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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1929
Page
1
Jock Breezes Ume wins the inaugural Broadside with Brave Son of Man O' War second in the feature handicap. Easter Stockings is third, Martinique fourth as a large Latonia crowd enjoys the Sport of Kings with spectators in smart attire.
Dr. Herman Schneider was chosen President and Daniel Laurence Vice President in charge of business administration by the University Board of Directors at its June meeting in McMicken Hall. Both men joined the university in 1903 and have long served as officials guiding Cincinnati’s municipal university toward national prominence. Laurence will assist the President, enabling Schneider to focus on broader university problems.
The will filed in Probate Court by Murray Shipley, former head of Lodge & Shipley Machine Tool Company, creates five trust funds totaling most of a estate valued above 1 million. The widow Martha Shipley receives a life income from one fund. four children receive principal at 35 or from residuary shares. Executors named are Herman Bayless and Murray Shipley Jr. The estate’s total value was not estimated.
Dr Hubert Work will relinquish the RNC chair early this fall after sending his resignation letter to committee members. President Hoover acknowledged Work’s service and noted that Work accepted the interior post last June with a retirement condition after the election.
The Kentucky Court of Appeals granted a new trial to James A. Wallace former State Treasurer sentenced to twelve and a half years in 1928 for altering returns in a Republican primary. The reversal cited incompetent evidence. Wallace lost the nomination to J M Perkins by under 500 votes.
Miss Helen Halitaitis, 22, of Kearny, was shot in the abdomen and side and wounded seriously after a dinner confrontation with Rev. Father Paul MicDivinis, 35, who then fired a pistol into his own head and died in a Newark hospital. The incident occurred at the Silkaitis home in Harrison, New Jersey, where MicDivinis had recently relinquished his church.
Mrs Mamie Sullivan 44 of Covington was struck by a green roadster on Scott Boulevard near Fifteenth Street and died at St Elizabeth Hospital from skull fracture and internal injuries. George Schiffer later admitted driving the car and faces manslaughter charges.
In Valparaiso Indiana Catherine Cassler is charged with first degree murder in the death of Cameela Soutar, a rival for her husband. The preliminary hearing was postponed to Friday at Justice G E Bornholt as bonds were set for and against witnesses and family.
Four inmates attempted an escape from the Junction City brick plant at Ohio penitentiary. Stanley Starr, 20, of Cuyahoga County, was shot in the hips and abdomen and seriously wounded. Three others fled into nearby woods: Henry Schara, 19. Ray Crooks, 31. and Clarence Ragland, 24.
Mrs. Frank Patty was beaten to death in her apartment and found hanging from a closet hook. Police ordered the arrest of William C. Tallman, a former San Francisco radio worker, who had been traveling toward Oakland aboard the steamer Admiral Benson.
Remains of Pauline Wilson, 24, the companion of gang leader George Murphy, were found along the Big Miami River near Harrison Pike, two miles north of Venice Ohio. Florence Stegner, 22, was abducted and killed near Venice a week earlier, linking the two crimes to Hamilton County gang violence. Identification came from a Gruen wristwatch traceable to Henry Horner of Cincinnati.
Jock E. B. McLean’s bay son of Colin-Kathleen won Latonia’s seventeenth Inaugural Handicap in 1 minute 44 seconds for the mile and sixteenth. Broadside and Stockings were close behind. parade antics delayed the start and Paraphrase caused a ten minute halt before racing resumed.
Nicely furnished rooms and a four room apartment for rent in Northside are listed. A seven room Colonial pressed brick house with bath and maid's quarters is for sale in Hyde Park. A coupe in good condition is available at a reasonable price.
The trial of James W. Crowe, Washington County Deputy Sheriff, continues with testimony from Abingdon officer James McReynolds defending the actions during a highway stop that led to the fatal shooting of Emory and Henry College student J. W. Kendrick. Partners Worley and Phelps, with Dutton, offer conflicting accounts of commands to halt.
King George today accepted the resignation of the Conservative cabinet and, on Baldwin's advice, summoned Ramsay MacDonald by telephone. MacDonald likely will name the ministers as he forms a new Labour government, ending a long political transition in London.
After ten years of debate experts at the reparations conference reach a compromise reducing the original Versailles demand of 125 billion to about 9.15 billion dollars. The agreement, aided by American mediation, follows the era of conciliation sparked by the Locarno pact and aims to satisfy creditors while acknowledging postwar economic limits. France, the largest creditor, views the result as a partial loss but accepts it as the best feasible outcome. A plenary session confirms the agreement and rushes to finalize the report for signature within the week.
William Howard Taft arrived in Cincinnati for a brief visit with his brother Charles P. Taft and stayed at the Taft home on Pike street. He noted Cincinnati’s development since leaving the IRS and distillery inspections era, commented on progress, and dodged questions about national issues while describing the city’s crime situation as typical for its size.
In Washington on June 4 a push emerged for a farm relief package with a proposed 590 million dollar federal farm board fund upon enactment. Congressional leaders signaled a recess until September as they seek final tariff bill disposition by November 15 and aim to finish conference differences between Senate and House measures.
Special to The Commercial Tribune reports in Hamilton Ohio that S Fess a Yellow Springs salesman and son of U S Senator Simeon D Fess was fired on while driving toward Cincinnati. Two gangsters in a passing car opened fire broadside. Fess escaped injury though his vehicle was likely mistaken for a rival gang member’s car.
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