Girl Nursing Student Plunges Five Stories to Death at Hospital
Miss Mary Florence Seifert, eighteen, a student nurse at Good Samaritan Hospital in Fort Recovery Ohio, fell into an elevator shaft after pressing a button while facing away from the door. Investigating fire squad broke the cab open. her body was recovered as the cab rose, the accident blamed on absent mindedness and stepping backward.
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Mary Florence Seifert
Ft. Recovery
Good Samaritan Hospital
Fire Department
Frank Willams
Miss Seifert
Elizabeth Mueller
Children’s Department
Miss Mueller
Miss Siefert
Walter Boeckley
French airmen depart Paris for Buenos Aires
Sergts. Jean Assolant and Rene LeFevre of the French Military Air Service left Le Bourget at 7:04 AM bound for Buenos Aires after a last minute route change to avoid headwinds. They carried passenger Armand Lotti, a hotelman’s son and backer of the flight, as they headed southeast.
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LE Bourget
France
Jean Assolant
Rene LeFevre
Military Air Service
Buenos Aires
New York
Armand Lotti
Paris
Labor Day Observances Span Nation With Travel and Speeches
New York and cities nationwide shut down as workers mark Labor Day. About two million New Yorkers travel out of town, while railroads parade extra equipment for returns. William Green addresses Cleveland Federation of Labor via thirty radio stations. Hoover, Smith spend day quietly. Robinson campaigns in Dallas launching his ticket.
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New York
Cleveland
William Green
American Federation of Labor
Cleveland Federation of Labor
Herbert Hoover
Gov. Smith
Mr. Hoover
Washington
Albany
Joe Robinson
Dallas
Tex
Green Lands 5 Day Week in Ohio Labor Talks
Cleveland representatives of organized labor from Northern Ohio discuss a five day work week. Judge Allen and Cooper speak on labor reform efforts amid ongoing negotiations. Continued on the second page.
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Green Lands
Cooper
Judge Allen
Cleveland
Ohio
Escaped Lima Hospital Killers On the Loose
Thomas McKenna and Clarence Beard, both killers declared insane, fled the State Hospital for the Criminal Insane in Lima after overpowering guard B. L. Hoyt. They are heavily tattooed and considered highly dangerous. nationwide search aided by Columbus Bureau to broadcast their descriptions.
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Lima
Thomas McKenna
Clarence Beard
State Hospital
Bureau of Criminal Identification
Columbus
McKenna
B. L. Hoyt
Beard
Hoyt
Ohio
Steven Zaperski
Cleveland
Iowa
Mich
League tackles liquor question divided by wine nations
Geneva report says ninth League assembly sparks clash between Southern European wine producers and Nordic dry advocates. Finland Sweden and Poland urge investigation into alcohol abuse while Count Apponyi pushes referral to social problems panel. Procope argues Finland seeks international prohibition to curb smuggling.
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Geneva
Assembly
League of Nations
Europe
Finland
Sweden
Poland
League
Albert Apponyi
League Council
United States
United States of America
Serosa
French Name Successors To M Bokanowski Post
Paris reports two cabinet colleagues named to replace Maurice Bokanowski after a fatal air crash. Andre Queuille temporarily leads Commerce and Industry with Post Office supervision. Georges Leygues takes over Aviation under the Navy Ministry.
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Paris
Maurice Bokanowski
Commerce
Andre Queuille
Agriculture
Commerce and Industry
Georges Leygues
Navy
Aviation
Coolidges Face Labor Day Farewell as Son Heads Out
In Superior Wisconsin on Labor Day 1924 President Calvin Coolidge and his wife faced a subdued departure as their son John prepared to seek employment in Eastern cities. The family kept plans private while John and Miss Florence Trumbull, Connecticut governor’s daughter, were noted in future travel plans.
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Superior
Wis
John
Mr. Coolidge
White House
Hartford
Conn
New York City
Florence Trumbull
Connecticut
Europe
Maine
Silent Movie Musicians Strike In Chicago Theaters
About 750 Chicago Federation of Musicians members faced a weekend walkout as contracts expired. Despite not closing any houses, exhibitors kept venues open using mechanical music devices or awaiting equipment. The Labor Department offered mediation while contempt actions loomed if the court order was violated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Chicago Federation of Musicians
Clarence Darrow
James H. Wilkerson
Jack Miller
Exhibitors’ Association
United States Department of Labor
Joseph B. Fleming
Floods in Korea Drown Over Four Hundred People
Tokyo dispatches report more than 400 Koreans drowned in recent floods. Many homes and bridges washed away and widespread damage reported across a large area.
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Korea
Tokio
Seoul
Chamberlain to retire as British foreign secretary
London reports Sir Austen Chamberlain will step down after final act negotiating the Anglo French naval agreement. His successor, Lord Cushendun, faces illness and Conservative party opposition, with implications for allied policy and U S France relations.
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John L. Balderston
New York World News Service
London
Austen Chamberlain
United States
France
Chamberlain
America
Austen
Ronald MacNeill
House of Commons
Policeman fatally shoots Ohio convict near Zanesville
Del Wilkes, 35, an escaped convict from Ohio Penitentiary, was shot and killed by police while fleeing along railroad tracks near his former home in Zanesville. Wilkes, serving a third term for prohibition law violations, was wounded in both legs and the chest and died in hospital. He is survived by a widow and four children.
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Zanesville
del Wilkes
Ohio
Wilkes
Earle Smith
Morgan County
Roseville
Junction City
Candidates Questioned on Prohibition Stand by Association
The Association Against the Prohibition Amendment plans to mail questionnaires to about 1,000 Republican and Democratic congressional candidates. They seek views on repeal or amendment of the Eighteenth Amendment, Volstead Act changes, and state control of liquor trafficking. Answers will guide the group's support in dry-opponent races.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Congress
Association Against the
Henry H. Curran
Association
Republican Party
Plane Undamaged in Greenland Forced Landing
Bert Hassell and Parker Cramer radioed backers from Greenland saying their plane Greater Rockford was undamaged after a forced landing 100 miles from a base on inland ice. They faced decision to press on to Stockholm or salvage the craft, awaiting Rockford backers guidance.
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Greenland
Hassell
Rockford
Ill
Yesterda
Stockholm
Rockford Chamber of Commerce
Bert Hassell
Mt. Evans
Parker Cramer
New York
The
New York Times
Greater Rockford
University of Michigan Greenland
Arctic Circle
O.K
William H. Hobbs
University of Michigan
Cramer
United States
Mayor orders 24 hour clean up of Quaker City
Philadelphia Mayor Mackey orders police to close every speakeasy gambling house and racketeer run resort within twenty four hours. Directors Davis Mills and 45 officers prepare a thorough, non superficial sweep amid a grand jury investigation into bootlegging bribery and gang violence.
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Philadelphia
Mackey
Harry A. Davis
William B. Mills
Grand Jury
Foul Play Suspected in Death of Graft Witness
In New York on September 3, autopsy findings and Queens District Attorney Newcombe’s inquiry raise the possibility that William L. d Olier, a key witness in upcoming Queens sewer graft prosecutions, did not die by his own hand. He left his Pelham home promising a meeting in Queens the night he was found with a bullet wound in the temple near Zion Cemetery Maspeth. The investigation continues.
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New York World News Service
New York
William L. d’Olier
Buckner
Queens
Newcombe
Nurses Rescue 6 Babies in New York Hospital Blaze
InGramercy private hospital maternity ward a fire forced nurses to rescue six babies. A nine day old infant suffered minor burns. four or five empty cribs were destroyed before firefighters stopped the blaze believed caused by a short circuit.
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New York
Grammercy Private Hospital
Dog Warns Church As Children Die In Fire
In Winchester Kentucky a family’s home burned killing four children Esther Mina Rose Lee Tolbert aged 3 to 8. A dog warned and dragged at his master’s coat but churchgoers ejected the barking animal. The lamp may have exploded starting the fire.
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New York World News Service
Winchester
Jackson County
Norman Dean
Esther
Mina
Rose Lee
Tolbert
Aleady
Catholics Petition Congress of Mexico For Religious Liberty
In Mexico City on September 3 Congress received a Catholic memorial urging complete religious liberty and church state separation modeled after the United States. The petition seeks worship and assembly freedom, press rights, educational liberty, and the right to own church property, signed by 138 prominent laymen including Pedro Lascurain Miguel Robles and N Rodriguez Montezuma.
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Mexico City
Congress
Mexico
United States
Pedro Lascurain
Commerce, Industry
Miguel Robles
N. Rodriguez Montezuma
Montezuma
N. Y. World N. Service
World
Press Pub. Co
Sloan backs Hoover amid Smith candidacy resignations
Alfreg P. Sloan Jr of General Motors issued a statement endorsing Herbert Hoover for President. The move follows resignations or leaves of absence by John J. Raskob and Pierre S. du Pont from party roles amid the Smith campaign and anti prohibition activism. Sloan argues prohibition policy and economic prosperity align with Hoover, while noting his stance is personal and not tied to GM affairs.
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New York
Alfreg
P. Sloan, Jr
General Motors Corporation
John J. Raskob
Pierres. du Pont
Gov. Smith
Herbert Hoover
Raskob
General Motors
Democratic National Committee
du Pont
Sloan
Hoover
Hoover leadership seen to empower wartime bootlegging crackdown
Franklin W. Fort of the Republican National Committee spoke at a Kennebunk meeting. He argued under Hoover the government will gain support to combat bootlegging crime and corruption, while noting Governor Smith would retreat from enforcing Prohibition.
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Kennebunk
Maine
Franklin W. Fort
Republican National Committee
Herbert Hoover
Mystery name of the new police plane prompts curiosity
Mrs. Malcolm O. Cook christened the police plane Kabemba Katoa at Lunken Airport with sparkling wine, claiming the name is a mystery from Belgian Congo. Police and medical officials speculated on its meaning while other planes were christened Jean D Arc Gypsy Belle and My Buddy by various sponsors.
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Lunken
Malcolm O. Cook
Figbee Embry
Quirers
Belgian Congo
Stewart Hagen
Africa
Dr. Hagen
Copelan
Katoa
Jack Patterson
Jean D'Arc
John D. Colgan
Elmer
Melville Schmidt
Grace Labeck
John M. Wallace
Buddy
Betty Prats
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Tions
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Das Tront Uemang
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Ation
Rhineland
M. Bokanowski
Coolidges
Son
Association Against Prohibition
G. O.P. Prosperity
Quaker City
Monarch
Auto Industry
Alfred P Sloan
Oten
N. Y
Dog
Congress of Mexico
Crime and Corruption
Smith
Gress
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