Police lead citizens hunt in woods near Price Hill
Seven police units and groups of Price Hill residents combed the western hills and Mt. Echo Park at dusk seeking a heavyset man about 30, 5 feet 8 inches, 175 pounds, with blond hair and a pug nose who assaulted three schoolgirls, first on Warsaw avenue and later near Mt. Echo Park, before vanishing in the dark.
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Price Hill
Eleanora Kolkmeyer
Frank Kolkmeyer
Warsaw Avenue
Ninth District
Mt. Echo Park
Geraldine Cappel
Highridge Avenue
Virginia McNair
St. Theresa's School
McNair
Cappel Girft
Hall
Riverside
Tornado Rips Texas Town. 17 Dead 100 Injured
A devastating tornado struck Mitchell County in Texas earlier today near Colorado and Westbrook, leaving 17 dead and about 100 injured. Rescue workers describe widespread destruction with hundreds of refugees, ruined farms, and extensive property loss as crews scramble to deliver aid.
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Colorado
Tex
Mitchell County
Here
Westbrook
Loraine
Colorado Chamber of Commerce
Cloudbursts Cut Off Hot Springs Arkansas City Flood Fire
May 14. A cloudburst caused floods and a citywide fire in Hot Springs Arkansas. Reports say flooding isolated the town as waters poured four feet down streets. Fire destroyed nearly a block of the business district and 17 lives were reported lost after the storm swept in at about six o clock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mountain Side
Little Rock
Hot Springs
Meager
Plane Fire Raid Kills Six on Paris London Route
Six people die when a passenger plane on the Paris to London route crashes near Monsures France. Among the dead are Laur ence Von Post Schwab of New York and a New York woman likely Juanita Bates. The crash also claims the French pilot, the machinist and an engineer plus another male passenger.
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Measures
France
New York
Associated Press
Conty
Monsures
Laurence von Post Schwab
Juanita Bates
Schwab
Oelrichs & Co
Europe
London
Liverpool
Mauretania
Soviet Note Seeks Regularized Ties With Britain
Moscow reports a conciliatory note to Britain proposing a conference to settle disputed issues and regulate relations. It rejects British charges of propaganda, offers arbitration on trawler seizures, and discusses compensation for Britons while defending Russia’s East policy. A Vladivostok anti British protest followed.
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Associated Press
Moscow
Russia
Great Britain
England
Persia
Charles F. Davison
India
Weinstein
Hodgson
Hedeson
Furtheir
Soviet
London Officials Say Note May Avoid Rupture
British officials view Moscow reply to British note as avoiding rupture. Satisfaction expressed that Soviet attitude toward Great Britain shows an about face, signaling improved relations.
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London
Associated Press
Moscow
Great Britain
Lexington fugitive Meadows held on forged instrument charge
Aon Meadows a 23 year old semi pro athlete of 2960 Observatory road Lexington is jailed there for Cincinnati police on grand jury indictment returned last Saturday accusing him of uttering and publishing a forged instrument a $500 check drawn on Hargis Bank in Jackson Ky. The lavalliere involved valued at $5 000 tied to prior attachments and disputes over ownership with lawyer Charles Sawyer and others after Meadows had left a ball game against Winchester Ky.
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Rush Meadows
Observatory Road
Lexington
Cincinnati
Meadows
Winchester
Emmet Kirgan
Harry Bohlke
Trojal Coat Company
George W. Hollis
Hargis Commercial Bank and Trust Company
Jackson, Ky
Samuel Savin
Sixth Street
Walnut Street
Trojan Coal Company
George Hollis
Coal Company
Breathitt County
Kentucky
Lavalliere
Sidney A. Loth
William A. Jopkins
Common Pleas
Stanley C. Roettinger
Extension route eyed for Indianapolis and Cincinnati Traction
May 14. Extension of the Indianapolis and Cincinnati Traction Company from Connersville and Greensburg to Cincinnati is contemplated via a new firm, the Indianapolis and Cincinnati Car Trust Equipment Company, which filed incorporation papers. Charles L. Henry, president, said a meeting would be held tomorrow to discuss plans. The new company can issue 1,301,756.99 dollars of stock.
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Associated Press
Indianapolis
Indianapolis & Cincinnati Traction Company
Connersville
Greensburg
Ind
Cincinnati
Indianapolis & Cincinnati Car Trust Equipment Company
Charles L. Henry
Jstock
Dog Dies With Mistress in Avon Lake Fire Tragedy
Mrs. Fred Kevan age 52 perished when a fire consumed the Kevan home at Avon Lake Ohio. A bull dog owned by Mrs. Kevan was found dead beside her body, authorities reported.
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Lorain
Fred Kevan
Kevan
Avon Lake
Here
Subway Link to Westwood and Harrison Proposed by Henry
The Commercial Tribune notes Henry's plan a year ago to extend a rail line from Rushville to Brookville then to Westwood and beyond. He envisioned hourly express service Cincinnati to Connersville in about 1 1 2 hours with faster trips via a subway, avoiding traffic delays and expanding suburban service to Mt Healthy and Harrison, Ohio.
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Commercial Tribune
Mr. Henry
Rushville
Big Four
Brookville
Westwood
Cincinnati-Westwood Railway
Queen City Avenue
Cincinnati-Westwood
Henry
Connersville
Indianapolis
Cincinnati
Mt. Healthy
Harrison, O
Mrs. Th. Watson Dies in Georgia After Illness
Mrs. Th. Watson widow of a late United States Senator from Georgia dies at her home in May after an attack of acute diabetes. The obituary notes her status and local residence.
Mines Used in Effort To Destroy Ruhr Lock
Floating mines, like German World War II devices, are used to disrupt Ruhr coal and coke transport. At Ruhrort gates the canal lock was targeted but mine exploded early causing minor damage. German canal officials and railway workers face arrests by Belgian and French authorities amid ongoing sabotage across the region.
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Ruhr
Duesseldorf
North Sea
Ruhrort
Bonn
Wickerchik
Two 13-Year-Olds Admit Fireings of Local Factories
In Grand Rapids Michigan on May 14 police said two 13 year old boys Donald Crampton and Ralph Bosch confessed to setting fires at three furniture factories and an electric company building causing about 500000 dollars in damage. They told investigators they did it for the fun of it.
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Luther Brindle
F. Brindle
Luther
H. J. Standifer
Standifer
Joe Anderson
Jim Walker
Cc. L. Simpson
I. C. Sheffield
Jesus Brionez
Joe Richburg
W. S. Shelton
Westbrook
Tex
Henry Tidewell
Colorado
Devasee
Big Springs
Colorado City
Elmer Bizzel
Grand Rapids, Mich
Electric Company
Donald Crampton
Ralph Bosch
Starved crew in rum yacht exposes New York bootlegging ring
A starving crew aboard the Yankton claims a vast New York bootlegging syndicate controlled Rum Row. After being fed, Captain Bidson and three crew members told federal investigators of deception, theft, and smuggling as they surrendered the vessel and its cargo for sale to repay the crew.
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New York
United States
Clark
Bidson
Havana
Mr. Clark
A. E. Corns
Seventeenth Street
Miami
Fla
Corns
Bidlon
Nassau
R. I
St. Pierre
Miquelon
Ambrose
Providence
Block Island
Montauk Point
Rym Row
New York Bay
Four Bodies Recovered After River Jump Near Rock Island
In Moline Illinois on May 14 four people leaped from a Campbell Island trestle to evade a street car and their bodies were recovered. Two men and a woman have been identified as Ethel Ambers Roy Lundy and Milton Carlson with two others missing including Elsie Georgie and Charles Lanigan. A search continued as divers and boats combed the Mississippi River near the trestle.
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Moline
Ill
Mississippi River
Campbell's Island
Ethel Ambers
Roy Lundy
Milton G. Carlson
Charles Lanigan
Rock Island
Elsie Georgle
Davenport
Island
Lanigan
Geelzle
Merle Newton
Carlson
East Moline
William C. Kepke
Lundy
Arizona arrest links man to $200000 embezzlement case
A man who gave the name White but is believed to be Andrew Hepler was arrested in Phoenix on a $200,000 embezzlement charge. Authorities tied him to Hepler via Pennsylvania circulars and a coat tag bearing the name Hepler found in his room. The suspect was traced from Butler, Pennsylvania, to Arizona.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Andrew Hepler
Butler
Hepler
Pennsylvania
Mr. Hepler
Suspect Indicted in Phoenix Squad Farm Case
An individual once under arrest in Phoenix Arizona was indicted over a year ago by a federal grand jury here for promoting a squad farm and then disappeared shortly after.
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Phoenix
Ariz
McCormick Gown Shop to Close Out Stock
Miss Muriel McCormick daughter of Harold F McCormick and granddaughter of John D Rockefeller announced a final clearance sale at her Chicago shop as she abandons the women fine wear project She is studying opera and has no time for other interests
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Chicago
Muriel McCormick
Harold F. McCormick
John D. Rockefeller
McCormick
Flood and Fire Hit Hot Springs Described as Destructive
William M. Baxter Jr of the Red Cross said a telegram from Hot Springs Arkansas reported a flood and fire causing damage beyond description. He prepared to dispatch relief if confirmed as water four feet deep in downtown Hot Springs and communications lines failing.
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ST. Louis
William M. Baxter, Jr
Southwestern
American Red Cross
Hot Springs
Ark
Baxter
Red Cross
Arkansas City
Missouri Pacific Railway
American Golfers Welcome by Lord Desborough in London
The Pilgrims Society hosted a luncheon honoring visiting American golfers who impressed British guests. Lord Desborough praised the players as supermen while Earl of Balfour urged their health and lauded the sport’s spread from Scotland to England and America. Speakers included Robert A. Cardner Francis Ouimet Rogert Wethered and Albert Victor Baillie among a notable gathering.
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Associated Press
London
Lord Desborough
Pilgrims Society
England
Gordesborough
Earl of Balfour
America
Robert A. Cardner
Chicago
Francis Ouimet
Boston
Rogert Wethered
Quimet
Albert Victor Baillie
Windsor
Duke of Leeds
Percy Scott
Harry ‘Brittain
Theodore Cook
Field
Hamar Greenwood
Ireland
H. Gordon Selfridge
Lord Riddell
Campbell Stuart
Swiss Arrest Russian in Vorovsky Slaying Case
Judge Depertuis with detectives arrested a young Russian in Geneva alleged to have authored a letter to Maurice Conradi, the assassin of Soviet envoy Vorovsky. Lausanne officers searched several other Russian colony quarters without results.
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Geneva
Depertuis
Lausanne
Maurice Conradi
Vorovsky
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Grant
Stanton
William Korning
Marie Pride
Korning
Cloudburgt
Little Rock Hears
AIR Express
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Britain
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Aon
Indiana Company
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