Flyers Wing Across Sea On Delayed Rome Hop
Two American aviators Roger Williams and Lewis Yancey aimed to reach Rome aboard the Pathfinder after taking off from Old Orchard Maine amid dense fog. The monoplane carried 445 gallons of gasoline toward a 4790 mile Atlantic crossing, with Coast Guard Lt Melka reporting the flight seventy five miles offshore.
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Old Orchard
Atlantic
Rome
Roger Q. Williams
Lewis A. Yancey
Roger Williams
L. M. Melka
Coast Guard
Portland
Lewis Yancey
Gertrude Yancey
Yancey
Ben Zebora
King George III’s health delays Sandringham journey
London reports King George III’s planned Sandringham trip canceled due to sinus healing issues after a recent illness. Physicians sign the bulletin noting sinus condition and possible need for further X rays and potential reopening of the wound.
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New York World News Service
London
George
Sandringham
Stanley Hewitt
Henry L. Martyn
Hugh W. Rigby
Dawson
Penn
Martyn
Windsor
Buckingham Palace
Hugh Rigby
Skeleton possibly solves Gus Grimes mystery near Brown shack
In Omaha a skeleton found fifteen feet from Fred Brown's shack may identify Gus Grimes the missing partner who was connected to Brown's crime network. Grimes vanished after meeting several people connected to Brown. the bones were unearthed by a motorist freeing a stuck car in a muddy area.
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Omaha
Neb
Gus Grimes
Fred Brown
Brown
Grimes
Wanted Ads Offer House Rooms Pony For Sale
Want ads list a grand piano in good condition with fine tone priced to sell. A cool Kentucky summer home with unfurnished rooms and porches is available. A gentle pony with harness cart and saddle is for sale. Walnut Hills offers two furnished rooms with kitchenette, ready now. A new six room house with basement veranda and two car garage is for sale in Forestville. Poultry house also offered.
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Kentucky
Forestville
Aio
Want Ads Offer Quick Sure Results by Telephone
Classified line item story notes that The Commercial Tribune advertises quick results through telephone ads. Canal 6300 provides the contact channel for placing notices in the newspaper Classifieds.
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Tribune
Hoover Seeks Report on Mounting Post Office Deficits
President Hoover ordered a thorough review of the Postoffice Department to identify the sources of mounting deficits and possible economies. He conferred with Postmaster General Brown and the four assistant postmasters general, stressing no discussion of postal rate changes.
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Washington
Hoover
Postoffice Department
Brown
White House
Hoover open to recognizing Russia amid expanding trade
President Hoover signals to industrial and banking leaders that the United States may reconsider recognizing the Soviet Union as rapid Russian trade grows. He favors resumed formal relations and a commercial treaty, noting big U.S. firms like General Electric Standard Oil and Radio Corp are already doing business with Russia without government backing. Russian-US trade rose to about 120 million dollars in 1927-28, up nearly 30 million from the prior year.
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New York World News Service
Washington
Hoover
Russia
Hughes
Kellogg
State Department
United States
General Electric
Standard Oil, Radio Corporation
Law violation justified breach of promise in Michigan case
The Michigan Supreme Court ruled that violation of liquor laws can justify breaking a marriage promise. Rose Akeman of Kent County sued Joseph J. Andruska for failing to marry. Andruska argued moonshine and home brew, but the court said he would be liable if he married while the law was violated.
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Lansing
Mich
State Supreme Court
Rose Akeman
Kent County
Joseph J. Andruska
Andruska
Crossing Watchman Killed in Dayton Collision
E A Schaffer aged 64 a crossing watchman was killed when he stepped from behind one train into the path of another in Dayton Ohio today.
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Dayton
E. A. Schaffer
Sheriff moves to stop races at Thistledown
Cleveland July 8 Sheriff's Edward J. Hanratty renews a no betting proclamation in Cuyahoga County threatening arrest and confiscation of all wagered money and track property, jeopardizing the summer racing program including Grand Circuit events at Thistledown Cranwood and North Randall.
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Cleveland
Edward J. Hanratty
Cuyahogar County
Cuyahoga County
North Randall
Thistledown
Cranwood
Cincinnati One Million Promise From New Terminal Plan
At a joint meeting, Mayor Murray and city officials touted the Union Terminal project as a multimeg dollar benefit for Cincinnati. The Western Hills Viaduct cost is cited at 3.5 million with the city’s share around 1 million, showcasing traffic relief for decades and railroad cost implications if plans altered.
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Union Terminal Company
Western Hills
Queen City Avenue
Ern Hills
Central Park Way
Harrison Avenue
City Planning Commission
Myron Down
Quake Rattles Los Angeles and Suburbs
A strong tremor at 8:45 a.m. shook Los Angeles and a 30 mile radius injuring four people in Santa Fe Springs and causing about 59,000 dollars in damage in East Whittier. The City Hall tower moved twelve inches, shops windows cracked, two oil wells stopped, and a smaller aftershock followed.
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Los Angeles
Santa Fe Springs
Oil Town
East Whittier
Long Beach
Hermosa Beach
Santa Montéa
Pasadena
Glendale
Whittier
Charles Polo Caruso Killed In Cincinnati Gang Warfare
In Cincinnati a man known as Charles Polo Caruso was reportedly slain amid gang warfare. Police found a body in a weed patch, and investigators are examining the scene for clues and possible motives tied to ongoing gang conflicts.
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Charles ‘Polo’ Caruso
Cincinnati
Modest Voilet Role Scorned at National Women’s Meet
At Mackinac Island the National Federation of Business and Professional Women opened its convention with a push for women to advertise themselves. Leaders praised women attorneys over male counterparts, quoting Mrs. Bernice M. Harrison of Angola Indiana on courtroom wit and resourcefulness when a witness lies or a theory collapses.
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Mackinac Island
Mich
National Federation of Business and Professional Women
Bernice M. Harrison
Angola
Ind
Plan Approved For 1.2 Million Walnut Hills High School
The Board of Education approved plans and specifications for Walnut Hills High School to be built on Victory boulevard west of Gilbert avenue. Architects Garber & Woodward of Cincinnati designed a Southern colonial two to three story building on a fifteen acre site bought in 1927 for 150000, with 1200 plus capacity and features including classrooms, gymnasia, pools, and a ravine football field. The project aims to stay within a 1.25 million cap after removing some features.
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Walnut Hills High School
Board of Education
Victory Boulevard
Gilbert Avenue
Garber & Woodward
West Seventh Street
Western Hills
Withrow High Schools
Blair Avenue
Jonathan Street
North Avondale
Madisonville
Riverside
E'Sd
Latonia gambler Caruso found murdered near Nine Mile roadhouse
Charles Polo Caruso, 26, of 1517 Linn Street, a Latonia area gambler with a boxing past, is found dead from gunshot wounds behind an abandoned roadhouse on Harrison Pike. Detectives link the killing to a pattern used by hijackers, noting a ring and engraved belt buckle confirm identity before body is moved to the County Morgue.
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Butler
Hamilton County
Charles “Polo” Caruso
Linn Street
Nine
Otto Thaler
Thaler
Frederick
Swing
William Anderson
al Bockstiegel
Harry Butler
William Nadéerman
Charles Krueger
Joseph Schaefer
Wiliam Cleary
Walter Carney
Schaefer
Caruso
Quebec Road
Queen City Avenue
Death Valley
George Salmon
Harrison Avenue
Cheviot
Latonia
Opium Haul From San Francisco Mrs Kao Treated as Diplomatic Case
Customs inspectors opened seven large trunks and four suitcases brought from China by Mrs Ying Kao wife of the Chinese Vice Consul in San Francisco uncovering about 3 000 tins of opium valued at around 1 000 000. The seizure followed the State Department permit while Mrs Kao claimed the items were gifts for friends and refused to name recipients fearing harm. Lawyers for the Kaos withdrew before the search as others asserted diplomatic immunity did not apply.
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San Francisco
United States Customs
Ying Kao
China
State Department
John L. McNab
Timothy Healy
Kaos
Aaron Cohen
Vincent Surr
United States
Diplomatic Corps
John W. Smith
Planes Aid Search For Patterson In Ontario Trip
Cleveland reports a search by plane and boat for Thomas I. Patterson who sailed from Ashtabula in a sixteen foot boat toward Erieau Ontario last Thursday. A companion, John Rossow, is believed drowned five miles off Ashtabula harbor while a body found late today is thought to be Rossow. Mrs Ruth Patterson and daughter Mildred await news as friends arrive from Cleveland for identification.
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Cleveland
Thomas I. Patterson
Erieau
Ont
John Rossow
Ashtabula Harbor
Rosere
Patterson
Rossow
Ruth Patterson
Mildred
Lift Proves Fatal To Kenton Girl
Miss Mary Rudisill aged 24 of Kenton was killed when a motorist gave a lift after a summer resort ride. The auto sideswiped another car and crashed into a corn field early today. The driver and two companions were injured.
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Kenton, CO
Here
Mary Rudisill
Kenton
Governor weighs clemency for Rodney Ford in Dumele case
Gov. Cooper heard clemency arguments for Rodney Ford, condemned for the Dumele slaying in Cincinnati area. State prosecutors urged execution after Ford’s alibi defense, while Ford supporters argued misidentification and unequal mercy compared with co-defendants Messner and Lutes. A decision date was not announced.
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Columbus
Cooper
Rodney Ford
Peter Dumele
North College Hill
Cincinnati
Ford
George A. Edge
Frank.m. Reighard
Board of Clemency
E. C. Shively
Edward M. Ballard
John Scanlon
John Egan
Dayton
John Todd Messner
Breck Lutes
Ballard
Messner
Nelson Schwab
Hamilton County
Robert Andres
Egan
Dudley Outcast
John Clippinger
Clippinger
Dumele
Pelican Club
Lutes
Robert Zwick
Gov
Pope's Emissary Pays State Call to Italy's Ruler
Mer Borgongini Duca, First Nuncio to modern Italy, meets King Victor Emmanuel at the Quirinal Palace to present credentials as diplomatic ties with the Holy See are formalized after the Lateran treaties. Osservatore Romano denounces the Youthful Life seizure as censorship overreach.
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Italy
Rome
Holy See
Mer. Borgongini Duca
Victor Emmanuel
Suicinale Palace
Osservatore Romano
Osservatore
Vatican
Vicenza
Slashes Woman Admits Killing 4 Years Ago Victim Slashed
Charles Delaet an unemployed bus boy confessed to police that he killed a woman in Detroit in 1925. In New York he slashed Caroline Goodwin 19 of Rahway N J with a razor at Broadway and Vesey Street as office workers passed. He was knocked out by Joseph Gabarino and held until police arrived. Delaet 23 said women pestered him and claimed no home. He had been in New York three years, worked intermittently, slept in Bowery lodging houses or parks, and came from Dayton Ohio.
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New York
Charles Delaet
Detroit
Caroline Goodwin
Rahway
N.J
Broadway
Vesey Street
Goodwin
Joseph Gabarino
Brooklyn
Delaet
Bowery
Parks
Dayton, O
Boy Demanded $500 From Columbus Family
Antone Liberatore, 12, a newsboy, was arrested at a downtown Columbus newsstand after allegedly writing threatening letters demanding $500 from Mrs. Max Morehouse, a member of a prominent local family.
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Columbus
Max Morehouse
Antone Liberatore
Ransom Refused as Black Hand Tied to Boy's Death
In Saugus Massachusetts a ten year old boy Salvatore Demor is found dead after disappearing nineteen days ago. His mother Mrs Santi Demor identifies the body and accuses the Boston Black Hand group led by Patsy in a terror letter demanding $5 000 from the father under threat to the family.
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Saugus
Mass
Patsy
Santi Demor
North End
Boston
Salvatore
Farm Aid Board fills dairyman seat as sixth member named
President Hoover nears completion of Federal Farm Board appointments with William F. Schilling of Northfield Minnesota accepting the dairying spokesman role. Six of eight seats filled, White House meeting planned, remaining vacancy to favor wheat or cotton expertise and possibly banking.
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Farm Aid Board
Dairyman
Washington
Hoover
Federal Farm Board
William F. Schilling
Northfield
Minn
White House
Twin City Milk Producers Association
Schilling
Toledo Appeals Court Rules in Favor in Two Widen Suits
Judges Williams Richards and Lloyd of the Court of Appeals decide two cases for haries in Toledo today. Widen sues to set aside a deed on property valued at 25 000 to 30 000 dollars and his daughter in law Mrs Bessie Widen faces an accounting. Judge Richards notes no evidence the daughter in law read Ki Lear and likens her ingratitude to Goneril and Regan.
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Toledo
Williams, Richards
Lloyd
Court of Appeals
Haries
Widen
Harles C. Widen
Bessie Widen
Richards
Ki Lear
Goneril
Regan
Lear
Candy diet lands youth in jail
William Miller, 19, of the city, was arrested after three days of nibbling candy instead of buying food. He confessed to stealing a barbecue and a residence at Fairpark Avenue and Carthage Pike, and also the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Depot on Seventy‑first Street in Carthage.
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Martin Steiner
Miller
Jer
Fairpark Avenue
Carthage Pike
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Seventy-first Street
Carthage
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England
Arthur E. Mann
Walnut Hills
P. O. Department
U. S
Sheriff
Ogden L.mills
Prince Murat
Margaret Rutherford
Ogden L. Mills
the Treasury
Oom
Paris
Prince Charles Murat
Prince Joachim Napoleon Murat
Princess Murat
W. K. Vanderbilt
Morris Rutherford
Ogden Mills
Order of the ‘‘Tantriks of India
Nyack
N. Y
Sir Paul Dukes
America
Dukes
New York City
Evement
Ladyukes
Lady Dukes
Margaret Stuyvesant Rutherford
Gabrilev
Gallo Theater
Victory
Gambler
Piu
Gov. Cooper
Black Hand
Foover
Senate
Silk Association of America
Dean’ll
Court
Lad
William Miller
Santly
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