Tunnels in Pittsburgh Rescue as Exhaust Fumes Sicken Dozens
Scores of people were overcome by automobile exhaust fumes in the Twin Liberty tunnels due to heavy traffic from a streetcar strike. Rescue crews used oxygen, and tunnels were closed while hospitals treated victims. The strike worsened transit chaos across Pittsburgh suburbs and outlying districts.
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Associated Press
Pittsburgh
Twin
Liberty
South Hills
United States Bureau of Nines
Allegheny Country Commerce Club
Troley
Ystrets
Carmen
Japan General Election Shifts Away From Government
Preliminary returns show the government unlikely to secure a majority in the 464-seat lower house. The campaign saw disorders causing at least one death, injuries to many, and over 800 arrests for violations of laws. Opponents accused police bias and election manipulation.
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United States
Austrian Countess Sailors Homeward Return to America
Countess Salm Von Hoogstraeten formerly Millicent Rogers and her father H. H. Rogers left Havre on the France for the United States. They said the count is believed in Paris. Rogers refused to discuss the rumored Austrian government reaction to the marriage and a man named Larkin traveling with them.
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Havre
France
Salm von Hoogstraeten
Millicent Rogers
H. H. Rogers
New York
United States
Ludwig Salm von Hoogstraeten
Larkin
Rogers
Mrs Work Funeral Set for White House Mansion
Funeral services for Mrs Hubert Work will be held in the White House east room Monday afternoon. She died suddenly yesterday. The executive mansion is used for few obsequies beside presidents and their immediate families. Burial is planned at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Washington
White House
Hubert Work
Secretary of the Interior
Executive Mansion
Coolidge
Arlington National Cemetery
Poincare Backed by Agricultural Bloc Amid Election
Paris May 10 The agricultural bloc backs Premier Poincare as campaign managers claim farmers have earned more in the last two years. Rural voters reportedly favor keeping Poincare in power, with little opposition among peasants and proprietors.
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Paris
Loc
Poincare
Mail Bandits Secure Over 25 000 In Cash
Chicago six seven automobile bandits robbed the Chicago Indiana postoffice and escaped with an estimated 25 000 to 30 000 in cash. The haul came from registered mail shipments from Chicago to Indiana Harbor East Chicago with payroll funds and a 20 000 shipment. Bandits selected four registered pouches from fifteen sacks and fled.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Ill
Chicago, Ind
Federal Reserve Bank
United States National Bank of Indiana
East
World Planes Cover Arctic Route in Record Flight
Three United States army aviators landed at Attu in the Aleutians after a 530 mile leg from Attka Island. They will fly 878 miles to Paramshiru Island in Japan, while search efforts continue for Major Frederick L. Marqn and his mechanic last seen April 30 near Lake Chignik. Coast Guard cutters, dog teams, and air power expand the hunt as Lieut. Earl H. Tonkin prepares to join the Bear for the Chignik base.
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Associated Press
Cordova
Alaska
United States Army
Globe
Attu Bealnd
Pacific Coast
Aittka
Aleutian Archipelago
Attu Island
Paramshiru Island
Japan
Seattle
Wash
United States Coast Guard
Bear
Ea] H. Tonkin
San Francisco
Chignik
Chgnik
Bankrupt Des Moines Brokers Propose Cash and Note Settlement
Des Moines May 10. Harper and Sons brokers propose to pay 38 percent cash and 62 percent notes over four years to creditors in a composition offer disclosed by their attorneys. Receivership proceedings were begun recently. assets are $280,103 with liabilities $256,712, with $145,217 excess of nonliquidated assets.
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Associated Press
Des Moines
Harper and Sons
Dispute Over Capital Sparks Albanian Strife
May 10 dispatches report a clash between the Albanian government in Tieran and deputies demanding a capital move. The front line deputies reportedly occupied Kroga amid ongoing strife as the season opens. In Jamaica, Zey finished third in the Excelsior handicap with Rialto first and Sunsini second.
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Associated
Belgrade
Tieran
Kroga
New York
Oil price cut announced by principal agencies
In Pittsburgh on May 10 a cut of 25 cents per barrel was announced for nine grades of crude oil by principal purchasing agencies. Officials attributed the decrease to over-production impacting market prices.
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Pittsburgh
Released Russian Soviet delegation members freed in Berlin raid
Berlin May 10 all members of the Russian soviet government commercial delegation arrested in a police raid on the delegation’s headquarters have been released according to Vossische Zeitung.
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Berlin
Vossische Zeituen
Tax Reduction Bill Passes Senate Amid Compromises
Senate approves a 25 percent cut in current year income taxes and broad relief measures. The bill shifts toward a Democratic Republican coalition with changes to corporation taxes and public disclosure of tax returns. Final passage stood 69 to 15.
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Associated Press
Washington
Senate
Simons
North Carolina
Lodge
Massachusetts
Mellon
Washington, D. C
House
Four Die in Chicago Train Car Crash Near Mayfair Station
Chicago report says four men died when a Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul passenger train collided with their automobile near Mayfair station on the city’s northeastern edge. The incident occurred May 10 as the train struck the vehicle during a crossing.
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Chicago
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul
Mayfair Station
Prohibition Agent Seizes High Grade Quots at Ritz Chemical Plant
Newark reports Federal Prohibition Agent Lafara seized high grade quots valued at 150000 at the Ritz Chemical plant after a tip from a mother claiming her daughter had been ruined by gin. Two men were arrested. Chicago notices Mary A Von Leszel died after taking poison in a hotel room. Saltville reports Rosa St Clair shot her husband and daughter before killing herself. Hoover to present Muscle Shoals opinion to the Senate agricultural committee next week.
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Newark
N. J
Lafara
New York
Ritz Chemical Corporation
Chicago
Mary A von Leszel
Pasadena
Calif
Saltville. Va
Rosa St. Clair
Robert St. Clair
Washington
Hoover
Senate Agricultural Committee
Muscle Shoals
Pittsburg Street Car Service To Resume With Outside Workers
Pittsburg Railway company will restart street car service Monday using workers from other cities to replace 3,200 striking motormen and conductors. Waterloo and Marshalltown area women are named candidates for Iowa Federation of Business and Professional Women's clubs presidency per nominating committee report at convention headquarters.
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Pittsburg
Pittsburgh Railway Company
Waterloo
Elizabeth Kenney
Emma Hagenstein
Marshalltown
Iowa Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs
Senate Surtax Schedules Change Under Insurgent Plan
Details show a 1 percent starting rate at $10,900 rising to 38 percent at $200,000 with two brackets to 40 percent over $500,000. Comparisons note minimal differences from the house plan. The text outlines combined normal and surtaxes for a childless married taxpayer and discusses corporate taxes, inheritance and gift taxes, and a proposed board of tax appeals.
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Senate
House
Board of Tax Appeals
Republicans
Senate Finance Committee
McNary Haugen farm relief bill heads to House
Washington May 10 Republican leaders moved to have the McNary Haugen farm relief bill considered by the house late next week or the following week. Senator Norbeck said he would wait for White House assurances before forcing a vote, as farmers pressed for swift action with plans for a $200 9 million surplus farm product sale corporation.
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Associated Press
Washington
House
Congress
Norbeck
South Dakota
Senate
Rules Committee
lLater
Coolidge
McNary-Haugen
White House
McNary Haugen
House Rules Committee
Northwest
Urge Deportation of Alien Law Violators
The Methodist Episcopal general conference passed a resolution urging Congress to deport aliens convicted twice of violations of prohibition and narcotic laws and to place federal prohibition agents under civil service. An amendment to disfranchise citizens for a third prohibition offense was tabled, while a proposal to admit certain aliens regardless of race or nationality was approved, with strong rebuke of anti alien discrimination.
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Associated Press
Springfield
Mass
Congress
Methodist Episcopal General Conference
S. A. Bright
New Mexico
Wilson
Certia
Weather outlook for upper Mississippi and Missouri valleys
The forecast expects local showers and cool spell at the start of the week, followed by generally fair conditions with normal temperatures for the period beginning Monday across the Upper Mississippi and Missouri valleys.
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Associated Presa
Washington
Upper
Mississippi
Missouri
Brookhart to vote from Washington in June 2 primary
Senator Smith W. Brookhart, seeking renomination, will cast his vote as an absent voter in the upcoming primary. He said in Washington that legislative duties prevent him from returning to Iowa before the primary, and the question of his ability to campaign in person has been in doubt for weeks.
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Associated Press
Des Moines
Smith W. Brookhart
Washington
Des Moines Register
Iowa
Agreement Sets 1924 Exclusion Date For Immigration
Washington reports a new house and senate conference agreement sets July 1 1924 as the effective date of the Japanese exclusion provision in the immigration bill. The deal drops the landing card requirement for alien seamen and follows the same text as the house bill with no abrogation reference to the gentlemen’s agreement.
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Associated Press
Washington
House
Senate
Coolidge
United States
Sheldon Takes Honors At Iowa Music Contest
Sheldon wins first prize in the mixed chorus division at the State High School Music contest. The group earns an engraved diver loving cup after being raised from Class B to Class A by judges. Hampton takes Class B prize. Rockford wins Class C cap. Judges include Osbourne Mcconnathy Northwestern George Pierce Gunnell and George Hubbard Morningside.
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Associated Press
Cedar Rapids
Sheldon
Hampton
Rockford
Osbourne Mconnathy
Northwestern University
George L. Pierce
Gunnell College
George L. Hubbard
Morningside
Iowa Student Soldiers Close Year With Drill
Some 1 200 ROTC cadets from the University of Iowa ended the school year with a long afternoon of competitive drills inspections prize awards and a parade A reviewing stand on Iowa field hosted Governor Kendall and President Walter A Joseph among state notables The engineering unit showcased a regulation army bridge built over the Iowa River
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Associated Preas
Iowa City
University of Iowa
Iowa Field
Kendall
Walter A. Joseph
Lowa River
Fruit Not Damaged By Low Temperature
Des Moines reports no damage to Iowa fruit crops from recent cold and light snow. R. S. Herrick head of the State Horticultural Society notes conditions are favorable with only a possible slight pollination setback that good weather could remedy.
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Associated Press
Des Moines
Iowa
R. S. Herrick
State Horticultural Society
Herrick
Community Music Week in Creston Draws Wide Support
The first observance of National Music Week in Creston and neighboring towns proved a great success through combined effort. Musicians, instructors, and businesses donated services and materials while the Creston Chamber of Commerce covered expenses. All events were free, drawing crowds from 1,200 to 2,000 at the McKinley park auditorium and hundreds at bandstand programs. Twenty one groups contributed to 15 entertainments, culminating in a packed final program at the park auditorium with Miss Mary McLeod and Prescott performers.
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Creaton
Creston
Orient
Afton
Prescott
Creston Chamber of Commerce
Methodist Church
McKinley Park Auditorium
Charles A. Hayden
Chamber of Commerce
National Committee
Creston Choral Club
Irving School
Eva Wallace
Rose Burdette
Orient High School Glee Club
Methodist Sunday School Orchestra
Musical Seven
Midnite Serenaders
Creston High School Glee Club
Creston Martial Bag
High School
Green Ganders
Mary McLeod
Kindegarden
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