Fire Captain Dies After Opening Gas-Filled Room Vent
Captain Chris Wolfer of the Salvage Corps sacrificed himself to open windows in a fourth floor fire at 308 East Third Street. He likely saved ten firemen but perished from a poisonous gas released by heated chemicals from Valaway Products Company. Schraffenberger, who led the firefight, was treated after vomiting from the smoke. Wolfer had served since 1900 and leaves a widow, siblings, and other relatives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chris Wolfer
Orchard Viewplace
Price Hill
Salvage Corps
East Third Street
Wolfer
Valaway Products Company
Gapt
Louis Schraffenberger
Schrafferberger
Schraffenberger
Chris
Lou
J. J. Conway
Fire Department
Wesley Fuerste
Marshal Schraffenberger
Swing
Capt
Conway
Valaway
Fuerste
Capt. Wolfer
May Wolfer
John
Henry Wolfer
Bertha Wolfer
Minnie Auberger
Girl in Des Moines Foster Case Faces Assault Charge in New York
Six year old Roberta Jane Pratt testified she signed a complaint charging Mrs. Everett S. Pratt with third degree assault. Mrs Pratt held on $500 bail to answer at special sessions for burning and bruising her foster daughter after a hotel room incident at the Plaza Hotel. Roberta, guided by welfare workers, described court duties and repeated statements as the case continued.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Roberta Jane Pratt
Des Moines
Everett S. Pratt
Roberta Jane
Dot
Flood
Roberta
George Cole
Children’s Society
Married again after 37 years apart in Iowa and Nebraska
In Des Moines Marian Hughes and Alexander Hughes remarried at Elm Creek Nebraska today. Their 18 year estrangement began when Marian left Elm Creek in 1890 with ten children later finding wealth near Tulsa. Their son George hastened to Tulsa and Alexander and Marian embraced again after decades apart.
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Des Moines
Alexander Hughes Fiy
Victor
Tulsa
Oklahoma
Hughes
Alexander
George Hughes
Alexander Hughes
Marian
Ambition of Coolidge and 1928 Political Questions
Washington figures weigh Coolidge run prohibition issue and Smith religion as 1928 prospects unfold. The piece surveys Lowden Dawes Hoover Reed McAdoo and others, noting party tensions and the evolving field months before primaries.
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Coolidge
Smith
Washington
China
Nicaragua
Gov. Smith
Albany
Canada Seeks Explanation On Seizure Of Rum Runner
Canada asks the United States for explanation after the seizure of the steamer Federalship and detention of its crew including many Canadians. The vessel, seized far off the Western coast by Coast Guardsmen, carried whisky under the Panama flag. The action rests on a Panamanian interpretation that registry of rum runners is revoked automatically.
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Washington
State Department
Panama
Bootleg Income Tax Case Heads to Supreme Court
The government argues bootleggers must file income tax returns and that self incrimination does not apply to returns. It seeks to overturn a circuit ruling that immunity exists for disclosures in tax forms, warning the ruling would excuse criminals from the income tax act.
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Washington
Supreme Court
South Carolina
Manly S. Sullivan
Circuit Court of Appeals
Congress
Circuit Court
Toll of floods in Southwest mounts in April across states
Four members of a family die crossing Smackover Creek near Eldorado Arkansas as floods rise. Kansas and Oklahoma report rising rivers threatening farms, railroad disruption, and stock losses with tens of thousands under water and fatalities rising to twenty across the region. continuous flood warnings persist along Verdigris Neosho and Arkansas rivers amid train wrecks and wrecked service.
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Kansas City
Kansas
Oklahoma
Parsons
Kan
Big Island
Neosho
Erie
Service
Oswego
Coffeyville
Independence
Ponca City
Okla
Pekingese Hurls Back Invaders as British Snipers Endure
Hartford April 9 A man who started as a barber in Westport thirty five years ago has sold his Hartford business district holdings for about 1 000 000. Eli Pakulski built billiard rooms and restaurants from a 100 loan and popularized the two and a half cent cue. He sold restaurant interests to two employees but will run billiard rooms and bowling alleys. Sun Chuang Fang routed at drive toward Peking with unexpected victories.
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Hartford
Conn
Westport
Eli Pakulski
Danbury
Waterbury
Gen. Wooster
Shanghai
Tientsin
Peking
Chuang-Fang
Tientsin- Pukow
Grand Canal
Fengyan
Nanking
Pengpu
Yangtze
Powers Envoys Confer On Indemnity Demand
Soviet protests over the Peking embassy raid prompt recall of the Charge d Affaires. Cantonese forces suffer reverses near Tientsin and Yangtze as foreign ministers in Peking plan reparations and punishments. Scroll of evacuees and naval clashes mark the escalating foreign crisis in China.
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Peking
London
Tientsin
Shansi
Henan
Shantung Province
Chefoo
Tsingtao
Three Workmen Buried in Dam Excavation Near Chelan
In WENATCHEE Washington on April 9 three laborers were buried under tons of clay at a dam site for a water company near Chelan. Initially reported as thirty missing, 150 workers dug frantically and later confirmed only three were unaccounted for as rescue efforts continued.
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Wenatchee
Wash
Chelan
Despondent Wife Shoots Husband in Memphis River Captain Drama
Edna E. Hill 60 shot her husband Capt. Wiley C. Hill 51 and slashed her throat in their 915 Curtis street apartment after a failed job search. Both were in General Hospital observ ation with non life threatening injuries. The couple, married 1926, had come to the city from Memphis seeking work on boats.
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Husband
Razor
Edna E. Hill
Wiley C. Hill
Curtis Street
General Hospital
Wiley
Bogen
Edna
Capt. Hill
Memphis
Evansville
Ind
Mississippi
Kate Adams
Tennessee
Edna Clark
Hill
Federal Building
Levee
J. A. Stewart
Stewart
Sergis
Dooley
Sterle
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Third Street
Footer
Blue Heron
Center For Vast Invest
Palm Beach Ocean
New York World News Service
Palm Beach
Fla
Paris B. Singer
Singer Sewing Machine Company
Manyon Island
Palm Beach Ocean Realty Company
The
Mr. Singer
Florida
Palm Beaches
Singer
Paul I. Majewski
U. S
Europe
United States
Lake Worth
Addison Mizner
Everglades Club
Palm Beach Ocean Company
Munyon Island
Delaware
Sacco
Vanzetti
Nicola Sacco
de Bartolomeo Vanzetti1
Tric
Dedham
Mass
Bartolomeo Vanzetti
Webster Thayer
United States Supreme Court
Gov. Fuller
William G. Thompson
Herbert G. Ehrmann
Boston
Norfolk County
Thayer
Winfield M. Wilbur
Jurist. Vanzetti
Commercial Tribune
Singer Agcusee
Bond
Catholic Church
Borah
Nicholas Murray Butler
Glass
Edwards
Lowden
Illinois
Lowdon
Dawes
McNary-Haugen
Hoover
McAdoo
Jim’’ Reed
Missouri
Gov. Ritchie
Maryland
Donahey
Ohio
Canada
U.S
Eldorado
Ark
Smackover Creek
Mary
Hallie
Ruth Rosser
H. H. Rosser
Columbus
River Falls
Tenn
Mississippi River
Carlo, Nl
New Orleans
River Engineers
Sun Chuang-Fang
Canton
Moscow
Russia
Kiangyin
Pukow
Tientsin-Pukow
Chinkang
Hankow
Yargtse
Changsha
Hunan
Shamen
Cantoh
Yangtse
Veteran
Shinkiang
Mildred Mitchell
Wilbur Burton
Chang Tso-Lin
China University
Mission Board
Dr. W.iliams
Presbyterian Board of Foreign Mis
REAGH
Miss
Franklin School
Otis Gavin
Edwin Gavin
J. W. Kemp
John Perkins
J. D. Wright
Carbonado
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