Flying Fool May Start for Paris at Dawn
New York World News Service reports preparations for Charles A. Lindbergh to begin the flight in the Spirit of St. Louis from Roosevelt Field toward Paris. Weather improves but fog and area conditions prompt cautious timing. Bellanca mechanics work as leadership details between Levine and Bertaud remain unresolved.
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Paris
New York World News Service
New York
Charles A. Lindbergh
Spirit of
St. Louis
West
Curtiss Field
Thas
Roosevelt Field
Benjamin F. Mahoney
Ryan Airplane Company
Lindbergh
Garden City
Great Circle
Long Island
Maine
Bellanca
Grover A. Whalen
Lloyd W. Bertaud
Columbia
Charles A. Levine
Columbia Aircraft Corporation
Dealer Cited in Cincinnati Stolen Pens Case
Detectives charged Herman Horwitz of the Horwitz Brothers Cigar Store with receiving stolen fountain pens and patented pencils valued at 3800 dollars after a Detroit man admitted buying them from Horwitz and reselling. The case traces shipments from W H Stanage Co stationers to Detroit and Cincinnati authorities. Segal faces a grand jury indictment for receiving stolen property. Horwitz remains out on bond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. H. Stanage Company
East Sixth Street
Herman Horwitz
Carolin Place
Horwitz Brothers
Tebbe and Seebohm
Detroit
Stanage Company
Stanage
Cincinnati
Martin Segal
Horwitz
Bell
Werner
Segal
DANKER CHARGED WITH MAIL FRAUD IN STOCK SALES
U S Marshal arrests Guy Huston in Toledo on charges of using the mails to defraud through Farm Companies promoted as aiding farmers. He is president of the Chicago Joint Stock Land Bank and fiscal agent for several banks. claims of dividends, no selling costs, and government supervision are alleged false. Bond set at 25000.
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Chicago Land Bank
Toledo
Guy Huston
Chicago Joint Stock Land Bank
Middle West
Twentieth Century Limited
Union Station
United States
Gaines
S. R. Cochran
R. T. Edwards
Huston
Federal
Cochran
Mankato
Minn
South Dakota Joint Stockland Bank of Redwood
Des Moines
Farmers’ Fund of Illinois, Inc
The
Farms Company of
Massachusetts
Missouri- Kansas Farms Company
Kansas City
Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities
Loree Merger Plan Halted By Interstate Commission
The Inter state Commerce Commission ruled that L F Loree and associates plan to merge Missouri Kansas Texas with Kansas City Southern and add St Louis Southwestern is not in the public interest. The majority criticized the financing steps and said Southwestern minority stockholders would be endangered, despite support for the Loree program from three commissioners.
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Washington
L. F. Loree and Associates
Missouri-Kansas-Texas
Kansas City Southern
St. Louis Southwestern
Interstate Commerce Commission
J . Louis Southwestern
Loree
Delaware & Hudson
Priest and Girl Buried Alive by Bandits
Nogales dispatches report the burial alive of a priest and a young girl at Tepeyac in Jalisco. An Tepeyac judge inquiry found no death documents, suggesting clandestine burial. Coffin lids were forced up with the victims’ stiffened arms holding them as evidence of their last struggles.
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Nogales
Ariz
The
Nogales Herald
Mexico
Tepeyac
State
Jalisco
Herald Dispatches
Investors Defrauded of $5,000,000 in Kansas City Hears
Kansas City dispatch reports postal inspectors claim Guy Huston, president of the Chicago Joint Stock Land Bank, caused arrests in Toledo Ohio and that investors in Chicago and other cities were defrauded of more than 5 million dollars through Huston's operations.
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Kansas City
The
Kansas City Journal
Guy Huston
Chicago Joint Stock Land Bank
Toledo
Chicago
Huston
Three Women Dressed Chic Caught After Chase for Shoplifting
A trio from Chicago alleged to have looted downtown stores in two weeks totaling about 1 500 were arrested after a sedan fleeing detectives was boxed on the Suspension Bridge. Loot valued at 1 280 was recovered in a hotel room. The women Miss May Howard 29 Miss Anna Burke 25 and Mary Ryan 31 face grand larceny charges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Cal Crim
May Howard
Grand Avenue
Anna Burke
Galt Avenue
Mary Ryan
North Clark Street
Smith-Kassons
Mabley & Carew
Rollman’s
Dunlevy’s
Irwin
Pogue
Cal Crim Detective Agency
Helen Dugan
Anna Reid
Emma Silverman
Robert Kinney
Arnold’s
Race Street
Vine Street
Kirgan
Maniac shoots minister before officers kill him in Arkansas
In Ashdown Arkansas on May 19 Nick Connett 42 a mill worker at Par...
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Maniac
Ashdown
Ark
Nick Connett
Parloma
Jack Taylor
Marilyn Miller and Jack Pickford plan Paris divorce move
Miss Marilyn Miller and husband Jack Pickford confirm they will seek a Paris divorce in early June with a tribunal to be petitioned on grounds of incompatibility. Pickford says they are temperamentally unsuited and deny a third party. Malone will represent Miller in France.
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Marilyn
Chicago
Marilyn Miller
Today
Los Angeles
Jack Pickford
Paris
Marilyn Milder
Pickford
France
Dudley Field Malone
New York
Miss Miller
Hollywood
Pickfair
Mary Pickford
Douglas Fairbanks
Flood Threat Looms as Atchafalaya Basin Opens
New Orleans dispatch reports massive flood waters from the Atchafalaya basin threatening St Martinville and surrounding towns. Crevasses release 500 000 cubic feet of water per second, forcing evacuations from Port Barre Cortableau Iberville Parish and beyond. Refugee camps fill from Lafayette to Eunice as residents cling to farms until flood forces departure.
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New Orleans
Atchafalaya Basin
Gulf of Mexico
Weather Bureau
St. Martinsville
Bayou Des Glasses
Atchafalaya
Bayou Des Glaises
Melville
Southern Pacific
Lafayette Highlands
Atchafalaya River
Bayou Teche
Mississippi
Iberville Parish
Port Barre
Cortableau
Avoyelles
St. Landry
St. Martin’s Parish
Lafayette
Marksville
Alexandria
Mansura
Eunice
Elephant Pulls Cables for City Lighting Project
Cincinnati Zoo elephant Little Lil hauled underground cables for a new electric lighting system after trucks failed to budge them. The project aims to protect valuable trees by using two primary feeders to supply lighting if one section has trouble, with work slated to finish by May 22 ahead of the summer season.
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Archimedes
Little Lil
Cincinnati Zoo
Ial
Charter Committee to name four for City Council ballot
City Charter Committee directors meet at 10 this morning to choose four candidates to complete the ticket for the fall election. Five incumbents including Mayor Seasongood and Edward Dixon are already endorsed. Potential nominees listed include J. P. Orr John H. Dickerson Edward Imbus Anthony Mees Judge W Meredith Yeatman Albert Strietmann and Carl Voellmecke.
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City Charter Committee
Henry Bentley
Seasongood
Edward T. Dixon
Charles O. Rose
Stanley Matthews
Imbus
Mees
Orr
Dickerson
Charter
Queen City Club
Rotary Club
Cincinnati Club
Price Hill
Western Hills
Fifth Street
Central Labor Council
Anti-tuberculosis League
Yeatman
Streitmann
The
Streitmann Biscuit Company
Mass Tornado Toll Rises Across Illinois Indiana Ohio
State militia warns hundreds as twister strikes area spanning one section and five blocks. Two lives lost in Indianapolis store collapse and Peoria bridge disaster. many injured and property damage in the millions. Floods surge White River and Muskingum Scioto rivers trigger warnings across multiple cities.
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Illinois
Indiana
Ohio
Indianapolis
Peoria
Ill
Illinois River
White River
Dover
Coshocton
New Philadelphia
Muskingum River
Larne
Prospect
Delaware
Scioto River
Jadwin Outlines Levees as Key to Mississippi Valley Safety
Maj. Gen. Edgar Jadwin, head of U S Army Engineers, told Cincinnati engineers that levees, raised to a coordinated height, are the practical way to protect the valley. He urged revising plans with the Mississippi River Commission to add a reasonable safety factor and complete reports by October 1, 1927.
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Jadwin
Mississippi Valley
Edgar Jadwin
United States Army Engineers
Cincinnati
Society of American Military Engineers
Engineers’ Club of Cincinnati
Mississippi River Commission
Secretary of War
Mississippi River
Mississippi
Jandin
Sible
Lake Erie
Seaboard
Ohio
Mississippi Basin
Gulf Coast
Edgar Dow Gilman
Engineers’ Club
Thomas Morris
Gen
Jadwis
Col
C. O. Sherrill
C. W. Kutz
Pittsburgh
Dana T. Merrill
Tenth United States Infantry
Ft. Thomas
Mrs Laura Senior Dies At Walnut Hills Home
Mrs Laura Senior, mother in law of Mayor Murray Seasongood, died at her home 2220 Frances lane Walnut Hills after a period of ill health. Aged 72 she leaves her husband Edward a son Robert M Senior and two daughters Mrs Seasongood and Mrs Charles Iglauer. Edward Senior is president of the Senior Powder Company with offices in the Electric Building.
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Laura Senior
Murray Seasongood
Frances Lane
Walnut Hills
Robert M. Senior
Seasongood
Charles Iglauer
Mr. Senior
Senior Powder Company
Poison Ivy Prefers Blonds Says Hansen
Dr Albert A Hansen former national society president told the Ohio Chapter of the Wild Flower Preservation Society at the Walnut Hills Public Library branch that poison ivy and allied plants prefer blondes. He warned blondes to avoid the yellow moccasin flower and cautioned mothers that a sore mouth in children may come from chewing buttercup stems.
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Ohio
The
Wild Flower Preservation Society
Albert A. Hansen
National Society
Hansen
Walnut Hills
Public Library
Baum Company Receiver Sought In Ohio Court
Joseph T. Ryerson Son Inc and Buskirk Lumber sue in Common Pleas to appoint a receiver for J Baum Safe and Lock Co front street plant. They seek voiding a Cosmopolitan Bank loan mortgage claiming insolvency at loan time and priority over other creditors. Abbot A. Thayer is president. suit pending court action.
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J. Baum Safe and Lock Company
Front Street
Common Pleas
Joseph T. Ryerson & Son., Inc
Buskirk Lumber and Mill Company
Baum Company
Cosmopolitan Bank and Trust Company
Williams, Ragland, Dixon & Murphy
Abbot A. Thayer
The
Common Pleas Court
Woman Gem Smuggler Is Arrested in Detroit
Mrs John Kantor long pursued by Treasury agents was seized at Detroit station while attempting to smuggle diamonds valued at 100000 into the United States from Canada. The gems were found on her person and reported to the Customs Service.
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Detroit
ST. Albans
Treasury Department
John Kantor
Hotel de Luirza
Paris
Canada
Customs Department
Carpenter killed in fall at Covington construction site
Orville Gordon aged 53 a carpenter of 38102 Frazier street Latonia was fatally injured yesterday when he fell from a second floor scaffold at a building on Forty second and Huntington streets Covington He died from a fractured skull at 5 30 pm at St Elizabeths Hospital He leaves a widow and daughter.
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Carpenter
Orvile Gordon
Frazier Street
Latonia
Forty-second
Huntington Streets
Covington
St. Elizabeth's Hospital
U S Outdoes World in Concocting Uplift Laws
Atlantic City May 19 Robert Carman former United States District Attorney at Baltimore told the Maryland Bankers Association that the United States is the greatest law factory in the world. He said American agencies are enacting more statutes for personal improvement than the rest of the world combined. He added that many laws affecting personal liberty have dulled the sense of dishonor from imprisonment.
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Atlantic City
N. J
Robert Carman
United States
Baltimore
Maryland Bankers’ Association
Gift to flood sufferers tied to final Schmidlapp tax settlement
The Schmidlapp estate settlement approved by Judge Lueders allows donations to the Mississippi flood relief fund from the Fifth Third Union Trust Company holdings. The case reduces residuary value and lowers stock valuations for Champion-Fibre and Hooven-Owens-Rentschler, with taxes of about 55000 due.
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Mississippi
Lueders
Jacob G. Schmidlapp
Cincinnati
Schmidlapp
Fifth Third Union Trust Company
Joseph Graydon
Joseph Lackner
Trust Company
State Tax Commission
Taft
Augustus Beall
Tax Commission
Edward C. Turner
Champion - Fibre Company
Hooven-Owens-Rentschler Company
Indianapolis Flood Warning as White River Rises
Adjunct Gen Kershner calls three militia companies to assist police and deputies in warning residents in northern and western Indianapolis as White River floods. Torrential rains in the region push river level up about five inches per hour with Warflegh levee sandbagging underway led by Mayor Duvall and Sheriff Hawkins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Adj
Kershner
White River
Indiana
John L. Duvall
Omer Hawkins
Wisconsin and Illinois move to repeal prohibition measures
In Wisconsin the lower Assembly passed Representative Duncan's bill of rights for the home brewer by 56 to 34, legalizing the manufacture of beer up to 22.75 percent alcohol for home use. In Illinois the House approved an O'Grady Webber bill 80 to 63 for a statewide referendum on repeal of prohibition enforcement laws, now sent to the Senate for committee review.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wicago
Wisconsin
Illinois
Duncan
House
Webber O’grady
Senate
Police Court Scenery Changes After Woeste Ukase
Judge Joseph H. Woeste, irate at the same courtroom crowd, orders a new landscape in Police Court. He warns offenders’ owners of loitering charges and notes daily hearings skew young minds, as about twenty youths exit with uneasy looks.
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Joseph H. Woeste
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Levine
Tion
Bertaud
Tichenor
Charles A Lindbergh
Otdler Peng
Danker
Stoge Sales
U. S. Marshal
Interstate Commission Rules Union of Southwestern Roads
Commercial Tribune
Commercial Square
Broadway
New York-to-Paris
Louisiana
ZOO
Twister
Fury
Commission
Mikes
Poison Ivy
Cosmopolitan Bank
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