Massed Texas crowd views veterans march to Alamo
Ten thousand former service men and American Legion Auxiliary members parade past the Alamo in San Antonio in a four hour review watched by National Commander Spafford and dignitaries including Gen Pershing and Field Marshal Allenby. The event blends pride and nostalgia as veterans smile and wave despite war memories. A highlight is 20 disabled veterans from Kerrville rode by in buses, receiving the loudest applause.
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San Antonio
Tex
American Legion Auxiliary
Alamo
Edward E. Spafford
John J. Pershing
Allenby
Great Britain
Dan Moody
Texas
America
Wisconsin
California
Ft. Sam Houston
Kentucky
Veterans Bureau Hospital
Kerrville
Will of Mrs Nippert Seed Bequests Total 17000
Probate files reveal charitable bequests totaling 17000 from the 200000 Nippert estate of Mrs Katie Brill Nippert of Clifton. Beneficiaries include Children’s Homes Bodman Widows’ Home Bethesda Hospital and others. The will also provides major gifts to foster daughter Minnie Oswald and a trust fund with long term provisions. Executors named are Richard A. Powell and Alfred K Nippert.
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Katie Brill Nippert
Whitfield Avenue
Clifton
Carl L. Nippert
William H. Lueders
Bethesda Hospital
General Protestant Orphan Asylum
Cincinnati Altenheim
Amanda
Charles Jacobs
Waldemar Jacobs
Robert Murdock
Mary Boldt
Philip Jacob
Schoenberg
Germany
Ella N. Helminger
Laura
Mary Nippert
Judge Nippert
Catherine Timmerman
Emma Fricke
Florence N. Mathes
Minnie Reddert
Minnie Oswald
Mrs. Nippert
Maggie _Portune
Oswald
Richard A. Powell
Alfred K. Nippert
Hoover to Speak on Foreign Trade in Boston Speech
Herbert Hoover plans to discuss foreign trade and the tariff in a Boston speech next Monday night. If time allows he will address the merchant marine question. He met with New York party leaders to finalize trip details for a October 22 visit, including a Madison Square Garden appearance.
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Washington
Herbert Hoover
Boston
Charles D. Hilles
New York
Edmond Machold
George Akerson
Madison Square Garden
Whisky Exports From Canada Rise to US
Canada reports whisky exports to the United States rose from 17 471 437 to 18 620 150 dollars for the year ending August 31, with official figures released in Ottawa.
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Ottawa
Canada
United States
Save Carnes Assets Sought in Baptist Board Suit
In Atlanta on October 9 a suit filed in Superior Court seeks to preserve Carnes assets for the Southern Baptist Home Mission Board. Walter R. Brown alleges Clinton S. Carnes lent 5000 to Dr. B. D. Gray and that Dr. Arthur J. Barton borrowed about 2500, with notes and debts to be produced. A temporary restraining order was issued and the case set for October 20 before Judge G. H. Howard.
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Atlanta
Clinton SS
Drs. Gray and Barton
Hugh M. Willet
G. H. Howard
Police Chief fatally wounded in Austin shooting incident
In Austin Texas on October 9 a Black assailant named Alexander fatally injured Police Chief J N Littlepage and two Black bystanders and killed Joe Blum a white carpenter. Alexander fled as authorities searched South Austin after the attack and later died in a self inflicted death.
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Austin
Tex
J.N. Littlepage
Joe Blum
Alexander
Littlepage
Blum
Hartzell Will Funds Library Nooks In Three Seminaries
The will of Bishop Joseph C. Hartzell provides for Hartzell Alcoves in the libraries of Drew Theological Seminary in New Jersey Gammon Theological Seminary in Atlanta and Garrett Biblical Institute in Evanston to house books reports and pamphlets from his North Africa service related to Islam The estate includes real estate in Blue Ash worth about 10000 and personal property around 500 with shares in two mining companies bequeathed to his sons and a grandson executor Joseph Hartzell named with a 1920 codicil returning North Africa property to the Methodist Board of Foreign Missions.
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Joseph Co. Hartzell
Blue Ash
Lueders
Methodist Episcopal Church
Africa
North Africa
Garrett Biblical Institute
Evanston
Drew Theological Seminary
New Jersey
Gammon Theological Seminary
Atlanta
Methodist Board of Foreign Missions
Grayson Named National Commander At U S W V Meet
William L. Grayson of Savannah Ga was unanimously nominated as National Commander of the United Spanish War Veterans at the thirtieth annual convention in Havana Oct 9. Otto H. Ragh and Frank H Hay were nominated for senior and junior vice commanders with balloting pending. Gen John J Garrity opened the session and Admiral Hugh Wiley urged support for a strong naval policy.
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Havana
William L. Grayson
Savannah
United Spanish War Veterans
Otto H. Ragh
Minnesota
Frank H. Hay
Connecticut
Auxiliary
Olive Rubens
Michigan
Muriel Green
John J. Garrity
Hugh Wiley
Atlantic
United States
Miss Mobile Convicted in Larceny Case
Mrs Vivian McDowell Page once Miss Mobile 1926 was convicted in Delaware County Court of larceny for a watch chain and cigar lighter. She was acquitted of stealing $180 from a Chester apartment room and released on $3000 bail pending appeal for a new trial.
Registration Deadline for Election in October
Voters must register this fall to vote on November 6. Only three days remain October 11 and October 19 20 with registration sites open 8 am to 2 pm and 4 pm to 9 pm. Outside Cincinnati Norwood St Bernard in Hamilton County registration not required.
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Cincinnati
Norwood
St. Bernard
Hamilton County
River towns face typhoid plague in Ohio River
Ohio cities drawing water from the Ohio River were warned by State Health Director J R Monger of possible typhoid contamination after a New York telegram cited a typhoid outbreak in Olean. Cincinnati officials said current chemical treatment and river monitoring reduce risk and would alert authorities if the threat reached them.
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Columbus
Ohio Cities
Ohio River
J. R
New York State
Olean
N. Y
Allegheny River
J. A. Hiller
Cincinnati
Coffins Bury Convicts Bones After Dormitory Fire
Seventeen charred remains from a state brick plant dormitory fire near Junction City were buried in a common grave at New Lexington Cemetery. Ministers from New Lexington will hold mass funeral services for the nameless men, as none could be positively identified among twenty inmates missing.
Van Sweringen Brothers Buy Buffalo Rochester & Pittsburgh
Mantis J. and Orvis P. Van Sweringen acquire about 67 percent of Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh Railway for 9.55 million dollars and propose to buy the remaining 6,950 shares from minority holders by December 10. The deal, kept secret at first, could affect eastern railroad groupings and keeps W. T. Noonan as president. The B R P line runs like a Y from Pittsburgh to Buffalo and to Rochester and Lake Ontario.
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New York World News Service
New York
Wall Street
Iselin-Roosevelt
L. C. Probert
Erie
van Sweringen
New York Stock Exchange
van Sweringens
Cleveland
W. T. Noonan
Pittsburgh
Buffalo
Lake Erie
Rochester
Lake Ontario
Babe Ruth’s Three Homer Game Seals New York Win
In a one sided championship contest the Yankees beat St Louis 7 to 3. Ruth belts three homers driving in four runs while Gehrig also homers. Sherdel loses after giving up 11 hits and 4 earned runs. Umpires listed and time recorded. Bottles hurled at Ruth after decision.
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Ruth
Gehrig
Robertson
Combs
Frisch
Holm
Lazzecri
Collins
Orsatti
High
Maranville
Hoyt
Lazzeri
Bottomley
Koenig
New York
Sturs
Sherdel
Bottom
Hafey
Harper
Meusel
Alexander
William A. McGowan
A. L
Associated Press
Sportsman’s Park
ST. Louis
Yankees
Cardinals
Babe Ruth
Red Birds
Willie Sherdel
Yankee
Bambino
Pfirman
Capt. Frisch
Lou Gehrig
Bob Meuse
Pete Alexander
Earl Combs
Drivin
Cedric Durst
Warner Brothers Completes 200 Million Film Merger
Warner Brothers Pictures Inc announces a 200 million merger that brings Vitaphone Corporation Stanley Company of America and First National Pictures under its control. Contracts signed with stockholder ratification pending. The combined group becomes a major producer distributor and exhibitor with no personnel changes.
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Warner Brothers
Vitaphone
First National
Stanley Company
New York
Warner Brothers Pictures, Inc
Vitaphone Corporation
Stanley Company of America
First National Pictures, Inc
H. M. Warner
Irving D. Rossheim
Absent Ballot Misuse Charged In Pike County
Columbus, Oct. 9. A special Assistant Secretary of State will be named tomorrow to oversee the absent voters ballots and the November 6 election in Pike County after evidence supported most of eight charges by twenty electors against the local Election Board alleging ballots were cast by persons not in the state. Pike County, though small, voted more absentee ballots than Hamilton County in one election, Brown said.
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Columbus
Pike County
Clarence J. Brown
Brown
Pike
Hamilton County
Cincinnati
Chiang Kai-Shek Named President of National Government
Nanking October 9. Chiang Kai-Shek, once Commander-in-chief of Nationalist forces, was elected President of the National Government of the Chinese republic by the Central Executive Council. The council, with forty four members, has been the main governing body of the Nationalist administration.
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Nanking
Chiang Kai-Shek
Central Executive Council
Yanks Triumph as Ruth and Gehrig Power Past Sherdel
In St Louis on Oct 9 Neal O’Hara notes Ruth and Gehrig belted homers off Sherdel and Alexander to power the Yankees past the Cardinals. Despite a rain delay slowing the game, the Yankees showed relentless hitting while Cardinals pitchers were chased to showers, marking a strong series for New York.
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Neal O'Hara
ST. Louis
Ruth
Gehrig
Sherdel
Yanks
Wee Willie
Alexander
Huggins
Grand Avenue
Babe
Disbarred attorney kills woman then attempts suicide
John D. Davis a 65 year old disbarred Kentucky lawyer denies intentionally firing the shot that killed Minnie Ormes in her Cincinnati apartment. He severed both wrists attempting suicide and says the pistol discharge was accidental while showing it amid threats over divorce cases. Mrs Ormes lay dead on the kitchen floor. Davis is hospitalized and to be questioned by detectives.
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General Hospital
John D. Davis
Kentucky
Minnie Ormes
Bank Street
Davis
Minnie
Lueger
E. T. McGinnis
Blue Grass
C. E. Robbins
Newtown
Bowling Green
Cincinnati
Illinois
Kirgan
Eight-Story Prague Building Collapse Kills Many
A Prague office building under construction collapsed burying more than 100 workers. By nightfall eighteen bodies were recovered and relief teams searched under searchlights as authorities blamed defective cement and rushed construction. A streetcar and bystanders were hurt amid the disaster.
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Prague
Czecho-Slovakia
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