Contempt Conviction Upheld Against Cleveland Editor
In Cleveland on July 17, Louis B. Seltzer editor and Carlton K. Matson editorial writer of the Cleveland Press faced contempt charges for editorials criticizing a judge’s injunction on Thistledown race track operations. Their 30 day jail terms and $500 fines were upheld on appeal, with bond set at $1,000.
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Briethce
Cleveland
Louis B. Seltzer
Carlton K. Matson
Cleveland Pross
Court of Appeals Today
Common Pleas
Frederick HW. Walther
Willis Vickery
Court of Appeals
Walther
Thistledown Track
Ohio
Thistledown
Newton D. Baker
P. L. A. Leighley
E. J. Hamratty
Adkins Claims Slaying Was Accidental in Fight
Benjamin E. Adkins 54 of 953 East Maryland Street in city jail awaiting hearing on a murder charge after Marion Rairdon 27 was shot in a confrontation at the Adkins home Tuesday night. Adkins said the shotgun discharged accidentally as he struck Rairdon with the barrel in defense of his son and grandson.
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Benjamin E. Adkins
East Maryland Street
City
Marion Rairdon
Adkins
Rairdon
Raymond Bess
Fast Maryland Street
Ernest Adkins Jr
Bess
Clyde Bess
Shelby Street
Ernest Adkins Sr
Clyde
John Sheehan
Bess Brothers
Franklin
Ind
Effie Rairdon
Donald
Croquet Nuts Delayed by Hunger in Marathon
Dallas rope tale reports C. G. Hart barber and L. R. Rose tailor halted their Galveston to Gotham croquet marathon after two days without food. They cite inability to eat croquet balls and lack of players as reasons for the delay, though they plan to deliver a letter to Mayor Jimmy Walker.
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United Press
Dallas
Tex
C. G. Hart
Barber
L. R. Rose
Galveston
Gotham
Hart
Jimmy Walker
New York
Griffith Third Hospitalized For Acute Appendicitis
Clark Griffith III, president of the Washington American League club, was taken to Mercy hospital in Chicago with appendicitis. He underwent planned surgery later that afternoon after being stricken Tuesday night.
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United Press
Chicago
Clark Griffith
Washington American League Baseball Club
Mercy Hospital
Griffith
Pathfinder in Paris lands after 650 mile Rome flight
Roger P Williams and Captain Lewis A Yancey American trans Atlantic fliers landed at Le Bourget air dome at 5 32 p m after a 650 mile flight from Rome. Hourly temperatures follow with readings around 78 to 87 degrees and fluorescent weather notes.
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United Press
Paris
Roger P. Williams
Lewis A. Yancey
le Bourget Airdome
Rome
Hoxie Posts 10000 Challenge To Mix In Cowboy Stunt
Colonel Zach Miller owner of the 101 Ranch posted 10000 to back Jack Hoxie in a cowboy stunt contest against Tom Mix. They will meet in New York on November 3 with proceeds to a baby's milk fund if Mix accepts. Mix has moved to Sells Floto circus after breach of contract suit from Miller.
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United Press
Circus
Miller
Funeral for Mrs Nellie Steep Meith Held in Indianapolis
Funeral services for Nellie Alice Steep Meith 50 of 3237 North New Jersey Street were held at her home Thursday afternoon with Dr J Ambrose Dunkel of Tabernacle Presbyterian Church officiating. Burial followed in Crown Hill Cemetery. A lifelong Indianapolis resident she died Tuesday at Robert Long Hospital after a nine week illness. She had taught in the vocational department of the Indianapolis public schools for seven years.
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Nellie Alice Steep Meith
New Jersey Street
J. Ambrose, Dunkel
Tabernacle Presbyterian Church
Crown Hill Cemetery
Elevator Crash In Baltimore Injures Seventeen
Seventeen people were injured when an elevator fell about twenty five feet from the Strouse building’s second floor to the basement. Police were taking a report of a boy killed at a factory freight elevator when the accident happened. The boy’s name was 12 year old Robert Smith whose body was found crushed against a wall after hours.
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United Press
Baltimore
Strouse
Robert Smith
Two Giant Ocean Liners Planned for United States Lines
Boston July 17 two new ocean liners larger than the Leviathan will be built for the United States Lines Inc construction to start early next year announced by Joseph E Sh edge president on arrival from New York aboard the Leviathan flagship now to enter drydock for pre winter overhaul ing.
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United Press
Boston
United States Lines, Inc
Joseph E. Shédge
New York
Leviathan
Lines
Liquor Cache Found in Shamokin House Raid
Sunbury officials report Col Wilbur Leitzel said agents acting on invitation of Charles Fendale of Shamokin uncovered liquor hidden behind stair steps and secret panels including a wine cellar and leaked gas jets. Fendale posted $2000 bail for federal court.
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United Press
Sunbury
Wilbur Leitzel
Charles Fendale
Shamokin
Leitzell
Fendale
War clouds begin to clear over Asia mediation looming
Moscow reports that Nanking answered the Soviet ultimatum with a conciliatory note. China claims its Manchurian railway seizure was necessary and insists it should not affect China Russia relations. Chu Zao Yang will travel to Moscow to start talks as the Soviet reply awaits the full ultimatum text.
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Eugene Lyons
United Press
Moscow
Asia
Manchuria
Nanking
Soviet Union
Russia
China
Chu Zao-Yang
Communist Meetings In Berlin In Support Of Soviet Union Defense
In Berlin on July 17 communist gatherings continued into the early morning in workers quarters, showing solidarity with the Russian government and the defense of the Soviet Union. Police intervened in a few isolated cases, arresting four individuals.
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Bu Lyited
Berlin
Soviet Union
Stultz Exonerated Of Intoxication In Roosevel t Field Crash
Wilmer Stultz the trans Atlantic flyer killed near Roosevelt field was cleared by Nassau county coroner Wilmot Y. Hallock. The coroner found no evidence of intoxication at the time of the accident.
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United Press
Westbury
L. I
Wilmer Stultz
Roosevelt Field
Wilmot Y. Hallock
Nassau County
Stultz
Women to Wear Pants Forecast by Cotton Board
United Press reports the National Association of Cotton Manufacturers style advisory board predicts trousers for women. Women nationwide will adopt pajamas for house wear and porch and lawn use within a year.
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United Press Boston
Style Advisory Board
National Association of Cotton Manufacturers
Indiana prison board to probe Stepp killing riot causes
The Indiana state prison board will investigate conditions after the July 4 killing of Harry Stepp, a Louisville inmate, by Edward Spann. Assistant deputy warden Henry F. Kratzer resigns amid the fallout, and Spann faces first degree murder charges in October as whites and blacks clashed with heavy cuspidors used as improvised weapons.
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Michigan City
Ind
Indiana State Prison Board of Trustees
Harry Stepp
Louisville
Edward Spann
Indianapolis
Henry F. Kratzer
Kratzer
Spann
Frank H. Kratzer
Indiana
sPetine
Wickersham Plan Hit By Volstead Plan Clash
St Paul Minn July 17 Suggestions by George W Wickersham at the governors conference to ease enforcement would practically license liquor sales in parts of the country Andrew J Volstead father of the dry act opposed the move saying it would deprive the federal government of key evidence for catching illicit manufacture importation and transport Volstead argued that sharing enforcement would fail practically to curb illegal activity.
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United Press
ST. Paul
Minn
George W. Wickersham
Governors
Andrew J. Volstead
Volstead
Law Change Unnecessary Says Officials on Dry Laws
Federal prohibition officials agreed with Chairman George W. Wickersham that states should bear more enforcement responsibility. They argued the Volstead Act does not need modification as current provisions already authorize state action and a federal takeover would cost up to 300 million dollars annually. сух
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United Press
Washington
George W. Wickersham
National Law Enforcement Commission
Treasury
Seymour Lowman
James M. Doran
House
Doran
Drys
Wickersham
James Watson
Governors Not to Act on Wickersham Plan
A by law of the Governors conference likely blocks action on George W. Wickersham's proposal to split prohibition enforcement duties between state and federal governments. Conference rules forbid voting on controversial subjects.
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Eastern Point
Conn
Governors’ Conference
George W. Wickersham
Roanoke Murder Confession Ties Theft to Slaying
Roanoke police said James Caruthers of Knoxville confessed to killing E. H. Abbott of New York as they traveled into Roanoke on Tuesday. Police said Rothery acted as the motive and Caruthers obtained $12.50 and a wrist watch after shooting Abbott.
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Roanoke
James Cammthers
Knoxville
Tenn
E. H. Abbott
New York
Rothery
Caruthers
Boozer Bees Get Soused on Nature's Apple Jack
Charles O. Yost head of the bee inspection department says bees drink fermented cider apple juice in sun heated hives and can reel fall asleep. Wasps are worse booze fighters but there are no bee deaths from alcohol though he warns apple jack may affect bees’ knees.
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Charles O. Yost
Frank Wallace
Yost
Wild trading boosts wheat on volatile Chicago board
Chicago July 17 wild trading lifts wheat futures as drought and high temperatures cut Canadian spring planting. Estimates show a North American spring crop shortage exceeding 400 million bushels. At close, July 1.447, September 1.48 to 1.491, December 1.545s.
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United Press
Chicago
Prairie Provinces
Board of Trade
Two Air Mishaps Do Not Deter Governor Green
Michigan's Governor Fred W. Green remains undeterred by two air mishaps in two days. He escaped injury when his plane struck an obstruction near Kalamazoo during landing, and today forced a landing ten miles from the capital after the craft began to miss. The governor quipped that the only accident that would stop him would have to be very serious.
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United Press
Lansing
Mich
Fred W. Green
Michigan
Kalamazoo
Capitol
Midway Airport
Warship Sinks Off Chile. 42 Dead in maritime Disaster
The Chilean naval transport Abtao sank in a violent storm off San Antonio. Forty-two of forty-three crew members are believed dead. One midshipman was rescued by the steamer Imperial. others were found in the sea with wreckage. Rescue ships Flora and Arctic also went to the scene.
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Niled
Santiago
Chile
San Antonio
Imperial
Flora
State rejects $219000 holding company bond for school
State tax commissioners refuse a $219,000 holding company bond issue for a Lawrence township Marion county high school. Officials cite cost, not legality of brokers' fees, $12,100 charged against bond revenues. Indiana bank reportedly promoting local support for holding company school construction.
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Lawrence Township
Marion County
State Board of Accounts
Indianapolis
Cops Extend TwelveHour Shifts After Station Heists
Police keep twelve hour shifts after four filling station holdups in two hours. Suspects Clarence Pierce Lester Adams Ralph Bickel all denied addresses given. Earl Domeland held for investigation and Jesse Willoughby jailed on vagrancy charges after leading officers to a cache of wire wheels near White River.
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Claude M. Worley
Michael Morrissey
Clarence Pierce
Luther Street
Lester Adam
English Avenue
Jury Chosen in Kos Auto Death Trial
In Indianapolis the Kos auto death case moves forward as a 34 year old Max Kos faces murder charges for a New Year’s Eve fatality. A 12 member jury including Richard Wade age 84 is seated after three days of voir dire. The trial may run through the week with 15 to 20 witnesses for each side.
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Kos
Paul Rhoadarmer
Max Kos
West Thirty-eighth Street
Ralph Jester
Carl Fulkerson
West Washington Street
William R. Osborne
Rybolt Street
Jester
Indianapolis Street Railway Company
Linwood Avenue
Washington Street
Frank H. Davis
Maple Road
Thomas A. Wade
Wright Street
Malcolm Wachstetter
North Meridian Street
John F. Haag
Union Street
Frank R. McGonagle
College Avenue
Harry H. Magg
New Jersey Street
Indiana National Bank
Robert S. McDaniel
Broadway
Edward P. Lacey
Winthrop
William A. Kelso
Fletcher Avenue
William S. Lines
Bellefontaine Street
Oscar Wacker
Linwood, Packing Company
William FE. Beadle
Ewing Street
Rhoadarmer
Richmond
Ind
Half Million Texas Mexicans to Return Home
The La Presidencia report says not less than 300,000 Mexican residents in Texas are ready to return to Mexico to farm under a new government plan. A commission will be sent to Mexico City to discuss land distribution for returning nationals with President Portes Gil's government.
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United Press
Mexico City
Texas
Mexico
la Presidencia
Portes Gil
Society of Texas Mexicans
Young Curwood Weds In Elopement Across World Tour
James Oliver Curwood Jr., son of the late novelist and conservationist, elopes with Miss Helen Ford daughter of Judge William L. Ford of White Sulphur Springs. The romance began on a world tour last winter and was disclosed by Curwood's mother Mrs. Ethel Curwood in Owosso Michigan.
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United Preas
Owosso
Mich
James Oliver Curwood Jr
Helen Ford
William L. Ford
White Sulphur Springs
Curwood
Ethel Curwood
Charles Reynolds Loses License For DUI In Bedford
Bedford Indiana July 17. Mayor John R. Andrews revoked Charles Reynolds drivers license for driving while intoxicated. He was fined 150 and sentenced to six months in jail.
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Bedford
Ind
Charles Reynolds
John R. Andrews
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