Raid and inquiry widen as agents face delinquency charge
News from Dayton and Columbus report Edward Little a suspended state dry agent arrested on a fugitive from justice charge for contributing to delinquency of a minor. Gov Cooper orders investigation into Lorain raid by Cole Baynham and others using two 18 year old Lancaster decoys Carrie Walton and Catherine Gunion. The case prompts suspensions and a senate confirmation of Curtis Wilbur for the Ninth Circuit.
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Lorain
Columbus
Deyton
Edward Little
Carrmont
Dayton
Gail ,Sessler
Fairfield County
Helen Conrad
Luther E. Conrad
Amanda
Lancaster
Columbus, CO
Cooper
John O. Cole
Colle
J. A. Baynham
Cole
Baynham
Rupert R. Beetham
Georgia
George S. Cooper
Sing Sing
Lorain County
Little and Cole
Samuel K.o’beetham
Governor’s
United States
Joseph W. Horner
Carrie Walton
Catherine Gunion
Horner
Gov
Washington
Curtis D. Wilbur
Secretary of the Navy
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
Senate
Storm Sweeps Columbus Jail Killing Two Prisoners
A windstorm tore through Columbus Ohio damaging the city jail killing two inmates and injuring eight others. A prison guard and a police secretary were hurt as debris piled up in the wrecked cell block. Ambulances ferried the injured to hospitals as authorities checked for additional victims.
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Columbus
Heart of Columbus
Devore Deril
Henry Washington
Otto
Frankie Lay
Elmer
Harry Thatcher
Mike Morrisey
James Allen
William Sullivan
Harry Love
Louis Raider
Thomas Guthrie
Police Department
Devore
Jim Jones
John McFerin
Mound Street
McFerin
Jones
Rye Cove
Woodvale
Jacksonville
Fla
Morgantown
W. Va
Missouri
Illinois
Kentucky
Tornado toll rises across Arkansas Tennessee and Alabama
Multiple tornadoes and severe storms cause deaths and injuries across Arkansas with five killed near Wheatley and ten or more hurt near Ft. Smith. Embreeville Tennessee and Baldwin Alabama report fatalities and injuries amid stormy conditions. An airplane ditching in Lake Michigan accompanies widespread gale warnings from Maine to Virginia.
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South
Middle West
Missouri
Ilinois
Indiana
Ohio
West Virginia
Virginia
Tennessee
Alabama
Georgia
Florida
Arkansas
Slaughters
Pulaski
Wheatley
Ft. Smith
Embreeville
Tenn
Johnson City
Baldwin County
Oak
Ala
Lake Michigan
Indian Harbor
Ind
Weather Bureau
Washington
Atlantic
Maine
Tornadoes Strike Missouri Illinois And Virginia Schools
A spring blizzard hit Missouri and Illinois with up to six inches of snow, isolating towns and crippling lines in St Louis and Springfield. In Rye Cove Virginia a tornado leveled the local school, killing nineteen children and injuring many others as debris spread across the valley.
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ST. Louis
Missouri
Illinois
Mississippi Valley
Springfield
Chicago
Middle West
Cape Girardeau
Poplar Bluff
Prk
Traniis
Weather Bureau
Rye Cove
Notichuckey Valley
United States holds unclaimed government security payments
The Treasury monthly report shows the U S government retains 46 127 910 belonging to holders who did not present matured securities for payment. Old debts matured before April 1 1917 show 1 914 410 outstanding while Second Liberty loan bonds of 1927 42 have 11 012 50 unpaid. Other issues include Third Liberty bonds of 1928 25 107 050 4 percent Victory notes 1922 23 1 774 400 Treasury notes 681 400 certificates of indebtedness and Treasury savings certificates 4 177 200.
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Washington
United States
The
Treasury
Picture How You Would Travel
An ad style verse extols spring travel and urges readers to buy a used car via the Automobile for Sale column. It highlights guaranteed cars, small down payments, and monthly balance options to ease purchase.
Grand Jury condemns free customs entry for officials
The Federal Morning Grand Jury in April denounced free customs entry for government officials as un-American and prone to abuse. They noted several officials on the Cristobal voyage sought uninspected baggage, citing discrimination and urging equal application of the law for all citizens.
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Federal Morning Grand Jury
United States
Charles H. Tuttle
Cristobal
Morgan
House of Representatives
Wiliam M. Morgan
Ohio
Customsgents
Washington
Me Grand Jury
Mother Drowns Baby Then Slights Self in Tragic Action
In Xenia Ohio a mother, 30 year old Margaret Hotopp, allegedly drowned her six week old baby in a wash tub after a failed attempt to drown it in a backyard trough. She then tried suicide by hanging and swallowing antiseptic tablets, later shooting herself above the heart with a .22 caliber pistol. Her husband Henry interrupted the earlier drowning attempt.
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Xenia
Margaret Hotopp
Henry
Surrender expected in Gibson room murder case
Joseph Plunkett and Edward D Hall, tied to the August Bruck killing in room 714 of the Gibson, were rumored to surrender the next day. Detectives said the case is iron-bound and the actual sequence of events may surprise, with investigators seeking the two men and the women present.
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Joseph Plunkett
Edward D. Hall
Gibson
August Bruck
Newport
Cincinnati
Emmett D. Kirgan
Bruck
Kirgan
Plunkett
Hall
Police Find For Coat Of Torch Murder Victim
White Plains New York detectives seized Earl Peacox and traced his movements after he killed his wife on April 24. They recovered a charred fur coat along Warburton avenue near Amackassin Inn and searched for evidence including her cloth hat along Kimball avenue near Yonkers.
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New-York World News Service
White Plains
N.Y
Earl Peacox
Warburton Avenue
Amackassin Inn
Scarsdale
Kimball Avenue
Yonkers
Negro Church Faces Sale or Dance Hall Plan in Walnut Hills
White real estate interests push to convert Mt. Zion M. E. Church to a dance hall and movie theater unless $50,000 is raised to lift mortgages. Two loans of $40,000 and $8,000 from 1924 and 1926 are in foreclosure as a suit progresses in Common Pleas Court. A $10,000 white fundraising drive is ordered while the African American congregation remains involved.
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Mt. Zion M. E. Church
Walnut Hills
Cincinnati
Carl E. Bassler
Basler
Common Pleas Court
Robert E. Hicks
South Whitley
Ind
Basle
Benham & Benham
Keith Theater
Cincinnati Realty
Senate Debenture Plan Heats Up Farm Bill Debate
Senate debate on the export debenture plan within the farm relief bill grows heated as Norbeck defends the bill as a moderate measure of doubtful value while Wagner attacks it as unworkable and burdensome. New York's Wagner proposes a government board to manage crop surpluses, blaming campaign attitudes and convention stances for slowing final passage.
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Washington
Senate
Norbeck
Conally
Tex
Wagner
N. Y
Hoover
Kansas City
Crowds Vanish as Anne Morrow Returns Home in Privacy
Anne Morrow arrived in Englewood New Jersey to finalize wedding plans with Col. Charles A. Lindbergh. She avoided reporters and photographers, slipping from New York after an overnight trip from Cleveland. Her mother and sister Elisabeth accompanied her. Lindbergh was not yet seen at the estate.
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Englewood
N. J
Anne Morrow
Col
Charles A. Lindbergh
New York
Cleveland
Elisabeth
Col. Lindbergh
Morrow Estate
Morrow Home
Anne
Lindy
Two Weeks Old Babe Is Left Motherless By Death
A two weeks old infant was left motherless when Mrs. Edith Gwaltney of Silverton shot herself at her mother in law’s home on Miami road between New Baltimore and Miamitown. Coroner Swing linked the suicide to mental derangement from domestic worries. The husband Joseph Gwaltney, Jr. works for a Cincinnati oil company.
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Edith Gwaltney
Silverton
Joseph Gwaltney
Miami Road
New Baltimore
Miamitown
Mt. Hope
D. W. Gwaltney
Cleves
Supreme Court grants stay of execution for Rodney Ford
The Ohio Supreme Court granted Rodney Ford a stay of execution for the May 14 electrocution in the marshal killing case from North College Hill. Ford, convicted in Hamilton County court, filed a petition in error as his lawyers argued public sentiment affected earlier trials. Co-defendants John Messner and Breck Lutes are serving life terms.
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Columbus
Supreme Court
Rodney Ford
Peter Dumele
North College Hill
Ford
Hamilton
John Messner
Breck
Court of Appeals
Officer of Vestris Chief Officer Defends Crew
Chief Officer F W Johnson, survivor of the Vestris sinking, told the Board of Trade inquiry he had no criticism of any crew member. He cited three firemen abandoning posts and engineers stoking near the end, but said there was no panic and blamed a combination of bad weather, a tender hull, and water entering the between decks for the disaster.
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London
F. W. Johnson
Vestris
Board of Trade
Cigarette Boom Boosts Federal Tobacco Tax Revenue
Internal Revenue Bureau figures show a sharp rise in cigarette taxation in the first nine months of the 1929 fiscal year, with $247,160,930 collected from cigarettes, up $23,632,682 from the prior year. All tobacco taxes reached $315,936,361, increasing $21,202,102, while stamp taxes totalled $46,049,333, up $12,109,115 amid stock market speculation. Kentucky led cigar taxes. Arizona paid the least on cigarettes, and Montana and Colorado showed notable shifts in tobacco levies.
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Washington
United States
Internal Revenue Bureau
New York
Treasury
Ohio
Kentucky
Arizona
Montana
Colorado
Ohioan Wins Art Prize at Chicago Exhibit
Cleveland artist Joseph W. John wins the Frank G. Logan prize and medal for his watercolor work Bahamian Coalman at the ninth annual international exhibit at the Chicago Art Institute.
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Chicago
Joseph W. Jiohn
Cleveland
Frank G. Logan
Chicago Art Institute
Chicago Snowfall Ties May Record in Uncertain Weather
Chicago reports snowfall matching a May record amid back and forth weather. The season has seen heavy winter snows, a warm March, and today’s unexpected accumulation, underscoring the city’s reputation for fickle climate.
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Chicago
Plane Falls in Storm Into Lake Michigan
A small biplane forced down in Lake Michigan off Indian Harbor during a May storm capsized with a possible pilot and one passenger aboard. Workers at Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company watched as rescue attempts failed amidst heavy seas. Coast Guardsmen planned to reach the site once waters calm.
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Indian Harbor
Ind
Lake Michigan
Youngstown
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