02 May 1924
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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1924
Page
1
American film star Betty Blythe has been abducted by bandits near Haifa Palestine and is being taken to the Galilee mountains. The report, received by her cousin in a telegram, cites a New York World News Service dispatch dated May 1 1925.
London dispatches say actress Betty Blythe was seized by Bedouin tribesmen while her film crew headed toward Haifa to shoot scenes for Queen of Sheba. Dr Marcus and director Edward Jose were wounded defending her. Blythe, known for Chu Chin Chow, was allegedly dragged from the car.
Gustav Malfronte, a New York wholesale produce merchant, was fined 25 dollars by Magistrate Oberwager after his alibi of a public affair with his wife collapsed. Witness Patrolman Haber testified he saw Malfronte with a tall blonde, not Mrs Malfronte, in the courtroom. The couple has eleven children and two grandchildren. the magistrate offered leniency if the wife confirmed the tale, then allowed the kiss and diversion from further scandal.
Teddy the police dog guided 13 year old Herbert Richards and Boy Scouts to the body of Robert Robinson, missing since last Saturday. Robinson, fearing cancer, left a farewell envelope with a note to his sister in Kansas City.
Canton Ohio May 1 A dream of William Stitz a member of the Police Liquor Squad guided him to thirty gallons of whisky and the arrest of the purported owner. After several searches he followed the dream’s clue to a sewer pipe in the cellar where the liquor was found.
Bonds stolen from the Richland Bank on December 8, 1921 were identified as recovered from Rush Meadows and three others. Meadows denied knowledge of the theft and disclosed prior legal work in Kentucky and California while federal investigators reported $25,000 in bonds and $22,000 in narcotics in his possession.
The adventures of Rush Meadows a former coal operator and auto dealer with base ball ties were recalled by his arrest in Los Angeles. His volatile career began in 1922 with forgery embezzlement and other charges tied to a 1500 diamond lavalliere from Sam Savin and a $500 embezzlement from Trojan Coal. His wife Viola faced related charges including removing mortgage property and kidnapping a nephew. Both fled justice as cases were dismissed or not pursued. Meadows once lived at 2960 Observatory Road Hyde Park in Cincinnati.
L F Loree announces that D & H will lease the Buffalo Rochester & Pittsburgh Railway for 999 years in a 75 million dollar deal. The press says the arrangement guarantees 6 percent dividends on common and preferred stock and includes fixed charges and maturing obligations. Stockholders and the Interstate Commerce Commission must ratify the lease.
Russell Morton, 28, was sentenced to life imprisonment at Maryland State Penitentiary Baltimore for the January 30 murder of his wife and two daughters. He pled insanity this morning.
In two cities the Dodge Bros. sale of Dodge Bros. Motor Car Co. was finalized by a $146 million check and deed transfer. The $8,000 interest savings via telephoned transfer was noted as the mechanism, with Dillon Read & Co and Detroit Trust Co. guiding the deal.
Four people were killed and two seriously injured when a southbound Indianapolis and Eastern traction car struck their automobile near Frankfort Indiana. The dead include Preston Malicoat 65 Louise Matacoat 0 Miss Ethel Willis 17 and Miss Opal Mohler 18.
Five balloonists launched a national elimination race from St Joseph with the army S-14 leading, the Detroit aborting due to gas, and Captain Raymond O Neill's team unable to proceed. Balloons head southeast toward Memphis and the Atlantic, under a NW wind of about 12 mph, with fair weather expected.
Mrs E Moskowitz returning from New York saw her farm near Livingston Manor ablaze. Several men halted her from leaping from the moving train. she was driven home to find the house virtually ruined though her husband and young son were unharmed.
Wendell Hoover was convicted of first degree murder for slain choir singer Vera T. Bosshard in her apartment on December 17, 1924. He showed no expression as the verdict was announced and had fled from the scene when arrested.
Detroit May 1. Howard A. Bloomer administrator of the Horace E. and John F. Dodge estates filed a praecipe suit for 500000 against the Dodge estate. The praecipe notes 1000000 but the body seeks 500000. Bloomer left the city after papers were accepted by the County Clerk.
Charles Schweitzer 18 disobeyed his father by taking the family auto and wrecking it. He then plotted a townless hold up, grabbed his father’s revolver, and tried to rob a taxi driver before sobbing to police. He was charged with attempted robbery after his confession and arrest at Central Police Station.
Dr. C D Walcott secretary of the Smithsonian denies Orville Wrights charge that the Langley airplane was mutilated. He notes tests at Hammondsport in 1914 proved flight and describes restorations by Reed to restore Langleys design.
Chicago May 1 The LaSalle Theater Building two stories high was sold to James O Mills of Columbus Ohio for 1 150000 by S W Straus & Co Mills runs a chain of Ohio restaurants The site dates to 1843 when the Canal Commission granted it to trustees of the Trinity Church later sold to hotelier David Sinton and finally passed to the Straus Company
Fred and Harry Desidario and their cousin Claude A. Fermi were arrested in Chicago and taken to Gary for questioning in the slaying of a young woman found near Chesterton Indiana. The woman was identified as Louis Desidario’s wife. Police believed Louis may have fled to Detroit.
London May 1. Labour MPs pressed a private bill for a national forty eight hour week. David Kirkwood threatened revolt against the Tories and urged repudiation of the war debt to ease workers burden. The bill failed 223 to 128 as government warned of international interpretive issues.
Paris May 1 Finance Minister Caillaux told reporters France cannot ignore the shift toward a gold basis seen in Britain He said much work remains but France would be obliged to follow the policy when conditions permit.
Herbert S. Hadley, former Missouri governor and Washington University chancellor, denounced business figures who flee to other lands to dodge subpoenas amid Sinclair and Doheny oil cases. He urged stronger interstate witness requisition and warned that U.S. criminal justice is largely inefficient across cities and states.
Governor Albert C. Ritchie warned at a Delta Phi dinner that federal injunctions against Indiana's canal project threaten state sovereignty. He argued this move could erode state powers, placing local matters under federal control and undermining interstate commerce limits.
Investigators link a anti Bolshevist conspiracy to the rail crash in the Polish corridor that killed twenty six and wounded eighteen. The Russian Trade Commission led by Markoff was targeted. The sleeping car with Russians survived untouched as rails appear loosened overnight.
May Day events in Europe largely avoided disorder as demonstrations occurred in major capitals. Germany saw no strikes despite expectations tied to Von Hindenburg's presidency. Cologne held a large, Communist-tinged rally. England celebrated, while France and other capitals reported fewer actions.
May Day tragedy in Milan where the tavern proprietor was shot dead during a clash between a militia patrol and suspected revolutionaries. A workman was wounded in the melee.
May 1 1920 New York garment workers filled the Metropolitan Opera House to sing the Internationale and demand recognition of Soviet Russia. They denounce Coolidge and Dawes as open shop men and pass resolutions against the Dawes plan while managers protest the political meeting nature of the event. Nathan Franko led the orchestra and refused to start without The Star Spangled Banner.
Chicago May 1 Frank Mulhern and Thomas Lynch hotel men were ordered held for questioning over the death of Mrs Margaret P Collins months ago after Miss Mary Hill a friend of Mrs Collins told the police chief that Mulhern shot Miss Hill during a drunken party. The inquest previously said Miss Hill shot herself.
Martins Ferry May 1 The Rev Charles Hart Holden longtime Baptist minister and former pastor of the Baptist Church here and later the First Church of Zanesville died at his home in his sixty seventh year He graduated from the University of Cincinnati in 1873 and served fifty years in the ministry.
In Winsted Connecticut a motorist posts a blunt warning on the rear of his vehicle stating if you can read this you are too close. The sign draws attention at a time when road safety concerns rise in spring travel.
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