Ohio penitentiary fire witness list and related injuries brie f
State prosecutor says nine convicts will testify in the first degree murder trial of Clinton Grate for the 1930 penitentiary fire that killed 322 inmates. Gates faces trial Monday while Hugh Gibbons is slated for a later date. Warden Thomas will not testify and about 25 witnesses are expected in the case. In a separate note, Myrtle Pipher lies injured from a Beulah Park track incident where a runaway horse caused a fence breach and the horse died. In Ironton, William Deans received 6226 in settlement from Raw Strawser Construction for his son James 12 killed when a stump blasted through the Kelly school roof. four suits seeking 30000 each are pending.
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Donald J. Hoskins
Ohio Penitentiary
Clinton Grate
Gates
Hugh Gibbons
Hoskins
P. BE. Thomas
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William Deans
Strawser Construction Company
James
Strawser
Kelly School
Here
Deans
Ohio Wesleyan picks six beauty coeds for yearbook page
Six women students at Ohio Wesleyan University were chosen as the most beautiful co-eds from 41 entrants by Le Bijou. Vaughn R. Shoemaker of the Chicago Daily News selected the winners, whose names include Roberta Cole, Mary Lou Ingalls, Margaret Knight, Mary Stealey, Harriet Greenwood, and Mary Warner.
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Delaware
Ohio Wesleyan University
le Bijou
Vaughn R. Shoemaker
Chicago Daily News
Roberta Cole
Mr. Vernon
Mary Lou Ingalls
Columbus
Margaret Knight
Cleveland Heights
Mary Stealey
Labor wage conference set for Cleveland. 7500 workers affected
East Liverpool reports the National Brotherhood of Operative Potters and the U S Potters Association choosing Cleveland for a joint general wage conference opening next Tuesday. The adopted wage scale will impact 7500 workers. In Toledo James A Courtney, a Lake Erie rum runner, was sentenced to two years and fined 5909 after pleading guilty to liquor transportation near Toledo. In Cincinnati the Fairfax school principal H M Van Saun and teacher Miss Goldie Gaskins were bound over for grand jury on assault charges after beating pupil Edward Blackburn 14. Van Saun said the boy defied Miss Gaskins and he gave him a good paddling. He claimed the action was appropriate for school discipline. In Cleveland seven men were held today.
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East Liverpool
National Brotherhood of Operative Potters
U. S. Potters’ Association
Cleveland
Toledo
James A. Courtney
Lake Erie
Cincinnati
H. M. van Saun
Fairfax School
Goldie Gaskins
Edward Blackburn
van Laun
Murder pits two suspects in downtown clothing-store slaying
In Columbus, detectives name two main suspects in the beating death of Max Marcus, 58, a downtown clothing-store proprietor. One suspect is an ex convict with a long facial scratch tied to the struggle, the other a resident of the murder district. Separately, Ohio State University faculty vote 3 to 79 to recommend optional military training to the board, following a petition of about 700 names and an anti militarist student demonstration.
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Max Marcus
Board of Trustees
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