Ford air line makes maiden freight flight debut
Ford Motor Company launches commercial Chicago Detroit air service with Maiden Dearborn built by Ford. The flight carried freight weighing about 1,500 pounds round trip in 2 hours 60 minutes. Edsel Ford says line is experimental but permanent and limits service to Ford plants with plans to expand to St Paul St Louis and Iron Mountain.
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Detroit
Chicago
Ford
Jearborn
United States
Ford Industries
Dearborn
Edsel Ford
Chicago-Detroit
St. Paul
St. Louis
Iron Mountain
Ford Company
Liberty Motor
William Stout
Detroit-Chicago
Elwood Haynes Father of the Automobile Dies in Kokomo
Elwood Haynes pioneer Kokomo automobile builder and inventor died at home from influenza after a several day illness. He created Americas first gasoline powered car and led Kokomo industry, with a career spanning gas company work, invention of alloys and a role as founder and long time president of an auto company. Born Portland Indiana October 14 1857.
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Kokomo
Ind
Elwood Haynes
America
Smithsonian Institution
Washington
Haynes
Chicago
Natural Gas Company
Portland
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Worcester
Mass
Johns Hopkins University
Bertha Lanterman
Supreme Court Rejects Kansas Industrial Relations Law
The Supreme Court voided Kansas’s Industrial Relations Court as a misuse of state power under the Fourteenth Amendment. It also ruled against a federal case challenging construction industry wage and trade agreements in San Francisco, signaling limits on compulsory arbitration and state labor control. The decisions affect how labor disputes are resolved and the reach of state labor tribunals.
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New York World News Service
Washington
Supreme Court Today
Kansas State Court of Industrial Relations
Henry J. Allen
Supreme Court
Kansas
United States
San Francisco
Supreme Court of Kansas
Court of Industrial Relations
California
Charles Wolff Packing Company
The
Supreme Court of the State
State Court
Industrial Relations Court
Kansas Supreme Court
van Devanter
Supreme Court of
Ghost planes may mark new era in aeronautics
Paris reports experiments with Frances wonderful ghost planes entering decisive stage at Istres near Marseilles. If final tests succeed hundreds of pilotless planes will be built for war and commerce with wireless guidance over long distances. Telegraphic telemechanic gear under the pilot seat controls engine and rudder via gyroscope and wireless waves.
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New York World News Service
Paris
Frances Wonderful
Istres
Marseilles
War Office
Post Office
Woman Sold Drinks From Handbag to Pay Tuition
Frances French of Maspeth admitted to selling whisky from a beaded handbag to raise funds for business school tuition. Police testified she sold a drink for fifty cents at a garage. she waived examination and is held on $1,000 bail for the Federal Grand Jury.
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New York World News Service
New York
Frances French
Maspeth
United States
Rasquin
Brooklyn
Jamey Dolan
Lauder Manager Tax Fight Blocked $44,000 Reduction
The Board of Tax Appeals denied Harry Lauder and his manager a partial tax cut, likening their arrangement to Barnum and the whale. William Morris Enterprises was ruled not a personal service corporation, so additions of $14,378 for 1919 and $29,632 for 1920, totaling $44,010, were sustained.
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Harry Lauder
New York World News Service
Washington
William Morris
P. T. Barnum
Board of Tax Appeals
Singer
Sir Harry
Ivins
William Morris Enterprises, Inc
Lauder
Emilia Morris
William Morris, Jr
Morris
London
Anothe
Tips by telephone save Kurdish rebels
London dispatch reports Turkish decree dismissing all Christian and Jewish telephone operators in response to Kurds rebels strategy. Moslem callers may be scarce as new law restricts who can answer. Angora places rewards for Sheik Said dead or alive.
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John L. Balderston
New York World News Service
London
Turkey
Angora
Sheik Said
N. Y. World News Service
N. YY. World
Press Publishing Company
Rosenthal denied retrial after jurors plead innocence
Rosenthal 18, convicted of manslaughter in the death of Mrs. Louisa Fox near the Springdale pike. Three jurors asked for a new trial claiming innocence and coercion. Judge Hurley overruled the motion and said jurors cannot be re examined. Rosenthal faces sentencing Saturday in Criminal Court.
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William Rosenthal, Jr
Healthy
Hurley
Criminal Court
J. T. Ryne
Rosenthal
Margaret J. Pearce
Vermont Avenue
Camp Washington
Edward Hackman
Silverton
Edward C. Hoyer
Woodburn Avenue
Ennis Questions Roberts Valuation Of Union Gas Property
Prof William Ennis of New York criticizes A B Roberts Cleveland valuation of Union Gas and Electric property at 24 million, arguing depreciation reduces value to about 16 million and that Columbia Gas and Electric would see a 27 percent return on a 46.5 million valuation, urging Council not to approve a 45 cent wholesale gas rate. The Chamber of Commerce read the supplementary report to the Light Committee for action.
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A. B. Roberts
Cleveland
Union Gas and Electric Company
William D. Ennis
New York
Chamber of Commerce
Council
Columbia Gas and Electric Company
Chamber
Light Committee
City Council
W. C. Culkins
Prof. Ennis
Mr. Roberts
Roberts
Mr. Ennis
Union Company
Columbia Company
Ennis
Carrel
Gates Heiress Mother Welcomes Baby Brother in Frugal Life
Dellora Angell Norris, heiress to the Gates estate, and her husband Lester Norris, an illustrator, welcomed a baby boy for Laverne Gertrude Norris in St. Charles Illinois. The family chose a simple life, living in a five room cottage, keeping to modest spending and town routines as millions remain in trust for future generations. The couple, popular in the village, limit expenses and share weekly visits to the cinema, while the baby’s birth raises questions about inheritance and a hopeful ordinary upbringing.
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New York World News Service
ST. Charles
Ill
Little Laverne Gertrude Norris
Lester Norris
John W. Gates
Dellora Angell
Norris
Europe
Gates
Mrs. Norris
Laverne Gertrude
Twister Hits Springfield Illinois Hurts Nine People
A tornado lasting minutes struck Springfield with hail and rain damaging homes and unroofing buildings. Nine were injured, none seriously, as a hotel crane scaffold collapsed and a car was wrecked. At Sangamon Coal Mine No 2 the engine shed fell. no injuries. Riverton suffered damage while broader Central Illinois saw mainly rain and hail.
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Iul
Abraham Lincoln
Sangamon Coal Company
Riverton
Ill
Central
Illinois
Chicago Storm Deluges After Prolonged Dry Spell
A storm with hail thunder and lightning broke a weeks long dry spell in Chicago and nearby areas. About three quarters of an inch of rain fell in an hour while the city records a 2.63 inch rainfall deficit for the year. Easter Sunday was very warm and another warm day followed with temperatures reaching 64 degrees.
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Chicago
Cincinnati Heatwave Pushes Mercury to 83 Degrees
Cincinnati sweltered under an August like sun as the day's high reached 83.2 degrees, surpassing a 78 degree mark set the prior day. Light Easter purchases and discarded topcoats reflected the heat before last night’s showers and a cooler trend forecast by observer W. C. Deveraux.
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W. C. Deveraux
United States
Graft Trial Evidence Claims Five Million Paid for Protection
Dr. John F Herget says the grand jury exposed a long chain of graft and that public officials tasked with enforcing laws were not innocent. He notes the jury's eye opening three months of service and credits Judge Roettinger and the jury. He warns citizens to awaken before worse befalls them.
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Herget
John F.herget
Committee of
The
Federation of Churches
Cincinnati Electric Club
Federation
Stanley C. Roettinger
Dr. Herget
Hamilton County
Lass
Fred Bullerdick
James Hayes
Grannan
Withrow Grannan
Adelphi Place
Madisonville
Haroth E. May
United States
John Rolf
Bridge Place
Harry Beekroegge
Dewey Avenue
Price Hill
Nolle
George Pearcy
Brazee Street
Arthur. von Dohre
Warsaw
Avenu
Harry L. Wuest
Myrtle Avenue
Owen Brissie
Vine Street
Urban C. Linkensdorfer
Ieken
Painleve Found After Specimen Search Near Longchamp
Paris April 13 Paul Painleve president of the Chamber a leading candidate for premier was sought by leftist parliamentarians urging him to form a cabinet. His car was found behind Longchamp race course with Painleve in a thicket holding a magnifying glass and a small plant saying I have found a real specimen this time.
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Paris
Paul Painleve
Chamber
France
Longchamps_ race course
M. Painleve
Rampaging Duke the Baboon Shot After Five Hours in Central Park
New York April 13 Duke a Chacoma baboon escaped his reinforced cage in the Central Park zoo causing a five hour rampage that imperiled about two hundred women and children before Patrolman Dan Beyer shot him dead. Keepers and police evacuated the crowd as Duke moved through cages and even opened a window before he was killed.
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New York World News Service
New York
Duke
Central Park
Robert Horton
Frank Chisham
Dan Beyer
John J. Ryan
Parks
Board of Estimates
Paddy
Beyer
James R. Coyle
R. Jerr
Socialists Hold France's Balance in Briand Cabinet Crisis
Paris dispatch says Socialists control 104 deputies and face a decision on entering a Briand led cabinet amid a four day crisis. Briand asks for more time as Socialist National Council weighs participation. Abandoning a proposed forty eight hour ministry to raise Bank of France circulation is noted.
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Doumergue
Aristide Briand
M. Briand
Republic
M. Doumergue
National Council
Socialist Party
Bank of France
M. Robineau
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