Parole inquiry hits Chicago racketeer case
Cook County Grand Jury subpoenas State Senator Victor Michel and ex Judge Chauncey Jenkins over the paroled labor racketeer George Barker. Prosecutors cite an $11,000 fundraising fee and cash plus an $8,000 check from the Chicago Coal Teamsters Union as part of Barker’s release financing. Barker has since returned to prison after police and court actions questioned the parole.
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Chicago
Victor P. Michel
Peoria
Chauncey H. Jenkins
Len Small
Cook County
Grand Jury
George
Red
N. N. Greene
Michel
Barker
Homer Dodge
John Sheridan
Chicago Coal Teamsters’ Union
Dodge
Sheridan
Union
Candidacy Promotes Savings From Efficient Courthouse Reform
Samuel Aci former County Treasurer and Citizens ticket candidate says the Courthouse could save $1,000,000 or more with reorganization. He cites $250,000 yearly salary savings, a Bureau of Governmental Research plan for the Auditor, and $50,000 first year savings plus over $60,000 yearly thereafter. He points to sinking fund overcollections and delinquent taxes amid an excess budget of $1,257,000 for the coming year.
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Samuel Aci
Citizens
B. H. Kroger
Bureau of Governmental Research
Ach
Recorder
Budget Commission
Teller Confesses Fake Bank Robbery In Philadelphia
Charles L. Grubb a 25 year old teller at the Franklin Trust Company Front and Market Street Branch confessed that yesterday’s bank robbery was a hoax and that he had hidden about $5 900 of the money in a brick wall in the basement The cash was later found Grubb is held on embezzlement charges and police were alerted when the bank siren summoned officers to the scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Charles L. Grubb
Market Street
Franklin Trust Company
Grubb
Negroes Consecrated in Africa Speaker Predicts
Dr. Chedzzli Abyssinian priest at Liberty Hall predicts the Negroes of the world will be consecrated in Africa within ten years after a coming great world war between white and yellow races. He chairs the Researches of Truth and urges the Black Man to lead Africa’s redemption. He will lecture tonight at Liberty Hall at 7:45 on Who Is the Black Man From Creation to the Cross.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Africa
C. S. Chedzzli
East Africa
Liberty Hall
George Street
Ezekiel Valley
Dr. Chedzzli
Researches of Truth
Kelley finishes newspaper case on Colorado oil
National attention grows as Ralph S. Kelley the former GLO land chief finishes detailing to day in The New York World and other papers on the Colorado oil land grab. Interior and Justice decline to announce action while Senate leaders push for a full open probe into possible recovery of billions in land losses. Secretary Wilbur calls the charges nonsense as investigators review the matter and Wilbur’s team proceeds with a formal inquiry.
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New York World News Service
Washington
Interior Nor
Justice Department
Colorado
Ralph S. Kelley
General Land Office
New York World
Kelley
Senate
Nye
Rep. N. D
Walsh
Wilbur
Seth Richardson
Mitchell
Grade Crossing Tragedy Kills Two Ohio Couples
In Columbus area Gene Paul Long 57 mayor of Centerbury Knox County and wife Nellie 49 are killed when their car is hit by a train witnessed by their son Ohio State University student James Long who rode a street car after leaving home. The car is destroyed. At Newark Arthur Alexander 55 and wife 51 die when their car collides with a passenger train. They ran a lunch stand and gas station five miles north of Lancaster.
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Columbus
Gene Paul Long
Centerbury
Knox County
Nellie
Here
James Long
Ohio
State University
Newark
Arthur Alexander
Lancaster
Alexander
Woman Dead as Auto Ditches Near Overpeck
Special Dispatch reports from Hamilton Ohio that Mrs. Marion Jones 24 of Dayton was killed when the car she rode in ran into a ditch north of Overpeck. Driver George Snider 21 was bruised. Flora Daly 27 had a broken collar bone. Roy A. Brown 31 suffered severe head injuries. Coroner Edward Cook ordered Snider held on a manslaughter technical charge. this is the 38th auto accident in Butler County this year.
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The
Commercial Tribune
Hamilton
Marion Jones
Dayton
George Snider
Flora Daly
Roy A. Brown
Hoover at Virginia camp for last visit of year
President Hoover visits his Virginia mountain camp to see Herbert Hoover Jr who is ill. He plans a trip to Princeton to watch the Navy Princeton game and may take his son to North Carolina next week. Alterations at the Asheville lodge aim to complete by November 1.
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Orange
Hoover
Virginia
Washington
Herbert Hoover, Jr
North Carolina
Sunset Mountain
Asheville
East Liverpool Passes 15 MPH Train Speed Ordinance
East Liverpool council approved an ordinance setting fifteen miles per hour as the maximum train speed for Pennsylvania trains through the city after November 12. The measure, signed by Mayor Ralph C. Benedum, repealed a prior 35 MPH limit due to complaints of excessive whistling and smoke.
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East Liverpool
Pennsylvania Railroad
Pennsylvania
Ralph C. Benedum
Two Men Electrocuted After Car Hits Lamp Post
In Decatur Indiana on October 1 Ivan Baker aged 36 drove into a city lamp post. He and 29 year old Hugh Hitchcock went to a restaurant to seek help and moments later were found dead, electrocuted by 2200 volts from the post where the car’s spring touched the live current.
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Decatur
Ind
Ivan Baker
Hugh Hitchcock
Negro Battles Officers After Auto Theft and Crash
George Rawson, 26, of 320 George Street, was arrested at Ninth and Cutter streets following a struggle with Officers Yocky and Ellie. He faced reckless driving and auto theft charges, after allegedly stealing China Hackson’s car from WB Eighth and Cutter streets and crashing into a North Fairmount street car. He admitted drinking.
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Negro Battles
George Rawson
George Street
Ninth
Cutter Streets
Yocky
Ellie
Rawson
China Hackson
West Seventh Street
WB Eighth
Cutter
Legs Diamond Progresses Say Hospital Heads
New York October 19. A bulletin from Metropolitan Hospital Welfare Island says gangster Legs Diamond with four bullet wounds is in satisfactory condition. He feels physically better but mentally unsettled and complains of removal from Polyclinic Hospital to Municipal Hospital. He fears officials will deceive him when he can walk. He longed for his Acra country home. Detectives searched the Monticello Hotel for the gunman’s pistols but found none.
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New York
Metropolitan Hospital
Welfare Island
Polyclinic
Acra
N. Y
Monticello
Diamond
Martial law rumored as Brazil faces revolt near Rio and Sao Paulo
President Washington Luis reportedly decreed martial law in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo amid rebel activity. A government communique claimed a severe defeat of rebels in Minas Geraes near Cambucuira while forces held the Parana Sao Paulo frontier. An interventor was appointed for Espirito Santo as security measures intensified.
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Washington Luis
Rio de Janeiro
Sao Paulo
Rio DE Janheira
Minas Geraes
Cambucuira
Parana- Sao Paulo
Parana
House of Correction
Espirito Santo
Jose Armando Ribaira
Women fight political pulpit activism call to protest
A letter from national and local prohibition groups urges protest of ministers endorsing candidates from the pulpit on election day. It warns against Sunday political pulpiteering labeled Christian Citizenship Sunday and calls pastors to confine sermons to Christian gospel avoiding political recommendations.
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Wet
The
Crusaders
Henry P. McIntosh, Jr
Women’s Organization For National Prohibition Reform
R. R. Kennedy
Association Against the Prohibition
Anti-Saloon League
Investors hear Bob case tightens stock lockups
Washburn said Piperno & Co suspension will hurt investors little since solvency remains. Brooklyn courts will be asked to restrain Metal and Mining Shares and Founders Shares from further stock sales. Receiverships sought to protect assets as two inquiries into the missing promoter proceed. John F. Gilchrist, head of Federal Electric, said Charles V. Bob sought a 7 million dollar purchase option in 1929 and forfeited a 500000 option after failing to gain control of Claude Neon Lights and the Federal Company. He believed Bob failed to win Chicago bank support and denied escrow reports of 3 million.
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Piperno & Co
Curb Exchange
Washburn
Brooklyn Supreme Court
Metal and Mining Shares, Inc
Metal and Mining Founders Shares, Inc
Bob
Crain
Manley
Chicago
John F. Gilchrist
Federal Electric Company of Chicago
Insull
Charles V. Bob
New York
Gilchrist
Claude Neon Lights Corporation
Federal
Bob Group
Committees Meet for Bond Hill Road Dedication Plans
Committees of the Bond Hill Welfare Association convene at Swiss Gardens tonight to finalize the November 1 dedication of the Bond Hill Road. Reports by John J. Behle chairing the Dedication Committee Albert Roos vice chair and Thomas J. Dugan treasurer will be presented. The dedication queen contest closes at midnight Wednesday.
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Bond Hill
Von Steuben Memorial Celebration Praises Gen Von Steuben
A Cincinnati program honoring General von Steuben features remarks by Maj. Ziegler, former Ft. Washington commander, praising German immigration’s role in Ohio and Cincinnati. Governor lauds the event, Dr. Morgenstern leads the committee, and the tribute highlights the heroism and cultural legacy of the Revolutionary War figure.
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Cincinnati
Maj. Ziegler
Ft. Washington
Revolutionary Army
Order of Cincinnatus
Baron von Steuben
Ohio
Hamilton County
State of
Dr. Morgenstern
Gen. von Steuben
Anniversary of Von Steuben Birth Celebrated in Berlin
In Berlin on October 19 a memorial service marked the 200th anniversary of General Friedrich Von Steuben the American Revolutionary hero born in Germany. Reichstag member Anton Erkeleng praised von Steuben as military leader and administrator and urged future harmony between the American and German peoples. A crowded Reichstag hall heard the address with attendance by Gen. von Hammerstein chief of the Reichswehr Col E D W Carpenter the American military attaché and other prominent figures including a von Steuben family representative.
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von Steuben
Berlin
Frederick von Steuben
Germany
Reichstag
Anton Erkeleng
Herr Ereleng
Gen. von Hammerstein
Reichswehr
Col
E. D. W. Carpenter
Gen. von Steuben
Foreign Office
Tax collections shift in first quarter shows declines across items
Federal records show total tobacco tax up slightly but large drops occur in stamps, bonds, capital stock taxes and miscellaneous levies. Only estate transfers rose, from 9.5 million to 13.3 million, while others declined from last year's first quarter figures.
Drive Extension to Be Debated in Cincinnati Campaign
The Jewish Welfare Fund drive in Cincinnati faces a possible extension as $101,500 is officially reported toward a $190,000 goal. Campaign leaders may delay conclusion to tonight’s Hotel Linton dinner rally if prospects are not seen, with Murray Seasongood chairing and William Schroder coordinating outreach to 3,500 potential donors. The fund, part of the Community Chest concept, supports 22 agencies. donors are urged to give their usual totals to familiar organizations.
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Jewish Welfare Fund
Linton
William J. Schroder
Murray Seasongood
Cincinnati
Welfare Fund
Jewish Community Council
Community Chest
Two Racing Pilots Die in Air Meet Crash
Two pilots, B. W. Mackey from Valley Stream Long Island and George Zinn of Philadelphia, died when their planes collided near the first pylon during the all Eastern air meet at Mercer Airport Trenton New Jersey. The crash happened about 1 000 feet from the airport as they rounded the marker, with Zinn’s plane engulfed in flames and Mackey’s wreckage scattered.
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Trenton
N. J
B. W. Mackey
Valley Stream
L. I
George Zinn
Philadelphia
Mercer
Zinn
Mackey
OFFICERS' CLUB TO HEAR SPEECH BY LONGWORTH
The Reserve Officers Association of Greater Cincinnati will host a Wednesday noon luncheon at the Cincinnati Club featuring Speaker Nicholas Longworth. He has supported military promotions and cutting red tape, now addressing officers with the Chemical Warfare branch present. Lieutenant A. Gus Karger secured Longworth's consent to speak.
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Reserve Officers Association of
Greater Cincinnati
Cincinnati Club
Nicholas Longworth
Longworth
Mr. Longworth
Gus Karger
Washington
Million dollar ideas out of place in jail
Ernest Williams 28 of 501 South Monument avenue, jailed after stealing house slippers. He started a small fire with matches in his cell to protest, burning his coat and vest and scorching the jail yard banks as well. He faces further confinement as a result.
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The
Commercial Tribune
Hamilton
Ernest Williams
South Monument Avenue
Williams
German Peace Proposals and Allied Rejection in World War I
Documents show German and Austrian peace overtures in 1916 sought a general peace with Wilson’s help. The British and Allied powers dismissed the moves as propaganda. a Dec 12 German offer was rejected, and US policy against unrestricted submarine warfare led to U.S. entry.
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Gerard
Madrid
Alfonso
Wilson
Germany
Austria-Hungary
France
William G. Sharp
State Department
United States
Lutherans Celebrate Augsburg Anniversary in Toledo Coliseum
About five thousand Lutherans from Toledo and nearby towns gathered in the Coliseum to mark the 400th anniversary of the Augsburg confession. Three services were held with German and English portions led by Rev. F. M. Krauss, Rev. W. F. Lichtseim, and Rev. E. C. Fackler. Resolutions honoring President Hoover were adopted as Reformation Sunday approached. Bach chorus of Detroit provided vocal music.
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Toledo
Augsburg Confession
F. M. Krauss
Lansing
Mich
Michigan
Wisconsin Synod
W. F. Lichtseim
Hammond
Ind
Missouri Synod
E. C. Fackler
Detroit
Hoover
Bach Chorus of
Two Women Held in West Eighth Street Robbery
Two African American women are in custody over a night robbery of Arthur Adams at 137 West Eighth Street. They allegedly lured him to 233 West Eighth Street and stole 130 dollars. Suspect Annetta Friason, 22, has prior charges on the same case.
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Arthur Adams
West Eighth Street
Alice Johson
Carlisle Avenue
Annetta Friason
Adams
Friason
Steel merger to face final arguments in court today
Youngstown Ohio October 19 The final arguments in the injunction suit against the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company merger with Bethlehem Steel will begin in Judge David G Jenkins courtroom after testimony concluded September 25. Attorneys for both sides return to present a lengthy record amid fraud and illegality charges by International Shares Corporation led by Cyrus S Eaton.
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Youngstown, O
Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company
Bethlehem Steel Corporation
David G. Jenkins
International Shares Corporation
Cyrus S. Eaton
Cleveland
Myron C. Wick, Jr
Youngstown
Eaton
Bethlehem
Youngstown Sheet and Tube
Republic Steel Corporation
Inland Steel of Chicago
Ford May Build Assembly Plant in Shanghai China
Shanghai is eyed as a top Far East site for a Ford Motor Company assembly plant. William C. Cowling, Detroit plant traffic manager, surveys China and praises Shanghai. local dealers see his visit as a step toward construction.
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Shanghai
Far East
Ford Motor Company
William C. Cowling
Detroit
China
Sheriff Feeds Prisoners as Auditor Withholds Pay
In Lisbon Ohio on October 19, prisoners at Columbiana County Jail were fed, but Sheriff William J. Barlow faces unpaid meals. County Auditor Elmer E. Walker has withheld $955 for preparing and serving meals, citing no law covering the charges.
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Lisbon, .O
Columbiana County
William J. Barlow
Elmer E. Walker
Walker
Third week opens in U S hearing of packing trade
Washington Oct 19 with the family table at center of interest the packers consent decree case enters its third week in the District of Columbia Supreme Court Armour and Swift seek a modification limiting them to meat packing and related lines. Witnesses cover food production distribution and competition with chain stores and numerous witnesses remain to testify for both sides.
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Washington
District of Columbia Supreme Court
Armour & Co
Swift & Co
Agriculture Department
Armour
Swift
Jews Declare Present Needs Hamper Plans
The eighth session of the American Jewish Congress convened with Bernd G. Richards noting a negative program focus on protecting Jewish rights amid attacks. He said a positive program for Judaism is ill defined and likely unattainable now as crises in Eastern Europe press the immediate tasks. He warned of disintegration within American Jewry and the risk of loss of Jewish identity. A banquet honored Harry Snell of Britain as the congress prepared to close after a White House reception and officer elections.
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Washington
American Jewish Congress
Bernd G. Richards
Harry Snell
Congress
White House
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