Wholesale Arrest Of Philly Cops In Graft Probe
Philadelphia police captain Charles Cohen and 20 other officers were arrested on extortion bribery and conspiracy charges in a sweeping graft probe. Detained in City Hall and transferred to Central Police Station, the officers lined up as district attorney officials read names for processing.
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Philadelphia
Corridora
City Hall
Monaghan
Patrick J. McKewen
McKewen
Charles Cohen
Central Police
Guardians of the Law
Fair Officials Plan Big Exhibition Preparations
Scores of park benches have been scattered about the fairgrounds for the comfort of women and children attending the big exhibition this year. The Fair Board has erected additional comfort stations and will complete cleaning and white washing of fences and barns before the opening on October 9. Repairs have been made to all buildings and they were painted. A directors meeting is set for Saturday to finalize plans and discuss rain insurance and broadcasting the fair on KDICA Pittsburgh next week.
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Fair Board
Westinghouse
KDICA
Pittsburgh
Legacy Offer For Twins Sparks Local Piety
In Orrtanna Pennsylvania Father Will Whalen of the Old Jesuit Mission Buchanan Valley offers the entire late widow’s gold legacy to the first congregant who brings twins to baptism. He jokes the motive is to boost birthrates and notes two babies cost more than one.
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Orrtanna
Will Whalen
Buchanan Valley
Blue Ridge
Whaten
Forty Killed by Explosion of Magazine at Melilla Fort
Madrid Sept 26 At least forty people are believed killed and 200 injured in a powder magazine explosion at Fort Caberiza near Melilla Spanish Morocco General Jordana says the blast occurred at 1 am wounding seven soldiers and heavily damaging surrounding houses more than a ton of black powder stored in the magazine caused extensive devastation the cause is unknown the fortress housing the magazine was shattered
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Madrid
Fort Caberiza
Melilla
Jordana
Spanish War Office
Radio politics on air with acts and talks tonight
New York Sept 26 political radio programs list shows an Actors Authors and Actors League rally for Smith over NBC red network to the Pacific Coast via WEAP at 9 30 p m eastern standard time with Irving Berlin Willa Collier and others. Gillett and McClure also scheduled talks on WOR and WOW respectively. A damage suit is filed by Preston P Travinger against Charles W Harman over a North Potomac street auto crash.
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New York
Actors, Authors and Actors League
Smith
National Broadcasting Company
Red
Pacific Coast
WEAP
Irving Berlin
Willa Collier
George M. Cohan
Eddie Dowling
Gene Buck
Frederick H. Gillett
WOR
John B. McClure
WOW
Preston P. Travinger
Yourtee, Bovey and Sweeney
Charles W. Harman
North Potomac Street
Travinger
Night Riders terror grips Barton as leader is arrest
In Barton Ohio a masked band calling themselves Night Riders terrorized the small town for months. John Eberhardt coal mine foreman was arrested on riotous conspiracy charges as the alleged leader following indictments. Witnesses described luring youths and beating women, with several townspeople testifying after Eberhardt’s arrest.
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ST. Clairsville
Ohio
Barton
Here
Paul ¥. Waddell
John Eberhardt
Eberhardt
Goldie Wheeler
Lester Berry
The
Bel
Mont County
Baltimore records largest supplemental registration day
Baltimore reports 51,915 citizens registered for the November presidential election after a supplemental registration day. Women led registrations by about 700, with 29,425 women and 22,490 men. Democrats counted 11,965 men and 13,995 women. Republicans 8,716 men and 13,194 women. others and declines totaled 1,089 men and 2,272 women.
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Baltimore
Republican Party
Skull broken fleeing auto leaves woman injured
Mrs. S. T. Richards of Frederick is in Frederick City hospital with a fractured skull after jumping from a car Sunday when a bystander cried fire. She attended church at Catoctin Furnace and was returning home as sparks from the exhaust flew. Found unconscious, she was rushed to the hospital. condition is serious.
Fifteen Dead By Drowning Through Floods In Mexico
Flood conditions in Jalisco state have killed at least 15 as houses collapsed after five days of heavy rains. Sayula and Guadalajara areas flooded. San Pedro and Santa Catarina rivers overflowed. Troops assist in rescue as railway lines suffer washouts and traffic halts persist.
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Mexico City
Jalisco
Ciudad Guzman
San Pedro
Santa Catarina
Sayula
Guadalajara
Colima
Ayarit
Apples Age Record Claim by Rohrersville Grower
J W Geltmacer of Rohrersville says he has kept apples for two years, claiming a record with varieties including two perfect Bineck Twigs picked in fall 2926 and still in excellent condition. He also preserves three apples of unknown varieties from last year, still looking luscious.
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J. W. Geltmacer
Rohrersville
Wwe Hag
Porto Rico Death Toll Reaches 224 After Hurricane
Governor Horace M. Towner reports to the Bureau of Insular Affairs that police records show 224 killed, 1158 injured and ten missing across 71 of 76 Puerto Rico municipalities. Red Cross and Florida relief funds total 7.52069 million dollars.
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Washington
Horace M. Towner
Porto Rico
Bureau of Insular Affairs
Police Department
Red Cross
West Indies
Florida
Women urged to vote for Gov Smith by Norton
Representative Mary Norton of New Jersey in a WEAF broadcast urged women to vote for Governor Smith calling him the greatest humanitarian. She praised his welfare policy and credited Hoover's war relief work to the Democratic party, noting Wilson's machinery aided Hoover's success.
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New York
Mary T. Norton
New Jersey
WEAF
Smith
Hoover
Woodrow Wilsno
Cold Wave Damages Crops In Canada
Windsor Ontario reports a cold wave across Canada and the northern United States. Tobacco belts near Yed suffer heavy frost with potential million dollar losses. Also noted are withdrawal of a vice presidential candidate, a probate will, and a bicycle theft report.
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Canada
Windsor
Ont
United States
Plight of Porto Ricans Urges U S Aid Cable
A Red Cross cable from rescue workers in Porto Rico appeals for immediate United States relief. About 300,000 survivors face privation exposure and rising disease as Red Cross chapters liaise with Washington to relay the urgent message.
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United States
American Red Cross
Washington
The
Red Cross
Red Cross appeal seeks 12 million for Florida hurricane relief
In Palm Beach county Florida a formal report on the Okeechobee hurricane toll requests 12 million dollars from the national Red Cross to aid permanent rehabilitation. More than 2300 dead and 12200 refugees are noted as cremations continue in Belle Glade while residents struggle to restore roofs and shelter amid rains and flood chaos.
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West Palm Beach
Florida
American Red Cross
Washington
Everglades
Okeechobee
Belle Glade
National Red Cross
Palm Beach
Morida
Lake Okeechobee
Large transfers signal unprecedented election interest
The Board of Election Supervisors issued more than 500 transfer slips yesterday and again this morning as a sign of intense election interest. About one third were women, and Democrats and Republicans were nearly equal among recipients. The first registration day is next Tuesday, and transfers must be obtained by the individual voter from their former district and then reregistered in the new one.
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Board of Election Supervisors
Celler asks for Mabel Willesrandt silenced in Gop bureau
New York September 26 Congressmen Emanuel Celler of Brooklyn writes Walter Newton in charge of the Republicans speakers bureau in Chicago requesting Mrs. Mabel Walker Willesrandt be silenced officially. He notes she was dropped by the committee Monday but acknowledged as its speaker that evening. He accuses the campaign committee of withdrawing repudiations and repudiating withdrawals.
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New York
Emanuel Celler
Brooklyn
Walter Newton
Republican National Committee
Chicago
Mabel Walker Willesrandt
National Committee
Wild Geese Head South Ahead of North Cold Wave
New York dispatch notes geese heading south as winter nears with frost in northern states. Snow reported across the Midwest and Northeast. Chicago saw a five minute fall, Williston North Dakota chilled near zero, Ironwood Michigan heavy snowbreaks. Temperatures lingered around freezing in several areas, with a late summer warmth expected after the cold spell.
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New York
United States
Rocky Mountains
Great Lakes
Berkshires
Alleghanies
Chicago
Williston
N. D
Ironwood
Mich
Pittsfield
Mass
Hazelton
Kinsdale
Methodist Churches Unite Against Smith in California
In Santa Barbara on September 26 representatives from 447 Methodist congregations across Southern California announced they were unalterably opposed to Alfred E. Smith’s presidential bid. They cited a moral crisis breaking party lines and pledged to oppose the Democratic candidate.
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Santa Barbara
Cal
California
Alfred E. Smith
Farmers Denner and Myers Face Jury Trial in 1927 Tuberculin Case
James L. Denner and Cal Myers stood trial in Chambersburg on charges of interfering with state veterinarians during tuberculin cattle tests at Levi Hawbaker’s Montgomery farm on December 17, 1927. They allegedly used profane language and obstructed officials. The carpet tack incident charge was dropped for insufficient evidence.
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James L
Tom) Denner
Greencastle
Cal Myers
Montgomery Township
Chambersburg
Levi Hawbaker
Montgomery
Tully
Governor Smith Tours Minnesota Campaign Stops
Governor Smith moves by train through Montana into North Dakota en route to Minneapolis. He plans fifth campaign speech in St Paul after a reception in Minneapolis. He signals flexible themes on farm relief and allied issues aimed at northeastern independents, with Mandan as the initial stop on his journey.
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D. Harold Olivee
Associated Press
St. Paul
Mandan
Missouri
Tom Bismarck
Chease
Gov. Smith
Hele
Oklahoma
Banker's Sons Disappear At Illinois Town
Two young sons of Chicago banker Benjamin J. Spring went missing from Todd School in Woodstock New Jersey after recess. Police launched an immediate countywide search amid kidnapping threats reported by the father, though authorities doubt an abduction as no clothing was taken from the boys’ rooms. The boys are Robert Spring age 11 and Joseph Spring age 9. Their mother, recently remarried, has no knowledge of their location.
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Chicago
Todd School
Woodstock
Robert Spring
Joseph
Benjamin J. Spring
Chicago, Finance Corporation
Polles
Sin
Spring
Bolivar town erupts in violent clash near Harpers Ferry
Near Harpers Ferry, Bolivar residents Harry Schultz, Forney Schultz, Edward Grove and Thomas Longerbeam fought for over an hour Sunday evening. Tourists were delayed as fights erupted in town. churches were disrupted. Constables and deputies intervened to restore order. charges include assault and interfering with religious worship.
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Bolivar
Harpers Ferry
Harry Schultz
Forney Schultz
Edward Grove
Thomas Longerbeam
Harry
Schultz
Jailain
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Guy Cosgrove
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