Labor Wins British Government as Baldwin Quits
London June 4 Labor takes control of the British government with J Ramsay MacDonald to form a new administration after Stanley Baldwin resigns. Election results show Labor 288 Conserva tives 256 Liberals 58 Nationalists 3 Independents 1 and Constitutionalists 1. MacDonald aims to reshape foreign policy including naval arms talks with the United States, renounce wartime blockade, and withdraw forces from the Rhineland.
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London
Stanley Baldwin
J. Ramsay MacDonald
Baldwin
Windsor Castle
Windsor Line
MacDonald
Philip Snowden
Arthur Henderson
J. H. Thomas
J. M. Kenworthy
Orkney
Shetland
Robert Hamilton
Labor
Labor Party
United States
Russia
England
Rhineland
Temperature Readings by Hour Questionable Entry
City weather note lists hourly temperatures from 6 a m to 1 p m with values 50, 55, 64, 58, 59 and 65 at noon. The fragmentary data suggests a warm morning with rising temperatures and a slight dip around noon before rising again.
FatherAccuses Divorced Mate Of Poisoning Son In Custody Fight
Spencer Indiana June 4 Mrs Blanche Thomas stands accused by her divorced husband Loren Thomas of poisoning their seven year old son Ralph after visits. He seeks custody and a ban on visits while alleging traces of salt of tin in the boy’s stomach and phenol in cistern water. Exhumation of Charles Thomas and prior death in Indianapolis are questioned.
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Times
Spencer
Ind
Blanche Thomas
Ralph
Loren Thomas
Owen Circuit Court
Thomas
James Smith
Gosport
Frederick E. Atkinson, Inc
Indianapolis
Charles Thomas
Loren
Anna A. Zein
Owen County
Town Periled by Eruption of Vesuvius
In Terigno residents began evacuations as Vesuvius eruptions intensified. Lava streams reached within 400 feet of the village, belts of molten river lava over 65 feet wide spilled from the cone, with explosions and a split conduit sending lava into two rivulets.
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Terigno
Vesuvius
Alessandro Malladra
Mount Vesuvius Observatory
Hell Valley
Malladra
Cratar
Dynamite Blast Hits New Meridian Street Apartments
An unsuccessful dynamite blast damaged a near finished eight story building at 3056 North Meridian Street injuring minor areas and shattering street lights. Police chief Worley leads the probe amid labor tension rumors denied. workers, union and owner insist no dispute exists.
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North Meridian Street
Claude M. Worley
Meridian
Fall Creek
Thirty-Eighth Street
G. A. Schnull
North
Meriian Street
Raith Memorial Library
Meridian Street
Baynham
Pennsylvania Street
James Meyers
Agnes Street
Final Reparations Agreement Reached at Parley
Owen D. Young announced at Paris that reparations experts completed an agreement on all points after Belgium agreed to settle its mark claim with Germany by direct negotiations. The Belgian delegation signaled willingness to back the plan, with restitution for gold francs to be handled by a joint conference between the two governments.
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United Prece
Paris
Owen D. Young
Young
United Press
Seven Nations
Belgium
Germany
Berlin
My Wish Came True Father Says on Slaying
United Press reports Miss Cameola Soutar, a former vaudeville performer and figure skater, was murdered in northern Indiana. Her father, George Soutar, a printer, recalled driving her from home at age 16 for staying out past 11, and said My wish has come true upon her death. She later married Garrett Holderness.
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United Pres Hicago
Cameola
Soutar
Indiana
George Soutar
Garrett Holderness
Flood Hero Sabel Dies By His Own Hand In Pittsburgh
Michael Sabel, 65, famed for saving nine teens during the 1889 Johnstown flood, is found dead in his garage after years of medals and a tragic accident involving a child he could not forgive himself for. The incident weighed on him after a recent hospital report signaled the victim would survive.
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Pittsburgh
Michael Sabel
Johnstown
Pennsylvania
Conemaugh Lake
Sabel
Raymond Poppi
Raymond
Girgis Visits City as Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus Arrives
The Hagenbeck-Wallace circus pitches its big top at Sugar Grove avenue and Eighteenth street with performances at 2 this afternoon and 8 tonight. The circus train arrived at 5 30 a m from Terre Haute and unloaded at Belmont avenue yards. It will depart at midnight for Richmond Indiana.
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Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus
Sugar Grove Avenue
Eighteenth Street
Terre Haute
Belmont Avenue
Richmond
Ind
Snowballing Mail Carrier Held No Crime
In St. Louis federal court on June 4 a judge ruled that throwing snowballs at a mail carrier does not constitute assault with a deadly weapon or interference with the mails. Fred Chase, a postman, was struck twice by two boys and blamed H R Johnson of Carondelet. The court said snowballs are not deadly weapons and dismissed the delaying the mails charge as personal.
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United Preces
Louis
United States
Fred Chase
Chase
H. R. Johnson
Carondelet, Sr. Johnson
Leslie to Name Road Commission Member in Indiana
State highway panel may replace George E. Hershman of Crown Point with Fred Fox of South Whitley as the commission meets. Hershman’s term ends April 17 but may extend to July 1. Fox, a Purdue classmate of Governor Harry G. Leslie, is described as a Leslie Democrat and rising as a potential director ally.
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George E. Hershman
Crown Point
State Highway Commission
Fred Fox
South Whitley
Harry G. Leslie
Purdue University
Statehouse
Hershman
Leslie
Albert J. Wedeking
Dale
Mrs Cassler Taken Over Route In Swamp Murder Case
A baby was abandoned and left with another woman who later vanished. The mother urged Cameola to work and arranged for her to become housekeeper at Tru man Cassler's home after Mrs Cassler’s arrest. Soutar refused to claim the body saying he wants nothing to do with the case.
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Cameola
Truman Cassler
United Press
Valparaiso
Ind
River Road
Cameola Soutar
Indiana
Catherine Cassler
Porter County
Miss Soutar
Hebron
Prohibition turmoil in Virginia court as deputy sheriff faces murder trial
Abingdon Virginia June 4 jury selection completed for Deputy Sheriff James Crowe on a murder charge involving Emory and Henry student J M Kendrick. Trial promises a tale of enforcement fees and Volstead era lawlessness with officers earning per arrest.
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Abingdon
Washington County
James Crowe
J. M. Kendrick
Virginia
Crowe
Kendrick
Emory and Henry College
James McReynolds
W. H. Worley
Paul Phelps
Dutton
Indiana bandit confesses three bank robberies
Stanley Canfield aged 28 was arrested in FT Wayne and admitted taking part in two Hobbs State Bank robberies and one at Cutler. A second man, Paul Edlew, 28, was jailed with him and denied involvement. Bonds set at 20000 each.
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United Presse
FT. Wayne
Ind
Stanley Canfield
State Bank
Hobbs
Cutler
Paul Edlew
Terre Haute
Canfield
Kokomo
Walker
Kentucky Joe
Hobbs Bank
Bank of Cutler
Once Painter Albert Blease Joins Jail Walls
Albert Blease 79, famed for painting portraits of women and signs, has turned to jail walls painting at the county jail after a life of scams involving counterfeit bills. He told Municipal Judge Paul C. Wetter he only wants to paint and was sentenced to jail as a nonresident. The jailer directed him to begin painting on the cells and ironwork.
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Albert Blease
Feneral Penitentiaries
Paul C. Wetter
Atlanta
Mother-In-Law Beaten Attorney to Stand Trial
KEWANEE Illinois June 4 Trial of Russell T Neville attorney on charge of beating his 74 year old mother in law has been set for June 14.
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Illinois
United Press
Kewanee
Russell T. Neville
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