Race Battle in Washington in Front of Union Station
Three people were wounded in a daytime gun battle in a dense Washington, D C neighborhood near Union Station. Bryant Co McMahon, a taxi driver, and four Black suspects clashed after an early morning robbery as about a hundred shots rang out.
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Union Station
Bryant Co. McMahon
Etta Furrowsky
Maydie
Mary Collins
Joseph Williams
McMahon
Shoat
War Memories From New England Division Soldier
A World War veteran recounts heavy action on a 24th assault, a German shell strike wounding him in the leg, and his evacuation from a frontline dressing station to hospital and home on January 6 with both arms and legs intact.
Miss Mae Willis South Boston Actress Hits Stage Fame
Miss Mae Willis, a year old South Boston girl now in prominence after a successful burlesque tour, is performing in Washington street theatre. Born and raised in South Boston, she later moved to Cleveland with her parents and then joined a musical comedy company. Within weeks she found success at a New York playhouse. Today between noon and 1 pm she will join the Victory Loan committee to sell Liberty notes on the Common.
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Miss Mae Wi
Washington Street
South Boston
Cleveland
Ohio
Miss Willis
New York City
Victory Loan Committee
Seismograph records first big quake since Puerto Rico event
The Seismograph at St Ignatius College Cleveland captured a long violent earthquake. The first shock came at 3 35 a m with maximum at 4 16 a m and ended at 6 15 a m. Rev Frederick L Odenbach notes it was the biggest since Oct 11 Puerto Rico damage and suspects origin in South America or the Pacific Ocean.
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Cleveland
St. Ignatius College
Frederick L. Odenbach
Porto Rico
South America
Red Flag Barred in Montreal Parade
Montreal mayoral office issues order banning red flags in the May Day parade tomorrow. Police are authorized to confiscate any flags and Socialist parades will not be sanctioned if the rule is violated. The protest by the Grand Army of Canada prompted the ban and enforcement measures.
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Montreal
Grand Army of Canada
Witness Testimony in Forbes Trial Highlights Shelter Tent Scheme
Mrs. Dorothy Keating a seven year forewoman at Moulton Forbes factory testified at federal court in Swampscott that she observed a government inspector set aside shelter tent halves and that Stanley D Forbes urged not to repair them for shipment to France. She recalled his remark the wiser they are the easier they are fooled. She said he asked what it mattered since she was getting paid.
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Dorothy Keating
Moulton-Forbes
Kingston Street
Stanley D. Forbes
Swampscott
Keating
Forbes
France
McMenimen Named Hub Delegate to Brotherhood Convention
Walter I. McMenimen, eight year chairman of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen legislative committee, left Boston for Cleveland to attend the union convention in Columbus on May 14. He will represent Pur...
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McMenimen
Grand Lodge
Cleveland
Detroit
W. G. Lee
Brotherhood of
Railway Trainmen
Massachusetts State House
Homestead Commission
Cambridge
Themr
Walter I. McMenimen
Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen
Boston
Brotherhood
Columbus
Puri
Hotels may raise rates on room phone calls
Washington April 30 under a revised Postoffice Department order hotels clubs and apartment houses may charge more than 5 cents for telephone calls from rooms if exchange service in the building supports higher rates on outgoing calls. Officials said the department accepted that such establishments deserve some revenue on extension installations.
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Washington
Postoffice Department
Post Office
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