Mount Vesuvius eruption grows as lava nears Barra
Naples reports a renewed violent eruption of Mount Vesuvius with two lava streams widening and advancing toward Barra at fifty feet a minute. Town residents evacuate in order as lava threatens Terzigno and the Valley of Hell on the southeastern slope.
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Naples
Mt. Vesuvius
Hell
New York World News Service
Bay of Naples
Barra
Terzignog
Vesuvius
Torre Annuniata
N. Y
Seek Escaped Louisville Convicts In Addyston Ohio
Detectives from Newport and Cincinnati closed in on Addyston Ohio as part of a manhunt for four Jefferson County Jail escapees from Louisville Kentucky. Among those sought were Tom Crawley serving 21 years for manslaughter Smithy Waters jailed for five years on grand larceny and Thomas Price held for Bourbon County. A 19 year old Nashville Tennessee resident Dennis Jennings was arrested by railroad police at Eighth and Storrs streets.
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Jefferson County
Louisville
Addyston
Newport
Cincinnati
Eighth and Storrs Streets
Tom Crawley
Smithy Waters
Covington
Thomas Price
Bourbon County
Dennis Jennings
Nashville, Tenn
Three Tots Hit By Autos. One Driver Arrested
Three children were injured in auto incidents yesterday. Paul Olson seven, of 534 Findlay street, remained in serious condition with brain concussion at General Hospital. Clifford Phillips of 313 Webster street was arrested on reckless driving after striking Olson with a scooter. Virginia Slater five of 1446 Walnut street was treated at home for facial cuts after being struck on Walnut street by Gustav Lauch of 4253 Leonard street. Jay Wiley six of Seventh and Bay miller street suffered cuts from a truck driven by Sam Grose of 917 York street.
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Paul Olson
Findlay Street
General Hospital
Clifford Phillips
Webster Street
Phillips
Virginia Slater
Walnut Street
Gustav _Lauch
Leonard Street
Jay Wiley
Baymiller Street
Sam Grose
York Street
Building and Loan Officials Urged to Back Tax Amendment A
At the First District Organization spring meeting of the Ohio Building Association League in Gil t night 500 officials and employees heard James A. Devine of Columbus urge support for Taxation Amendment A and B to create a modern tax system with safeguards. John W. Prugh praised Hamilton Clermont and Brown Counties for efficient conduct of affairs. Edwin L. Griest served as toastmaster.
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Ohio
State
Hamilton
Clermont
Brown Counties
Edwin L. Griest
Reunion Set for Forty Former Fourteenth District Schoolmates
The Schoolmates Association of the old Fourteenth District and First Intermediate Schools scheduled a June 22 picnic at the Zoo. Attendees range from 71 to 89, with about forty members expected. eligibility covers those who attended the Fourteenth District or First Intermediate Schools before 1863. Reservations via John W. Hill, Brotherhood Bank Building.
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Zoo
Old Fourteenth District
First Intermediate
John W. Hill
Brotherhood Bank Building
Sands
Dyer
Methodists to Erect Henderson Monument in Ohio
The Cincinnati Area Council of the Methodist Episcopal church met in Columbus to discuss funding for the 1.1 million dollar campaign for Ohio Wesleyan University. Plans include financing a monument on Bishop Theodore S Henderson’s grave and funding for summer schools ministerial training youth work and the Ohio Council of Churches with action to be submitted at the September general conference.
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Columbus
Cincinnati Area
Legitimate Actors Move for Equity Contracts
Frank Gillmore, president of Actors' Equity Association, announced that the council ruled Equity members may not work in sound or talking pictures unless under the standard Equity contract. It bans appearances in casts with nonmembers.
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Hollywood
Cal
Frank Gillmore
Actors’ Equity Association
Tonight
Equity
University Hails Dr Schneider as New President
Dr. Schneider named president after long service at the University of Cincinnati where he shaped cooperative technical education, served as dean of the College of Engineering, and contributed to the Institute of Scientific Research. He led the push for a large upcoming graduation and oversaw faculty title changes and many new appointments.
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Schneider
University ‘*of
Cincinnati
College of Engineering
Engineering College
Dr. Schneider
Lehigh University
University of Pittsburgh
Lehigh
United States
War Department
Commission On Education and Special Training
General Staff
United States Army
University of Cincinnati
James Gamble Nippert
Hughes High School
Meyer Salkover
College of Engineering and Commerce
Everett I. Yowell
Emlliott Smith
University
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Clarence J. King
College of Medicine
Memorial
Charles A. Joerger
Alexander L Jenkins
Joerger
Witnesses Sought for May 14 Car Truck Crash
The caller asks any witness to the May 14 street car and truck collision at Madison Road and Keys Crescent Avenue to contact Thomas R. Nicholas at 3712 Folette Avenue Kirby 497 Y.
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Madison Road
Keys Crescent Avenue
Thomas R. Nicholas
Folette Avenue
Kirby
Cincinnati University honors and resignations notice
The University lists officers and staff names across departments including School of Household Administration Library and Physical Training with appointments. It also notes resignations of Roderick Sprague Leon McCarty Marion Darack Albert Savoy and others and leaves of absence for Dean L A Pechstien and Emily Thurber.
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Julia Bell Brown
Bernice Coe
Cecil Doherty
School of Household Administration
Mary Domn
Annetta McDevitt
Alice M. Hines
Virginia Fisher
Alice Boyle
Department of Physical Training and
Jimmie Ayres Hughes
Harriett Rowley
Ruth Lee Harrington
Department of Hygiene
Arthur Wendel
Elmer Werner
Ruth Oliver
Frank Batsche
George H. Hauser
Dana Wells
Sherwood Rains
University
College of Liberal Arts
Roderick Sprague
Leon McCarty
Marion Darack
College of Engineering and Commerce
Albert E. Savoy
Herbert Frye
College of Education
Ida Beinert
Carroll Lane Fenton
John Longwaker
L. A. Pechstein
Emily Thurber
STATE OFFICIALS TO WAGE WAR ON ONE-EYED AUTOS
State officials plan a campaign against inadequately lit cars and obscured license tags beginning June 15. The drive targets rural areas and small towns to improve vehicle identification in accidents, with cooperation sought from village and rural district officials.
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Columbus
State Bureau of Vehicles
Chalmers R. Wilson
Lindbergh Honeymoon Craft Evades Crowds Off Cape Harbor
Col Charles A Lindbergh and Anne Morrow endured public curiosity as their honeymoon boat reportedly skirted Cape Cod and anchored about a mile and a half offshore near Cape Harbor, with observers lining the canal banks hoping for a glimpse.
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New York World News Service
Boston
Charles A. Lindbergh
Anne Spencer Morrow
Cape Cod Canal
Lindy
Wood Hole
Cape
Coast Guard
Provincetown
Church suppers and drug stores hurt restaurants
Ohio restaurateurs at the state convention lament that church suppers and drug store lunch counters draw customers away from eateries. Delegates note many skip lunch at home and turn to nearby drug stores, leaving Sundays as the only busy day for their businesses.
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Columbus
Ohio State Restaurant Association
Soviet troops mass on Manchuria frontier
London dispatch reports Russians massing on the Manchurian frontier to stop thousands of Chinese from fleeing Soviet territory. The movement follows fear of Soviet official arrests in Manchuria and heightened tensions after Chinese raids on Soviet consulates.
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China
London
Peking
The
Express
Manchurian
Manchuria
National Council of Congregational Churches Endorses Hoover
At the biennial Detroit meeting on June 4 a unanimous resolution praised President Herbert Hoover for his actions and utterances on law observance. The vote reflected broad support within the Council for Hoover’s leadership.
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Hoover
Detroit
Herbert Hoover
National Council of the Congregational Churches
Pilot Burned to Death in Oakland Air Crash
David Jennings Baird Jr., 23, was killed when his single engine plane dived nose first into a crash at the western end of Oakland Airport. He was alone on board.
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Oakland
Cal
David Jennings Baird, Jr
Crime Hunter Resigns In Chicago From State Attorney Office
Chicago reports Frank J. Loesch veteran lawyer and member of President Hoover's National Crime Commission retires from the State's Attorney's office where he worked on vote fraud investigations politico criminal alliances and the Chicago sanitary district muddle.
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Chicago
Frank J. Loesch
President Hoover
National Crime Commission
State’s Attorney's Office
Professor Ryan Dies After Auto Accident
John A. Ryan a professor of philosophy ethics and sociology at Mt. Saint Vincent collapsed and died after a minor car crash on the way back from graduation exercises. He was 60 years old.
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New York
John A. Ryan
Mt. St. Vincent
Pep Golden Ballet and Revue Captures Local Audience
A capacity crowd at the Shubert enjoys a two part program by Pep Golden. Mrs. Golden directs the ballet with designs by her, Mr. Golden supervising. William J. Kopp conducts music with Missouri Kenney as accompanist. pupils from various classes perform dances, including an Italian garden scene and a world voyage.
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Pep Golden
Shubert
Italy
Golden
Proposed European Trip of Ohioans May Be Held Up
The Ohio Legislature approved a $30,000 appropriation for a Thirty-Seventh Division band and a Legislative Committee trip to France and Belgium in September to dedicate Ohio battle monuments. An attorney general opinion says the bill is subject to referendum, potentially delaying the trip. Governor Cooper and Adjutant General Reynolds plan to pay their own expenses.
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Columbus
France
Belgium
Ohio
Gilbert Bettman
W. W. Reynolds
Myers Y. Cooper
Reynolds
Bank failure does not exempt bonding firm liability
Columbus Ohio June 4 The state attorney general ruled that a treasurer’s release from liability for deposits held in a failed bank does not absolve the security if deposits were properly secured by bond. The Arcadia Bank failure left township and school funds at risk, making bonds securing public funds liable.
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Columbus
Gilbert Bettman
Maurice C. Downing
Hancock County
Arcadia Bank and Savings Company of
Arcadia
Laborer Faints and Drowns After Disappearing
Frank Carter aged 41 a city dump laborer fainted at work yesterday asked to go home, vanished. His hat and lunch box were found on the Duck Pond bank on Gest street. Police dragged the pond and recovered his body in a drowning accident.
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Frank Carter
Gest Street
Russia a poor risk, says credit man in Cincinnati
Addison M. Flint of the American Foreign Credit Underwriters told the Cincinnati Foreign Trade Association that Russia is a poor risk industrially and commercially. He cited instability, no legal status, and no Russian business written by his group. He warned Brazil Porto Rico and Cuba face slow settlements and potential payment difficulties, though Mexico was less dire than press accounts suggested.
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Russia
Addison M. Flint
New York
American Foreign Credit Underwriters, Inc
Cincinnati Foreign Trade Association
Chamber of Commerce
H. C. Moebus
Newport Rolling Mill
Malcolm Stewart
Foreign Trade Department
Flint
Mr. Flint
Cuba
Porto Rico
Brazil
Mexico
Counties Drain Ohio Tax Pool Amid February Settlement
The eighty-eight counties paid 3433145.03 into the State Treasury in the February tax settlement announced by Treasurer H. Rosse Ake. Of the total, 1681273.68 financed World War bonds and interest, leaving 1761871.35 for general revenue. Cuyahoga led with 352175.28, followed by Hamilton at 316450.64.
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Columbus
H. Rosse Ake
Mahoning County
General Revenue Fund
Cuyahoga County
Hamilton County
Bequest Reveals $2 Million Fortune For Boston Man
Wills filed at probate in Cleveland reveal John Myers of Boston inherits a $2,000,000 estate from his parents Mr and Mrs Harry Eugene Myers. The fortune stems from their wills disclosed today.
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Cleveland
John Myers
Boston
Harry Eugene Myers
Pionter Clevelanders
Proibate
Leona Harrison Seeks Divorce After Brief Canton Marriage
Leona Harrison, a Broadway chorus girl now in Massillon, filed for divorce from William R. Harrison of Canton. She testified he bought her several $10 dresses and one pair of silk hose, while he claimed he could not afford luxuries. She requests $800 from Harrison funds as she returns to New York.
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Canton
Leona Harrison
Massillon
William R. Harrison
Harrison
Leona
Erie Canal Drainage Urged for Superhighway Plan
Toledo mayor William T. Jackson telegrams Governor Cooper urging immediate drainage of the Miami and Erie canal between Grand Rapids and Toledo to clear the way for a highway from Toledo to Maumee. He cites a 1927 Ohio law and asks the State Highway Department to prepare plans for the canal bed route south of Maumee.
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Toledo
Maumee
William T. Jackson
Myers Y. Cooper
Columbus
Grand Rapids
Ohio
State Highway Department
Roosters Sing Hens Behave While Stills Found
In Salt Lake City two old roosters and their hen folk allegedly sang at noon as a Prohibition officer uncovered two 150 gallon stills in a dugout beneath a chicken house. The cooks staggered from beneath the hen house and joined in a rendition resembling Sweet Adeline.
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Salt Lake City
Utah
Boy Speaks Names Suspect In Home Assault
Edward Hoffman, 40, of 2829 Vaughn Street, identified by eleven year old Mary Lohrum as the man who entered her home at 2312 Florence Avenue on Monday under pretext of water, attempted to assault her. Hoffman is brother of Elmer Hoffman, imprisoned for housebreaking in Ohio.
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Edward Hoffman
Vaughn Street
Elmer Hoffman
Ohio Penitentiary
William Lohrum
Florence Avenue
Mary Lohrum
Toronto Broker Sues Guggenheim Engineer for $250000
E Cappelen Smith of Guggenheim Bros. is defendant in a $250000 alienation affection suit filed in New York Supreme Court by Toronto broker Thomas Marston. The suit alleges a November 1927 Paris romance and gifts aimed at divorce, and cites a Chilean marriage to Carmen Munoz Arlequi in 1928. The defense confirms acquaintance in Paris but denies other allegations.
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New York World News Service
New York
E. A. Cappelen Smith
Guggenheim Bros
Supreme Court
Thomas Marston
Toronto
Canada
Eleanor
Paris
Cappelen Smith
Valparaiso
Chile
Eleanor Maud Marston
Marston
Europe
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