Telegram Saves Chicago Slayer Doomed To Hang
Russell Scott, convicted slayer of clerk Joseph Maurer in Chicago, was reprieved at the last minute and spared from hanged. A seven day delay is granted as his father and wife wage a legal battle to save him, with Scott thanking God and expressing hope for freedom. Bishop Floyd informed them of the reprieve after frantic telegraph exchanges across Canada, Chicago, Springfield, and Kankakee.
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Saram Brown
International News Service
Chicago
Russell Scott
Joseph Maurer
Adda
Scott
Wloyd
Canada
Springfield
Kankakee
Robert Scott
Doy
Arrest Initiator Of Scopes Trial On Speed Charge
George W. Rappelyea, who initiated the Scopes trial defense, was arrested in Bayton Tennessee on a speeding charge while en route to court. He was released for a hearing later that day. Rappelya will be defended by Arthur Garfield Hays and Dudley Field Malone before a local justice of the peace. This marks his third arrest on the same charge since the trial began, attributed to ill will over his Scopes connection.
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Scopes
The Golf Enthusiast With Every Club and Style
Arthur Mometer carries every golf item a fan could name from clubs to pink tees and leather bags. On good days he knows scores and theories, yet his perfect game awaits a stance and a drive and a single putt. His locker holds myths of the Scottish game with jars and putters amid miles of imagined fairways.
Britain Opposes Chinese Treaty Conference Plan
London reports that Britain has flatly informed the United States France and Japan it opposes at this time a conference of powers to abolish extra-territoriality in China. The stance was conveyed to Ambassador Houghton and the French and Japanese ambassadors during a Downing Street meeting with Foreign Minister Chamberlain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David M. Church
Tauxanteney News Service
London
Ory 17
Great Britain
United States
France
Japan
China
Coolidge
Kellogg
Houghton
Chamberlain
Downing Street
Miss Allison Expected Home Tuesday From Egypt
Mildred Allison, daughter of the Allison family, and an instructor in a girls school in Egypt for years, is expected to reach this city about Tuesday. Family members said the boat was overdue and would not reach New York until Saturday. Miss Allison will enjoy a year's furlough at her home here.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mildred Allison
Ida May Allison
Marshall Avenue
Egypt
New York
Miss Allison
Marriage Licenses Listed for New Castle Area
Claude Bowser and Lena Klafetos appear to be issued a marriage license in New Castle. Philip R. Minter and Harmony May Allen listed with New Castle affiliations. Andrew Russo and Frances Mingione also shown with New Castle connections. The fragmentary OCR suggests a local licensing notice detailing couples and their residence city.
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Claude Bowser
New Castle
Lena Klafetos
Ey Castle
Philip R. Minter
Harmony
May Allen
Andrew Russo
Frances Mingione
Scopes Trial Adjourned For Defense Brief Prep
Dayton dispatch reports the Scopes trial adjourned until Monday to allow defense counsel to prepare a brief of excluded testimony for appeal to higher courts. The courtroom clash centers on evolution and scientific knowledge.
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Buleretin
International News Service
Court House
Dayton
Tenny
John Thomas Scopes
Capture Man At Wabash Indiana Knapp Suspect
After a chase of more than 100 miles two Lima newspaper men and Ben Miller head of the National Detective agency today apprehended a man suspected of being Philip Knapp alias thrill slayer wanted in New York for the murder of Louis Penalla. The suspect resembles the description and was unable to explain his movements last month. Wabash police hold him as a suspect awaiting New York identification.
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Lima
Ben Miller
National Detective Agency
Philip Knapp
N York State
Louis Penalla
Knapp
New York State
Wabash
Indiana
Fort Wayne
Ind
New York
Nip Communist Plot In Brest
Paris dispatch reports many arrests in Brest after the discovery of a Communist plot to rise up among naval arsenals and crews aboard warships. The plan was to be carried out tomorrow, according to the Brest dispatch.
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Bulletiny Qinternational News Service
Paris
Brest
Indications For Live Wire Big Pymatuning Dam
The article notes early indications that the Pymatuning swamp dam will start soon. Fred L. Rentz and a committee visited Conneaut Lake and reported favorable views from Robert Stuart and Charles E. Ryder. Support from local residents is deemed essential for turning the swamp into an economic asset for the Shenango valley.
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Pymatuning Dam
Fred L. Rentz
Coopera
Mr. Rentz
Shenango River
Shenango Valley
Giant Dirigible Shenandoah Lands at Lakehurst Base
The Shenandoah dirigible, after a night of wind and storm, appeared over the Lakehurst naval air field near 10 am and prepared to land. Radio messages from Lieut Commander Lansdowne indicated crews standby as high winds and lightning battered the area and the airship remained offshore awaiting calmer conditions.
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Ctateenecignal News Service
Lakeshurst
N. J
Naval Air Field
Lake
Atlantic
Virginia Capes
Plaus
Lakehurst
Lansdowne
Shenandoah
Sig
Delaware
Ford Bid For 200 Old Ships Draws High Offer
Washington July 17 Henry Ford is expected to win government bids for 200 old ships offered by the Emergency Fleet Corporation Ford's 21 7 06 000 bid is the highest yet submitted The corporation will review all bids and advise the Shipping Board on the best offer Also in city news J R Ellison’s bond of 1 000 was approved subject to city solicitor approval for plumbing work at Rohrar Realty Company dwellings on North Hill.
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Internation! News Sérice
Washington
Henry Ford
Emergency Fleet Corporation
Shipping Board
J. R. Allison
Ellison
Rohrar Realty Company
North Hill
McClintock Will Denied Probate in Chicago Court
Nelson McClintock’s will leaving most of his fortune to William D. Shepherd was refused probate by Judge Henry Horner in Chicago. Shepherd had been recently acquitted of a charge related to the young McClintock’s death, and the ruling blocks the distribution of the estate under the contested provisions.
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Creo News Service
CHI
Nelson
Evolution Books In Great Demand At City Library
Public library shelves show Darwin's Origin of Species and Schmucker's Meaning of Evolution highly sought amid ongoing Dayton trial coverage. Demand surged after news of the trial, with books on evolution previously underused now reserved for weeks ahead of year’s end. No requests have appeared for Bryan's In His Image.
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Evolution
City Library
Dayton
Schmucker
Bryan
Robbery Suspect Nutter To Face Hearing Today
WwW. P. Nutter of Harrisonburg Virginia held on suspicion tied to last Sunday's Klivang Brothers jewelry store robbery will be turned over to a local alderman for a charge at the hearing. Police say he was in the city at the time though Nutter denies it. His wife and three sons left for Harrisonburg with police aid, funded by Nutter, on the 6:20 p.m. B and O train.
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P. Nutter
Harrisonburg
Virginia
Klivang Brothers
Nutter
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Death Notice for Mrs Sarah Jakin in Mercer County
Mrs Sarah Jakin, aged 85, of Scott Township, died in Powell at 85. Franklin David undertook the arrangements for the Bethel loss in Mercer County as the obituary notes the local ties and family.
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Sarah Jakin
Scott Township
Franklin David
Powell
Bethel
Mercer County
Two New Castle Girls Survive High Tension Wire Crash
On Hartstown Road near Hartstown Pennsylvania July 16 two New Castle sisters Dorothy and Bernice Davenport escaped serious harm when their car touched a live wire after a storm felled a tree. James Ray aided by others was shocked and died despite rapid aid.
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New Castle
Dorothy
Bernice Davenport
Ray Davenport
Garfield Avenue
Hartstown
James Ray
Ray
Fred L. Raxatz
the News
Meadville
Greenvile
Conneaut Lake
France
Davenport
Electric switch mishap leaves Steelton man dead
Cimarnational News Service reports in Harrisburg that in Steelton one man was electrocuted and four others badly burned last night when they touched electric light switches charged by a fallen high tension wire after a telegraph pole was struck and split. Steve Zvonaric, 51, was killed instantly as he aimed to turn on a cellar light.
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Cimarnational News Service
Harrisburg
Steelton
Steve Zvonaric
Classified Call for Movers Ad Inserters
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Grasselli Powder to Open Electric Fuse Plant in Lawrence County
The Grasselli Powder company plans a third district plant at the Buckeye Building on Butler Avenue to manufacture electric detonators for dynamite. An official says production should start by September, employing about one hundred workers initially, mostly women, with long term lease of Blackeye Manufacturing space for a new building.
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Buckeye
Butler Avenue
Grasselli Powder Company
Lawrence County
Frank B. Harlan
Sheridan Avenue
Harlan
Cleveland
Shenango Pottery
Blackeye Manufacturing Company
Cast
Government Moves to Avert Hard Coal Strike
Swampscott Massachusetts July 17 the government says it is doing all it can to prevent a hard coal strike after a 344 hour conference with President Coolidge. Labor Secretary Davis plans to sail to Hagland returning August 25 as wage talks between miners and anthracite operators remain deadlocked. Philip Murray says coal costs eight dollars a ton at the mine and fifteen to consumers with relief sought through government inquiry.
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I International News Service
Swampscott
Mass
James J. Davis
Coolidge
White Court
White House
Davis
Hagland
Atlantic City
N. S
Craese
Philip Murray
Miners’ Union
MacMillan Arctic voyage update on Dowdoin departure
International News Service reports Donald B. MacMillan says Dowdoin will leave Hopedale Labrador today to join Peary, the second ship of the expedition, in five days according to a radio message. The note indicates ongoing plans for the MacMillan Arctic expedition with ongoing carrier ships.
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Finternational News
Washington
Dowdoin
Hopedale
Labrador
Donald B. MacMillan
Court Ruling Bars Science in Scopes Trial
Court upholds Tennessee motion to exclude scientific testimony in the Scopes trial. Judge John T. Rawlston rules the scientists’ evidence irrelevant and incompetent, ending defense attempts to reconcile evolution with biblical creation. Defense objects, claiming the ruling lacks precedent as the decision is noted to continue on page two.
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Court House
Dayton
Tenn
John T. Rawlston
Tennessee
Electrical Storm Ravages Mt Gretna National Guard Camp
A severe electrical storm at Mt Gretna near Harrisburg disrupted the Pennsylvania National Guard summer encampment. Torrential rain, lightning and high winds damaged tents while twelve guardsmen sustained lightning injuries. Eight guardsmen from Scranton’s 10th Infantry and two from the 11th Infantry in Washington, Pa., were among those struck. The storm ranked as one of the worst at the encampment.
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State National Guard
Mt. Gretna
International News Service
Harrisburg
Pennsylvania National Guard
Damzyre
Scranston
Robart IM. Vail
Pennsylvania
Tobin Aiken
Washington
Prominent Army Officer Dies In Denver Street Car Crash
Lieutenant Colonel W. S. Mapes, famed for service in the Spanish American and World Wars, was killed when an automobile crashed head-on into a street car in Denver. Two nurses riding with him, Madeline Woolruff and Mary Bensley, were severely bruised but expected to recover.
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Denver
W. 5. Mapes
Atl
Madeline Woolruff
Mary Bensley
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