Northern Ireland border riots erupt as nine die in Belfast
At 9 oclock tonight nine persons were killed and nineteen wounded in fierce fighting across the North Ireland border. Machine guns revolvers and rifles were used by military specials and gunmen. Sandbags rise along Bridge street and Strabane residents brace for possible attacks as Ulster special constables fortify Camel's Hump. A constable died of wounds from Monday and two soldiers were wounded amid cross border fire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Belfast
Associated Press
Royal Avenue
Ulster Free State
Strabane
Ulster
Lifford
Bridge Street
Free State
Camel's Hump
Free Estate
North Street
Shankill Street
Hero Boy To Receive Carnegie Medal For River Rescue
Ralph Rupp a 15 year old student from Hamilton Ohio will be recommended for a Carnegie hero medal after he jumped into the Miami River and saved 13 year old Elizabeth Uttrich from drowning. The mother Emma Uttrich 36 perished attempting to rescue her daughter and was unable to be saved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Commercial Tribune
Hamilton
Ralph Rupp
Symmes Avenue
St. Ann’s School
Edward Cook
Carnegie
Rupp
Miami River
Elizabeth Uttrich
Emma Uttrich
Carl Uttrich
Lifer Shot Saving Escape From Arkansas Convict Farm
Orville Reese of Kansas City who was serving life for the fatal wounding of two bank officials during a bank robbery attempt at Alicia Arkansas was shot and killed while trying to escape from the Tucker State Convict Farm today, a telephone message reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Rock
Ark
Orville Reese
Kansas City
Alicia
Tucker State
Senate panel backs Liberia loan bill in favor of administration
Washington May 9 The Senate Finance Committee reported favorably the House bill authorizing a loan of 65 million dollars to Liberia as urged by the administration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House
Liberia
Senate Finance Committee
Index to Advertisements Amusements and Firms
A historical classifieds list includes entries for banks, railways, hotels, shoe stores, bookshops, cleaners, airlines, and merchants such as Baltimore & Ohio, Cunard, Anchor Line, Lincoln National Bank, Norfolk & Western Railway, John Shillito Co, George Ast Candy Co, and The Liberal. The page catalogs various businesses and services under Amusements and Financial sections, indicating a bustling urban marketplace.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincoln National Bank
Milk Exchange
New York Central
Norfolk & Western Railway
Einger's—Shoe Rebuilding Abtheteb Schaefer’s
Stewart-Kidd
Mabley & Carew Co
Art Dry Cleaning Co
Financial— Well, Hoth B CO
Accesssccce
Cicass Aes
Louisville & Nashville
R. R
Nicholas Klein
Raaabaed Pogue's
Wa Oed CO
Oka
Ccs
Mortgage Paid Secures Alvin York Farm Title
Chattanooga Tenn May 31 Sergeant Alvin York at last feels secure as the deed to his 400 acre river bottom farm in Fentress County is presented with a clear title by trustee J T Whealen of Jamestown. The farm was bought with a fund started by the Nashville Rotary Club. The initial campaign left the mortgage unsettled. a second drive paid it off.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
Alvin Yorkoat
Fentress County
J. T. Whealen
Jamestown
Nashville Rotary Club
Rotarians
Thirteen Balloon Pilots Take Flight In Milwaukee Race
Twelve giant gas bags rise to upper air in the thirteenth national balloon race at Milwaukee. One bag crashes into Lake Michigan. eleven remain in contest while a naval helium bag tests new radio gear. Pilots face squalls and forecasted northeasterly winds as they drift toward the northeast U.S. or southeastern Canada.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Associated Press
Roy Donaldson
Springfield
Ill
Donaldson
Lake Michigan
Bay View
United States
Canada
Great Lakes
Oscar Westover
James T. Nelly
Ross Field
Cal
J. P. Norfleet
Lakehurst
N. J
Ralph Upson
Detroit
Bernard von Hoffman
St. Louis
John Berry
Norfleet
J. F. Shade
Balloon passes over Muskegon at high altitude
A balloon moving rapidly southeastward drifted over Muskegon at 7 30 in the evening. It carried no identification marks and its origin or ownership could not be determined.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michigan
Muskegon
Mich
Balloon sighting over Chicago tied to air race tale
A large balloon believed to be from Milwaukee in today’s air race was seen over Lincoln Park near 9 p.m. It drifted low, just clearing a 13 story hotel. Reports also placed two other balloons over Hinsdale and Pana Illinois.
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Chicago
Milwaukee
Lincoln Park
Hinsdale
Pana
Iil
Taft to Visit England to Study Judicial System
Chief Justice Taft will depart for England for several weeks to study the English judicial system and assess traits aiding expeditious settlements of legal issues. He informed President Harding during a White House visit.
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Washington
Taft
England
Harding
White House
Britain vows no Irish republic toleration in Commons
In a May 31 Commons speech Winston Churchill declares Britain will resume power in Ireland if Anglo Irish treaty terms are not followed by the Irish Provisional Government. He notes British troops remain in Dublin as a precaution and urges adherence to the treaty amid Ulster opposition and rising tensions in the north.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Associated Press
Great Britain
Ireland
House of Commons
Winston Churchill
Churchill
Dublin
Ulster
Mr. de Valera
Nighthern
Asquith
John Gretton
Burton
Charles Craig
Northern Ireland
Baltimore Prohibition raid ends in mob clash in East Baltimore
A mob attacked three Washington dry agents during a May 31 raid at George E. Baird’s coal yard in East Baltimore. Two barrels believed to contain beer were seized, an agent was injured, and a bystander said a pistol was shown as rioters fired at the officers. Police quelled the disturbance and arrested an 18 year old as a participant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Washington
George E. Baird
John A. Kerman
Forest fires threaten Hazelton and region along Skeena River
May 31 reports say a three mile strip along the Skeena north shore and districts from Hazelton to Quesnel are burning. Dry weather worsens danger. Hazelton town is cut off from telegraphic links as fires encircle it on two sides.
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Prince Rupert
B. C
Skeena River
Hazelton
Quesnel
McCormick seeks court stop on Mathilde's marriage to Oser
In Chicago on May 31, Mrs Edith Rockefeller McCormick, mother of Mathilde McCormick, sought a probate court restraining order to block her daughter's marriage to Max Oser, a Swiss riding master. Judge Horner continued the hearing to June 3 and ordered guardian bonds for Harold F. McCormick.
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Chicago
Associated Press
Mathilde McCormick
Max Os2r
Edith Rockefeller McCormick
Harold F. McCormick
International Harvester Company
Oser
Henry L. Horner
McCormick
Edwin H. Cassell
Charles S. Cutting
Former slave Millie Mulligan dies at 131 years
Louisville reports Millie Mulligan, a former enslaved woman, died Tuesday at an age claimed as 131 by family records. She leaves survivors across four generations and six great great-grandchildren.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisville
Millie Mulligan
Langley Student Killed in Plane Crash Near Richmond
William A. Sydnor, a Langley Field Photographic School graduate from Wilkesboro North Carolina, died when his single seat army plane dived and crashed near his uncle Eugene Sydnor's farm four miles from Richmond. The wreckage burst into flames and left the body burned beyond recognition.
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A. Sydnor
North Carolina
Langley Field
Sydnor
Wilkesboro
N. C
Reserve Corps
Richmond Country Club
Eugene Sydnor
Richmond
Fire at Ninth Street Anchor Brass Building Hurts Captain O'Brien
Salvage Corps find Captain Jack O'Brien of Company No. 2 on the third floor overcome by smoke after a blaze at the northwest corner of Ninth Street and Freeman Avenue. The four story brick building housed Anchor Brass and Aluminum and American Smelting and Refining. The fire caused about 100000 in damage. O'Brien was revived at St. Mary's Hospital.
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Salvage Corps
Ninth Street
Freeman Avenue
Jack O’brien
Company No. 2
O’brien
St. Mary's Hospital
Anchor Brass and Aluminum Company
American Smelting and Refining Company
Brass Company
Samuel Cantor
Lew Weber
Forty Game Cocks Die as Troopers Raid Cock Fight
SPRINGFIELD Massachusetts May 31 The biggest cock fighting derby in New England ended in carnage after state troopers raided yards housing sixty prize fighting birds from Rhode Island to Maine. Forty birds lay dead in dust and twenty survivors, tethered to a fence, awaited next move. John Alden, hen-run manager, died in the melee, a casualty in defense of his belief in his own prowess.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New England
Springfield
Mass
Rhode Island
Vermont
Flanders
Hockanum
Conn
Sacarappa
John Alden
John
Whisky Raid At Old 76 Distillery Near Newport
Prohibition agents with warrants broke two warehouse locks at the Old 76 Distillery on Licking Pike near Newport uncovering 1200 emptied whisky cases filled with rocks to defeat seizure. Distillery superintendent William Devaney and Fred Becker of Avondale Cincinnati were arrested on bonds of 1000 each. Becker claimed orders from company officials as officials resisted entry despite a valid search warrant. The raid led by Green Miller and others spanned many hours with further action promised.
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Prohibition
Licking Pike
Newport
William Devaney
Central Avenue
Fred Becker
Avondale
Cincinnati
Oscar H. Roetken
United States
Covington
Becker
Sam Freedman
Old+ 76 Company
Max Morris
Green Miller
Kentucky
Tennessee
Lucien A. Burnam
J. T. Tartar
Sam Collins
Kentucky Prohibition Office
James Wood
Elmer Correll
Christ Schott
Kentucky Prohibition Department
Senate Rejects 75 Percent Glassware Tariff Rise
May revolt in the Senate Republican ranks against a 70 percent ad valorem duty on electric light bulbs and illuminated glassware. Jones key amendment to 40 percent failed. 65 percent duty kept on household glassware. 50 percent on pressed and unpolished items. 14 Republicans backed Jones. two Democrats opposed amendment. Debate highlighted alleged GE influence on bulb pricing.
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Washington
Senate
Finance Committee
Jones
Eee
New Mexico
Borah
Lenroot
Capper
McNary
Cummins
Newberry
Kellogg
Norbeck
Keyes
Norris
Ladd
Sterling
LaFollette
Townsend
Broussard
Ransdell
Samuel Untermyer
Lockwood
New York
General Electric Company
McCumber
North Dakota
Frelinghuysen
New Jersey
Sutherland
West Virginia
Train Kills Four Riding In Auto At Busseron Crossing
Four people were killed and one seriously injured when their car was struck by a Chicago & Eastern Illinois passenger train at Busseron crossing, ten miles south of Vincennes. Victims: Alvin Hardin, 45, garage owner of Danville Illinois. Mrs Fannie Hardin, 40, wife of Alvin. Mrs Leslie English, sister of Mrs Hardin. Betty Lou English, 3, of Danville. Driver Dervard Hardin, 18, Winslow, Ind., seriously hurt. The party was returning to Danville after visiting Winslow. Car destroyed, wreckage spread hundreds of feet.
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Vincennes
Ind
Chicago & Eastern Illinois
Busseron Crossing
Here
Alvin Hardin
Danville
Fannie Hardin
Leslie English
Hardin
Betty Lou English
Dervard
Winslow
Drowned Boy's Forbidden Swim Ends in Tragic Death
Lloyd McDole age 12 of 2598 Eastern avenue died after slipping into the river while forbidden by parents to swim. Friends and a rescuer pulled him from the water, but despite forty minutes of effort and medical attention he perished. Coroner attributed drowning. Roy Maynart, 10, narrowly escaped a similar fate while playing near the Ohio River when scaffolding collapsed into the water and he was saved by friends with a nearby boat. He recovered at General Hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lloyd
Robert Cloek
Eastern Avenue
Robert Tulen
Ferry Street
William Bolmer
Fire Department
W. L. Brodberger
D. C. Handley Returned A Verdict of Death Due To Drowning. Roy Maynart
Armory Avenue
Freeman Avenue
Maynart
Ohio River
General Hospital
Auto Stolen Here in Morning Found in Chicago at Night
Robert A. Casey of Anderson reported his car stolen from near Fourth and Sycamore. Cincinnati search failed. Chicago police arrested Robert Mehoray, who confessed to the theft, naming William Casey as the original thief.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Robert A. Casey
Anderson Hotel
Broadway
Fourth
Sycamore
Cincinnati
Eugene Weatherly
Michael Hughes
Casey
Robert Mehoray
Hughes
Weatherly
Mehoray
William Casey
Broadway Hotel
Robert Casey
Woman jumps from hotel during fire in Vermilion Ohio
Mrs F J Harvice of Vermilion was likely fatally injured after leaping from the Linwood Hotel Annex third story during a May 31 fire. Six other hotel employees escaped unharmed. The blaze occurred at Linwood Park near Vermilion Ohio.
Railroad union chiefs plan Cincinnati conference on wages
Telegrams from Ed ward Fitzgerald Grand President of the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks and allied unions sent to Grand Chiefs and executives of sixteen railroad brotherhoods asking for a conference in Cincinnati next Tuesday to discuss wage reductions and other welfare issues affecting about 200000 railroad workers. The meeting, first planned for Chicago, may be held in Cincinnati to align with the American Federation of Labor convention set to begin June 10.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
Edward H. Fitzgerald
Brotherhood of
Fitzgerald
Chicago
Brotherhood
Junion
Labor
Organized Labor
United States Railroad Labor Board
Railroad Brotherhood
American Federati On Labor
Nevada Supreme Court upholds Pickford divorce from Moore
The Nevada Supreme Court sustained the divorce, affirming the district court’s quashing of service of summons in the state action to set aside the decree. The case, filed by the attorney general, argued fraud and lack of jurisdiction, with arguments heard January 30. Pickford later wed Douglas Fairbanks, two weeks after the divorce.
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District Court
Fowler
State Supreme Court
Miss Pickford
Minden Court
Nevada
Arried
Douglas Fairbanks
Bandits steal $15,000 payroll in Long Island City hold up
In New York on May 31 seven automobile bandits stopped three men in an auto at Long Island City and robbed them of a $15,000 payroll for H. R. Mallinson & Co. New York silks dealers. The incident ends with no injuries reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Long Island City
H. R. Mallinson & Co
Si'k
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Machine Gang
Ulster Capitol
North Ireland
Lifer
York
Milan Republic
Ghurghill
DE Valera
Ulster Group
Rockefeller
Langley
William A. Sydnor
Richmond, Va
William
Raid
Lloyd McDole
Convention of Labor Federation
Mary Pickford
High Court
Ings
San Francisco
Sai Mary Pickford
Nevada Supreme Court
Owen Moore
Gavin McNab
Los Angeles
Bandits
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