Champion and Heeney weigh in for Yankee Stadium bout
New York July 26 Gene Tunney weighed 192 pounds and Tom Heeney 208 1 2 for tonight's heavyweight title fight at Yankee Stadium. Tunney, heavier than any prior title defense, weighed 189 for the Chicago Dempsey bout. He will stay at the Concord Plaza hotel until about 9 PM before returning to the park for the bout. Heeney planned to spend the afternoon in Jersey City. Dr William Walker said Tunney is in peak physical condition.
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Gene Tewney
Tom Heeney
Yankee Stadium
Tunpey
Heeney
Tunney
Jack Dempsey
Chicago
Concourse Plaza
Baseball
Abeney
Continental Bus System Planned Across 8000 Miles
Four independent bus line presidents met in Kansas City to finalize plans for a trans continental system spanning about 8000 miles. The agreement covers schedule adjustments and mutual ticket recognition with a probable merger of the four companies. Leaders include Walter A Nison of Ni Sun Bus and Air Lines J F Malone of Purple Stages Frank Severer of Paradox Lines and L W Kubetschek of Rapid Transit Lines. Travelers could buy a New York to Los Angeles ticket and complete the trip on the four lines with seamless transfers. Schedules will be readjusted at the next meeting on August 10.
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U P
Walter A Nison
Detroit
Ni-Sun Bus and Air Lines
Pittsburgh
Purple Stages
Frank Severer
Denver
Paradox Lines
L. W. Kubetschek
Tulsa
Rapid Transit Lines
New York
Los Angeles
Tribune to Give Blow By Blow Account of Tunney Heeney Bout
The Tribune will air blow by blow reports of the Tunney versus Heeney heavyweight fight from Yankee Stadium tonight. George Cunningham will announce the reports in Warren, beginning after seven o'clock with the main bout around nine o'clock Warren time.
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Tribune
Yankee Stadium
Gene Tunney
Tom Heeney
Warren
The
Specia
George Cunningham
Warren Man
Knights of Columbus
Tunney-Heeney
the Tribune
Anthem talk and peace treaty views spark national song debate
The piece cites Senator Johnson and Senator Reed backing Hoover for California, argues against cutting navy costs, and suggests airships and submarines as defense. Mrs. Brooks-Aten offers 6000 dollars for a national anthem, but notes no anthem can please Britain or all Americans. Continued on Page Three.
Ten Die In Railway Collision At Trichinopoly
Ten persons were killed when a railway engine collided with a railway omnibus at Trichinopoly Madras today. Several injured, a crowd gathered, police feared disturbances amid a railway strike, orders to disperse were ignored and officers fired into the crowd, wounding four.
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Madras
U. P.1
Sewer Gas Explosion Injures Man in Pittsburgh Strike
Pittsburgh July 26 Maurice Stormer 30 was injured when sewer gas exploded at Diamond and Smithfield streets. He struck a lit match over a manhole cover, causing the blast that hurled three covers into the air and shattered store windows. Stormer suffered slight burns and bruises.
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U. P
Diamond and
Smithfield
Maurice Stormer
Stormer
Warren Bowmen Win First Place In Archery Meet
Warren bowmen won the first annual archery meet at Camp Olmsted on Wednesday. They took two firsts and one second, led by two Warren boys whose scores far surpassed rivals. Evie helped Warren to second in the senior class match, the only event where Warren did not win. The meet ran 2 to 6 PM with about 100 spectators on the greens at the Boy Scout summer camp. A delegation of 20 Seneca Indians from the Cornplanter reservation observed the competition in white attire.
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Warren Bowmen
Camp Olmsted
Warren
Evie
Cornplanter Reservation
Kidnapped girl hurled from car near Aliquippa
Aliquippa Pennsylvania July 26 Two men kidnapped Bertha Kasanovich 15 then threw her from a speeding car. She lay unconscious along the road near West Aliquoton station and was found by police. She had a fractured skull and facial injuries. Her father Joseph Kasanovich described walking with her when an auto with two men pulled her inside, he tried to cling to the car but was knocked off.
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Aliquippa
U. P
Bertha Kasanovich
West Aliqantopa
Rochester Hospital
Joseph Kasanovich
Igiel
Deparses Monaca
Kasano
Vich
YEGGS MOVE SAPE PITSBURGH
Burglars carried a 20 pound safe from Luther Caterer’s office at 411 Federal Street to the basement and broke it open, stealing $400. Entry was gained by smashing a rear window with a brick.
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Pitsburgh
U. P
Luther Caterer
Woman identified in suicide attempt at Warren hotel
Evalyn Laine, 28, identified by her father James Gray of Corydon as the woman who attempted suicide in a Warren hotel Tuesday night. Gray said this was her fourth or fifth attempt, with prior Lysol ingestion in Oil City. She remains in critical condition at Warren General Hospital, intermittently talking and recognized by her father. The driver of the car that brought her to Warren is unnamed, and her husband David is not confirmed. The case involves a Kinzia origin and a man seeking “a woman in knickers” after registration.
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James Gray
Corydon
Gray
Evalyn Laine
Laine
Warren
Oil City
George Haehn
Mia
Lains
Chife Haehn
Levie
Kinzia
Mr. Gray
Misa Helen Walters
Cleveland
Ohio
Drr. Gray
Harry M. Gray
Evalyn
Mra. Laine
Boy sacrifices life to save dog in river rescue
Pittsburgh July 26 One 18 year old Angelo Castle of Oakmont plunged into the Allegheny River at Ann street to save his dog Spot from drowning. The dog reached shore while the boy sank and drowned a short time later. His body was recovered two hours afterward.
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U.P
Angelo Castle
Oakmont
Spot
Allegheny River
Ann Street
Ita
Sid
Central Has a Treat as Radio Programs Leak Into Exchange
Operators at Warren heard pleasant radio programs spill into Bell Telephone lines from Pittsburgh and Oil City stations such as KOKA and WLBW. Workmen cutting in a radio line caused the mishap, which briefly filled exchange circuits with music instead of cries and expletives.
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Pittsburgh
Oil City
Bel Tel Company
Dumbell
Bell Telephone Company
KOKA
WLBW
Ou City
Man Held For Heating Pennies In Pittsburgh
Edward E. Fisher loan company manager faced magistrate detention after heating more than 100 pennies and tossing them into a street crowd to drive children away. Alfred Monaca, 11, suffered a burned hand as other youngsters also burned handling the coins during a wedding serenade. Police arrested Fisher following the scene and ensuing investigation.
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Pittsburgh
U. P
Edward E. Fisher
Alfred Monaca
Fisher
Make-Up by Alma Sioux Scarberry Chapter 1
Auntie Pete senses Janet Mary will rise to fame on Broadway, foretelling a life full of ginger and promise. Janet, sweet yet fiery, grows amid southern dreams, with a treasure box of letters opened on her eighteenth birthday and a destiny hinted from childhood.
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Scarberry
Janet Mary
Broadway
Auntie Pete
Janet
Auntia Peta Elmer
Uncle Pete
Ialand
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Aha
Jane
Peta
Andaha
Ehip
Randy
Pennsylvania road bids broadcast by state department
Harrisburg July 26. For the first time the state highway department began broadcasting road bids for contractors. Projects in 12 counties, mostly concrete, were listed for bid opening. Ninety three bids were submitted and broadcast over state police radio after checking. Treasury balance July 24 stood at 147,738,211.54 dollars. Customs receipts through July 26 totaled 34,234,262.62 dollars.
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U. P
State Highway Department
Treasury
Washington
Campaign Log Reports Shifts in Support Amid Smith Fight
Former Senator Owen vows Oklahoma won t be Tammanyized and backs anti Smith stance. Cumberland College president predicts Republican support. North Carolina Democrat Simmons resigns from the DNC amid Smith opposition. Hoover Curtis ticket seen as carrying New York by Donovan aide Floover hosts. Smith to leave Albany for Long Island weekend talks with Maryland governor Ritchie.
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Robert L. Owen
Oklahoma
New York
Republican
Smith
Herbert Floover
Palo Alto
Cal
William J. Donovan
Buffalo
N. Y
New York State
Alfred B. Smith
Albany
Long Island
Ritchin
Maryland
Plane Wreck Near Rockford Ends Flight Attempt
Rockford Illinois July 26 A Stinson Detroit monoplane named Greater Rockford crashed five miles north of Rockford during a flight to Greenland. Hassell and Cramer escaped uninjured. The wrecked fuselage and wings could not be repaired. Hassell planned another attempt next year if backing is found. A separate report of a Milwaukee paper plane crash near the field proved false when pilot Ray Baumgardner landed safely in a grain field after gear stripping.
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U. P
Rockford-Stockholm
Hert R. J. Hasserl
Greenland
Sweden
Rockford
Hasserl
Rockford, IL
U.P
Bert R. J. Hassell
Parker D. Cramer
Here
Greater
Hansell
Mt. Egans
Stockholm
Midwest
Europe
Lesa Thad
Rocktoru
Hassell
Rockford, II
Milwaukee News
Ray Baumgardner
Rockford Flier
Baumgardner
Union Crief Dies In Martinsburg W Va
David Murray Baltimore and Ohio fireman and Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen chairman died in a Martinsburg hospital from scalds after his engine was struck and pushed into the earth by cars in a wreck involving a following train. The engine was wrecked and Murray sustained fatal injuries.
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W. Va
David Murray
Baltimore and Ohio
The
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
Murray
Weather Forecast for Western Pat and Lake Erie Region
Forecast calls for showers and thunderstorms tonight into Friday across western Pat Showers and thunderstorms expected tonight and Friday. Lake Erie region cooler Friday with no precipitation. Local observations show 8 a.m. 68, 2 p.m. 77, river 1.2 feet, sunset 7:21, sunrise 4:18.
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Warier
Lake Erie
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