Drunken War Veteran Deaths After Chase and Train Tragedy
Ferdinand Preuss, a 38 year old veteran, killed two policemen and a merchant and wounded others before taking his own life by leaping in front of a Northwestern train in Chicago. The manhunt involved 50 squads and Deputy Chief John Stege as authorities faced a violent end to the spree. Mrs Rose Preuss expressed relief that her husband died as the law closed in.
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United Press Dispatch
Chicago
Ferdinand Preuss
West Side
Freeport
Preuss
John Stege
Sergt
John Lee Conley
Detective Bureau
Northwestern
West Madison Street
Lilbourn Ave
Rose Preuss
United Press
Sergi. Conley
Conley
Herbert Hagberg
Hagberg
John Chorazak
Frank, Vodicka
Gus Karos
Joseph J. Murphy
Carl Mahan
Paintsville, Ky
John Mahan
Anwrit
Jbe
War Reparations Agreement Reached for Germany
Paris dispels long-running dispute as seven nations settle on a Germany payment plan. Germany would pay 8.808 billion dollars in cash if settled now, with installments over 59 years averaging about 488 million annually. Belgium’s currency deflation claim remains unresolved between Brussels and Berlin.
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United Press Dispatch
Paris
Thomas W. Lamont
Germany
Agreemnt
Belgium
Owen D. Young
Emile Francqui
Brussels
Berlin
Farm bill conferees push for compromise in Washington
United Press dispatch reports farm bill conferees worked over a compromise while both houses recessed for the week end. President Hoover signaled approval of adjournment if the farm bill passes and a Senate tariff vote is set for November 9, aiming to have action early next week.
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United Press Dispatch
Washington
Congress
Hoover
White House
Senate
Democrats Form Plans for Summer Tariff Vote
Democrats on the senate finance committee approved letting Republicans pursue a three month summer recess as Hoover proposed, with a completed farm bill and a senate vote date. They favor passage before December and agree to a definite November date for final disposition, while continuing to avert the disputed debenture provision.
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Washington
Senate Finance Committee
Hoover
Senate
Democrat Tariff Conference
House
Chicago building strike halts $200 million worth projects
Chicago June 1. Bridge and Structural Iron workers union struck, halting building projects valued at two hundred million dollars. The union demands eight dollar higher daily pay from twelve to eighteen while contractors offer twelve fifty. officials begin pulling workers off jobs.
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United Press Dispatch
Chicago
Bridge and Structural Iron Workers Union
Indiana Coal Freight Rates Cut by ICC Examiner
An Interstate Commerce Commission examiner found that Indiana bituminous coal freight rates to parts of Illinois are unreasonable. He recommended rate reductions from 11 to 67 cents per ton and reparations. New proposed rates cover Terre Haute and several Indiana coal basins to Paris Mays Dudley Vermillion Conlogue Ill and to Vermillion Paris and Conlogue.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Commission
Brazil-Clinton
Linton-Sullivan
Princeton-Petersburg
Boonville
Indiana
Finois
Terre Haute
Paris
Mays
Dudley
Vermillion
Conlogue
Ill
College ballots list famous names at Texas Christian U
Voters at Texas Christian University reportedly cast ballots with familiar names including Charles Lindbergh Rin Tin Tin Herbert Hoover Al Smith Red Grange and Jack Dempsey amid the recent election.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Texas Christian University
Charles Lindbergh
Rin ‘Pintin
Herbert Hoover
al Smith
Red Grange
Jack Dempsey
Bloomington sewer system condemned by state health board
Indiana state board of health condemned most of Bloomington's sewer system and disposal plant and ordered changes by July 1. City council to discuss at Tuesday meeting. Recommendations include reconstructing Jordan River district sewer, building sanitary sewer for North Bloomington, abandoning or rebuilding the plant, and stopping discharge of roof and surface drainage into the system.
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Bloomington
Indiana State Board of Health
State Board
Jordan River District
Reopened Coroner's Inquest Probes Northcott Farm Murders
A Riverside coroner's jury reopened the murder farm case linked to Gordon Northcott to identify two victims. Northcott, imprisoned at San Quentin, was convicted of murdering Lewis and Nelson Winslow after an insurer refused to pay on policies taken for the boys.
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Riverside
Calif
Gordon Stewart Northcott
Northcott
San Quentin
Lewis
Nelson Winslow
Nelson
Farmer Ends Life After Tragedy in Hopkinsville
In Hopkinsville Kentucky H Durham 55 a county farmer killed himself in a restaurant by swallowing poison following a prior family tragedy in which his wife and daughter were killed by the daughter’s husband at Durham’s home. The husband then took his own life. Durham had brooded over the crime and entered the restaurant for water before taking poison.
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Hopkinsville
H. Durham
Durham
Firemen At New Albany Aid Women And Man With Repairs
June 1 New Albany firemen at No 2 engine house helped a woman by replacing her shoe heel and later shortened a peg leg for Francis Coyle. Fireman Elliott sawed the leg, Curry steadied it, and Wattom provided a rubber cushion. The grateful victims praised the service.
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New Albany
Alphonse Howard
No. 2
FE. E. Elliott
Francis Coyle
Elliott
J. D. Curry
Walter Wattom
Coyle
Large liquor still unearthed in Logansport raid uncovers 445 gallon daily capacity
Frank Fontana, 88, a Chicago Italian, is jailed in Logansport after a raid seized the county’s largest liquor still. Sheriff Zerbe says Fontana admitted earning $40 weekly to run the operation for a Chicago gangster known as Jimmie. The still boasted 445 gallon daily capacity and used 160 pounds of steam pressure to make sugar alcohol.
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Logansport
Ind
Frank Fontana
Chicago
William Zerbe
Fontana
Jimmie
King George Reported Having Good Night at Windsor
An official Windsor Castle bulletin says King George had a good night and notes progress of a recently developed illness. The report, issued today in Windsor, provides no further medical details.
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Windsor
England
Windsor Castle
George
Torrential Rains Flood Southwest Texas Oklahoma Kansas
Torrential rains flood Texas Oklahoma and Kansas raising creeks to raging rivers. Buffalo Bayou in Houston surges to 43 feet as villages become isolated. Evacuations occur with refugees moving to higher ground and relief agencies opening in Richmond and Rosenberg.
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Texas
Oklahoma
Kansas
Buffalo Bayou
Houston
Tex
Richmond
Rosenberg
Lindy and Anne May Honeymoon On Georgia Coast
United Press dispatch from Brunswick reports Col. Charles A. Lindbergh and his bride may be honeymooning on an island off Georgia. Possibilities include Sapelo Island with Howard E. Coffin or St Catherine Island with James Wilson, a director of the Trans-Continental Air Transport Corp. The Coffin yacht Zapalia is offshore and an amphibian plane with Wilson and friends is said to have reached St Catherine Island.
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United Press
Brunswick
Charles A. Lindbergh
Georgia
Sapelo Island
Howard E. Coffin
St. Catherine Island
James ©. Wilson
Wilson
Trans-Continental Air Transport Corporation
Lindbergh
Coffin Yacht Zapalia
St., Catherine Island
Paroles Refused in Hammond Theatre Bombing Case
United Press dispatch from Michigan City reports parole board decisions on November 8 1927 denying parole to Harry Williams and Hammond men serving one to three years at the Indiana State Prison for roles in the $11006 000 State theatre bombing in Hammond Forty one paroles were denied out of eighty two cases considered Greene County cases were not reviewed.
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United Press
Michigan City
Jagharoles
Harry Hs
Drivpod
Williams
Hammond
Indiana
Greene County
New Indiana Law Makes Resisting Officers a Crime
Indianapolis June 1. Acts from the last general assembly promul gated by Governor May 21 make it a criminal offense to resist an officer in the discharge of duty or to oppose assistants. Fines up to 100 dollars and up to six months in jail apply. drawing a weapon or injuring an officer carries up to one year. Richard Lieber, state conservation director, says the statutes aid fish and game enforcement. He notes past resistances and attacks by dynamiters and seiners in some areas.
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Indianapolis
General Assembly
Leslie
Richard Lieber
Flights Postponed In Trans Ocean Aerial Race
Old Orchard Me June 1 The long delayed trans ocean flights of the American monoplane Green Flash and the French monoplane Yellow Bird again have been postponed with no hop off before tomorrow morning at the earliest. Storm conditions in parts of the North Atlantic holding both crafts to the sands of Old Orchard.
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Old Orchard
North Atlantic
Rome
Paris
Road Construction Plans Set in Greene County
Greene County officials announce that construction contracts will be set within 60 days. Director John J. Brown and Engineer Titus explain the state highway program aims to move decided work to contractors quickly. The planned route will connect St. Louis and Cincinnati, requiring cooperation from cities and towns and maintaining a twenty foot clearance.
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John J. Brown
Titus
Greene’ County
White River
St. Louis
Cincinnati
State Highway Commission
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