Ohio Republicans Reject Prohibition Reforms At Convention
Ohio Republicans vote down two anti prohibition proposals 18 to 3 and approve a enforcement pledge aligned with national platform. The convention delays a Hoover dedication plan for the Harding tomb and assigns a special committee to arrange details while leaders deny Coolidge or Hoover reluctance.
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Bender
Hoover
Simeon D. Fess
Resolutions
Marion
Coolidge
Harding Memorial Commission
Navy Board to Decide Policy Under London Treaty
The Navy Munitions Board will meet to set future building policy under the London Naval Treaty. It must weigh current ships, construction changes, and the shift from Washington treaty rules while considering cost and economy. A full treaty fleet could cost about $1 billion, but unemployment may push toward a longer term build plan.
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Washington
U.P
Navy Mneral
Hoover
Adams
Senate
Budget Bureau
Congress
Wolcott Leads Dry Opponent For Congress
In the seventh district GOP nomination race Jesse P. Wolcott leads Louis C. Cramton by 93 votes after official canvass in three counties. Cramton gains 20 in Huron 16 in Tuscola and 6 in Macomb. Sanilac Lapeer and St. Clair unofficial totals not yet in. Cramton has said he will demand a recount.
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Port Huron
U.P
iAfter
Jesse P. Wolcott
Wet
Louis C. Damon
Dry
Cramton
Huron County
Tuscola
Macomb
Sanilac
Lapeer
St. Clair
Gas Cars Explode After Kremlin Derailment
Sixteen gasoline cars exploded after a Rock Island derailment near Kremlin Oklahoma today. The blast threatened widespread fire and destruction. Four transients are believed dead in the incident.
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Krembin
Okla
Rock Island
Kremlin
Tlig
Watertown Students Protest Longer School Day
Watertown Mass high school pupils walked out protesting a 75 minute rise in hours. About 150 students marched through downtown ending at the town hall where a plate glass door was broken and George McNamara, a football player, was arrested but later released after offering to pay for the damage.
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Watertown
Mass
Watertown High
Town Hall
George McNamara
McNamara
Detroit Budapest Hop Is Off For This Year
The proposed one stop flight from Detroit to Budapest Hungary has been cancelled for this year. Capt George Endres and Lieut Alex Magyar who completed final plans last week say it is too late in the season for the trip. Their monoplane Justice for Hungary was funded mainly with help from Emil Salay. Flint may tour the country to raise more funds for a flight next spring.
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Detroit
U.P
Budapest
Hungary
George Endres
Alex Magyar
Emil Salay
Flint
Funeral Sunday for E J Van Leuven prominent banker dies at 64
Funeral services for E J Van Leuven who died suddenly of a heart attack will be held Sunday at 2 PM at the Van Leuven home with the Ithaca commandery and Saginaw commandery in charge. Walton Lodge 805 F L and A M will attend. He founded Isabella State Bank and was a longtime director of the Federal Farm Land Bank of Minnesota. He leaves a wife a son Dr Buell Van Leuven of Petoskey and a daughter Mrs A J Dunesinson of East Jordan.
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VanLeuven
Isabella State Bank
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Buell van Leuven
Petoskey
A. J. Dunesinson
East Jordan
Textile Workers urge repeal of eighteenth amendment
At the United Textile Workers convention closing session a resolution urged repealing the eighteenth amendment as a remedy for unemployment. Advocates said repeal would create jobs for 100000 men in breweries and indirectly employ two million others.
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New York
United Textile Workers Convention
Youth in sobbing coma near death in Worcester
In Worcester Massachusetts the 12 year old Joseph Ruseckas slipped into a sobbing coma after failing to recall a lesson. He has been unconscious about 47 hours and doctors fear for his recovery. Nourishment is impossible and his condition remains dangerously weak as the sobbing episodes cease intermittently.
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Worcester
Mass
U.P
Joseph’ Ruseckas
Ruseckas
Senator Wheeler shifts to repeal support for Prohibition
Washington Sept 12 U P Senator Burton K Wheeler Democrat Mont a noted dry leader announced support for repealing the eighteenth amendment and states control of liquor He said most thinking people share the view that prohibition has failed and should be left to state decision He contrasted his past votes on enforcement with new public calls for repeal while other dry Senators signaled willingness to submit repeal if their states desire Also James Hamilton Lewis Democratic candidate for Illinois Senate opened a campaign advocating state liquor control and modification or repeal of national prohibition laws.
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U.R
Burton K. Wheeler
Dem
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Wheeler
Roosevelt
New York
United Press
Greneint artThen
Juttiéon
Congress
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Montana
Jones
Wash
Eddie
Sheppard
Tex
Wayne B. Wheeler
Michigan
League
Louis C. Cramton
Grant Hudson
Shelbyville
Ill
U.P
James Hamilton Lewis
U. S. Senate
Illinois
Jacksonville
Lewis
Senate
New Voters Cast Ballots In Mt Pleasant Primary
In Mt Pleasant 329 of 475 persons who re registered or registered for the first time cast ballots in the Republican primary. Regular voters numbered 1207 of 2826 registered, puzzling officials who saw a large registration but lower turnout.
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Mt. Pleasant
Maniac Otis Guptil Sought After Kings County Escape
Nova Scotia police hunt Otis Guptil who fled the Kings County home for the insane after allegedly lining up school children for a shotgun attack. He shouted you have to die for God while at large today as troops and police search to prevent a planned slaughter.
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Trurq
Nova Scotia
Otis Guptil
Kings County
Guptil
God
Four Theatre Bands Walk Out in Detroit Strike
Detroit musicians vote immediate strike after operators of four large movie houses aim to cut orchestra staff from 115 to 53. Bailey, president of the Detroit federation, says over 500 union members are ready to join, matching similar actions in Philadelphia Washington and St. Louis.
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Detroit
U.P
Detroit Federation of ‘Musicians
Spirusers
William Bailey
Detroit Federation
Bailey
Philadelphia
Washington
St. Louis
Prohibition Party Announces Isabella County Nominations
Daly McCone heads the county Prohibition ticket with Homer Daly McCone for governor and Norman Wager for lieutenant governor. Charles S. Rennells is the U S senator nominee. Ballots were cast in Mt Pleasant precinct two and Isabella township. The Isabella county convention for delegates meets September 17 in Union township hall. the state convention is set for September 25 at Kalamazoo.
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Prohibition Party
Isabella County
Daly McCone
Homer
Norman Wager
Rosebush
U. S
Charles S. Rennells
Jackson
Mt. Pleasant
Isabella Township
Union Township
Kalamazoo
Village in Path of Raging Flames Threatens Ross Michigan
Smoke and wind drive a Wisconsin forest fire toward Ross Michigan as residents brace for danger. Hugo Koehler towerman at Stephenson notes the blaze has burned for eight weeks in Wisconsin but is not yet deemed dangerous.
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Menominee, Mich
Menominee River
Ross
Mich
Wisconsin
Hugo Koehler
Towerman
Stephenson
New Subscriptions Drive Expands Daily Times Reach
In two weeks the Daily Times gained added circulation without contests or high pressure methods. The paper claims stronger ties with Mt. Pleasant and Isabella County, asking readers to cooperate for 100 percent service and to report delivery issues at once.
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Daily Times
Mt. , Pleasant
Isabella County
State's Attorney Seeks to Seize Children Over Home Brew
Geneva Ill Sept 12 State's Attorney George Carbary urged removing children from parents who brew at home He used an order declaring a chicken farm unfit for five children to place them with the county. The mother would lose custody if she continued illegal brewing. The raid case involving Joseph Del King and his wife was dismissed.
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Geneva
Ill
George Carbary
Carbary
Simon de Brock
de Brock
Joseph del King
New Leaders Change Plans for Exiled Irigoyen
Former President Hipolito Irigoyen, exiled after a revolution, was to be moved from the Belgrano cruiser to a passenger ship bound for Europe. The plan shift followed rumors of a Montevideo reception and concerns he would remain a political issue in the Uruguayan capital as Argentina nears normalcy under Gen. Jose Uriburu.
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Buenos Aires
U.rx
Hipolito Trigoyen
Belgrando
Europe
Belgrana
da la Plata
Irigoyen
Battle forest fire threatens farm near Winn
Firefighters battled a 40 acre underbrush blaze one mile north of Winn this afternoon as it moved toward a farmhouse. Strong winds fanned flames and crews worked to secure the perimeter and prevent spread to nearby structures.
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Winn
Trio Held For Selling Marriage Insurance Scheme
Three men were arrested and charged under blue laws for selling marriage insurance. The contract promised a $500 payment if a man married within 90 days and smaller sums for marriages later in the year.
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MUP
New Leaton Well Expected To Be Major Producer
A Whitmer Oil Company well Smith No 2 at Leaton drilled last night is expected to flow between 250 and 300 barrels daily, adding another strong producer to the Mt Pleasant field. The field now lists 72 producers led by the Marthey 600 barrel wildcat and the Cole No 1 Merrihew J Exible, with several newer completions showing light flows under 100 barrels. Nearby Vernon territory reports mixed results with oil gas shows and low production.
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Leaton
Seaton
Dundee
Smith
Mt. Pleasant
Wesche
Roberts
Marthey
Cole
Vernon
Marshall-s
Cole No
Merrihew
J. Exible
Relative Refused To Emulate Jesse James Granddaughter Testifies
In Los Angeles the granddaughter of Jesse James told a superior court she refused a publicity stunt involving a staged hold up. She seeks 64,400 in damages from Paramount Famous Lasky for breach of film contract. She said press agents urged arrest and gunplay, which she declined.
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Los Angeles
U.P
Tor Jessie Estelle Jjamén
Jesse. James
Missouri
Miss James
Paramount-Famous-Lasky
Jesse James
Mother and son die from throat ailment in Michigan
In Clemens Michigan Mrs Kenneth McCauley 24 East Detroit kissed her three year old son Thomas who had a throat infection. She contracted the illness and died days after the boy’s death. The child died Monday after a brief illness. The mother died yesterday. The husband and two other children survive.
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U.P
Thomas
Kenneth McCauley
East
Detroit
McCauley
Living Costs Six Per Cent Lower Than 1929
Wellesley Hills Massachusetts September 12 U P The cost of living is six percent lower than the corresponding period in 1929 and at the lowest point since 1918, per the 17th annual national business conference. Creighton Hill of the Babson Statistical Organization says the drop in living costs preserves purchasing power despite unemployment and wage stability. He notes improved employment trends may bolster business for the rest of the year.
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Wellesley
Hills
Mass
U.P
Creighton v. Hill
Babson Statistical Organization
Hill
Recount Petition Planned Within 10 Days in Michigan Governor Race
Groesbeck pursues a statewide recount after a revised Oakland County tally narrows Wilber M. Brucker's lead. Groesbeck must file within 10 days with the secretary of state, posting a $2,150 bond. He cites potential counting errors in a vote exceeding 800,000 and accuses opponents of a rural-versus-Wayne county tactic.
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Pontiac, Mich
Wilber M. Brucker
Oakland County
Brucker
Groesbeck
Secretary of State
State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Board of
Green
Jeffries
Wayne County
Sheriff Asked to Guard Votes in County Primary
The county faced urged rigid measures to protect primary returns. Groesbeck campaign officials demanded seals on ballot boxes, recount protection, and full accounting of ballots. Isabella County recorded Brucker 3308, Groesbeck 1088, Jeffries 319.
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Fred’ Green
Burt’. Cady
Alex Groesbeck
Green
Perry Thompson
Andrew Schertel
Groesbeck
Wilber M. Brucker
Brucker
Jeffries
Michigan wildlife faces severe food shortage this summer
Wild life experts warn a serious food shortage across the state this inter due to a hot summer and scarce nuts in woods. Squirrels will suffer most as their main food supply nuts declines. Beech hazel and hickory crops show near total failure while acorns seem slightly more abundant.
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Flint
Michigan
Forecast for Lower Michigan Turns Wet and Cooler
The Detroit forecast for today predicts showers or thunderstorms tonight and again Saturday, followed by cooler conditions in the north portion. Readings include Alpena around 64 54, Chicago 68 74, Detroit 64, Duluth 82 54, Escanaba 76 4 58, Grand Rapids 58 88 58.
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Michigan
Chicago
Détroit
Duluth
Escanaba
Grand Rapids
Ballot preservation urged after recount talk in Lansing
Governor Green sends telegram to county clerks to preserve ballots and ballot boxes. Burt D. Cady former state central committee chairman and Groesbeck campaign manager said a recount would be held. Cady wired sheriffs in counties to keep a close guard over ballot boxes.
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A. Wayne
Wayne County
Fred. Green
Cady
Lansing
Fred. W. Green
Burt. D. Cady
State ‘Central
the. Capitol News
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Ford Says Prohibition a Successful Experiment During Atlantic Crossing
Henry Ford, delaying reporters and mail, toured Paris with a tourist mindset after leaving New York on the Bremen. Fellow passengers recalled his view that prohibition dried up Dearborn in 80 days and that England should tariff to protect work, while Ford and his wife danced a mazurka aboard the ship.
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U.R
Henry Ford
Paris
Ford
New York
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Dearborn
United States
England
Germany
Spain
China
Russia
Standard Oil to Sell Tires Through Midwest Stations
Standard Oil of Indiana announced plans to merchandise and service automobile and truck tires through its gasoline filling stations in the Midwest and West starting October 15. The board of directors decided on the move, citing the filling station as the logical center of automotive service.
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U.R
Standard Oil Company
Indiana
Midwest
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