Ferguson Moody feud over highway contract costs roils Texas
In a heated exchange James E. Ferguson attacks Attorney General Moody over highway contract profits and state costs. Moody counters that Ferguson inflates figures as the A R C confessed to $600000 excess profits and calls for scrutiny of a textbook contract tied to Governor Ferguson’s administration.
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Austin
Tex
James E. Ferguson
Miriam A. Ferguson
Moody
American Road Company
Texas Highway Commission
Ferguson
Texas
Highway Commission
Fifty-third District Court
George Calhoun
State Textbook Commission
Atorney
Dan Moody
American Book Company
Cincinnati
Textbook Commission
Commission
Book Company
Symphony Orchestra to Play in New York January 6
Charles Pearson, manager of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, reports success in securing engagements in New York. The Cincinnati ensemble will perform at Carnegie Hall on January 6 and at Mt. Vernon New York on January 7 under the Mt. Vernon Teachers Association. Pearson says New York enthusiasm for the Cincinnati orchestra is high and compares its fame to the Philadelphia orchestra.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Pearson
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
Cincinnati Orchestra
Carnegie Hall
Mt. Vernon
New York
Brown resigns as principal at Blue Ash Montgomery School
Charles W Brown resigned as principal of the Blue Ash Montgomery School. The board accepted the resignation at its last night meeting and the date to take effect was set for a week from tomorrow. Complaints cited by Ruth Burroughs were given as the reason for the departure. A replacement requires board approval and has not yet been discussed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles W W. Brown
Blue-Ashontgomery
R. R. Bowen
Fate of Chapman hinges on judge ruling in habeas case
Hartford dispatch reports Gerald Chapman, condemned for murder and mail robbery, awaits Federal Judge Edwin Thomas decision on his writ of habeas corpus to determine if he will face a state hanging or serve a federal 25 year term in Atlanta. Attorneys argued over jurisdiction as Warden Scott acknowledged he did not inform Washington of status changes.
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Hartford
Conn
Gerald Chapman
Edwin
Thomas
Norwalk
Chapman
Atlanta
United States
Connecticut
New Britain
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Frederick Groehl
United States Supreme Court
Wethersfield
H. K. W. Scott
Washington
Superior Court
Hartford County
Warden Scott
Groehl
Scott
Alcorn
Student Prince runs third week at Shubert with strong chorus
The Student Prince continues a three week run at the Shubert Theater with a large forty voice male chorus and a top cast including Alfred Young Jocieta Howe and William Tucker. The show is not touring Ohio outside Cincinnati and Cleveland. A separate act, Goose Woman, is featured in the program. Step On It opens at the Olympic with George Niblo Helen Spencer and an array of burlesque stars. The production promises elaborate scenery and notable electrical effects on the Columbia wheel.
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Shubert
Shubert Theater
Ohio
Cincinnati
Cleveland
Dorothy Donnelly
Old Heidelberg
Messrs
Halfred Young
Prince
Jocieta Howe
Kathie
William Tucker
George Niblo
Helen Spencer
Niblo
Spencer
Martie Seaman
Margaret Hastings
Art Kavanaugh
Phoebe Hilson
California
Dulcey at Cox Theater Features Lynn Fontanne
National Players present Dulcey at Cox Theater starting Sunday matinee. The comedy centers on a wife who meddles in her husband’s business affairs during a weekend visit, nearly wrecking deals while delivering broad humor. Don Burroughs plays the husband and Hazel Whitmore the outspoken wife.
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COX
Dulcey
Lynn Fontanne
National Players
Cox Theater
Don Burroughs
Hazel Whitmore
B. F. Keiths vaudeville bill opens December six
New bill features Ann Codee and Weaver Brothers as headliners with Clyde Cook pre release Stare vation Blues. Lloyd Ibach's troupe, Emily Lea trio, Norrinne Gibbons debut, Johnny Murphy talker, Kitaro Japs act, Pathe News and Aesop Fables shown. stage show includes paying the rent musical tabloid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. F. Keith
Ann Codee
Weaver Brothers
Arkansas
Clyde Cook
Lloyd Ibach
Mickey Norton
Ruth Day
Emily Lea
Sam Kaufman
Burt Dwan
Norrinne Gibbons
Cincinnati
Johnny Murphy
Pathe News
Palace Theater to Celebrate Sixth Anniversary Vaudeville Night
Palace Theater marks its sixth anniversary with a gala vaudeville program headlined by Cincinnati act Myrtle Kastrup Fiske and George L. Loyd. The lineup includes Mitzi and her royal dancers, Hawthorne and Cook in Make Me Serious, Adele Jason and company in In Bar Gravita, Rody Jordan the minstrel, Larimer and Hudson bicycle act, and Burns and Foran in Songs Steps and Smiles, along with Louise Dresser, Jack Pickford and Constance Ben- in.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Palace
Palace Theater
Roy H. Beattie
Cincinnati
Myrtle Kastrup Fiske
George L. Loyd
Mitzi
Albert F. Hawthorne
Johnny Cook
Bargravia
Adele Jason
Ann la Troy
Jimmy Gallivan
Nelson Riley
Rody Jordan
Larimer
Hudson
Leo Burns
Tom Foran
Louise Dresser
Jack Pickford
Constance Ben
Empress presents Stella Morrissey in Chick Chick troupe
Empress Theater hosts Stella Morrissey headlining her Chick Chick company Sunday. Morrissey selected all company members including chorus girls and principals such as Frank Anderson Florence DeVere George Murray Doris Stone Dick Richards and Harry Morrissey. Elaborate costumes and a full scenic production are promised with matinees daily and added evening attractions.
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Empress
Stella Morrissey
Empress Theater
Miss Morrissey
Pretty Girls
Frank Anderson
Florence DeVere
George Murray
Doris Stone
Dick Richards
Harry Morrissey
Irish Lucky heads Walnut in Meighan photoplay debut
Irish through and through is the new Thomas Meighan photoplay at the Walnut Theater beginning Sunday titled Irish Lucky. The film follows an Irish New York policeman who travels to Ireland with authentic Dublin and Killarney Lake locations. Lois Wilson plays the Irish colleen who wins his heart while Mary Foy supports. the plot centers on mistaken identity as the cop is mistaken for a Duke and drawn into adventurous events.
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Walnut
Thomas Meighan
Walnut Theater
New York
Ireland
Dublin
Killarney Lake
Shamrock
Lois Wilson
Colleen
Meighan
Mary Foy
Cobra opens at Capitol Cincinnati with Rudolph Valentino
Capitul Theater hosts the first Cincinnati showing of Cobra starring Rudolph Valentino with Nita Naldi Gertrude Olmstead and Eileen Percy in supporting roles. The drama follows a Latin rake saved from blackmail in Italy who travels to New York and courts a rich benefactor’s ward while entangling lovers and testing loyalties.
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Capitol
Rudolph Valentino
Martin Brown
Cincinnati
Capitol Theater
New York
Italy
Nita Naldi
Gertrude Olmstead
Eileen Percy
United States
Keaton Presents Go West at Strand Theater Sunday
Buster Keaton stars in Go West a new feature length satire directed by Keaton writing and directing. The film follows a drifting misfit aided by a hundred thousand dollar cow Brown Eyes with Kathleen Myers as the love interest. Added is authentic footage from Roald Amundsen polar flight collected during the crew’s twenty four days lost to civilization.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Strand
Buster Keaton
Keaton
Kathleen Myers
Atlantic Seaboard
Roald Amundsen
Tom Mix to head Family Theater with The Best Bad Man
The Family Theater opens Sunday with Tom Mix in The Best Bad Man as a western romance loaded with thrills. Clara Bow debuts as a Mix heroine supported by Cyril Chadwick Judy King Tom Wilson Paul Panzer and Buster Gardner with Tony the horse in a prominent role set amid a New Orleans backdrop.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom Mix
Fox
Family Theater
Clara Bow
Tony
Horse
Cyril Chadwick
Judy King
Tom Wilson
Paul Panzer
Buster Gardner
Mix
New Orleans
Boys Run Auto Theft Ring In Toledo And Dayton
Six Toledo high school boys confessed to operating an extensive car theft ring to fund trips with school girls. They stole eight cars, wrecked four, and hid vehicles in a private garage with swapped Ohio and Michigan plates. Two youths in Dayton admitted to thirty two burglaries in residential areas since May.
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Toledo, CO
Toledo
Adrian
Mich
Ohio
Michigan
Scott High School
Bancroft Street
Upton Avenue
Lincoln Park
Detroit
Dayton
Francis Miller
Samuel Denny
Ends Life in Maryland After Theft Allegations
Detective Maham said a man who shot himself en route to Baltimore police headquarters was wanted for robbery and passing a worthless check. Mrs. Armenta Clare, who ran a rooming house, identified the suspect as T. M. Riley after he rented a room and left after stealing 139 dollars with a 50 dollar check.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Maham
Aramenta Clare
West Eighth Street
Clare
T. M. Riley
Arraign Three Negroes Charged With Murder
Names of three men charged with murder appeared on the Municipal Court docket. Charles Jones Assia Bibb and William Wilkes face murder charges for a pistol battle that left Robert Frazier dead and two others wounded. Wilkes case sent to grand jury with $4000 bond set.
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Charles Jones
Hathaway Street
Assia Bibb
Concordia Place
William Wilkes
West Sixth Street
Jones
Bibb
Oehler and
Harriet Streets
Hall
Robert Frazier
Oehler Street
Wilkes
Smith Street
William Maddox
West Fifth Street
Grand
Jury Finds Shoe Polish Poisoned Society Woman Dead
Coroner's jury in Chicago rules Mrs Florence Raymond Hood a Birmingham society woman died from drinking poison‑containing shoe polish at a Chicago hotel on November 15 The verdict shed no light on her motive The husband a prominent Birmingham attorney and friend John Cashen were not present at the inquest completion
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Florence Raymond Hood
Birmingham
Ala
Leiter stores to add 1000 car parking on roof
David S. Ko miss, a State street merchant, gains control of the Leiter stores and adds 3 million dollars in new capital to reach a five million dollar department store corporation. The plan includes parking space for 1000 automobiles on the store roof.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Chicago
David S. Komiss
Leiter
Gras Double-Crossed Con Tractor At Colorado Dam
A fast moving tale follows Gras who is interrupted by news of a double cross by a con tractor hired to build an irrigation dam in Colorado. Disguised as a touring musician he travels to fix the scheme and wins the amused regard of a girl through his musical antics amid humorous and exciting escapades.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gras
Colorado
Don Q Son of Zorro At Lyric Theater Cincinnati
Douglas Fairbanks in Don Q Son of Zorro opens premier week in Cincinnati at the Lyric Theater. The film blends rapid action with a romantic subplot set against Spanish castles. Mary Astor shines as the lovely senorita as Fairbanks wields sword and bull whip to disrupt a kingdom.
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LYRIC
Douglas Fairbanks
Don Q
Son of Zorro
Spain
Cincinnati
Lyric Theater
Fairbanks
Mary Astor
Doug
Board urges expansion of aviation without creating a national defense department
The Coolidge aviation report favors growing military and naval aviation while preserving current structures. It rejects a unified air service, opposes direct non flying command, and calls for more assistant secretaryships, air influence on the army staff, and extra brigadier generals. It notes no aircraft can yet cross the ocean with a usable military load and dismisses disarmament fears.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Washington
Coolidge
Department of National Defense
Air Service
William Mitchell
War and Navy Department Administration
Army General Staff
Army Air Corps
Army
Navy
Air Board
United States
Bogus War Hero Gets Six Months
Ralph Thurber, an American Belgian Canadian known as the man without a country, was sentenced to six months hard labor in London for fraudulently obtaining 125 from a city merchant. His court record details a career of deception including false Wall Street bomb confession and deporation history.
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New York World News Service
London
Ralph Thurber
Wall Street
Louis Adrien Repell
England
New York
Canada
John Murphy
Western Front
No Man's Land
Thurber
Murphy
Princess Pat
N. Y
Judge Bell Re-elected Leader of Ohio Welfare Council
Judge Samuel W. Bell was re elected President of Progressive Council No. 7 Welfare Association of the Sightless of Ohio. New officers named include August Wyebold as Vice President Robert Hanks as Secretary Miss Goldie Sigmund as Assistant Secretary Charles Goddard as Treasurer Joe Reis as Sergeant-at-Arms Judge Bell as Executive Committeeman and August Wyebold as Trustee for five years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Judge Bell
Samuel W. Bell
Progressive Council No. 7
Welfare Association of the Sightless of
Ohio
August Wyebold
Robert Hanks
Goldie Sigmund
Charles Goddard
Joe Reis
Wuebold
Ohio Building and Loan Leaders Urge More Assets
At the First District Organization meeting in Cincinnati Charles King urged Ohio building and loan associations to raise resources to meet loan demand for homes. He noted 50,000 loan requests were refused last year despite assets of 862 Ohio associations near 90 million dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Building and Loan Associations of
Ohio
Ohio Building Association League
Gibeon
Building and Loan Associations
Charles King
Massillon
Ohio League
Cincinnati
Building and Loan Association
Hamilton County
J. W.tannehill
Tannehill
J. M. Baugher
Sidney
State League
B. J. Wilberding
Paul O’brian
Charles J. Parrish
James A. Devine
Edwin L. Griest
Mr. Griest
Clifford Brown
Ee.c. Calvert
Fernbank Home Loot Third Time as Robbers Strike
Four children and the Richards maid hid as two masked men forced entry to 7442 Lower River road Fernbank. They looted the house once more after knocking and trying doors but left without taking items.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Richards
Lower River Road
Fernbank
Richards
Mr. Richards
Flora Adkins
Mrs. Richards
Herschel Rosser
Fuller Street
Lincoln Avenue
Reading Road
Rosser
General Hospital
William Redeker
Woodburn Avenue
Claud Fleming
Plum Street
Wheat Hits New High Marks on Chicago Board of Trade
Wheat prices surged to new highs on the Chicago Board of Trade today after sharp gains yesterday. By close, prices eased, ending 1? to 1? cents lower or higher, with July lagging and December showing gains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Chicago
Chicago Board of Trade
Gimbels Buy New Store In Pittsburgh Purchase
Gimbel Bros announces purchase of the Kaufman and Baer Company store of Pittsburgh Pa expanding its national department store group. The deal follows the company already operating five of the nation s largest stores.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Kaufman & Baer Company
Pittsburgh
Gimbel Bros
Chickie Heroine Opens New Serial by Elenore Meherin
The newspaper introduces Chickie a charming heroine in Elenore Meherin branch serial announcing a fresh adventure and romantic intrigue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chickie
Elenore Meherin
Portrait of Leonard Rhinelander in Custody of Race Fight
In White Plains New York on December 2 the Rhinelander case dominated court time as Isaac N Mills argued for Leonard Rhinelander and condemned his father Philip Rhinelander for neglect. Mills depicted Leonard as a docile, morally fragile figure overshadowed by Alice Rhinelander’s influence and hinted at racial prejudice shaping the trial. The judge delayed jury instructions to Friday to allow full summation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rhinelander
Alice
Associated Press
White Plains
N. Y
Leonard Kip Rhinelander
New York
Alice Beatrice Jones Rhinelander
Isaac N. Mills
Mills
Eo “Leoxwiard
Philip Rhinelander
Leonard
Connecticut
Marie Antoinette
West
Justice Marschauser
130 Motorists Admitted To Automobile Club
At the weekly meeting of the Cincinnati Automobile Club Board of Directors 130 new members were announced as admitted. The group was recruited last week. Directors named W. T. Calerdine Joseph R. Gard ner and Robert Taft to represent the club at the Ohio Good Roads Convention in Columbus on December 17. President H. J. Pfiester urged an inquiry into placards and radiator covers used by motorists to shield license numbers from freezing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati Automobile Club
Grand Hotel
A. E. Mittendorf
W. T. Calerdine
Joseph R. Gardner
Robert Taft
Columbus
H.J. Pfiester
Crosley Offers 39000 for Bankrupt Station
The Am rad plant of American Radio and Research Corp in Medford Massachusetts, a pioneer broadcasting station, may pass to Powell Crosley Jr head of Crosley Radio Corp of Cincinnati if the court approves. Crosley told a reporter he offers 39000 as an individual for the bankrupt firm assets and would form a new corporation to operate the reorganized company not as a Crosley branch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Radio and Research Corporation
Medford
Mass
America
Pioneer Broadcasting
Powel Crosley, Jr
Crosley Radio Corporation of
Cincinnati
Crosley Radio Corporation
Rail rates cut on fresh meat shipments eastward
The Interstate Commerce Commission ordered railroads to cut rates by February 10 on fresh meats moving east from Western packing houses. The Chicago to New York rate dropped from 87 cents to 79 cents per 100 pounds, with other packing points reduced proportionally to keep current relationships.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Chicago
New York
Mountain Valley Water touted for neuritis relief
Authorities link neuritis to acids poisons and waste in the body and urge elimination of waste via kidneys. Mountain Valley Water from Hot Springs Arkansas is promoted as a pleasant natural alkaline remedy used locally to ease pain and restore organ function. They offer phone and delivery from 806 W Seventh St. Canal 3925.
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Mountain Valley
Hot Springs
Arkansas
Mountain Valley Water Co
Seventh St. Canal
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Horlick
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Ohio League of Building Associations
Gimbels Buy
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Crosley
Jacksonville
Florida
Savannah
Dixie Terminal
Baltimore & Ohio
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