New England Flood Toll Rises With Vermont Losses
Cold and hunger stalk hills as floods devastate towns across New England. Barre, Vermont reports seven dead including Lieut. Gov. S Hollister Jackson. Barre damage put at 2 million dollars. Power dams and mills washed away with communications cut, food and medical shortages threaten hardest hit areas.
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Boston
New England
Montpelier
Vermont
S. Hollister Jackson
Barre
Barre Times
New Bedford
Mass
Potashbrook
Army
Fort Ethan Allen
Burlington
Gomez and allied rebels executed in Vera Cruz mountains
Five weeks after departing Mexico City to lead an armed uprising against Calles, General Arnulfo Gomez and his nephew Francisco Gomez Viscarra were captured and executed near the Perote region. The official report says Gomez never strayed far from rebel circles, now hunted in the mountains near Ayahualulco. In Greensboro, James C. Penny survived three pistol wounds after confronting tenant Oscar L. Bond over rent, with Bond jailed and Penny hospitalized in stable condition.
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Mexico City
Francesco Serrano
Calles
Arnulfo Gomez
Serrano
Gomez
Vera Cruz
Escobar
Francisco Gomez Viscarra
Perote
Ayahualulco
Greensboro
James C. Penny
Oscar L. Bond
Penny
Bond
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Fall Recovers After Illness Reports Say He Rested Easily
Albert B. Fall has taken nourishment for the first time in hours and rests easily in his hotel room. Dr. James J. Kilroy says he expects gradual strength return barring complications and notes the former interior secretary is breathing easily and appears cheerful.
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Washington
Albert B. Fall
James J. Kilroy
Fall
Colorado coal strike outlawed as state moves to end walkout
Colorado officials declared the three week old I W W led coal strike illegal and urged workers to return to mines. Police clashed with strikers at the Baldwin Canon mines in Las Animas county and leaders including the woman known as the girl in red were arrested. Several other arrests followed the demonstrations, suspending Tabasco and Berwind mine operations and triggering increased security at nearby sites. In a separate incident, Gabriel Nocilli of Trinidad was fatally shot at Ludlow by Tom Pettruggi.
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Denver
Colo
Colorado
Baldwin Canon
Colorado Fuel and Iron Company
Las Animas County
Berwind
Tabasco
Las Animas
Huerfano
Gabrial Nocilli
Trinidad
Ludlow
Tom Pettruggi
Bolivian executes man chosen by lot in former president murder
Alfredo Jauregui was executed by firing squad in La Paz after being selected by lot among four convicted for the 10 year old murder of former President Jose Manuel Pando. The others included his brother Juan, Simon Choque, and Nestos Villegas.
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Lapaz
Bolivia
Alfredo Jauregui
Lot
Jose Manuel Pando
Jauregui
Villegas
Costly yacht Elto burned at Southport on Saturday
The 60 foot motor yacht Elto from New York to Miami burned to the waterline after an explosion at a gas station in Southport North Carolina. Owner Thomas W Yawtey was not aboard and no injuries were reported though the engineer was slightly singed. The vessel valued at 30 to 40 thousand dollars arrived from Beaufort and had been held by bad weather. Coast guard tow lines crossed the river as flames spread, extinguishing efforts failing.
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Southport
N. C
Elto
New York
Miami
Thomas W. Yawtey
Beaufort
Georgetown
Coast Guard
Man Killed by His Own Son in Franklin County
Henry Harris aged 60 was fatally wounded at his home near Raleigh when his son Ruben Harris shot him after a quarrel. The elder Harris died on an operating table after four bullet wounds. Ruben Harris was arrested and held without bond while investigators review the case.
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Mr. Penny
Bond
Greensboro
Randolph County
High Point
North Elm Street
George Penny
Elwood Hotel
Greensboro Road
Jamestown
Penny Brothers
J. C. Penny, Jr
Raleigh
Henry Harris
Franklin County
Ruben Harris
Here
Harris
Bodies of Gomez and relatives brought to military hospital
The bodies of General Alfredo Gomez, his nephew Vizcarra, and Salvador Castanos arrived tonight and were taken to the military hospital to be delivered to relatives. They wore civilian clothes and showed a bullet wound to the temple indicating the coup de grace.
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Mexico City
Alfredo Gomez
Vizcarra
Salvador Castanos
Resignation Accepted of Alabama Polytechnic President Dowell
Dr Spright Dowell’s resignation as president of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute at Auburn was accepted by the trustees in Montgomery. The action, effective July 1 1928, followed an alumni request for his removal and praised his seven and a half years of service.
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Montgomery
Ala
Spright Dowell
Alabama Polytechnic Institute
Auburn
Graves
Dowell
Victor H. Hanson
Birmingham
Princess Anne of France Weds Prince Ademeo of Savoy in Naples
In Naples on November 5 a royal wedding linked Princess Anne of France to Prince Ademeo of Savoy. The civil and church ceremonies united a duke’s daughter and a Savoy prince as crowds cheered along a gold carriage route past the royal palace and San Francesco di Paula. King Victor Emmanuel and other nobility attended.
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Naples
Italy
Europe
Anne
France
Guise
Ademeo of
Savoy
Apulia
San Francesco di Paula
Victor Emmanuel
Houses of
Aeronauts death at altitude possibly from severed oxygen tube
Captain Hawthorne C. Gray perished after ascending to about 48,000 feet in a balloon near Sparta Tennessee. Investigators believe a knife cut the oxygen line while he prepared for an even higher record, with barograph data sent to Washington for confirmation.
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Sparta
Tenn
Hawthorne C. Gray
Army Aeronaut
Gray
Scott Field
Illinois
Washington
Admiral McCully’s 10 Year Separation Ends in Russian Bride Wedding
Charleston dispatch reports Rear Admiral Newton A. McCully aged 60 wed 29 year old Russian Mrs. Ogia Krudycher after ten years apart. The couple met in Petrograd in 1912 and married in Revel Estonia on October 15 with U S officials present.
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Admiral
Charleston
S. C
Revel
Esthenia
Newton A. McCully
U. S
Ogia Krudycher
News and Courier
Petrograd
St. Petersburg
Leningrad
Mrs. McCully
Admiral McCully
Burd
United States
South America
Another Woman To Try Airship
Camden scene features Lotty Schoemmer world champion long distance swimmer en route from Lake George to Miami. She plans to attempt an ocean flight from New York to Paris next summer with her two children Harold and Ruth and trainer Thomas A. Stevenson. An official investigation will follow a circumstantial report that airplane remains washed ashore at Chinina on the Panama coast.
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Camden
S. C
Lotty Schoemmer
Lake George
N. Y
Miami
Fla
New York
Paris
Harold
Ruth
Thomas A. Stevenson
Panama
Chinina
Marceline the Clown Ends Life Over Rheumatism
Marceline the clown, famed for burlesque life on stage, committed suicide by shooting himself in New York. Despondency over forced loss of work due to rheumatism cited by friends as motive. He left no note or evident estate. body found with pistol in hand beside costumes and an optra trunk.
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New York
Marceline
Brooks Likely Man for State Fair Presidency
Enterprise Bureau Raleigh November 5 The Raleigh crowd weighs candidates to lead the new state fair with former Governor Cameron Morrison favored for president though he declined a board seat. Dr E E Brooks and Leonard Tufts are named as possible alternates with Brooks seeking broad powers over staff. Continued on Page 4.
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Morrison
New Fair Association
EE. C. Brooks
State College
Leonard Tufts
Pinehurst
Association
Brooks
Tufts
Dr. Brooks
Turn in Fall illness seen within hours
Washington November 5 AP reports a definite turn in the serious illness of Albert B Fall is expected soon. The former interior secretary 66 remains weak with throat trouble and unsteady nerves and Dr James J Kilroy says pneumonia has not set in though risk remains high as his family nurses him at a hotel.
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Washington
Albert B. Fall
Interior
James J. Kilroy
Fall
Harry F. Sinclair
Dr. Kilroy
Mark B. Thompson
C. C. Chase
Brant Elliott
Two Rear Admirals Exchange Roles at Philly Navy Yard
In Philadelphia on November 5 two rear admirals exchanged duties at the navy yard as Julian L. Latimer became commandant of the Philadelphia yard and the th naval district while Thomas P. Magruder retired after 16 months. Magruder heads to Washington for the weekend and must report to the secretary of the Navy soon. Marines posted, salutes sounded, and the ceremony closed with informal camaraderie.
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Charleston
Navy Yard
Sixth Naval District
Europe
Washington
United States
Admiral McCulley
Philadelphia
Philadelphia Navy Yard
Julian L. Latimer
Navy Examining Board
Thomas P. Magruder
Admiral Magruder
Secretary of the Navy
Wilbur
Latimer
Magruder
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Mr. Fall
Capital Hotel
Dwight W. Morrow
President Calles
Drew
Alabama
Aptain Gray
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