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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1929
Page
1
Large floods in southeastern Kentucky cause extensive property damage and casualties. Widespread evacuations followed as officials warned residents to seek higher ground amid rising waters and strong currents.
Archbishop McNicholas declares the Vatican State’s civil power does not affect American Catholics. He argues the Roman question is misunderstood and urges informed inquiry, noting that U S Catholics retain civil allegiance regardless of Vatican changes. He spoke on Palm Sunday from Mt. St. Mary Seminary with WLW radio.
Legal difficulties slow Union Terminal Company plans to rework rights of way in Millcreek bottoms to access the new Union Station. A trade with Cincinnati Southern requires legislative authority, and a bill authorizing the trustees to proceed will be introduced when the Ohio General Assembly reconvenes in Columbus.
The Association Against the Prohibition Amendment says prohibition fuels graft crime and abuses of rights. The report cites Taft’s warning that liquor trade shifts to a quasi criminal class and notes New York as a prime wet city with weak enforcement. Municipal cases in Chicago Philadelphia Detroit Buffalo and Pittsburgh illustrate urban corruption under Volsteadism.
Paris crowds surpass 100000 as Marshal Ferdinand Foch lies in state under Napoleon’s Arc de Triomphe beside the Unknown Soldier. The long procession fills the day from morning to midnight, with tributes from Pershing and the Prince of Wales planned for Tuesday's funeral at Les Invalides.
Dorothy McCarthy reportedly will marry architect David Aronberg rather than William Collier Jr. Thomas Cummings states Dorothy will wed Aronberg this week. Aronberg declines to confirm, and McCarthy remains silent.
The Graf Zeppelin began its four day Mediterranean voyage from Friedrichshafen at 12 54 a m heading toward Basle and Lake Constance as the first landmark. Twenty seven passengers include Countess Brandenstein Zeppelin and Lady Drummond Hay. The flight will visit northeastern and eastern Mediterranean nations and Balkan states, with Eckener guiding the craft toward Hesançon and Marseilles.
Kentucky flood toll rises to five with reports of a drowned 17 year old near Hazard and three Knight brothers from Barbourville. Cumberland River reaches 73 feet at Burnside and floods towns from Burnside to Celina, while wrecked ships and mud ruin miles of property. Trains resume in parts of the Kentucky River Valley as Caney Fork dams fail and towns like Middlesboro Pineville and Barbourville cope with widespread damage.
Two late developments on the Mexican war between rebels and federals surface on the international horizon as the United States weighs its stance. The report from Nogales notes shifts in actions and potential policy implications for Washington.
Brief items from the Commercial Tribune Want Ads list local notices and classifieds.
Earl A. Roberts, a United States immigration officer, died after being shot and yanked into a boat during a whisky-ship incident on the St Clair River near Algonac. Vet Brown, identified by Roberts as the shooter, was arrested in Ontario and to be charged with first degree murder as authorities search for other boat occupants.
Four persons perished in a dawn blaze in a northern Philadelphia neighborhood. The victims are John Snodgrass 42 Wesley Snodgrass 7 Elwood Fincham 13 and Edward Murphy 30. Eleven residents escaped from a two story house.
In Borger Texas two men were burned to death and a third burned perhaps fatally in a blaze that destroyed four business shacks on the main street this afternoon. High wind fueled the flames.
Myrtle Flanagan, dying in Indiana, dictated a will attempting to assign custody of her five year old daughter Dolores to her Camden mother Mrs. Ruth Palfrey. The document seeks to treat the child as transferable property, a notion challenged by attorney Ralph Westcott. The case awaits Orphans Court review before Judge Samuel M. Shay.
In Toledo Ohio two safe blowers were caught inside Samson Brothers Company as a watchman was killed and another wounded during a failed attempt to steal Saturday receipts. Police found a blood trail suggesting one robber was wounded. hundreds gathered as detectives searched the store.
Italy held its first election under the new fascist franchise act with a government ticket expected to win. Voters received two cards yes or no and dropped the chosen folded card into a box. Participation spanned major cities as 9 million registered voters faced a single list.
The U S Coast Guard says the sinking of the British schooner I'm Alone by the cutter Dexter was legal under international law after a prolonged pursuit inside U S waters. Capt A L Gamble reports the vessel refused to heave to and posed a threat, with the incident prompting a State Department reply to Britain's ambassador.
A Waco plane crashed at Charlotte Municipal Airport killing passenger Mrs. J G Galloway 22 and Fred Kendrick 36, both of Charlotte, and pilot George L Vickery of Highlands NC. The craft spun from 150 feet and burned about 300 yards from the field as Sunday excursionists gathered. Officials suspect fuel exhaustion and say Vickery could not regain control before impact.
Waterbury Conn March 24 Captain Arnold R Rasmussen adjutant Forty third Division National Guard Aviation Corps was killed instantly when his plane crashed while circling near his home Francis H Smyth also of Waterbury a passenger is in serious condition Rasmussen served as Treasurer of the General Brass Company of Waterbury
Clarence Brown 22 naval reserve pilot and John D Purcell 44 salesman and student pilot were seriously injured when their Travelair biplane failed to recover from a loop and crashed from 1000 feet in St Louis County about eight miles from the Municipal Airport.
Edwyn Longfield Jones, a man with many aliases, is identified by police as the fraudster who posed as Captain Manning or his soul in a case that misled the Manning family. Once a gospel preacher in Holyhead, he borrowed funds, adopted a shelter child in Pictou, and fled to Canada where he was jailed for fraud. He claimed amnesia in Seattle and gave aliases including Edward Buckland Russell.
River levels rise in Beattyville with houses under water as the Kentucky River Valley sees trains move for first time in 24 hours. Hazard communications are cut, and damage remains limited to first floors while other areas report regreting waters.
Tom Atkens a fifty year old riverman became the outstanding hero after he braved Emery River flood waters at Harriman Tennessee guiding a frail skiff through deadly torrents. He rescued a dozen people from peril while twenty others perished in the disaster.
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