Flood threat spurs evacuation near Simmesport
New Orleans May 15 flood crisis as 400 to 500 marooned residents along the Bayou des Glaises near Simmesport face rising waters. Former Gov. John M. Parker warns of danger and urges swift evacuation from the west basin of the Atchafalaya River, while rescue boats operated by Monroe American Legion units aid Mansura.
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New York World News Service
New Orleans
Simmesport
Bayou Des Glasses
John M. Parker
Atchafalaya River
John of
Mansura
Parker
Convicts Guard Levees In Louisiana Flood Battle
Six hundred inmates from Louisiana State Penitentiary work largely unguarded on the Atchafalaya and Mississippi levees to shield farms from flood waters. With guards reassigned, the convicts form a sentinel system and supervise by night to curb any troublemakers.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana
State Penitentiary
Atchafalaya
Mississippi
Five Die as Train Strikes Auto in Rain at Kenmore
Five people were killed and one hurt when a Pennsylvania passenger train struck an automobile in a heavy rainstorm at a crossing in Kenmore Ohio. The auto bore a license issued to G. M. Null of Lawndale. A night watchman at the crossing was questioned as investigators worked to determine responsibility.
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Kenmore
Pennsylvania
G. M. Null
Lawndale
Skilled Help for Home Repairs Ads in Classifieds
Expert workers offer prompt home services including cleaning, painting, remodeling, and repairs. Advertisers place notices in the Commercial Tribune Classified Ads under Business Services Offered for quick, skilled assistance.
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Commercial Tribune
Britons in Shanghai condemn new conciliation policy
In Shanghai May 15 Sir Austen Chamberlain declared Britain would not use forces to retake Haakow or punish the Yangtze region nor issue a strong note on the Nanking outrages. Britons abroad call the policy a shock and warn intervention may await a future occasion while others welcome restraint and relief for Chinese fears of foreign occupation.
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New York World News Service
Shanghai
Sir Austen Chamberlin
Great Britain
China
Britain
United States
Japan
Sir Austen
Haakow
Yangtze
London
America
Coolidge
Chamberlain
Two Children Die in Fire at Lockland Home
A house at 316 Roses Avenue in Lockland burned last night killing two children, James and Lee McIntosh, ages 2 and 3. The oil stove on the second floor is blamed as the likely cause. Neighbors and firefighters found the attic apartment engulfed, with an attempted rescue by Howard Rudell ending in burns. The mother, Mrs. Mary McIntosh, fled in terror, believing all children were saved.
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Lockland
James McIntosh
Lee McIntosh
John McIntosh
Richardson Paper Company
John Fields
Mary McIntosh
Howard Rudell
Patterson Street
Rudell
Marshal Wagner
Bootlegger Nabbed After 20 Mile Police Chase
Ben King of Toledo was arrested near the Michigan Ohio line after a twenty mile chase by state policemen. His car loaded with liquor overturned pinning him beneath. officers fired several shots before the crash. King said the liquor was bound for Toledo from Detroit. He sustained only minor injuries.
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Monroe
Mich
Ben King
Toledo
Michigan-Ohio Line
King
Detroit
Obituary for O B Thuma President of Cincinnati Economy Drug Co
O B Thuma 55 longtime leader of the Cincinnati Economy Drug Company died in his Vernon Manor apartment from heart disease. He helped organize the Economy Druggists Club in 1907 and led the company after its 1909 formation. Survived by wife Helen Dean Thuma, son Burton, and daughter Marjorie. Funeral services tomorrow at J J Sullivan Co funeral home with Spring Grove Cemetery burial.
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Cincinnati Economy Drug Company
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Vernon Manor
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Auburn Avenue
Sycamore Street
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Westerville
Otterbein College
Ohio Northern University
Ada
Cincinnati Club
Fifth Third Union, Trust Company
Federal Wholesale Druggists’ Association
Prize Division New Obstacle in Paris Flight
New York May 15 The Atlantic fog delays three American flyers aiming from Curtiss and Roosevelt Fields for a 3600 mile trip to Paris. Lindbergh may depart Tuesday morning as weather shifts. Bellanca flyers Chamberlin and Bertaud face contract haggle over prize money and wives’ safety.
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New York World News Service
New York
Mid- Atlantic
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Roosevelt Fields
Charles Lindbergh
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Bellanca
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Lloyd W. Bertaud
Charles A. Levine
Clarence W. Nutt
Bertraud
Ralph Jonas
Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce
Charles C. Lockwood
Chamber
Bertaud
Chamberlin
Levine
Columbia Aircraft Corporation
Indignation grows over raid on Soviet House in London
In London May 15 the raid on the Soviet Embassy and its offices sparks a political row. Home Secretary Joynson-Hicks will defend the action in the Commons while Labour leaders plan assaults on the government. A Russian diplomat is to be charged with assault as charges arise in parliamentary debate.
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New York World News Service
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Home
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Khinchuk
Great Britain
Russia
Foreign Office
France
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Dever Accepts Post At Bank Of America Chicago
Former Mayor William S. Dever joins Bank of America as Vice President and Chief Trust Executive succeeding Greenbaum & Sons. He will start his duties tomorrow as the oldest Chicago banking house reorganizes under new leadership.
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Chicago
William S. Dever
William Hale Thompson
Bank of America
Greenbaum & Sons
Wounded robber poses as boxer to hide from father
Avery Roberts 27 of Russell Spring Kentucky, wounded in a pistol battle with Patrolmen Heitzler and Brinkman, told hospital authorities his name was Harry Red Roberts, a Cincinnati pugilist. A brother identified him, and the robbery at Christ Stergeos on Linn Street yielded $14.61 before Roberts was shot in the abdomen.
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Russell Spring
Heitzler
Brinkman
General Hospital
Harry
Red) Roberts
Cincinnati
Roberts
Avery
Hopkins Street
Christ Stergeos
Linn Street
Stergeos
Stergoes
Mann Rushes Al Smith for New Trial in Snyder Gray Case
A man claiming to be lawyer Benjamin Freedman rushed Gov. Alfred E. Smith in the Hotel Biltmore lobby and demanded a new trial for Henry Judd Gray and Mrs Ruth Snyder. He barricaded himself in a phone booth and was removed to Bellevue Hospital psych ward for observation.
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New York
Benjamin Freedman
Hotel Biltmore
Alfred E. Smith
Henry Judd Gray
Ruth Snyder
Freedman
Bellevue Hospital
Girl is Slain in Apartment in Cleveland
Eliza beth Reegan, 25, was found dead from multiple knife wounds in her upscale Cleveland apartment. Police seek a man who visited the building last night while four men were questioned as possible suspects. Neighbors reported no noise. investigators consider a disappointed suitor the most likely killer.
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Cleveland
Elizabeth Reegan
Beaver Man Breaks Jail Bars in Jackson County Escape
Burt Carter of Beaver Ohio escaped from Jackson County Jail after sawing through three rows of iron bars. Seven other inmates in the same enclosure did not attempt to flee. Police suspect outside aid.
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Jackson, O
Burt Carter
Beaver
Jackson County
Carter
Mrs McAdoo Jr Injured In Hollywood Auto Crash
Mrs William Gibbs McAdoo Jr daughter in law of the former Treasury secretary was severely injured in a Hollywood crash the night before last She was thrown against the windshield by her husband s car and sustained cuts above the eyes with one artery severed A fur collar reportedly saved her life as the car struck a parked vehicle in darkness after lights failed from a road hole
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Los Angeles
William Gibbs McAdoo, Jr
Secretary of the Treasury
Hollywood
McAdoos
McAdoo
Leeds Shanghaied on Aquitania by friends
New York May 15. William B. Leeds Jr. husband of Princess Xenia and son of the late tin plate king was allegedly shanghaied on the Aquitania as it sailed from New York last Wednesday. Wireless reports from the Dumard liner said Leeds appeared aboard without baggage or a passport during a farewell at the pier. The Aquitania is expected in Southampton Tuesday. Details could not be verified but it was said Leeds went to see off friends and was not allowed to leave when the shore party shouted the call for all ashore.
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New York
William B. Leeds, Jr
Xenia
Dunmard
Young Leeds
Southampton
Leeds
Invasion of Soviet House seen as torch in Europe
Rome reports fascist press questions how far Scotland Yard's raid on Soviet House in London will pull Europe into conflict between Britain and Russia. Observers fear a broader clash while others cite evidence of Soviet plots found in Peking.
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Rome
Scotland Yard
London
Great Britain
Russia
Italy
Austen Chamberlain
Soviet House
Peking
British Empire
N. Y
Britain and France Form Entente to Impose Joint Will
Paris reports a new entente cordial between Great Britain and France to shape policies across Europe. The plan aims to align Briand with Chamberlain on disarmament and anti communism, with Italy and Yugoslavia as delicate focal points amid fascist and colonial tensions.
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France
New York World News Service
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Italy
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England
Austen Chamberlain
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Goodyear Settlement Hits Conference with Independent Directors Planned
A Goodyear dispute ended at a conference with mediation by Owen D. Young. Dillon Read & Co. will back a $60 million 5 percent bond issue to retire existing mortgage bonds and preferred stock. An independent board of directors will be named, with Dillon Read and John Sherwin represented, while P. W. Litchfield remains president.
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Goodyear
New York
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company
Clarence Dillon
Dillon, Read & Co
Hn Sherwin
Cleveland
F. A. Seiberling
Owen D. Young
Firemen Save Three From Death Beneath Blazing Autos
Fire Company No. 1 crews responded to a Second and Race accident when three speeding cars crashed into a parked vehicle. The resulting gasoline explosions and fire injured six, with three seriously burned. victims were taken to General Hospital.
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Race Street
Britain Denounced by Organized Bodies in Russia
Moscow reports a wave of indignation across unions and army units after the London raid on the Soviet House. Demonstrations in the streets turn violent near the British Mission while cartoons and editorials attack Prime Minister Baldwin Chamberlain and Joynson Hicks. Soviet officials warn of shifting Anglo Russian commerce if London does not repair the breach of the Anglo Russian agreement.
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Moscow
Russia
London
Union
Toonists
England
Stanley Baldwin
Austen Chamberlain
William Joynson-Hicks
Joynson-Hicks
Izvestiya
Hicks
Soviet Union
Russian Foreign Minister Tchich erin secretly leaves Paris
Paris dispatch says George Tchich erin, Russian Foreign Minister, departed St Raphael without revealing plans or route. French police remained mum though detectives accompanied him on the train. Authorities had warned of a possible attack, making the departure nearly secret.
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Arno Dosch-Fleurot
New York World News Service
Paris
George Tchicherin
Russia
St. Raphael
Tchicherin
N. Y
Ex Legion Head Fatally Shot In Missouri Hotel
Donald G. Best of Quincy Illinois past commander of the Illinois American Legion and leader in 40 and 8 affairs died after a revolver fell from Deputy Sheriff George Cunnane's holster in a St. Louis hotel room. The weapon discharged on impact, wounding Best, a mutual friend and ally from the Thirty third Division was present.
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Donald G. Best
Quincy
Ill
Illinois Department
American Lion
National Legion
George Cunnane
Best
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Thirtythird
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Missouri
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