Federal convict killed during jail break at McNeil Island
Roy Gardner, California mail bandit, escaped from McNeil Island federal penitentiary during a jail break at a baseball game. Everett Impyn was shot and killed. Lawardue Bogart wounded and recaptured. Gardner over the fence and remains at large after the incident drawing 250 prisoners as witnesses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tacoma
Wash
Roy Gardner
California
McNeil Island Federal Penitentiary
Everett Impyn
Lawardue Bogart
Gardner
Malroney
Limpyn
Logart
San Francisco
Portland
Ute
San Diego
Cal
Castle Rock
McNeil Island
Newcastle
Centralia
McNeil
Toledo Rogbers Escape Jail After Post Office Robbery Plot
Toledo Ohio September 5 1934 Joe Urbaytis and George Lewis alias Rogers convicted in the Toledo Post Office conspiracy and awaiting trial escaped from the County Jail with a third prisoner Charles Schultz. They overpowered a turnkey seized his keys and fled into the yard climbing the seven foot stockade fence. A green car with six or seven occupants was seen near the jail and is believed to have carried them away.
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Toledo, O
Joe Urbaytis
George Lewis
Rogers
Toledo
Charles Schultz
Urbaytis
Schultz
Baseball Mask Ended Auto’s Dash Down Hill
Mrs. Bertrude Linkering and a companion escaped serious harm when a car rolled downhill on Clifton Avenue Hyde Park yesterday. The brake failed after car occupants left the hospital, the front wheels veered, striking a telephone pole. a crushed baseball catcher's mask found thirty feet up the hill explained the crash.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bertrude Linkering
Marbury Avenue
Hyde Park
Clifton Avenue Hill
Amusements and Advertisers Index
A scanned index of amusements and advertisers listing firms and products such as Baldwin Piano, Malt Extracts, Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, Kindergar ten Training School, Fifth Third National Bank, National City Bank, Merryweather, Shillito's, Spencer's, Pogue's, Swift Laboratory, Wurlitzer, and various schools and services. It reads as a catalog entry showing participating brands and local businesses with emphasis on consumer goods and education.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seeses
Oe Rong
Ooo
Nsek Sd Sndesececnusccinass
Baldwin Piano Do Burger Bros
Cincinnati Conservatory of Music
Closson
Cunard-Anchor
Hade’s Pills
East Hills Coal & Supply Co
Fifth-Third National Bank
Financial— American. Finance Co
Commonwealth Financial Corp
Five States Motor Co
Pecseis
Csco
Weoil
Bieta
Garfield, Dry Cleaner
Fidding
Seeceere
Kotte’s Drug Store
Vero Webukes Merryweather
Scccceess
Oakhurst School For Girls
Ohio Military Nn
CMA
Pinkham’s
Aides
Richmond Bros
Astuc Decideas
Shillito’s
Spencer's
Aiseotie Pogue's
Swift Laboratory Wurlitzer Ee
Negro Cotton Pickers Heed K K K Work Notice
A notice signed K K K in Blooming Grove near Corsicana warns negroes to pick cotton. The response was widespread with most workers reporting for duty in the fields. They had demanded 75 cents per hundred pounds, but today the rate was 50 cents.
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Corsicana
Tex
Blooming Grove
Family of seven found dead in Ormsbie home
In Ormsbie Minnesota a retired bank cashier Frank Klackow and his wife and five children were shot to death in their home. Investigators found the victims with an anaesthetic used and a revolver hidden under the father arm. The killings likely occurred Saturday night and a neighbor discovered the scene after delivering Sunday school funds.
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Ormsbie
Minn
Frank Klackow
Henry Klackow
Estherville
Klackow
Farmers’ State Bank
Motorcycle Crash Hits Erlanger Race Rider
Clarence Hayes twenty four of Covington suffered serious internal injuries and head wounds when his motorcycle struck an obstruction and overturned during a Labor Day race at the Erlanger Fair Grounds. He was taken to Booth Memorial Hospital Covington for treatment. Hayes is a T W Spinks Company truck driver and lives with his wife and child at 313 Philadelphia street Covington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Erlanger Fair Grounds
Clarence Hayes
Philadelphia
Covington
Hayes
Booth Memorial Hospital
Serous Hayes
T. W. Spinks Company
Newport
Philadelphia Street
Wilson and Downey Box Tame Twelve Round Bout in Jersey City
The bout at Rickard's Jersey Arena ended on points with a majority favoring Downey though Wilson retained the title under New Jersey rules no official decision. Downey pressed the action with clean blows while Wilson’s performance drew boos and a commission review of the referee’s handling.
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Wilson
Downey Box
Rickard’s
Jersey Arena
Jersey City
N. J
Bryan Downey
Cleveland
Johnny Wilson
Boston
New Jersey
Downey
New Jersey Boxing Commission
Tex Richard
Jim Savage
Newark
Russian Generals Among Grape Pickers in France
At Monpellier France on September 5, about one hundred Russian refugees answered a vineyard owner’s job ad for grape picking. Fifty were hired and among them three former Army generals were identified for temporary labor.
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Monpellier
France
Drowns After Jumping From Flatboat at Covington
Frank Hartling, 32, of 1410 Clay street, diving from a flatboat at Sixteenth Street, Covington, disappeared in the Licking River and was found hour later. Lifesaving squad failed to revive him. relatives note it was his first vacation day. Hartling, a husband and father of four, had been with three or four companions who fled.
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Frank Hartling
Clay Street
Licking River
Sixteenth Street
Covington
Edward Barnes
Hartling
Barnes
Hartline
Josef Mann Dies on Stage in Berlin Opera House
Berlin, Sept. 5. Josef Mann, first tenor of the Berlin Opera, collapsed and died on stage tonight during a performance of Aida. He had been engaged to sing at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York next season and possessed a large repertoire of dramatic and lyric roles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Josef Mann
Berlin Opera
Aida
Amputation Follows Sunlit Chester Park Wonder Wheel Accident
Eight year old Julius Amarant suffered a severe hand injury when his arm was caught between a rotating wheel and the floor at Chester Park. He had surgery at the General Hospital, resulting in amputation of his right arm. Also, spectacle star George Erickson was knocked unconscious during a fire‑sliding act on the lake apparatus and treated by Dr. Loughry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Downey
Wilson
Wney
Hilarity Hall
Chester Park
Julius Amarant
Race Street
General Hospital
M. W. Wolfsohn
J. W. Loughry
Hdgewood Avenue
George Erickson
Chester Lake
Thomas Loaring
Erickson
Winton Place
Coburg Riots Wound Children in German Street Clash
Berlin Sept 5 Several persons including children were wounded by machine gun fire and hand grenades during street fighting on Saturday at Coburg between police and agitators after a pro-Republican demonstration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Coburg
Farmer Held After Leap Through Glass Doors
James Rogers a county farmer created a downtown scare by leaping through plate glass doors at the City National Bank Building in Paducah Kentucky. He escaped unharmed but fought five patrolmen at arrest shouting threats. Sedatives were given at the jail to prevent self harm. Witnesses say his revival meeting attendance near his home sparked a religious frenzy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paducah
James Rogers
City National Bank
Rogers
Missing Freda Hornberger Search Reaches City Cellars
Detectors and Commercial Tribune staff hunted in cellars beneath 1822 Race street after a tip from resident William Russell. They tunneled through debris to find Freda Hornberger’s body and examined sub-cellars while officers linked chloroform found in Jack Crane’s room to his alleged involvement. A report placed charges of contributing to the delinquency of a young girl against Crane as more sightings of Freda emerged in Kentucky gypsy camps near Stewartsville.
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Freda Hornberger
Race Street
Commmercial Tribune
William Russell
Freda
Petine Ao
Schwaeble
Ellenreider
Jack Crane
Freea Hornberger
Crane
Third District
McMicken Avenue
General Hospital
Stewartsville
John Doyle
Beech Avenue
Wyoming
Kentucky
Four U S fliers found dead in West Virginia wilds
Striking miners at the Rosiclare mine in Illinois captured the superintendent J C Swanson and his wife and three children, holding them in the hills. Guards drove out strikers and families, wires to Rosiclare were cut, and 215 employees have been on strike since last November. Major labor figures plan an overnight relay march to aid the Rossclare strikers as clashes with guards continue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrisburg
Ill
Rosiclare
Hillside Fluor Spar Company
Harrisurg
J. C. Swanson
R. R. Randolph
Rossclare
West Virginia
Frank Turner
John Morgan
Morgan
Elizabethtown
Wrecked Plane Crew Found After Langley Bombing Flight Crash
Four of the five crew members of government Martin Bomber No. 5 from Langley Field were found dead near Twenty Mile Creek in Nicholas County, ten miles southwest of Summersville. One crewman was seriously injured and transported to Summersville hospital. The crash appeared caused by a gasoline explosion, with bodies found suspended in the wreckage and the plane upside down.
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Charleston
W. V2
Langley Field
Twenty Mile Creek
Summerville
Nicholas County
Davenport Johnson
Army Air Forces
Harry L., Speck
Medford
Ore
W. S. Fitzpatrick
Arthur R. Brown
Kentucky
Walter B. Howard
San Francisco
Alexander C. Hazelton
Wilmington
Del
Corporal Hazelton
Ben Hughes
Hughes
Major Johnson
Hazleton
Summersville
H. B. White
Davis
Line Creek
S. M. Strong
Langey Field
Poe
Bandits Scare Staff After Cash Is Gone In Atlantic City
Twelve armed men held up Childs's restaurant in Atlantic City early today targeting the night manager, cashier and customers. Presuming cash removed, they beat the manager before fleeing as police approached. They escaped onto the boardwalk mingling with pedestrians.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cash
Atlantic City
N. J
Childs
US Minister Grew Likely Transferred to Switzerland
Copenhagen dispatch reports Joseph C. Grew United States Minister to Denmark will be transferred to Switzerland. The move would shift a senior diplomat to a new post in Europe as tensions rise in the region.
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Copenhagen
Joseph C. Grew
United States
Denmark
Switzerland
Abduction Story Denied in Elizabethtown Mine Unrest
W G Ferguson, Rossclare mine superintendent, denied that striking miners captured him and his family as Harrisburg reports claim. After a Saturday demonstration, authorities guarded roads to prevent gatherings. He said a strike organizer’s wife urged refugees to flee to avoid arson, while photographers allegedly used the exodus for propaganda.
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Elizabethtown
W. G. Ferguson
Rossclare
J. C. Swanson
Harrisburg
Cox
Ferguson
Rosiclare
Illinois
Ohio River
Rosiview
Three Towns in Peril as Forest Fires Spread
St Paul dispatch reports Whitepine and Solana abandoned as a precaution to save lives. McGrath may also be abandoned per Adjutant General Rhinow. National Guardsmen—450—arrived to join the Duluth Tank Company in Aitken County fire zone. A 25 mile wind worsened the outlook.
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ST. Paul
Minn
Whitepine
Solana
McGrath
W. F. Rhinow
Aitken County
Duluth* Tank Company
Normal Times Return After Rioto us Week
Logan West Virginia residents eased back to normal after a week of armed group activity on Spruce Fork Ridge. State police have left their posts, deputies and volunteers returned to daily duties, while federal troops remain on duty handling routine policing in the unsettled district.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Logan
W. Va
Associated Press
Spruce Fork Ridge
Boone County
Mystery veil at midnight shooting on Burns Street
Police probe a midnight shooting near 736 Burns Street involving two men and a girl. A beaded handbag, a bloodstained cloak with a bullet hole, and a taxi cab were found as detectives seek a wounded woman and identify suspects Jack Shean and others.
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Burns Street
Walter Whitaker
Whitaker
Harry Bohlke
Bohlke
Jack Shean
East Sixth Street
Shean
West End
Women Councillors Arrested in London Disorder
Five women councillors from Poplar were arrested at 3 pm after inviting the Sheriff to arrest them. Crowds, mostly women, filled the Town Hall and streets as Susan Lawrence and Mrs. Edgar Lansbury gave farewell speeches. Cheers and bands accompanied the Sheriff’s car to Brixton amid broad demonstrations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Poplar
London County Council
Susan Lawrence
Edgar Lansbury
Brixton
Balloonist Dies Before 10000 at North Adams Fair
Eugene M. Stafford of Boston, a balloonist, fell 600 feet to his death in North Adams Mass during a fair as his belt failed while he attempted a double parachute drop. More than 10,000 spectators witnessed the tragedy.
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North Adams
Mass
Eugene M. Stafford
Boston
Invasion Charged to Miners Officials in Williamson Field
A statement from Harry Olmsted, chair of the Williamson field Operators’ Association, accuses United Mine Workers officials of orchestrating the invasion of Logan County and plans for a miners’ armed action in Mingo County. Olmsted denounces Samuel Gompers and the AFL as hypocritical and often misleading.
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Washington
United Mineworkers of
Ameri
Logan County
Mingo County
Harry Olmsted
Williamson Field
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Olmsted
Gompers
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U. S. Penitentiary
Trio
Oregon
Turkey
Eee Eseae
K.K.K
Father Alla
Minnesota
Bather
Nila
New York
Farmer
Otangh
Girl
Gellar
U.S
Minerg
Chief
Ilinois Company
Militia
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