Mob violence feared at Williamstown after fatal crash
Roy Kinman an 85 year old Circuit Court clerk was killed when struck by a speeding car with Ohio plates on the Dixie Highway near Williamstown Kentucky. Three occupants were removed to Lexington jail amid fears of community violence. Kinman had just left home in the car of E CL G Menefee and was walking when struck. Kinman a six year clerk and Baptist church leader.
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Williamstown
Roy Kinmen
Lexington
Kinman
Prest
CL. G. Menefee
Ohio
Kinnan
The
Baptist Church
Park hotel fire in Akron claims six lives
A blaze at the four story Park hotel in Akron on Christmas morning killed six people and injured several others. Victims include Wilbur Wilson 27 Arthur Alexander 67 A C Burrell 30 Thomas King 28 of Paden City West Virginia and Albert Miller 82 Mapleton Pennsylvania. Firemen arrived quickly but could not save the building housing about 86 roomers mainly factory workers. Jeff Hamilton and Paul Locker of Akron were hospitalized with burns.
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Dee
Park Hotel
Wilbur Wilson
Arthur Alexander
A. C. Burrell
Mr. Curtis
Thomas King
Paden City
W. Va
Albert Miller
Mapleton
Jeff Hamilton
Paul Locker
Drifted Rise to Steel Titan Ends with Allderdice Resignation
Pittsburgh December 26 In a career spanning 47 years Taylor Allderdice rose from a four dollar a week bank messenger to president of National Tube Company part of United States Steel. He began as a rail driller helper at Homestead later rising to foreman superintendent and manager before heading National Tube from 1926. His resignation will take effect January 1.
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Pittsburgh
Taylor Allderdice
National Tube Company
United States Steel Corporation
Allderdice
Pittsburgh Bessemer Steel Company
Homestead
Philadelphia
National Tube
United Steel Corporation
Indianapolis market reports show mixed gains and steady to higher prices
December 26 dispatch from Indianapolis markets notes 14,400 nog receipts and 94 holdovers with steady to 15 cent gains in many classes. Cattle and calf volumes strong with beef steers 10.50 to 15, vealers 15.50 to 16.50, heavy calves 6.60 to 11.50. Sheep at 6,000 receipts with fat lambs top around 15.50 and bulk 14.50 to 18.0, cull lambs 8 to 10, fat ewes 5 to 7.
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Indianapolis
Reprisals Feared For Tennessee Fugitive Capture Helper
Memphis December 26. Taxi driver I. Jeffeoate, who aided in capturing the notorious fugitive Tom Underwood, spent Christmas in seclusion fearing reprisals from Underwood supporters. Underwood faces $150,000 bond and is sought by federal inspectors for jewel robberies and related crimes in the northwest. reward of $2,000 may entitle Jeffeoate to a share.
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Tenn
D. I. Jeffeoate
Tom’ Underwood
St. Paul
Chicago
W.T. Griffin
Jeffecate
Underwood
United States
Postal
Northwest
Hotel overbuilding crisis warns investors in 1929 boom
New York December 26 Frank A Dugan president of the Hotel McAlpin warns national hotel overbuilding has reached a crisis. He cites 26 800 hotels operating 1 578 000 rooms in the United States and predicts 900 more hotels with 66 000 extra rooms will be added in 1929 despite warnings.
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New York
Frank A. Dugcan
Itotel McAlpin
United States
Dugan
Missing Pastor Returns To Evansville Hidden Absence
Rev Charles Harris pastor of the Rockport church reappears at his daughter’s Evansville home after disappearing on April 4. Police and detectives searched the tri state area with no results. He refuses to discuss his absence or whereabouts, saying he returned as a Christmas present to his wife and children.
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Evansville
Ind
Charles Harris
Rockport
Tri-State Territory
O. J. Hoffman
State government challenged as unfairly elected
Readers describe actions toward the state government as unjustly chosen while denying opposition to Federal authorities, reflecting a political stance without confrontation of national power.
Three Are Convicted For Marshal's Slayers
Paris Indiana December 26 Three men were found guilty in the killing of Town Marshal Slyvester Lientz during a clothing store burglary. Wallace Phillips received life imprisonment John Virostko was sentenced to 385 years and John Clarkson to 14 years. Phillips was shot through the leg and had it amputated. the officer fired the buckshot with a sawed off shotgun. It was the county's first murder trial in 12 years.
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Paris, II
Wallace Phillips
John Virostko
John Clarkson
Slyvester Lientz
Lientz
Phillips
Phillip
Mother and Son Killed in Crossing Accident
Jeffersonville Ind Dee 26 two persons Henry Daily 49 and his mother Mrs George Daily 76 were killed when their automobile was struck by a train at a crossing Witnesses said Daily drove his machine directly in the path of the train.
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Jeffersonville
Ind
Dee
Henry Daily
George Daily
Here
Chicago Police Reclaim 41 Million in Loot in 1928
Chicago reports recoveries exceed 41 million dollars in stolen property and 275,282 quasi-criminal arrests for the year. Commissioner William F. Russell notes only six major crimes unsolved, with thirteen officers killed in the line of duty and fifty one criminals shot dead by police.
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Chicago
Commissioner of Police
William F. Russell
Service Commission Report on 1928 Public Service Fees
United Press Dispatch reports the Indiana Public Service Commission collected 186 550 56 in fees and costs during the fiscal year ending September 30 1928. An audit of field examiners Thad IL Major and Ross Teckemeyer from the State Board of Accounts identified findings.
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Indianapolis
Publicervice Commission
Thad IL. Major
Ross Teckemeyer
State Board of Accounts
Prominent Hoosier William P Rider Dies in Bloomington
William P Rider 52 an active Crothersville Indiana business figure died at his Bloomington home after a long illness He served as president of Rider Packing Company which ran canning plants in Bloomington and other southern Indiana cities.
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Bloomington
Ind
William P. Rider
Crothersville
Indiana
Rider Packing Company
Indianapolis pairs visit Mrs Browning over Christmas
Mr and Mrs Ralph Browning and Mr and Mrs A B Borchert, all of Indianapolis, were visitors of Mrs Marshall Browning over Christmas.
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Ralph Browning
A. B. Borchert
Indianapolis
Marshall Browning
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