Removal urged for Cuyahoga Elections Board in fraud probe
A special grand jury recommends removing the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections and all but one member due to alleged irregularities in the August 14 primary. The report cites misfeasance and carelessness in tallies across 200 precincts, with a full criminal report to follow. Bernice S. Pyke is retained.
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Cleveland
Cuyahoga County Board of Elections
Clarence J. Brown
Columbus
Bernice S. Pyke
Ohio
Pye
Theorg
Tad
A. J. Hirstins
Republican County Executive Committee
Stephen McNeil
Alex Bernstein
Harry L. French
Socrat
Thomas Farrell
Republican Board
Edward C. Turner
Donahey
Walter McMahon
Criminal Court
Turner
Tellegen sued for divorce by his second wife
Isabel Craven Tellegen files a Superior Court complaint charging Lou Tellegen with cruel and inhuman treatment They say the couple separated on March 20 1927 and she seeks custody of their son Rex Tellegen born in 1924 and other relief The suit notes Tellegen is a motion picture actor and formerly married to Geraldine Farrar
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Los Angeles
Lou Tellegen
Isabel Craven Tellegen
Tellegen
Geraldine Farrar
Widows of Gas Rescue Workers Receive Carnegie Medals
The Carnegie Hero Fund Commission awarded bronze medals and monthly stipends to the widows of two laborers who died rescuing a gas-struck worker in a sewer at Cummins Road and Beekman Street on October 28 1927. Mrs J A Jones of 1150 Bank Street and Mrs John Hayhurst of Belmont WV received medals. Jones gets 25 dollars monthly while Hayhurst gets 75 due to Jones having workmen’s compensation.
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Cummins Road
Beekman Street
Carnegie
Carnegie Hero Fund Commission
Associated Press
J. A. Jones
Bankstreet
John Hayhurst
Belmont
W. Va
Jones
Hayhurst
Manuel Villalobos
Graf Zeppelin to refuel for return flight to Germany
The Graf Zeppelin, delayed by foul weather at Lakehurst N J, will be refueled for the westward departure. Commander Eckener postponed the Westward cruise and inland display in the Midwestern United States, aiming to depart for Germany when conditions permit.
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Lakehurst
N. J
America
Middle West
Germany
Naval Air Station
Wicks
Hugo Eckener
Eckener
Associated Press
Bodies of girl and fiancé found near Warren
Ethel Mae Baker 16 and M. J. Powell were found dead in a car two miles east of Warren Arkansas. Coroner's jury cites death by strangulation for the girl and suicide by pistol for Powell. An ether bottle and a small automatic pistol were found at the scene. Powell had traveled from Oak Grove Louisiana to arrange their marriage, opposed by the girl's stepfather.
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Warren
Ark
Ethel Mae Baker
M. J. Powell
Oak Grove
Here
Bob Hoyle
Powell
H. O. Butts
Sherrill bans newspaper reading by city employees
Col Sherrill city manager yesterday banned newspaper reading in City Hall. No employee from department heads to clerks may read during office hours. He cited unfavorable citizen comments and urged department heads to remove readers from the payroll if work allows, or reduce staff accordingly.
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Col. Sherrill
Futre
Government Wins $3,900,000 Suit Over Tin Plate Tax
A one man jury verdict for the United States ends a ten month trial, ruling against the American Can Company in a $3.9 million suit over income tax protests tied to 1917 gains from tin plate box value. The case, tried in New York, involved tax demands of about $4.9 million on profits alleged from 1917 to 1924.
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New York
American Can Company
United States
Four Die in Quarry Blast Near Montreal
Four men were killed by a dynamite explosion in a quarry at Ville St. Michel near Montreal, according to a report received today.
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Montreal
Ville St. Michel
Texas Guinan Vanishes From Hollywood With Marie Prevost
Hollywood gossip notes Texas Guinan vanished from Hollywood after leasing a Beverly Hills bungalow from Marie Prevost. Prevost seeks rent and inventory, while Guinan faces two suits against West Coast Theaters totaling 50 000. Guinan reportedly returned to New York to return for a pending dental damage suits and a Chicago source says she left after jewelry in Chicago.
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Texas
Guinan
Hollywood
Marie Prevost
Cal
Texas Guinan
Qon
New York
Beverly Hills
Gotham
Roger Marchetti
Miss Guinan
Miss Prevost
Chicago
West Coast Theaters, Inc
Gen McQuigg Ex Legion Head Dies in Cleveland
Brig. Gen. John R. McQuigg national commander of the American Legion in 1925 died at his East Cleveland home after a year of illness. He led the 112th Engineers Thirty-seventh Division to France in World War I and served three terms as mayor of East Cleveland. He was 62.
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Cleveland
John R. McQuigg
American Legion
112Th Engineers
France
Child Actor Frankie Darro Custody Hearing and Divorce Suit
In Los Angeles Frankie Darro custody hearings proceed as Ada Darro Johnson appears in a second court to file for divorce from Frank Johnson. She accuses him of beating and cruelty, while Johnson denies the divorce charges and counters that she staged wild parties at their Beverly Hills home.
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Los Angeles
Frankie Darro
Ada Darro Johnson
Frank Johnson
Johnson
Robbers killed in bank hold up near Addington
In Addington Oklahoma two robbers fled the First National Bank after a cash theft. Deputy Sheriff W A Fowler pursued them for about half a mile and shot them both. one man was killed and the other wounded allegedly named Williams. the dead man was not identified.
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Addington
Okla
W. A. Fowler
Jefferson County
First National Bank of
Hoover Borah discuss farm relief at Washington luncheon
At a Washington luncheon Herbert Hoover and Senator William Borah urged a special or extra session to enact farm relief measures. Borah backed tariff duties, marketing reform, and a farm board with funds to handle surplus, aiming for benefits in the next crop year. Hoover planned a St Louis address focusing on farm aid and waterways development.
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Washington
Herbert Hoover
William E. Borah
Idaho
Senate
Borah
Congress
Hoo
Hoover
St. Louis
West
New York
Noted Beauty of Ziegfeld's Follies Divorced in Edinburgh
Jessica Brown, once of Ziegfeld's Follies, received a divorce from the Earl of Northesk in Edinburgh reports. The suit, undefended, cites misconduct by Lord Northesk at the Hotel Westminster in Paris last January. The witness described the marriage, dating from Chicago in 1923, as happy until late 1926 when the Earl began to avoid her.
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Ziegfeld
Lord Northesk
Paris
New York World News Service
Edinburgh
Countess of Northesk
Jessica Brown
Eleventh Earl of Northesk
Hotel Westminister
Lady Northesk
Lord Murray
Earl
Chicago
England
Smith Prepares Quaker City Talk For Pennsylvan ia
New York October 26 Gov Alfred E Smith spends day preparing for Democratic push into Pennsylvania which has 38 electoral votes second only to New York. He will speak in Philadelphia tomorrow night his sole personal appeal in Keystone state and plans a Camden New Jersey start with a motor parade and river crossing. He meets press at the Biltmore Hotel and seems rested after two days in Southern New England.
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New York
Alfred E. Smith
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Keystone
Camden
N. J
Delaware River
Biltmore Hotel
New England
Former Internal Revenue agent guilty in Albany baseball pool case
William J. Pringle, ex IRS agent and alleged secretary treasurer of the Albany baseball and stock market pool, was convicted in Federal Court of using the mails to conduct a lottery and conspiracy to do so. He remains free on $25,000 bail awaiting sentencing and faces up to ten years plus fines. The prosecution described the pool as an octopus entangling wage earners, with Pringle among the higher-ups attempting to shield others while smaller agents faced jail.
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New York
William J. Pringle
Internal Revenue
Albany Baseball and Stock Market Pool
Thomas D. Thacher
Pringle
Paul Bonynge
Tuttle
Hughes Attacks Omits a Plans Defends Hoover in Buffalo
Charles Evans Hughes spoke in Buffalo on October 26 criticizing Gov. Smith's prohibition, farm relief, and water power plans as state socialism while defending Herbert Hoover's stance. He contrasted Smith's positions with Hoover and Roosevelt, pressed for clarity on Smith's farm relief and power policies, and warned against state control of liquor production and distribution.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Charles Evans Hughes
Gov. Smith
Herbert Hoover
Hoover
Hughes
Mr. Hoover
Smith
Boston
Norris
Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Supreme Court
Congress
Seven Men Rob Glen Park State Bank in Gary
Seven masked men robbed the Glen Park State Bank in Gary Indiana taking eight thousand dollars in currency and thirty thousand dollars in bonds after forcing the vault open. Five bank employees and five patrons were herded into a back room and forced to lie on the floor under guard while the loot was taken. The robbers were unmasked.
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Gary
Ind
Glen Park
Armed Robbery Strikes Fentress Business District
Three masked robbers tied the night watchman and looted five stores in Fentress, ten miles west of Lockhart, taking guns ammunition clothing and other merchandise worth thousands of dollars. They failed to open the Fen tress Bank safe but carried off the post office strong box.
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Lockhart
Tex
Fentress
Here
Fentress Bank
Robbers Escape With 2000 After Hold-Up Near Clarksburg
In Clarksburg West Virginia on October 26 two armed robbers wounded E B Leach general manager of a motor company and escaped with about 2000 from the scene.
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Clarksburg
W. Va
E. B. Leach
Here
Houghton recalls Hoover relief in Germany after war
Alanson B. Houghton, former ambassador and now New York Senate candidate, spoke to the Engineers' Club in St. Louis recounting relief efforts in Germany after World War I. He defended Hoover, describing aid to hungry German children, Quaker relief missions, and funds aiding Belgium and France amid postwar ruin. He cited widespread hunger, poverty, and the Quakers delivering meals to over a million children.
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ST. Louis
Germany
Alanson B. Houghton
London
Berlin
United States
New York
Engineers’ Club
Herbert Hoover
Hoover
Belgium
France
Europe
Train Wreck Near Recea Kills Two Score, Many Injured
Romanian officials report a collision near Recea between the Simplon Orient Express and the Hermannstadt Bucharest Express. Two hundred killed or missing, including Col Batarnu, with Americans Arnold Ehrlich and possibly Alexander Herschler among the dead or injured. Fire from telescoped coaches caused many fatalities. switch defect blamed and rescue efforts ongoing into night.
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Bucharest
Romania
Recea
Simplon Orient Express
Arnold Ehrlich
Chicago
Alexander Herschler
Wahl Eversharp Company
New York
Herschler
Ehrlich
Col. Batarnu
Paris
Chicago Attorney Halts on Simpson Express Mystery
Chicago lawyer Arnold Ehrlich says the disaster victim may be his brother Alexander, noting Alexander Ehrlich often traveled between the continent and Transylvania.
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Chicago
Arnold Ehrlich
Alexander
Continent
Transylvania
Hurley sentences Newport gangsters to long prison terms
Judge Edward M. Hurley urged Newport police to warn other gangsters after five young men Kerr Kelly Wagner Becker and Koonen were convicted of robbery. They received ten year penitentiary terms each except Becker aged 20 who was sent to the reform school.
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Newport
Edward M. Hurley
John Kerr
Ray Kelly
Richard Wagner
Neal Becker
Elmer Koonen
Cornelius Petzhold
Hate
Jacoby Meyers
Cleves, O
Hurley
Kerr
Kelly
Wagner
Koonen
Becker
Reformatory
Duchess Heir of Manchester Faces Prolonged Bankruptcy
In London the Duke of Manchester, husband of Helena Zimmerman, remains in bankruptcy for three more years. The registrar criticized his extravagance as unjustifiable. Debts total about £129,656 with minimal assets. a recovered sum of £9,923 was reported under Zimmermann trustees.
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London
Duke of
Manchester
Helena Zimmerman
Eugene Zimmerman
Cincinnati
Committee of Inspection
Zimmerman
Child Burned In Kerosened Stove Explosion
In Defiance Ohio Jesus Magana a 15 month old boy died after his sister Mercedes 5 poured kerosene on a stove and lit it an explosion caused the blaze that enveloped the child.
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Defiance, CO
Jesus Magana
Jose Magana
Mercedes
Huntington Bank Closes In West Virginia
Huntington Bank in Huntington West Virginia was closed today by order of the Board of Directors and its affairs turned over to the State Banking Department for liquidation. The action follows the previous acquisition of assets of the defunct American Bank and Trust Company.
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Huntington Bank
Huntington
W. Va
Coal Exchange Bank
American Bank and Trust Company
Board of
State Banking Department
Lawson-Johnston
Albany
N. Y
Betty McCormick
John Robert Lawson-Johnston
Barbara Guggenheim
Solomon R. Guggenheim
Miss McCormick
Thomas W. McCormick
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Cuyahoga
Grand Jury
Lou Tllegen
W. Virginia
Bhat Zeppelin
Dr. Eckener
Sherrill
U. S
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Gen. McQuigg
Legion
Rail Brotherhoods
G.O.P
Omaha
W. B. Ragsdale
Peggy Hopkins
Joyce
Secretary of State
Tammany’s
Date
Mr. Houghton
Ultimatum
Duke of Manchester
Cincinnatian
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