Tragic Collision Sinks Steamer Fairfax Fire In Ocean
A fog bound collision off Scituate Massachusetts between the Merchants and Miners liner Fairfax and the Fall River tanker Pinthis sparked a blaze that killed forty four to forty five people. Survivors recount the frantic jumps into a fiery sea as the Gloucester and hospital crews aided passengers and crew.
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Boston
Atlantic
Fairfax
Pinthis
Carney Hospital
Merchants and Minere
Norfolk
Laltimore
Fall River
Massachusetts Bay
Scituate
Massachusetts
Pithis
Atom
Gloucester
South Boston
Ida Berkowitz
Robert
Berkowitz
Edwards aims to gain control of Valvoline in six million deal
W Edwards, president of Fifth Third Union Trust, seeks to buy the controlling Valvoline stake for about six and a half million dollars. He offers Paragon stockholders the chance to buy Valvoline shares at 200 a share, with total offer around 6.4 million dollars. Paragon recently acquired by Union Trust. Gulf Oil expected to announce Paragon purchase next week. Grand Jury to probe Cosmopolitan Bank embezzlement. Shafer’s six month manipulation tied to Doherty losses. internal investigators seek accountability and potential accomplices as state and city prosecutors and auditors join the probe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. Edwards
Third Union Trust Company
Edwards Manufacturing Company
Paragon Refining Company
Valvoline Oil Company
Valvoline Company
Union Trust Company of
Pittsburgh
Noa
Mellon
United States
Standard-Oil Group
Paragon Company
Valvoline Common
Paragon
Union Trust Company
Edwards
Gulf Oil Company
Cosmopolitan Bank
Hamilton County Prosecutor's Office
Edward D. Schorr
Commerce
Amor W. Shafer
Cincinnati
H. L. Doherty Company
Shafer
8 O’co
Shafers
Wea
Schwab
Dudley Miller Outéalt
Louis Schneider
Doherty Company
Cecil Hall
Gov Cooper's Dog Dan Hero of Day at Mansion
The wire-haired terrier Dan, owned by Gov. Cooper, saved a Boston bull pup named Captain that toppled into the fish pond at the Executive Mansion. Dan pulled gardener Charles A. Dow by the overalls to assist and the pup was rescued little worse for the experience.
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Columbus
Dan
Gov. Cooper
Executive Mansion
Boston
Sunken Garden
Charles A. Dow
Gardener Dow
Some Other Woman’s Been Washing Your Shirt
Daisy Noe of 216 East Thirteenth Street fired a pistol at her boyfriend after discovering he wore a shirt washed by another woman. She said jealousy peaked when she found him with a different woman at their boarding house on Main Street. She faces a charge of discharging a firearm.
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Syoman
Daisy Noe
East Thirteenth Street
Main Street
Youthful aviator flees jail to reclaim plane
Allen Scott, 19, escaped from Leeland jail in Mississippi after stealing an air ship. He returned to Pine Bluff Arkansas with the craft but it ran out of gasoline at Dumas and he abandoned it for a car ride home. He said alcohol contributed to the escapade and furnished bond on jail breaking charge.
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Bluff
Ark
Allen Scott
Art Tor
Leland
Pine Bluff
Dumas
Cincinnati Man Believed Lost in Sea Tragedy
Frederick Jaim, a United States sailor bound for Norfolk, describes the heroic death of H. M. Rose of Cincinnati while trying to save a woman believed to be Miss Elizabeth Gardner of Winston-Salem during a blazing sea disaster aboard the Fairfax. Rose and the woman perished as flames engulfed the lower deck and crew scrambled for safety.
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The
Commercial Tribune
Manchester
N. H
Frederick Jaim
United States
Norfolk
H. M. Rose
McAlpin Avenue
Cincinnati
Elizabeth Gardner
Winston-Salem
Jaim
Pati
Fairfax Lot
Cincinnati Student Aboard S S Fairfax in Crash
Howard Rose 24 of 345 Mc Alpine Avenue Cincinnati was a passenger on the S S Fairfax. His parents Mr and Mrs Lot Rose learned of his presence after a telegram from roommate J M Leavens New York reporting him missing in the wreck. He studied at Harvard Law School and was a 1924 University of Cincinnati graduate.
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Cincinnati
Fairfax
Howard
Rose
McAlpin Avenue
Cincinnat
S. S. Fairfax
Lot Rose
Young Rose
Harvard Law School
Cintinanti
Norfolk
J.M
Shriners Pick Fletcher for Imperial Potentate Title
Esten A. Fletcher of Rochester New York was elected Imperial Potentate of the Shrine at the Imperial Council session in Toronto. He succeeds Leo F. Youngworth of Los Angeles and the 1932 convention was voted to be held in Cleveland.
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Toronto
Esten A. Fletcher
Rochester
N. Y
Imperial Council
Fletcher
Leo F. Youngworth
Los Angeles
Cal
Cleveland
Hoodlums Nabbed in Chicago Police Raids
Nearly 600 alleged hoodlums were rounded up by midnight as special police squads raided Chicago underworld districts. The city police launched a strategy to crack down on gang violence following the murder of Jake Lingle, with 100 suspects listed for arrest and rapid prisoner intake at headquarters.
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Chicago
John Stege
Aids
Jake" Lingle
Chicago Tribune
Michigan Boulevard
Alfred
Jake” Lingle
Tribune
County Democrats Indorse County Officers Slate
The Hamilton County Democratic Party endorsed a slate of county officers including Sheriff William Wernke and County Auditor J Ben Grause. If they unite with Independent Republicans they may withdraw these nominees. Also named were County Commissioner Earl J Winter and County Treasurer George W Gale along with other listed officials and judicial candidates.
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Hamilton County
Democratic Party
Democratic County Central Committee
William Wernke
Highland Avenue
J. Ben Grause
Delaney Street
Earl J. Winter
Crane Avenue
George W. Gale
Hudson Avenue
Thurman Rowland
Republic Street
Alfred Pfau
West Eighth Street
State Central Committee
W. A. Julian
Catherine Carter
Thomas J. Conney
Elizabeth Noctor
Court of Com- Pleas
Edwin G. Becker
Stanley Matthews
Edward Alexander
John E. Fitzpatrick
Jacob S. Hermann
Thomas H. Morrow
George KE. Tebbs
Court of Appeals
Clifford
Withrow Elliott
James J. Genz
Wallace S. Espy
Council Delays East Fifth Street Widening Vote
City Council defers action on widening East Fifth Street from Main to Pike, referring to the Planning Commission an ordinance to condemn 25 feet of property. Supporters argue moral obligation to widen. repeal of excess condemnation aligns with Supreme Court ruling. Mayor cites 1921 start and flawed bond plans. new City Manager C A Dykstra to address major issue.
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Joseph H
United States Supreme Court
Russell Wilson
East Fifth Street
Old City Council
City Charter Committee
Woeste
C. A. Dykstra
Lupescu vows life outside Romania if Carol becomes king
Mme Magda Lupescu says she will stay outside Romania and sever ties with Carol if he becomes king. She describes a painful split, recalling their first meeting, life in Bucharest, and years of happiness marred by exile and public scrutiny.
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Mme. Lupescu
Rumania
Pierre van Paassen
New York World News Service
Interlakeken
Switzerland
Mme
Magda Lupescu
Carol
Wolff
Cagel
Romania
King Frederick
Bucharest
Carel
Magda Wolff
Rebels Battle for Nanking as Civil War Spreads Across China
Reports from Shanghai dated June 11 describe Kwantung Province rebels advancing on Yangtse River cities and three columns pushing toward Hankow Wuchang and Hanyang while Nationalists reinforce from Hankow to hold the line. Northern forces threaten Taiyuan and Tsinan as censorship limits detail.
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Shasi
Yangtse
Hankow
Kiukiang
Yochow
Changsha
Henan
Wuchang
Hanyang
Tungting
Nanking
Han Fu-Chu
Tsinan
Shantung Province
Yellow River
Ring of Steel
Yen Hsi-Shan
Feng
Bettman Reports May Tax Delinquency Collections
Attorney General Gilbert Bettman announced that his office collected 73000 in delinquent claims in May, with 45904 from delinquent gasoline taxes in Columbus Ohio.
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Columbus,co
Gilbert Bettman
Cincinnati Post Office to be built near Union Terminal
Three million dollars are set aside in the second deficiency bill for a new Cincinnati Post Office in the West End near Union Terminal. The three story brick and stone building will provide about 255 thousand square feet of space and cost totals exceed 66 million for federal projects in Ohio.
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Cincinnati
Union Terminal
West End
Congress
House Appropriations Committee
Associated Press
Dayton Street
Liberty Street
Sherman Avenue
Ohio
Consolidated Prison Industries
United States Industrial Reformatory
Chillicothe
Barberton
Bucyrus
Cleveland
Conneaut Postoffice
Postoffice
Jackson
Mt. Vernon
Springfield
Troy Postoffice
Urbana
Cincinnati Names Dykstra City Manager After Sherrill Resigns
C A Dykstra former personnel director of the Los Angeles Water and Power Commission was formally named City Manager of Cincinnati by City Council after Col Sherrill's resignation was accepted. The vote was unanimous with three Republicans not voting. Sherrill bid farewell amid a crowd as flowers in his honor and Dykstra's desk received a gift from the City Charter Committee.
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Los Angeles Water and Power Commission
Cincinnati
Col. Sherrill
Dykstra
Russell Wilson
Col, Sherrill
Kroger Grocery
Ng Com
Pany
Sherrill
Col
Louis Blakemore
Woeste
Senate probes: Bishop Cannon spared from forced answers
Washington June 11 Definite agreement was reached by the Senate Lobby Committee not to compel Bishop James Cannon Jr to answer questions about his 1928 anti Smith activities. The decision followed informal meetings among committee members and will be announced at a session tomorrow attended by the Southern Methodist churchman.
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Washington
James Cannon, Jr
Senate Lobby Committee
Southern Methodist
Cannon
Walsh
Dem
Mont
Senate
C. Bascom Slemp
Coolidge
Republican National
Law to Halt Auto Deaths Indorsed Here
Trustees of the Cincinnati Automobile Club and the Ohio State Automobile Association endorsed a statewide program to circulate petitions for a drivers license law and safety responsibility bill at the next Legislature. Lynn B. Timmermann and Charles C. Jones will lead immediate action. A five member committee will draft the petition for submission to Columbus for statewide circulation. The move has no political significance and aims to protect motorists and pedestrians.
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Cincinnati Automobile Club
Ohio State Automobile Association
Ohio
Lynn B. Timmermann
State Association
Charles C. Jones
The
Automobile Club
A. E. Mittendorf
Joseph R. Gardner
Gardner
Columbus
Texas sends ambassador to set London aright in lynching matter
Captain Tom Hickman Texas ranger sails on the Leviathan as an unofficial ambassador from Gov. Dan Moody to London. He will explain that reports of a Sherman lynching and women tossing fuel into the flames are not true and relay Texas papers’ accounts. The excursion includes the Simmons College Cowboy Band, forty musicians, to tour England and the Continent for six weeks.
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New York
Tom Hickman
Texas Ranger
Leviathan
London
Texas
Tom
Dan Moody
Lone Star State
Simmons College Cowboy Band
Abilene
Tex
England
Ramsay Sues Neighbor Over Damaged Mare
Aaron Ramsay of Powhattan sues neighbor Clarence Boger for 300 dollars claiming Boger's car struck the old gray mare making it unfit for work. The case was filed in St Clairsville Ohio on June 11.
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ST. Clairsville
Aaron Ramsay
Powhattan
Clarence Boger
Boger
Chicago Census Surpasses Paris With 3 373 753 People
Chicago’s population reached 3,373,753 in 1930, up 672,048 from 1920, placing the city as the fourth largest globally and second in the nation. The metro area adds Cook Lake DuPage Kane Will counties and Indiana’s Lake, with suburbs rapidly expanding.
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Chicago
Association of Commerce
Robert Isham Randolph
Paris
Illinois
Cook County
Sera
Cook
Lake
DuPage
Kane
Will
Lake County
Indiana
Col. Randolph
Temperatures Across States Showers and Warmer Outlook
Cloudy conditions with showers and cooler trends in Ohio and surrounding states with parts of Kentucky Tennessee Indiana and West Virginia seeing showers or increased cloudiness. The forecast calls for partly cloudy and warmer conditions midweek then afternoon or nighttime showers, followed by little temperature change in most areas.
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Ohio
North
Kentucky
Northwest
Tennessee
West
Indiana
West Viginia
Louisville
Nashville
Cleveland
Detroit
Bam
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Cincinnatian
Cincinnati Capitalist
Doherty
Gun Girl
H. M.rose
Sailor Witness
Shriners
Democrats
Union
Jorge
Marinee Nicholas
Persi
Yu-Hsiang
Haichow- Tungkwan
Honan
Council
Cannon Victor Ver
Cincinnati Club
Toledo
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