Deadly war gas spreads fear in Hamburg
Eleven people die in a mysterious phosgene gas explosion in Wilhelmsburg as the cloud drifts through Hamburg. Firemen policemen Reichswehr troops and fishermen are overcome or rescued as panicked residents flee. Professor Haber notes gas lethality and wonders at its origin. Official statements say the gas was stored for seven years and may have ties to industrial uses.
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Times
Hamburg
Germany
Wilhelmsburg
Reichswehr
Hofe Canal
Reischweig
Webbeland
Fritz Haber
Professor Haber
Haber
United States
Gotham Detectives Track Gang Leaders Slayings
New York detectives pursue killers in two gangland slayings. Pat Mitchell and Leo Boyle died after a suspected underworld feud with a mysterious woman sought in Boyle’s fatal rooftop plunge. Patrolman Schultheiss intercepted suspect James Russell at a speakeasy, while Mitchell faced a so called murder jury.
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United Press
New York
Underworld
Pat Mitchell
Leo Boyle
Boyle
West Forty-Ninth St
Mitchell
Arthur Schultheiss
Sixth Ave
James Russell
W. Fourth St
Eye Injury From Street Car Crash in City
Edson T. Wood Jr., 34 E Forty Third St, is hospitalized at St Vincent with a badly cut eye after his car collided with a street car in the 3700 block of S Pennsylvania St this morning.
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Edson T. Wood, Jr
E. Forty- Third St
St. Vincent Hospital
S. Pennsylvania St
Room for Rent Ad Cleared Fast in Times
Mrs. John Cutshaw placed a furnished room for rent ad in The Times at 729 E 11th St. The room was rented the first day to the first caller. the ad ran for six days then was cancelled. Reach 250000 daily readers by placing your notice. Call Main 3500 for six days at $1.00.
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John Cutshaw
E. 11Th St
The
Times
Murder trial ends with plea to manslaughter
Paul Mittrach, 33, pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the death of Fritz Hess, 68, a neighbor truck farmer, shot February 4, 1928. The charge was reduced from first degree murder after a compromise between defense and prosecution, yielding a two to fourteen year sentence in Indiana State Prison. A special venire of fifty jurors had been called before Judge James A. Collins.
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Paul Mittrach
Indiana
Mittrach
Fritz Hess
James A. Collins
Burns and Baxter
Indianapolis
Illinois-Indiana
Scouts to See Africa on Johnson Expedition
Three 15 year old Eagle Scouts were chosen at Boy Scout headquarters to join Mr and Mrs Martin Johnson on a camera exploring trip in South Africa. The scouts are Robert Douglas Greensborough North Carolina a great grandson of Stephen A Douglas David Martin Jr Austin Minnesota and Douglas Oliver Atlanta Georgia.
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United Press
New York
Boy Scout
Martin Johnson
South Africa
Robert Douglas
Greensborough
N. C
Stephen A. Douglas
David Martin Jr
Austin, Minn
Douglas Oliver
Atlanta
Woman Charged in Stabbing of Husband at Fayette Street Home
Billie May Haynes, 25, was jailed on assault and battery with intent to kill charges after a stabbing allegedly occurred at the Fayette Street residence of her husband Richard Haynes, 29, at 1332 Fayette St. The incident is described as a domestic dispute leading to the arrest.
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Billie May Haynes
Fayette St
Althea Miller
Mansfield St
Riverside Civic Association
Municipal Gardens
Viola Westlake
Miss Miller
H .Oy Smith
William Kaylor
Telling the World uses news service for film drama
In a first for cinema a Metro Goldwyn Mayer feature uses a United Press correspondent and global news networks to drive its plot. The drama unfolds from a newsroom to China as a wireless flash spreads worldwide, with extras in forty countries.
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United Press
Culver City
Cal
Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer
China
Globe
Dale van Every
Muncie Student Heads R. O. T. C. Next Year
Karl Thornburg of Muncie will be cadet colonel to lead the Indiana R O T C next year. He will be assisted by Fred C. Tangemant as cadet lieutenant colonel and Charles Mount of Connersville and Ralph Pinnick of West Baden as cadet colonel and cadet lieutenant colonel this year.
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Muncie
United Press
Attorneys restrict Stephenson talks to ordinary matters
Lloyd O Hill and Paul Newman said D C Stephenson may discuss only ordinary business in the presence of a guard. They spent hours with him in Indiana State Prison Saturday. He cannot talk politics now. Newman said the conference mostly covered civil suits. Stephenson is not in the hospital but ill with fever and on medicine.
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D. C
Newman
Stores To Be Probed Under Brookhart Resolution
The Federal Trade Commission announced it will investigate chain stores under the Brookhart resolution. It will study marketing and distributing methods, growth, and potential regulation or anti trust action if warranted.
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United Press
Washington
Federal Trade Commission
Brookhart Senate
Fire in Mather mine blocks rescue efforts and 44 dead
Fire halted rescuers at the Mather mine as about 150 miners were entombed. Fourteen rescued earlier. by May 21 total dead reached 44 with 210 believed trapped. Rescue teams advanced through butt 14 while air fans renewed airflow to the gas-filled workings.
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Harry Camins
United Press
Mather
Walter H. Glasgow
State Secretary of Mines
Glasgow
Butt 14
Marianna
Miner
Cornelius R. Beatty
Cliff Benjamin
Joe Plinks
American Superintendent Shot at Tampico Oil Field
F F Nolden American superintendent of the Campania Latino American was shot and killed at an Alamo oil field in Tampico. He is the second American killed in a week with Superintendent Wilson of Union Oil found dead in a car wreck and money missing.
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United Press
Mexico City
F. F. Nolden
Campania
Alamo
Tampico
Nolden
Wilson
Union Oil Company
Wife Seeks Court Aid After Bearing Thirteen Children
Mrs. Ed ward Cromwell, 35, appeals for state intervention after bearing thirteen children in ten years. Her husband, a proponent of larger families, faces a technical breach of peace charge as alienists assess him. Five children survive, one crippled, cared for by the city and Family Welfare Society.
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United Presse
Ridgeport
Conn
Edward Cromwell
Cromwell
Connecticut
James C. Shannon
City
Family Welfare Society
Daniel C. Gunn
Shannon
Hall recount trial delayed in Marion County suit
The recount trial for Archibald M. Hall the defeated Republican candidate for Congress was postponed to 2 pm Wednesday after attorney M L Clawson requested time to brief on service validity for defendant Ralph E Updike. The defense will fund a 24 hour guard over impounded ballots. A parallel recount suit in the county surveyor race by Henry Campbell against Paul Roscoe Brown is pending.
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Marion County
Archibald M. Hall
M. L. Clawson
Ralph E. Updike
Updike
Washington
Wilbur Rouse
Hall
Harry O. Chamberlin
John W. Becker
William T. Quillin
James R. Norrell
Earl Dill
Wallace A. Robertson
Balloon misidentified after reported plane crash at Riverside Park
Citizens reported a plane plunging to earth in flames at 5:30 pm Sunday near Riverside Park. Local aviators later said the craft resembled a deflated balloon used in an ascension. Army pilots surveyed the area with no trace found.
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Riverside Park
Thirty-Third St
Arsenal Ave
Ft. Benjamin Harrison
Bernard Shaw Sets Price for Film Visit
Bernard Shaw said he would charge $100,000 to travel to Hollywood to direct a film and discuss his play. He spoke with Adolph Menjou and Catherine Carver, honeymooning after a Paris wedding, at the Carlton Hotel in London.
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United Press
Bernard Shaw
Hollywood
Adolph Menjou
Catherine Carver
Paris
Shaw
Menjou
Carlton Hotel
Aldolph
Traces Flight in West and South Link Burns to Slayings
John Burns, captured in Lafayette amid a nationwide hunt, denied any role in the February killing of Deputy Sheriffs Wallace McClure and John Groves. He implicated three unknown assailants and described the officers being forced from their car before the deaths were discovered near Foster, Indiana.
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John Burns
Wallace McClure
John Groves
Special Lafayette
Ind
Burns
Here
Samuel Baxter
State Reformatory
Pendleton
Foster
Baxter
Reformatory
McClure
Groves
Lafayette
U S Jury Convenes in Indiana for New Districts
The federal grand jury convened to review about 100 cases involving around 150 people under the new two district setup in Indiana with Indianapolis as the southern district center. Sheriff Hawkins and deputies testified as liquor cases opened. jurors include foreman Glen McKinney and 22 others from towns such as Connersville Carmel Kokomo Lebanon Greenfield and Indianapolis.
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Indiana
Indianapolis
Omer Hawkins
Glen McKinney
Wingate
Foreman
Okra T. Blemker
Connersville
Sanford Mattox
Livonia
Saul Munter
Enoch Murphy
Linton
Arthur Ottinger
Carmel
Charles Renner
Mahalasville
Otho Simpson
Kokomo
Zera Smith
Lebanon
Alonzo Smock
Columbus
Lawrence Wood
Greenfield
Willian Fisher
Omer Brown
Winchester
Charles Bruce
Crawfordsville
J. W. Darey
Newcastle
Alonzo H. Gladden
Scottsburg
Joseph L. Hertz
Madison
Clyde Holmes
New Albany
C. E
Sand pile boy found in Chicago river search ends
The eight year old John Pyrek reported missing after being buried in a sand pile and drowned in the Chicago River was found floating on the river Sunday. Bruno Bogdon, 9, a playmate, provided the third version of the disappearance. Thousands of police and volunteers conducted a five day search.
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United Press
Chicago
John Pyrek
Bruno Bogdon
Beer Destroyed After Raid on Vacant Lansing Street House
Police destroyed about twelve hundred quarts of beer found in an unoccupied house at 515 Lansing St after a raid late Saturday. Patrolmen Spinks and Spears conducted the operation and could not determine who rented the property.
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Lansing St
Spinks and Spears
Fletcher Cafeteria Plate Lunch Adverts
Plate lunch offered at Fletcher Cafeteria with noon and evening specialties. Located in the basement of Fletcher Trust Blog. Open from 10 30 a m to 7 30 p m.
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Fletcher Cafeteria
Fletcher Trust
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