Attendance up in city schools shows near record enrollment
Report by Superintendent H Rice details second six week period ending November 28 with 26 more pupils than prior term, pushing total near 1900 and near record attendance. White pupils dominate gains while Central building suffers from absences amid a local health scare.
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H . Rice
Central Building
Garrison (Colored) High School
East
Garrison Elementary
Colored Igh
First
Jessie Cochran
Central
Ransom Plot Continues As Alves Describes Abduction
In the ongoing ransom plot, Alves tells his wife and friends at his home that his abductors masked him with bandages over his eyes and treated him "royally" during captivity. He suggested he would not mind staying longer with his hosts, saying he lost nothing but time. Alvey recalls uncertainty about the confinement location, suspecting it lay across the river.
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Alvey
Alves
Adlerika claims relief for gas and bloating
Mrs Branton says after 16 years she can eat fried onions again and enjoy life. Adlerika ends gas and sourness and helps digestion by acting on both upper and lower bowel to remove old waste matter. Central Drug Store advertises the product.
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Adlerika
Teletype setter linked to typesetting machines described
The teletype setter uses a six punch tape to cover all characters of a typesetting machine and can operate multiple typesetters remotely. A receiving platten lets editors read incoming copy without disrupting automation. The system stops when the typesetting machine halts. Intertype Corp president Neal Dow Maker calls it an ingenious development likely to alter daily newspaper composition. radio operation remains experimental.
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Neal Dow Maker
Intertype Corporation of
New York
Sheriff To Close Office Two Weeks Before Year-End
Sheriff Howard B. Newton announces the office will close after December 15 to allow a final financial settlement to be presented to the county court by year’s end. Taxpayers are urged to pay promptly and plan payments. The two-week shutdown covers the balancing of funds, aiding the transition to incoming sheriff W. J. Mays.
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Howard B. Newton
Ndt
W. J. Mays
Senate Fight Over West Nomination Reveals Tensions
Senate debate intensifies as President forwards West and opposition cites rumored links to Samuel Insull utilities. Publicly expressed objections focus on West's connections and influence, signaling a politically charged confirmation fight.
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West
Sec
Setary West
Senate
Samuel Insall Utilities
Seva
Interior Secretary Nominees Await Senate Fight
The secretary of the interior may come from a western state with West from Illinois. The President could send the two nominations to the Senate after Senator Denena of Illinois returns to Washington, a close ally of West likely to lead the confirmation effort. Law allows recess appointees to serve until the end of the next Congress if not ratified.
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Tors
Interior
West
Illinois
Senate
Washington
Denera
Congress
Youth Admits Slaying Aged Farm Recluse
Logan Ohio December 6 A neighbor Ray Featheroff 19 confessed to killing Jacob Konchler farmer recluse in Hocking County saying Konchler asked to die and offered the farm in exchange for shooting him. Featheroff claimed Konchler played a phonograph and shot himself when the song When The Sun Goes Down started.
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Logan
Ohio
Jacob Konchler
Hocking County
Ray Featheroff
Konchler
Featheroff
Konehler
Ken T
Panie
Featheroff Arrested on Theft Charge A Year Ago
A year ago Featheroff was arrested on complaint by Konchler who accused him of stealing a ring and gun case. The youth was released after questioning.
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Featheroff
Konchler
Chinese Law Student Executed In England
Chung Yi Miao, a Chinese law student from New York and Columbia University, was executed at Strangeways jail for murdering his bride Wat Sheung Miao. The couple, married in New York, honeymooned in England where the bride was found strangled near Keswick last June.
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Manchester
Eng
Chung Yi Miao
New York
Strangeways
Wat Sheung-Miao
Keswick
England
Columbia University
Aviation Experts to Attend Exposition in Chicago
A fleet of 11 multimetored passenger planes brings 100 aviation experts from 40 nations to the Aeronautical Exposition in Chicago. Delegates attend the International Conference on Civil Aeronautics in Washington set for December 12 to 14, after traveling from New York with a stop in Cleveland before continuing by plane.
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Chicago
Washington
Coolidge
New York
Cleveland
Little Hope For Woman Recovery After Shooting
Huntington dispatch reports Mrs. Maude Kitchen remained in hospital for recovery after a shooting in an attorney's office. Her husband Louis Kitchen was arrested. her companion Arthur C. Canfield of Columbus Ohio showed slight improvement. Arraignment was delayed pending the injured parties' outcomes.
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Huntington
Maude Kitchen
Lous Kitchen
Arthur C. Canfield
Columbus
Ohio
Kitchen
Canfield
Social Activities At College Cancelled At Colorado College
Colorado Springs December 6 All formal social events for the rest of the school year except the junior prom have been cancelled by the student body at Colorado College due to outrageous conduct by certain members at the recent homecoming celebration. The Associated Students ruling was printed in the Tiger and criticized the homecoming behavior. An editorial in the Tribune questioned the college's handling of drinking at functions and described the atmosphere as charged with illicit spirits.
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Colorado Springs
Col
Colorado College
Associated Students of the College
Tiger
Socialist Introduces Anti Ku Klux Measure
Representative Berger of Wisconsin in Congress introduced a bill to reenact laws from about sixty years ago against the Ku Klux Klan. He argued the campaign neglected major issues while religion dominated debate, noting the south reacted mainly when religion was invoked.
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Washington
Ione Socialist
Congress
Berger
Wisconsin
Ku Klux Klan
South
Auto Dealer Shot in Downtown Atlanta
Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 67. G. Hall Davis, a local automobile dealer, was shot and killed today on a downtown street by W. L. Shippey, who surrendered after saying Davis pursued his wife. The shooting happened before a warehouse near railroad tracks. five bullets struck Davis as he approached Shippey. Shippey told police he shot Davis through the head five times.
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Atlanta
G. Hall Davis
W. L. Shippey
Davis
Shippey
Rothstein Secrets Locked Up By Tribunal
Two steel boxes believed to hold evidence on Arnold Rothstein were sealed by court orders and moved to a bank vault under heavy guard. Grand jury said the red and black boxes could reveal bribery of police during 1926 strikes and possibly link to bond thefts in New York City.
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New York
Arnold Rothstein
Grand Jury
Yan-Ure
I C C Advises New Fire Doors for Locomotives
Interstate Commerce Commission staff urged compulsory installation of mechanically operated fire doors on all coal fired locomotives by January 1, 1931. Railroads and state commissions along with railroad brotherhoods pressed for the measure.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Commission
Oho
Michigan
Wisconsin
Brotherhoods of
Railroad Engineers
Commission For Federal
Arizona Woman Awarded Alienation Suit Verdict
Pittsburgh December 6 Mrs. May Reynolds of Phoenix Arizona was awarded 12500 in her 100000 alienation suit against her mother in law Ela D Vaughan of Pittsburgh Reynolds charged that her husbands affections were alienated by his mother and that Vaughan who she claimed was wealthy had threatened to disinherit the son Raymond Reynolds if he continued to live with his wife.
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Pittsburgh
May. Reynolds
Phoenix
Ariz
Ela D. Vaughan
Reynolds
Youth Takes Off Again In His Quest For Prize
Merc er Pa Dec 6 Richard E James 17 took off from the Mercer flying field for New York to win a $1000 prize as the youngest aviator to make a trans continental flight. He was delayed about two days after breaking a propeller and a strut when he landed in a wheat field near Mercer Tuesday evening. Repairs were completed yesterday and the ship was moved here but delayed again awaiting fuel.
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Mercer
Richard E. James
New York
Here
Southworths Bedfast With Severe Influenza
Billy Southworth newly appointed St. Louis Cardinals manager and his wife are bedfast at relatives' home with a severe intestinal influenza attack. Their son Bil Jr. also ill at home of relatives in Columbus Ohio.
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Portsmouth
Billy Southworth
St. Louis Cardinals
Bil Jr
Columbus
Doctor Denies Operation of Criminal Nature
Keyser December 6 1942 Dr Otto Fisher testified he did not perform an illegal operation on Miss Lonnie Beckone of Harrisonburg Virginia found dead in his office. He admitted performing an operation but said it was legal and necessary to save her life. He said she refused hospital care and insisted he treat her. The immediate cause of death was heart attack after a week of suffering.
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Keyser
Otto Fisher
Lonnie Beckone
Harrisonburg
Miss Beckone
Farm relief doubtful after HouseAgricultural Committee meeting
Washington December 6 The chairman of the House Agricultural Committee said there is great doubt about passing an adequate farm relief bill this session. Members debated whether to push thrift and agricultural relief now and warned of conflicts with tariff revision plans before Ways and Means finishes duties. The committee adjourned without action on a procedure schedule.
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Washington
Haugen
House Agricultural Committee
Congress
Friends of Farm Relief
Ways and Means
Hangman Karl Gold Dies in Budapest
Budapest reports the death of Karl Gold Hungarys busiest hangman at age, after years of service since 1888 he hanged 130 men.
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Budapest
Hungary
Karl Gold
Dave's Mentha-Pepsin Promises Quick Gas Relief
A medicinal claim advertises Dave's Mentha-Pepsin as a cure for indigestion and gas. It asserts rapid relief within ten minutes, banishing heartburn and dizziness and restoring comfort, with a guarantee from Red Cross Pharmacy and other pharmacists.
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Dave
Red Cross Pharmacy
West Side
New British Probe Sought Into Vestris Tragedy
New York dispatch reports Captain Henry McConkey urges sending surviving officers testimony to Britain's Board of Trade for a fresh inquiry into the Vestris disaster. He notes the officers were not in proper condition to recount events. Jessop criticizes lack of leadership and disorganization in lifeboat handling aboard the sinking liner.
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New York
Vestris
Henry McConkey
United States
O'Neil
British Board of Trade
McConkey
EB. P. Tene
Jessop
Ahl
Railroad Worker Slain in Blackhand Plot
Chicago December 6 believed to be the victim of a blackhand extortion plot Samuel Li 28 railroad employee was shot and killed today by an unidentified assailant Police hold Tony Viso brother in law found near the scene The slain man's widow said he had received threatening letters demanding money The garbled text includes stray phrases about auto theft and matrimonial problems reflecting poor OCR quality
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Chicago
Samuel Li
UnkReNe
Besailant
Tony Viso
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