Transit row marks City Council stance on commission purge
City Council with eight to one vote endorses Mayor Seasongood not to oust transit commission members amid a Law Committee report. The mayor argues for changes citing delays and expense, naming Edwards Geier Schott Cornette and Krug among others, while criticism centers on engineering staffing and administration costs.
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City Council
Seasongood
Commis
Rapid Transit Commission
Law Committee
Edward T. Dixon
Stanley Matthews
Coumcil
Charles O. Rose
Mr. Rose
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Council
Commission
Central Parkway
Frank Krug
Edwards
Christian Schott
E. H. Cornette
Philip O. Geier
Richard Groninger
Mr. Geier
Rubber plant worker dies after kiln explosion
Charles Vogel a 68 year old rubbermaker of Deer Park died at Good Samaritan Hospital after a vulcanizing kiln exploded at the Cincinnati Rubber Manufacturing Company plant. The accident caused a crushed limb and fatal injuries despite medical efforts including a blood transfusion. Coroner notes shock and multiple injuries as the cause. Funeral arrangements are pending.
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Charles Vogel
Rubbermaker
Matson Avenue
Deer Park
Good Samaritan Hospital
Vogel
Cincinnati Rubber Manufacturing Company
Franklin Avenue
Norwood
Good Samaritan
Harry J. Ihiendorf
Main
Monroe Avenues
L. W. Stacey
Main Avenue
Handley
F. D. Scherl
Sheridan Drive
Lewis A. Vogel
Stanley Vogel Moerschel
Ihlendorf Funeral Home
Senate orders inquiry into election expenditures tarnishing Pennsylvania primary
In Washington May 19 the Senate voted 59 to 13 to probe campaign spending in all senatorial races this year. Reed of Missouri and others were named to a special committee after sharp Senate clashes over Pennsylvania primary spending reports ranging from 2 to 5 million dollars. The debate featured ironical remarks by Senator Harrison and a later roll-call showing notable shifts among Republicans and insurgents.
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Washington
Senate
Pennsylvania
Dawes
Reed
Dineen
Kinois
Missouri
Bayard
Delaware
Lafollette
Wisconsin
Harrison
Miss
Attenen
Theo Ivania
Old Guard
Reid
Butler
Cameron
Cummins
Curtis
Dale
Gooding
Harreld
Jones
McMaster
Pine
Stanfield
Weller
Williams
Willis
Renee Adoree Wins Divorce From Tom Moore in L A Court
Renee Adoree motion picture actress was granted her final decree of divorce from Tom Moore screen star in a Los Angeles court.
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Renee Adoree
Tom Moore
Los Angeles
Miners Stand Firm as Britain Faces Coal Strike Deadlock
London dispatch reports miners and owners united in opposing government proposals. Miners reject wage cuts and shorter hours until a joint miners owners board with a neutral chair settles terms. Industrial slowdown follows as coal shortages affect railways and steel plants nationwide.
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John L. Balderston
New York World News Service
London
Baldwin
Conference of Delegates
Coal Commission
Board of Miners and Owners
Ware Leads GOP Senate Field in Largest Pennsylvania Primary
Philadelphia results show Congressman William S. Ware leading Senator Pepper and Gov. Pinchot in the Republican primary race for U.S. Senate as 7,415 districts report amid talk of an independent bid. Ware’s statewide plurality tops 100,000 with large city support and 1.38 million votes cast overall.
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Philadelphia
William S. Ware
George Wharton Pepper
United States
Vare
Pepper
Pinchot
William §. Vare
Pennsylvania
Betor
Gifford Pinchot
R Vare
Edward E. Beidleman
Ware Organization
John S. Fisher
Mellon-Fisher
Beidleman
Ware
Cameraman jailed for taking photo in Whittemore trial
Baltimore photographer William Sturm was sentenced to jail until the Whittemore case ends after admitting he photographed the courtroom despite a prohibition. The trial featured Whittemore facing first degree murder charges connected to a February 1925 bank holdup and guard Holtman’s death.
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Baltimore
William Sturm
Baltimore News
Eugene O’dunne
Whittemore
Sturm
O’dunne
Richard Reese Whittemore
Robert H. Holtman
Maryland
Holtman
Buffalo
Whitemore
Keepsake Rosary Returned After Dayton Woman Loses It
Mrs. George Wardorf of Dayton Ohio reported losing a rosary in Cincinnati. The Commercial Tribune Lost Ad service promptly located the item and returned it the same day. Call Canal 6300 for help with lost or found items.
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Commercial Tribune
George Warndorf
Sixth Avenue
Dayton
Cincinnati
Canal 6300
Edison first radio address speaks ten words in WEAF debut
Edison made his radio debut at WEAF, saying I have never spoken over the radio before good night. He had attended a National Electric Light Association dinner in Atlantic City.
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Edison
Atlantic City
Thomas A. Edison
Station Weaf
Mr. Edison
National Electric Light Association
Interpreter error frees Italian murderer after eight years
Raffaello Morello, imprisoned eight years for murder in New Jersey, was pardoned after officials said a court interpreter misread his denial as a confession. The case reveals how a single phrase in the Foggia dialect led to wrongful imprisonment.
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Trenton
N. J
Raffaello Morello
State Court of Pardons
Morello
Annetta
Camp Dix
Foggia
Adriatic
Joseph Federici
Essex County
Court of Pardons
Harold Simandi
United States Bureau of Immigration
New York World radio image of British Gazette front page
The London Morning Post reproduces a World May 7 photo of the first British Gazette front page. The edition, sold in London for ten shillings, marks the first wide radio transmission of the British government paper during the general strike. News in London centers on possible four page editions and four page London copies broadcast from New York.
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British Gazette
Seas
John L. Balderston
New York World News Service
London
The
Morning Post
New York World
Winston Chu I
Rioting Prisoners Threaten Guards in Cleveland Jail
In Cleveland on May 19 a jail riot broke out on the third floor as prisoners broke benches and hurled objects at deputies. More than twenty refused to return to cells during a grand jury visit investigating Sheriff Kohler and jail conditions.
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Cleveland
Kohler
Frank C. Phillips
Louis Sagora
Louie
Pieman
Kohller
Sagora
Kohlér
Architect, Sweetheart and Chauffeur Plotting False Will for $250000 Estate
A gray haired architect, his landlady and sweetheart, and a chauffeur planned to seize editor Edwin A. Oliver’s Yonkers Statesman fortune by forging a second will. George Stalin Cowles, Weeks, and Nellie Drummond face forgery charges after confessions linked them to the scheme. The trio, aided by an attorney, pursued a $250,000 estate while the genuine bequest to Cowles stood at $4,000.
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New York World News Service
White Plains
N. Y
Westchester County
Edwin A. Oliver
Yonkers
Yonkers Statesman
George Stalin Cowles
William Weeks
Syme
Cowles
Nellie Drummond
Iss Drummond
Weeks
Miss Drummond
John P. Colahan
New York
William Caffey
W. Chandler Arbuckle
New York City
Julius Blumberg
Manhattan
Bombardment Follows Demand for Rebels in Damascus Quarter
A Damascus dispatch to the Daily Express dated May 9 reports a prolonged bombardment by artillery and planes after rebels who killed eight French soldiers hid in Osdan a quarter. French troops surrounded the area, urged residents to surrender the rebels, then shelled for fifteen hours, causing heavy civilian casualties and fires.
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London
Daily Express
Damascus
Osdan
Sarrail
Jury awards Mrs. Schultz 16668 38 in storage suit
In Chicago on May 19 a Superior Court jury awarded Elizabeth Schultz 16668 38 in her case against Siebold Storage Company. The verdict reduced the claimed 17647 by a dispute over fifty shares of preferred stock given to George Remus to cover legal services versus note payment.
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Chicago
Superior Court
Elizabeth Schultz
Siebold Storage Company
George Remus
Cincinnati
Remus
Joy of Her Life Gone With Husband Dead
Joy of her life gone with husband dead, woman hangs herself in Atlantic City. Anna Bilyew Bryan, 69, left a note saying life was a garden with him and now is a weed-choked patch. She was found in her clothes closet, saying she is glad to join William in transcendent bliss.
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New York World News Service
Atlantic City
N. J
William
Anna Bilyew Bryan
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