Northcott admits murders at Riverside ranch
Los Angeles police record the elderly Cyrus Northcott's confession that three missing boys were killed at the Riverside ranch. He leads officers to possible grave sites and confirms Sanford Clark's earlier statements. Names of victims include Louis Winslow Nelson Winslow and Walter Collins.
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New York World News Service
Los Angeles
Northcott
Gordon Northcott
Canada
Beouise Northcott
Los Angeles Central
Lieuts
Jerry Hickey
J. J. Jones
Clark
Sanford
Gordon
Louis
Nelson Winslow
Walter Collins
Sanford Clark
Riverside Ranch
Riverside Grand Jury
Cari
Four men held in Chicago kidnap trap after boy's note
Four men were reported held by police after a note written in a boyish scrawl spurred a trap in the Chicago loop for the kidnapping of Billy Ranieri ten year old son of A Frank Ranieri. The child is held for sixty thousand dollars ransom for ten days. The note read Please papa pay the money or you will never see me again.
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Chicago
Chicago Loop
Billy Ranieri
A. Frank Ranieri
Ranieri
A. Sculli
Billy
Salvatore Mastroianni
Renaldo Schiedo
Andrew Rohan Dies at 63 Head of Charngold Empire
Andrew Rohan president of the Charngold Corporation and its subsidiaries died at his Belvedere apartment after a week long illness. He suffered a cerebral hemorrhage at a business meeting. A Cincinnati native, he built a butter and eggs wholesaling business and later a table butterine venture. Crowds gathered outside his home as detectives pursued leads in a related kidnap case.
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Andrew Rohan
Charngold Corporation
Idea
The
Belvedere
Rohan
Cincinnati
Streator
Ill
Officer Dies After Streetcar Confrontation in Ogutelle
William Loftus 44 of 50 Central Avenue shot by Henry Mowell 23 of 920 West Eighth Street a Merchant policeman after a dispute on a Sixth Street car witnesses say Loftus intoxicated refused to sit and threatened a streetcar officer who was finishing duty. Loftus likely to die from bullet wounds.
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William Loftus
Central Avenue
Henry Mowell
West Eighth Street
Loftus
Monell
Tropical storm hits Florida coast with heavy damage
A powerful tropical storm lashes Miami and West Palm Beach with 100 mph winds and widespread destruction. Buildings collapse, roofs fly and refugees flee as residents seek higher ground inland near Lake Okeechobee. authorities report 125 mph gusts and rising barometers as the storm moves northward toward Ft Lauderdale and Palm Beach.
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Palm Beaches
West Palm Beach
Fort Laudersdale
Lake Okeechobee
Weather Bureau
Miami
Florida Light and Power Company
Ft. Lauderdale
Hurricane Rakes Florida Coast Forces Relief Efforts
Reports from Ft Lauderdale indicate the hurricane center passed north of the city with communications cut off and winds near 75 mph diminishing later. Miami crews mobilize relief to the Palm Beaches as West Palm Beach reports 125 mph winds and roofs torn off. In Puerto Rico, the hurricane leaves at least 253 dead and $65 million in damage with 1,000 feared homeless while authorities rush to curb profiteering and deploy National Guardsmen.
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Ft. Lauderdale
Jupiter
Ft Lauderdale
Turner
Miami
Weather Bureau
Bania
Here
Florida Peninsula
Miami Red Cross
Palm Beaches
H. H. Arnold
Public Safety
Arnald
West Palm Beach
San Juan
Porto Rico
Horace M. Towner
Cayey
Guayama
Humacao
Ponce
Arecibo
Towner
R. Acosta Velarde
Are¢ibo
Comerim
Hallandale
Dalnia
Prospecto
Floranado
Deerfield
Park Beach
Lake Worth
Boynton
Cincinnati Tailor Identifies Slain Indianapolis Victim
A man believed to be from Cincinnati was found slain in the White River in Indianapolis. Police say the body, about 50 years old and 160 pounds, had head injuries and a cut throat. A tailor's tag read Frank Seifert of Cincinnati, but no further identification could be made. Police suspect robbery but have no suspects or clues at present.
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Indianapolis
Gov Smith Begins West Campaign Train Farewell
Gov Smith departs Albany Union Station for a two week tour through the agricultural belt west of the Mississippi. A cheering crowd, police, and Gov Smith in a brown derby accompanied by his wife marked the departure as State Senator William T Byrne offered a farewell gesture.
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Albany
N. Y
Union Station
Gov. Smith
West
Mississippi
State
New York Central
Smith
William T. Byrne
Typhoon Drowns Scores in China Amid Floods
The typhoon along the China coast has caused enormous damage in Shanghai, disrupting communications and flooding the United States Marine camp knee deep. Many houses have been destroyed and scores of Chinese drowned as torrential rains follow the storm. Street cars stopped running this afternoon.
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Shanghai
China
United States Marine Camp
New York Style Arena Planned for Newport Brewery
A Madison Square Garden of the Middle West is planned for Wiedemann's Brewery on Columbia Street Newport. Promoters from Newport Cincinnati and investors from Chicago Detroit aim to convert the seven buildings into a 12 000 seat boxing arena with space for political meetings entertainment and sports including boxing wrestling basketball and hockey. The basement would hold a gymnasium and pool while baths and dressing rooms would serve women and the rathskeller Littl German Village would become a restaurant. Negotiations target a 950 000 purchase with completion hoped this week.
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Madison Square Garden
Middle West
Kentucky City
Newport Brewery
New York Arena
Wiedemann
Columbia Street
Newport
Cincinnati
Chicago
Detroit
Charles Wiedemann
Rathskeller
Ritual Burial of Attendants in Mesopotamian Kings’ Death
Field Museum and Oxford University excavations at Kish reveal a ritual where attendants were buried alive for dead kings. Langdon notes 3 000 to 4 000 B C practice. tombs at Kish Ur yielded sacrificial victims and two ancient stage towers predating Sargon. Chariots and preserved ox skeletons accompany finds shipped for exhibition.
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Chicago
Field Museum
Oxford University
Kish
H.langdon
Oxford
Langdon
Sargon
Christ
Prof
Storm Recalls 1926 Florida Destruction Anniversary
The article recounts the September 18 1926 Miami hurricane that killed over 400, injured thousands and caused extensive damage across lower Florida, Pensacola, and Mobile. It notes ships wiped out along the coast and widespread flooding from the tidal wave.
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Florida
Miami
Caribbean
Gulf
Pensacola
Fila
Mobile
Ala
Porto Rico
Plans memorial to air pioneers
The National Aeronautical Association backed a plan to erect a national monument to Wilbur and Orville Wright in Dayton Ohio. A committee will form the plan as the association wrapped its convention in Los Angeles with officers elected Senator Hiram Bingham president Roscoe Vaughn vice president Valentine Gep hart secretary and Col. B Bastle treasurer. The group did not select a 1929 convention city though Cleveland was favored.
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Los Angeles
National Aeronautical Association
Wilbur
Orville Wright
Dayton
Hiram Bingham
New London
Seattle
Col. B. Bastle
New York
Cleveland
Hoover Campaign Swing Promises Big Kentucky Drive
Kentucky Republicans hailed Herbert Hoover with a predicted 50 000 majority in Kentucky as Senator Curtis rested in Louisville before a Western tour. He attended Trinity Methodist Church and spoke at receptions, then planned travel to Evansville and Chicago with multiple appearances scheduled.
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Louisville
Kentucky
Senator Curtis
Senator Sackett
John M. Robsson
Herbert Hoover
Curtis
Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church
Thatcher
Paul Burlingame
John Lowe Fort
Brown Hotel
Evansville
Ind
Chicago
Henry, Ill
Tribute is Paid Dirigible Shenandoah Dead
Memorial services were held in Cambridge Ohio for the fourteen officers and men killed when the Shenandoah crashed in 1925. Attendees included army and navy officers and aviators from Selfridge Field Dayton and Cincinnati. Representative C Ellis Moore presided and lauded the Shenandoah dead as aviation pioneers. Other speakers included Dr Walter Scott Dunlop Peter C Boyd the governor of the National Aeronautical Association and Fred W Nolan of Marietta.
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Cambridge, CO
Aviaor
Army
Navy
Selfridge Field
Michigan
Dayton
Cincinnati
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