Mayor Thompson's Wife Robbed of Jewelry in Chicago Hold Up
Chicago on October 7 reports three men held up Mrs. Thompson and her chauffeur, stealing $17,000 in jewelry. Mayor William Hale Thompson challenged Police Commissioner Alcock to find the robbers, who may be linked to a larger underworld bid to pressure the department. Mrs. Thompson remained bedbound, guarded by police, after the attack.
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Chicago
William Hale Thompson
John Hi. Alcock
Thompson
Sheridan Road
Alcock
O'Malley
John Norton
Alecock
Jake Lingle
Sharonville Presses Halt on Water Contract Ties
Sharonville residents urged County Commissioners to block a new Cincinnati water contract unless the city agrees to supply Sharonville. They cited drought low wells and dangerous remaining water, claiming annexation is being used to force water access. The county confessed limited power to intervene and warned signing could still leave Sharonville without water unless a county supply is arranged.
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Sharonville
Cincinnati
Sharon- Ville
Ond
R101 Disaster Bodies Brought Home For Inquest
The 47 victims of the R-101 crash were returned to England and laid in Westminster mortuary awaiting inquest by coroner Feibelby Oddie. A public lying in state and memorial service in St Paul’s Cathedral are planned, with a royal representation and a funeral at Cardington. Bodies likely to be buried in one grave.
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New York World News Service
London
England
Westminster Mortuary
Infeleby
Oddie
Westminster
British Air Ministry
St. Paul's Cathedral
Prince of Wales
Cardington
Boulogne
Dover
Temest
Triboune
Royal Air Force
Negro shoots cop in robbery encounter on West Fourth Street
Policeman John Curran Jr. is shot seriously while questioning two light skinned Negro suspects after a hold up at a grocery. The armed robbery at 624 West Fourth Street netted $70. Curran, 24, of Grand Avenue, is hospitalized in serious condition at General Hospital with the bullet lodged near his lungs.
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John Curran, Jr
Grand Avenue
Fifth Street
Curran
Froent
San Rachel
West Fourth Street
General Hospital
Fifth and
Smith Streets
Louis David’ Son
Kenyon Avenue
Cutter Street
Hoover Upholds Self-Governing System Of U S
President Hoover in Kings Mountain, South Carolina, marks the 150th anniversary of the Revolutionary War battle while defending the nation’s self governing system against foreign and domestic corruption. He condemns crime, law disobedience, pacifism, and militarism as threats and urges citizens to vote, warning against ballot manipulation and private interests corrupting leadership.
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D. Harold Oliver
Kings Mountain Battleground
S. C
Hoover
Kings Mountain
Carolinas
White's Home Districts Now Favor Cooper
Gov. Myers Y. Cooper, fresh from a speaking tour in the Fifteenth District, opened headquarters in Cincinnati for reelection. More than a thousand attended as Judge Nippert introduced him. Cooper rebutted a White slur about the Cincinnati gang, praising Hamilton County and Cincinnati voters. A party member predicted Cooper would win the Fifteenth by a large margin.
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iGov
Myers Y. Cooper
Fifteenth
George S. White
Committee of Ons
Cooper
Mabley & Carew
Alfred K. Nippert
Cincinnati
Akron
Columbus
Hamilton County
Gov. Cooper
White
Ohio
City to Consider Merging City Manager Duties
City Hall reports a proposal to create an Executive position combining Safety Director duties with highways sewers and works supervision and executive assistant tasks. City Manager C A Dykstra says such a plan has been discussed but not agreed. The Assistant City Manager would centralize authority and reduce job duplication, raising salary questions due to higher pay than current executives.
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Grover C. Smith
C. A. Dykstra
Catter
Deducting Race Losses From Income Taxes Revealed
Chicago October 7 Robert E Neely Chief Deputy Collector of Internal Revenue outlined a method to deduct losses from horse race bets on income taxes. Taxpayers must prove the bet was made the legal right to bet and that the horse lost. Lost bets on other games are not deductible. Bets won are taxable. Uncle Sam trusts you.
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Chicago
Robert E. Neely
Internal Revenue
Neely
Designs for New York Ash Cans Win Prize
New York October 7 First prize of 500 dollars for the best litter basket design to hold banana peels and paper scraps was awarded to James Herman of Chicago. Second prize 250 dollars went to Denzil Hint of Washington University St Louis. winning designs will be shown to the New York Department of Sanitation for city wide use.
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New York
James Herman
Chicago
New York Academy of Medicine
Denzil Hint
Washington University
St. Louis
New York Department of Sanitation
Lake Steamer Burlington Aground Off Milwaukee Coast
Burlington a 2029-ton steel ship bound Gary Indiana to Jones Island Milwaukee leaks badly after striking rock or shoal off Cudahy. Hyacinth light tender and U S Coast Guard boats stand by to rescue crew of 23 as mist and rain hinder sight. officials expect rescue by five o clock with hopes ship remains afloat.
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Hyacinth
Ghicago
Ward
The
of America
Burlington
Cudahy
Maynard
D. Sullivan Company
Chicago
Rutland Lake Michigan Transit Company
Gary
Ind
Jones Island
Milwaukee
W. J. Flanders
Coast Guard
Legion Parade Awakens War Memory in Boston
A 70,000 strong American Legion parade through Boston honors veterans from World War I and earlier conflicts. Marching bands, navy craft overhead, and dignitaries including General Pershing and General Gouraud watched as veterans recalled heroes from Flanders to Archangel. The event mingled with a national convention while crowds lined streets and celebrated military history.
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New England
Flanders
Archangel
Los Angeles
Cradle of Liberty
Old State House
Hancock
Adamses
Boston
Thefayette Hall
Beacon H
State House
Statehouse
Tremont Street
John J. Pershing
Doughboys
Henri Gourad
France
Sir William Hickie
Ireland
British Socialist Leader Backs MacDonald at Conference
At Llandudno Wales Oct 7 James Maxton unusually signals sympathy with Premier Ramsay MacDonald and Labor government centring on unemployment relief. Maxton, leftist head of the Independent Labour party, had been expected to censure the government but instead expresses support, reshaping left wing tension within the party.
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Llandudno
Wales
Labor
Ramsay MacDonald
Labor Party
James Maxton
MacDonald
Maxton
Independent Labor Party
Japanese Naval Guns Battle to Test Sea Defense
Tokyo Oct 7 A grand maneuvers exercise aims to gauge how far London treaty limits cripple Japan's sea defenses and how many airplanes can replace submarines. Emperor Hirohito will direct operations from Kirishima as about seven warships participate south of Japan near Shikoku.
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Tokyo
Japan
Imperial Navy
Emperor Hirohito
Kirishima
Fleet
Yamamoto
Mutsu
Kure
Hondo
Shikoku
Fusa Bay
Ryozo Nakamura
Nagato
Formosa
Naomi Taniguchi
Navy General Staff
High tribute paid to Hoover by Southerner at anniversary banquet
Senator Joseph E. Ransdell of Louisiana praised President Hoover as the greatest friend of rivers and harbors, at the twenty fifth anniversary of the Ohio Valley Improvement Association held at the Linton Hotel. He urged continued work to deepen all great rivers, while Edwin C. Gibbs and S. A. Thompson highlighted the group’s history and ongoing effort amid railroad opposition to river improvements.
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Louisiana
Hoover
United States Supreme Court
Ohio Valley Improvement Association
Linton Hotel
Joseph E. Ransdell
Congress
United States
Ohio River
Edwin C. Gibbs
A. Thompson
National Rivers and Harbors Congress
Thompson
Eastern Railroad
Prohibition Whisky Limit for Physicians Stays Unchanged
The Justice Department told Rep Britten that the Prohibition Bureau abandoned plans to curb whisky withdrawals by physicians for office use. Current rules allow one six quart annual purchase. AMA discussions led to retaining the present limit. Britten warned the change would cost money and burden doctors, while not stopping any legal yearly quarts.
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Washington
Justice Department
Britten
Rep
Prohibition Bureau
Youngquist
American Medical Association
Mitchell
Youngouist
Treasury
Plea For Gash Amid East Fifth Street Bond Debate
At City Hall a Joint Bond and Improvement Committee meeting examined Council requests to widen East Fifth Street with about 1.8 million dollars in bond allowances. County officials urged restraint, noting a near consensus to limit spending while Cincinnati increased expenditures. The East Fifth project has faced hurdles from Supreme Court rulings on condemnation and private firms showing reasonable property costs.
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Cincinnati
Joint
City
Council
East Fifth Street
Charles Urban
Clifford Brown
Board of Counity Commissioners
Charterite
Supreme Court of the United States
Charles
Lawyers to Deliver Jury Tampering Findings Today
The Cincinnati Bar Association Grievance Committee will report to Judge Charles S. Bell at 11 o'clock in Criminal Court on alleged jury tampering in the Dorger case. The probe followed a claimed telephone chat between Raymond Dorger and Robert Morgan about serving on the jury. Morgan was excused after the call. committee interviews included Raymond Dorger and Morgan and others.
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Cincinnati Bar Association
Frank J
Clarence A. Dorger
Cosmopolitan Bank
Charles S. Bell
Nelson Schwab
Bell
Raymond Do
Window in Rabbit Ear Lets Scientists Watch Tissue Growth
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine announces a new method using a transparent window in a rabbit ear to observe living tissue growth over time. The device enables direct viewing of cellular changes in infections such as tuberculosis, tumors, and cancer, with a Rockefeller Foundation grant of 75000 dollars supporting development.
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Philadelphia
University of Pennsylvania
School of Medicine
Rockefeller Foundation
University
Fleet Goes South To Other Ships Steam Northward To Pernambuco
A portion of the fleet sails south to join other ships and steams northward toward Pernambuco, signaling a strategic movement in naval operations with coordinated positioning in the Atlantic theater.
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Fleet
Pernambuco
Government Troops Seize Town in Minas Geraes War
Dispatches report federal forces capture Bello Horizonte capital of Minas Geraes as rebels spread in southern Brazil. Navy units move along coast to quell rebellion while Rio de Janeiro secures supplies and banks close to curb speculation amid tense days.
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Buenos Aires
la Nacion
Bello Horizonte
Minas Geraes
Rio
DE Janeiro
Palmyra
Pernambuco
Washington Luis
Para
Parana
Pasrana
Rio Grande Do Sul
Sao Paulo
Bank of Brazil
Soto Cabana
Rio Grange Do Sul
Rio de Janeiro
Mina | Geraes
Temperatures and Regional Showers Across States
The report lists projected weather moments for Ohio Kentucky Tennessee Indiana and West Virginia with showers chances Wednesday and Thursday, plus mostly cloudy periods and slight temperature changes. Regional highs and lows appear scattered with Atlantic City and New Orleans cited in the broader tableau alongside city codes and dates from October forecasts.
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Ohio
Kentucky
Tennessee
Indiana
West Virginia
Perature
Jackson'le
Atlanta
Orleans
Kan
Chris Fe
Galveston
Pittsburgh
Denver
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C. G. Christgau
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