Arctic expedition plans focus on Amundsen relief
Boston dispatch reports Captain Donald B. MacMillan will prioritize locating Roald Amundsen over original goals of his Bowdoin and Peary voyage. If Amundsen is not found by August at Etah, planes will search Fort Conger on Grant Land, near Franklin Bay, for potential rescue.
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Boston
Donald B. MacMillan
Roald Amundsen
Amundsen
MacMillan
Bowdoin
Peary
Maine
Spitzbergen
Norway
Pole
Grand Land
Etah
Old Fort Conger
Grant Land
Ft. Conger
Cape Columbia
Ward Hunt Island
Admiral Peary
Greely
Franklin Bay
Stefansson Sees Amundsen Likely Safe After Alaska Landing
Arctic explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson said Amundsen and his party may have landed on the north coast of Alaska and could be safe there. He noted a fifty fifty chance of plane damage, predicted possible sightings in Alaskan towns, and urged patience for news from Point Barrow by mid July.
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Stefansson
Amundsen
Alaska
New York
Roald Amundsen
Vilhallmar Stefansson
Pole
Arctic
Mr. Stefansson
Point Barrow
B and C Official Denies Beer Train to Detroit
A telegram from G W Squiggi ts general passenger agent Cincinnati rejects the idea of a beer excursion train from Louisville to Detroit on June 6. He says the inference of a beer special is absolutely false and notes that a special train will run but without any special occasion.
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Detroit
Associated Press
Louisville
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
G. W. Squiggitts
Baltimore & Ohio
Cincinnati
B. and O Expresses Doubt on Beer Train Rumor
Mr. Squiggins in the Carew Building said the B. and O was in the habit of running many summer excursions between cities and that the Louisville Detroit special was just one of these. He could not explain the origin of the beer train report.
Queen Marie's Ideal of a Man Is a Pioneer
Queen Marie of Romania writes a series of articles titled About Men. An excerpt describes her ideal partner as a pioneer who shares travel adventures and daily life in the wastes. The passage notes she has yet to meet her man of great wastes.
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John L. Balderston
New York World News Service
London
Queen Marie of
Romania
N Y
World News Service
N. Y. World
Press Pub
Six-Story Fall Leaves Aide Unharmed Child
A three year old boy, Edward H. L. Haefner Jr., fell six stories from a sixth floor window at the Alms Hotel apartment. He landed in a flower bed, was unharmed beyond shock, and was returned home under medical observation. Doctors declared no injuries after extensive X rays.
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Edward H. L. Haefner, Jr
Cincinnati Dry Goods and
Haefner
Good Samaritan Hospital
Frank Goldenberg
G. F. Patterson
Robert Jones
Marshall Avenue
Young & Berthe Company
Jones
General Hospital
Eli Miller
Jewish Hospital
Homes Wrecked in Cyclone San Salvador
A Guatemala City dispatch reports heavy damage to coffee plantations in the San Marcos region after a cyclone swept over the area. The government has dispatched relief expeditions to aid those whose homes were wrecked.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Salvador
Salvador
Guatemala City
San Marcos
Mystery Veil Rent and World Adventuress Revealed in Prison
Nina Jaeger a Swiss born adventuress and alleged spy is revealed as the daughter of a Swiss policeman. The former maid rose to Madame Dolores hosting a Geneva villa before moving to New York living in luxury on Lexington Avenue. She was born 1888 and faced Auburn Prison for larceny of 5800 dollars.
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N. Y
New York World News Service
New York
Nina Jaeger
Adventuress
Auburn
Geneva
Switzerland
World News Service
Haveaturines Extraordinaire
Dolores
Lexington Avenue
Jaeger
Mina Catarina Jaeger
United States
South Africa
Coire
Mina Jaeger
Madame Dolores
Mabel Sprague
Germany
France
Mme. Do
Seamen Drown in French Storm Off Brittany Coasts
A great gale off Brittany claimed at least 27 lives as two small sailing vessels in distress off Kerity and Penmarch drew lifeboats to rescue crews. Fifteen of sixteen lifeboat crewman died strapped to seats. twelve sailors from the ships perished as vessels and lifeboats were dashed on Penmarch rocks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated’ Press
Quimper
France
Brittany
Kerity
Penmarch
Child killed and others hurt in Hamilton auto crashes
A 4 year old girl died and a 6 year old boy was seriously injured as cars struck pedestrians on Hamilton streets. Drivers faced charges including reckless driving and manslaughter. multiple bystanders sustained injuries in separate collisions near homes on Warsaw avenue and nearby avenues.
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Ofabe Katz
Hamilton County
William Katz
Warsaw Avenue
Telgheder
Teppe and
Mitchell
Isadore Hindt
Elberon Avenue
Hindt
Paul Kappelhoff
Carrion Avenue
Charles Brown
Sycamore Street
Eastern Avenue
Alfred Buckholtz
Kroger Avenue
George Niehaus
Dandridge Street
General Hospital
West Fork Road
Albert Christman
Ed Riegel
Herron Avenue
Kiegel
Pearl and
Martin Streets
Rachel Selsor
West Eighth Street
Henry Laporse
Colerain Avenue
Herman Gott
California
Laporse
Fifteen girls injured as Green Mill Dansant floor caves in
A large steel girder failed at the Green Mill Dansant near Newtown trapping dancers. About 23 000 attendees witnessed the collapse at 10 30 pm. Six women and a man were taken for treatment, with others to doctors in Milford Cincinnati and Bellevue. Two unidentified men warned Burns before order to stop music.
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Green Mill Dansant
Round Bottom Road
Newtown
Miss Hazel Coffee
Vine Street
Charles Wesley
Sedamsville
Miss Coffee
Dansant
L. P. Gieringer
Milford
Cincinnati
Bellevue
Frank Kelly
Burns
Japan Seismology Fortold Quake Hits Osaka Tajima District
Reports from San Francisco detail a devastating earthquake in Southwestern Japan. About 200 killed and 10,000 homeless as the Tajima district center near Toyo-Oka suffers damage. Osaka area avoided the main hit. relief focuses on Toyo-Oka and nearby towns. Rail tunnels collapsed blocking exits. water routes remain open. Silk culture remains main industry in the region.
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Japan
Temblor
San Francisco
Osaka
Tajima
Toyo-Oka
Tottori
Kinosaki
Takeno
Japan Sea
Kyoto
Toyo-ka
Jackie Coogan to Play Hamlet on Stage
The Morning Telegraph reports Jackie Coogan's father signed contracts with David Belasco to train the boy for three years for the Hamlet role on stage. Coogan, 11, will be 14 or 15 at completion, aligning with Belasco’s Elizabethan schooling method.
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New York
The
Morning Telegraph
Jackie Coogan
David Belasco
Belasco
Hamlet
Vjackie
Motion Picture
Studdy
Mr. Belasco
Shake Spearean
Jackie
Turkish Steamer Founders Drowning 44 Aboard
Forty four passengers and crew drowned when a small Turkish coastal steamer foundered at the Bosphorus entrance amid a violent gale. The Angora region gale damaged homes and crops and interrupted communications between Constantinople and Angora.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Constantinople
Bosphorous
Angora
Aviator Die In Parachute Failure Near Munich
Arthur Gerst, an aviator, was killed instantly when his home made parachute failed during a jump from an airplane at about 1,500 feet near Munich on May 23.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Munich
Germany
Arthur Gerst
Boy Riding Dog Dies in Cave-In
Grand Rapids, Mich. May 23 A 13 year old boy James Hoogerhyde died after a cave-in at a Richmond Hills sand hill. His father Conrad Hoogerhyde was briefly trapped but escaped unharmed as rescuers freed the boy's body after about two hours. The dog entered the cave seeking a small animal and was trapped in the rear passage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Grand Rapids
Mich
James Hoogerhyde
Richmond Hills
Conrad Hoogerhyde
Mr. Hoogerhyde
Germans Honor Unknown Soldier at Arlington Memorial
Ten delegates from Germany and Hungary at the International Conference of Police Chiefs visited Arlington to attend memorial services for the unknown soldier. They joined in laying a wreath and expressed a shared wish to honor the heroic dead as the war ended.
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Associated Press
Washington
America
Germany
Hungary
International Conference of Police Chiefs
New York
Arlington
Tidal waves cause damage along Lake Ontario shore
In Poul tneyville New York a five to six foot lake tide damaged property and briefly exposed shore. An elderly resident said such disturbance was unheard in fifty two years. Boathouse attendants timed the event between seven and seven twenty this morning with持续 fluctuations lasting over an hour. Elsewhere at Alpena Michigan a seven foot lake level fluctuation disrupted shipping and moved logs and a freighter in and out of the slip.
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Associated Press
Rochester
N. Y
Lake Ontario
Bear Creek
Summerville
Charlotte
Poultneyville
Alpena
Mich
Lake Huron
United States Weather Bureau
Rockport
Kelley Island Line and Transport Company
Calcite
Presque Isle
Thunder Bay
Presbyterians Press Hays Over Salacious Films Demand
Will Hays head of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America faces a Presbyterian inquiry demanding he name which films they call salacious. The church reports criticize his stance and urge formal action, while the General Assembly advances two national projects including a $15 million pension fund and a Washington Presbyterian center.
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Hays
Columbus
Will S. Hays
Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America
Presbyterian Church
Department of Moral Welfare
Welfare Department
Assembly
Charles Scanlon
Presbyterian Board of Christian Education
Scanlon
Assembly For Action
New York
Presbyterian Church In
United States of America
General Assembly
Washington
Andrew W.W. Mellon
Presbyterian National Capital Commission
Ays
Policeman Fires in Spectacular Newport to Cincinnati Chase
A speed chase from Newport across the L N Bridge ended with Policeman Derrick firing on the fleeing driver Edward Harris 28 of 853 Barr Street Cincinnati. Harris died at General Hospital from two bullet wounds. Two women in the car Inez Johnson 23 and Sadie Rolling 27 were detained on suspicion and held at Cincinnati headquarters.
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Newport
Cincinnati
Third
Monmouth
Derrick
LeFever
Second District
General Hospital
Edward Harris
Barr Street
Cincinnati Department
le Fever
Inez Johnson
Sadie Rolling
West Fourth Street
Earthquake Kills Hundreds in Toyo Oka Town Collapse
Unverified reports from Tajima district northwest of Osaka say heavy loss of life in Toyo Oka after yesterday’s quake. Casualties estimated between 100 and 200 as two thirds of the town were destroyed including large buildings. Relief funds are being collected. railway traffic restoration expected soon.
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Associated Press
Osaka
Japan
Tajima
Here
Toyo-Oka
Silk Industry Suffers Heavy Damage From Osaka Quake
A Reuters dispatch from Osaka reports the Tajima district earthquake caused extensive damage to the silk industry northwest of Osaka.
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Associated Press
London
Reuters
Osaka
Tajima
Red Cross Offers Aid to Earthquake Sufferers
May 23 Washington The American Red Cross chaired by John Barton Payne cables to the Japanese Red Cross expressing deepest sympathy for victims in the Fanin district and offering assistance. The message asks Can we be of assistance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Red Cross
Washington
John Barton Payne
Japanese Red Cross
Fanin
Presbyterian Assembly Sends Sympathy to Japan
The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church resolved in Columbus Ohio to express profound sympathy to Japan after the May 23 earthquake. A cablegram was sent to the American Ambassador in Tokyo requesting prayers for Japan and blessing from the Almighty God.
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Presbyterians
Columbus
General Assembly of the
Presbyterian Church
United States of America
Tokyo
Presbyterian’ Church
America
Japan
General Assembly
Campaign for Earthquake Knowledge Urged by US Official
Washington May 23 E Lester Jones head of the Coast and Geodetic Survey urged a detailed study of earthquake forecasting to reduce destruction. He warned predictions require solid data and broad observation and recommended rock foundations parks for refugees and nearby relief stations. He called for a concerted East and Midwest knowledge campaign.
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Washington
Atlantic
E. Lester Jones
United States Coast and Geodetic Survey
Jones
Coast and Geodetic Survey
East
Middle West
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Alm Hotel
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Checkering Avenue
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West Elder Street
Prasse
Byrnes-Conway Company
Blaurock
Lake
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Red Cross
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