scene. The cat traced the odor to Eugene Solomon, 19, of 3442 Southside Avenue, who is being held for investigation.
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Arthur Watts
Southside Avenue
Anthony Bruestle
Eugene Solomon
Debated West and Laurel Street Approaches to Union Terminal
The City Planning Commission heard charges and counter charges over the West Street and Laurel Street approaches to the Union Terminal. Col Henry Waite favored the Laurel Street plan as ideal and presented wax models. Irwin Krohn opposed a bridge across Lincoln Park Lake and preferred a central park street plan. The group reconvenes today at 11 to decide which approach to favor after a morning bond and improvement committee meeting at 10:30.
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City Planning Commission
West Street
Laurel Street
Union Terminal
Coleman Avery
Central Parkway Association
Col. Sherrill
Avery
Sherrill
Col
Henry Waite
Union Terminal Company
Col. Waite
Lincoln Park
Freeman Avenue
Terminal Plaza
Irwin Krohn
Park Board
Wealthy Elevator Engineer Admits Leaving Prohibition Agent
John M. Heath an affluent elevator engineer said he would surrender to federal authorities after a struggle aboard his boat led to the disappearance of prohibition agent Richard J. Sandlands in the Detroit River. Heath claimed Sandlands fell overboard during the attempted arrest of Heath and his wife Maxine Heath and that he swam back to the boat and never saw the agent again. Police searched the river but found no body.
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Detroit River
Detroit
Prohibition Border Patrol
John M. Heath
Richard J. Sandlands
Heath
Sandland
Maxine Heath
Sandlands
Three Firemen Die In Kansas City Arson Fire
Kansas City police arrested two men and questioned others after an arson plot cost three firemen their lives and injured ten. The blaze at a drug store on Sixty-ninth Street and Prospect Avenue collapsed the building and debris and bricks crushed responders. The owner Durward Dailey and manager John Crow are in custody after a 14 year old delivery boy reported suspicious activity in the basement. The Kansas City Chamber of Commerce pledges to pursue conviction if incendiarism is proven backed by a $25,000 fund to aid the prosecution.
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Kansas City
Sixty-ninth Street
Prospect Avenue
John Morris
Frank Loncar
Roy Rutherford
Emmet Fitzgerald
Durward
Dailey
John
Pat) Crow
Warren McBride
McBride
Kansas City Chamber of Commerce
Lou E. Holland
Chamber
Chemist Rene DUrbal Survives Glacier Trek to SWIM Oregon
Rene D Urbal 32 a United States Department of Agriculture chemist arrived in SWIM Oregon late today after two days in glacier regions with no food or shelter.
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Ore
Rene D’urbal
United States Department of Agriculture
Glacier
Murder in Row Neighborhood Leaves Man Dead on Colerain
John Wyatt 45, a millwright of 422 Bauer Street, was found stabbed to death in the yard outside his estranged wife’s home at 2315 Colerain Avenue. Police suspect two African American assailants after a confrontation in the rear yard of a block already marked by violent deaths. The victim’s eight year old son Woodrow Wyatt witnessed the scene from a second-floor window and alerted a neighbor. Detectives McShane and Seebohm joined patrol officers Heckner and Seeny to recover multiple stab wounds including chest, neck, and leg injuries. neck wound deemed fatal. The murder is the second at the Colerain address in recent years and the third on the block. Police note prior killings of two women by jealous husbands nearby.
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Colerain Avenue
Queen City
Harrison
John Wyatt
Millright
Bauer Street
Wyatt
Woodrow Wyatt
Edwin Bien
Louis Pohl
Charles Schneider
Emmett Kirgan
Michael McShane
Fred Seebohm
Clifford Heckner
Robert Seeny
Elmhurst man mistaken for famous gunman Willie Doody
Herbert Taylor of Elmhurst compares himself to Willie Doody, a gunman and mail robber, after being jailed frequently. He asks Hinsdale Chief Ellsworth J. Mitchell to draft an explanation he can show his wife, requesting a generic note stating his identity. The chief complied.
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Chicago
Herbert Taylor
Elmhurst
Willie Doody
Ellsworth J. Mitchell
Hinsdale
Kentucky Gov Signs Death Warrants for Two Murderers
Gov. Sampson signed the death warrants for Carl Hord and Ivan Hutsell and issued a weekly proclamation until their execution on September 13. The two men are to die in Eddyville for robbery and murder and for killing witnesses in earlier cases. The governor called for mercy while noting law violations leading to the sentences.
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Frankfort
Sampson
State Penitentiary
Eddyville
Carl Hord
Marion A. George
Louisville
Ivan Hutsell
Oldham County
John Ditchler
Indiana Reformatory
Tong War Claims Two Lives In Boston Chinatown
Two Chinese men are dead in Boston as a tong war erupts in Chinatown amid opium traffic tensions. Ching King, 50, was shot on Kneeland street, and Sam Wahkee died after being shot in his laundry on Dover street. Police had just met tong leaders promising no outbreak.
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Boston
New York
Chicago
Newark
N. J
Mass
Chinatown
Ching King
Kneeland Street
Sam Wahkee
Dover Street
Harrison Avenue
On Leong
Hip Sing Tongs
Harlem Laundry Shooting Claims Chin Lee Life
A 50 year old Chinese laundryman Chin Lee was shot to death in his Harlem shop while ironing underwear. Three Chinese assailants entered the door and opened fire, two bullets hitting his heart while two struck the wall. Police Commissioner Whalen said the shooting was the first in New York since a recent spree.
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New York
Harlem
Chin Lee
Grover A. Whalen
Bus kills woman in Hamilton County traffic death
Mrs. Rebecca Call aged 74 of 1749 Brewster avenue died after being struck by a Norwood City Transit bus at Brewster avenue and Montgomery road. Witnesses cleared bus driver William Dow of responsibility. Call suffered a fractured skull and fatal injuries. Helen Stroch, 8, was injured by a nearby truck but her condition was not serious.
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Rebecca Call
Brewster Avenue
Norwood City
Montgomery Road
Hamilton County
William Dow
Main Avenue
Norwood
Helen Stroch
James P. Stroch
Colerain Avenue
Walter Beagman
Beagman
St. Mary’s Hospital
Auto Bandits At Topeka Get City Pay-Roll
Two robbers held up Clyde Knowlton an accountant near City Hall and robbed him of 9200 the citys semi monthly pay roll Knowlton had just withdrawn the money from a bank and was bound for the City Treasurer’s office The car was found later seven blocks away a woman half concealed by a handkerchief drove the vehicle.
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Topeka
Kan
Clyde Knowlton
Knowlton
West Virginian William Smoot dies after street collapse
Coroner Swing to investigate the death of William Smoot of Parkersburg West Virginia who collapsed on Government Square and died en route to General Hospital. Smoot had called at the Police Station seeking help for his friend Earl Lyons 29. Lyons had been jailed for drunkenness and fined but could not pay. Police later received $50 money orders for both men.
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William Smoot
Parkersburg
W. Va
Government Square
General Hospital
Smoot
William Knight
Earl Lyons
Lyons
Cincinnati
Federal
Northern Kentucky Motor Club Rejects Cincinnati Affiliation
In a unanimous vote, the Northern Kentucky Motor Club refused to join Cincinnati Automobile Club, choosing independence. The Newport headquarters will close, and a contract assigns eastern territory to Cincinnati and western to Northern Kentucky, with membership exchanges planned under AAA rules.
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Northern Kentucky Motor Club
Cincinnati
Cincinnati Automobile Club
Motor Club
Cincinnati Club
Kentucky
Motors Club
Newport
Licking River
Ohio River
Ohio
American Automobile Association
Better Jail Sought For Mother And Babe
Federal officials sought a suitable lodging for Pauline Back 22 and her nine month old baby who spent the weekend in Hamilton County Jail after arrest on counterfeiting charges. Back's bond was set at 5000 dollars and her husband Kennedy Back dentist 1555 Cutler street faced 2500 dollars. Both pleaded not guilty and a hearing was set for August 8. The baby was allowed to stay with the mother in jail, awaiting separate arrangements.
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Pauline Back
Hamilton County
Kennedy Back
Cutler Street
Back
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Portance
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Derrill
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