Tragic Leaping Death Clears Auto Crash Tale
An official Colorado investigation into Fr. King Rogers of Warren concludes he leaped from his car after a sideswipe at Palmer Lake and was not struck by a passing vehicle. Deputy coroner Swan notes Rogers fell into a ditch and died, with LaSalle driver Hank detailing lack of lights on the Ford involved. Continued on Face Two.
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King Rogers
Warren
Colorado
Tribune
Colorado Springs
The
Rogers
Paul Gwan
el Paso
Livingston
Doughlas County
Palmer Lake
Denver
Glocknor Sanitarium
Cleve van Dyne
el Paso Street
Coroned
Swan
Goronee Livingston
la Salle
LaSalle
W. V. Hank
Sam Smith
Smith
J. A. Bore
Flood Waters Retard Relief Work in Florida Storm Area
Flood waters in the Everglades hinder burial and cremation of hurricane dead as rains flood West Palm Beach and Lake Okeechobee shores. Red Cross relief director A L Schafer reports death toll above 2200, with evacuation sectors formed for a health drive to ward off epidemics. Refugees number about 15000 and sanitation in camps is reported as excellent.
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Florida
West Palm Beach
Fla
U.P
Everglades
A. L. Schafer
Red Cross
Lake Okeechobee
Schafer
Paris Bourse Cheerful. Money Lending At Four Per Cent
The Paris stock exchange reports a buoyant market with money lending at 4 percent. Borrowers pay up to 9 percent for stock purchases while legitimate business earns about 7 percent. A 1928 New York American piece questions finance and politics, comparing high finance to nomadic cattle drives and noting the first radio campaign tests public awareness. Continued on Page Three.
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Paris
French Stock Exchange
New York
Mr. Mellon
Congress
Willebrandt Hits Smith Tammany Link in New York Speech
Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, assistant U.S. attorney general, attacked Governor Alfred E. Smith in a Sept. 24 speech at Warren, charging Smith remains tied to Tammany training and its influence against prohibition. She praised Herbert Hoover as the unaffiliated reform choice and defender of the Eighteenth Amendment.
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Tammany
Crawford Will Is Attacked in Court
Pittsburgh Sept 25 Arguments were heard at the fall session of the supreme court of Pennsylvania in an appeal to set aside a bequest of about 68000 made by the late John K Crawford of Venango county to the fatherless children of France.
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Pittsburgh
U.P
Aux Preme Court of
Pennsylvania
John K. Crawford
Venango County
France
East Side businessmen form new local association
The East Side Business Men's Association organized at Conneango Trust Co with twenty firms represented. Walter Sigworth named president, Merton Klinestiver vice president, D B Smith secretary treasurer. Committees were formed to draft bylaws and recruit members. next meeting set for Monday October 9 to promote business and civic interests.
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East Side Business Men's Association
Conenango Trust Co
East Side
Walter C. Sigworth
Merton Klinestiver
Gibson Bros
D. B. Smith
Smith’s Crub Store
Raymond Rhodaberger
Rhodnaberger Hardware Co
Bert Ericson
The
Banner Grocery
Fred Gibson
Gibdon-Beesz
D.B. Smiths
J. W. Johnson
Ideal Bakery
N. G. Hosgwall
Hoagwall Hardware Co
William Neal
Neal & Co
C. H. Bosine
G. J. Simonsen
Simonsen Wall Paper Co
Carl Anderson
Anderson Shoe Co
Louis Arner
Grand Union Tea Co
Mr. Neilson
Neilson and
Anderson
J. Roy Hatton
Hatton
Jury Probe Ordered Into Graft Charges in Pittsburgh
The Allegheny county grand jury began an investigation into vice and corruption charges raised by Alderman John J. Verona who has been deposed as a city magistrate by Mayor Charles H. Kline. District Attorney Samuel H. Gardner ordered the probe as Judge James B. Drew instructed thorough examination of the Verona allegations.
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Pittsburgh
U. P
Allegheny County Grand Jury
John J. Verona
Beeen
Charles H. Kline
Samuel H. Gardner
James B. Drew
Verona
Four Die As Auto overturns In Cincinnati
Four people including two youths and two girls died when their car overturned and was struck by a truck near midnight. The victims were Austin Ritchie 18 and Wilbur Ritchie 22 of Bellefontaine Ohio May McDonald 19 of Danville Kentucky and Celeste June Bastain 17. Identification was made by Edward Bastain and Robert Ritchie.
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Cincinnati
U. P
Austin Ritchie
Wilbur
Bellefontaine
May McDonald
Danville
Celeste June Bastain
Edward Bastain
Miss Bastain
Robert Ritchie
Grandmother inain?ane Pana visits scenes of youth
Mrs. Lucy Grimes, described as a 5 year old grandmother, landed by airplane on a farm near Pana Illinois to view sites from her youth. She had arrived at that same place in 1865 with her pioneer family in a covered wagon.
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Pana
Til
Lucy Grimes
Flyer Killed As Parachute Fails In Midair Crash
Lieutenant D. D. Cornelius of the three musketeers died when his parachute failed to open after a Rockwell Field plane collision in San Diego. Lieutenant R. B. Williams survived, while another musketeer, J. J. Williams, had died earlier at Mines Field. Colonel Lindbergh replaced him, collecting the daily death benefit.
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San Diego
Calif
D. D. Cornelius
Army
Rockwell Feld
R. B. Williams
Lieut
Cornelius
J. J. Williams
Maines Field
Los Angeles
Musketeers
Williams
Charles A. Lindbergh
Rockwell Field
95Th
Dynamite blast kills boy in ashes incident at home
In Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania a six year old, Peter Similski, died from injuries after dynamite accidentally tossed into ashes exploded. Father George Similski, 39, in critical condition, and brother Joseph Similski lost his right hand. Police suspect the father hid the explosives in the ashes and later forgot them.
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Wilkes-Barre
U.P
Peter Similski
George Similski
Peter
Joseph Similski
Georges Smilsk
Joseph
Graveling Work Shifts On Kinzua Road This Week
Graveling operations on the Kinzua road move this week from Sugar Run to the stretch between the River Road service station and Kinzua. A one foot thick cover was laid on the Sugar Run to Kinzua half mile last week, with completion expected Wednesday. Only Roosevelt highway Kinzua sections will receive the same thickness. F. L. White and state highway trucks handle the Sugar Run work, with Fred Smith of Kinzua donating gravel. R Waid reports a $1,500 raised toward a $2,000 goal for the project, with state and county matching funds promised.
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Kinzua Road
Sugar Run
River Road
Kinzua
Roosevelt Highway
Kinzua-Corydon
Stewart Perjury Trial Not Postponed by Judge
Justice Stafford in district supreme court refused District Attorney Rover’s motion to postpone the perjury trial of Robert W. Stewart chairman of the Standard Oil Company of Indiana set for October 8. Rover sought delay because witnesses Senators Nye and Walsh would be campaigning on the trial date.
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Washington
U. PL
Stafford
District Supreme Court
Rover
Robert W. Stewart
Standard Oil Company of Indiana
George P. Nye
Thomas J. Walsh
Mrs J J Rapp Injured After Stroke At Home
Mrs J J Rapp of Cheatnut Street fell while ascending cellar stairs after a slight stroke Tuesday morning. She sustained a bad head wound and remained unconscious at 2:50 PM. her son Wayne found her in the basement and aid was summoned.
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J. J. Rapp
Wayne Kapp
Three Killed in Crossing Crash at Kingsville
Kingsville report says at a grade crossing a New York Central train struck an auto, killing Mrs C H Lockwood 27 and her five year old son Victor, and F T Hatch of Waterford Pa. Another child, Vivian Lockwood 3, sustained a fractured skull and was hospitalized in Ashtabula. The dead were moved to the Kingsville station for coroner disposition.
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Kingsville
U 1
New York Central
C. H. Lockwood
Victor
F. T. Hatch
Waterford
Vivian Lockwood
Lockwood
Ashtabula, O
Stewart to Speak at Baptist Church in Warren
Warren churches join a country rally at First Baptist Church Wednesday evening with Oliver Wayne Stewart of Indianapolis, president of the Flying Squadron, as speaker. He will address prohibition after a 7:30 prayer service and an 8:00 address.
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Warren
First Baptist Church
Oliver Wayne Stewart
Indianapolis
Injuries Fatal to Rail Brakeman Ira Sweezy
Ira Sweezy a 45 year old brakeman for the Baltimore and Ohio railroad of Foxburg Pennsylvania died in a hospital after slipping beneath a moving freight car while switching near Kane. His right leg was crushed in the accident.
Life Study Club to Resume Oct 23 in Warren
The Life Study Club will restart weekly sessions on Tuesday evening October 23 at the Y M C A. A six member supervisory committee includes Floyd W Bathurat Warren High School principal A H Yerg Karl G Miller L Blair and Dr A N McCausland with one seat to be filled later. The club aims to improve over previous years as attendance topped 138 weekly and over 200 at the opening last year. Details on the opening discussion will be announced.
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Kottramp
Life Study Club
Floyd W. Bathurat
Warren High School
A. H. Yerg
Industrial Oil & Grease Company
A. N. McCausland
Warren Drug Company
Warren
Yeggs Net $7000 From Pleasantville Bank Robbery
Bank robbers gained entry through a window early yesterday, broke the safe at Citizens State Bank in Pleasantville, set the building on fire, and fled by car after securing $7000. Bank officials confirmed the amount and preliminary details of the heist.
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Pleasantville
Citizens State Bank
Vicomte and Vicomtesse De S ibour Fly Toward Fez
Tangier Morocco Sept 25 Vicomte and Vicomtesse De Sibour travel around the world in a tiny two seater De Havilland plane. They proceeded to Fez last night. The Vicomtesse is an American daughter of H Gordon Selfridge London department store owner.
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Tangier
Morocco
U. P
Vicomte
Vicomtesse de Sibour
Fez
Vicomtesse
H. Gordon Selfridge
London
Edna Hughes and Son Drowned in Florida Flood
News from Warren reports the deaths of Edna Hughes formerly Miss Edna Denniston and her four year old son in the Lake Okeechobee flood after the Movida hurricane. Rescue teams found their bodies near Ritta, Florida, with immediate identification possible. Mrs. Hughes taught in Warren and later worked in Erie before moving to Turpin Springs and Ritta. Funeral services were held in Florida. The tragedy links Warren to the broader Florida disaster.
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J. W. Hughes
Warren
Movida
Wesleyville
Hughes
Turpin Springs
Florida
Ritta
Fla
Hughes Ang
Fiood
Miss Dennigan
Squire Arrested in Milebourne for Parking by Fire Plug
D Martin Yerkes, once termed fining squire, was arrested in Milebourne Pa on September 25. He faced a $50 bail on a township ordinance violation for parking his car in front of a fire plug.
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Milebourne
U. P
D. Martin Yerkes
Squire
Warren Man Is True Prophet of Weather for September 25th
Tuesday marked August A. Keller's wedding anniversary with sun shining for the sixteenth year in a row on September 25. Keller, who runs a bicycle and phonograph shop at 225 Pennsylvania avenue west, noted the sun lit part of the day each year, and he and his wife reside at 116 Main avenue.
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A. Keller
Tate
Mr. Keller
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Johnny Coolidge
Art Lark
R. R
Arthur Brisbane
Crawford
Ain
Flyer
Stewart
Hoover
Herbert Hoover
Republican Women’s National Committee
New York City
Edward Steichen
Fergie
Starrs
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Baptist Church
LIFE
Floyd W. Bathurst
Yeggs
Ee Flyer
Edna Hughes
Ritta, Florida
Lake Okeechobee District
Squire” IS Arrested
Warren Man
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