Cincinnatus Association Backs Letter on Coney Island Gambling
The Cincinnatus Association denounces pari mutuel betting at Coney Island race track in Cincinnati. It votes 23 to 8 to urge Sheriff Witt to enforce Ohio gambling laws, citing economic harm from 118 days of racing and alleged NY gambler investment. The letter to Sheriff Witt condemns law neglect and questions Republican action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnatus Association
Witt
Coney Island
Richard B. Witt
Literary Club
East Eighth Street
Charles P. Taft Jr
Ohio
New York
Cincinnati
Track
R. K. Hyfiicka
George Schott
Latonia
Third
Martin Streets
First Husband Receives Large Annuity From Estate
Edward P. Zeigler former theater usher will gain 27 865 50 a year for life from Helen Chittenden estate. Count Pacelli her second husband gets 3 343 98 annually. Estate valued at 1 671 931 50, partition report approved by Franklin County courts.
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Columbus
Edward P. Zeigler
Helen Chittenden
Count Paccelli
Countess Paccelli
Franklin County
Daugherty son of ex Attorney General committed to Lima hospital
Draper W. Daugherty 38, son of former U S Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty, was committed to the Lima state hospital for the criminal insane by Franklin County Probate Judge Homer Bostwick. Alienists cite psychopathic disposition and dissipation, noting prior hospitalizations and drafts issued against relatives amid alleged criminal acts.
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Columbus
Draper W. Daugherty
Harry M. Daugherty
United States
State Hospital For
Lima
Homer Bostwick
Franklin County
Daugherty
E. E. Gaver
Robert C. Tarbell
Daugh
Storms Wreak Havoc in Mexico Rains Flood Bajio Coastline
Mexico City reports record devastation from torrential rains and storms. Floods cut towns off and drown four in Acámbaro. Lerma river damage grows. A 56 000-ton steamer Montezuma and other vessels suffer storm distress off Puerto Mexico with passengers aboard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico City
Mexico
Republic
Acamabaro
Gulf of Mexico
Frontera
Puerto Mexico
Vera Cruz
N. Y. World News Service
N. Y. World
Press Pub. Co
Battenfield killed as auto struck by train near Columbia City
In Columbia City Indiana on September 29 W M Battenfield 65 of Delaware Ohio was killed and his wife injured when their car was hit by a Pennsylvania Railroad train while returning from Des Moines to visit their son Walter. Battenfield once headed the Odd Fellows Home and was well known in the state. His wife will recover.
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Columbia City
Ind
Battenfield
Delaware
Here
Des Moines
Walter
Odd Fellows
Mars. Battenfield
Newport
R. J
City of Rome
Triton
Naval Torpedo Station
Towne
La Follette Wins Wisconsin Senate Seat In Landslide
Robert M. La Follette Jr. swept to the United States Senate from Wisconsin by a major vote margin exceeding 130000, carrying 70 of 71 counties as rain and missing precincts affected reporting. He defeated Dithmar and other independents while aligning with his father’s reform principles.
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LA Follette
Wisconsin
Milwaukee
Robert M. la Follette, Jr
United States Senate
Bob
Kenosha County
Coolidge
Dithmar
la Follette-Wheeler
Racine County
Walworth County
Rock Country
Bruce
Work
Bauman
Robert M.la Follette
Bowles Wins Special Election in President Coolidge District
Henry L. Bowles Republican narrowly defeats Roland D. Sawyer Democrat to fill the late George B. Churchill seat in Amherst district. Bowles 12702 Sawyer 9067 with a 3635 vote margin. Chicopee flips for Sawyer. Sawyer campaigned on light wines and beer while Bowles backed Volstead Act revision.
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Associated Press
Springfield
Mass
Henry L. Bowles
Congress
President Coolidge
Roland D. Sawyer
Ware
George B. Churchill
Amherst
Bowles
Sawyer
Chicopee
Wilbraham
Hatfield
Sheriff Claims No Responsibility for Cook County Prison
Judge presses Sheriff Hoffman on jail faults as he testifies that awareness of bribery and escape schemes came only during the Druggan inquiry. Westbrook, ex Warden, defends his lack of bribe acceptance while detailing the jail’s 567 staff and the one year sentences involving Druggan and Lake.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cook County Prison
Hoffman
Cook County
Chicago
Terrence Druggan
Frank Lake
Wesley Westbrook
Wilkerson
Druggan
Lake
Westbrook
Sheriff's Office
Govan
Peter M
B. J. Bowman
Standard Beverage Company
Bowman
Frank Horace Fox
Fox
Edward Mulvihills
Americans Describe Moor Battle Experience in Morocco
In Ouezzan Morocco Captain Lansing C. Holden and Dr. W. Sparks joined a French column facing Moroccan forces. They fought through a tense wooded hill scene where rifle fire and possible ambushes occurred. Modern tanks aided the attackers, and the two Americans returned to Quezzan with guides, later reprimanded for their risky venture.
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Ouezzan
Morocco
Lansing C. Holden
New York
W. Sparks
Indianapolis
Lake Erie
Lake Champlain
Holden
Sparks
Marchelot
Gaudot
Quezzin
Marchélot
Sherife
France
Quezzan
Paris Set for 24 Hour Strike by French Communists
French Communists announce a nationwide twenty four hour revolutionary strike planned within the week. A manifesto to the army urges troops to refuse orders and stay in the streets or replace strikers in transport and services as a protest against the current world order.
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Paris
Iowa Tags 100000 Inmates Ineligible to Wed
Des Moines Sept. 29 The State Board of Control Bureau of Child Welfare announced that about 100000 Iowans would be listed as ineligible to marry. The names cover inmates of state insane asylums or hospitals deemed unfit for marriage under state law.
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Des Moines
Iia
State Board of Control Bureau of Child Welfare
Empress Theater Building Sold for 265000 in Cincinnati
The Empress Theater at Vine street and Lippincott alley was bought by Seton Realty Company for 265000 for a client. Frankel Realty sold the three story brick building once a church, then vaudeville theater, later vacant before Mutual Burleque Circuit leased it. The sale, the second largest downtown in a week, signals a active fall market. Frederick A. Schmidt Company brokered.
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Empress Theater
Vine Street
Lippincott Alley
Eighth
Ninth Streets
Seton Realty Company
Frankel Realty Company
Old Vine Street Congregational Church
Old American Burlesque Circuit
Mutual Burleque Circuit
Ankel Realty Company
Carew
Fifth and Vine Streets
Greenwood
Gift’s Theater
Butler
Sixth and Vine Streets
Fifth Street
Vine and Elm
Ingalls
Fourth and Vine Streets
Press
Cincinnati
Savoy Hotel
Robert O'Brien
Frederick A. Schmidt
Bankers Move to Reduce Crime
The American Bankers Association marked its fiftieth anniversary in Atlantic City by creating a $600000 educational fund to award 100 economics scholarships across all states and territories. The session also formed a Committee on Resolutions and discussed a uniform criminal procedure code and vigilante movements in eight states hardest hit by bank crimes.
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Associated Press
Atlantic City
American Bankers’ Association
Evans Woolen
Indianapolis
Walter Lichtenstein
Chicago
Protective Committee
Illinois
Oklahoma
Kansas
Missouri
California
Michigan
Texas
Indiana
Fifth effort to raise treasure ship Merida fails
New York reports the fifth attempt to raise the steamship Merida, sunk off the Virginia Capes in 1914 with a $4,000,000 cargo of gold and four silver. Bad weather thwarted the operation as investors led by Franklin I. Mallory head back to New York after another failed salvage.
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Associated Press
New York
Virginia Capes
Spray
Franklin I. Mallory
Merida
DIVERS RESUME S-51 SEARCH AS WEATHER CLEARS
The Brooklyn Eagle reports Navy officials wonder why the Kearsarge not used to lift S-51 from Block Island. The converted cruiser could lift 250 tons with derricks but would need towing and power. it would take about fourteen hours to reach the site if ready. Navy officials say Kearsarge would require three days to be ready for lifting.
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New York
Brooklyn Eagle
Navy
Navy Department
Block Island
Eagle
Boston Navy Yard
Monarch
Century
Associated Press
Washington
Kearsarge
H. H. Christy
First Naval District
Boston
Masked Robbers Hold Up Banks Across Three Cities
In Cambridge Massachusetts on September 29 a bank delivery chauffeur was killed and a messenger wounded as masked gunmen stole a payroll of 10 266 from Ward Baking. In Baltimore a suspected robber was shot by police after wounding an bank official. In Niagara Falls four youths fled with 18 000 Canadian dollars after disarming a police escort and seizing a strong box.
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Cambridge
Mass
Edward GC. Ross
Central Trust Company
Ross
Rufus Johnson
Ward Baking Company
William O’toole
Baltimore
John Damm
Broadway Savings Bank
South Broadway
Damm
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Niagara Falls
N. Y
Reginald Ducette
Power City Bank
William Bailey
Ducette
Bailey
Ontario
Bank Robbers Nabbed After Seattle Hold Up
Three men who held up Queen City Bank in Seattle and took 5000 were captured. Two were identified as T. H. Johnson and James Burns. Johnson and Burns had escaped from King County Jail on September 15 with four other prisoners.
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Seattle
Wash
Queen City
T. H. Johnson
James Burns
Johnson
Burns
King County
Indictment Sought in Grave Looting and Smoldering Car
Hancock authorities seek to indict missing insurer Fred G Beale for looting the grave of James H Davis and placing the body in a wrecked car set ablaze. An inquest linked a canvas-gloved digger to the cemetery find as Beale remains missing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Binghamton
N. Y
Hancock
Delaware County Grand Jury
Fred G. Beale
James H. Davis
Beale
Davis
Davidson
O'Connor
James Davis
Claude Ferris
Vincent
Welsh
George Halstead
John Lee
William Robinson
Eeven
Lee
Butler's Driver In A Thief Chase In Philadelphia
In Philadelphia Brigadier General Butler's director of public safety's chauffeur Peter Long chased a thief who stole Butler's car. Long fired upon the fleeing driver as the thief circled the station, the pursuit ending when Long was held up by a traffic delay and the thief abandoned the car.
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Associated Press
Philadelphia
Peter Long
Butler
Long
Two Bodies Recovered From Battery Room At Sea Base
At New London Connecticut the navy says two bodies were found after submarine 8 51 sank. Captain Ernest J. King reported the operation is ready to lift the sunken boat at daybreak with tugs lighters and floating derricks aiding the rescue after 96 hours of prep and weather delays.
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New York World News Service
U. S. Submarine Base
New London
Conn
Navy
Ernest J. King
Divers Resume Search for S-51 Deep Undersea Wreck
In Newport and Camden on Sept 29 divers from the mothership Cam den and helpers battled rough seas to recover the S-51 crew members. Bodies of John L. Gibson and Teschemacher were brought aboard and identified, with official notes on identity via dental records and fingerprinting.
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S&s
Camden
Newport
R. IL
Bispaten
Chewink
Rome
Monarch
Century
John L. Gibson
William
F Féschemacher
P. Ty. Crosby
Naval Hospital
R. I
Bureau of Navigation
Washington
Crosby
Gibson
Teschemacher
Naval
Frederick
Mahan
H. H. Christy
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Oneriee
Averson
Commercial Tribune
The
Lima Hospital
Patrick F. Healy
W. M. Battenfield
Badger
la Poltette
Republicar Ine Ie
Cooistrict
Arno Dosch-Fleurot
Iowa
Emprl Tntater
Hor
Boston Yard
Trust Company
Helen Fox
Dorothy Bolger
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