Smith Far to the Fore in Democratic Forces
Smith leads Democrats with 186 pledged convention votes while Hoover tops Republicans with 164. Delegates from Missouri, Georgia, Wisconsin and Kentucky shift as contests shape a possible compromise or dark horse bid ahead of Kansas City and Houston conventions. Freedom from upsets remains uncertain as parties forecast nomination viability and cross winds of April politics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Kansas City
Houston
Hoover
Lowden
Curtis
Norris
Smith
Reed
Missouri
George
Georgia
New York
Commerce Secretary
Kentucky
Wisconsin
Illinois
Kansas
Senate
Nebraska
la Follette-Blaine
Maine
Nephew of Gov Suspected in Speakeasy Shootings
Brooklyn detectives investigated the shooting at a Brooklyn speakeasy that left Police Detective Vincent Glynn and George Ladendorf injured. Glynn, nephew of Gov. Smith, is in hospital and under arrest. charges of felonious assault are not yet filed as the case is treated as accidental by Inspector Sullivan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York World News Service
New York
John J. Sullivan
Brooklyn
Vincent Glynn
Gov. Smith
George Ladendorf
Glynn
Ladendorf
Kings County Hospital
Sullivan
Woman Lifts Veil On 60 Years Of Masculine Identity
Mary Miller formerly known as George O Miller, a Johnson County farmhand and former circus trapeze performer, was revealed as female at a hospital in Iowa City after thirty years of living as a man. She began masking her gender at age eighteen and had worked as night watchman and section laborer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa City
Mary Miller
George O' Miller
Miss Miller
Johnson County
Taft to Test Judges Action in Court
Prosecutor Charles P. Taft announces a likely quo warranto suit in the Ohio Supreme Court to challenge the judges action in rescinding the Chief Justice system in the Common Pleas Court and restoring the presiding judge system. The case centers on Judge Darby’s authority and the January 5 action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles P. Taft
Russell Wilson
Cincinnatus Association
Ohio Supreme Court
Common Pleas Court
Fred L. Hoffman
Thomas H. Darby
Hoffman
Wilson
Chief Justice
Struble
Morrow
Shock
Taft
Supreme Court
Darby
Peggy Watson to wed Prince Charles Phillippe of Orleans
Miss Margaret Peggy Watson of Washington will marry Prince Charles Phillippe Duc de Nemours after her appendicitis operation. The 23 year old prince, private secretary to a Belgian millionaire, described himself fully and noted aviation as a hobby.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York World News Service
London
Margaret
Peggy) Watson
Washington, D. C
Reginald Vanderbilt
Charles Phillippe, Duc de Nemours
Miss Watson
Paris
Prince
Charles Phillippe
Emmanuel Ferdinand Louis Gerard Joseph Marie Chislain
Baudoin Christophe Raphael Antoine Expedit
d’Orleans
Prince of
Orleans
Duc de Vendome Et Dalinco
Duchesse de Vendome
M. Loewenstein
Genevieve
Count de Chapanay
France
Albert
Belgium
N. Y. World News Service
N. Y. World
Press Pub. Co
Duchess doubts Prince Nemours engagement with Peggy Watson
RIS via New York World News Service reports Duchesse de Vendome mother of the Duc de Nemours doubts the engagement to American Peggy Watson. The 23 year old Duke, linked to Bourbon and Orleans royal lines, is not a throne claimant and did not confirm marriage plans though she says she knows nothing to deny.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
N York World News Service
Ris
Duchesse de Vendome
Duc de Nemours
Margaret
Peggy) Watson
London
Bourbon
Orleans
N. Y. World News Service
N. Y. World) Press Pub. Co
Simmons Charges Filed in Klan Receiver Suit
William J Simmons founder of the Ku Klux Klan testified in a federal deposition filed for five former members seeking a receiver for the order in Pennsylvania The suit demands 100000 damages alleging funds were collected without authorization and cites death threats linked to opposition to Imperial Wizard Evans The case opens Monday in federal court
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Commercial Tribune
PTI
Klan
Insurgents Killed After All-Night Cave Battle Near Cuesta Del Moral
Military reports from Michoacan say twenty eight insurgents were killed and thirty six wounded or captured after federals surrounded a cave near Cuesta Del Moral. Bombs and fires at the entrance forced the rebels to emerge and were killed as they exited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico City
Michoacan
Cuesta del Moral
Arkansas Flood Threat Prompts Evacuations Across Lowlands
Arkansas rivers surge as the Mississippi tributaries race to reach flood heights. White River crest reached 31.3 feet at Batesville with 65,000 acres flooded near Newport and more land at risk. Residents flee as roads wash out and a pontoon bridge fails at Dardanelle.
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Little Rock
Ark
Arkansas
Mississippi
White
Cache
Clarendon
Memphis
White River
Batesville
Newport
Dardanglle
Yell County
Morrilton
Ft. Smith
Youth killed in Otulengar auto wreck identified
Covington police identified the deceased as Theodore Ervin 18 an ironworker who lived at 1225 Banklick street after Bernard Cope 18 an ironworker and other youths in a car that crashed into a bridge pier near Walton Kentucky Cope said Wagner drove the car and Ervin and he had been at a rooming house before a late ride request led them from Holman street to the Dixie Highway and the crash location remains under investigation
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Walton
Theodore Ervin
Banklick Street
Covington
Bernard Cope
Cope
Ervin
Richard “Buck’’ Wagner
Newport
Kenneth Sheehan
Spring Street
Cincinnati
Scott Street
Wade H. Edwards
Sheehan
Stewart Iron Works
Buck
Wagner
Holman Street
Highland Pike
Dixie Highway
Fires Sear East as West Freezes
Eastern states battled scores of early spring forest fires amid hot dry weather. Pennsylvania and New York led in fires. several farm buildings burned in New York. A downpour in Southern West Virginia quenched 160 blazes. wind shift saved three Maryland villages near Hagerstown. New York had 77 fires in three days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middle West
Pennsylvania
New York State
New York
West Virginia
Elkins
Maryland
South Mountain
Hagerstown
Albert E Thompson Weds Mrs Ransohoff in East
The marriage of Doris Kauffmann Ransohoff and Albert E. Thompson, both once of Cincinnati, was announced. Thompson starred in Old Kentucky before World War I, served overseas, then became a newspaper editor and later a theater manager in New York. The couple will reside at 924 West End Avenue after April 20.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Doris Kauffmann Ransohoff
Albert E. Thompson
Cincinnati
New York
Ned Kauffmann
Ransohoff
Louis Ransohoff
Thompson
Kentucky
America
Commercial Tribune
Greenpoint Theater
Keith-Albee
West End Avenue
New York City
France and U S agree to submit peace pact notes to four nations
In Washington on April 7 France and the United States agreed to submit their diplomatic correspondence on a multilateral war renunciation treaty to Great Britain Germany Italy and Japan for consideration. Kellogg said no concessions were made and Briand indicated willingness to proceed with submission. The exact method remains undecided.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
France
United States
Germany
Italy
Japan
Paul Claudel
Kellogg
M. Briand
U. S
Claudel
M. Claudel
Briand
Heroic Swim Saves 100 Men From Icy Saskatchewan River
Charles Smith, straw boss at Camp B of the Pas Lumber Co north of Nipawin, swam through the ice torrent to reach a stranded floe carrying 100 men and 50 horses. He tied a rope to shore, pulled the floe back, and ferried everyone to land before the ice broke up.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prince Albert
Saskatchewan
Charles Smith
Pas Lumber Company
Here
Saskatchewan River
Nipawin
Smith
Aviator Maj. Tipton with plane stalls as scenery vanishes
Maj. William D. Tipton commander of Maryland National Guard recounts a test flight from New York to Baltimore in a new monoplane. While cruising at about 110 miles per hour he left the cockpit to smoke and view the countryside, the view then vanished as the craft descended to Logan Field in one and a half hours.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Logan Field
New York
William D. Tipton
Maryland National Guard
Pennsylvania
New Horizons
Tipton
National Guard
Maj. Tipton
Chicago Mayor Thompson’s hidden political bee
Chicago’s mayor William Hale Thompson dominates the local political scene and eyes a broader ambition. The piece explores his potential plans beyond Chicago politics, noting his influence, tabloid reach, and the timing of a primary fight that could reshape Illinois politics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dudley Nichols
N. Y
Chicago
Illinois
Thompson
Vatican Bans Woonsocket Paper La Sentinelle
The Osservatore Romano announces the Woonsocket Rhode Island publication La Sentinelle has been placed on the index and banned from reading. Its director Elphege Daignault and others who sued Bishop William Hickey face special excommunication under Canon 2341 for supporting the scandalous movement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
Woonsocket
la Sentinelle
Congregation of the Council
Osservatore Romano
Vatican
William A. Hickey
New England
Providence
Holy Congregation of the Council
R. I
Holy Congregation
Elphege J. Daignault
Mgr
Hickey
Apostolic See
Pickrel Named Lieutenant Governor in Ohio Shuffle
The Ohio governor appointed William G. Pickrel of Dayton as lieutenant governor completing vacancies after Senator Willis died. Pickrel will replace Earl D. Bloom who becomes Director of Commerce. Cyrus Locher inherits Willis’s unexpired term and will serve until December 15, 1928.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
William G. Pickrel
Dayton
Donahey
Ohio
United States
Frank B. Willis
Delaware
Pickrel
Earl D. Bloom
Bowling Green
Commerce
Cyrus Locher
Senate
Locher
Willis
Capitol
Charles B. Zimmerman
Springfield
Congress
Miami University
Cincinnati Law School
Jackson
Nash
Harry L. Gordon
Cincinnati
Carl F. Neppert
W. A. Greenland
Cleveland
Hugh L. Nichols
James M. Cox
Pittsburgh to Host 1928 Balloon Race Start
Pittsburgh city council plans to invite the National Aeronautic Association to begin the 1928 national elimination balloon races from the city on Memorial Day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
National Aeronautic Association
Paper Policy Stands Against Vatican Ban on La Senteinelle
Emile Brunelle of National Publishing Company says La Senteinelle will keep its policy despite Rome authorities prohibiting publication and reading of the paper. The paper opposes Bishop Hickey over parish funds for parochial schools. Daignault and others excommunicated. suit against parish corporations dismissed. case awaiting Supreme Court ruling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woonsocket
R. I
Emile Brunelle
National Publishing Company
la Sentinelle
Rome
Brunelle
la Senteinelle
William A. Hickey
Rhode Island
Elphege J. Daignault
Daignault
Hickey
Holy Council
Providence
Fac Gh
Supreme Court
Italy
Man shoots lover in wife’s arms during country dance
Hayward Bishop, 40, a Hammond farmer, killed Merritt Manning, 50, with a double barreled shotgun after returning from a country square dance. He told onlookers I have just killed Merritt Manning and led a large group back to the home where Manning lay dead in the kitchen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York World News
Watertown
WN. Y
Hayward Bishop
Hammond
Merritt Manning
Bishop
Earl Hunter
Hammond-Rosie Road
Manning
Kidnap Gang Rescues Gaynor After Weeklong Captivity
Chicago detectives freed motor car dealer Thomas Gaynor from a Crystal Lake hideout after a week in darkness. The operation tied to a nation wide kidnapping ring with several arrests, including two early in the case and a trove of recovered vehicles. Gaynor, husband and father, described multiple moves and threats as investigators linked the group to other cities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Thomas Gaynor
Crystal Lake
Ill
Gaynor
James McCormick
Philadelphia
Jake” Adler
McCormick
McCormick Hotel
Three Resist Arrest Ends Fatal for Johnson in Ohio
In Mt. Vernon Ohio on April 7 authorities state Ward W. Johnson of Pittsfield Pennsylvania and Ralph Richardson were shot after resisting arrest when three youths from Akron were captured. Fifty shots were exchanged. The Akron trio were later held for investigation into a Columbus restaurant robbery.
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MT. Vernon, O
Ward W. Johnson
Pittsfield
Ralph Richardson
Johnson
Richardson
Mt. Vernon
Columbus
C. G. Stream
J. W. Blunt
Clarence Schaffner
Ralph Bondecrant
Akron
Knox County
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Foxy
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Draft Coolidge
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