Knights of Columbus Open State Convention in Grafton
Knights of Columbus held the 28th annual state convention in Grafton with mass at St Augustine Church and sessions at the Knights of Columbus Hall. About 75 delegates registered. afternoon reports and committee work followed by a city tour and a banquet at the Moose Home. Tomorrow's sessions include officer elections and final business cleanup.
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Knights of Columbus
Tony
St. Augustine Catholic Church
Washington Street
East Main Street
J. Guy Allender
Mayor King
Grafton
Northwestern Turnpike
Moose Home
Jack’ Sitter
Melody Toys
Moose
Mystery raids hit Solon offices in rare second night
Washington May 12 The ransacking of Senate members offices deepened with a second break in at Johnson California on Saturday night. Six glass panes were forced and contents scattered though nothing appeared missing. Johnson’s secretary noted a guard was on duty until midnight before an additional entrance was left unchecked. Similar incidents had targeted offices of Smoot Utah McKellar Prack Tennessee with McKellar calling it possibly the work of secret service agents.
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Washington
Senate
Johnson
California
Son
Gmoot
Utah
McKellar
Prack
Tennessee
Secret Service
British Dominions Back Navy Pact Say No Dissent
Premier Ramsay MacDonald announced in the House of Commons that all British dominions approved the outcomes of the recent London naval conference. He stated no dominion voiced disagreement with the results.
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London
Great Britain
Ramsay MacDonald
House of Commons
French Flyer Takes Off For Natal Brazil
Jules Mermoz, French flyer, launched from Senegal on the first leg of a trans Atlantic trip to Natal Brazil. He departed with a heavily loaded hydro airboat carrying four extra passengers, aiming to set a new distance record and establish a mail route across the South Atlantic. Continued on Page Five.
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St. Louis
Senegal
Jules Mermoz
Na+ta
Brazil
Mermoz
South Atlantic
Women win equal voice in Presbyterian Church decision
Philadelphia May 12 The Presbyterian Church in the United States votes to allow women to be elected ruling elders in local congregations presbyteries synods and the general assembly with 161 in favor 114 against The overture to ordain women ministers was defeated and an overture to allow women evangelists was in doubt The vote marks a milestone in the long fight for equal rights within the church.
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Philadelphia
Presbyterian Church
United States of America
Mmcee
Presbyterian General Assembly
General Assembly
Hospital Changelog Aimed At Better Ward Facilities
Do you know that every cot in our pew sail is equipped with a toilet wash-bowl drinking fountain and cot Our present Hospital has one toilet on each floor a bed in each room some rooms several beds and at times patients sleep on cots in the halls Doctors must use these toilets to wash up after leaving the operating room spending at least half an hour thereby keeping out patients or nurses or visitors for the time A new Hospital will eliminate all these annoyances.
Court inquiry to be held in Texas mobbing
Sherman Texas May 12 A military court inquiry was called to probe a mob attack that burned the courthouse killed a black man who had assaulted a white woman and wrecked three blocks in the Negro district Colonel Lawrence E McGee national guardsmen said he would pursue the case to the bottom Sixteen men were held awaiting action with fourteen charged by federal officers for prohibition violations Coroner ruled George Hughes suffocated in a court vault but his body was dragged through streets and burned in the Negro district Sherman resumed normal activities.
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Sherman
Tex
Lawrence E. McGee
National
Dan Moody
George Hughes
Hasten Troops to Riot Area in India May 12
Reports from Ona, India say the second battalion of the Royal Ulster Rifles and a battalion of HQ troops were rushed to Sholapur amid deadly rioting. Casualties rose in Digboi while Hindus and Muslims clashed over a sacred bullock during Bakrid. A British air raid on the frontier near India was reported with unknown results.
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Ona
India
Royal Ulster Rifles
Sholapur
Shillong
Assam
Digboi
London
Turangsai
Wedgewood Benn
Tata
House of Commons
Benn
Hoover Invites Group to Derby Honor Dinner
President Hoover invited a small group to a White House luncheon honoring the Earl of Derby during his stop in Washington on the way to the Kentucky Derby in Louisville. Attendees included Sir Ronald Lindsay the British ambassador Secretary Mellon Joseph Widener and Hugh Wallace former ambassador to France.
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Washington
Hoover
White House
Earl of Derby
Louisville
Ronald, Lindsay
Mellon
Balls Mills
Joseph. E. Widener
Philadelphia
Hugh Wallace
Lord Derby
Senate House Tariff Group After Accord
Washington May 12 The senate house conferees plan another effort tomorrow or Wednesday to compromise their dispute over whether the flexible provisions of the Smoot Hawley bill should continue or the Presidents authority to make emergency import duty changes. The question divides Republican conferees while the house would let the President keep power to raise or lower rates. The senate plan, backed by Democrats and independent Republicans, would remove that authority from the President. The sugar schedule again emerged with a move to reopen it by a concurrent resolution to correct a duty on the refined product Seid Mose.
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Washington
Senate
Congress
Hoover
Mexican Airmen Die In Long Distance Flight Attempt
Two Mexican airmen Col. Pablo Sidar and Capt. Carlos Rovirosa died when their monoplane Morelos crashed off Porto Limón Costa Rica while attempting a record flight from Mexico to Buenos Aires. Cause undetermined though heavy weight and storm conditions suspected.
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San Jose
Costa Rica
Porto Limon
Pablo Sidar
Carlos Rovirosa
Chile
Cerro Loco
Crazy Mill
San Geronimo
Oaxaca
Mexico
Sidar
Morelos
Mexico City
Buenos Aires
Three West Virginia Hospitals For Insane Described In Worst Condition
The West Virginia state board of control described Huntington Spencer and Weston as in a worse financial and physical state than ever due to inadequate funds and lack of buildings. Overcrowding, revenue gaps, and delayed construction threaten proper hospitalization. a $200,000 Weston addition is underway and a St Mary’s training school unit will house about 80 patients within a year.
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West Virginia
Charleston
W. Va
Huntington, Spencer
Weston
State Board of Control
N. Bradley
F. We. McCullough
James 8. Lal
L. W. Guthrie
Huntington Hospital
Weston State
St. Mary's
Huntington State Hospital
Resignation Accepted at League of Nations Council
Geneva May 12 The council of the League of Nations accepted the resignation of Charles Evans Hughes from the permanent court for international justice. A special election will be held at the next assembly in September to elect his successor Julius Gertius the German delegate presented a report on the tariff truce conference and future negotiations to stabilize tariffs. Arthur Henderson proposed vigorous negotiations to improve international trade conditions. The council thanked Hughes for his service on the world court. A Milwaukee resident unveiled a lifeboat launch along a track.
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Geneva
Charles Evans Hughes
Permanent Court For International Justice
Council of the
League of Nations
Vojislav Marinkovitch
Jugo-Slavia
Julius Gertius
Arthur Henderson
Great Britain
Council
Frank Goldsborough Sets Junior Distance Flight Record
New York May 12. Frank Goldsborough aged 19 held the unofficial junior transcontinental flight record by flying from Los Angeles to New York in 28 hours 18 minutes of actual flying time. He is the son of the late aviation engineer Brice Goldsborough who perished with Mrs Frances Grayson on a prior trans Atlantic flight.
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New York
Frank Goldborough
Los Angeles
Brice Goldsborough
Frances Grayson
New York City
Flushing
Officers Trap Robbers Three Die in Battle
Chicago May 12 three men were shot dead in a police trap at a beer flat. Proprietor Jack Hayes was killed as two gunmen died in the exchange. Special investigator Joseph Altmeir was seriously wounded, and two robbers who escaped were also hit. Altmeir led the undercover operation with four officers hidden inside. The robbers entered firing and demanded money but Hayes was shot through the heart before officers opened fire.
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Chicago
Jack Hayes
Joseph Altmeir
Altmeir
Hayes
Pilot Hero in Duel Above Clouds Sunday
New York May 12 An airplane pilot and four passengers including two women escaped a deadly crash after a fight for control during a one minute flight above Holmes airport Queens. Tex Anding knocked out an intoxicated passenger with a jaw blow as his plane lurched and dived 1000 feet. He had earlier taken off with two women and three men aboard for the $1 joy ride.
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New York
Elpert
Anding
Teir
Tex
Holmes Airport
Queens
Andjing
City Sought for Air Field as Visiting Flyers Plan
A representative of the American Aeronautical Association of New York visited Grafton seeking sites for a city air field or a large air field nearby to host a trio of Good Will Flyers during a six month nation wide tour. Several sites were considered but found too distant from the city. a secured fair grounds site could be acceptable, with final site possibly the Knal site if feasible. Morgantown was the next stop with other towns Fairmont and Clarington ruled out due to location.
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American Aeronautical Association — of
New York
Grafton
Cty
Apa
Knal
Morgantown
Fairmont
Claburg
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Solon
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Supreme Court
Associated Press
Owen J. Roberts
Teapot Dome
United States Supreme Court
Justice Sanford
John J. Parker
North Carolina
Natal
Southern Methodists
Dallas
Methodist Episcopal Church
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Salgisbury, Pa
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Court of International Justice
Milwaukee
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