Flood Worsens as Louisiana Parishes Brace for Mississippi Deluge
Mississippi floodwaters threaten five South Central Louisiana parishes with breaches along Bayou des Glaises and Bayou Rouge. Crevasses multiply as authorities fear 200000 residents and over 1 million acres will be inundated, the swell extending toward the Atchafalaya and Morganza.
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Atchafalaya
Morganza
Baton Rouge
Avoyalles Parish
St. Landry
St. Martin
Idera
St. Mary
Burglary Alarm Draws Police to Jewelry Firm
A clerk at 231 West Fourth street accidentally set off an alarm at A and J Plant Wholesale Jewelry Co. yesterday afternoon. Police chased a burglary scene but found only the bungling clerk who dropped a tray of knick knacks on the button. the man’s name was not released.
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West Fourth Street
Junker Cleared in Death of Gypsy Chief Demetra
Frank Junker of Lawrenceburg, former Dearborn County Deputy Sheriff, is acquitted of second degree murder in the killing of Brazilian gypsy chief Frank Demetra on the Atlantic and Pacific Highway last July 16. The verdict, reached on the first ballot after a 20 minute deliberation, was in Rising Sun Ohio County. Junker testified self defense after ordering Demetra and others to move. he claimed a weapon appeared, later shown to be a monkey wrench he used on a tire.
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The
Commercial Tribune
Rising Sun
Ind
Frank Junker
Lawrenceburg
Dearborn
Frank Demetra
Atlantic and Pacific
Ohio County
Junker
Dearborn County
William Ricketts
Deemtra
Two Murders Believed Linked by Hidden Clues
Cincinnati detectives pursue links between the Reading homicide of Floyd Renner and the April 10 shooting of Emmett Miller in Wyoming. Mary Miller, widow of Emmett, is questioned as daughter Edna 10 testifies Kite visited the Miller home before the killings.
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Mary Miller
Oliver Road
Wyoming
Emmett
Reading
Floyd Renner
Repson Street
Carthage
Renner
J. B. Redwine
Nathan Kite
Southern Avenue
Kite
Millers
Miller
Edith
Missions in Russia Guarded Against Anti English Bands
Russian political police and Red Army troops guarded streets leading to the British and Polish Missions in Moscow as anti British demonstrators paraded. Caricatures of Sir Austen Chamberlain were shown and guards blocked access to the mission quarter. A convoy of twenty planes later circled the mission building.
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Moscow
Red Army
Austen Chamberlain
Baldwin Cabinet's Fate May Hang on Outcome
London dispatches report a dramatic crisis as Britain's raid on the Soviet House unsettles the government. Home Secretary Joynson Hicks may be blamed if a sensational document is not found, while the Foreign Office reportedly knew nothing of the raid beforehand. The incident threatens Baldwin's cabinet as Moscow dispatches add uncertain diplomatic risk.
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Home
Joynson-Hicks
Foreign Office
Baldwin
Home Secretary
Britain
Russia
Moscow
Whitney Colt 13 Triumphs in Ture Classic
Widener’s gelding Whitney Colt 13 wins a grueling Ture Classic as E. Sande barely misses a third attempt at victory. Whips crack and jockeys push hard to the final inch in a dramatic finish.
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Whitney
Child Rescued From Drain Pipe Using Spoon
Two year old Herbert Vogel of 750 Whittier street was saved when Cincinnati fire department life saving squad freed his foot wedged in a water spout at his home. A large spoon, devised by Marshal Harry W. Geselbracht, was used in the rescue. Firemen say many children are saved each year by this method.
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Herbert Vogel
Carl Vogel
Whittier Street
Harry W. Geselbracht
Cincinnati
Eight Miners Trapped After Shannon Mine Blast
Welch West Virginia May 14 Eight miners trapped by a late night explosion in the Shannon branch mine of the Central Pocahontas Coal Co near Welch were believed killed. A second blast today injured none of the rescuers as two minor blasts prompted officials to postpone entry until later. Twelve miners on the night shift reported for work at the shaft mouth and were uninjured.
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Welch
W. Va
Shannon Branch
Central Pocahontas Coal Company
Here
Rota Denies Prince Henry Press Marriage nullification
The Sacred Tribunal Rota in Rome denied Prince Henry Press of Germany’s bid to nullify his 1891 marriage to Mary Theresa Cornwallis-West, finding insufficient evidence of coercion. The marriage had been dissolved by civil divorce in 1922, and counsel Count Sacconi may appeal.
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Rome
Prince Henry Press
Germany
Mary Theresa Cornwallis-West
Duchess of Westminster
Rota
Count Sacconi
Prince Henry
Countess Clothilde de Silva
London
Cincinnati Firm Plans First Regular Airline Route in Region
A Cincinnati based Louisville to Cleveland air line operated by Embry Riddle will begin next Thursday. The Waco planes carry two passengers and freight on a 325 mile 5 hour 40 minute trip, faster than any train. Northbound departures from Louisville Lunken reach Cincinnati Dayton Akron Columbus Cleveland. Southbound returns depart Cleveland Air Mail Field Akron Columbus Dayton Cincinnati Louisville.
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Louisville-Cleveland
Cincinnati
Embry- Riddle Company
United States
Waco
Louisville
Cleveland
Bowman Field
Lunken
McCook
Dayton
Norton
Columbus
Stowe
Akron
Air Mail
Dynamite Parcel Targeted Governor Fuller Over Sacco Vanzetti
May 14 report says Gov Fuller may name Charles Evans Hughes to a Sacco Vanzetti inquiry commission. A postal worker prevented delivery of a dynamite parcel to Fuller tied to the case, with a note from a radical claiming more blasts if the convicts are executed.
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New York
New York Times
Charles Evans Hughes
Gov. Fuller
Massachusetts
Boston
Alvan T. Fuller
Sacco-Vanzetti
Sacco
Vanzetti
Frank W. Steele
Burlington Avenue
Friday the thirteenth wedding ties in Kentucky
Miss Nora Starns and Rus sell Whitt, both of Lockland, obtained a marriage license on Friday in Covington and wed yesterday in the Kenton County Clerk's office. Rev L. L. Henson officiated with ten attendants and floral arrangements. Because the bride is a minor, her mother consented to the marriage.
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Nora Starns
Russell Whitt
Lockland
Kenton County
Covington
John W. Middendorf
L. L. Henson
First Baptist Church
Victim of War Terror Ends Her Life in Grief
Mrs Lena Rich aged 50 of 838 West Fifth Street Cincinnati died at General Hospital after injuring herself and failing to recover from a note she wrote in German confessing she had taken poison. Her survivor fears trace to Cossack attacks in Drohobycz and losses of husband Benedict and son Josef in the Italian front. Her brother Leopold Rich housed her and her two remaining sons Irving and David. Authorities note she likely took poison before hospital admission.
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Alps
Lena Rich
West Fifth Street
General Hospital
Rich
Drohobycz
Austria
Poland
Benedict
Josef
Josepf
Leopold Rich
Nation
Cincinnati
Irving
David
Goff
God
Swing
Pugilist Roberts Shot in Police Battle After Hold-Up
Harry Red Roberts 23 a pugilist of 840 Hopkins street was shot probably fatally after a hold-up on Linn street He fired on Patrolmen Heitzler and Brinkman from a back yard barricade and collapsed on the Hopkins sidewalk. He had robbed grocer Stergeos of 14 earlier and was given a deferred sentence three weeks ago for auto theft.
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Harry
Red) Roberts
Hopkins Street
Heitzler and
Brinkman
Linn Street
Roberts
Christ Stergeos
Stergeos
Heltzer
Heitzler
General Hospital
Physiciana
John Seebohm
Charles Harris
Main Street
Gilbert Avenue
Baymiller Street
Common Pleas Court
Injuries in Auto Crash Prove Fatal for Man
George O'Neil a 47 year old shoeworker of 2315 Ohio avenue died at General Hospital from a fractured skull and broken leg after the car he rode in with Nona Drake 27 overturned on the Cincinnati Day ton pike near Westchester. The auto struck a bridge abutment and plunged into a creek bed. Drake sustained multiple fractures and cuts. They were removed to the hospital by Ralph Goodman and Gale Murney who found them at the wreck.
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George O'Neil
Ohio Avenue
General Hospital
Nona Drake
Chatham Street
Cincinnati-Dayton
Westchester
O’neill
Ralph Goodman
Foraker Avenue
Norwood
Gale Murney
Vinestreet
Woman 93 watches Derby for fifty third time
Mrs. Susan Sherley, 93, sat in a Churchill Downs box in Louisville to witness her fifty third Kentucky Derby. She recalled Aristides winning the first Derby in 1875 and has not missed a race since.
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New York World News Service
Louisville
Susan Sherley
Churchill Downs
Aristides
Philadelphia Stadium Floor Collapse Kills Man and Injures Sixty
A section of the Philadelphia National League Park grand stand collapsed during a game, trapping and injuring many. Frederick Haas, 50, an orthographer, died after heart trouble and shock. about fifty others were hospitalized and the game was halted with Philadelphia leading St. Louis 12 to 3.
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Philadelphia
Frederick Haas
Haas
St. Louis
Ball Park
Tecla Vigna Leaves $45,000 Estate in Ohio Will
The will of Tecla Vigna, former opera singer, filed in Cincinnati probate court, bequeaths 500 cash, furnishings, and books to Santa Maria Institute and 100 to friend Mrs. Lillian Ewford. It directs a $1000 bequest to Kenton Welfare Center, 500 to Sacred Heart Church, and creates a trust with Fifth Third Union Trust. The trust provides income to Leone Vigna and wife Gabriela for life, with remainder to their nine children when the youngest turns 21.
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Tecla Vigna
Cincinnati
Lueders
Charles Ginocchio
Miss Vigna
Burnet House
Italy
Milan
Santa Maria Institute of Cincinnati
Kenton Welfare Center
Sacred Heart Church
Lillian Ewford
Leone Vigna
Gabriela
Whiskery Wins Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs
Whiskery by Whisk Broom II wins the Kentucky Derby for H. P. Whitney and trainer Jimmy Rowe at Churchill Downs. Osmond is second, Jock third, Hydromel fourth. race value about $61,000 with Osmond earning $6,000 and Hydromel $1,000. Sande led early but Whiskery prevailed in 2 06 over a dead but safe track.
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Whiskery
Osmand
Jock
Moscow
Baldwin
Louisiana
George Daley
New York World News Service
Louisville
Bostonian
Hydromel
Whitney
Is Sande
Earle Sande
Isaac Murphy
Whiskerys
McAfee
Mc&tee
Osmond
Greentree Stable
Saxon
J. C. Milam
Mr. Kirkwood
Crescent Stable
My Son
William Hamilton
Stretc
Panama Demands Release of Ship Hakadata
Panama protests to the United States over the seizure of the Hakadata by the Coast Guard off the Mexican coast on April 7. Minister Alfaro argues the capture was illegal as it occurred sixty miles south of the border and seven miles from shore, citing discrepancies between Coast Guard and State Department accounts.
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United States
Paris
Bridgewater
Mass
Washington
Hakadata
Coast Guard
Alfaro
Panama
State Department
Federalship
Vaughan
Legation
High Seas
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