1000 SLAIN IN FUTILE ATTACK ON CHACO FORT
Bolivian dispatches claim a major Paraguayan assault on Fort Ballivan failed after fierce artillery and mortar bombardment. Bolivian losses were light, while Paraguayan casualties were not released. Both sides claim victory as fighting continues along the Pilcomayo front.
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Slaying of Cleveland Dentist Stuns New Orleans Crowd
In New Orleans on June 24, J. Clair a 30 year old Ohio ex convict in custody confessed to killing Dr Homer L Meyer wealthy dentist of Illinois. He refused to reveal a motive and said his home was in Muscatine Iowa. He was arrested two days earlier in New Orleans.
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Har O' St. Clair
Ohio
Jorado
Ill
J. Clair
Homer L. Meyer
Illinois
Comus
Kidnapped singer released in Paso Tex case
Paso Texas June 23 officers released Sibyl Fidanque a 39 year old San Francisco radio singer after holding her in custody while authorities investigated an alleged kidnapping claim from last Saturday. The unclear report notes she had been brought in for questioning and later freed.
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Paso
Tex
Sibyl Fidanque
San Calif
Twelve PLEAD GUILTY in Scioto County liquor cases
Twelve defendants arrested in state and city liquor raids pleaded guilty to violations of the liquor code in municipal court. Bonds were set at 100 each. Judge Horace Small postponed sentence and scheduled Tuesday hearings. Several named defendants gave full addresses. multiple others entered not guilty pleas or did not appear.
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Horace Small
Scioto County
State Liquor Control Board
Effie Bertram
Effie Flannigan
Second Street
Mary Adams
Boundary Street
Helen Baker
Mill Street
Leonard Scott
Jackson Street
Lola Penrod
Front Street
Nannie Brewer
George Kitchen
Emanuel Knittle
12Th Street
Raymond Gullett
Norfolk Street
O. B. Sells
Harding Avenue
Margaret Lilly
Sciotoville
Edgar Nolan
Fourth Street
John Hicks
Earl Chapman
13Th Street
Anna Alderman
Alias Fra
City tests all-night yellow signals at risky intersections
City manager Frank Sheehan announced a new traffic plan at Gallia Offnere Ninth Offnere and 11th Offnere streets. From midnight to 6 am the yellow light will burn continuously to force drivers to slow, aiming to cut crashes at the city’s most dangerous corners. If successful the measure may roll out to other intersections.
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Gallia
Offnere
Frank FE. Sheehan
Kidnapping Tale From Hospital Bed Shocks Decatur
Miss Laura Ellis a 49 year old beauty shop operator says she was abducted in Kansas City seized by three men as she left a labor meeting Wednesday night. She remained unconscious for two days after being drugged and dumped from a truck near Decatur where she woke in a hospital bed.
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Decatur
Kansas City
Laura Ellis
24 Pages Of Good Menus Contest Winners
The Times announces today 15 winners in the Hot Weather Menu contest sponsored by Portsmouth merchants. The special section includes the winning menus and recipes plus dozens more submitted by local housewives.
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Portsmouth
Times
Superintendent Frank Appel Reelected For Portsmouth Schools
Professor Frank Appel of 840 Eighth Street was reelected Portsmouth schools superintendent for another three-year term by the city board. Salary set at 5000 annually with possible changes after year one or two based on finances. last three years paid 5600. Board unanimously praised his 27 years at the helm amid economic strain, pledging continued service.
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Frank Appel
Eighth Street
Portsmouth
Appel
Rolf Indorsed For Wheelersburg Postmaster
The Democratic executive committee at the Masonic temple endorsed Merritt Rolf for the Wheelersburg postmaster position after civil service results ranked him alongside H W Stoker and Miss Helen Lipker. Congressman Polk urged early indorsement signaling a quick appointment. the incumbent George W. Smith has served about 12 years and earns roughly 1800 dollars annually.
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Masonic Temple
Merritt Rolf
Wheelersburg
James G. Polk
Rolf
Ben Rolf
H. W. Stoker
Helen Lipker
Civil Service
George W. Smith
Johnson Loses Bid to Halt Highway Panel Dismissal
In Frankfort Kentucky Ben Johnson of Bardstown loses first round of court fight to stop Governor Laffoon from ousting him as chairman of the state highway commission. Franklin circuit court upholds the 1934 ouster law and denies Johnsons temporary injunction.
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Frankfort
Ben Johnson
Bardstown
Ruby Laffoon
State Highway Commission
Franklin Circuit Court
General Assembly
Hunger strike tightens in Montgomery jail
Nine men in Montgomery county jail began the sixth day of a hunger strike over alleged plots to overthrow the government. Sheriff Harry E. Saathoff weighed the cost to the county as the inmates skipped 152 meals, saving more than $20 in board bills.
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Hillsboro
Montgomery County
Harry E. Saathoff
Price control fight in offing in Washington
A major forthcoming dispute before the federal trade commission centers on price cutting by three rubber firms Phillips Baker Rubber Co Providence R I La Crosse Rubber Mills La Crosse Wis and Goodyear Rubber Co Middletown Conn The rubber code authority accuses them of failing to file price lists aiming to fix or refuse to fix prices and to divert trade injuring competitors and the public The case could test NRA price control powers and open price filing as a stabilizing practice
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Rubber Code Authority
Phillips- Baker Rubber Co
Providence R. I
la Crosse Rubber Mills
la Crosse
Wis
Goodyear Rubber Co
Middletown
Conn
White Wednesday meeting on relief to raise county revenue
A Scioto county committee of officials will meet Governor George White in Columbus at 11 45 a m Wednesday to seek extra operating funds. H H Eccles county auditor heads the committee representing 121 officers from cities county townships villages and schools urging a special legislative session to replace revenue lost under real estate tax limits with non real estate sources.
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Scioto County
George White
Columbus
H. H. Eccles
White
Two Ohio Inmates Doomed For Execution Next Week
Ohio inmates Irmel Kittrells, 26, of Hillsboro, and Joe English of Toledo face execution in the electric chair next week unless Governor George White acts. Kittrells was convicted for a robbery murder that netted $2.60. English was convicted of murdering Toledo night club operator Jack Kennedy, a rival of gang leader Yonnie Licavoli. They are among seven on death row at the state penitentiary.
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George White
Ohio
Electric Chair
Irmel Kittrells
Hillsboro
Thomas Mitchell
Joe English
Toledo
Yonnie Licavoli
Jack Kennedy
Licavoli
Michigan
Illinois
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Minnesota
Harry Pierpont
Charles Makley
Jess Larber
Lima
Dillinger
Pierpont
Makley
Crown Point
Ind
Justice Department
Cuban Warship Mutiny Ended in Havana
A mutiny aboard the Cuban gunboat Cuba ended bloodlessly after Captain Evaristo Ulloa refused to recognize the new navy chief Angel Gonzales. Ulloa was arrested while authorities sent new officers to Antilla to take control. Gonzales, rising from enlisted ranks, was confirmed chief as soldiers from San Diego helped quell the revolt.
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Evaristo Ulloa
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Navy
Angel Gonzales
Felix Granados
Antilla
Gonzales
Machado
Gonzalez
San Diego
Antioch College Graduates 39 in 78th Commencement
June 23 Antioch College conferred 39 degrees in its 78th commencement. Economics professor and Roosevelt brain trust member Dr. William M. Lesserson urged graduates that the new deal embodies American democracy. He argued government and institutions serve the public, not private gain, and promote opportunity over dependency on capital.
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Yellow Springs
Antioch College
Roosevelt
Brain Trust
William M. Lesserson
Petroleum Policy Board
Dr. Lesserson
Police search for friend of missing bride in New York report
New York police investigate a Connecticut school teacher friend of missing bride Agnes Colonia Tufverson. Detectives seek her knowledge about Ivan Poderjay and recent Vienna murder claims while weighing perjury bigamy and larceny charges. An iron bound trunk linked to Poderjag was found in Ljubljana.
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New York
Ivan Poderjay
Agnes Colonia Tufverson
Connecticut
Hartford
Vienna
Poderjag
Trousseau
Miss Turverson
Tax Collection For June Reaches 275000 With N W Payment
June tax receipts totaled about 275000 as of Saturday said county treasurer G Wesley Shela. Norfolk and Western Railway contributed 126646.52. Chesapeake and Ohio Railway 16870. Baltimore and Ohio Railway 6846. Final due date is July 20 and early payment praised. The N W taxes by district include Portsmouth 56419, Green township 16889, Wheelersburg 9870, Clay township 10105, Valley township 17208, and Rarden areas among others. N W remains the county’s largest taxpayer at 253203 this year.
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Shela
Chesapeake & Ohio Railway
Baltimore & Ohio Railway
Portsmouth
New Boston
Green Township
Wheelersburg
Clay Township
Valley Township
Washington Township
Rush Township
Union Township
Otway
Brush Creek
Rarden Township
Rarden
Showers Expected Across Ohio Valley and Great Lakes Week
June 28 outlook shows scattered thunderstorms and showers in the Ohio Valley at week start, with more general rain by Wednesday or Thursday. Cooler early week then warming trends, followed by showers mid to late week in the Great Lakes region.
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Columbus
Ohio Valley
Great Lakes
1924 Series Revisits Wartime Capitals and Ruins
Associated Press reporters present a six part series examining Sarajevo Louvain Ypres and other historic sites rebuilt and reshaped since World War I. The first installment runs in The Times on Monday in a timely feature.
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Louvain
Ypres
Associated Press
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Times
Reopen Plan to Buy Lu casville Fair Site
County fair board to reopen negotiations for the Lu casville fairgrounds site with owner George Davis. A committee will confer on a purchase agreement after a board vote to resume talks. The lease terms were 20 years at 8 per year with a five year purchase option for 7000, as members weigh buying versus renting.
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County Agricultural Society
County Fair Board
L. Taylor
C. Peebles
C. B. Plummer
Even American Race Horses Roar Through French Track Riot
In Longchamp on June 23 American horses Kantara owned by Joseph E Weidner and Jock owned by A J Duggan caused a riot as fans battered rails and guards. Police arrived from Paris to quell disturbances and the race program was halted including the Grand Prix preparations.
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Kantara
Joseph E. Weidner
Jock
A. J. Duggan
France
Man keeps engraved grave stone for 80th birthday
Burlington Michigan resident Willard Hyatt, who believed he would die at 80 after his grandfather and father did, celebrated his 80th birthday by walking to the cemetery to view the stone inscribed Born 1854 Died 1934. He remains in good health.
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Burlington, Mich
Willard Hyatt
Wounded Girl Near Death in Middletown Tragedy
Shirley Kectanus twelve is dying of a abdomen wound after her father Sidney R. Kectanus forty five shot his wife Elisa Rathaman seventy six and killed himself. Officials at City hospital say she is not expected to live. Sidney R. Kectanus was vice president of the American Rolling Mills Co. and active in Middletown business and civic life.
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Middletown
Shirley Kectanus
Sidney R. Kectanus
City Hospital
Elisa Rathaman
Rectanus
American Rolling Mills Co
Jury Acquits Minister in Texas Poisoning Case
Rev. Louis H. Shockley a roaming minister cleared by a district court jury of fatally poisoning three relatives in Texas. The acquittal ends a high profile case that drew state attention and courtroom debate.
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Pampa
Tex
Louis H. Shockley
Government Extends Rewards for Dillinger Gang Members
The U S government sets a $10000 bounty on John Dillinger for transporting a stolen car across a state line and offers $5000 for information leading to his arrest. It also posts a $5000 reward for gang member Lester Gillis alias Baby Face Nelson as part of efforts to dismantle Dillinger’s mob.
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Washington
John Dillinger
United States
Dillinger
America
Lester M. Gillis
George
Baby Face
Dillinger’s Guns Found Near Riverside
In Chicago, June 28, three machine guns wrapped in oil cloth and a bag with 19 empty clips were found between a railroad and the Des Plaines river in Riverside. Police and federal agents investigated to determine if the guns were tied to John Dillinger. An amateur boxer spotting the items said they appeared recently used.
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Chicago
Riverside
John Dillinger
Des Plaines
Rewards Put Dillinger Gang on Federal Watch List
General Cummings seeks $2,500 for information on Dillinger gang leaders Gillis and Dillinger. Rewards totaling $15,000 for Dillinger, plus $1,000 from five states for each of the other fugitives, follow a government plan to chase violent criminals. Gillis, age 25, 5 feet 4 inches, 133 pounds, with yellow complexion, was jailed in Chicago in 1931 as George Nelson and escaped Feb. 17, 1982.
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Dillinger
Gillis
W. Carter Baum
Baum
Little Bohemia Inn
Rhinelander
Wis
Allen County
Chicago
George Nelson
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