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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1928
Page
2
The plane laden with 1200 gallons struggled to lift off at Municipal Airport but finally took to the air amid cheering crowds in Oakland and San Francisco. It headed over the bay toward the Golden Gate, dipping in salute before disappearing southwest of the Farallones.
A Cincinnati man reports dramatic wellness after using Konjola with two bottles restoring digestion energy and sleep. The Konjola Man at Dow Drug Store Fifth and Vine promotes the remedy with free samples across Dow stores and Shillito’s drug counter.
Capt Kingsford Smith announces an eight year ambition fulfilled as his Fokker monoplane prepares for a four hop Pacific route from Oakland to Hawaii Suva Brisbane and Sydney with landings at Wheeler Field and Barking Sands. Aircraft carries sea survival gear and three radio sets backed by G Allan Hancock, Los Angeles financier.
Balloon elimination race parts survived a fierce storm with three balloons reaching land. Army No. 1, Detroit News and American Business Club crafts landed in Virginia and near Richmond. final winner to be decided after checks on distances and instruments.
President Coolidge head of the Red Cross lays the corner stone for a $575,000 marble memorial to World War women in Washington. Chief Justice Taft presided, with Luce, Mabel Boardman, and Secretary Davis speaking. Coolidge placed the first mortar.
About 500 dealers from Kentucky Indiana and Ohio began a three day inspection tour of Crosley and Amrad radios at Schuster Electric on Spring Grove. 125 dealers attended first day with more expected. Demonstrators from Amrad Crosley and Showers highlighted the Dynamic Dynacone improving sound amplification by over 100 percent.
The Cincinnati archdiocese announces a new Catholic high school system for the city and vicinity. It will include three boys high schools besides St. Xavier, six girls schools, and two special schools for deaf and African American students, starting next September.
About 3 000 girls participated as Cincinnati acknowledged the cornerstone laying at Ninth and Walnut for the new Y W C A building. Mrs Helen Peters Wallace sealed the cornerstone with the signing pen. Miss Eleanor Sides spoke and Miss Eleanor Gilbert saluted the work.
George Fr. Werick Parker retired journalist and Grover Cleveland Association president died at his New York home at eighty one. Born December 30 1847 in Lafayette Indiana he edited papers across several states and edited for The London Times. He served as American Consul in Birmingham England and helped promote the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. Burial will be at Shelbyville Indiana.
Funeral services for Mrs H M Lowther, 95, of 4619 Whetsel Avenue, who died on Wednesday, will be held today at her daughter's home on Whetsel Avenue. She will be buried in Berry, Kentucky, where she lived most of her life. She is survived by six children R W Lowther S B Lowther Mrs E E Righter Mrs John Heil Mrs Jennie Hutton and Mrs A E Leep, and by also a sister.
Friends and relatives in Cincinnati learned yesterday of the death of Mrs. Herman J. Witte of Brooklyn New York wife of the former Cincinnati Chief of Detectives now an attorney in Brooklyn The notice came through A B Lyons of Cheviot brother in law Witte was associated with Cal Crim and William Jackson and his exploits are legendary in Cincinnati police annals.
Mrs. Margaret Booker Dawes of Chicago wife of William R. Dawes president of the Chicago Association of Commerce and cousin of Vice President Dawes died today in Chicago.
Albert L. Bumgarner of St Clairsville Ohio, secretary of the Belmont County Bankers Association, is ill with influenza at his home. Bumgarner served as aid to General Tasker Bliss in the Spanish American War and raised the first American flag over Havana.
Gen. Victor Balck, 84, famed Swedish sports organizer and former president of the Swedish Olympic Committee, died in Stockholm. He chaired the Olympic organizing body during the 1912 Besos games in Stockholm.
Mrs. Jean Wilder 84 of 3112 Phillips avenue died at home yesterday. She leaves son Darryl A. Wilder and daughter Lula Murdoch, both of nearby Phillips avenue. Funeral services will be at the residence tomorrow at 2 o'clock. Burial will be in Spring Grove Cemetery.
Senator Simeon D. Fess filed his declaration of candidacy for renomination at the August primaries. The petition, received from Washington, was signed by five Congressmen led by Speaker Nicholas Longworth. It remains unclear if Fess will face opposition, as Ohio political circles speculate. He was elected in 1922 over Senator Atlee Pomerene and previously defeated in the April primary for delegate-at-large to the Kansas City convention.
Postmaster A L Behymer announced a rate reduction effective August 11. A telegram from Postmaster General New confirms the change in accordance with a Congress approved bill. The current air mail rate is ten cents per half ounce. new charges are five cents for the first ounce or fraction and ten cents for each additional ounce or fraction.
Obituaries list multiple deaths with dates in May 1928. individuals named include John W. Burnham of McMil ee area. Julia Thierry Dannemiller at 2738 Baker place. Elizabeth Hampel at Ft. Mitchell. Marietta McDowell of 2729 Woodburn avenue. George M. Waters husband of Julia Waters. Julia Bruce Morgan at Covington address. Jean Wilder nee Ingram aged 84. Funeral arrangements noted at W Mack Johnson funeral home. Tredway funeral home. Springs Grove Cemetery Chapel. and First Presbyterian/Episcopal venues with interments in Canton and Covington areas.
Cincinnati at a Glance reports Herbert Koch calling a 6 pm meeting for Homecoming planning in McMicken Hall after a committee supper. It notes Liberal Arts faculty afternoon meeting in Woman's Building reception rooms and vocational guidance remarks by John Fitch to Cincinnati educators. It also mentions European tour plans by two friars, a June 9 dedication invitation for Champ Clark Memorial Bridge in Louisiana Mississippi, and James J. McVeigh named head of National Bread Muth Bakery in Cincinnati with background on prior posts.
Charles F. Williams, vice president of Western and Southern Life, has acquired about 75 percent of American Liability Company stock, a $200000 Cincinnati firm. The plan aims to fold the unit into Western and Southern as a multi line insurer, with stock held by Fifth Third Union Trust awaiting transfer. Cincinnati leaders praise the move as restoring the city's casualty and fire insurance prestige.
Leonard Bergman, general manager of Erlanger theatrical interests, issues contracts for remodeling the Grand Opera House. The venue will become Erlanger Grand Opera House with a full redraw and repaint in July, new flooring seating wiring and carpets, new curtains, and a fall reopening as a virtually new theater. Milford Unger will supervise the project for A. L. Erlanger.
Columbus, May 31. Two aged sisters, Mrs Alma Ruble and Miss Mary her, were found on a bed with a gas hose in the mouth of Mrs Ruble. Police say the pair, both ill and caring for state wards, may have planned mutual death to avoid being left alone. Miss Her is unconscious in hospital.
John Green a 37 year old assistant cashier at McDowell National Bank and treasurer of Sharon Council K of C has been missing since May 20 after leaving Sharon for York to attend a state convention. He last called his parents in Washington Pa from Pittsburgh. Bank president H B McDowell says Green’s accounts were in good order.
A long list of Cincinnati area clubs and groups announces meetings and meals throughout the day. Lions Club Gibson Ohio and others plan all day sessions. numerous luncheons at 12:15 pm and dinners at 6:30 pm or noon are scheduled across civic, fraternal, and professional groups.
Ohio officials report phenol waste pollution in the Ohio River has ceased in Ohio after eight plants along the watershed stopped polluting. Renton By-Product Coke Co. completed installation and will test for 30 days before a similar plant begins in Ashland Kentucky. Remaining threats are one West Virginia plant and the Ashland plant to be eliminated after check of Ironton plant.
A syndicate led by Fifth Third Union Trust Company offers 7 percent cumulative preferred stock of 100 value to raise one million dollars. Proceeds pay off outstanding preferreds from Edward Wren Co Springfield and Denton Co Ashe ville, and partly settle assets of John Ross Co Middletown and Robinson Schwenn Co Hamilton. The Denton Stores Co organized in May to consolidate assets and names from several firms to gain centralized accounting and management.
In Farrell Pennsylvania a deadly disturbance left Paul Polonel of Sharon dead from shotgunnk charges and Sam Skarine of Cleveland wounded, Tony Nicastro also shot in the leg, and Mrs Sarafac Messana cut with a meat cleaver. Restituto Filliz arrested charged with murder, assault, and related crimes. The violence followed an argument.
Mrs Evangeline Montforton aged 28 of Windsor Ontario confessed to police she strangled her two children, a 5 year old daughter and a 4 year old son, driven by fear of insanity and asylum commitment.
Three top students from each class in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Cincinnati will be guests of honor at a Mystic Thirteen banquet. Seniors Ruth Thorp Rhoda Zerbo and Esther Levinson lead the senior group. juniors Minnie Hirschfeld Virginia Hollenberg Ruth Wasmer. sophomores Margaret Benedict Alice Budke Dorothy Levensohn. freshmen Elsa Bachman Mary Isgrig Katherine Etzel. Banquet at 6 p.m. in the women's building dining room with Jeanette Newman as chair. The three senior honorees are among the thirteen students elected to Phi Beta Kappa this week.
President Coolidge will spend his second consecutive summer in the West at Cedar Island Lodge on the Brule River near Brule Wisconsin. The one story birch bungalow sits on a small island with timberland and an eight bedroom main building connected by a bridge to the mainland.
As storms lash Spitzbergen conditions worsen and rescue plans broaden. Hobby and Braganza, under Lieut Holm and Capt Larson, may move up the east coast with Citta di Milano. Alpine chasseurs and trappers begin overland routes from Kings Bay. Signora Nobile appeals for hope amid Milan Rome fund drives and a Jesuit Church intercession.
Herman Finger of Detroit, Captain in the German air service in World War I, was fatally injured when a new plane he piloted crashed from 300 feet during a test flight in Kansas City.
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