Community Chest tops goal in Cincinnati drive
About sixteen hundred people gathered at the Gibson roof garden to celebrate reaching and surpassing the $2,014,816 goal with a total of $2,531,169.63 pledged. Campaign leaders praised Col. William Cooper Procter and team captains for achieving 100 percent or more of their quotas with strong support from churches and schools.
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Gibson
Community Chest
Community Chest Idea
Grive
Cincinnati
Mr. Healthy
Warren W. Porter
Madisonville
John H. Clippinger
Procter
C. M. Bookman
The
Chest
Col
William Cooper Procter
Frank H. Nelson
Col. Procter
Julian Pollak
Cecil Gamble
Garfield Winkler
Franklin Leach
Mr. Gamble
Mr. Pollak
Money motive for murder revealed by Mrs Snyder
Mrs Ruth Brown Snyder testified in Queens County Court Long Island City, under cross examination about the murder of her husband. She wept at times and recounted her third version of the crime as she faced questions from the prosecutor. Irene Wolff stood nearby during her testimony as details emerged about motives and relationships in the case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oliver H. P. Garr
New York World
New York
Rut Brown Snyder
Queens Count
Long Island City
Irene Wolff
Jail escape after beating jailer in Campbell County
Russell Dodge, 20, of Detroit, jailed in Alexandria Kentucky, escaped after striking 72-year-old jailer Herman Kemper with a chain wrapped in a sock. Kemper, shot with serious head injuries, remained alive but dazed. Dodge faced a Detroit larceny warrant and had been jailed on weapons charges with dynamite caps found in his car. He fled toward Four Mile Road toward Silver Grove after the assault.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Russell Dodge
Campbell County
Alexandria
Herman Kemper
Dodge
Caldwell
Campbell
Kemper
Four Mile Road
Silver Grove
William Newkirk
Ft. Dodge
Just Off the New Wider Broadway ad contact
The Commercial Tribune office sits near 16 car lines and many bus lines. Bring your ads to the Just Off the New Wider Broadway location or call CANAL 6300.
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Commercial Tribune
Broadway
Fireman Dies and Another Hurt in City Fire Calls
Herman Krieger 42 assistant engineer of Cincinnati Fire Company No 48 died after collapsing at a Carthage fire. Dr Earl Custer cited heart trouble as the cause. Krieger had served twenty years, most recently with Company 48. Engineer Carl Brafford 39 suffered a fractured knee after sliding pole mishap during an alarm at Court street and Central avenue. fall from twenty feet as awning burned at 914 Central avenue.
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Herman Krieger
Clearview Avenue
Cincinnati Fire Company No
Carthage
Carthage Avenue
Earl Custer
Krieger
Marshall Franks
Eyre Department
Company 29
Company 48
Carl Brafford
Schiff Avenue
Court Street
Central Avenue
College Corner Banking Shortage Tops 106000 in Funds
Special Dispatch to The Commercial Tribune reports the College Corner Banking Company shortage totals 106539.54 with possible bad paper adding up to 50000. Thirty-nine transactions are involved as depositors, many widows and farmers, lose funds. Cashier Charles Stout is jailed then confined for a nervous breakdown while authorities continue to untangle forged notes and missing securities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Commercial Tribune
Hamieton
College Corner Banking Company
College Corner
Maj. C. W. Miller
State Bank Examiner
Maj. Miller
Thoese
Emma Roehn
R. J. Boehm
East Ledge Street
Cincinnati
Margie Smith
Richmond
Ind
Germantown
Aggie Brown
Morning Sun
Mary Scott
Camden
C. E. Cleveland
John Coleman
South Ninth Street
Hamilton
Charles Stout
Stout
H. J. McFarland
American Surety Company
Israel Township
Oxford
Mine blast entombs seventy seven at Fairmont Virginia mine
Rescue teams battle fire and gas seeking seventy seven miners trapped by a Saturday blast at the Everettsville mine in Fairmont West Virginia. Seventeen dead confirmed as officials weigh air brattices and further approaches while Red Cross and state officials assist families.
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Fairmont
W. Va
Everettsville
Tom Daugherty
Tipple
Ace
Red Cross
W.S. Hepner
Washington
Organtown
Lee Ott
Norwood Liquor Court Reestablishment Meeting Adjourned
Norwood moved to reestablish liquor court privileges failed as Council adjourned during a vote on a proposed ordinance. The plan would have allowed Mayor H H Baker to hear liquor cases in Municipal Court and split fines between city and state, removing profits for court members.
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Norwood
Supreme Court
Thomas Justis
Hamilton County
Republican Central Committee
H. H. Baker
May Music Festival Opens Under Van Der Stucken Baton
The twenty seventh Cincinnati May Music Festival opens tonight in Mystic Hall at 8 o'clock with Frank V. van der Stucken conducting. Six concerts are planned with a recital after each, an Saturday afternoon concert. An exceptional group of soloists is featured including Florence Austral.
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Cincinnati
England
Covent Garden
Marie Sandelius
Metroplitan Opera Company
Metropolitan Opera Company
Edward Johnson
Pierne
St. Francis of Assisi
Johnson
Marion Telva
New York
Nevada van der Veer
Lotte Leonard
Richard Crooks
Marconi to Wed Roman Countess in Rome
In Rome a formal announcement confirmed Signor William Marconi’s engagement to Countess Maria Christina Bezzi Scali. The 53 year old Marconi, famed for wireless work, pursued marriage after a nullity decree in the Beatrice O Brien case. The Countess, noted for her singing, has performed widely in the United States and Europe.
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Rome
Italy
Signor
William Marconi
Maria Christina Bezzi-Scali
Associated Press
Signor Marconi
Rota
Beatrice O’brien
Baron Inchiquin
Sig. Marconi
Marconi
Cantons Daily News Wins Pulitzer for Fight Against Crime
The Canton Daily News of Canton Ohio received the gold medal for public service in journalism for fighting municipal corruption and the criminal element, a struggle linked to the assassination of editor Don R. Mellett. Also awarded were honors to The Boston Herald and The St. Louis Post-Dispatch for editorials and reporting.
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Canton
News
New York
World News Service
Columbia University Today
Edicary
Nicholas Murray Butler
University
School of Journalism
Canton Daily News
Don R. Mellett
Boston Herald
Boston
Mass
F. Lauriston Bullard
John T. Rogers
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
St. Louis
George W. English
United Sates Court
Illinois
Brooklyn
Barrage of insults flares in Commons over union bill
In London May 2 the House of Commons erupts as Parliament debates a government bill to curb union rights. Sir Douglas Hogg faces relentless interruptions while Labour members jeer and accuse Conservatives of delaying. Clash with Tom Griffiths ends with taunts as tempers flare and no major policy moves emerge. The debate centers on preventing general strikes and applying measures to lockouts.
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House of Commons
John IL. Balderston
New York World News Service
London
House of Commodns
Douglas Hogg
Whitley
Labor
Jack Jones
Walter Greaves Lord
Walter
Griffiths
Will Thorne
Sir Douglas
Coolidge Proclaims $10 Million Flood Aid Drive
President Coolidge issued a proclamation urging a nationwide effort to raise at least $10 million for feeding clothing and sheltering more than 200 000 Mississippi River flood refugees. The call doubles the earlier Red Cross appeal and follows Hoover’s inspection of the flood area.
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Red Cross
Washington
Hoover
President Coolidge
Cabinet Committee
New Orleans
Jadwin
Army Engineers
Crescent City
Mississippi
Concordia Parish
Vidalea
Vick
Alexandria
Avoyelles Parish
Concordia
Arkansas River
Arkansas
Special Weather Bureau
Jones and
Bonitain Morehouse Parish
Met Rouge
Oak Ridge
Bastrop
Tensas Parish
Missouri Pacific
Newellton
Richland Parish
Bardel
Rayville
East Carroll Parish
Cataho Parish
Avoyelles
Moreauville
Louisiana
Caernarvon
St. Bernard
Plaquemines
Simpson
Coolidge
Nation
New York World News Service
Holover
American Red Cross
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Whirlwind Rally
Puto
Solicitors
Sam
Gray
Outh
Jailer
Henry Judd Gray
Prosecutor
Charles W. Froessel
Commercial Square
Reach
Robert Lambie
West Virginia
Hmit
Kingmont
Virginia-Pittsburgh Coal
Gulf
van der Stucken
Florence Austral
Northern
Louisi
Poydras
Mississippi River
Here
Weather Bureau
Angola
Natchez
Vidalia
Natches
Reg River
Tom Griffiths
Pontypool
Baldwin
United States
Mississippi Valley
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