Whitfield Pale as Chair Looms Verdict Saturday
Cleveland reports that the state said it could not finish its case before tomorrow in the murder trial of John L. Whitfield charged in Patrolman Dennis Griffin's May 11 death. Witnesses placed Whitfield with a blue Jordan roadster and described movements and sightings around Geauga Lake and nearby roads.
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Cleveland
John L. Whitfield
Dennis Griffin
Whitfeld
Griffin
Harry Brown
Whitfield
Marle Price
Frank Philips
Lloyd Rafferty
Geauga County
Pettibone Road
Albert Koring
B. F. Carpenter
Mary Vichek
Frances Gastoronni
Geauga Lake
Maria
Marie
Canada Bars Dona keys 2 Convict Pass
Attorney General Crabbe said Canada ordered the deportation of Earl Jennings of Butler County and Zipriana of Cleveland both life prisoners convicted of murder. Jennings served as chauffeur and Zipriana as cook for Governor Donahey. They were on a governor’s vacation trip to Coboconk Ontario when the action was reported. Crabbe called the deportation regrettable and did not state planned action.
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Columbus
Crabbe
Earl Jennings
Butler County
Zipriana
Cleveland
Ohio
Jennings
Donahey
P. E Thomas
Coboconk
Ont
Toronto
United States
Canada
Ellen Ver Soy Chronicle Telegram correspondent dies
Mrs Ellen Ver Soy aged 69 died at her daughter’s home near Belden after about two months illness. A former resident of West Ridge Elyria she served as Chronicle Telegram and old Republican correspondent and was active in local events. Survived by sons Arthur Charles and Warren daughter Mrs C M Wise and step daughter Miss Lottie Ver Soy. Funeral at the Wise home Friday at 1 30 burial Murray Ridge cemetery.
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Belden
Ellen Ver Soy
C. M. Wise
Belden Center
West Ridge
Elyria
Chronicle-Telegram
Old Republican
Arthur
Gratton Road
Charles
Cleveland
Warren
Lorain
Lottie Ver- Soy
Wise Home
Murray Ridge Cemetery
Woman Sues City Over Fractured Ankle On Broadway
Elizabeth Schneider files a 106000 suit against the city of Lorain claiming a broken left ankle and permanent disability after slipping on a defective sidewalk on Broadway between the 5th and 6th streets on January 12. The suit alleges city negligence.
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Elizabeth Schneider
Lorain
Broadway
5Th
Indiana pushes blue sky law tightening in special session idea
Indiana securities chief backs a special legislative session to tighten blue sky laws regulating stock sales after KR L Collings receivership. Maurice Mendenhall urges action before the Indiana Securities Commission in Indianapolis.
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Indiana
Indianapolis
Ind
KR. L. Collings Company
Maurice N Mendenhall
Indiana Securities Commission
Indianapolis Association of Credit Mentomor OW
Explosion at Queens ice plant shocks Brooklyn
Brooklyn police report an explosion at an ice manufacturing plant in Queens with fire and ammonia fumes hindering firefighters. No casualties mentioned in the alert from Brooklyn headquarters.
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New York
Brooklyn
Queens
Five Hurt In Auto Crash In Philadelphia Area
Five people were injured in a high speed car turnover in Philadelphia Pennsylvania today with two in critical condition. Lottie Burdsall 36 of Landsdowne and Ralph Saunders 42 of Clifton Heights are not expected to live.
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Philadelphia
Lottie Burdsall
Landsdowne
Ralph Saunders
Clifton Heights
Auto crash injures dozen in Los Angeles
A loaded Velvedere Gardens stage collided with another car and plunged into an embankment early today in Los Angeles. About a dozen people were injured, several seriously, with most taken to hospitals. In Cincinnati, Henry A. Nomlist won the Democratic nomination to succeed William Fisher as engineer of division 8 in the state highway department, a move Governor Denashey had ordered.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Velvedere Gardens
Cincinnati
Henry A. Nomlist
William Fisher
State Highway Department
Denashey
Hamilton
Clermont
Bauer
Green
Clinton
Montgomery
Preble
Miami
Ellis Island foreign rush sets record
Immigrant arrival at Ellis Island marks a record transfer as 11 692 people reach port under the August quota. Ten liners delivered the crowd overnight while eight more ships push toward port amid fog, with 13 000 more prospective citizens expected. The Drottningholm led arrivals with 1 874 from Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Russia, followed by the Cusarder Franconia with 3 326 from England Ireland Scotland and Wales.
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New York
Uncle Sam
Ellis Island
Nantucket
Atlantic
Anchorage
Drottningholm
Norway
Sweden
Denmark
Russia
Ambrose Light
Cusarder Franconia
Lancaster man to be arraigned on drugging horse at Grand Circuit
Ford Getz of Lancaster faces arraignment before Justice Sandidge in Columbus on a drugging charge tied to Periscope a Grand Circuit racing favorite. Three other men are jailed on similar horse doping accusations as county officials anticipate more arrests.
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Columbus
Ford Getz
Lancaster
Sandidge
Cleveland
Franklin County
Sherif Holycross
Compiling Data for New City Directory
The Corporation Directory Co reports the residence canvass near completion and urges societies clubs and organizations without permanent offices to submit their information including name of organization officers titles meeting place and time for printing in the directory All directories are limited and may be supplemented by a call from the directory staff in the city hall council chamber.
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Corporation Directory Co
Council Chamber
Motorcyclist Injured in West Third Street Spill
M Arver of 218 West River Street was injured yesterday afternoon on West Third Street when a dog dashed into his path causing him to fall from his motorcycle. He sustained bruises to the arms limbs and shoulders and his machine was damaged.
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M. Arver
West River Street
West Third Street
Two Divorce Suits Filed in Court Today
Clara Brown sues George Brown alleging a troubled marriage since 1920 and a July 1936 separation. Myrtie Manning sues WF Manning claiming abandonment for a Pennsylvania lover and seeks financial relief from his estate.
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Clara Brown
George Brown
WF. Manning
Myrtie Manning
Pennsylvania
Willismaport
Separate German Pact Now British Proposal in Ruhr
London sources report Britain plans a separate reparations deal with Germany, risking a split with France and the entente. A Baldwin parliamentary announcement will set course, with Italy expected to back Britain and Belgium likely to swing. Britain would seek to ease Germany's burden while preventing civil strife and Russian influence.
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Frank Charleston i
London
Great Britain
France
Germany
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Stanley Baldwin
Britain
America
Italy
Belgium
Saar
Westphalia
Prussia
Russia
Judge sentences McGill to 24 hours in liquor storeroom
In Lima on August 1 Judge Emmet Jackson orders W. C. McGill to spend 24 hours confined in a confiscated liquor storeroom to curb his drinking. If he touches any liquor, he faces a long workhouse sentence for habitual drunkenness. McGill was jailed after three intoxication arrests in two days.
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Lima
Emmet Jackson
W. C. McGill
McGill
City tuberculosis clinic counts 24 examined in two days
Twenty four applicants were examined by Dr E P Edwards and Dr Pace in Elyria and Quberlin. Two were positive and seven suspects. The program aims to keep patients under supervision with family physicians, nursing aid, and possible sanatorium treatment to prevent further development.
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State Department of Health
Elyria
Quberlin
E P. Edwards
G .¥. Pace
Dispensary Service of
Cleveland
Public Health Center
County Medical Society
Kh G Leland
Division of Hygiene
E. P. Edwards
Nicholas
Mexican wounded in knife fight in Lorain
Jesus Reyes, a Mexican national, is hospitalized with a fractured skull and knife wound to the head after a street fight with a countryman in Lorain. Police hold Joseph Ataras as the assailant. Joseph Sleres and Antonio Bares are named as witnesses.
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Lorain
Jesus Reyes
St. Joseph’s Hospital
Joseph Ataras
Tad
Joseph Sleres
Antonio Bares
Witn Rewes
Patrolman Shot During Robbery Call Near Lawrence
On August 1 Patrolman Arthur J Bower was shot in the abdomen while two officers responded to a robbers call at the Lawrence Cricket Club on the Lowell Lawrence road. The pursuing touring car fled after officers halted it and Bower, mortally wounded, fired at the weapon as it escaped.
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Lawrence
Mass
Arthur J Bower
Lowell-Lawrence Road
John McDonald
Lawrence Cricket Club
Bowers
McDonald
Bower
Two Million Walk In Strike Shuts New Jersey Trolleys
Two million workers in 145 New Jersey municipalities began a 15 hour strike against Public Service Railway. Six thousand three hundred sixty motormen conductors and shopmen demand a 30 percent wage increase. No trams ran and authorities mobilized buses trucks and cars to relieve traffic.
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Newark
N. J
New Jersey
Public Service Railway Company
Thomas McCarter
International News Service
Jersey City
Camden
New Brunswick
Paterson
Elizabeth
Hoboken
Dunellen
East Grange
New York
Street Car Company
Union
Trolley Corporation
Runaway street car kills man in Dayton
Eugene Hastings 21 and Ethel Scott 20, both of Dayton, were injured and killed respectively when a runaway street car jumped tracks on Huffman Avenue then struck a car and house at 887 Huffman Avenue. Operator W. H. Hammond held for coroner inquiry amid possible manslaughter charges.
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Dayton
Eugene Hastings
Ethel Scott
Huffman Avenue
W. H. Hammond
Kimmel
Hammond
Jersey Street
Franklin County road contract ruling affirmed
The Franklin county appellate court affirmed a common pleas ruling denying an injunction to halt payments on three Lorain county road contracts. Taxpayers claimed irregularities in award terms sought to curb cost increases tied to former state highway director Herrick. The decision preserves the highway projects under the existing contracts.
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Columbus
Franklin County Appellate Court
Common Pleas Court
Herrick
Lorain County
Cleveland - Sandusky
Cleveland- Norwalk
Cleveland-Elyria
E. C. Slack
Elyria
Mumford Rites Set For Annie Victoria Mumford
Funeral services for Mrs. Annie Victoria Mumford are planned for Thursday afternoon. The body rests at Graf ton funeral parlors with a 1 o'clock prayer service, 1.36 at the Home for the Aged, and 2 o'clock at the First Baptist Church conducted by Rev. E Nelshbdour. Burial at Ober-2.
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Annie
Victoria Mumford
Grafton
First Baptist Church
Rerbie E Nelshbdour
Ober- 2
Divorce Granted to D. J. Stevick in Wilful Absence Case
A divorce was granted to D. J. Stevick of this city from Gertrude Stevick this morning by Judge Webber on the ground of three years wilful absence.
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D. J. Stevick
Gertrude Stevick
Webber
Two Die in Maryland Fire and Harding Update
A fatal fire at 235 North Locust Street, Hagerstown, killed Ida Carbaugh and her granddaughter Geraldin Carbaugh, with five others severely injured. In San Francisco President Harding shows gradual improvement, sleeping better and receiving positive medical notes as doctors report reduced fever and steady recovery progress.
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Hagerstown
North Locust Street
Ida Carbaugh
Geraldin Carbaugh
Pearl Jacobs
Katherine Jacobs
John H. Carbaugh
San Francisco
Hardos
Jon
Washington
My. Harding
Police Shoot Boy After Chase on Porch
Police officer Patrolman Harry Webster fired at four youths from a residence porch where they were said to be shooting craps. The bullet struck Hazelbaker just under the right arm and exited the left side. He was taken to Saint Francis hospital.
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Noid Haselbaker
Harry Webster
Webster
Haselbaker
Young Hazelbaker
Saint Francis Hospital
Greene County Grand Jury Recalled to Probe Kidnapping Case
Greene county grand jury recalled for Monday to consider charges against Frank W. Grunich 30 for kidnapping Chief of Police M E Graham of Xents during an attempted arrest after Grunich allegedly beat his mother in law Mrs Harry Clark Stunich who is under bond 318000 for first degree murder in Newart Ky was bound over for assaulting Mrs Clark with intent to kill
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Datton
Greene County
Grand Jury
Frank W. Grunich
M. E. Graham
Xents
Harry Clark
Stunich
Newart
Clark
Runaway Elyria Girl Located in Cleveland
Police received word from Cleveland authorities that a young girl named Chatter was being held in detention and needed her parents to pick her up. The girl had left home weeks ago and was believed to have gone to her father in Pitts parish. Authorities report she is afflicted with wandering tendencies.
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Cleveland
Lacy
Chatter
Tha‘t
Pittsparish
Two men die by their own actions in Columbus services
In Columbus on August 1 Faener Lal reports two men, Noah Miller, 78, and a second man identified as Ray McCarthy, 2, died by self harm. Miller drank poison and McCarthy inhaled gas, with bodies found late yesterday. Coroner Murphy notes Miller had been ill for four days.
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Columbus
Faener
Noah Miller
Ray McCarthy
Miller
McCarthy
Murphy
Walter Sch Hurt in Fall At Amherst
Report from Amherst Arg1 states Schultz Heerman of the Home Telephone Co suffered injuries in a fall. He was taken to hospital with a broken hip and other unspecified injuries.
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Walter Sch
Amherst
Schultz
Hxeman
Home Telephone Co
Hs Deere
Tolag
I Hospital
Lovet
Nat
Cern
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