Ellis Dies Suddenly in Sunday Church Service
George Henry Ellis a longtime First Baptist Church trustee and active member died of a heart attack at the church while preparing the annual budget during Sunday school. He was 60, survived by his wife two daughters a son and relatives. Funeral plans await word from relatives.
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Geo. H. Ellis
George Henry Ellis
First Baptist Church
Ellis
F” Street
Mr. Ellis
Illis
Greene County
Lucile Hunt
Richmond
Ind
Beulah Ellis
Robert B. Ellis
San Diego
Cal
Mack Ellis
Jasonville
Lyndia Taylor
Susan Bovenschen
City
May Rhodes
Lake Wales
Fla
Sadie Smith
Martha Faulk
Worthington
Ehrmann Manufacturing Company
Terre Haute
Thomas Kennedy Named ASU M W Secretary
Thomas Kennedy of Hazelton Pennsylvania president of District 7 United Mine Workers was chosen by the miners executive committee to succeed William Green as secretary treasurer Kennedy will assume duties January 10 when Green resigns and will serve two years.
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Csinternational News Service
Indianapolis
Thomas Kennedy
Hazelton
District 7
United Mine Workers, Today
Miners’ Excutive Committee
William Green
Green
American Federation of Labor
Kennedy
Britain weighs American note on war claims payment
London sources say Britain considers an American note asserting the United States has the legal right to collect war claims through the Dawes reparations plan. The note reportedly states the claim rights clearly and seeks acceptance of the mechanism.
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Linternational News Service
London
Great Britain
United States
Jugoslav peasant leader M Raditch arrested in Belgrade report
International News Service from London reports M Raditch, head of the Jugoslav peasant movement, has been arrested per a Belgrade dispatch. The notice gives no further details on the charges or circumstances of the arrest.
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International News Service
London
M. Raditch
Belerade
Chicago Face Heatless Era As Drivers Strike
Chicago reports a strike by 3,000 coal truck drivers at 400 yards demanding higher wages. Labor Secretary Davis orders Conciliation Commissioner Marshman to mediate the dispute amid reports of initial violence when a coal truck overturned.
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Chicago
International News Service
Secretary of Labor
Davis Today
Marshman
Iowa State Official Faces Suit Over Bank Cash Loss
Des Moines January 5. After the closing of several banks the Iowa executive council of bankers passes a resolution to sue W. J. Burbank former state treasurer to recover nearly one million dollars of state funds.
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International News Service
Des Moines
Iowa Executive Council of Bankers Today
W. J. Burbank
Federation Chief Backs Child Labor Abolition Push
William Green president of the American Federation of Labor urged all wage earners and Americans to back the child labor constitutional amendment. He called the issue the top task for the new year and credited Samuel Gompers as a key influence while stressing federal ratification and state action to ensure universal protection for youths.
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Washington
William Green
American Federation of Labor
United States
Green
Samuel Gompers
Workers of America
Presiden Green
Congress
New Railway Project Not Yet Abandoned
Owensboro Kentucky January report cites confidence the Owensboro Rockport and Chicago railroad from Owensville to Elnora Indiana and the Ohio River bridge will be built. Consulting engineer T H Hazelrigg, to present data to the Interstate Commerce Commission ahead of the February 6 hearing, says funds and organization exist and delays are normal in big projects. He will stay in Owensboro for two to three weeks to meet local capitalists backing the venture.
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Owensboro
Owensboro, Rockport
Hazelrigg
Interstate Commerce Commission
Pike County Pioneer Luke Loveless Dies at 91
Luke Loveless 91 oldest pioneer resident of Pike County died at his son Monroe Loveless home six miles west of Petersburg Indiana at 8 o clock Sunday morning. Loveless born in Pike County spent life in Logan township and was mourned by family and neighbors.
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Petersburg
Ind
Luke Loveless
Pike County
Monroe Loveless
Loveless
Logan Township
More scandal in Scott divorce case widens
In Alpena Michigan January 5 Mrs Edna Scott resumed testimony naming Jane Kennedy and Harry Wyckoff as the two significant figures in Congressman Scotts divorce suit. Kennedy the secretary and star witness was drawn by Wyckoffs good looks according to Mrs Scott.
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Alpena
Michigan
Jane Kennedy
Harry Wyckoff
Congressman Scott
Edna Scott
Miss Kennedy
Scott
Wyckoff
Hospital Report on Local Patients
Mrs Edith VanGill of West Linton underwent surgery at the city hospital yesterday and is in fairly good condition. Mrs Maddison was admitted this morning for medical treatment.
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Edith VanGill
West Linton
Maddison
Three workmen injured as scaffold collapses at Petersburg
In Petersburg Indiana three workmen were hurled from a scaffold around a water tank at Patoka Coal company when a heavy hoop snapped. William Winkler had both legs broken, Henry Ault suffered a broken arm wrist and three fingers with internal injuries, Clarence Anderson had minor bruises. Ault and Winkler were taken by ambulance to Vincennes Hospital.
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Petersburg
Ind
Patoka Coal Company
William Winkler
Henry Ault
Clarence Anderson
Anderson
Ault
Winkler
Vincennes
Indiana Teachers Back County Unit Of Education Plan
The Indiana School Teachers Association legislative committee in Indianapolis on January 5 resolved to actively support the county unit of education bill in the upcoming state legislature. They also pledged to oppose attempts to defeat or amend the 1923 teachers retirement fund law and to oppose consolidating the probation and school attendance departments.
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Indianapolis
County Unit of Education
Indiana School Teachers’ Association
U S Marines Soon to Leave Nicaragua
Washington reports the state and navy departments began negotiations under presidential instruction for withdrawing American marines from Nicaragua. When completed, only a small number will remain in Latin America, likely only in Haiti.
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U. S
Nicaragua
Washington
United States
Latin America
Haiti
New Road West from Ellis School House Opens Roads
The state highway commission has acquired the right of way for a new road extending west from the Ellis school house into Dugger. District superintendent Steve Stalcup says work will start in spring and the road should open by September. The one and a half mile route passes near the Sunflower mine into Dugger.
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Ellis School House
Dugger
State Highway Commission
Steve Stalcup
Sunflower Mine
Bloomfield Honors Its Best Man Brother Cox at 75
In Bloomfield a civic and religious tribute crowns Thomas A. Cox, a 75 year old ordained minister famed for gentleness, humor, and charity. The piece praises his quiet leadership as pastor emeritus and his lifetime work as a missionary to preacherless churches, noting his wide respect in Greene County.
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Bloomfield Bureau
Bloomfield
Lewis B. Edwards
William Mack Haig
Grant Graham
Walter T. Brown
Cox
Thomas A. Cox
Raraavis
Tibet
Greene County
Pfaff steam engine touted to transform aviation
New York January 5. Inventor H Crossland Pfaff unveils a compact high pressure steam power plant claimed to power aircraft at 300 miles per hour with a 50 year life and no gasoline usage. Army Navy officials call it the greatest advance since Wright brothers flight and foresee it replacing internal combustion engines.
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New York
Atlantic
America
H. Crossland Pfaff
Aeronautical
John Butler
Joint Aeronautical Board of the Army and Navy
Washington
Wright Brothers
Kittyhawk
Butler
Richard A. Hays Dead Prominent Bloomfield Citizen
Richard A. Hays, 58, died at his North Seminary home after months of bowel and bladder illness. He leaves wife and daughter Sylvia. A former Harrodsburg transplant, he ran a livery business and later co owned Spooner & Hays harness shop. He belonged to the Odd Fellows lodge.
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Bloomfield
Richard A. Hays
North Seminary Streets
Sylvia Hays
Hays
Harrodsburg
Victor F. Spooner
Spooner & Hays
Odd Fellows’ Lodge
Copeland Seeks Inquiry on Aircraft Costs
Senator Copeland of New York introduces a resolution asking the president to question the allied council of ambassadors about Germany’s authority to continue manufacturing commercial aircraft, noting purchase prices would be about half the cost to Allied nations.
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International News Service
Washington
Copeland
New York
Allied Council of Ambassadors
Germany
Coolidge Addresses Farmers Co operation Conference
President Coolidge told the national conference on agricultural marketing cooperation that cooperative marketing offers the agricultural salvation. He praised the cooperative principle and urged farmers to embrace the united buying and selling model.
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Coolidge
Farmers’ Conference
Washington
Woluy
Congressmen Asked to Work Night Session
A night session of Congress was ordered to consider the Interior Department appropriation bill as the Administration pushes to expedite legislation stalled in congressional gridlock.
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Sinternational News Service
Washington
Congress
Interior Department
Talented Girl Seeks College Education Mention
A fragment notes praise of a girl with a splendid college education and multilingual ability, attributed to Mrs Flunderby in a short transcript. The report hints at linguistic skills and formal schooling without further details.
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Flunderby
Borton Transcript
Poison murderers scolded as court imposes sentence
Mt Vernon Illinois January 5 1930 Judge J C Kern overruled new trial motions for Elsie Sweetin and Lawrence M Hight convicted of poisoning and murdering Wilford Sweetin. Hight given life imprisonment and Sweetin 35 years. The judge condemned both for cruelty and noted Sweetin showed a stronger mind than her co defendant.
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MT. Vernon
Ill
J. C. Kern
Elsie Sweetin
Lawrence M. Hight
Wilford Sweetin
Hight
Kern
Sweetin
Italy on brink as fascists seek martial law plan
The internal situation around smaller towns in Italy grows extremely serious with Fascisti and anti Fascisti at high tension. Reports say Premier Mussolini weighs a military directorate of three including two generals to impose martial law and restore order.
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International News Service
Rome
Mussolini
Italy
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