Subway Train Crash on Elevated L Line Kill Four
Four killed and forty injured in a rear end collision between an elevated L train and a subway at 16th Street Bronx. Fire delayed rescue as cars burned and passengers were trapped. Motorman J Cullen and another man died. a Bronx boy William Schultz, 17, was found among the wreckage. Continued on page four.
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New York
16Th Street
Bronx
J. Cullen
Cullens
T67th Street
William J. Schultz
Dronx
Britten Attacks Gibson on Disarmament Proposal
Washington April 29 AP Chairman Britten of the House naval committee attacked Ambassador Hugh Gibson’s ideas to the Geneva preparatory disarmament commission. He said reservists should count in naval strength and accused Gibson of aiding Anglo French diplomacy. Britten questioned Gibson’s authority to negotiate treaties and foresaw failure at the commission’s sixth session.
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Washington
Britten
House Naval Committee
Hugh Gibson
Gibson
Weather outlook by region and temperature shift
TENNESSEE part ly cloudy tonight and Tuesday with showers in the west, slightly warmer tonight in the extreme west portion. VIRGINIA fair and cooler in the east and central areas, possibly light frost in the northwest tonight, Tuesday fair and warmer with moderate westerly winds turning variable.
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Tennessee
Virginia
Plan Non Stop Around World Flight in Fall
Six internationally known aviators prepare to begin a nonstop world flight from New York on the first clear day in September. Names given include Lieut. Albert D. Hulse Captain Harry W. Lyon Jr and Lieut. L T O’Connell. The five engine plane carries 19000 gallons and will be refueled at Nova Scotia and Glasgow.
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Washington
Washington Post
New York
Albert D. Hulse
Army
Airy Mail
Harry W. Lyon, Jr
Southern Cross
L. T. O'Connell
Lakehurst
Nova Scotia
Glasgow
Bandits Steal Two Trucks of Alemite Caps
Chicago April 29 AP bandits seized the Alemite Manufacturing plant binding three workers as prisoners and removed two truckloads of brass Alemite grease caps valued between 50 000 and 60 000 dollars. Officials say the fittings would fetch quickly at filling stations and auto dealers, note that much brass remained unused, suggesting not melting for brass.
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Chicago
Alemite Manufacturing Company
Senate to act on farm relief and tariff revision
The Senate will act on farm relief in its third week of the special session while the House plans to begin tariff revision debate. A vote on the tariff bill hinges on passage of the expert debenture clause and the Norris amendment on debenture rates amid crop oversupply fears. Senator Heflin seeks to end religious dispute debates with his resolution, while discussions over Secretary Mellon’s eligibility for office loom.
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Washington
Congress
Senate
House
Ways and Means Committee
Fordney-McCumter
Heflin
Alabama
Brockton
United States
Mellon
Senate Judiciary Committee
Cal Discovers Northampton Is Cheap Home Base
Boston April 28 Calvin Coolidge after retirement finds economy in Northampton where basic goods average 117 dollars for items that cost 100 in the rest of the state. State commission on necessaries reports the town offers lower living costs.
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Boston
Calvin Coolidge
Northampton
State Commission On the Necessaries of Life
Crusading Attorney Beaten by Gang in St Petersburg
St Petersburg Florida April 29 James F Bickers a crusading attorney who opposed dog racing was kidnapped beaten robbed and whipped by five men near his home They forced him into a car removed his clothes stole 2000 and bound him He later walked to a highway aided by a motorist His wife ill in bed alerted police who searched with fifty officers and two airplanes Sheriff Beattie vowed to help uncover the kidnappers and said he would try to aid Bickers in leaving town by tonight Bickers had fought dog racing and questioned Beattie’s conduct in protecting bootleggers He had recently sued for Beattie removal and Beattie pledged to help investigate the kidnapping.
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ST. Petersburg
Fla
James F. Bickers
Bickers
Tole
Dickers
Memphis
Tenn
Bicker
Gladstone Beattie
Beattie
Trotzky Sees Another Redict Within Ten Years
Exiled Bolshevik leader Leon Trotzky, in a Constantinople house, bitterly accuses Stalin and Germany, predicts a new war within a decade, and laments his removal from Russia while remaining determined and unresigned in exile. He warns of civilization’s collapse and portrays Moscow’s motives and his own stubborn defiance.
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Priscilla Ring
Associated Press
Constantinople
White House
Leon Trotzky
Lenin
Trotzky
Stalin
Russia
Germany
Dow
Moscow
Robinson Crusoe
Desert
Absent Minded Burglar Robs Then Forgets Loot
In Chicago on April 29 an absent minded burglar robbed Mr and Mrs Arthur Kruger’s flat yesterday but forgot to take the loot. Gems and valuables worth 2500 were missing from a jewel case and a new topcoat vanished. The thief left behind a ragged overcoat. Police recovered the stolen jewelry from the thief’s discarded items.
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Chicago
Arthur Kruger
Krugers
Kruger
Seek to Identify Body 3rd Torch Victim in NY Suburbs
Police seek to identify a badly charred young woman found in woods on the Edwards estate between Scarsdale and Ardsley in Westchester county. The victim, about 20, five feet four, 110 pounds, appears strangled before being set afire. dental bridge work may help ID. The discovery marks the third torch murder in the metropolitan area in 14 months.
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New York
Edwards Estate
Scarsdale
Ardsley
Westchester County
Joseph Seivey
White Plains
Montgomery Ward Building Begins in Kingsport
Excavation starts on a five story brick Montgomery Ward building adjoining First National Bank on Broad Street. Pyle Brothers win the $50,000 contract. John W. Battison, former mayor, leads construction. The brick frontage spans 50 feet by 136 feet deep, two stories plus concrete basement, terra cotta front, similar to the S. H. Kress Building. Occupancy expected in 10 working days with three floors for display and storage. Montgomery Ward is a national mail order firm with a Bristol store recently opened. Plans by local architect A N Dryden.
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First National Bank
Broad Street
Montgomery Ward Company
Pyle Brothers
John W. Battison
Kingsport
S. H. Kress
Pyle
Montgomery-Ward ‘Company
Bristol
Montgomery Ward
A. N. Dryden
Murder Charge Faced With Plea of Blank Mind
Memphis AP report says William Jefferies faced murder charges for Auther B. Pryor's death after a drinking party ended in a shooting. He testified he recalled nothing of the night, pledging a blank mind as his defense.
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Memphis, Tenn
William Jefferes
Auther B. Pryor
Jefferies
Prysr
Limitation Instead of Reduction Debate at Armament Talks
Geneva April 29 APY The preparatory commission adopted a guiding principle of limitation and net reduction of armed forces including land sea and air. Chilean minister J Valdes Wendeville led a bright discussion and the committee rejected Soviet amendments to substitute reduction for limitation and a proposed imitation and reduction. The Chilean delegate opposed the Soviet proposals as German demands from Count Wern Berns...
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Geneva
J. Valdes Wendeville
Russia
Maxim Litvinoff
Seventeen Crew Missing After Cargo Explosion
Manila April 29 AP Seventeen crew members of the interisland steamer Viking were missing and apparently perished after a cargo gasoline explosion sparked a fire in the Visayan Sea between Masbate and Cebu. The Swedish steamer Delhi rescued two survivors with aid from the British freighter City of Newcastle and the steamer Macha. Veteran skipper Charles Olsen was among the missing and some rescued crew were badly burned.
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Manila
Viking
Visayan
Masbate
Cebu
Delhi
City of Newcastle
Macha
Charles Olsen
Way
International booze smuggling plot uncovered in Havana
Havana investigators exposed a million dollar international liquor smuggling ring with a Cuba based hub in Havana. Sydney Hoffman, an American chemist, confessed before deportation, implicating 18 Americans in Cuba. Prohibition officials tied the group to a Florida hotel killing of Thomas Walsh and a $70,000 Whiskey deal swindle.
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Havana
United States
Alfonso Fors
Sydney Hoffman
Hoffman
Washington
Prohibition
Thomas Walsh
Florida
Dogan
Cuba
Wheeler seeks probe of textile working conditions
Senator Wheeler of Montana introduced a resolution asking the Senate Manufactures Committee to investigate working conditions in textile mills in North and South Carolina and Tennessee where strikes are active. The inquiry would assess starvation wages despite tariff protection, sixty hour weeks, underpaid workers, large corporate dividends, tariff justification, disappearances, and demolished relief HQs, with a $10,000 expense allowance and a prompt report.
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Washington
Wheeler
Montana
North
South Carolina
Tennessee
Senate Committee On Manufactures
United States
Enion Relief
Youth Firing Drunk Accidental Shot Wounds Man at Aurora Inn
Emmett Lyons, 25, a country club cadet master, aimed a revolver at Wilder Bosworth, 28, during a gathering at the Aurora Inn. Lyons, intoxicated after eight drinks from a friend’s bottle, fired into Bosworth’s abdomen as onlookers watched, then woke in jail perplexed by the events.
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Emmett Lyons
Aurora Country Club
Wilder M. Bosworth
Bosworth
Lyons
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