Storm Brings Relief From Heat Wave In Cincinnati
A severe electrical storm drenched Cincinnati with hail and rain breaking the heat spell that had gripped the city for days. Lightning struck five buildings including Sherman Avenue High School and several homes causing damage. Rainfall reached .32 inches at Clifton and .13 at the Government Building lowering the thermometer to 69. Parks drew crowds but were forced indoors. 19000 tickets for Zoo events will be honored Wednesday. Health officials warned to enforce metal garbage containers during the hot period.
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Sherman Avenue High School
Norwood
Adam Kareth
Owasco Street
Madisonville
Charles O'Neill
St. Martin Place
Cheviot
Edgar Co. Jordan
Hannaford Avenue
John H. Rapien
Moeller Avenue
Kareth
Rapién
Cincinnati
Price Hill
Weather Bureau
Weather Observatory
Clifton
Amd
Reds
Boston
Order of United American Mechanics
Daughters of America
Zoo
William H. Peters
Dr. Peters
Russian General and 21 Year Old Girl Sentenced to Death
General Belavin commander of the Southern Russian army during World War I and Nina Krzeczkowska were condemned to death by a war tribunal for espionage for Poland. Fourteen co defendants, including the mother and two sisters, received prison terms from three to ten years. The judge cited extensive Polish espionage in Russia as the reason for the harsh sentences.
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Associated Press
Kiev
Russia
Belavin
Nina Krzeczkowska
Poland
You
Red Army
Getting the Attention of Desirable Workers
Classified ad copy urges advertisers to reach Cincinnati’s workers via The Commercial Tribune. It promotes quick, low-cost help wanted notices and instructs calling Canal 6300 or delivering ads to 410 Commercial Square for fast response.
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Commercial Tribune
Cincinnati
Canal 6300
Commercial Square
Robbery and murder in a flying saucer headline
The first known case of robbery and murder aboard an airplane is disclosed from a body found near Oedenburg on the Austro Hungarian border. The victim, who traveled from Vienna to Budapest with his secretary, carried diamonds and 20000 francs. Chloroform rendered him unconscious before he was robbed and thrown overboard. The pilot and secretary are at large.
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Samuel Spewack
New York World News Service
Berlin
Oedenburg
Vienna
Budapest
N. Y. World News Service
N. Y. World) Press Publishing Company
Heat Wave Pushes Death Toll Past 300 Across Nation
Old Sol battled Jupiter Pluvius as the nation sweltered with temperatures 90 to 100 along the coast and 85 to 95 in the Midwest. Chicago cooled to 85 with east winds while heat prompted water restrictions and mass evacuations to cooler spots. Deaths from the heat rose to 324 nationwide.
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Chicago
Old Sol
Rocky Mountains
Atlantic Seaboard
Jupiter Pluvius
Middle West
Rocky Mountain
Colorado
Wyoming
Montana
Illinois
Kentucky
Indiana
Tennessee
Lake Michigan
East
Riff Tribesmen Press Toward Fez Morocan Front
June 6 report from the French front says Riffian tribesmen slip between French posts as heavy pressure continues along the line. Bibane heights and Bab Mizab coastal assaults intensify while Sker and Aster posts withdraw after blowing up munitions. Abd el Krim says Mitoua tribe expects Fez entry as Riffians push on.
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Fez
Bibane
Bab Mizab
Sker
Aster
Flying Corps
Abd-el-Krim
Scopes Traveled to New York for Defense Conference
John T Scopes arrives in New York on his first major trip since the Tennessee trial threat. He describes his views on evolution and religion while planning a two day conference with the Civil Liberties Union and noted lawyers including Clarence Darrow and Felix Frankfurter to defend his case against Tennessee laws.
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Nicholas Murray Butler
Scopes
Tennessee
Rappleyena
Dudley Field Malone
Device cuts gasoline cost to ten cents a gallon
Sioux Falls South Dakota resident James A. May claims a new installable device doubles car mileage, reduces carbon, boosts motor power, and prevents spark plug trouble. He offers to send one free to one auto owner in each locality and seeks agents, writing from 3307 H street.
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Sioux Falls
James A. May
May
German Disarmament Note Sparks Unease and Threats
Berlin reports reveal Reichsbank President Schacht warning that Allied demands endanger the Dawes plan and may crack German nerves. General von Seeckt threatens resignation if curtailments of his powers proceed. Both right and left factions call for lengthy negotiations, with no one backing the note publicly. The Cologne evacuation and Ruhr liberation loom as August 15 deadlines.
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Samuel Spewack
New York World News Service
Berlin
Germany
Reichsbank
Schach
Cologne
von Seeckt
Deutsche Zeitung
Schacht
Luthern
Entente
Ruhr
Inter- Allied Control Commission
Paris
Europe
Butler likens income tax to medieval absolutism
Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia University, sailing for Europe, denounces the income tax and Prohibition enforcement as examples of absolutist trends in American law. He cites the 18th Amendment, Volstead Act, padlock law, and evolving legal controls while urging practical reform and criticizing Scopes prosecution.
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Nicholas Butler
New York
Europe
Paris
Nicholas Murray Butler
Columbia University
Butler
Dr. Butler
United States
John T. Scopes
Dayton
Tenn
Niagara Falls
Loeb to Remain in Prison Hospital Under Mental Evaluation
Richard Loeb, co‑conspirator in the Robert Franks murder, will not be sent to an insane asylum despite a mental breakdown. Warden Whitman cited physicians reporting Loeb’s deranged condition and ongoing delirium as reason for continued treatment at Statesville Prison. Nathan Leopold expressed regret upon hearing of Loeb’s mental decline.
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Pomerania
Krupps
Reichswehr
von Seeckt
Orr
N. Y
Joliet
Richard Loeb
Robert Franks
Whitman
Loeb
Statesville
Allan
Richard
R. A. Martin
Martin
Nathan Leopold
New York World News Service
Chicago
Herman Adler
Walter Martin
R. William Fletcher
Benchen
Clarence Darrow
Clarence
Darrow
Battle for Canton powers collide as radicals march on city
Washington reports Canton battle threat as Hsu led Cantonese troops push toward the city. Yunnan forces hold eastern suburbs while radicals seek Soviet links and to renounce central government. Consul Jenkins warns Americans to seek safety as telegraph lines falter and regional power struggles loom.
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Washington
China
Jenkins
Canton
Honan Island
Hsu
South China Group
Sun-Yat-Sen
Peking
Russia
Shanghai
Asheville
Hongkong
Chang-So-Lin
Feng- Yu-Hsing
Chang
Feng
Moscow
Germany Werrevered Soldier Buried With U S Veterans
In Fairmont Minnesota American World War veterans provided full military honors for German soldier Irvin Hoffman aged 21 who fought U S troops in 1918 on the western front. Hoffman drafted by the Kaiser at 14, died after shrapnel wounds and tuberculosis. He had immigrated to the United States three months earlier and died in a St Paul hospital.
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Fairmont
Minn
Minnesota
France
Irvin Hoffman
St. Paul
Fighting Imminent as General Yang Defies Communists on Honan Island
Canton news reports Civil war declared as General Yang Hsi-Min of the Yunnanese army vows hostilities against Kuomintang troops on Henan Island. Ten thousand Kuomintang troops ready. riverfronts fortified and public services seized. Re-enforcements arrive while foreign sympathy shifts amid anti foreign sentiment.
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Yang
Honan Island
Canton
Yang Hsi-Min
First Army
Kuomintang
People’s Party
Henan
Li Fook- Lam
Shanghai
Foreign Settlement
Shameen
Heat ignites coal pile causing $25,000 damage
In Cleveland on June 6 a seventy five ton coal pile caught fire. The blaze required two alarms and was attributed to sun heat. Battalion Chief Flynn reported the fire likely started from the sun.
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Cleveland
Flynn
Sol
Loeb In Prison Faces Deep Depression And Violent Fits
Richard Loeb, serving a near century for the Franks murder, remains mentally distressed at Joliet prison. He rants, fights restraints, and shows a persistent “negative obsession” as doctors and officials report genuine psychological illness, not feigning.
Pilgrim Ship Jisangir Held Amid Red Sea Clash
A Red Sea dispatch says the pilgrim ship Jisangir is detained as King Ali’s troops bombard Rabadi. The British warned Hedjaz and Nejd rulers over pilgrim safety to Mecca, while Hedjaz and Egyptian authorities dispute responsibility amid ongoing unrest from Jeddah to Mecca.
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Mecca
Red Sea
Ali
Bombay
Red’ Sea
Jisangir
Rabadi
London
Hedjaz
Ibn Saoud
Nejd
Mohammedan
Jeddah
Tax reduction battles loom in Washington debates
Washington reports that the next Congress faces a tax cut clash over how large a relief to pare surtaxes and which levies to drop. Officials expect contention over a 15 to 25 percent maximum, estate and excise taxes, and broader reform as Mellon plans evolve. A separate note from Peking says five foreign secretaries will assess Shanghai shootings with Elbridge Gerry Green as U.S. representative, praising restraint of concession police.
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Washington
Mellon
Treasury
Congress
Shanghai
Peking
Vittorio Cerruti
Elbridge Gerry Green
United States
Steamer Union Hullera Runs Ashore in Fog
A Lloyds report from Gijon says the Spanish steamer Union Hullera, 513 tons gross, ran ashore in fog near the Bay of Biscay and is likely a total wreck.
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London
Lloyd’s
Gijon
Bay of Biscay
Union Hullera
Killed as Auto Runs Down Bank
Charles Schaufele 63 a baker of 1440 Walnut street died at General Hospital at 7 15 last night from injuries after an auto plunged down an embankment on the Clough pike near Newtown. He was found pinned beneath a touring car by C P Monter who drove him to the hospital. Four other men were in the wrecked car but Schaufele was the only fatality. Police said the driver was tailing recklessly. Deaths from Hamilton County auto accidents to January 1 total 63.
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Charles Schaufele
Walnut Street
General Hospital
Clough Pike
Newtown
Schaufele
C. P. Monter
Brecon
Monter
Negro Attacks Four Women Near Gary Investigated
Scores of police and citizen posses with bloodhounds scour sandy lands west of Gary Indiana after a negro attacked four women since Monday. One victim is in critical condition. ten suspects detained as searches continue.
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Gary
Ind
Here
Locomotive Boiler Explosion Kills Two on East Coast Run
In Key West Florida June 6 engineers Rosenquist and Crawford both of the Pineapple Special and a fireman were killed when the locomotive boiler exploded. The brakeman Ball was badly scalded in the accident on the Chicago Key West line.
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Key West
Fla
Rosenquist
Crawford
Chicago-Key West
Florida
Grakeman Ball
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Riff
William Jennings Bryan
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George W. Rappleyea
University of Kentucky
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Rappleyea
J. Scopes
Yton
Luther
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Walnut St. Baker
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