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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1919
Page
1
Eternal the Favorite falters on heavy going and is unplaced. Omond takes place money and Regale finishes third with jockey C Kummer aboard the winner Be Frank. Denby and pays backers ten to one.
Bo Frank, ridden by Jockey Kummer, won the Latonia Derby ahead of Omond and Regalo as Eternal faltered. The $16,160 purse boosted a festive Derby atmosphere with a large, fashionable crowd, rain-softened track, and vivid paddock scene.
Partly cloudy in Ohio and West Virginia with fair conditions in Kentucky Indiana. Temperature trends show little change upcoming. list of city temperatures includes Boston Kansas City New Orleans Omaha Galveston Denver Nashville San Francisco Memphis Cincinnati with high and average readings and precipitation notes for June 1919 including a nine-year comparison and no major changes expected Sunday and Monday.
Antonio Mazzio an 80 year old Garibaldi veteran known as Nino was shot dead at a table in a Wineroom on East Twelfth Street New York. A gunman burst in firing four shots striking him in the head. He fled as two strangers vanished from the scene while police suspect the attack aimed at the two strangers who were at the table.
Soldiers hailed as heroes for volunteering in disease experiments to study trench fever. Surgeon General Merritt W. Ireland praised them at Jefferson Medical College commencement as 142 new physicians graduated. Ireland noted trench fever is insect bite transmitted and lauding delousing efforts alongside Porto Rico hookworm work reducing deaths and boosting island wealth.
Baltimore professor Charles B. Aschemier returns from Africa with Smithsonian support and challenges R L Garner's claim of capturing the speaking ape. Aschemier says his expedition took the ape and that no man has progressed in conversing with monkeys. He notes jungle natives cannot converse with apes, though apes appear to have their own language.
Robert L. Walker aged 84 longtime friend of William McKinley died tonight at his Poland Ohio home near Youngstown. Walker and McKinley faced financial failure when Walker stood as his surety and a nationwide purse later helped McKinley recover possessions after the loss of his own and his wife’s inherited estate.
Thousands of dollars in crop damage reported near Whitfield six miles southwest of Dayton Ohio after a hailstorm lasted twenty minutes. Farmers said tobacco and wheat were damaged about 75 percent as broad fields were covered by hail up to one inch deep and remained on the ground for two hours.
Mrs Leah Farber of 812 Oak street was robbed of 14 dollars by a man at Melrose avenue and McMillan street. Within minutes her daughter Deborah was robbed of 10 dollars at Yale and Gilbert avenues. Descriptions of the assailants match.
Traffic Officer Lang witnessed a woman struck at Sixth and Main streets yesterday evening. She refused aid, jumped into the previously near-missing car, and drove off, leaving the officer astonished. Auto records identify the car as belonging to a Melrose Avenue businessman.
San Francisco and Oakland morning papers will raise the Sunday edition price to ten cents for tomorrow. Los Angeles Sunday papers will also increase their prices, according to reports.
The Denver Post announced on June 7 that it has purchased an airplane to distribute newspapers to suburban towns, signaling an expansion of its delivery network and rapid citywide coverage.
Police investigate after the body of a white man with feet tied by rope is recovered from a reservoir in Eden Park. A suitcase handle binds the rope, suggesting murder and weight, with seven pennies a purse and a gold penknife found on the victim. Coroner Bauer and police seek clues, hoping to locate the suitcase and identify the deceased.
A near race riot erupted when a black crowd clashed with white men after a woman accused a man of striking her child near the Casino Theater. Patrolman Owen Brissie fought the mob, a traffic squad arrived, and a flying wedge dispersed the crowd within twenty minutes amid threats and chaos.
Belated residents in Covington found large placards posted on poles and billboards signaling anti anarchist plots. Signed C P L the notices warned against meetings by Socialists Bolshevists and I W W members and named a local business man accused of mailing Bolshevik and Socialist material. The cards urged travelers to avoid Covington and hinted at federal probes into improper mail use.
Fresh border unrest along the Rio Grande triggers Governor Hobby to appeal to the War Department. He urges federalizing the Texas State Guards to protect citizens as rebel activity nears the frontier.
Governor Hobby asks Secretary Baker to call the First and Second Texas Cavalry Brigades into federal service for border duty. He urges a twenty day mobilization period to arrange transport and camps, proposing Camp Mabry in Austin as the mobilization site. The War Department seeks views from the Southern District Commander while border forces exceed twenty thousand troops across the region.
In the House of Commons Secretary for War Churchill said the Attorney General’s committee will review alleged German violations of the laws of war. Cases include Private McGraw of the Grenadier Guards tied to a post in a snowstorm and dying the next day, Private Stimpson wounded and later dying, Private Bolan flogged and dying in hospital, and Private Skett killed after being ordered to move on while exhausted as a POW.
Four men including Captain Soterios Nicholson and Grant Browne are indicted over an alleged scheme to sell 30 million dollars of Army surplus salvaged materiel. Fred Collins and Bert Harris face charges amid a two month probe spanning Rochester to Detroit with key offices in Washington. The case signals a broad Justice Army Intelligence probe into fraudulent munition plots across Chicago Pittsburgh and Boston.
Bath officials at Bath Iron Works announced the Hale shattered speed marks on the Rockland trial course. Builders preliminary trials reached an average speed of 37.63 knots and a fastest mile of 38.38 knots with favorable wind and tide.
A group of American mining men arriving in Nogales reports more than thirty-two Americans and Mexicans killed in the La Colorada district of Sonora over the past two weeks. The men say Mexicans were slain by bandits, while several Americans were killed or wounded, with Yaqui forces blamed for the latest killings. They urge international pressure to stop the violence and allege arms shipments to Yaquis from nearby sources.
General Candido Aguiar governor of Vera Cruz and Carranza’s son-in-law arrived in Washington from Mexico on a mission not fully explained. Semi official reports say he was sent as a confidential adviser to President Wilson and accredited to him directly. He is to consult specialists during his stay as Ambassador Ponilak remains in the capital.
Mrs George Baldwin of 308 Broadway swerved to avoid a dog in Covington at Third and Johnson, causing her car to overturn on a wet street. Her husband, a law partner of Judge Littleford, suffered a slight cut over his right eye. Mrs Baldwin was uninjured.
Unidentified burglars entered the Worrell jewelry store in Washington Court House last night and escaped with jewelry valued between $1,000 and $1,500. Police call the act the work of amateurs.
The Single Tax party will place a presidential ticket in the 1920 national election. A national convention is planned in New York for June 38 to nominate the ticket. The party has organizations in about a dozen states and has not previously run a separate presidential candidate.
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