Five Die as Bus Hits Truck on Toledo Highway
Ohio traffic disaster leaves five dead and sixteen injured when a Detroit Toledo Cleveland Greyhound bus crashes into a parked truck on Telegraph road near Port Clinton. Other fatalities and injuries reported across Ohio from crashes in Canton Waynesfield Youngstown and Columbus as buses and cars collide.
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Island Queen Stranded in Mud at Coney Island
George Schott, president of Coney Island Inc, pleads for rain to free the Island Queen paddle steamer stuck in mud at Cincinnati Riviera. He races to arrange salvage talks with six excursion steamer owners to keep summer fun for visitors.
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Coney Island, Inc
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Schott
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Riviera
British Leaders Split Over Young Plan Reparations
British and foreign officials debated the Young plan for German reparations as Paris reports sparked a press tempest. UK and Italian delegates signaled tentative acceptance while France and Belgium awaited a written presentation from Germany, with Britain’s House of Commons mulling the coverage. Churchill chaired the Cabinet in the discussion.
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France
Italy
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Army aviator dies in Wright Field crash during maneuvers
In Little Rock Arkansas on May 12 Staff Sergeant Homer O. Johnson was killed and Lieutenant C. K. Roth seriously injured when a Third Attack Squadron pursuit plane crashed after takeoff at the National Guard airport en route from Galveston to Dayton. The squadron halted for lunch, and a large crowd watched as the damaged craft lay smashed. Roth was hospitalized in serious condition.
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Homer O. Johnson
C. K. Roth
United States Army Air Corp
Galveston
Texas
Dayton
National Guard
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Roth
Johnson
Rioters Clash at Des Moines University Campus
Des Moines University reels after a riot that collapses the campus, shatters the business office, and drives the Baptist Bible Union to suspend operations. Police deploy riot squads as Dr. Thomas T. Shields and Miss Edith M. Redman face board action amid unrest.
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New York World News Service
Des Moines
Des Moines University
Baptist Bible Union
Buffalo
Thomas T. Shields
Canada
Edith M. Redman
University
Bible Union
Arc
Shields
Redman
Board of Trustees
Miss Redman
Victim of Cancer Drowns Herself at Eden Park
Frances Beressenbruegge 45 of 539 Dandridge Street drowned in Eden Park Reservoir to avoid confessing cancer to her children. Edward Crist, driving through the park, found her body. Life Saving Squad recovered it within an hour. Relatives said she had been despondent due to illness. Coroner identified the rosary on her coat as hers.
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Eden Park
Edward P. Crist
Ohio Avenue
Frank Trinen
General Hospital
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Fred C. Swing
Harry Beressenbruegge
Petrified hog rumor rattles Whitesburg area reports
Reports from Carrs Fork near the Knot County line tell of a hog found petrified, as hard as marble and colored like flour. Farmer John P. Morton confirms the discovery made during excavation, recalling a hog’s disappearance about three years ago.
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Carrs Fork
Knot County
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Hoover Dines Fess and Borah
President Hoover dined with Senator Simeon D. Fess of Ohio at luncheon and later with Senator William E. Borah of Idaho at dinner. The two senators have clashed publicly, and the administration worries rising tensions in a Senate reduced to about forty-two votes.
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New York World News Service
Washington
Hoover
Simeon D. Fess
Ohio
William E. Borah
Idaho
Fess
Borah
Senate
Lindbergh Observes Mother's Day With Fiancee
Charles A Lindbergh spent Mother’s Day driving from New York to Englewood New Jersey to visit his fiancee Miss Anne Morrow with his mother Evangeline Lindbergh beside him. A 15 minute escorted drive followed and reporters were kept back by police guarding the Morrow estate during the sightseers rush.
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New York World News Service
New York
Charles A. Lindbergh
Englewood
N. J
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Evangeline Lodge Lindbergh
Anne
Morrow Estate
Lindbergh
Ohio
Massachusetts
Morrow
Engineer Shot By Town Marshal In Williamsburg After Row
Harry Miller 34 of Williamsburg Ohio, a White Company chair factory engineer, lies in critical condition at Bethesda Hospital after grappling with Floyd Frazier 45, the town marshal, who fired on him in Williamsburg streets. Miller had intervened in a clash involving John Benkley and his wife. Miller reportedly disarmed the marshal and returned his gun. The incident followed a request to Cincinnati police to arrest Benkley and Robert Colvin in connection with the Saturday night scuffle.
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Norwood
United States
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Good Samaritan Hospital
Joseph Flower
Lee Kiley
Ralph J. Burwinkle
Clifford S. Kennedy
Forest Avenue
Kennedy
Harry Miller
Williamsburg
White Company
Bethesda Hospital
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Sheeriff Kert Roberts
Claremont Coun
Miller
Jeannette Miller
John Benkiey
Frazier
Cincinnati
Benkley
Robert Colvin
Chief Copelan Silent On Murder Editorial
Police Chief William Copelan refused to comment on The Commercial Tribune front page editorial about the Bruck murder case. When asked for a statement he replied No. Emmett D. Kirgan said he did not read the editorial yet claimed the situation is well in hand.
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William Copelan
Commercial Tribune
Bruck
Emmett D. Kirgan
Congress Weighs Vacation As Farm Aid Tariff Fights Loom
Washington May 12 Threats of long Senate and House battles over farm relief and tariffs push leaders toward a summer recess. Plans include a possible three week break after tariff passage, with further questions about a full summer recess.
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Washington
Senate
House
Watson
Indiana
Senate Finance Committee
Hoover
Brookhart
Iowa
Senator Fess
Ohio
Fess
Borah
Nye
North Dakota
Ohioan
Police Seek Attacker of 8-Year-Old Harriet Jones
Police search for a Black man who assaulted Harriet Jones eight in her home yard on May Street near Florence Avenue. The child cried out awakening her father who reported the man carried her to an empty lot and attacked her before she was treated at General Hospital.
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Florence Avenue
General Hospital
Sinclair Sees One Visitor on Visiting Day
In Washington on May 12, Harry F. Sinclair received a single caller, John Hardy of New York, during his visiting day at the District Jail. Hardy, claiming to be a business associate, met Sinclair from 6:45 to about 8:30 p.m. and said the prisoner was feeling well.
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Washington
Harry F. Sinclair
John Hardy
New York
Sinclair
Hardy
Lahoma
Cleveland man dies after 18 foot fall on porch repair
Isaac Koshkinsky, 45, of Cleveland, fell eighteen feet to his death today from a second floor porch railing he was repairing at his home. The incident occurred in Cleveland Ohio on May 12.
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Isaac Koshkinsky
Cleveland
Cost of Prohibition Drain On U S Taxpayers
The association against the prohibition amendment states that last year the total cost of prohibition to U S taxpayers reached 936 million dollars. It cites 900 million from lost federal and local revenues and warns that rising appropriations could push annual costs past one billion and toward twelve hundred million if state efforts increase.
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Association Against the
New York World News Service
Washington
Association Against the Prohibition Amendment
United States
Congress
The
Swiss reject local option on hard liquor sales
In Geneva on May 12 the Swiss Confederation voted down an initiative bill that would have allowed local option on whether to permit the sale of hard liquors. The result was a crushing defeat for the proposal, which aimed not for general prohibition but for local choice.
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Geneva
United States
First Contingent of Airplanes Arrives at Columbus Ohio
The vanguard of the air fleet en route from East and West, North and South, to take part in air ground maneuvers arrives in Ohio. Lieut. Col. H. C. Pratt joins at Wright Field after weekend departure. Two F-63 planes piloted by Capt. Vincent Dickson and Capt. Ray M. House from Langley Field fly in. The Ninth Observation Group from Mitchell Field, New York, also arrives.
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Ohio
H. C. Pratt
Washington
Wright Field
Air Corps
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Ray M. House
Air Corps Technical School
Langley Field
Mitchell Field, N. Y
Nurse Chooses Mother's Day Suicide In Chicago
Harriet Parker, a young graduate nurse, died after taking poison on Mother's Day following a farewell letter to her mother. She registered under the alias Miss Fortune at the Midway Annex Hotel and had little money, with doctors reporting she was dying after being partly revived.
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New York World News Service
Chicago
Harriet Parker
Michigan
Midway Annex
Miss Fortune
Dedication of Fitzmaurice Flying Field At Massepequa Park
Nearly 50 000 attendees witnessed the dedication of Fitzmaurice Flying Field part of Massepequa Park estate in L I.IL and stayed for air races. The Irish co pilot of the trans Atlantic Junkers Bremen joined famous flyers Bert Acosta Miss Thea Rasche and Elinor Smith at the event. The four performed stunt flying for the crowd at the thirty acre commuter airport named in his honor.
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New York World News Service
New York
Fitzmaurice Flying Field
Massepequa Park
L. IL
Bremen
Bert Acosta
Thea Rasche
Elinor Smith
Nuns Sentenced in Mexico for Political Propaganda
Fifty Catholic women including Mother Superior Maria Concepcion Acevedo y de la Llata were banished from Manzanillo Colima and sent to a penal colony for alleged dissemination of seditious propaganda. Sixteen other nuns were among those convicted as intellectual authors of a presidential assassination plot according to World News Service.
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Colima
Mexico
Maria Concepcion Acevedo Y de la Liata
Alvarado Obregon
Progreso
Las Marias
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Coal Will Be Crowned King Today At Music Hall
The sixth annual convention of the Manufacturers' Division of the American Mining Congress opens at Music Hall with a coal mining machinery exhibit. Delegates from coal states gather for sessions through Friday to discuss mechanization led by Dr. L. E. Young and Otis Mouser presiding.
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Stonega Coke and Coal Company
L. E. Young
Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh Coal Company
Young
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Elkins
Washington, D. C
Dogs to Test Ownership by Smoking in Court Scene
In New York, May 12, Magistrate Simpson orders a dog ownership test by smoking. Miss Elsie Cambridge faces arraignment for taking Julian Kahn's Manchester toy dog Teddy, who reportedly learned to smoke. The test is delayed until tomorrow and Cambridge is freed to her attorney Karl W. Kirchwey.
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Elsie Cambridge
Manchester
Julian Kahn
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Broadway
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Karl W. Kirchwey
Veggman Breaks Into Newark Sunoco Office
A burglar smashed the side window and rifled the safe of a Newark Sunoco station. He left a testimonial and two notes on envelopes saying he worked from 2 to 5 but took nothing, and bidding farewell with good luck. Employees declined to reveal the safe's contents.
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