Bleacher collapse injures sixty two at W&J game Washington PA
Sixty two spectators were injured when east bleachers at College Field collapsed during the Washington and Jefferson versus Carnegie Tech football game. State troopers led rescue as ambulances ferried victims to Washington Hospital, with several serious injuries including two women with broken legs.
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Washington
Associated Press
Washington, Pa
College Field
Washington and Jefferson
Carnegie Tech
Catfish Creek
Washington Hospital
Juanita Parcell Martin
Donora
D. W. Young
Martin
Malcolm Parcell
Owe
William F. Dimelow
New York City
Mary Knox
Claysville
Plane hops tiny field with 100 men aid
In Wheeling West Virginia on October 17 1927 a Douglas transport with seven passengers was forced to land at a 600 foot field near New Martinsville after a severe Ohio Valley storm. Local 100 farmers helped tear the plane down move it to another field and reassemble it before the party was able to take off again.
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New York World News Service
Wheeling
W. Va
Ohio Valley
Langin’ Field
Bartrandies
New Martinsville
Air Service Exonerated in New Salem Plane Crash
Coroner's jury verdict clears the United States Army Air Service of blame in the New Salem crash near Uniontown Pennsylvania. The inquest found engine trouble caused the fatal incident that killed three men yesterday. Coroner A Blatz presided.
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Uniontown
United States Army Air Service
New Salem
Here
A. Blatz
Fayette County
Planes Prevent Landing Troops In Coast Attacks
Washington October 17 Major Raycroft Walsh of the Air Service reports that the Hawaiian maneuvers showed transports cannot approach a coast and land troops when attacked from the air. The finding is in a record filed with the President's Air Board.
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Washington
Army Air Service
Raycroft Walsh
Chief of Air Service
Air Board
Cars for sale on Main Street in the classified ads
Country roads become charming when seen from your own automobile. The paper promotes affordable U cars with enticing prices and flexible terms. Inspect the car of your choice today in the Automobiles for Sale section.
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NQW
Pennsylvania Defeats Yale in 16 13 Rivalry Battle
NEW HAVEN Conn Oct 17 Pennsylvania defeated Yale 16 to 13 in a hard fought game ending Yale's three season unbeaten streak. Star back Al Kruez led with two touchdowns and a 36 yard field goal as Penn built early lead then withstood Yale late surge led by Bunnell and Cot tle. Final lineups show Leith Kruez and Wadsworth among key performers.
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Pennsylvania
Yale
Eli
New Haven
Conn
al Kruez
Kruez
Clarence Fields
Rogers
Leith
Jerry Wadsworth
Wadsworth
Bunnell
Noble
Cutler
Pike
Penn
Yale Spirit
Cottle
Butterworth
Fishwick
Allen
Passion
Icsdictichesgreaci
Nik
Richards
Wortham Robinson Vo
Sturhahn Snyder
Fee Bate
Butterworth Byer O
Bradley
Ethanlaeenski Q. B
Bunnell Rogers
Kline Kruez
Perio
G. Crowell
Swarthmore
C. G. Eckles
Brown
E. Thorpe
la Salle
Palmer
Colgate
Wall Street Bubble Bursts In Motor Stock Crash
New York Oct 17 Wall Street’s speculative motor shares bubble burst in a sharp midday drop on the NYSE with price declines of 2 to 10 points after an earlier surge. Total trading volume for the session was reported around 1.48 million to 1.73 million shares, with motors hardest hit and General Motors Willys Overland Continental Motors and Studebaker among the leading offerings. The bond market held firm and rumors of corners in American Sumatra preferred tied to broker reporting fueled the brief selling wave.
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New York
Wall Street
New York Stock Exchange
Associated Press
Stock Exchange
General Motors
Victor Talking Machine
Bondemarket
Wilson &Chardon
Broadway
Consolidated Stock Exchange House
Consolidated
J. P. Morgan
Rene du Pont
du Pont Company
Europe
General Motors Company
Exchange
Shorts
$3,000,000 Failure Marks Wild Day of Trading
A frenzied day of trading on the New York Stock Exchange prompts fresh questions about market confidence as analysts note a $3,000,000 swing in totals and a continued streak of speculative activity. The session features brisk turnover, sharp price moves, and traders reacting to ongoing economic signals.
Frost to usher warmer spell tonight in Ohio
Columbus Ohio October 17 The weather man forecast a heavy frost and clear skies for tonight as a second cold snap for the season. Temperatures fell below 50 degrees aiding football games statewide and threatening unprotected vegetables and flowers. The frost is expected to be brief with moderating conditions returning Sunday as clouds move in.
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Columbus
Bank robbery trio jailed for Nanaimo heist
In Nanaimo British Columbia on October 17 three men Edward Gorman T H H Castro and T H Johnston pleaded guilty and were each sentenced to eight years in prison and twenty lashes for robbing the Nanaimo branch of the Royal Bank of Canada of 42000 last December.
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Nanaimo
B. C
Royal Bank of Canada
Edward Gorman
T. H. H. Castro
T. H. Johnston
Registration falls 25 697 short of 1924 in city wards
Complete registration figures show total 138 665 for four days, down from 164 532 in 1924. Women registration dropped about 12 000 and men about 13 000. Ward declines vary, with Second Ward hardest hit and voters migrating to Florida cited by local leaders. Weather cited as a factor by City Charter Committee members. Continued on second page.
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Board of Elections
Walnut Hills
Oakley
Madisonville
Hyde Park
Froome Morris
Florida
Henry Bentley
City Charter Committee
Round Up Gangster Ring Charged With 64 Crimes
New York police arrest eleven leaders of a crime ring including a woman Rose Hemeline and ten men on charges of assault and robbery. The group is said to have murdered a furrier during a July robbery and operated a silent pistol ring with a shooting gallery for practice. One member linked to a 1919 Freeport bank robbery. The gang dubbed “Cowboy” allegedly paid for information on robberies.
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New York
Freeport
L. I
Rose Hemeline
Ray
Frank Tessler
Bronx
Durant seeks control of General Motors in bid to regain firm
New York reports William C Durant plans to buy back into General Motors amid rising stock, tracing Durant's rise from grocery clerk to auto industry titan. The article notes his past gains and losses of GM control, from banker bailouts to his later rehabilitation efforts.
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General Motors
Herald - Tribune
Associated Press
New York
New York Herald-Tribune
William C. Durant
General Motors Corporation
Wall Street
Durant
Chevrolet Company
J. P. Morgan & Co
DuPont
Train collision kills and injures in Bressna Italy
In Bressna Italy on Oct 17 a freight train struck a passenger train traveling from Milan to Genoa. Twelve people were killed and twenty wounded, most of them peasants, as three passenger cars were wrecked.
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Bressna
Italy
Milan
Genoa
Mrs Wilson Sails From English Port
Paris report that Mrs Woodrow Wilson sailed yesterday from Southampton aboard the Berengaria bound for New York. To avoid attention she travels under a fictitious name, accompanied by a companion identified as Miss Johnson.
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Alfred M. Murray
New York World News Service
Paris
Woodrow Wilson
Southampton
New York
Miss Johnson
N.Y
Mrs Biddle Dies In Los Angeles Poison Hint
Laura Biddle wife of Craig Biddle Philadelphia millionaire died in Los Angeles under investigation. Doctors said heart disease but undertaker doubted the diagnosis and the coroner ordered an autopsy. Officials hinted possible poisoning as the cause under inquiry by police.
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Philadelphia
Los Angeles
Laura Biddle
Craig Biddle
Rose Pastor Stokes Divorced by Millionaire J G P Stokes
Rose Pastor Stokes, once a cigarmaker earning twelve dollars weekly, was granted a divorce from J G Phelps Stokes after evidence of misconduct emerged in Nyack. Witnesses described visits with hotel owner H B Grossman, the chief co respondent, and Stokes admitted no collusion, with the court granting the interlokutory decree over an hour earlier. The piece recounts her public life as a settlement worker, radical lecturer, and writer, and notes the sensational end to a union mocked as “virtue and wealth.”
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New York World News Service
New York
Sharon Springs
N. Y
George H. Gilman
Norwich
Conn
Stokes
Grossman
Rose Pastor Stokes
Federal
Rose Harriet Pastor
Cleveland
Ghetto
J. G. Phelps Stokes
Connecticut
Noroton Point
Europe
London
Mine Blast Impostor Widow Identifies Him in New York Cell
New York report details Mrs. Margaret Turner of Trenton recognizing William H. Turner, mine foreman feared dead in a Kentucky explosion, as her husband. Insurance firms attach $20,000 in securities in Trenton. Turner implicated in murder and insurance fraud. Turner blames father-in-law Joe Jacks and son Joe Jacks Jr. for wiring manipulation and explosion.
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New York
Margaret M. Turner
Trenton
N. J
William H. Turner
Kentucky
Turner
Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company
Miami
Fla
F. F. Farley
Joe Jacks
Austria
Norway
Jacks
Joe Jacks, Jr
Jacks, Jr
Williamson
Extradition Waived as Turner Delivered to Kentucky Officials
Turner agreed to waive extradition and travel to Kentucky to explain his role in the affair. He was taken into custody by Pike County Sheriff Johnson and Deputy Sheriff Hatfield after being discharged from New York jurisdiction as a fugitive. He signed the extradition waivers following custody transfer late today.
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Turner
Kentucky
Johnson
Hatfield
Pike County
New York
Lounge Lizard Swindler Sought in St Louis Case
John V Wiedemeier an alleged international swindler did not appear in the Court of Criminal Correction. The hearing on a $15,000 Chicago swindle charge was continued for one week. Police identify Wiedemeier with multiple aliases and say he is wanted for parole violations and by authorities in the United States Canada England France and Belgium.
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ST. Louis
John V. Wiedemeier
Court of Criminal Correction
Chicago
Wiedemeier
Bureau of Identification
New York
Weidemeier
Karl Edwards
Karl von Edwards
Sing Sing
Washington
Ros Burken
Canada
J. M. Newsom
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Toronto
Pittsburgh Card-Swindle Claims $48,000 Loss
Pittsburgh, Oct 17. T. C. Jenkins, a local business man, lost $48,000 in a card game to three men. E. J. Lawrence and Wilbert Jennings, who posed as Australian cattle breeders, were arrested on swindling charges. A third man fled with the $48,000 check to New York. City detectives say Jennings is a confidence man.
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Pittsburgh
T. C. Jenkins
E. J. Lawrence
Wilbert Jennings
New York
Jennings
Jenkins
Ten missing as fire destroys Clyde Line steamer Comanche
Mayport Florida October 17 Ten persons are missing and others injured after a fire nearly wiped out the Clyde Line steamship Comanche six miles offshore. Survivors were brought ashore by the tanker Reaper and the pilot boat Mota as crews and residents aided in rescue. The ship burned from a forward hold with several lifeboats capsizing. heroics by Chief Engineer J J Gaudet and crew saved Captain E E Curry and nine others. The Comanche sailed from Mayport for New York via Charleston after discharging 156 passengers in Jacksonville.
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Mayport
Fla
Clyde Line
Comanche
Reaper
Mota
John Busch
Poughkeepsie
N. Y
Adolph Franklin
Hamburg
E. E. Curry
Joe Jacobus
Arligh
N. J
Barbara Lord
Burlington
A. M. Hull
Melrose
Mass
Elizabeth Milligan
Washington Place
New York
Jacksonville
Ozark
J. J. Gaudet
Curry
Ed Lawler
Hartford
Conn
Mr. Lawler
Ed Singleton
Charleston
Tulsa de Tampa
B. Fraser
Irs
Mabel Clark
D. Ae
L. Brownwood
Heaveens
Joseph A. Jacobs
A.jenke
Joen M. Jorien
W. Furman
John T. Ros
Philadelphia
Garbee
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