Hamilton Gang Slayings Sharpen Liquor War Toll
Joseph Jacobs, 38, a major figure in interstate liquor traffic, was killed by a machine gun on the Symmes road near Hamilton. Robert Zwick was wounded as four assailants fired from an Essex sedan. The attack follows the slaying of George Murphy a week earlier and widens a feud among bootleggers. Zwick was treated and taken toward Newport, Ky. and Jacobs left behind a wife and six children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commercial Tribune
Hamilton
Joseph Jacobs
Jersey Avenue
Fallert Street
Symmes Road
Here
Jacobs
Robert Zwick
Jacob
George Murphy
Liquor Land
Vonderhaar
Heaton Street
Anna Jacobs
Symmes Corner
Essex
Nash
Miss Smith
Miss Huffman
Jacob Milders
Zwick
John “Happy” Evans
Welch Avenue
Evans
Newport
Frank Cook
Edward Cook
Fred Haiber
Young Cook
Prohibition and other sentences in Cincinnati court
Twenty two sentences were handed down by Judge Robert R. Nevin after federal cases, including two white slave cases and a counterfeit coin charge, were heard. Several defendants from Birmingham and Atlanta received terms while others faced jail for bribe taking, forged paychecks, and transporting a stolen auto. New York prohi tion official Mrs Matel Willebrandt plans to resign and return to private practice after resistance to Mitchell enforcement changes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Court
Robert R. Nevin
Cincinnati
Albert Wilson
le Beau
Hotel Braxton
Atlanta
Walter Harmon
Lee Lash
Wade Ellis
Interior Decorator
New York City
Leonard Bowers
Rawson Street
Birmingham
Ala
Malcolm Maddux
Fifty-fifth Street
George Phillips
Moran Avenue
Chillicothe Reformatory
Charles Marsee
Bryantville
Hamilton County
Floyd A. Burrs
West Eighth Street
William Collmer
Columbia Hotel
Ray White
Chickasaw
Okla
Raymond Colegrove
Lucasville
Massis
Scioto County
Bailey P. Hinson
Byrd Street
Covington
Nevin
New York World News Service
Washington
Matel Walker Willebrandt
Prohibition
Justice Department
Mitchell
Willebrandt
New York
Kansas
Arizona
California
Michigan
Harding
Bureau of Federal Prisons
John Lord O’bryan
Buffalo
William J. Donovan
Charles P. Sisson
Rhode Island
John Marshall
Genwath
South
Library Trustees Split De Facto and De Jure Power in Cincinnati
The Public Library will keep the same board personnel but operate two parallel boards to separate money control from policy. The de facto board handles funding while the de jure board plans 1930 operations. A January 1 1930 transition will unify control. financing may use levied taxes or county contracts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Public Library
Board of Education
John D. Ellis
Mr. Ellis
Nelson Schwab
William Shroder
Schrader
Ellis
Shrader
Cleveland
Library Board
Cincinnati
Soldier Drowns During Air Ground Maneuvers Near Circleville
Private Hoyt Draper, 19, of Company G Tenth Infantry Ft. Thomas, died while swimming with three companions in the Scioto River near Circleville Ohio during Fifth Corps Area air ground maneuvers. Draper enlisted July at Knoxville Tennessee and listed 2606 West Congress Street Lafayette Tennessee as his home. His service record was unblemished and the river was swollen by rains when he was swept downstream. The company halted at Circleville for its first camp on a ten day hike back to Ft. Thomas from Columbus after participating in a mimic war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hoyt Draper
Tenth Infantry
Ft. Thomas
Scioto River
Circleville
Associated Press
Knoxville
Tenn
West Congress Street
Lafayette
Scioto
Draper
Columbus
Women join Ohio jury duties in historic oath
Judge Stanley Struble administered the oath to Mrs. Leo Lindenberg and Fenton Lawson as the first woman jury commissioners in Ohio. Lindenberg, 1886 Madison Road, and Lawson were appointed by the Common Pleas Court judges for the coming year. The judge stressed equal citizenship and the need for women on juries to strengthen democracy and public confidence in the judiciary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stanley Struble
Leo Lindenberg
Fenton Lawson
Common Pleas Court
Lindenberg
Madison Road
Ohio
Struble
Thomas Darby
Judicial
Supreme Court bars naturalization of women拒 armed defense
The Supreme Court held that alien women who refuse to bear arms or support military force are ineligible for naturalization. Justice Butler stated that when doubts arise about an applicant's essential qualifications, the government must prevail. Rosika Schwimmer of Chicago argued Congress excluded women from military service, but the court's ruling upheld male-only armed forces as a requirement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Supreme Court
Rosika Schwimmer
Chicago
Butler
Hungary
Schwimmer
Grand Jury Heads By Woman To Inspect Covington Jail
Judge Applegate assigns the Kenton County Grand Jury led by Mrs Abby Piercy to examine the Covington City Jail sanitation and ordering repairs. The panel includes three other women and several male members. They will also investigate gambling and liquor law violations in Kenton County.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leslie T. Applegate
Covington
Kenton County Grand Jury
Abby Piercy
Scott Street
Jessie Adams
West Eighteenth Street
Mina Smith
Charles Hahn
Greenup Street
Grand Jury
William Ford
Bakewell Street
Thomas F. Hanlon
Stephen G. Geiger
Philadelphia Street
Ray Crouch
Russell Street
E. M. Ridener
West Thrty-third Street
John W. Downton
W. P. Strawbridge
Martin Street
Collngton
Charles Whitley
Auburn Avenue
Latonia
A. E. Stricklett
Applegate
Kentucky
Kenton County
World Famous Lindbergh Marries Anne Morrow in Englewood
Private ceremony at the Morrow home in Englewood New Jersey unites Col Charles A Lindbergh and Anne Morrow the daughter of Ambassador Dwight W Morrow The bride wore a chiffon gown and the groom a blue serge suit Family and officials attended and plans for a honeymoon remain private
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Col. Lindbergh
Anne Morrow
Ambassador’s
Charles A. Lindbergh
Dwight W. Morrow
Englewood
N. J
Lindy
Smith College
William Adams Brown
Union Theological Seminary
Evangeline Lindbergh
United States
Newark
Constance
Elizabeth
Col
J. J. Morrow
Alice Morrow
Paris
C. A. Lindbergh
Anne
France
Morrow
Miss Morrow
John Manason
Englewood Board of Health
Gen
Elizabeth Morrow
Ambassador Mo
New York
Arthur Springer
Springer
Washington
Col Lindbergh
Roosevelt Field
Mrs Willebrandt Calls Washington the Real Windy City
Mrs Mabel Willebrandt refused to discuss reports she might leave the Attorney General role. In St Louis during a three hour stop en route to Baylor Texas for an honorary degree she declined questions. She quipped Washington should be called the windy city in reference to the reports.
General Dawes Selects Nephew as Secretary in England
Henry Dawes aged 23, nephew of Gen. Charles G. Dawes, has been chosen as his personal secretary in England. A Williams College graduate, he was born in Washington, D. C., and now lives in Columbus, Ohio. He previously worked as a clerk for Pure Oil Company after college.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York World News Service
Chicago
Henry Dawes
Charles G. Dawes
England
Henry
Washington, D. C
Williams College
Columbus, O
Pure Oil Company
Supreme Court affirms pocket veto validity for Congress end
The Supreme Court ruled unanimously that a president may issue a pocket veto between sessions as well as at the end of a Congress. The decision dismisses claims that the Muscle Shoals and 400 other bills became law despite a pocket veto, noting nineteen similar cases dating to Madison and across many administrations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Supreme Court
New York World News Service
Washington
Muscle Shoals
Okanogan
Methow
San Poeils
Nespelem
Colville
Secretary of State
Congress
Madison
Bus line owner Herriott dies by self inflicting gunshot
Grant E. Herriott aged 62, owner of the Columbus Marysville bus line, died at his Plain City home near Columbus today by shooting himself. The death was ruled a death by own action. Herriott faced no stated external causes at the time of the incident. He was a well known local transportation figure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Grant E. Herriott
Columbus-Marysville
Plain City
Here
Belleau Wood monograph to be released by Second Division veterans
Boston gathering of 2000 Second Division veterans May 30 to June 1 marks the eleventh anniversary of Belleau Wood fighting. John W Thomason Jr. will unveil a monograph detailing ten high casualty assaults from June 1 to July 18, 1918, based on verified German and American records.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Second Division
Boston
Eo Belleau Wood
Belleau Wood
John W. Thomason, Jrr
United States Marines
Thomason
Germany
Belleau Tattle
Unidentified man killed under Glendale street car
An unnamed man about 40 years old and 5 feet 10 inches tall was killed when he fell beneath a Glendale street car on Springfield pike near Cameron road. Motorman J J Dietrich said he stumbled as the car approached within ten feet. The Cincinnati Fire Department life-saving squad lifted the car to free the body after brakes were applied. the man wore a blue striped suit, blue shirt, black shoes, red hair, and shell-rim eyewear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glendale
Springfield Pike
Cameron Road
J J. Dietrich
Cincinnati Fire Department
Frank Treinen
Hoover's Law Enforcement Board Opens First Session
Hoover's Law Enforcement Commission gathers in Washington for its organizational meeting with ten men and one woman to set procedure. George W. Wickersham will chair as the group plans to reorganize judicial and law enforcement machinery and study prohibition enforcement. Headquarters and public hearings are expected to be planned in Washington and major centers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Hoover
Law Enforcement Commission
George W. Wickersham
White House
Cabinet Chamber
United States
Commission
King Victor Emanuel Signs Lateran Treaty
King Victor Emanuel I signed and ratified the Lateran treaties between Italy and the Holy See. Vatican officials said Pope Pius XI has not fixed a signing date or a visit by the Italian King and Queen. The pontiff's signature will finalize the reconciliation after the loss of temporal power.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York World News Service
Rome
Victor Emanuel I
Holy See
Vatican
Pius XI
Italy
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Hamilton Machine Gun Gang
Murphy
Mabel Walker Willebrandt
Mabel Willebrandt
Aellboys
Firebrand
Department of Justice
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Ours
Lone Eagle
Blue Falcon
U. S
Tails
Donald Gibbs
World News Service
Avondale
Want
The
Dawes
Nephew
Belleau
Bois de Belleau
Hoover's
Law Enforcement Board
Victor Emanuel
Lateran
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