Indian Vote May Decide Oklahoma State in Presidential Race
Oklahoma faces a pivotal contest with Hoover favored to win if the election were held today. Indian votes, about 25 000 strong for ten electoral votes, could swing the outcome, as both parties push Indian bureaus and orators to win aboriginal support amid religious and tribal concerns.
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Charles Michelson
New York World News Service
Oklahoma City
Hoover
Oklahoma
Indian Territory
East
South
Smith
Wisconsin
White House
Washington
Plenty Booze
Curtis
Vice Press
Georgia Woman Awaits Execution By Electric Chair
Mrs Eula Lord Thompson a Tennessee mountain woman faces the Georgia electric chair after the state supreme court affirmed a death sentence for complicity in the murder of Coleman Osborne a Chatsworth storekeeper last year Osborne lured from his home to his store was slain by a killer and Thompson signed a confession taking blame for the crime though a later inquiry cast doubt she would be the first woman executed in Georgia's electric chair if carried out.
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Atlanta
Eula Lord Thompson
State Supreme Court
Coleman Osborne
Chatsworth
Thompson
Osborne
Estate left by plane crash victim valued at ten thousand
The will of John L. Bovis, a former automobile dealer of 1603 Elizabeth Place, filed in Probate Court, sets his estate at about $10,000. He and Wendell Pavey died in an airplane crash near Lunken Airport in heavy fog. The will provides for his widow, three children, and his mother with staged income and principal provisions. The Provident Savings Bank and Trust Company is named executor.
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John L. Bovis
Elizabeth Place
Swueders
Bovis
Henrietta Bovis
Annabelle
John
William
Ellen Bovis
Provident Savings Bank and Trust Company
Wendell Pavey
Lunken Airport
Mary Garden Engaged to French Writer
Paris reports that Mary Garden the noted operatic singer is engaged to Pierre Plesses a young French writer. The engagement was celebrated aboard the yacht Se vere owned by Mile Jane Renouardt at Port Cros harbor with Duke Ducase and Henri Desgranges among the guests.
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New York World News Service
Paris
Mary Garden
Pierre Plesses
Hyeres
Mile
Jane Renouardt
Duke Ducase
Henri Desgranges
Port Cros
Miss Garden
Cape Ferrat
The
Riviera
Plesses
N. Y
Batesville man dies after garden house confrontation
Walter Yoring, a Batesville furniture worker, learned of William Brummer’s death from gunshot wounds in Cincinnati. Brummer and Yoring had quarrelled for months over Brummer’s alleged relationship with Yoring’s wife. Brummer killed himself with a borrowed shotgun after saying one of them must fade away. He died hours later at Bethesda Hospital.
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The
Commercial Tribune
Batesville
Ind
Bill
Walter Yoring
Federal Avenue
William Brummer
Cincinnati
Brummer
Yoring
American Furniture
Spade
Myrtle Avenue
Federal Street
Charles Robbins
Arthur Bright
Bright
Bethesda Hospital
Al Christie and Fern Crum Wed in Yuma Romance
Al Christie of Christie Films married Fern Crum known as Shirley Collins in Yuma Arizona last night. The couple left for a brief honeymoon in New York after the ceremony and romance began a year ago.
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Los Angeles
al Christie
Christie Films
Yuma
Ariz
Fern Crum
Shirley Collins
Christie
Pastor Booed For Warning Against Smith At Virginia Forum
A UVA institute discussion degenerated into boos and catcalls during a debate on religion in politics as Rev. Albert C Dieffenbach urged against electing a Roman Catholic president. John Stewart Bryan pledged to vote for Gov Ifred E Smith to reject bigotry, while professors warned of intolerance and the influence of religious parsons on politics. Hoover’s name was noted in a surrounding context.
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Charlottesville
University of Virginia
Institute of Public Affairs Today
Albert C. Dieffenbach
Boston
Christian Register
United States
John Stewart Bryan
Richmond News- Leader
Ifred E. Smith
Dieffenbach
Smith
Bryan
Victor Rosewater
Philadelphia
John H. Latane
Johns Hopkins University
South
Hoover
Poiret Calls for Longer Clothes for Women
Paris Aug 16 Paul Poiret the noted fashion designer condemned current women’s dress as indecent and urged longer clothes. He said bathing suits are acceptable only for bathing and blamed street and evening wear for removing charm and mystery. Poiret, retiring from active management, supported the Pope's criticism of present costumes while offering his own view on attracting men.
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New York World News Service
Paris
Paul Poiret
Poiret
Flood toll in Dixie states runs into millions as dam threat grows
Floods from a tropical storm drive toward the sea across Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina. Ten deaths, dozens injured, millions in property and crop damage. Lake Lure dam in North Carolina leaking and men work to prevent a breach. Nearly half of Georgia affected and Wilkinson County isolated by washed roads.
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Atlanta
Georgia
South Carolina
North Carolina
Lake Lure
N. C
Macon
Thomasville
West Indies
West Florida
Man Stole From Employer to Support Family
Walter R. Whiteford, a cashier for D C Health and Co., confessed to pilfering between 50 000 and 75 000 over six years by forging and raising checks. He began in 1916, kept theft records, and spent the money on his wife and 14 year old daughter, arrest coming after a California trip with his family.
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New York
A. W. Elliott
New York World News Service
Walter R. Whiteford
D. C. Health & Co
Whiteford
Grand Central Terminal
California
Wall Street
New York Avenue
Brooklyn
Father recalls drowning race as six drown on Nipissing
Albert Lafrenier, sole survivor of a Lake Nipissing boat party, told of his failed swim to shore with his two babies as gasoline ignited on Rev. J. D. Dubuc's launch. The party perished after an explosion. bodies recovered except Leon Sylvestre.
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North Bay
Ont
Albert Lafrenier
Claude
Marc
Lake Nipissing
J. D. Dubuc
Lafrenier
Leon Sylvestre
Lecuyer
Sturgeon Falls
Colton Woman Breaks Endurance Swim Record
Mrs Lee Fournier of Colton finishes a 56 hour 56 minute 30 second endurance swim to beat Myrtle Huddleston's 54 hour 28 minute record. She entered at 6 am Tuesday and weighed 163 pounds at start, 154 on surrender, receiving coffee broth and chicken during the routined two hour feeds. Huddleston, in New York, reacts by planning a new bid possibly in California.
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Colton
Cal
Lee Fourrier
New York
Myrtle Huddleston
Mattoon
Ill
Fournier
Huddleston
Fourrier
California
First Lady Delayed By 43-Ton Sea Elephant at Circus
Goliath the 9000 pound sea elephant caused two hour wait for Mrs Coolidge in a Ringling Brothers sideshow in Forest Hills and Duluth. The elephant derailed its tractor truck delaying parade and seating but officials said the show eventually resumed with Mrs Coolidge enjoying the performance.
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Duluth
Minn
Goliath
Ringling Brothers’ Circus
Forest Hills
Author swims the Panama Canal through Gatun locks
Richard Halliburton, American author, becomes the first person to be treated as a ship by Gatun locks. He started from the Atlantic to Pacific swimming about fifty miles, charges based on ton rate, paying 36 cents for his 150 pound frame. He is escorted by a sharp shooter and plans to finish in about six days.
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Gatun
Canal Zone
Panama Canal
Richard Halliturton
Atlantic
Pacific
Gatun Lake
Halliburton
Saratoga
Panama
Murder motive ties robber to Akron salesman in Indiana case
A traveling salesman from Columbus is sought in Akron as the suspected accomplice in a murder near Rushville Indiana. A suitcase key found with the victim fits the Gibson hotel bag, and handwriting matches notes in the victim’s notebook. Investigators believe the salesman and the slain man traveled together and that the killer was a robber.
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Rushville
Ind
Gibson
Columbus
Akron
New York City
L. M. Koons
Rush County
Koons
Indiana Wheat Field
Cincinnati
Dunlap
Keons
Submarine L-55 Raised From Baltic Bottom Skeletons Found
The British submarine L-55, sunk in the Baltic in 1919 during an encounter with Russian destroyers, was raised at Kaporsk Bay and taken to Kronstatt where crew skeletons were found. Soviet commander Mulevich said the remains will be buried with military honors unless Britain seeks alternative disposal. The battle was dated June 4, 1919.
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Liningrad
Baltic
Kaporsk Bay
Kronstatt
R. A. Mulevich
M. Muklevich
Husband seeks annulling Gilda Gray amid sensational charges
Milton Golden Los Angeles attorney said he received cabled instructions from Gil Boag husband of Gilda Gray to file annulling proceedings in a day or two. The suit would base on alleged moral offenses and fraud. Boag is in Berlin while Gray is in London. Gray filed a divorce suit at Port Washington Wisconsin on July 27 charging cruel and inhuman treatment.
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Los Angeles
Milton Golden
Gil Boag
Gilda Gray
Golden
Miss Gray
Boag
Berlin
London
Port Washington
Wis
Four Juvenile Delinquents Escape Courthouse. One Recaptured
Four boys escaped from the Juvenile Place of Detention inside the County Courthouse late yesterday. Donald Roa, 14, was recaptured after wandering corridors on the second floor. his twin James Roa remains at large. Companion Fred Smith, 18, escaped, with Richard Kolb, 15, later captured in Detroit and returned. The escape involved breaking a rear window and traversing rooftops to reach an unguarded probate court area before discovery at suppertime. Patrolman Whittaker recovered Donald with Major Webking leading the courthouse search.
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Thomas Whittaker
Donald Roa
Central Avenues
James Roa
Cleary and
Sweeney
Roas
Fred Smith
Dennis Street
Smith
Stevens
Thepublic Asphalt and Paving Company
Wehrman Avenue
Front Street
Broadway
Back
Moore Streets
Richard Kolb
Woodburn Avenue
McMillan Street
Detroit
Mich
Cincinnati
Second District
Rudolph Webking
Whittaker
No loan planned for Manchuria despite promising economy
Tokyo reports Manchuria's economy is so promising that a proposed Japanese loan of 60,000,000 yen may not be necessary, said Baron Gensuke Hayashi, the emissary to the Northern government, upon his return to Tokyo.
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Manchuria
Tokyo
Japan
Gensuke Hayashi
Official bootlegger to stock tobacco fields near Hartford
Hartford plan places an official bootlegger in the tobacco fields north of Hartford to protect a 10 million dollar crop from weekend liquor hunts by workers. He will travel in a car or truck carrying hard liquor beer and wine. Four score harvesters have been jailed for drunkenness, and towns seek to deter drinking with plantation owner support to save crops while avoiding jail overcrowding.
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New York World News Service
Hartford
Conn
Windsor
Suffield
Enfield
Edward Dweey
Ohio Democrats face tight race for short term Senate seat
In Ohio primary returns, Cleveland Senator Cyrus Locher gains after a county tally error shifts lead with Hunt. Locher claims nomination with broader county checks likely to confirm a safe majority. Brunner and Begg watch counts as Brown maintains swing for lieutenant governor.
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Columbus
Cyrus Locher
Cleveland
Ciry
Graham P. Hunt
Cincinnati
Ohio
Hunt
Locher
Cuyahoga County
Locher-Hunt
Lochers
Brown
John T. Brown
Mechanicsburg
George Braden
Warren
Braden
Associated Press
Daniel E. Butler
Toledo
Henry G. Brunner
Mansfield
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Fourrier Eto Endurange
Quhtgase
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ITER
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Cooper
Hoke Donithen
Marion
James T. Begg
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