Companions on raft swept away in Lake Michigan tragedy
Indiana Harbor May 8 A 14 year old boy was rescued after drifting all night with two companions on a raft. The other two boys Mike Muday and Peter Yorich both 14 were drowned as coast guardsmen search for their bodies. John Kordich 13 tried to swim to shore to alert rescuers but disappeared in the dark. Wind was 45 miles per hour and the raft broke from Buffington harbor.
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Bank Looted in Hammond Heist Altogether $10,000
Three bandits robbed the Maywood Trust and Savings Bank in Hammond Indiana of about $10,000 in cash and fled toward Chicago Heights. The crime was reported today by local authorities.
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Maywood Trust and Savings Bank
Chicago Heights
Train Derailment Kills Boy Near Savannah and Wounds Another
Palmetto Limited derailed near Lodge Georgia injuring crew members while passengers were unhurt. Separately near Oakdale on the Lake Charles highway a meat market driver’s truck left the road, killing 14 year old Matthews and injuring 15 year old Greer in a crash.
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Palmetto Limited
Jacksonville
Atlantic Coast Line
Lodge
Here
A. Dennison
Frank Jones
J. P. Walker
Associated Press
Alexandria
Matthews
Gilbert Greer
Oakdale
Lake Charles
J. M. Hart
Greer
B. E. Matthews
A. D. Greer
Ten Killed in Trio of Fatal Crashes Today
A trio of crashes in El Paso Ohio Cincinnati and Wilmington claim ten lives. An airplane wreck between San Jeronimo and Zacatecas Mexico killed seven including a pilot and his family. motor failure at 10000 feet blamed. In Cincinnati an air mail crash killed two mechanics Orlin Smith and Dominic Angeira. In Wilmington a car crash killed J W Hurd and his wife en route to visit a former resident.
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Zacatecas
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Cincinnati
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Shelby
Ind
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Torrington
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Pittsburgh
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C. N. Phillipes
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Smith Creek Bridge
Lie Detector Claims Solved Chicago Hotel Murder
The University of Chicago lie detector reportedly solved the murder of M. A. Douglas strangled in a hotel. Leonard Keeler said two sailors at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station confessed after testing. Coroner Preniesen tempered the claim, noting important developments, with Douglas from Detroit staying at a West Madison hotel.
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Science
University of Chicago
M. A. Douglas
Leonard Keeler
August Vollmer
Great Lakes Naval Training School
Herman Preniesen
Keeler
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Detroit
Madison Street
Date Set for Orleans Station Plans Filing
The Louisiana Public Service Commission announces May 8 to June 17 as the final period for the Illinois Central railroad to submit detailed plans and specifications for the new uptown Union Station in New Orleans. Francis Williams, commission chairman, stated the filing deadline.
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Illinois Central Railroad
Uptown Union Station
New Orleans
Louisiana Public Service Commission
Francis Williams
Man Who Shot Wife to Death Escapes Into Mississippi
Troy Fuller, 35, who fatally shot his wife and fled into Mississippi, eluded a 75 man posse near Mounds after escaping the swamp. He crossed the Mississippi river bridge at Delta Point and reentered Vicksburg, pursued by Madison parish deputies. Mrs Fuller, mother of seven, had left him two months earlier. Red Cross is caring for the children.
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Vicksburg
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Mounds
A. J. Sevier
Madison Parish
Delta Point
Mississippi River
Body floating in Mississippi may be Nessin kin
Relatives of Raymond Nessin, 29, drowned near Memphis over a year ago, fear a body pulled from the Mississippi river yesterday is his. The corpse was taken to Tunica, Mississippi, after removal from the river. Nessin and two others drowned in a small tributary of the Mississippi.
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Tunica
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Mississippi
New Orleans Officer Fires, Seeks Blood Transfusion
Patrolman Paul Abadie shot himself in the chest early today after writing himself a ticket to the Great Recorder. His condition was critical as hospital staff asked for blood donations. Thirty officers volunteered, including a central station operator. Abadie told his wife and fellow officers, I shot myself because I was sick.
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Riots in Sholapur Leave 25 Dead in Liquor Shop Pickets
Police clash with independence demonstrators in Sholapur as liquor shop picketing triggers a prolonged outbreak. Twenty five killed and about a hundred wounded as Mahatma Gandhi is moved to a new jail and military units are deployed locally. The Duke of Wellington’s regiment is sent from Ahmednagar toward Sholapur.
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Ahmednagar
Fournet Denies Resignation Rumors Amid Louisiana Battle
In Baton Rouge amid the Long and anti-Long fight lines, reports claimed Speaker John B. Fournet would resign to block an opposition move. Fournet and Governor Long denied any resignation plans as legislative leadership tensions rise with a Senate vacancy after Judge P. H. Gilbert’s departure.
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Hambone's Meditations by J P Alley
A lively fragment presents Hambone's Meditations by J P Alley and a phrase in dialect about mercy and daily life. The readable text hints at an informal rural voice and familiar refrain.
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J. P. Alley
Radiotelephone Service Fails First Call to South America
The new England to South America radiotelephone linked London to La Nacion but misrouted the first call, connecting the London Daily Express with a Mr. Smith in Santiago, Chile. This incident marked an inauspicious debut for the service as editors sought the correct destination.
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South America
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Walker enters race for third district judge seat
Ruston May announces E L Walker a 42 year old Jackson parish native will seek the third judicial district judgeship covering Union Lincoln and Jackson parishes. A former teacher clerk of Jackson parish delegate to the 1921 constitutional convention and city judge of Ruston since 1928 he notes 701 municipal court decisions with only three reversed on appeal.
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Explosion Damages Gulf Refining Office in Bayonne
A fire at Gulf Refining in Bayonne New Jersey after the tanker Churchis exploded damaged the office building and piers 1 and 2. Nine men injured three hospitalized. Names include Karl Nostaahl Ivert Haarlanst and Gunner Friedman. Fire crews from Gulf Standard Oil and Tidewater assisted with chemical equipment to prevent tank fires.
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Brooklyn
Ivert Haarlanst
Gunner Friedman
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Gulf
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Tidewater
Bill Would Hike Public Service Commission Salaries
A Louisiana bill to raise salaries of the three State Public Service commissioners to 6000 dollars a year will be introduced in the coming legislative session. The chairmen are Francis Williams, Dudley J. LeBlanc, and Harvey G. Fields. current pay is 3000 dollars annually each. Passage requires a two thirds vote in both houses.
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State House
Public Service Commission
Public Service Commissioners
Francis Williams
New Orleans
Dudley J. LeBlanc
Lafayette
Harvey G. Fields
Farmerville
New Rules Standardize Cottonseed Oil Trading on Exchange
New York exchange enacts rules for cottonseed oil trades allowing delivery in any month from November to April 1931. A 60,000 pound loose oil contract is set. Each month of trading adds a new futures month, while old rules permit delivery through December with bids and offers labeled old contract.
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Associated Press
New York
New York Produce Exchange
Phone official found dead near Little Rock
Lucius M. Loring, division traffic superintendent of Southwestern Bell Telephone, was found shot under a tree in Westwood, a suburb of Little Rock. A pistol was in his hand and his car was nearby. coroner Samuel Boyce opened an investigation and indicated evidence pointed to a self-inflicted death.
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Little Rock
Ark
Lucius M. Loring
Southwestern Bell Telephone Company
Westwood
Samuel Boyce
Farm Board Leader's Nephew Ill in Arkansas
Rogers Ark May 8 As Alexander H Legge chairman of the Federal Farm Board visits his seriously ill nephew Alexander E Legge on a farm ten miles from Rogers He arrived yesterday and found the nephew slightly improved The chairman postponed interviews to stay at the bedside of his relative
Uniform Motor Freight Rate for Louisiana Set for Approval
A Louisiana uniform motor freight rate was decided at a public service commission meeting and will be submitted to the full commission for approval. The plan adds toll-bridge charges but caps river crossings at two percent of total cost, allows 25 cent pickups in cities over 100,000, and sets 25 cent C O D charges on shipments up to 50 dollars with higher rates for larger values.
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Associated Press
Lafayette
Louisiana
Public Service Commission
Dudley J. LeBlanc
Four men trapped when tire blows out on highway near Algiers
Four men were pinned under their overturned car after a front tire blew out on a highway near Algiers. Passersby freed them. Luke Herbert, 29, suffered a probable skull fracture and was identified as the most seriously hurt.
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Associated Press
New Orleans
Algiers
Luke Herbert
Night baseball starts tonight in Caddo capital
Shreveport May 8. Alexandria Reds face Baton Rouge Highlanders in the Cotton States league at a local park under a special permit and illumination as the first night game on record in the area. Texas league officials and Cotton States reps will attend the event.
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Eleven Dead as Heat Sets New Record in East
May 8 reports deadly heat across the Atlantic seaboard with 11 fatalities. New York and Philadelphia each tally two deaths, Boston two, amid record high temperatures and a forecast of possible thunder showers.
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Philadelphia
Camden
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George Immendorf
Minnie Vollomner
Red Cross Votes for Highway First Aid Box
The American Red Cross approved a system of emergency first aid along major U S highways for automobile accidents. A second resolution set May 31 1931 as the date for a nationwide 50th anniversary celebration of the organization.
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Associated Press
Washington
United States
American Red Cross
North Louisiana Crops Boosted by General Rainfall
Rainfall of about .75 inch Tuesday night brought a potential boost to crops across North Louisiana East Texas and South Arkansas Farmers expect millions of dollars in added output after a month without rain and a general soaking over the region.
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Shreveport
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East
Texas
South
Arkansas
Third Man Wounded in Prison Station Fire and Gun Incident
At the Ohio State Penitentiary a gun accident killed two convicts and wounded a third as 650 prisoners rebelled in a stockade fire. Deputy Warden J C Woodard said a guardsman’s machine gun fired accidentally near the chapel. the victims were James W Ross and Albert Freeman both Cleveland residents.
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State Penitentiary
Ernest Warren
Cleveland
James W. Ross
Albert Freeman
J. C. Woodard
Woodard
Four Detectives Kill Suspect in Store Robberies
Four Toledo detectives, pursuing a bandit gang believed to be responsible for Michigan store robberies, engaged in a gun battle near a Toledo house early today and killed Claude Allen, 32, of Mount Pleasant Tennessee. Allen and three others approached a garage near the house just before daybreak as officers watched the supposed gang headquarters. the scene contained merchandise from box cars and Michigan stores.
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Associated Press
Toledo
Here
Claude Allen
Mount Pleasant
Tenn
Allen
Michigan
Daughters of Confederacy Honor Louisiana Jurist
The Louisiana division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy opened a three day session in Baton Rouge paying tribute to the memory of Edward Douglas White the only Louisianian to sit on the U S Supreme Court bench. The event included a presentation of his oil painting and a program of flag ceremonies and historical talks by prominent Louisiana figures.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana
United Daughters of the Confederacy
Edward Douglas White
United States Supreme Court
White
State Supreme Court
United States
William Howard Taft
Supreme Court
Judge White
Washington
J. 3. J. Otto
Edward Douglas White Brousseau
F. P. Jones
Leesville
Mra. L. M. Bashinsky
Troy
Ala
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