House Passes Census Bill Providing Reapportionment
The House approved the census and reapportionment bill by 272 to 105 after removing alien and disenfranchisement provisions. The measure sets a new allotment of Congressional seats if 1930 census action falters, moving May 1930 as census time and dropping Civil Service requirements. Farm relief bill action follows in Congress.
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House
Washington
Congress
Senate
Glenn
Rep
Ill
Reed
Heflin
Dem
Ala
Kaiser
Agriculture Committee
Haugen
Iowa
McNary
Oregon
Streetcar motormen bagged for running amber light crusade
Police surge against amber light running nets four motor men led by undercover squad in mufti. Victims named include William Thies Edward Schwartz Stanley Townsley and James Butler. One motorman John Luxumberger arrested single handed by Patrolman Weishaar. eight autoists and seventeen motorists also cited. Yellow crusade to continue for days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mufti
Galbraith
Merz
Wilke
Faragher
William Thies
Hunter Avenue
Edward Schwartz
Hackberry Street
Stanley Townsley
Merrimac Avenue
James Butler
Danner Avenue
John Luxumberger
Hamilton Avenue
Central Parkway
Vine Street
Reward Offered for Brown and White Whippet Dog
Want ad brief notes a reward for a brown and white whippet dog. Also lists a six room brick home with solarium and breakfast nook and built in garage for sale in Hyde Park. The item ends with a Quick Sure Results line and a phone number for The Commercial Tribune.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hyde Park
The
Commercial Tribune
Canal 6300
Trains Collide as Switch Splits Near Midland City
S. B. & C. trains wreck when a switch splits. Baltimore & Ohio Train No. 36 from here to New York sideswipes No. 22 bound for Pittsburgh near Midland City Ohio. Five cars of No. 22 derail. rear car of No. 36 derailed. Windows broken. passengers shaken. Wrecker sent from Cincinnati.
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Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Here
New York City
Pittsburgh
Midland City
Cincinnati
Regional Park Board Plan Faces County Opposition
The Regional Planning Commission opposes forming a regional park board for Hamilton County arguing insufficient data and noting existing county authority to create parks. Judge Lueders hears the proposal with City officials urging implementation, while officials cited a potential one tenth mill tax to fund park planning and creation. North College Hill joined the commission meeting as a new member.
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William H. Lueders
Hamilton County
Regional Planning Commission
Cincinnati
Lueders
Robert Anderson
Wyoming
Planning Commission
Anderson
Harry Baker
Norwood
Seasongood
Edward Alexander
Irvin M. Krohn
Park Board
Myron Downs
City Planning Commission
North College Hill
William Holmes
Harry H. Shafer
Hoover appoints Kentucky revenue collector
President Hoover appointed Emil S. Helburn of Midesboro Kentucky as Internal Revenue Collector for the Western District of Kentucky based in Louisville. He succeeds Robert H. Lucas, who followed David H. Blair as Commissioner. The nomination was sent to the Senate and he will take office after confirmation.
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Seespeed Jnr
Emil S. Helburn
Midesboro
Hoover
Kentucky
Louisville
Robert H. Lucas
David H. Blair
Senate
Owen D. Young Plan to be Signed at 5 Today
Owen D Young is scheduled to sign his reform program at five o clock this afternoon. The plan outlines economic measures and will be presented to officials for approval yesterday.
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Owen D. Young
Two Fatal Auto Crashes In Hamilton County
Leroy Baker seven year old son of Mrs Etta Bailey was killed when struck by an auto near his State Avenue home. Frank Lanter 29 the driver was arrested on manslaughter charges after taking the boy to Mary's Hospital where he died. The motorists also reported minor injuries to Geneva Jackson seven and a truck collision with a streetcar occurred at Fourth and John streets. A truck crash damaged two parked cars on Spring Grove Avenue.
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Leroy Baker
Etta Bailey
State Avenue
Hamilton County
Frank Lanter
Winchell Avenue
Lanten
B. Manischewitz Company
Matzos Baker
West
Eighth Street
Is Mary's Hospital
Lanter
Schwab
Heckner
Geneva Jackson
West Fifth Street
Guthrie Nicademus
Eighth and
Sunset Avenues
Fifth
Cutter Street
Elmer Webb
Bernard Street
Hamilton
Union Depot
Fourth and
John Streets
Dave Dahliman
Lueders Avenue
Spring Grove Avenue
Russel Gannon
Fairfax Avenue
Theodore Duering
Boy Killed by Automobile in Canton Front of Home
In Canton Colorado on June 6 Charles Maple a 10 year old boy was killed instantly when struck by an automobile in front of his home. He died at the scene and authorities investigated the accident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canton, CO
Charles Maple
George Murphy Double Life Ended in Fatal Shootout
Hamilton dispatch recounts George Murphy a noted hijacker and bootlegger shot dead as he tried to open a garage door. The piece traces his rise from down and out night clerk at the Grand Hotel to a feared racketeer with ties to the Rudy Laubach era and a web of violence surrounding his death. It notes Murphy’s relationships including Pauline Wilson and a planned ride that went awry leading toward Covington and Frankfort, Kentucky.
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Hamilton, O
Hamilton
George Murphy
George
Heaton Street
Murphy
Grand Hotel
Rudy Laubach
Wyoming
Pauline Wilson
Miami River
Lone Wolf
Covington
Wilson
Frankfort
Chicago Woman Held in Murder of Soutar Girl
Mrs. Catherine Cassler of Chicago faces coroner verdict charges for fatally shooting Cammedla Soutar near Hebron Indiana on Decoration Day. The coroner says the gunshot wound was inflicted by Cassler or her agents. Cassler remanded to county jail pending grand jury action.
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Valparaiso
Ind
Catherine Cassler
Chicago
Cammedla Soutar
Hebron
Decoration Day
Miller
Soutar
Truman Cassler
War on Cigarettes Plans By W C T U to Save Youth
Hamilton County WCTU leaders advocate education and lectures to curb youth cigarette use. They plan moving pictures and public fund raising to reach a $5,000 goal by September 1, citing laws banning under 18 sales and European trends of women smoking for slimming.
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George Davis
Presios
Hamilton County
W. C
The
Tobacco Association
America
Davis
Frances Willard
Europe
England
Germany
Premier Ramsay MacDonald signals early action on unemployment
London June 6 Premier Ramsay MacDonald and two Labor colleagues visited 10 Downing Street to announce that the government has begun steps to tackle unemployment. A new cabinet is expected to be named tomorrow with J H Thomas likely Lord of the Privy Seal and Lord Justice Lanksey seen as a candidate for Lord Chancellor. Philip Snowden is anticipated as Chancellor of the Exchequer with Arthur Henderson Foreign Secretary and John R Clynes Home Secretary among possible postings.
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London
Ramsay MacDonald
Scotland
MacDonald
Philip Snowden
J. H. Thomas
Downing Street
Labor
Stanley Baldwin
Thomas
National Union of Railwaymen
Justice Lanksey
Arthur Henderson
John R. Clynes
Flamingo monoplane crashes into Potomac. one Cincinnati crewman dead
Special dispatch reports a Flamingo cabin monoplane from Metal Aircraft Corporation skimming the Potomac River near Alexandria, Virginia, when it nosedived and sank. Ernest Birén, 21, aviation machinist second class at NAS, drowned. several crew members survived. Pilot Warren Vine and others escaped. one prior Flamingo crash noted with injuries to Thomas Halpin.
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Commercial Tribune
Washington
Metal Aircraft Corporation
Cincinnati
Potomac River
Naval Air Station
Alexandria
Here
Ernest George J. Birén
Ernest George J. Birén, 21, Aviation Machinist
Warren Vine
G. Gilbert Peterson
Joseph Charles Oucha
Aviation
Jay Hamilton Wheelery
Norman Emerson Roberts
Alvin R. Bugbee
United States Marine Corps
Louisville
Thomas E. Halpin
Crosley Enters Aircraft Field After Radio Show
Powel Crosley Jr president of Crosley Radio announces entry into airplane manufacturing. He flew an Embry-Riddle Flamingo from Chicago to Cincinnati on Thursday returning from the radio show.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Powel Crosley, Jr
Crosley Radio Corporation
Cincinnati
Chicago
Hoover to Visit Ohio Valley on River Lock Celebration
President Herbert Hoover plans a fall tour to attend the completion celebration of the Ohio River lock system from Pittsburgh to Cairo. He will likely visit Cincinnati and travel downstream to Louisville and Memphis aboard a barge, avoiding a summer vacation.
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Fete
Cincinnati
Herbert Hoover
Ohio River
Washington
Pittsburgh
Cairo
Hoover
Texas
Mississippi
Mr. Hoover
Louisville
Memphis
Ditson Bequest Gave $100000 To Music College
The Cincinnati College of Music received a gift of $100000 from the late Charles H Ditson music publisher. The funds may create chairs or scholarships or support public performances of student and graduate works. Ditson died May 16 in New York. His will left similar sums to other universities and music schools.
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Cincinnati College of Music
Charles H. Ditson
New York
Associated Press
George B. Wilson
The
Commercial Tribune
Ditson
Oliver Ditson Company
Boston
Charles H. Ditson & Co
Widow given ten years in case of chloroform death
Mrs Olive E Adams widow of Harry E Adams who was killed with chloroform pleaded guilty to manslaughter and received a state prison term of one to ten years. Adams had served as Hartford weather forecaster at the time of his death.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hartford
Conn
Olive E. Adams
Harry E. Adams
Adams
Legislature Orders DeKing Investigation
A special Illinois Legislature committee recommends a full investigation into the killing of Mrs. Joseph DeKing during a dry raid in Aurora. The report urges lawmakers to pursue all facts and determine accountability.
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Springfield
Ill
Joseph DeKing
Aurora
Illinois
Investi
Buckley Shouts in Court as Persecution Claim Rises
Bert B. Buckley former State Treasurer seeks reversal of his conviction for attempted bribery of a prohibition official. He electrified the United States Circuit Court of Appeals with an emotional outburst claiming persecution as government counsel argues against granting leave to appeal due to late filing. If convicted Buckley faces two years six months and a day in Atlanta Penitentiary and a $1000 fine.
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Bert B. Buckley
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Buckley
John F. Eckhart
Federal Prohibition
Cincinnati
Atlanta
Haveth May
United States
Arthur C. Dennison
Mistrial Declared in Crowe Murder Case in Abingdon
Judge A C Buchanan declared a mistrial in the murder case of James E Crowe Washington County Deputy Sheriff after the jury reported to unable to agree twice. The trial pauses until September term as the state alleges Crowe Worley and McReynolds fired on an automobile May 6 wounding Kendrick a 16 year old Emory and Henry College student.
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Abingdon
A. C. Buchanan
James E. Crowe
Washington County
J.W. Kendrick
Crowe
W. D. Worley
James McReynolds
Paul Phelps
Sterling Dutton
J. W. Kendrick
Kendrick
Emory and Henry College
Hoover proposes joint House Senate panel to unify Prohibition enforcement
President Hoover asks Congress to form a seven member joint committee to transfer major prohibition enforcement duties from the Treasury to the Justice Department. The plan aims to streamline agencies, with the National Law Enforcement Commission and Justice officials shaping a unified program, including possible reallocation of the Coast Guard, Customs, and alcohol permit operations.
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Congress
House
Senate
Treasury
Justice Department
National Law Enforcement Commission
Mellon
Hawes Dem
Jones
Rep
Wash
Curtis
Longworth
Judiciary Committee
Norris
James M. Doran
Prohibition
Congressional
Mitchell
Law Enforcement Commission
Department of Justice
George W. Wickersham
White House
Coast Guard and Customs Services
Justice Division
Commerce Department
British Embassy Dryness Question Divides Washington
Washington debated the question of diplomatic liquor as Sir Esme Howard considered halting imports. Secretary Stimson said the issue concerns diplomatic privilege and would not curb import rights, while senators urged action and the Diplomatic Corps weighed consent from their governments.
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Washington
Stimson
Esmer Howard
State Department
Senate
Blease
Dem
S. C
Esme
Diplomatic Corps
Ford borrows cash to buy Edison stamp
Atlantic City June 6 Henry Ford borrowed two cents to buy the first Thomas A. Edison commemorative stamp at a special post office sale. Postmaster Alfred Perkins served Ford who searched for exact change. J F Quinlan of New York lent the two cents and Ford promised to return it.
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Atlantic City
Henry Ford
Thomas A. Edison
Alfred Perkins
Ford
J. F. Quinlan
New York
Golden Jubilee of Light Committee
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Owen D. ‘Young
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Robert Laubach
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Butler County
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Ramsay
Ohio Valley
President Hoover
Music College
Ditson Will
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