Missing heiress found living in Rockland Lake cottage
Nyack May 2 A missing scion of New York society Priscilla Alden Delano daughter of the late Moramer Delano was traced to a ramshackle farmhouse in Rockland Lake. since her 1922 elopement with Japanese student Takeo Watari she faded from Fifth Avenue drawing rooms. The couple, with Watari’s kin, lived week ends at the hilltop cottage while Delano’s fortune dwindled after the marriage and her husband’s death. The countess, now in modest attire, aided by neighbors, joined firemen at a Lake Shore fire, revealing herself as the once dazzling heiress and recounting a life of financial reverses and social withdrawal.
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Nyack
N. Y
New York
Priscilla Alden Delano
Moramer Delano
Rockland Lake
Takeo Watari
Prigilla
Nippobee
M.lage
Fifth and
Park Avenues
Priscilla
Delano
W Hemina Pierson
Yale
Malba
L. I
Rocklann Lake
People Bear
Spalding Hall
Fada Watari
Prizcilla Alden Delany
Japan
Watari
Pat Otto
Cat Watsri
Latt
Delinus
Trinity Church
Greenwich Village
Mme Weed
Jack Johnson Wins Bout in 16 Rounds in Nogales
Jack Johnson aged forty eight defeats Pat Lester by referee's decision in a 16 round Nogales bout. He fires a possible megafight offer to meet Firpo, after a return to action that recalls his 1910 title win over Jerries and 1916 loss to Willard.
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Nogales
Sonora
Merive
Jack Johnson
Pat Lester
Ucson
Arizona
Johnson
Dela Angel Finpo
Jack Johnson Waas
James Jerries
Reno
Nevada
Jens Willard
Tavana
Art
Stratford
British strike and newspaper suspensions ripple nationwide
Newspaper text reports a midnight strike across Britain with failed negotiations, printer protests at Wally Mall, and editorials about labor actions. Mentions of Page 1 items show various regional updates including bank plans, accidents, and civic actions amid a broad wartime era tone.
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Britisie
Robbers kill wife of French envoy in Paris
Madame Hugene Regnault wife of a former French delegate to the League of Nations and ex Ambassador to Japan was found dead at her Boule Vard Raspail home with a bullet wound. The house was rifled and valuables taken prompting a sensational Paris police investigation into a possible burglary turned homicide with the killer escaping through the garden.
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Paris
Madame Hugene Regnault
League of Nations
Japan
BouleVard Raspall
Rabtere
Town Clerk Hurt in Milford Fight
Milford May 2 Special Policeman James S Healy left town clerk William A Rose sprawled on Eels Hill road after a fight with two New Haven youths. Pasquale Montano and Harry Levey were held on $1000 bail for assault and breach of peace. Healy was suspended pending a hearing.
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Milford
James S. Healy
Gu's
William A. Rose
Eel’s Hill
Healy
Rose
Pasquale Montano
Pearl Street
New Haven
Harry Levey
Arch Street
Montana
J.evey
Imoliceman
Bell
Montono
Levy
Fire devastates multiple houses as families flee
Waterbury May 1 AP Fifteen families escaped a blaze that gutted a six family building and damaged four others at High and Cosset streets. Damage estimated at 45000. Fire marshal Holling investigates a rumor a drunken man started the fire with matches. Private Hosey was knocked from a ladder and hospitalized with two fractured ribs. Patrolman Roach found Luigi Paonesse unconscious amid the flames.
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Waterbury
High
Cosset
Frank WW. Holling
High Street
Hoge
Cowset
Frank Hosey
Tatrolman Edward Roach
Mre
Luigi Paonesse
Cosset Street
Trinity to Abolish Mid-Year Exams Says President
Trinity college in Hartford plans to abolish mid-year examinations after President Stemson B Upiby told Yale Daily News the faculty voted to end the practice. He notes students loaf in early terms and will check deficiencies, with probation possible, as the aim is a more intelligent use of time and steadier effort.
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Trinity
Trinity College
Hartford
Stemson
Upiby
Yale Daily News
Bilege
Tolonf
Christma
Opitby
Speeb
Americans to Sail to Set Globe-Girdling Air Record
Morris Titterington and John Goldstrom sail from New York aboard the Aquitania to pursue a world circumnavigation by air. They aim to beat the 1913 record of 36 days 21 hours 35 minutes, using long overland flight segments and boats for some legs. The venture follows years of halted attempts after World War I.
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Morris Titterington
John Goldstrom
Europe
Asia
New York
Aquitania
John Henry Mears
Goldstrom
Titterington
Southampton
Yokohama
Vancouver
Moscow
Vladivistok
Wheeler declares wets’ claims a slander to nation
Washington May 2 Wayne B Wheeler general counsel for the Anti-Saloon League denounces the wets’ portrayal of a drunken nation as a slander that inflames the public. He says wet program supporters would push for amendments and elect lawmakers to reopen the Constitution while predicting a dry reaction in primaries. He rebuts officials’ hints that legalized beer aids enforcement, calling such arguments speculative and a last-ditch effort amid rising prohibition support.
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Washington
Senate
Wayne B. Wheeler
Anti-Saman League
Andrews
Wheeler
League
2 Body
Baseball Is Gause Of Three Accidents
A rough day for ball players with three ankle injuries reported in three classes of play. James O'Neil, 23, dislocated his ankle between second and third at Newfeld park during a Springfield to Gridgeport game and returned to his team after treatment. Steven Trisco, 17, injured at Seasine park, was held for X ray at Hridgeport hospital. Andrew Werks, 19, treated at Fimecrency hospital for a sprained ankle. an X-ray planned this morning.
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Yestemay
Newfeld Park
Gridgeport
Springfield
James O'Neil
Springfeld
St. Wincebt
Nostral
Steven Trisco
Hallett Street
Seasine Park
Hridgeport Hospital
Andrew Werks
Hfenark Street
WI. A
Bulla Wieht
Fair Field
Carpenters Walk Out Forecast Amid Wage Strike Tensions
carpenters and jочners unions plan a general walkout across 850 workers though no formal union statements exist. contractors warn of watchful waiting as wage demands to 10 dollars a day face rejection amid prior meetings in the building trades council and AGC discussions.
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Carpente and
Jotners
Carpenter’s Hall
Associated General Contractors
Charles L. Gellaney
Contractors’ Association
Milton McDonald
Building Trades Council
T. J. Pardy
Trades Council
Capon Seen With Machine Gun Before Slayings
Chicago May 2 AP A witness says Capon held a machine gun shortly before the killing of William McAwiggin and two gangsters, with police believing Capon can explain the triple murder. The raid last night uncovered weapons and ammunition, allegedly tied to Capon.
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Chicago
James J. Doherty
En & Resol
Capont Revebife
Granthy
Mrearma
Indictments Forecast in Alien Property Case
Washington reports indicate a high ranking former U S official and two Republican politicians may be named in an upcoming indictment. The grand jury is near completion of its probe into the American Metal Company matter as the Justice Department holds new evidence on a $96,453,979.97 transfer made via Treasury checks at a New York hotel dinner. Proceeds from sale of $40,000 in Liberty bonds traced to Harry M Daugherty and to Colonel Thomas W Miller, with King admitted to receiving large sums for aiding the grant, as indictments loom.
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John A. Kenn
Washuiington
United States
Federal Grand Jury
New Yok
Inqury
Department of Justice
Treasury
Ulwa
New York
American Metal Company
Harry M. Daugherty
Rienda
Daugherty
Tndepartment of Justice
Libert
American Metal Award
Thomas W. Miller
Miller
New Thornton
Psechusetts
Republican State Central Committee
Thurston
John VT. King
Republican National Committee
Connecticut
East
King
Colonel Miller
Boston to New York air mail inaugurated
The Colonial Air Transport announced the first regular aerial oceanic and express service between Boston and New York starting July 1. One plane daily each way will depart Boston at 6 p.m. and Hartford stops with onward arrival for New York. a second early morning run from New York to Boston follows. Plans include a night flying lighted airway between Joe Airport and Haddley Field to link Boston mail with Chicago mail planes, with four planes and four jets to start and two spares.
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New York
Colonial Air Transport
Boston
Board of Directors
Hartford
New York City
Peterboro
Joe Airport
Haddley Field
New Brunswick
Chicago
Amalles Pines
Daily Mail Suspended By Strike In London
One of the first effects of a strike on the Daily Mail, Britain's largest newspaper, is the non appearance this Monday morning. Printers and allied trades halted work over an editorial, refusing alterations. The paper could not be published. The editorial warned a general strike is a revolutionary movement and cannot be tolerated by any civilized government.
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London
Daily Mail
Mail
Associated Treas
Mall
Minera
Tives
Breseas
Nfe
Nct
Baldwin Demands Repudiation of Laborites' Action
London May 3 AP official statement from Downing Street reports the government rejecting a general strike while urging the Trades Union Congress to withdraw instructions to miners and other unions. It says only acceptance of the coal commission report can lead to negotiations and subsidy resumption.
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London
Downings Street
Baye
Push
Trades Union Congres Committee
Coal Commission
Miners Or
Trades Union Committee
Trades Union Congress
Trades Unions
Council of the
Trades Union Counties
Epeh
Miuet
Tratva Union Congress
Easton Fire Burns Hydraulic Co Land
Fire wardens and Easton Far field and Easton volunteers fought a forest fire on Pridgeport Hydraulic Company land off Black Rock turnpike. Extinguished before the woods were wiped out, damage estimated at 4000 to 5900 dollars. Cause suspected to be a dropped lighted cigarette.
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Easton
Farfield
Volunteer Fire Department
Pridgeport Hydraulic Company
Black Rock Turnpike
Theone
Government appeals to reincarcerate slayer cited in appeals
The case of Perovich, once condemned for the 1903 Alaska murder of Jacobl, advances to the Circuit Court of Appeals Eighth District as the government appeals life imprisonment after decades of habeas corpus and clemency battles. Perovich has endured multiple reversals and stays while awaiting further action.
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Chapman
Hington
Japy Vueco Peruvich
Firac
Circuit Court of Agepeals
Aleasiae Oy iKansat
Flochester
N.Y
Oiteane
Jaced
Jacobl
Alaska
Perovich
Supreme Court
British strike grips nation as talks collapse
London May 2 AP The general strike set to begin at midnight after government and Trades Union Congress fail to reach an agreement. Officials warn of widespread disruption, with unions planning a massive stoppage amid accusations of government ultimatums and interference with the press.
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LONDO
Trades Union Congress
Congress
Gamant
Nation
Mail
Beca
Minera
Ob'ain
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