Eyewitness Tells of Pair at Rifle Range in Hix Murder
In Columbus Ohio on August 2 United Press reports Dr James Howard Snook displayed no emotion as the coroner described Theora Hix's autopsy with multiple knife and hammer wounds. Witness Clarence Murray described a struggle scene near the rifle range and 16 year old Paul Krumlauf found Theora's body.
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Morris
Haven Tracy
United Press
Columbus
James Howard Snook
Theora Hix
Joseph Murphy
Miss Hix
Theora
Homer Richter
Snook
John F. Seidel
Paul Krumlauf
Ephraim Johnson
Fisher Road
de Russey Lane
Hall Mills
Johnson
Arrest Lad for Theft Nabbed Near Home
A 15-year-old boy was detained after being arrested Thursday for alleged theft of $1.50 and clothing from Mrs. Mary Hiatt at 1217 Pershing Avenue. Miss Hiatt found the youth in her bedroom and he fled before being captured by two neighbors nearby.
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Mary Hiatt
Pershing Avenue
RACKETEER CALLED BIG ARTHUR CALLEN KILLED IN GANGLAND SHOOTING
In Philadelphia at 3 a.m. Big Arthur Callen a noted racketeer was found dead with bullets in his body near a Parkside avenue hide-out. Two West Philadelphia officers reported a green sedan fleeing the scene. Police say Callen had resumed liquor and dope distribution and faced many enemies in gangland making a single suspect hard to identify.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Philadelphia
Arthur Callen
Callen
Parkside Avenue
City Budget Talks Cut Tax Levy To 1.16 For 1930
Meyer L Ert Slack and City Controller Sterling R Holt discussed the 1930 tax rate. A possible total levy around 1.16 with a current levy of 1.10. A city general levy of 65 cents will be recommended to council. The council plans further budget reductions and the recommendation may go to council Monday night.
Excursions Arranged for State Fair Week Travel
Representatives of all steam railroads entering the city met today with the state fair bound and decided excursion rates of a fare and one half for round trip tickets would prevail during the week of the fair. Several of the roads will run additional special excursions.
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State Fair
Ouilines
Huston Wins Edison Brain Race For MIT Scholarship
Wilbur B. Huston 16 son of Seattle bishop wins Thomas A. Edison brain race earning four years of MIT tuition and expenses. He scored 92 on the ethical and scientific questionnaire and joins four runner ups from Connecticut Pennsylvania New Mexico and Indiana. Charles Edison guards Huston’s papers for ten years while judges including Lindbergh Ford Eastman and Stratton crown him at Edison home.
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Julius Frandsen
United Press
West Orange
N. J
Wilbur B. Huston
Seattle
Wash
Thomas A. Edison
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Edison
Huston
Wilbur
Charles H. Brunissen
West Redding
Charles Edison
S. Arthur Huston
Henry Ford
Ford
Charles A. Lindbergh
George Eastman
Kodak Fame
Lewis Perry
Philips Exeter Academy
Exeter
N. H
Edison style quiz puzzles challenge youths in tests
United Press reports Edison era tests measuring knowledge in physics chemistry mathematics and general intelligence. samples ask about marooning a weight inheritance Island Treasure Island author automobile in 100 years and honesty relations of capital and labor among others.
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United Prew York
Thomas A. Edison
South Pacific
Jenny Lind
Soldier Rooney Dies Near Fort Benjamin Harrison
The body of Supply Sergeant Joseph Rooney 38 of Company G Eleventh Infantry Ft. Benjamin Harrison was found between Big Four railroad tracks near the depot at Lawrence. Coroner Keever said death came from a fractured skull likely from being struck by an outbound train Thursday night. Rooney a World War veteran was born in Ireland and enlisted 1914. He re enlisted and served in multiple units. He was unmarried.
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Joseph Rooney
Eleventh Infantry
Benjamin Harrison
Lawrence
Charles H. Keever
Keever
West
Eighty Fourth Street
New York City
Rooney
Ireland
Eighth Infantry
Twenty-seventh Infantry
Hole Causes Accident In City Street
Mrs Elmer Culbertson and Dr T W Leonard were injured when their auto hit an unlighted hole three feet wide and fourteen inches deep on Sixteenth Street near Central Avenue Thursday night. Witnesses said the hole was made by a construction company.
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Elmer Culbertson
Buckle Street
T. W. Leonard
North
New Jersey Street
Sixteenth Street
Central Avenue
Riot at Leavenworth Prison Roils Town As Guards Fire
Troops guard Ft. Leavenworth after a seven hour riot ends with one prisoner dead and three seriously wounded. Authorities locked inmates in cells and searched for weapons as guard lines held. The incident follows prior tensions including a killed laundry foreman and a shoe shop quarrel.
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United
Leavenworth
Kan
Ft. Leavenworth
Leavenworth Penitentiary
Thomas B. White
Washington
White
Overcrowding blamed for Leavenworth riot
Federal prison chief Stanford Bates cites overcrowding and heat as triggers for the Leavenworth insurrection. He notes the prison held 3,770 inmates though designed for 2,000, with no escapes or injuries and guards acting credibly during the incident sparked by a noon meal rice complaint.
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United Press
Washington
Eastern
Penitentiaries
Stanford Bates
Federal Superintendent of Prisons
Leavenworth
Kan
Federal Penitentiary
Bates
White
Philadelphia Man Hanged for West Coast Murder
Russell St. Clair Beitzel of Philadelphia was hanged at San Quentin Prison at 10 04 a m for the slaying of his paramour Barbara Beitzel. He protested innocence and claimed framed evidence saying Miss Mauger is still alive as the body was found in a Los Angeles park ravine and the jury convicted after brief deliberation.
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Bu United Pr
San Quentin Prison
Cal
Russell St. Clair Beitzel
Philadelphia
Barbara
Drew
Beitzel
James B. Holohan
Miss Mauger
Bus Driver Stranz Fined and Jailed After Reckless Collision
Allen Stranz, 25, a Peoples' Motor Coach Company driver, was found guilty of assault and battery and reckless driving. He received a $25 fine and concurrent ten day jail terms, with appeal to proceed on a $500 bond. The June 19 crash on Ft Wayne avenue near New Jersey street injured Mrs. Minnie McHenry. Judge George Henry condemned bus drivers while Deputy Prosecutor Karabelle blasted drivers for endangering pedestrians and motorists.
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Allen Stranz
East
Vermont Street
Peoples’ Motor Coach Company
George Henry
Stranz
Ft. Wayne Avenue
New Jersey Street
New Jersey
Minnie McHenry
1523
Central Avenue
McHenry
Henry
Charles Karabelle
Graf Zeppelin Near Azores Aboard Atlantic Flight To U S
Graf Zeppelin, sailing from Friedrichshafen Germany, heads for Lakehurst New Jersey with fair weather. The airship travels about ninety miles an hour, reports a wireless contact indicating it would pass Azores about 4 p.m. The commander plans course decisions based on prevailing weather as storms are left behind.
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Zeppelin
Azores
United States
Br United Press
Atlantic
Lakehurst
Friedrichshafen
Germany
Reds Refuse Chinese Peace Over Manchuria Rail Route
Moscow reports Russia rejects China's call for a conference to settle the Eastern Chinese railway dispute. Leo Karakhan demands Mukden accept a soviet manager for the line and the seizure formula in effect, asserting the status quo ante in Manchuria.
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Gy United Pro Moscow
Russia
China
Mukden
Manchuria
Leo Karakhan
Chang Hsueh-Liang
Karakhan
Excitement of fan causes hand injury at hotel telegraph
Enthusiasm over a baseball game led Harry O'Brien to swing his arm in a hotel billiard parlor. He struck the glass globe over a telegraph ticker, causing lacera tions on his hand. He received treatment at Indiana Christian hospital.
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Harry O’brien
Keystone Avenue
Edwards Hotel
O’brien
Indiana Christian Hospital
Plan License Check Week Begins Aug 25
State police will start a weeklong safety campaign focusing on drivers licenses headlights tail lights horns brakes and stop lights. Six points will be emphasized as part of the drive while comprehensive checks on new licenses are limited to accident cases. Evansville attorney L L Roberts found not guilty of conspiracy to commit a felony and being an accessory before the fact linked to a sewer graft in a million dollar case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert T. Humes
Humes
United Ple
Evansville
Ind
L. L. Roberts
C. P. Bock
Calm on Board Ship
Frank E. Nicholson reports aboard the Graf Zeppelin as weather and winds affect progress over France and the Mediterranean. The voyage proceeds with five new motors, a stowaway to be deported, a brief salon incident, and continued bridge games as passengers remain calm.
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Frank E. Nicholson
Rhone
United States
Toulon
France
Mediterranean
Hugo Eckener
Spain
Boy Hurdled From Car in Evart Crash
John Goll eighteen or sixteen? 16 year old Lancaster Ohio youth vacationing with parents at Crooked Lake was thrown from a car on a gravel road near Evart Michigan and fatally injured after striking a roadside stump.
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United Press
Mich
John Goll
Lancaster
Crooked Lake
Liquor Run Robbery Ended With Arrests
Andrew Holloway reported an armed robbery at a liquor purchase scheme behind William Harris home on West St Clair. Harris Jr. was arrested on blind tiger charges but the bandit remained at large.
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Andrew Holloway
West Eleventh Street
William Harris
West St. Clair Street
William Harris Jr
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Railways
Wildcat
Mabel Walker Willebrandt
Prohibition
Indiana Boy
Lege
University Chiefs
Mike Martinez
Texas
Russell Beitzel
Rhone Valley
Cadiz
REDS
Columbia
Broadcasting Company and
Jacobin Rickard
Ohio
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