Vestris Inquiry Finds No Early SOS From Crew
Testimony shows Vestris officers did not report trouble to land until after a general SOS was sent. Third mate Herbert Welland testified lifeboats were launched poorly and that crew and passengers disagreed on seaworthiness. Radio records and wireless company witnesses supported that Captain Carey acted without ashore instructions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Vestris
Radio Marine Corporation
Marcon Wireless Company
Virginia Canes
United States
Charles H. Tuttle
Francis A. O'Neill
Cant
William Car
Herbert G. Welland
The
Carey
Arthur J. Colgan
Radio Marine Car
Tuckerton
N. J
Chatham, Masc
Lino
Powdered coal to run autos
Pittsburgh reporters relay a paper at the international coal conference describing pulverized coal as a potential automotive fuel. Rudolph Pawlikowski reports engines using dust from coal peat and rice husks powering small plants with clean exhaust, able to switch to oil without stopping.
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Howard W. Blakesleer
Pittsburgh
Carnerie Institute of Technology
Rudolph Pawlikowski
Kosmos Company
Gorlitz
Gerny
United States
Pawlikowski
Missing Girl Returns After Thrilling Round of Escapes
Norfolk Virginia reports Miss Maude Nesselrodt who vanished from St. Lawrence University in New York last July has come home to Williamsburg Virginia. She says she left to gain an educational experience and has worked in several cities and seen many thrilling experiences.
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Norfolk
Maude Nesselrodt
St. Lawrence University
New York State
Williamsburg
Neeselrodt
William Green outlines AFL plans at annual convention
New Orleans November 19 William Green AFL president says labor must adjust to modern conditions prioritizing human welfare over machinery. He urges higher living standards shorter workweeks and more recreation time while opposing mass production injunctions and opposing both manufacturers and communists. The executive council backs doubling membership in 1929 and supports a five day week.
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New Orleans
William Green
American Federation of Labor
Amerca
National Association of Manufacturers
Green
Manufacturing Association
New York City
Federation
Madison Square Garden
New York
Robbers Kidnap Bank Cashier and Take $6000 in Madeira
Five young men abducted Benjamin Henderson cashier of the Camarago bank in Madeira Ohio and forced him to open the safe. They diverted about $6000 in currency while leaving several hundred dollars in silver behind. The group then held Henderson’s wife and child at the home until after 11 pm.
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Madeira
Ohio
Camarago
Benjamin Henderson
Cincinnati
Acee Emmarees
Erson
Henderson
Herbert Hoover Starts South American Trip With Navy Escort
Former President Herbert Hoover began a journey to South America replying to messages en route to Maryland. Delayed baggage delayed his departure as the battleship lay at anchor in Corinto Nicaragua for over an hour. First stop listed with others to be revealed later.
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Corinto
Nicaragua
Hoover sails to Latin America aboard Maryland for first stop Corinto
President elect Herbert Hoover boarded the battleship Maryland in San Pedro to begin a Latin American goodwill tour. Corinto on Nicaragua’s west coast was the first announced port of call, with a route that would take him along the west coast of South America to Callao and beyond.
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San Pedro
Cal
Herbert Hoover
Maryland
Latin America
United States
Corinto
Nicaragua
Balboa
Panama Canal
South America
Callao
Henry P. Fletcher
State Department
Hoover
William V. Pratt
United States Battle Fleet
Mr. Hoover
Stanford University
New York Police Secure Respite From Mayor Over Rothstein Murder
Mayor James J. Walker extended the police department's deadline to show progress in the Arnold Rothstein murder case. After a conference with Police Commissioner Joseph A. Warren, the mayor said he would not intervene immediately and would wait for developments expected soon, possibly by tomorrow.
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New York
James J. Walker
Arnold Rothstein
Joseph A. Warren
Coal output in 1928 May matches 1927 closely in four smokeless fields
A Pocahontas Coal Operation association report shows nine months of 1928 production and 1927 figures from railroad car records. Through October total losses fell to 1,881,920 net tons vs 1927, with October gains of 920,745 tons.
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West Virginia
Pocahontas Coal Operation Association
Pocahontas
Tuz River
Winding Gulf
Pocahontas Operators Association
O. P
T. R
W. G
N. R
Tug River
Department of Commerce
Extent Of Oceanic Storm Damage Is Still Uncertain
London reports the late week storm that devastated parts of England and Northwest Europe has moved into Scandinavia and the Baltic Sea and now affects subarctic Russia. Casualties exceed twenty, with fears the toll may double as wrecks are confirmed. Eleven crewmen from the steamer Eltham are missing. A thousand ton vessel was reported ashore at Herne land with unknown crew.
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London
England
Europe
Scandinavia
Baltic Sea
Russia
Cornwall
Stockholm
Herneland
Demonstrators Arrested After Banner Display
Three men from Oakland Redwood City and Pasadena were arrested in Palo Alto for displaying alleged communistic banners as Herbert Hoover left for Southern California. They pleaded not guilty and were held on $200 bond for trial tomorrow. The men named are W. V. Dart James Arneth and James Johnes.
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Palo Alto
Calif
Herbert Hoover
California
W. V. Dart
Oakland
James Arneth
Redwood City
James Johnes
Pasadena
Hoover says Palo Alto train protest not serious
President elect Herbert Hoover dismissed a reported communistic demonstration at Palo Alto as a foolish college boy prank before sailing on the U S Maryland for South America. He advised the mayor of his home city not to take the scene seriously and made the statement public in a telegram signed by Hoover.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Herbert Hoover
Palo Alto
Maryland
South America
Hoover
Extradition Sought for Vestris Survivor Maxey
Cumberland Md. sheriff heads to Albany to request extradition of Overton Maxey on embezzlement charges. He was arrested in Bellevue Hospital New York after survival of the Vestris disaster and held on 7000 bail pending a Wednesday extradition hearing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cumberland
William R. Harvey
Albany
N. Y
Annapolis
Overton Maxey
New York
Maxey
Bellevue Hospital
Vestria
South Amerca
Continental Finance Corporation
Richmond
James Fitzpatrick
South America
Vestris
New York Hospital
Damage suit against Beery is dropped in Los Angeles
In Los Angeles on November 19 a one million dollar damage suit brought by actress Juanita Montanya against screen actor Wallace Beery was dismissed. Attorney Milton Cohen said no money changed hands. Montanya accused Beery of assaulting her at his home and later referenced the incident in a car.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Wallace Beery
Juanita Montanya
Milton “Vm. Cohen
Beery
Cohen
Miss Montanya
Youthheld in Hartzell robbery case in Cincinnati
Walter Moore, believed by police to be among three youths tied to the June Bishop Hartzel robbery and fatal beating, is held on a first degree murder charge in the county jail. He was returned from West Union Adams county after being arrested for a Hamilton county robbery charge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
Walter Moore
J. C. Hartzel
Moore
West Union
Adams County
Hamilton County
Two Men Drown When Boat Is Swamped Near Petersburg
Petersburg Alaska reports the drowning of Co. M. Holm a World War flyer and local telephone exchange owner, and Paul Land a wealthy business man and city council member, when their craft was swamped last night.
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Petersburg
Alaska
Co. M. Holm
Paul Land
Supreme Court Rules Klan Must File State Reports
The Supreme Court sustained New York law requiring the Ku Klux Klan to file with the secretary of state reports on membership. Justice Van Devanter described the Klan as a revival with stricter aims, exposing its secrecy as a cloak for white supremacy, anti Catholic and anti Jewish activity, and political power aims. The decision contrasts the Klan with exempt organizations like Masonic lodges and Knights of Columbus.
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Washington
Ku Klux Klan
Supreme Court
New York State
Secretary of State
Congress
van Devanter
Buffalo
N. Y
Know Nothing
United States
Klan
Justice van Devanter
Knights of Columbus
George W. Bryant
Buffalo Provisional Klan
Knights of the Ku Klex Klan
Walkeraw
Collieries Company case refused review by Supreme Court
Washington reports the Supreme Court declined to reconsider its action in the New River Collieries case. The West Virginia mines sought $400,000 more for coal supplied to the Navy in World War I, arguing settlement was based on a price for war material while they asserted higher requisition prices. The company had received $1,265,900 from the government.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Supreme Court
New River Colleries Company
West Virginia
Dave Shanks Confessed Slayer To Die In Chair
David Shanks a Negro confessed slayer of Miss Jennie Meta Constance of Peoria Illinois a Northwestern University graduate student was convicted of murder and sentenced to the electric chair after a forty minute jury deliberation His defense raised insanity and the victim a Bradley Polytechnic College teacher was returning to her Evanston lodging on August 9 when she was beaten
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Chicago
David Shanks
Jennie Meta Constance
Peoria
Illinois
Northwestern University
Shanks
Mies Constance
Bradley Polytechnic College
Evanston
Flooded Kentucky Illinois area as deaths rise
Torrents from Cumberland and Kentucky rivers flood five communities in eastern Kentucky. Three workers from Virginia Harlan Coal were swept to death on a bridge when a tree struck it. About 1,000 people evacuated as water rises and reaches business districts in Pineville Georgetown Sunshine Harlan Barbourville and Middlesboro.
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Pineville
Cumberland
Kentucky
Lawrence Miles
Melvin Tatton
C. S. Saylor
Virginia-Harlan Coal Corporation
Trejay
Georgetown
Sunshine
Harlan
Barbourville
Middlesboro
Two Women Found Hacked to Death in Omaha
In Omaha Nebraska on November 19 two women were found chopped to death in a death house. The victims were Mrs Waldo Reaso wife of a packing house employee and her sister Creta Brown 16 who had been visiting. Both bodies were discovered when the husband returned home around noon. Mrs Resos two children aged 10 months and three years were unharmed. Brown's residence was in Weeping Water Nebraska.
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Omaha
Neb
Waldo Reaso
Creta Brown
Flood Relief Grows as Water Begins to Drop in Marian
In Marian Kentucky on November 19 floodwaters along the Kentucky and Cumberland rivers receded slowly. More than a thousand people are homeless as roads remain blocked by landslides and towns contact is cut. Red Cross officials seek $3,000 for immediate relief as damage estimates reach about $100,000.
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Marian
Kentucky
Cumberland
Landelides
Liggett
Federal control is called failure at temperance convention
Boston reports at the fifty fourth National Woman's Christian Temperance Union convention Mick Rosa ymond Daff of Toronto argues government liquor control increases supply consumption and drunkenness Duff, Ontario WCTU secretary, says control failed with poisonous liquor sales and rubbing alcohol drinking. The gathering praises Mabel Walker Willbrandt for presenting prohibition issues without bias.
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Boston
Mick Rosaymond Daff
Toronto
National Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Canada
Polas Duff
Ontario Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Quebec
Alberta
Mabel Walker Willebrandt
United States
Cost of Hatfield and Neely Campaign Shown
Final reports on campaign expenditures show H D Hatfield Republican West Virginia elected spent 3150 with 3500 in contributions including 2500 from Seymour L Rau. Senator Neely Democrat defeated reported expenditures 3988 with contributions.
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Hatfield and Neely
Washington
Senate
H. D. Hatfield
West Virginia
Seymour L. Rau
Neely
Clinkerless Coal To Cut City Smoke Soon
Pittsburgh reports a clinkerless smokeless coal briquette for domestic use with low temperature carbonization, turning waste into by products. The paper at Carnegie Tech cites James Ralph and M J McQuade, noting plant expansion and potential diversified outputs across electric, chemical, and industrial sectors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
Carnegie Institute of Technology
James Ralph
Coal Carbonization Company
M. J. McQuade
Ben Franklin Coal Company
West Virginia
A. Darrah
Continental Industrial Engineers
Chicago
Darrah
Elector-Chemical
George L. Stadnikof
Karpow Institute of Chemistry
Moscow
Europe
George KE. K. Blythe
Buell Combustion Company, Ltd
London
North American
Ny Mess
Mississippi Floods Amass Damage Across Five States
Floods along the Mississippi and related rivers strike Missouri Illinois Kentucky Kansas and Oklahoma. Levees break near Quincy Illinois. Death toll rises with at least eighteen confirmed and hundreds of thousands of acres flooded. Cold wave compounds relief efforts as rail service collapses under record rains.
Smuggling Diamonds Plot Arrests Tied to Cunard Ship
New York reports reveal a conspiracy to import diamonds valued at about half a million dollars. William Ballyn the Cunard liner Berengaria steward and 26-year-old Francis Landau were among those held on conspiracy charges after customs men found gems in Ballyn’s stateroom. John T. McIntyre the police officer and Morris Landau the jeweler, plus others, were linked to transfers with payments of about 100 dollars per delivery. George H. Pike alleged illegal imports since January 1, 1927. Alvin M. Sylvester noted Ballyn had smuggled diamonds on ten occasions with an unnamed Amazon source.
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New York
Sam
United States
Cunard
Berengaria
John Street
Hall
William Ballyn
Cunnard
Ballyn
Landau
Sylvester
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Westing
W. B. Ragsdale
Rothstein
New River
Vestril
Dave Shanks
Packing House
Kansas
Oklahoma
Quincy
Kansas City
Mississippi River
Missouri
Ilinois
Barboursville
Neon
Ill
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