Mine Disaster in Fairmont Refines Rescue Efforts
Rescue teams at the Everetttsville mine of New England Fuel and Transportation faced fierce fire and debris as 76 miners remain trapped after a blast. West Virginia Mine Chief RM Lambie reports 15 known dead and nine injured with some hope of survivors in the north entry. Governor Gore visits, families await word.
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Associated Prose
Chaner
Lambie
Charleston
Howard M. Gore
Harold Davis
Virgil Straight
Paralyzed Youth Beckons Hope At Virginia Hospital
Roanoke May 1 Associated Press Walter L Boothe an 18 year old farm boy remained alive after 19 days on artificial respiration at a Roanoke hospital He was nearly fully paralyzed but had a fairly comfortable day though stimulants were needed and his strength waned through the day
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Associated Press
Roanoke
Walter L. Boothe
Dual Defense In Snyder Murder Trial This Week
In New York on May 1, both defendants in the Albert Snyder murder case are set to testify this week. Ruth Snyder, widow of the victim, takes the stand to place blame on her paramour Henry Juda Gray, while Gray himself is expected to counter with his own denial of responsibility. The trial enters its third week as prosecutors and defense tighten their lines.
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Associated Pre
New York
Snyder
Albert Snyder
Ruth Snyder
Henry Juda Gray
Edgar F. Hazelton
W C T U to Open National Campaign Against Al Smith
Democratic women historically blocked Al Smith's 1924 nomination and now warn they can prevent his 1928 bid. Ella A Boole of the National W C T U says the group will educate the country that Smith is wet and will campaign to mobilize Democratic women, especially in the South, to oppose him. The group stresses it has no religious dispute and will publicize its stance through state presidents and nationwide cards.
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Ella Boole
Associated Press
Chicago
al Smith
New York
Ella A. Boole
National Woman's Christian Temperance Union
W. C
Smith
Evanston
South
Boole
Atlantic Ocean
Treasury surplus eyed as debt reduction plan outlined
Treasury officials predicted the current year’s surplus could exceed 500 million dollars due to back tax collections. Secretary Mellon indicated the extra funds would be used to reduce the public debt. April receipts on the new treasurer statement showed 305 million surplus versus last year. Income tax collections for the first nine months totaled 1.647 billion, up from 1.420 billion the prior year, with corporate and individual payments combining to 902 million in the nine months. Total period collections reached 2.128 billion, modestly above the prior year’s nine-month total.
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Byte
Rren
Washington
Treasury
Seretary Mellon
American steamer President Lincoln shelled near Shanghai
Shanghai May 1 The American steamer President Lincoln was fired upon in Shanghai harbor as it prepared to depart. The ship, carrying passengers and freights between Seattle and Asian ports, shook off gunfire with no casualties reported.
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Shanghai
President Lincoln
Seattle
Inventor proves burglar alarm by near fatal test
Milwaukee May 1 AP report Albert Zawacki 48 spent 20 years on his self made device to fire at burglars attempting entry A test in his room backfired wounding him with gunpowder burns as landlord and family were awakened The patrolman told him your invention works after he regained consciousness in hospital
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Associated Press
Milwaukee
Albert Zawacki
Zawwacki
Zawacki
Thomas Radtke
Radtke
Beadle Announces Five Key City Appointments
Mayor Beadle announced selections for five major appointive offices in Butte at midnight, to take effect at noon as William D. Horgan retires. Tonight at 8 Mayor Read, a Democrat, will convene and present the nominees for council confirmation. The council contains 11 Democrats and five Republicans. One key act will be electing a president to act as mayor in his absence. The announced appointees include William G. Maloney of 210 Went Porphyry Street as city clerk and MR. Geagen of 27 Went Bllver Streets for another post.
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Kerr Beadle
Butte
Nown
Beadle
So'dock
M. Kerr Beadle
William D. Horgan
Democrat
Yestern
William G. Maloney
Porphyry Street
Ety
Geagen
Anaconda Company 1926 Report Details Net Income
The Associated Press reports that Anaconda Copper Mining Company and subsidiaries show 1926 net income of 14,231,218 dollars, about 4.74 dollars per share, down from 1925’s 17,540,082 dollars or roughly 5.65 dollars per share. Copper output declined while zinc and coal operations grew, and a key step was the formation of the Silesian American corporation to manage European zinc and coal assets. Continued on Page 2.
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Associated Prous
York
Anaconda Copper Mining Company
American Brass Company
Silesian American Corporation
Italian PaA ships guard aboard Santa Maria for Atlantic flight
In New York May 1 six armed guards accompany the Italian liner Dailio’s plane Santa Maria NT guarding the craft 24 hours a day across the Atlantic. The guards include fascisti from Genoa led by Captain Ettore Robbiano, sent by Mussolini. De Pinedo hopes to fly Azores and return.
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New York
Santa Maria NT
Atlantic
Dailio
Marchere Francesco de Pinedo
Arizona
de Pinedo
Azores
Fascisti Legion of Genoa
Ettore Robbiano
Mussolini
Nine Members Blasting Near Two Families in Crescent City
A father killed his wife and three children with a hammer as nine members blasted near two families in Crescent City. In a separate incident another man drowned three young people and himself. Local authorities investigate the overlapping Sunday events.
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Crescent City Clate
Tragic double drownings and related farm killings reported
Reports describe multiple deaths including four drowned when a freight train derailed near a curve and a farmer Jetta Johnson of Dalton Missouri slaying his wife and three children with a hammer before killing himself. In Indiana, a man tied his children with rope then himself in Little Laughery Creek, while another boy, Robert Summers, is injured when a rifle accidentally fired in George’s room.
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Jetta Johnson
Dalton
Johnson
Mra. Johnson
Bruke
Chile
Batesville
Ind
Fredrickman
Lanora
Viarold
Hernica
Creek Horn
Alma
Hackman
Hs Fathers
Robert Summers
George
Roberts
Robert
Robber and Pays with Life
Clifford Hicks, a local attorney and law partner of former Governor Eliot W. Major, died after bandits who robbed him 11 days earlier warned him to leave the city. His body was found outside the city with authorities pursuing the theory he was shot after resisting the assailants who robbed him of about $5,000 on April 20.
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Associated Project Louis
Army of Homeless Grows From Mississippi Floods
The flood along the Mississippi and Red rivers swelled to threaten East Central Louisiana and southern Louisiana towns. Levee breaks near Vidalia and Bayou des Grasses endangered dozens of communities as more than 3,000 square miles and 70,000 people faced rising waters. About 110 known casualties reported as 200,000 homeless multiplied daily with storms and levee breaches alerting crews south of Vidalia. Weather officials warned breaks would worsen the flood across Arkansas and Louisiana, with engineers mobilizing 1,000 men to defend New Orleans and surrounding regions.
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Vidalia
Louisiana
New Orleans
Yazoo River
Den
Mississippi
Vicksburg
Arkansas
Weather Bureau
Vidalla
Misaia
Red
Red Cross Flood Relief Fund Nears Five Million
The Red Cross flood relief fund stood just short of its $5,000,000 goal with $4,776,825 reported. Eastern states contributed $2,886,404, the West $1,374,000, Pa coast states $408,021, others $8,400, and $100,000 came from the Red Cross itself.
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Associated Prous
Washington
Red Cross Flood
Die West
Red Cross
Mob Foiled In Lynch Attempt At Arkansas Jail
An angry crowd of over 1,000 raided the Arkansas State Penitentiary in Little Rock seeking a lynching of Lonnie Mixon, a 12 year old murder suspect, but dispersed after not finding him. Police later announced Mixon confessed to killing 12 year old Fioeta McDonald and hiding her body in the church crypt. a blood stained brick was found by the body.
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Little Rock
Little Rock, Ark
Lonnie Dixon
Prowla Mcdonald
Little, Rock
Ben= Yon
Fioeta McDonald
Fitet Presbyterian Church
Lonnie Mixon
Fred Dixon
City’ Library
Ita Garage
Dixon
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Fairmont
Edward Jones
Massieh
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Olive Sehick
Ola
Jones
Henry Judd Gray
P. E. Geagan
George W. Howard
George MacPherson
Mike Walsh
J.J. Kane
Anaconda Company
Paa
Self
Comm
Army OF Homeless Grows
RED Cross Fund
Negro Boy
Ark
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