Youth beaten to death behind Louisville apartment house
In Louisville Kentucky a youth identified as Walter Edington 22 formerly of Lebanon was found beaten to death behind an apartment house. Police sought occupants questioned two women were seen with two men near midnight caps located near the body and rear porch coroner ruled crushed skull motive unknown one man and two women were arrested for questioning
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Louisville
Rex” Purdon
Lebanon
Carter
Walter Edington
Tennessee seeks dismissal in Scopes trial Bill of Exceptions
The State of Tennessee moved to strike the Scopes bill of exceptions in the Dayton trial, arguing the 30 day limit elapsed and seeking a constitutional rehearing. Judge Seay and Attorney General Thompson joined in the filing, asserting the delay invalidates the record and aims to force a constitutional focus without the trial testimony.
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Knoxville
Tenn
State of Tennessee
Supreme Court
John Thomas Scopes
Dayton Trail
John R. Neal
Scopes
Seay
State of
Tennessee
Edward T. Seay
Nashville
Frank M. Thompson
K. T. McConnico
Special Council
Raulston
Dayton
Anti-Steel Trap League aims to end fur trapping
Washington October 3 The Anti-Steel Trap League charges sportsmen and officials with endorsing cruel steel traps. Edward Breck leads a pamphlet urging laws to ban non killing trapping methods for fur. The campaign targets United States and Canada with fundraising from women who wore fur.
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Washington
U. S. Biological Survey
League
Edward Breck
Navy
United States
Canada
Air Mail Aims to Cut England India Delivery to Five Days
Imperial Airways with air ministry subsidy and a five year contract will run a weekly England to India mail service. Mails reach Bombay in five days instead of 15, with future passenger service from Cairo to Basra. Initial passenger leg Cairo to Basra, flight path Kantara Ramleh Amman Bagdad Basra Karachi, using specially designed three engine aircraft to avoid forced landings.
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London
England
India
Imperial Airways, Limited
Air Ministry
Bombay
Cairo
Basra
Kantara
Ramleh
Amman
Bagdad
Karachi
Judge Raulston Seeks Tennessee Governorship Bid
Evansville Indiana October 5 Judge J T Raulston of Winchester Tennessee announced after a Scopes trial address that he may run for governor in the next election. He noted a Republican tilt in 1920 and said a race against the Democrat incumbent would force him to study the bid. He recalled Clarence Darrow’s contempt charge and joked that sending Darrow to jail might have won him the governorship.
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Associated Press
Evansville
Ind
J. T. Raulston
Winchester
Tenn
Tennessee
Raulston
Jlarding
Clarence Darrow
Scopes
Darrow
Italian Debt Mission Sails from Naples October 22
Rome Oct 6 Count Volpi finance minister and other members of the Italian debt funding mission to America have definite plans to sail from Naples on October 22.
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Associated Press
Rome
Count Volpi
America
Naples
Markets By The Associated Press
Louisville market notes from October 6 show cattle around 2000 head with admissions slow and steady. Hogs about 500 head mixed with prices five to fifteen cents lower eight to twelve seventy five. Sheep around 1000 head steady with little change.
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Louisville
World Series Coverage From The Kingsport Times
The Kingsport Times will report the World Series from Market street with added radio support. Due to radio uncertainty the twice per inning wire service will be retained and scores posted on The Times office window as soon as received. The series opens tomorrow in Pittsburgh at 2 p m with free inning by inning wire service.
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Kingsport Times
Market Street
Times
Pittsburgh
The
Barbara LaMar to Temporarily Retire from Screen
Los Angeles reports Barbara LaMar suffered a health breakdown during filming and will retire temporarily to regain strength. Doctors advise rest while she finishes the current picture before taking a longer rest.
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Barbara Lamar
Los Angeles
Old Town Well Modernized Into Safe Drink Fountain
Decatur Arkansas October 3 The old town well once used for dusty travelers is being repurposed as a sanitary drinking fountain cooler. Pipes from the water works will feed a bottom coil inside the shaft to deliver water to the fountain on the town’s busiest corner.
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Decatur
Ark
Poison Rumors Hit German Foreign Minister in Locarno
Reports from Locarno on October 6 claimed Dr. Stresemann, German foreign minister, fell ill from poison rather than climate. A German spokesman denied the poisoning and said his food was checked. The security conference morning session was postponed yet Stresemann attended the afternoon session.
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Associated Press
Locarno
Switzerland
Stressmann
Stresemann
Police raid nets two hundred gambling arrests in Chicago
Chicago officials report a raid on gambling houses last night resulted in the arrest of about two hundred men, most of them craps and poker players. A large amount of paraphernalia was confiscated, including a venue near the police station.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Court of Appeals Reverses Verdict in Frankfort Slaying Case
The Court of Appeals reversed the Franklin circuit court judgment and granted Edgar Lee a new trial on the June 1924 slaying of Ed Morrow in Franklin County. Lee, already serving a ten year sentence, had instructions to the jury deemed erroneous.
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Associated Press
Frankfort
Court of Appeals Today
Franklin Circuit
Edgar Lee
Ed Morrow
Franklin County
Lee
Forecasts Satisfactory Future in German Autos
Berlin Oct 5 a satisfactory future of the German automobile industry is forecast by Dr Gustav Blum a Frankfurt industrialist now that the German automobile tariff has been accepted. He cites continued excellence in motor truck output while noting a downturn in private cars due to the buying season and tight money.
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Berlin
Gustav Blum
Frankfurt
Germany
Blum
Chicago Aviation Depot Planned in Chicago
Chicago on October 6 announced that a large government aviation depot with modern steel hangars and fleet battle planes will be located in the city. Major General Patrick approved the plan and Lieut. Mann stated a 99 year lease has been secured for a landing field.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Patrick
Air Service
Mann
Annual subsidy granted to theatre by Free State
Dublin reports the Free State endows the Abbey Theatre as the first state funded theatre in an English speaking country with an annual subsidy of 1750 dollars. Senator Yeats urges America to follow, noting the Abbey’s plays reach wide audiences and have been translated. Finance Minister Blythe thanks the theatre and cites twenty years of attendance to its national educational work.
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Dublin
Free State
William Butler Yeats
America
Yeats
Blythe
Abbey Theatre
Tokyo’s Traffic Dangerous by the Associated Press
Tokyo police records show a rising toll from traffic crashes. In the year ending March, 6,423 motor car accidents caused 81 deaths and 3,496 injuries, with bicycle and wagon incidents nearly matching, and tram accidents killing 76 and injuring 1,925.
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Tokyo
Associated Press
French novels set to rise to nine francs price
Paris on October 5 the French Publishers Union fixed the popular novel price at nine francs up from prewar levels of three to three and a half. The higher price is intended to cover material and production costs and will determine author royalties based on this new base.
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Paris
President Coolidge Urged Peace But Backed Militia
President Coolidge addressed the American Legion in Omaha, cheered by veterans from France, urging demobilization of racial antagonisms and warnings of more destructive wars without a universal spirit of tolerance. He favored peace preparations, subordinate military power to civil authority, and supported a sound selective service act while deploring intolerance.
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Omaha
Neb
France
Coolidge
American Legion
America
Coolidge urges tolerance to avert world war at Legion meet
President Coolidge told the American Legion in Omaha that racial antagonisms must be demobilized and a universal attitude of toleration created to prevent a repetition of warfare. He urged limiting armaments through peaceful international agreements and argued military spending should serve improvement at home rather than drive abroad.
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Omaha
Neb
Broadway
George Dobson
Chemin de Fer
Legion Auxiliary
D’oliphant
Women’s Auxiliary Organization
James A. Drain
Annn Reymond
Omaha No. 1
George Hilliard
Coolidge
American Legion
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Dr. Stresmann
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