Curtis Found Guilty In Lindbergh Case Obstruction
John Hughes Curtis of Norfolk Virginia was found guilty of obstructing justice in the Lindbergh kidnapping case. Federal agents testified he confessed to a hoax for profit, and the judge sentenced him to one year in state prison and a $1000 fine despite jury mercy. Judge Robbins noted the impact of Curtis's alleged contacts with the real kidnappers and Curtis’s status as a respected citizen. Colonel Lindbergh attended the trial proceedings but was absent during sentencing.
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Flemington
N. d
John Hughes Curtis
Norfolk
Lloyd Fisher
United States
Fisher
Curtis
Lindbergh
Robbins
Tax citations force Lorain County residents to court
About 1,000 people in Lorain County were summoned by the state tax commission to appear before clerks to complete property listings. Fines range from 5 percent for reasonable excuses to 50 percent for deliberate failure, with an estimated 2,500 still incomplete. Hearings run through Thursday with more sessions to follow.
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Lorain County
L. B. Day
Tax Commission
Columbus
Day
Tax Commissioner
Creek Claims Boy At Big Brush Creek Death
Peebles Ohio July 11 14 year old Harry Mathews drowned Sunday while on a swimming party at Big Brush Creek. The tragedy occurred during the outing near Peebles with likely local youths and chaperones present. Authorities investigated the incident as a drowning accident.
Miniature Tornado Strikes LaGrange Two Villages
A brief, violent tornado near Mogador LaGrange township caused extensive damage and injuries. Buildings were wrecked, lines downed, a filling station pump gashed, and several residents moved to hospital after a day of tropical disturbances across Ohio.
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LaGrange Two
Akron
Mogador
Here
Ohio
Limaville
Lorain County
Judson Spicer
Whitehead Road
LaGrange Township
Frank Sanders
Diagonal Road
Spicer
Sanders
Charles Opfer
Townline Road
Fined by the Mayor for Driving While Intoxicated
Joseph Walker of Cleveland was fined $100 and costs and suspended from driving 60 days after appearing before Mayor W. H. Van Oster this morning on a driving while intoxicated charge. He was arrested Saturday night when officers saw him stagger from a Court street restaurant, enter a car, and drive off.
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Joseph Walker
Cleveland
W. H. van Oster
Hoe
Court Street
Senate votes to expand currency by one billion dollars
Bulletin from Washington notes the Senate approved a currency expansion of about 1 billion dollars to lift farm prices. The tallied vote was 53 for and 18 against.
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Senate
Four Die In Auto Crash At Route Intersection
Four persons were killed and five injured when two cars collided at the junction of state Routes 32 and 117 northwest of Bellefontaine, Logan County. Victims include Andrew Gualtieri and Salvatore Presutti of Columbus, Miss Alice Zeits of Lima, and Mrs Trumen Lament of Harper. Injured were Trumen Lament, Ida Gualtieri, Rosa Presutti, and Evelyn Presutti. All injured taken to Mary Rutan Hospital. Investigation by Logan County officials to follow.
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Bellefontaine
Logan County
Andrew Gualtieri
Grocer
Columbus
Philip Fouldk
Lama
Alice Zeits
Lima
Trumen Lament
Zeits
Harper
Lament
Ida Gualtier
Salvatore Presutti
Rosa
Evelyn
Mary Rutan Hospital
Cualtieris
Presuttis
Russel’s Point
Indian Lake
Fouldk
Miss Zeus
Vote for Return to Gold Standard Board Action
Bulletin from Basle reports a unanimous World Bank board vote in favor of a resolution urging a return to the gold standard as the best solution to the world crisis. Montagu Norman of the Bank of England and Sweden and Papan endorsed. first public signal of non-gold nations stance and Britain’s plan to re establish the gold standard.
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Bulletin Basle
Switzerland
The
World Bank
Montagu Norman
Bank of England
Sweden
Papan
Britain
Bandits Nemesis Aids Motorist Near Oberlin Station Crash
Rocky Austin, noted radio announcer, located Matt Gardner, Oberlin road gasoline station proprietor and bandit nemesis, after Austin's car was forced from the road near the station at 4 a.m. Gardner helped the injured driver, who had a broken nose and multiple injuries, and drove him to his Bay Village home.
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Rocky Austin
Matt Gardner
Oberlin Road
Austin
Cleveland
Oberlin
Gardner
Bay Village
Violent clashes tied to state coal mine strike erupt
Violence surged across the state as two men were wounded and one killed in separate incidents near coal mines. Steve Bowen, 40, died at Logan hospital from a gunshot wound linked to the dispute. Clarence Grant claimed self defense after being threatened by five men. Authorities faced lynching threats, guards dispersed the crowd, and Grant was jailed. Gail Gamble, 23, was fatally wounded in an ambush as workers traveled under guard toward Powhatan mine. A guard plane failed to identify the shooter. The Jefferson county Piney Fork mine opened with 500 pickets nearby, while Dorothy mine trestle near Tiltonsville suffered an arson-style fire as operations resumed. Blaine mine pickets ended a strike, returning to jobs. Three reporters from New York were arrested on obstruction charges.
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United Press
Steve Bowen
Buchtel
Cherrington
Logan
Clarence Grant
Grant
Sunday Creek Coal Company
Millfield
Athens County
Bowen
George Shintz
John Searles
Wayne Wingett
Ohio National
Bellaire Hospital
George White
Piney Fork
Jefferson County
New York
Provident
Lieut. Thompson
Ohio National Guard
Blaine
Y & C. Coal Company
Tiltonsville
Eleven Drownings Reported After West Virginia Floods
In Towelltown near Paint Creek massive floodwaters from a 4 A M cloudburst swept Armstrong and Pari Creek valleys washing out roads and communications. Reports indicate 11 people may have drowned with two cabins destroyed in a mine settlement along Armstrong Creek north of Montgomery though confirmation is incomplete and access remained impossible while waters subsided.
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Charleston
W. Va
Armstrong and
Pari Creek
Towelltown
Paint Creek
Armstrong Creek
Montgomery
Ward
Elyria Accepts Three Cent Postage
Postmaster R B Lersch notes Elyrians mail similar volumes at the new rate with a brief spike on July 5 before normal mail flow resumed. First class mail receipts rose about 59 percent as Congress intended, while confusion over rates remains limited and few letters require extra postage.
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Elyrians
R B. Lersch
Congress
Lersch
Summer Wednesday Afternoons To Close Stores In Elyria
Elyria downtown stores will observe Wednesday afternoon closing for eight weeks starting this week to give employees a half holiday. Practically all department stores will close each week this afternoon until September when Wednesday openings resume.
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Elyria
Cascade Pool Opens Evenings for Local Swimmers
Cascade Park will offer evening swimming at Cascade Pool starting tomorrow night. The park commission announced the pool will be open from 7 PM to dusk, providing Elyrians with a chance to swim after daytime commitments.
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Cascade Pool
Cascade Park
Park Commission
Hoover vetoes Wagner-Garner unemployment relief plan
Washington July 11 President Hoover delivers a prompt veto of the 2 122 000 000 Wagner Garner unemployment relief measure passed by Congress. Leaders move to draft a new program without the veto, aiming to silence campaign tensions as Rohrer mortgages and currency issues rise.
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Washington
Hoover
Congress
White House
Senate
Garner
Curtis
Reconstruction Corporation
Rainey
Lorain County Libraries Add 1418 Volumes in Year
Lorain County schools report 1418 new volumes, lifting total usable books to 17441. Elementary libraries hold 1191 volumes and high school libraries 10750. New books cost 2046.38 dollars. County has 43 libraries.
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Lorain County
Federal Loans To Be Probed
The Senate approved the Couzens resolution ordering a five member committee to investigate loans made by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. The panel will report in January and may keep facts secret if revealing them could damage confidence in borrowing institutions.
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Washington
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Senate
Couzens
Third Carload Of Flour Is Received
The third carload of flour for the local Red Cross was unloaded here today. It contained 360 barrels or 8552 sacks, bringing total received to 1069 barrels. Values total 4276 dollars in sacks. Flour arrived within three months and was stored and ready for distribution in two hours. Distribution starts tomorrow.
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the Red Cross
A. L. Werner
Red Cross Today
Red Cross
Leon Kennedy
Cattle And Hog Prices Still Going Up
Chicago July 11 cattle and hog prices renewed their four week advance with hogs hitting a new high of 5.55 per hundredweight. Cattle prices rose about 23 cents per hundred while sheep eased. The shortage of hogs supported the rise and analysts see this as a potential start toward higher farm prices and improved business conditions.
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Bulletin
Chicago
Actress corroborates Walker in Reynolds shooting case
Blanche Yurka, New York actress, partially corroborates Albert Walker’s claim he was in the Reynolds house when Smith Reynolds was shot. Walker is jailed as a material witness. Libby Holman, Reynolds heir and wife, is under guard as a witness. Yurka recounts seeing Walker in the reception room and Walker carrying Reynolds to a car after a late night party.
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Winston Salem
N. C
Blanche Yurka
New York
Albert Walker
Reynolds
Smith Reynolds
Walker
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco
Libby Holman
Miss Holman
Miss Yurka
C. G. Hill
Reynold
Bright Spots In Business World
Detroit reports June U S car sales up 6 18 percent from May across seven states. Youngstown steel ops to 17 percent capacity this week from 13 percent last week. Hazel Atlas Glass in Clarksburg W Va runs at peak since 1921 due to orders. Norge Refrigerators first half sales within 6 percent of 1931 yearly total, says Norge president. Winnipeg CN load 2 242 cars revenue freight July 30 to July 6 vs 1 487 in 1941 period.
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Detroit
Youngstown, O
Pittsburgh
Clarksburg
W. Va
Hazel- Atlas Glass Co
Norge
Howard E. Blood
Norge Corp
Winnipeg
Man
Canadian National Railways
Tuna
Senate approves probe into campaign expenditures
Senate authorize a select committee to investigate campaign expenditures of Senate and presidential candidates. Republican leaders require cutting the investigation appropriation from 100000 to 25000, and set July 11 as the date of confirmation.
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Washington
U. P
Senate
Alleged Slayer of Officer Hunted Across States
James Storey twenty five was sought as the murderer of Jay N. Davis marshal at North Baltimore. He was shot fatally wounded by South Bend police after capture and handcuffing following a spree of robberies in Ohio and Indiana. Storey and two companions terrorized the region until police closed in and bullets chased Storey into the St Joseph river where he was pulled from the water and taken to a hospital.
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North Baltimore
South Bend
Ind
James Storey
Jay N. Davis
Bauth
Sit Storey
Ohio
Davis
Martin Larkin, Jr
Toledo
Indiana
John A. Hora
Storey
Baltimore
Marshall
Larkin
St. Joseph River
League Magnates Sustain Ban on Yankee Catcher
The American League board upheld the suspension and a 1009 dollar fine on New York Yankees catcher Bill Dickey for striking Washington outfielder Carl Reynolds. The punishment, imposed by League President Will Harridge, had been protested by Yankees owner Col. Jacob Ruppert.
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Cleveland
American League Today
Bill Dickey
New York Yankees
League
Walf Harridge
Dickey
Carl Reynolds
Washington
Col
Jacob Ruppert
Yankees
Last Minute Style Guide for Any Occasion
A compact fashion note advises readers to look and feel their best at any event. It highlights quick wardrobe fixes for last minute invites and stresses clothing as a key comfort and poise factor. The page promises a complete directory of tailored options to back up confident presentation.
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Preceeseres
State Tax Commission
Finch Chimne Top Company
Harry Darrah
Albert Ghaboundy
Franklin Davis
Ghaboundy
Darrah
Mogador Twig Sports
Monroe Falls
James Maddox
Lilly Mayes
City Hospital
India Tire and Rubber Company
Ripton
Magadore
Bandits Nemesis
West VA
Mr. Hoover
County
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