Hodges Accepts Coolidge Exit as All Settled in 1920s Politics
William V. Hodges, Republican National Committee treasurer, accepts Coolidge's third term nominating plan, endorses party unity, and backs San Francisco as a preferred convention site. Wilbur arrives at the Summer White House for naval policy discussions following the Geneva failure. Detroit or San Francisco eyed for 192? Republican convention. party treasury reported strong. Wilbur and Mrs. Wilbur travel to California after Rapid City visit.
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William J. Crawford
New York World News Service
Rapid City
S. D
Coolidge
William V. Hodges
Republican National Committee
White House
Mr. Hodges
Hoover
Dawes
Lowden
Longworth
Warren G. Harding
San Ancisco
Hodges
Denver
San Francisco
West
Hoo Branidida
Selectiv
Detroit
National Committee
Wilbur
Completion of Twelve Cruisers Topic for Coolidge Parley
RAPID CITY SD Aug 8 President Coolidge and Secretary Wilbur discussed an American plan to complete twelve cruisers with eight inch guns in addition to existing builds. Aims to limit total cruisers to no more than twenty including current orders, with emphasis on defense needs and tax reduction considerations.
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Wilbur Coolidge
Rapid City
S. D
Coolidge
Wilbur
White House
Petition signatures halt Ohio justice court revival
A referendum petition bearing 115 000 signatures blocks the Marshall act reviving Justice of the Peace liquor courts in Ohio from taking effect. Signers come from 76 counties with Hamilton leading, and Brown will review petitions for sufficiency before possible submission to voters.
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Columbus
Justice of the Peace Liquor Courts
Ohio
Clarence J. Brown
George H. Bender
Cuyahoga County
Nils P. Johnson
Mahoning County
C. C. Jones
Ohio State Automobile Association
M. B. Cain
Columbus Federation of Labor
Maxwell E. Wolgamot
Cleveland
Hamilton County
Bender
Brown
Justices of the Peace
Ohio Anti-Saloon League
United States Supreme Court
Elderly witness dies in court during testimony
Dennis Clifford, 76, collapsed and died in a New York court while accusing Edward Dunn and John Clark of assaulting him with an ax and fists. The trial followed a family dispute involving Clifford’s wife and son in law Walter McCormack, who faced prior accusations related to the wife’s injuries. An autopsy was ordered to determine if the death was linked to the alleged attack.
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New York
Dennis Clifford
Edward Dunn
John Clark
Walter McCormack
Clifford
McCormack
Cofferdam Collapse At Ohio River Dam No 50
About 150 workers fled a cofferdam when a 75 foot section broke at Government Dam No 50 on the Ohio River near Sturgis Kentucky. F L Moore spotted a leak and warned others. Moore suffered two fractured ribs escaping the iron pipe. The dam, started 1924, measures 700 by 500 feet and cost about 4 million dollars with completion set for July 1928.
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Sturgis
Government Dam No. 50
Ohio River
F. L. Moore
Moore
Uprising in New York Cotton Market After USDA Report
Amid an unexpected USDA yield estimate 1,000,000 bales short of expectations prices jumped the limit as October rose from 16.84 to 18.84 cents and December climbed past 19.11 cents. Trading, the largest in weeks at about 52 000 barrels, was halted for a 20 minute recess before resuming and a market scramble ensued.
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New York
New York Cotton Exchange
Department of Agriculture
Ater
Three New Infantile Paralysis Cases Reported
Three new cases of infantile paralysis were reported yesterday to Dr. L W Heizer chief medical officer of the board of health. The two week total rose to ten with cases on Gest street Peete street and Whetsel avenue including the fourth in Madisonville.
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L. W. Heizer
The
Board of Health
Gest Street
Peete Street
Whetsel Avenue
Madisonville
Knight Knight Knight reigns and chivalry on a princess tour
Newland DePauw Knight a Culver Military Academy graduate from New Albany Indiana aided Princess Ileana during a US trip while escorting her with Col Calvin P Chambers and Miss Marr They traveled from Chicago to Indianapolis and an accident at Grand Park Ill sparked a tale of gallantry It ended with a letter of thanks but no romance attached.
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New Albany
Ind
Knight
Mufti
Newland Depauw Knight
Culver Military Academy
Marie
Romania
Ileana
America
Chicago
Indianapolis
Nicholas
Mr. Knight
Col. Chambers
Tor
Miss Marr
Queen Marie
Atania
Tieana
Bandits Rob Indiana Bank in Broad Day Heist
Three unmasked men armed with revolvers robbed the State Bank of New Augusta near Indianapolis. They forced the cashier, assistant cashier, and a customer to lie on the floor and escaped with between 3000 and 4000 dollars in cash and from the safe, fleeing in an automobile.
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Indiana Bank
Indianapolis
State Bank of
New Augusta
Here
Dog Leads Police to Master Sought for Shooting
In Cleveland Charles Zack 24 lay near death from a bullet wound as an Airedale named Rags led Detective Martin Cooney to the gunman. The dog pointed to a man whose address and license identified him. officers found two guns hidden in a bed and arrested the suspect who allegedly confessed.
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Cleveland
Charles Zack
Rags
Martin Cooney
Zack
Cooney
Animal Protective League
Man Delays Suicide Despite Job Hope in Ohio River
Frederick Bollinger, 63, cabinet maker of 2829 Colerain Avenue, was found dead in the Ohio River near Stanley Avenue. Coroner Swing ruled death by own action after Bollinger, despondent over unemployment and a recent injury, delayed ending his life when a job offer arrived too late. The unidentified nude body found near Delta Avenue remains in the morgue.
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Frederick Bollinger
Colerain Avenue
Swing
Bollinger
Ohio River
Stanley Avenue
John H. Porter
Delta Avenue
Suspect Held In Byrnes Home Outrage
James Brown, 34, a Detroit area laborer, identified as one of three suspects in the Byrnes home robbery and assault at 894 Glenwood Avenue Avondale. Police seek two other suspects. rewards total 5250. Victims include contractor Joseph A. Byrnes, wife, two sons, and daughter Flora Byrnes, 24. Robbers looted 160 dollars and jewelry worth 1200, tying and assaulting family at gunpoint. Brown claims alibi in Detroit July 19 to 23. Detroit authorities contacted.
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James Brown
Cummins Street
Joseph A. Byrnes
Glenwood Avenue
Avondale
Flora Byrnes
Bell and Lowenstein
Hopple Street
Spring Grove Avenue
Byrnes
Bell
Mr. Byrnes
Lown
Brown
Detroit
Julius Joseph
Michigan Avenue
Texas Poloist Hurt As Mount Stumbles In Test Match
Fred Roe, veteran Texas polo player from Robert Lee, Coke County, Tex, was injured at Port Washington New York when his mount stumbled and rolled over. He remained unconscious at a hospital with internal injuries left side paralysis and possible skull fracture. Roe was guest of Thomas Hitchcock Jr and seeking a U S team spot.
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New York
Fred Roe
Texas
Port Washington
N. Y
Roe
Thomas Hitchcock, Jr
United States
Robert Lee
Coke County
Tex
High Dive Into Shallow Water Kills Akron Swimmer
Tom Williams age 26 died at City Hospital from injuries after a high dive into eight feet of water in the Cuyahoga River near Munroe Falls. He jumped from a tree about twenty five feet high, fracturing his skull and neck on the river bottom.
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Akron, O
Tom Williams
City Hospital
Cuyahoga River
Munroe Falls
Williams
Norwegian minister named ambassador to Washington
Oslo reports Har vard Huitfeldt Bachke, Norwegian Minister to Finland, has been appointed Minister to Washington.
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Oslo
Norway
Harvard
Huitfeldt Bachke
Finland
Washington
Marrying Lothario Put Behind Bars In Hamilton
George W. Light Jr. a 35 year old railroad watchman is jailed on $5000 bond in Hamilton Ohio after a complaint by Mary Horn accusing him of using a fake marriage license to live with Ottie Horn for four months and then pursuing another woman Ella Mae Rice. Police say Light also had a prior marriage in Florida in 1922. The fake license bore Allye W. Gibbons notary and witnesses Ada and Kiah Cooper. The charge is seduction under promise of marriage.
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The
Commercial Tribune
Hamilton
George W. Light, Jr
Ottie
Ella’ Mae Rice
Twelfth Street
Grand Boulevard
Florida
Kentucky
SACC0-VANZETTI REPRIEVE HOPE DIM AS NEW TRIAL DENIED
The report notes a possible shift in relations between the Mexican government and the Catholic Church after the Guadalajara train attack in April. It suggests deported archbishops and bishops may be allowed to return, signaling a potential settlement of the religious controversy. Analysts cite a San Antonio meeting between Foreign Minister Saenz and exiled prelates as possibly paving the way for their return and for resumed church services.
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Texas
Mexico City
Excelsior
Mexico
Guadalajara
Limon
Department of the Interior
Saenz
Obregon
San Antonio
Tex
Former $12 a Week Teacher Inherits Shrinking Fortune
Arthur T. Walker aged 49 of Brooklyn once a $12 a week schoolteacher died of a cerebral hemorrhage at the Searles mansion in Windham New Hampshire. He held the bulk of Edward F. Searles fortune which litigation reduced from 50 million to about 5.2 million. Walker had been Searles secretary since 1910 and died intestate leaving four brothers and five sisters. The long court battle over the will ended with Walker’s fortune significantly diminished. The source notes he had lived modestly and kept his old habits despite years of wealth. Continued on Sec ond Page.
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New York World News Service
Lawrence
Mass
Arthur T. Walker
Edward F. Searles
Searles
Windham
N. H
Mark Hopkins
Walker
Brooklyn
N. Y
Methuen
Chatham
Ontario
New England
Canada
Sacco Vanzetti appeals and global protests widen
Mass courts hear petitions to stay or overturn verdicts as Sacco and Vanzetti faces execution. Bombs injure Utica, protests erupt in Paris and Montevideo, with mass demonstrations planned in Boston and New York. Police guard embassies while threats rise and labor actions spread worldwide.
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Massachusetts
Sacco
Vanzetti
Webster Thayer
Dedham
Mass
Sanderson
Supreme Court
Boston
Gov. Fuller
Damae
Utica
N. Y
Paris
Colorado
New York
Montevideo
Uruguay
Buenos Aires
Sacco-Vanzetti
Sacco and Vanzetti
New York Evening Post
Warren
Vancouver
B. C
Helsingfors
Finland
Plymouth
England
Philadelphia
Emanuel Presbyterian Church
Severe Windstorm Hits West Berlin New Jersey
A miniature hurricane in West Berlin New Jersey leveled houses and trees injuring more than twenty people and causing property damage estimated up to two hundred thousand dollars. Residents aided by state troopers and neighbors housed over fifty homeless as the storm roared through Berlin Westmont and West Collingswood.
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New York
New York City
New Jersey
West Berlin
N. J
Albert Maxatwhte
Joseph Kaska
Adolph
Frank Stein
White Horse Pike
Camden
Berlin
Westmont
West Collingswood
Stenographer ad favors brunettes in Fifth Avenue firm
New York ad from Fifth Avenue Advertising Agency shows brunette applicants only. Vice President A J Slomanson says blondes fail business office tests after a year of study noting faults such as temper, independence, irregular hours, tactlessness, bluffing and inefficiency.
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New York World News Service
New York
Help Wanted
New York World
Fifth Avenue
A. J. Slomanson
Forest Hills
Long Island
Slomanson
Police absolve officers in Negro killing of Elliott
John Buggana and William Brasher city patrolmen were exonerated after an inquest into the August 3 shooting of James Elliott a 7? by Coroner Swing who ruled it justified and noted Elliott warned to shoot when police raided his West Seventh Street home Elmer Dixon also involved in the raid
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John Buggana
William Brasher
James Elliott
West Seventh Street
Swing
Buggana
Brasher
Elmer Dixon
Elliott
Idea Tae
Wes
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Geneva
Ad Department
Bender and Johnson
Cuyahoga
Johnson
General Assembly
Aone
Attagk
U. S
Uutton
Knight Scouts Chivalry
Indiana Youth
River Sunday
Ayrnes
Daughter
Tick of
Doors
Mount
Lothario
Releasea
Mora del Rio
Episcopate
Thayer
Nied
Associated Press
Boston Common
Edward Holton James
Boston Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee
New York Committee
World News Service
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