Remus Freed From Lima State Hospital By Supreme Court
George Remus once Cincinnati bootlegger and wife slayer was released from the Lima state hospital for the criminal insane after the Ohio Supreme Court affirmed the Allen county court of appeals writ of habeas corpus. The decision holds that a sane determination may be sought by the inmate and that the superintendent alone cannot order release. The case centers on insanity as a basis for acquittal and the right to challenge sanity through proper judicial processes.
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Lima
Ohio
George Hemus
Cincinnati
State Hospital
Remus
State Supreme Court
Allen County Court of Appeals
Columbus
George Remus
Lima State Hospital
Supreme Court
Hamilton County Common Pleas Court
Lima Hospital
Hamilton
W. H. Vorbau
Liner Seeks War Aid To Deal With Stowaways
The Australian liner Jervis Bay appealed for warship assistance to handle desperate stowaways. The request was received by the British cruiser Enterprise in Colombo harbor. Enterprise replied no warship was on the Jervis Bay route and advised reporting if the situation worsened. The ship carried 600 passengers and 120 crew.
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Colombo
Ceylon
Jervis Bay
Enterprise
Curtis Confers With G O P Leaders On Farm Relief Plan
Senator Charles Curtis, Republican vice presidential nominee, began a series of meetings with GOP leaders on the farm relief plan he and Herbert Hoover plan to push this fall. Senator Smoot of Utah, who drafted the platform, started the visits and expressed optimism about Republican victory. Curtis aims to pause politics to focus on government duties and may take a vacation before campaigning.
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Washington
Charles Curtis
Herbert Hoover
Smoot
Utah
Curtis
United Press
World traveler J J Jackson speaks to Elyria Rotarians
Garrettsville Ohio resident J J Jackson told Elyria Rotary at Newell hotel about a five month world tour. He described experiences in Madrid Gibraltar and other foreign cities. Hood River Oregon Rotarian J L Breckenridge paid a visit while Florida wintering member Charles Lozier returned and Arthur Kimball joined the club.
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J. J. Jackson
Garrettsville
Ohio
Elyria Rotary Club
Newell Hotel
Jackson
Madrid
Gibraltar
Jin
Charles Lozier
Florida
Arthur Kimball
J. L. Breckenridge
Hood River
Oregon
Two Plead Not Guilty in Liquor Law Violations
Police arrested Alex Pielak of West River street and Mrs Walter Michalki of 15th street on West River last night after a gallon of liquor was found in the car driven by Pielak. Both pleaded not guilty in police court this morning and will next appear Thursday afternoon before Mayor James A Hewitt.
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Corbett Southam
Clare Sayles
West River Street
Alex Pielak
Walter Michalki
15Th Street
James A. Hewitt
Pielak
Michalki
Central Ohio hit by storm in June tornado run
A June 20 windstorm tore through Central Ohio, unroofing homes and blowing down a revival tent in New Boston where 50 people were warned. In Manchester a boy drowned when his skiff overturned and missing oars complicated his attempt to reach shore. Wilmington reported a tornado damage path with many houses destroyed and injuries from lightning and electric shocks as rain delayed searches.
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Portsmouth
New Boston
Ohio
Manchester
Gordon Thatcher
Wilmington
Roads Flooded In Athens Area
Athens Ohio reports heavy rain over 24 hours flooding roads across the region. Glouster wires down and trees across streets. Chauncey sees two businesses and two homes destroyed by fire. several cattle killed by lightning in Amesville as the Hocking River runs bank full.
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Athens
Glouster
Chauncey
Amesville
Hocking
South St. Louis Flood Runs Up Riverbank
Torrential rains caused the Des Peres to overflow its banks flooding more than 20 city blocks in South St. Louis. Police and firemen rescued stranded families in motor boats. No casualties believed.
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ST. Louis
Midwest Storm Killers And Damage Hit Illinois Indiana
A severe electrical storm swept the Middle West with winds near cyclonic velocity causing up to 1 million dollars in damage to property and crops in Illinois and Indiana. Five people are dead, with multiple injuries reported. four Indiana University workers died in Bloomingdale after lightning struck a tree they sheltered under. A colored boy, Donald Thomas, 10, was killed near Newark Ohio, and a tornado wrecked farm buildings around Creston Iowa.
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Illinois
Indiana
Indiana University
Bloomington
Ind
Otto
Hacker
Thomas
James Holt
Kenneth Deckard
Donald Thomas
Newark
Ohio
Chicago
Quincy
Iowa
Creston
B of T Campaign Nets 21 New Members
Elyria Boarde of Trade reports twenty one new members at a dinner meeting at the Newell hotel ending a one day membership drive. Twelve two person teams carried out the plan with Max Goldstein as sales division chairman of the Wigma Board of Trade. Membership now stands at 339 with several cards yet to be accounted for.
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Elyria Boarde of Trade
Newell
Max Goldstein
Wigma Board of Trade
Elyria to retire $33,000 in deficiency bonds by June 30
Mayor James A Hewitt announced that from June 30, 1927 to June 30, 1928 the city will have paid off $33,000 of deficiency and debt extension bonds. He noted about $31.10 daily was reduced from pre-1924 bonds, part of $291,000 deficiency bonds faced in 1924. By July 1 this year more than $127,000 of the deficiency bonds will be retired. Deficiency bonds cover current expenses and act as a mortgage against the city. He said the $33,000 saved could fund city improvements or lessen the tax rate.
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James A Hewitt
Hewitt
Elyria
Express Car Holdup At Union Station Stolen Mail
Six men robbed a midnight express car at Toronto Union Station seizing registered mail valued at 150000 to 200000 dollars. Workers were ordered to the car side as four bandits fired warning shots and two entered the car to rifle sacks. The loot was loaded into a waiting car and the bandits fled. Police surrounded the area but the suspects remained at large.
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Toronto
Ont
Union Station
Chicago
Trial Of Lorain Youths Again Postponed
A second postponement of the robbery and criminal attack trials of three Lorain youths Adam Jeancola John Botchick and Robert Benson was made today setting the case for Monday June 25.
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Lorain
Adam Jeancola
John Botchick
Robert Benson
Political Battle In Brief Across Parties
Charlies Evans Hughes departs for Europe and backs Hoover’s presidential win. Hoover aims to keep New York campaign setup as eastern HQ. Anti-Saloon League plans a $250000 dry campaign if Smith is nominated. Igoe hints James Hamilton Lewis as VP with Smith. Anti-Smith forces seek unity. Georgia’s Walter George may lead anti Smith effort. Virginia writes to vote against a wet candidate at Houston. Curtis to confer with McNary on farm relief as McNary Haugen bill fades. Hoover to name a new RNC chair this week after talks with leaders.
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S. E. Nicholson
anti-Saloon League
League
Smith
New York State
Death Toll In S. W. Storms Now Nine
Kansas City dispatch reports renewed cyclones in Oklahoma and Missouri raise storm deaths to nine since Saturday. A tornado near Frederick Oklahoma killed Elbert Reaves, 20, as severe weather damaged crops, wrecked homes, and disrupted lines at Pattonsburg Missouri.
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Kansas City
Oklahoma
Missouri
Frederick
Okla
Elbert Reavex
Pattonsburg
Miussouri
Rumors Reach Kings Bay On Nobile Italia Rescue Efforts
Unconfirmed reports from Kings Bay Spitzbergen say seaplanes sighted General Umberto Nobile and five companions near the Italia wreck on a north polar ice floe, with food dropped. No landing observed, adding to rumors that Amundsen had located the stranded explorers, though no proof exists and radio contact was uncertain.
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Kings Bay
Spitzbergen
Umberto Nobile
North Eastland
Italia
Braganza
H. Rufser- Lersen
Luetzow- Holm
Nobile
Citta di Milano
Roaig Amundsen
Amundsen
Tromsoe
Norway
Guilbaud
France
Dietrichson
Dacanze to Defeat Smith in Houston Anti Smith Move
Houston readers report an anti Smith movement forming to contest the nomination of Gov Alfred E Smith. Senator Walter F George is sought to head the effort with calls for Cordell Hull James Reed Evans Woolen and Avery to join. No headway is seen as rival factions fail to coalesce around a single candidate.
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Houston
Tex
Alfred E. Smith
Watson- Lowden-Goff-Curtis
Herbert Hoover
Kansas City
Walter F. George
Georgia
Cordell Hull
Tennessee
James A Reed
Missouri
Evans Woolen
Indiana
Avery
Kansas
George
Five Miners Die in Laurel Point Mine Explosion
Five miners were killed and seven injured in a Laurel Point mine blast at the National Coal Company in Laurel Point West Virginia. Twenty two cutters were working. ten escaped. Injured were rushed to Morgantown hospital as state mine rescue teams aided recovery. Cause of the explosion was not determined.
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Laurel Point
Wva
National Coal Company
Morgantown
Earhart Arrives in London After Transatlantic Flight
Amelia Earhart lands in London after crossing the Atlantic, wearing the same flying suit from Trepassey Bay. She arrives tired yet cheerful, plans shopping for a dress, dines with Captain Frederick Guest, and admires England while recounting her pilot role aboard the Friendship with Wilmer Stultz at the controls.
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London
Amelia Earhart
Atlantic
Barryport Wales
Southampton
Trespassey Bay
N. Fr
Farhart
Frederick E. Guest
Miss Fathart
Wales
Miss Earhart
England
Supreme Court Grants Freeman New Trial in Ohio Murder Case
The state Supreme Court reversed the Montgomery County Court of Appeals ruling that Roy Freeman, a Dayton Negro, must die for the murder of police officer William C. Horn on September 18, 1927. The verdict returns the case to Montgomery County Common Pleas Court for a new trial. Freeman’s lawyers contended Horn was shot in a scuffle with no proof of premeditation.
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Columbus
State Supreme Court
Montgomery County Court of Appeals
Roy Freeman
William C. Horn
Montgomery County Common Pleas Court
Court of Appeals
Common Pleas Court
Freeman
Supreme Court
Horn
Freemen
Rainbow His Attorney Guilty Of Defrauding Check
William S. Liston was found guilty by a jury in Judge J. D. Barnes court of issuing a check with intent to defraud for 300 dollars to contractor George Fridenstein. The trial, crowded with spectators, lasted until verdict late afternoon, with Liston described by his attorney as a rainbow chaser who should be in a sanitarium. He was sentenced to one year in the penitentiary after the jury was out less than fifteen minutes.
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William S. Liston
J. D. Barnes
Common Pleas
J.D. Barnes
Liston
George Fridenstein
Harvey H. Hall
Oberlin Road
W. H. Walker
Cleveland
Liston Walker
Elyria
Walker
South Dakota
Florida
John D Rockefeller
Toledo
Barnes
Bath House Blast Kills 24 in Mexico City
An explosion in a crowded bath house in Mexico City last night killed 24 people, left 2 missing, and gravely injured 30 including American Kenneth Ferguson. A boiler was hurled 50 feet into the air in the blast.
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Mexico City
Kenneth Ferguson
Meredith Laid To Rest Today
Edwin T. Meredith former secretary of agriculture and magazine publisher will be buried this afternoon in Glendale cemetery Des Moines Iowa. Hundreds of friends viewed the body in state at Consistory Temple. Services conducted by Rev Elmer Owen rector of St Pauls Episcopal Church. Active pallbearers were longtime associates from his publishing plant.
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Des Moines
Edwin T. Meredith
Masonic Glendale
Elmer Owen
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church
Meredith
Gas leak prompts call to two fire crews at Rivkin home
A gas leak on a hot plate in the basement at 117 West Street prompted two fire companies to respond this morning. The gas was shut off and no damage was reported.
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Dave Rivkin
West Street
Rivkin
Amundsen Aims to Aid Italia Rescue in Polar Flight
Major Maddalena reports finding General Umberts Nobile camp on the ice off Northeastland but cannot land dropping provisions to Italia fliers. Roald Amundsen leaves Tromsoe in a Farman seaplane to join the search, with no definite news after 40 hours of flight.
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Kings Bay
Spitzbergen
Maddalena
Citta di Milano
Umberts Nobile
Italia Fliers
London
Arctic
Italia
Roald Amundsen
South Pole
Tromsoe
Norway
Farman
Rene Guilbaud
Amundsen
Baltast
Umberto Nobile
Green Harbor
Gen
Ellsworth to Head Another Lapedition
Cleveland news reports Lincoln Ellsworth of Hudson Ohio plans a 1929 Arctic expedition by air, his third northern venture. He flew near the pole in 1925 with Roald Amundsen, participated in 1926 with the Norge airship, and will not specify a base location.
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Cleveland
Lincoln Ellsworth
Hudson
Arctic
New York
Ellsworth
Pole
Raold Amundsen
Richard E. Byrd
Amundsen
Spitzbergen
Teller
Alaska
Umberto Nobble
Northeastland
Senator George Clings To Senate Bid Amid Uncertain Race
Senator George of Georgia faces a tight Democratic conference race as prospects of withdrawal by Maryland’s Gevequait Ritchie and New York Governor Smith influence a contested path to renomination. A United Press report notes the party’s state nominations trial and possible convention outcomes.
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Washington
Senator George
Georgia
Gevequait Ritchie
Maryland
Smith
New YF
United Press Tedeo
George
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