River disaster toll reaches 23 with Kentucky man among dead
The M. E. Norman sank on the Mississippi with 23 dead, including Walker of Fulton Kentucky. Searchers battle swift current near Coahoma Landing as divers head from St. Louis to probe the submerged cabin and recover bodies. Investigators from the Army Corps and steamboat inspectors will determine the cause.
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Memphis
Tenn
M. E. Norman
Helena
Ark
United States Army Engineer Corps
Mid-South Association of Engineers
St. Louis
Josie Harry Island
Norris
Army Engineering Corps
D. H. Connolly
Connolly
Gayly
Cow Island
Nooon
Coahoma Bend
Rowlette Paine
Mid-South Association Ofengineers
R. M. McNeilley
Vanderbilt University
Nashville
Walter G. Kirkpatrick
Oxford
T. Waters Fox
Paducah
Paul Nor
Women vote to back League p
The International Council of Women Convention endorsed working for the League of Nations and gradual disarmament while reelecting officers. American delegates were split on resolutions. Katherine Davis spoke for the league, and German delegates abstained on disarmament. Lady Aberdeen was reelected council head.
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Washington, D.C
International Council of Women's Convention
League of Nations
Philip North Moore
National Council of Women of the United States
Viva Voce
Council
Katherine B. Davis
New York City
League
Senate
Court of International Justice
Lady Aberdeen
International Council
United States
Moore
Frau Anna Backer
Norway
Percy V. Pennybacker
Texas Club
Grace Abbott
Children’s Bureau
Department of Labor
Marian T. Whitney
Vassar College
Laurel Wreath and Chorus Celebrate May Festival Triumph
The May Festival ended with rain but a personal triumph for conductor Frank Van der Stucken as audience and musicians greeted him with a laurel wreath and a basket of roses. A standout was the children's matinee with 800 public school children performing Morteilman's cantata Young America under Alfred Hartzel.
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Frank van der Stucken
Festival Association
America
Morteilman
Music Hall
van der Stucken
Louiseer
Alfred Hartzel
Mother's plea spares forger from hard time in court
Joseph Ruffner Jr of Chicago received a suspended three year sentence in the Ohio Penitentiary after pleading guilty to forging a check for 175 dollars. Judge Ryan cited his aged mother's plea and warned the first offender to reform within a year, with his wife ill at home and both parents present in court.
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Criminal Court
Joseph Ruffner, Jr
Chicago
Ohio
Ruffner
United States
Louis Schneider
W. Y. Whitey
George M. Adams Service, Inc
New York
Havlin
Floyd Williams
25 Gallon Still Found in South Boston Home
Boston police liquor squad uncovered a 25 gallon still in a South Boston residence. A woman operating the plant said she manufactured liquor to keep her husband at home nights. Another woman found tending a large still claimed it was for a wedding feast.
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Boston
Sho
New Jersey Women Back Enroll ment of America in World Court
Resolutions urging New Jersey Senators to back U S enrollment in the World Court were approved unanimously at the closing session of the New Jersey State Federation of Women's Clubs Convention in Atlantic City.
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New Jersey
America
Atlantic City
N. J
United States
Federation of Women’s Clubs
Lascelles Ends Life By Shooting In England
The Honorable Francis John Lascelles uncle of Princess Marys husband Viscount Lascelles killed himself in Lees House Romsey using a fixed shotgun triggered by a rod set on an expanding table He was found seven hours later by a maid Born 1871 he was half brother to the Earl of Harewood Authorities suggest temporary insanity from prior confinement and a Chinaman killing case two earlier episodes referenced in the report
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John L. Balderston
New York World News Service
London
Francis John Lascelles
Mary
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Lees House
Romsey
Lascelles
Earl of Harewood
N. Y
Stage Hands Take Over Show at New York’s Shubert
Two longtime stage hands in New York’s Shubert Theatre purchased the Gilbert and Sullivan revival “Princess Ida.” They now own the scenery production rights and cast, paying salaries themselves as former producer Lawrence Anhalt exits. The move aims to run the show and possibly tour, while the new impresarios return to their crafts.
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New York World News Service
New York
Shubert
Lawrence J. Anhalt
Jim Thorpe
Lloyd Kelly
Princess Ida
Anhalt
Tessa Costa
Sudworth Frasier
Bertram
Thomas
Kelly
Wes
Jim
Drawn Shades at Bellevue as Father Seeks Missing Child
In New York a nurse drew shades beside a crib for two year old Joseph Abramowitz who lay dead at Bellevue. At Harlem Court a man seeks the fate of his child entrusted to Mrs Helen Geisen Volk's infantorium, facing manslaughter charges as investigations widen.
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New York World News Service
New York
Bellevue Hospital
Joseph Abramowitz
Harry
Helen Augusta Geisen-Volk
Infantorium
Bellevu
Harlem Court
Albert Vitale
Hhe
William Angerer
Central Islip Hospital
Angerer
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William P. Ryan
Homicide Bureau
Helen Geiser
Park Avenue
Ryan
Helen Geisen-Volk
Geisen- Volk
Geisen-Volk
Jefferson Market
Harlem
Amundsen Flight to Pole Under Way Amid Silence
Oslo observers speculate Roald Amundsen may have already begun his North Pole air dash from Spitzbergen area. No official word for two days fuels belief the Danish explorer started, with weather and ice conditions cited as major hazards for a Sydgat launch.
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Pole
Oslo
Explorer
Associated Press
Norway
Roald Amundsen
North Pole
Spitzbergen
Christiania
Royal University 2
Ana Itzbergen
Seip E Ummer
Bees
Sydgat
Possi- Dr-Hoel
Girl strapped to plane attempt cures deafness in Middletown
Jeanne C. Moore five, daughter of Mr and Mrs Howard J Moore of Middletown was strapped to an aviator who flew 8000 feet then dropped 5000 feet in a bid to cure congenital deafness. The child screamed in terror but remained unable to hear her mother. The plan followed advice from a prominent ear specialist.
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New York World News Service
Middletown
Conn
Jeanne C. Moore
Howard J. Moore
Accused Navy Man Wins Point in Liquor Scandal
Washington May 9 A new court will be designated by Secretary Wilbur to try Machinist Frank Hendricks at Hampton Roads on charges tied to the Beaufort incident. Hendricks challenged the prior court martial board’s competence after it acquitted Commander D. W. Fuller, arguing possible prejudice.
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Washington
Wilbur
Frank Hendricks
Hampton Roads
Beaufort
Norfolk
West Indies
Hendricks
D. W. Fuller
Crabbe Urges Mayor Ousted In Gambling Row
Ohio Attorney General C. C. Crabbe demands Grove City Mayor John Felton be removed for failure to enforce gambling laws at Beulah Park. He accuses Governor Vic Donahey of defying the law while Felton reportedly favored gambling. Donahey away from Columbus, due back Wednesday for a Cleveland trainmen’s meeting.
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C. C. Crabbe
Vic Donahey
Beulah Park
Grove City
Here
John Felton
Felton
Crabbe
Beulah Land
Donahey
New Philadelphia
Cleveland
Festival Soloist's Aid Beaten and Robbed in Post Office Corridor
Ed ward P Hatch Jr retired merchant and Robinson Crusoe recruiter faced a violent incident in a post office corridor. He seeks a castaway to live on Four Brothers Islands in Lake Champlain to care for 300 burgomaster gulls during summer, with food clothing shelter and a boat provided. Previous years drew over 1500 applicants.
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Natch
Brothers Islands
Lake Champlain
Hatch
Mass police raid targets Cambridge Somerville liquor dens
Boston dispatch reports 200 state officers and equal city force seized liquor from fifty outlets in Cambridge and Somerville. About 150 people were taken to East Cambridge Jail as crowds watched and 80 prisoners were indicted by Middlesex County Grand Jury.
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Boston
Cambridge
Somerville
East Cambridge
Massachusetts
Darby Blasts Municipal Courts Over 30 Day Jail Rule
Judge Darby in Common Pleas Court denounces Municipal Court practice of sentencing women to County Jail beyond thirty days. He calls such sentences unlawful and urges Sheriff Witt to refuse reception of longer terms. The ruling came during habeas corpus for Helen Brockman of Liberty and Walnut streets. Mrs. Brockman, mother of three, was jailed after defaulting a $590 liquor fine.
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Darby
Common Pleas Court
Harry H. Shafer
Helen Brockman
Liberty
Walnut Streets
Witt
Woman Kills and Wounds in Vienna Theater Shooting
In Vienna a woman named Mencia Carniciu killed Arnautovic Panigra and wounded two others during a performance of Peer Gynt at the National Theater. Police say all in the box were Macedonians tied to autonomist factions, with the shooter citing a political feud.
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Associated Press
Vienna
Mencia Carniciu
Ibsen
Peer Gynt
National Theater
Arnautovic Panigra
Macedonian Federalist Party
Great Lakes bootleg raid nets boats and beer shipments
Detroit authorities halted a dry navy operation moving from Ecorse to Lake Erie as two boats seized three motor launches carrying ten quarter barrels of beer 642 quarts of whisky and 10 920 quarts of beer. Seven men were arrested in the raid marking an early season blow to illicit transport on the Great Lakes.
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Detroit
Mich
Great Lakes
Lake Erie
Ecorse
Baron Volkoff seeks cook job after ruling million
Baron Antoin Volkoff former Russian Consul General for twelve mid western States with headquarters in Chicago is seeking employment as a cook. At 56 he ruled over up to one million subjects and spent nearly 150 million for farm machinery under the Kerensky regime. He says he is almost penniless and needs work to fund his two daughters education.
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Chicago
Baron Antoin Volkoff
Mid-Western
Russia
Kerensky
Berlin May Spurn League Until Allies Quit Rhine
Berlin government after a Wilhelmstrasse conference decided to decline League of Nations membership unless Allied forces evacuate Ruhr and Rhineland territories. Report from Paris cites German leadership taking a hard position amid postwar tensions.
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Berlin
Rhine
Arno Dosch-Fleurot
New York
World News Service
Paris
Wilhelmstrasse
League of Nations
Ruhr
Rhineland
Vonarten
Detec tive captain arrested on federal conspiracy charge
Fort Wayne Captain of Detectives William F Pappert was arrested today on a federal indictment charging conspiracy to violate prohibition laws. Several indictments reportedly handed by the Toledo Federal Grand Jury. Ray Worden, arrested weeks ago in Ohio while transporting liquor, provided the information.
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FT. Wayne
Ind
William F. Pappert
Toledo
Ray Worden
Ohio
Hotel Netherland Closes After 35 Years in New York
The Hotel Netherland on Fifth Avenue near Central Park closes after decades as a premier New York hotel. Owned by the Baron William Waldorf Astor estate the building was sold recently for 2 100 000 dollars in cash and will be converted into stores and apartments.
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New York
Hotel Netherland
Fifth Avenue
Lower Central Park
William Waldorf Astor
F P A Reenforced by Music Critic Bride
New York on May 9 announcement of the marriage of Esther Sayles Root daughter of Charles Towner Root of New York and Franklin P. Adams columnist of the New York World in Stamford Connecticut. The couple left for a honeymoon in Italy after news of Adams divorce from his first wife Mrs Minha S Adams last month. Many in literary newspaper and musical circles attended. Root is president of the Publishers Corporation and has written musical criticism for several Nick newspapers. Adams has run a column in the World under FP P A initials for three years and has been with New York papers for twenty years.
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Elmer C. Zoller
Edward Johnson
Deval Building
Cincinnati
Underworld
Uncle Sam
J. Zoller
Mr. Johnson
Gibson
Federal Building
Walnut Street
New York
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Esther Sayles Root
Charles Towner Root
Franklin P. Adams
New York World
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Conn
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Italy
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Publishers Corporation
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