Believed Dead In French Ocean Disaster
A Loire estuary excursion steamer, the St Philbert, capsized near St Gildas Port in a storm. Death toll estimated at 441 with eight survivors, as relatives gathered and survivors described the panic and ship sinking hours after departure from Nantes.
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ST. Nazaire
France
St- Philbert
Blanche
Madame Blanche
Southwest Prairie
Bay of Biscay
St. Philbert
St. Gildas
Xin
St. Gildas Point
St. Failbert
Pornic
Europe
Cvimmiers
Mragic
Albert Berty
Mantes
Nantes
Franie
Loire Estuary
Pontiac Bank Shuts Doors In Asset Conserving Move
The Pontiac Commercial and Savings Bank, Pontiac Mich, the city's largest financial institution, was closed today by order of its directors to conserve assets and protect depositors interests. The bank listed resources of 17,841,777. President Cramer Smith died by suicide in a Pontiac hotel on June 6.
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Fontiag
Mich
Raapi
Pontiac Commercial and Savings Bank
Pontiac Commercial and Savninks Bank
Cramer Smith
Pontiac
May Dismiss Shoe Co Receivership
In St Louis on June 16 AP Luke E Hart filed in federal court a petition to dismiss the Continental Illinois Bank suit that set Hamilton Brown Shoe Company into receivership and to discharge receiver William R Gentry The filing says the receivership goal is met and the receiver holds 4 250 000 in assets including 1 6 million in real estate All claims listed as paid except unliquidated or controverted claims
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ST. Louis
Continental Illinois Bank and Trust Company of
Chicago
Hamilton Brown Shoe Company
William R. Gentry
Luke E. Hart
Extortion Ring Charged In Mann Act Blackmail Case
Four young women and two men in custody in Springfield face charges for a scheme to extort $57,000 from four men by posing as federal officers. Victims, from Kansas City and St. Louis plus Vandalia and Mattoon residents, paid sums including 25,090 and 7,000. Suspects include Dorothy Hess, Cecil B. Carroll, and William Humbrast. Authorities say the gang lured victims to hotels using fake DOJ agents. Two more suspects sought as government agents move to arrest others.
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ST. Louis
Springfield
Kansas City
Sk. Louisan
Vandalia
Mattoon
Dorothy Hess
Stone
Cecil B. Carroll
Decatur
William Humbracht
Champaign
Bureau of Investigation
Department of Justice
de- Schibad
Hess
Centralia
Claude Crooks
Chicago
Brazil Claims Two New Islands in South Atlantic
Rio de Janeiro on June 13 reports the government ordered a cruiser northward to claim two new islands in the South Atlantic near St Paul’s Rocks. Position given as 27 20 west, 0 50 north. A British cruiser sits at Georgetown, with potential French interest due to the Paris–Brazil air route.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Brazil
Atlantic
St. Paul's Rocks
Lelande
Georgetown
Gayenne
Europe
RCA Subpoena Pushes Renewal Hearings for Licenses
Washington reports RCA subsidiaries urged the Radio Commission not to revoke 1409 licenses as hearings begin to decide renewal. RCA Communications vice president Winterbottom said 120 licenses could be lost if not renewed and a 24 hour suspension would ruin the service. He warned closure of all stations would be an impossible loss to estimate.
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Washington
Radio Corporation of America
Radio Commission
Commission
United States
Delaware
District of Columbia Supreme Court
R.C. Ala
Justice Bailey
William A. Winterbottom
RC. A. Communiations, Inc
Ae Company
Television and Get Phones Come Into Use
New York radio editor notes television is breaking from labs toward common use. Audiovision programs pairing sound and picture emerge in centers like New York and Chicago, with early experiments using two transmitters and dual receivers for synchronized entertainment. Bell Labs tests in New York showcase the ikonovnene line for face-to-face video. The article explains how scanning disks and photoelectric cells convert light into electrical signals for TV transmission and reception.
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New York
E. Butterfield
Associated Press
Nipkow
Applied
Radio Arts
Chicago
Boston
Audiovision
Chicano
Washington
America
Bell Telephone Laboratories
Dr. Hervert &. Tres
Ninkow
Advertising's Power Highlighted by Hoover at New York Meeting
President Hoover praised advertising's role in raising living standards, spurring invention, and maintaining competition. He spoke at the Advertising Federation of America convention luncheon, noting advertising helps production and distribution and broadens access to comforts once limited to a few.
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New York
America
Hoover
Advertising Federation of America
Cardinals Trade Roettger for Bouthit from Reds Giants
Cincinnati reports Wally Roettger, longtime Cardinal outfielder, was traded to St. Louis for Taylor Bouthit. The Reds also sent cash as part of the deal. Roettger led NL batting earlier this year with 61 hits, while Bouthit has been a regular Cardinal center fielder during three pennant runs.
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Cincinnati
Wally Roetiger
Suffielder
Cincinnati Reds
New York Giants
St. Louis Cardinals
Taylor Bouthit
Sidney Wer
Reds
Cardinals
Roettger
St. Laws
Giants
Bouthit
Louis
Tay_lar Bouthit
Cincinnati Today
Waster Roettger
St. Louis Cardinal
Pepper
Philadelhia
Douthit
Roetger
Gards
Boston
Pillar of Fire theory sparks light beyond science
Sir John Ambrose Fleming argued that the biblical pillar of fire atop Mount Si nai and the lightning-like fire on the angel’s face may be manifestations of a supernatural light beyond known science. He noted scriptures mention light not from combustion and could affect many eyes, suggesting observed events may be more than subjective illusions.
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London
Mount Sinai
John Ambrose Fleming
Missouri Legislature Closes After Parley on Tax and Redistricting
The legislature adjourned after a protracted session highlighted by a rising state income tax plan, education funding, and a school bill. A state highway patrol bill passed, and redistricting for Congress faced veto fallout, with most laws taking effect about mid September after sine die.
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Assembly
State Survey Commission
Senate
Treagwer Brunk
House
Survey Commission
Brunk
Missouri
Caulfield
Taos Pack Court at Mreрeais Trial
Crowds packed the Taos courtroom as the Scotland county murder trial of W J Shawley opened for the killing of Barnett Baxter in Memphis Missouri The jury pool faced delays with only ten qualified candidates called from Memphis as judge W A Higbee postponed until afternoon to summon more jurors Essier once in Chicago visiting his mother near the scene was shot dead by a concealed assailant outside the window of the jury room Shawley is a Baxter neighbor and the case proceeded under heavy security
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Memphis
W. J. Shawley
Barnett Baxter
Scotland County
W. A. Higbee
Essier
Chicago
Shavnley
Baxter
MIR PILOT SAVES PLANE FOUR LIVES
Sterling Boller, 25, a transport pilot, flew 70 miles from Lake Elsinore with a landing gear wheel missing. He headed toward Los Angeles to find a safer landing and landed at the Municipal port after the plane teetered and nosed over. The craft was only slightly damaged and the passengers, three elderly women on their first flight, were unharmed. Passengers included Mrs. George Yung of Lake Elsinore, Mrs. A. C. Samen of Vancouver, B. Co, and Mrs. C. B Kee of Long Beach.
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Los Angeles
Sterling Boller
Lake Elsinore
Boller
George Yung
A. C. Samen
Vancouver
B. Co
C. B Kee
Long Beach
No Revision of War Debt Policy Stated
Secretary Mills said today that the treasury has not changed its attitude on the revision of war debts.
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Cretary Mills
Sury
Arctic Sub Being Towed Toward Irish Port in Peril
The battleship Wyoming reports towing the submarine Nautilus at five knots east of northeast, toward Queenstown Ireland, after both surface engines failed and the crew faced heavy seas and battery power loss while near Provincetown to Land's End. Captain Sloan Danenhower commands the Wilkins craft.
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Washington
Wyoming
Navy Department
mid-Atlantic
Arkansas
Hubert Wilkins
Queenstown
Ireland
Sirs Hubert
Land's End
England
Provincetown
Massachusetts
Sloan Danenhower
Temperance Worker Dies at Evanston
Evanston QL reports the death of Anna Gordon, 18, a temperance worker who passed away today at Castile N. The young activist headed the Na- likely a temperance chapter and was active in Prohibition era efforts.
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Evanston
Anna Gordon
Castile N
Miss Gordon Led Militant Prohibition Force
Willard born in Boston, Miss Gordon headed a leading militant group in the national push for prohibition.
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Ces KE. Willard
Miss Gordon
Boston
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Pillar OF Fire” OF Bible Times
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Taos Pack Court
Mrerepais
MIR
Irish Port
Wilkins
Nautilus
Tional Women's Christian Temperance Union
Fran
Eugene
Mrs
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Beauty Shoppe Trust
Associated Beauty Shops OF
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