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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1932
Page
2
General Pershing argues the nation faces a war on crime and corruption after prosperity. He urges citizen committees, universal identification, and active political engagement to curb bootlegging, graft, and underworld influence, comparing it to wartime mobilization.
France does not send all offenders to the Isle de Salut penal colony off French Guiana. The practice targets unwanted habitual criminals and political prisoners. The sentencing emphasizes the type of criminal rather than the specific crime.
In Pittsburgh near Wylie Avenue three Volpe brothers John James and Arthur were shot to death by gunmen believed to be from a rival liquor gang. A fourth brother Louis Volpe is jailed on a prohibition charge. Police suspect outside gunmen sought to wipe out the Volpe faction in the hill district. A restaurant employee Sam Bizzano was seriously wounded.
Report describes photo electric cell rays that trigger alarms for escapes at Broad Meadow farm near Chester. Eight floodlights in the tower plus 82 exterior cornic es and interior lights provide daylight brightness and adjustable levels. An emergency storage battery system activates if regular power fails. Electric doors, kitchen operations and refrigeration are all powered by the same system.
William Petersen, a blind inmate of the home for blind boys, traveled alone on foot from Copenhagen to Korsøer, covering 114 kilometers in one night and day. He navigated busy streets and many villages to reach his mother in Shedding, Funen.
A young man, posing as a customer, asked for a revolver from Chick Gray at a San Francisco sporting goods store. The man took a loaded weapon after a tense exchange, warned Gray not to move, and fled with the gun.
Cincinnati man William R. Perkins testified his wife followed a spirit's prediction of his death on Christmas Day. She bought a cemetery plot and arranged for a minister. When he survived four weeks later she said the spirits erred again and urged him to seek a new husband, leading to a divorce.
In Dayton Ohio Myra V descendant of prize winning Doberman Pinschers leaped between a three year old boy Gene Brennan and a rattlesnake near a rose bush. The dog bit the snake and absorbed the strike while protecting the child. Myra V was taken to a hospital and doctors expect she will live.
In San Jose California a cow named Bessie was mistaken for a burglar after a home break in alarm. Officers Cornered the animal which mooed loudly and arrested it for burglary. She later vanished from a jail lot and a warrant was issued for her arrest as a fugitive.
New Britain Connecticut detective sergeant Patrick J. O Mara hid in a packing case aboard an express truck to observe a youth looting. He then arrested the thief on a nearby street after spotting him through a peephole.
In Brooklyn at St. Agatha's Catholic Church a self made burglar alarm set by sexton Thomas McNamara stopped a poor box robbery. Edward Smith was held for the grand jury on charging taking 85 cents from the box.
Mrs. Nannie Rowland pleads guilty to involuntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of Calvin Ward in Richmond Virginia. She is fined one cent and costs as determined by the jury.
Horace Hart celebrated his 104th birthday in Twin Falls attributing his long life to never marrying and his claim that no woman ever told him what to eat or drink. He recalled life through the decades with humor and pride.
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