Derby Day Looms Over Louisville At 51st Kentucky Derby
Quatrain leads as favorite for the $50,000 Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs with up to 100000 expected. Twenty five top three year olds entered, weather could trim starters to 15 20. Contenders Captain Hal and Kentucky Cardinal highlighted along with crowd from across the country arriving by train plane and auto.
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Louisville
Churchill Downs
America
Captain Hal
Black Toney
Black Gold
A. A. Kaiser
Kentucky Cardinal
G. Frank Croissant
Chicago
Desha Breckinridge
Lexington
Downs
Eity
Debate over right of detention and search at ports
Geneva talks move to support the right of detention and search for illicit war material in transit with a split over U.S. stance. Theodore Burton opposes such international authority insisting on American sovereignty, while Britain and others push for broader powers amid whisky smuggling concerns.
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Geneva
United States
Theodore E. Burton
America
Burton
Panama Canal
Italy
Belgium
India
Red Sea
N. Y
World News Service
World Press Pub. Co
Thousands of Cincinnatians Set for Famous Turf Classic Today
About 5,000 Cincinnati residents join crowds heading to Churchill Downs for the Kentucky Derby. Special trains from Cincinnati to Louisville carry thousands, with L and N and Baltimore and Ohio lines running early and late. Steamers from Louisville and Cincinnati also run to accommodate Derby travelers as buses and traffic flow toward the race day spectacle.
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Louisville & Cincinnati Packet Company
Louisville
Derby
Queen City
Main Street
Cincinnati
Churchill Downs
Escaped convict asks warden to mail him $30
John Palamento, an escaped prisoner, sent a letter to Warden Thomas requesting the $30 he left behind at the State Penitentiary. Palamento, later captured in Pennsylvania, was sentenced to a western penitentiary there. The money would cover his expenses upon release.
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Columbus
Thomas
State Penitentiary
John Palamento
Palamento
Pennsylvania
Coolidge backs limit on poisonous gas use in war
President Coolidge favors an international agreement to restrict the use of poisonous gases in warfare. He has no definite plan yet and will watch the Geneva arms traffic conference. He believes restrictions should not unduly hamper peace time chemical materials trade or legitimate sales.
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Coolidge
Washington
Geneva
Missing Windermere manager accused of $80,000 theft
Archer F. Kagy, former Windermere Savings and Loan manager in Cleveland, is pursued nationwide after allegedly embezzling $80,000 over months. A $20,000 bond covered by a insurer, with the rest covered by directors’ funds, and Kagy said to have destroyed deposit slips to steal deposits.
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Cleveland, O
Archer F. Kagy
Windermere Savings and Loan Company
John R. McQuigg
Cleveland News
Kagy
General McQuigg
Cuban Congressman Shot in Havana Ambush
Ex representative Jose R. Cano, once pardoned after killing Martinez Alonzo years ago, was shot dead after attending a jai alai game. A police guard with him was wounded as four or five men in cars opened fire and fled. No motive has been found by police.
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Havana
Cuba
Jose R. Cano
Martinez Alonzo
Cano
Louisville Chief Shocks Conference By Call for Action
New York World News Service reports Louis ville Kentucky Chief Forrest Braden urged action to curb the impression that American police chiefs violate prohibition laws. He noted some officials act under weak political control and urged decisive steps to reaffirm lawful enforcement at the International Police Conference. Chief Braden said 145 of 400 Louisville officers had left or been fired over bootlegger ties. NYPD Commissioner Enright was re-elected conference president for 1927 with William Copelaw of Cincinnati as first vice president.
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Louisville
New York World News Service
New York
Forrest Braden
Ing
Braden
J. Dickson
Toronto
Indianapolis
Enright
International Police Conference
William Copelaw
Cincinnati
Tongue twister name saves man from fine in court
In Washington on May 15, William Ypharraguerre faced an overtime parking charge. The bailiff struggled to call the defendant as Mr. Y, and when the judge requested a full name the officer admitted the name. The court let Mr. Y off on a personal bond not to repeat the offense.
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William Ypharraguerre
Mr. Y
Hitt
Tragic triple murder and death by own action in New Orleans
Mrs. George Williams Peckham of Milwaukee travels to New Orleans to learn that her son George Williams Peckham his wife and two children were found dead from gunshot wounds. Peckham a Newcomb College philosophy assistant professor reportedly suffered hallucinations and said to be harassed by unseen parties. Coroner rules triple murder and death by own action amid past lawsuits investigations and witnesses in related cases.
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New Orleans
George Williams Peckham
Milwaukee
Wis
Peckham
Newcomb College
Philadelphia
New York City
Daughter of Governor Donahey to Be June Bride
Margaret Katherine Donahey will marry James Wylie Huffman in a June 3 ceremony at the Executive Mansion garden in Columbus. The Rev. Dr. Frank Hart Huffman, Baltimore pastor and brother of the groom, will officiate with close relatives present. a public reception will follow.
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Columbus
A. V. Donahey
Margaret Katherine
James Wylie Huffman
John A. Huffman
Chandlersville
Executive Mansion
Frank Hart Huffman
Babcock Presbyterian Church
Baltimore
Ad Draws Fifteen Replies Rents North College Hill House
A 1928 Cordova five room stucco house with garage drew fifteen inquiries after an ad. Daniel Pohlar answered inquiries at 1319 street and the second inquirer rented the property. Low cost classifieds rate shown.
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North College Hill
Cordova
Mod
Daniel Pohlar
Second Inquirer
Handcar on Cincinnati & Westwood Line May Cost $1000 Daily
The Cincinnati & Westwood Railway might pay $1000 each day for March and April to run a single handcar on its right of way. The Ohio Public Utilities Commission could fine $1000 daily for failing to file an annual activity report, with a total potential claim of $75,000. The handcar requires crossing guards to stop streetcars. commission rules deny exemptions at crossings.
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Cincinnati & Westwood Railway Company
Ohio’ Public Utilities Commission
Columbus
C. C. Crabbe
James N.gamble
Albert D. Shockley
Little Road
Westwood
Cheviot
Traction Company
Harrison Avenue
Beekman Street
The
Utilities Commission
Northwest Forest Fires Spread Toward Hibbing Area
May 15 reports show four fires in the Hibbing forest range out of control with winds driving rapid spread. Sixteen fires burn across St. Louis County aided by more than 200 firefighters. Nearby Escanaba Michigan notes Rapid River mobilizes nearly all male residents as flames approach within three miles of town.
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Gressman
Minn
Hibbing
St. Louis County
State Forester
Escanaba
Mich
Rapid River
Here
Fires spread in Forest County as guardsmen move to aid
Fires in Forest County reignited and raged near Stone Lake Blackwell and Wabeno endangering settlers homes and several summer resorts. Company B of the Wisconsin National Guard under Major Clarence Wesley departed Rhinelander to help fight the flames.
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Rhinelander
Wis
Forest County
Stone Lake
Blackwell
Wabeno
Wisconsin National Guard
Clarence Wesley
Death Letter Blues Ends in Theft Arrest in Front Street Woman
Elizabeth Booker 31, of Front Street and Broadway, was arrested after a phonograph song led Detective Gernhardt to her theft of a watch from Sidney B. Hosmer of 317 Pike Street where she had worked as a laundress. The scene played out as blues records echoed from a barber shop window.
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Elizabeth Booker
Front Street
Broadway
Gernhardt
Sidney B. Hosmer
Pike Street
Jury Finds Frank Liska Guilty of Wife's Murder
After fifty three hours the Cleveland jury returns a verdict of guilty with no mercy. Judge Weygandt sentences Liska to die in the electric chair on August 24. Liska faints as the verdict is announced and again when court reconvenes. He faces alleged torture claims over a confession to strangling his wife and burning her body in a chicken coop.
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Cleveland
Frank Liska
Weygandt
Liska
Anna
Mary
Cleveland Man Arrested in Poison Plot Tied to Martha Wise Case
Medina Ohio May 15 A Cleveland man under suspicion as an accomplice of Martha Wise in poisoning relatives was arrested on a warrant sworn by County Prosecutor J A Seymour after Wise confessed he aided the plot. The case ties to arsenic deaths of Sophie Hasel and others and may lead to exhumation of Hasel's body.
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Medina, O
Cleveland
Martha Wise
J. A. Seymour
Young Wise
Marysville Reformatory
Sophie Hasel
Fréd Gienke
Mrs. Wise
Pritchard
Seymour
Hindenburg to inaugurate Rhine river millennium in Dusseldorf
President von Hindenburg plans to visit Dusseldorf to inaugurate the Rhine land millennium next Tuesday, despite France listing him as a war criminal. A French arrest could trigger a major international crisis, though officials doubt he will be seized. The invitation came from Herr Jarres of the Dusseldorf Landtag, who backed Hindenburg in the recent election.
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Berlin
von Hindenburg
Dusseldorf
Rhineland
France
Hindenburg
Ruhr
Germany
Herr Jarres
Landtag
Jarres
Isa
Bonds Found Buried in Can Near Toledo
A can buried under railroad tracks south of Sylvania yielded 14150 in registered Liberty bonds. Discoverer Charles Lewis a section hand handed the bonds to John Iffland cashier at Farmers and Merchants Bank Sylvania. Principal owners listed as Mrs Sarah Kitchen Curtis Williams and C J Frye with various bond denominations.
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Toledo, v
Sylvania
Toledo & Western Railroad
Charles Lewis
Sarah Kitchen
Curtis Williams
C. J. Frye
John Iffland
Farmers’ and Merchants’ Bank
Arte
Kitchener Trip Halted by Reds
London May 15 The Long battle over who betrayed Lord Kitchener’s voyage to Russia resurfaces with a book claim a Bolshevik plot and Ludendorff letter. Sir George Arthur blames Russia for the betrayal and the Hampshire sinking. Vermains suggests Russian revolutionaries aided by German intelligence.
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John L. Balderston
New York World News Service
London
Germany
Lord Kitchener
Russia
Kitchener
Ludendorff
George Arthur
Hampshire
American actor linked to Haxton divorce in London
Carlyle Blackwell named co respondent in the divorce proceedings of Sir Alfred Haxton and Leah Primrose Haxton in London. Haxton testified to a New York marriage in 1916 and revealed Blackwell’s presence at the London residence. The case notes Haxton’s wife’s alleged infidelity and Blackwell’s later involvement.
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John L. Balderston
New York World News Service
London
Carlyle Blackwell
Sir Alfred Haxton
Leah Primrose Haxton
Barney Barnato
Haxton
New York
America
England
Blackwell
Phyllis Waterhouse
Pupils Warned of Auto Enticers in Walnut Hills
Miss Ada M. Wheeler of Windsor Street School issued a warning to pupils after a man tried to entice a five year old pupil into a car. Children were told to go straight home and not leave their yards. Police were notified and mothers urged action to protect children amid alarm district wide.
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Ada M. Wheeler
Windsor Street
Walnut Hills
Cummins
Windsor
Wheeler
Silk Robbers Shoot Detective and Escape in Brooklyn
Detective J. S. McGuire was shot and seriously wounded in Brooklyn while attempting to stop a silk robbery. Five to eight gunmen seized a truckload valued at $35,000. the detective fired but the robbers escaped with the silk.
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Associated Press
New York
J. S. McGuire
Brooklyn
Miles One of the Boy Generals of the Civil War
Lieutenant General Nelson A Miles rose from first lieutenant to major general at 25 and led a 25 000 man army division. A self made officer, he never attended West Point, served in over thirty Civil War battles, and earned multiple citations for bravery before pursuing Indian campaigns and later commanding in Porto Rico. He hoped to join World War I service but was retired in 1903 and died before Siberian involvement.
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Miles
W. B. Noble
A. E. Craig
Army
Navy
Sherman Miles
Constantinople
Hisaughter
Samuel M. Reber
Reber
New York
Washington
Arlington
Lee Mansion
War Department
Nelson A. Miles
West Point
Boston
Great Plains
Porto Rico
United States
Siberia
Medal of Honor Board
Bie ‘Eee
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Quatrain
Jtrike Atu. O
Albin E. Johnson
Copelaw
Ypharraguerre
Donahey
Betty
Blue Coat
Matto
Samuel Spewack
Liberty Government Securities
Oal Oh Agguses
Wai UN
Aneat Actad
Alfred Haxton
Diamond King
Warrior
Nestor
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