Five Whites of One Family Die as Flood Drowns Group
A flood disaster leaves fifteen Negro women drowned in a single group while twenty names are added to the death toll. A separate world news note reports America landing fifty Marines at Hankow to protect nationals. In religious drama, Angelas Temple choir leads as Nichols resigns and Mrs Kennedy urges restoration of faith, with Aimee Semple McPherson addressing the crowd. Continued on page 2.
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America
Hankow
Evangelist
G.N
Nichols
McPherson
Ken
Angelos Temple
Mrs." McPherson
Angelus Temple
A. How
Fred Ae"Hundquist
Glendale
Lees
Hasburg Exodus Starts
Floods sweep across Mississippi and Arkansas, washing from beds for three weeks. More than 9,000 square miles submerged as Red River breaks through Findley Bend and 20,000 acres threaten further inundation. At least 100 lives lost with many missing or displaced across vast flood areas.
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Associated Press
Memphis
Mississippi
Arkansas
Wate
Gan
Red River
Nine Die After Detroit Briggs Paint Shop Blast
AP reports at Briggs Manufacturing auto body plant in Detroit nine dead from a blaze that destroyed the paint shop. Several dozen injured. many others unaccounted as crews search smoldering ruins and payroll checks help account for workers.
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Detroit
Associated Press
Briggs Manufacturing Company
Rescu
Richards Morgan and Dupont Heiress Wed in Belair
Washington reports Richard Morgan and Frances Dupont wed in Belair Maryland. The couple registered at a fashionable hotel and began a private honeymoon, with Morgan confirming both families are pleased and planning to depart Washington the next day without revealing their destination.
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Associated Press
Washington
Richard Morgan
Frances Dupont
Belair
Morgan
Folke
Con
Waington
Four Officers Added to Butte Police Department
Butte police announce the appointment of four new officers Theodore Chaffin Adelbert Rodda Bernard Allard and Niko Aleksich to join the department tomorrow bringing the force to 84. The six newest officers including Bart Riley and Emmet Sullivan previously joined last week. All are on six month probation pending council confirmation.
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Butte
Tol Murphy
Theodore” Chaffin
Adelbert Rodda
Bernard B. Allard
Niko Aleksich
Bart Riley
Emmet P. Sullivan
Horgan
Murphy
Rodda
Charles Rodda
Chapin
Origi Thal
Allard
Chris Regan
Aleksich
Slap Strikes Kerensky at Chicago Banquet
An assailant slapped former Russian premier Alexander Kerensky at a Chicago banquet, sparking a melee as guests at tables and china-ware clashed with the attacker and accomplice. Kerensky had arrived to applause. the incident followed another slap in New York.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Alexander Kerensky
Kerensky
Imperial ‘Army
United States
New York
Mexican church leaders deported amid crackdown
In Mexico City on April 24, right archbishops and bishops were deported and a Catholic priest executed in a government crusade against Catholic organizations tied to revolutionary movements. Archbishop Pedro Vera Zurla and Bishop Jose Manrique Zarate were sent toward Laredo, while fighting near Rio Del Cuale left twelve revolutionaries dead.
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Mexico City
Pedro Vera, Zurla
Pueblo
Jose Manrique Zarate
Tuejutla
Laredo
Rio del Cuale
Jalisco
Aviators Fight In Air For Lives Of Two Girls
Five thousand spectators watched as a Bellanca monoplane with two young girls aboard suffered a gear failure during takeoff from Curtiss field. The craft landed at Mitchell field after an hour of repairs, left wing damaged but no injuries. Pilots and mechanics, including Clarence Chamberlin, signaled danger as observers warned of possible crash while the plane steadied for a safe landing.
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Bellanca
Chamberlain
Birdman
Anette Megs
Evan
John Glial
Tesa
Sande
Avery
Parents of
the. Co. Chiliren
Auto Crash Kills Three Men and Woman Near Wallace
A car plunged into Buckskin Gulch Creek, 25 miles north of Wallace, Idaho, killing three men and a woman fatally injuring one, with four others lightly hurt in the late night accident near PwaLeach on April 24.
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Pwaleach
Idaho
Buckskin Gulch
Wallace
Anti-Saloon Head Again Under Fire From Prohibition Leader
Washington April 24. William H. Slayton national chairman of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment charges Wayne B White with propaganda to oust Roy A. Haynes from acting prohibition commissioner to full prohibition commissioner. The charge was made in a communication to President Coolidge and printed on page 2.
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Washington
Wayne
Whiropaganda
Ton
Roy A. Haynes
William H. Slayton
Coolidge
Leove
Harvester Magnate Married in East
Cyrus McCormick chairman of International Harvester wed Miss Alice Holt of Chicago in Dublin New Hampshire last Friday. Ceremony held at the Bury home of MR Hales Piece in Brooklin Massachusetts. Only immediate family attended including Mrs Edward Mackey and Mr Cyrus McCormick Jr. After the ceremony the couple left for a tour of Europe.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Cyrus McCormick
International Harvester Company
Alice M. Holt
Dublin
N. H
McCormick
Bury
Hales
Bric. Weld
Brooklin
Mass
Edward Mackey
Cyrus McCormick Jr
Navy Dirigible Safety Confirmed At Pensacola
The dirigible Los Angeles completed a cruise from Lakehurst New Jersey to Pensacola Naval Base in just over 20 hours, mooring to the tender vessel Patoa. The vessel is reported safe at Pensacola after the Atlantic seaboard journey.
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Pensacola
Symensacola
Flay
Patoka
Los Angeles Tonight
Lakehuret
N. J
Pensacola Java
Atlantic Seaboard
Chinese Pickets Foiled In Effort To Remove Them Near Water
Tension at Hankow remains high as Chinese pickets foil an attempt to remove three foreigners linked to the Standard Oil office and the general labor union HQ. Trench works and two Krupp guns are reported near Wachung facing Hankow while 48 ships of war guard foreign interests. A wireless dispatch notes nightly trenches and looming threat amid nationalist and Cantonese power struggles.
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Arok
General Labor Union
TNO
Tore Ehoja
Peement
Tien Kowaro
Hankow
Wachung
Chiang Kainek
Nanking
Trio Found Shot to Death at Downtown Flat
St Paul police report three people were found shot to death early today at a downtown flat. The victims were identified as William McManus a former bell boy, Allan Bryan a former bartender, and Josephine Brunell. Investigators found no signs of a struggle or evidence of sweeping foam at the scene.
Five Trapped in Wagon Die in Mississippi Flood
A report from Major A B Allen describes five people trapped in a wagon near Greenville Mississippi swept to death by floodwaters. The delta death toll rises to twenty one in the area with a broader delta drownings estimate of about two hundred. In Arkansas a family of five Balow father mother and three children perished near Kelso as floods from breaks in levees push water across Desha and adjoining counties. Aviators over the Cook Plant at Kelso report sighting of one more incident.
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Gheenville
Miss
Winterville
Allen
Army Corps
Machado Pleased With Washington Visit From Cuba
President Machado of Cuba praised his Washington trip after a formal tribute to the Unknown Soldier at Arlington. He planned to depart for New York for engagements, then Chicago and Atlanta, saying the visit strengthened mutual friendship and understanding on Cuban American issues.
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Associated Wren
Washington
Arlington
Machado
Cuba
New York
Chicago
Atlanta
Last journey for Dr Huie Pock and wife to Canton
Dr Hule and Mrs Hule, Montana's first Chinese physician and his wife, will be buried in China after a Butte funeral led by a Presbyterian minister. The couple's son Quong will accompany the remains on the long voyage, with Mrs Hule's body already sealed in a casket awaiting the day.
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Butte
Hule
Montana
China
Hue
Huld- Quong
Hale Quong
Montana School of Mines
Yestersday
Huie
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Angelus Temple Choir
Lender
Rapture
Aime McPherson
Reorganized Church
Associated Preas
Los Angeles
Aimee Semple McPherson
Minnie Kennedy
Hasburg
Mississippi Delta
Dupont
Theodore Chama
Adelpert, Rodda
Bernard E. Allard
Ray Raymond
Dorothy Mackaxs
Paul Kelly
Dorothy MacKaye
Raymond
Kelly
Hollywood
Miss MacKaye
Mexico
Stayton
Wheeler
Roy Haynes
Secretary of Treasury
Harvester Magnate
East
Standard Oil
King
Canton
Yangtee
TN House
Bayou
Kelso, Ark
Annanors
Ste
Huie Pock
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