Flood control unit backs national Mississippi river plan
Advocates from mayors chambers of commerce and lawmakers urged the House flood control committee to adopt a definite plan for harnessing Mississippi flood waters. Leaders stressed no politics in the effort and cited billions needed, recalling wartime expenditures as precedent.
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Associated Press
Washington
House Flood Control Committee
Mississippi River
Mississippi Valley
Chambers of Commerce
House
Wm. Hale Thompson
Chicago
Watson
Indiana
Harrison
Mississippi
L. E. Thomas
Shreveport
Frear
Wisconsin
Mason and Dixon Line
W. E. Hull
Illinois
Illinois River
Flier Bets On Luck With Photo Memorabilia In Cockpit
Australian aviator Captain Frederick Giles plans a solo hop from San Francisco to Wellington via Honolulu. In the cockpit he places a photo of Wanda Hess of Wyandotte Michigan, the woman he says inspired the ship’s name. He blushed when asked if she is his fiancée.
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Py Associated Press
San Francisco
Navy
Frederick Giles
Francisco
Wellington
Honolulu
Wanda Hess
Wyandotte, Mich
Miss Hess
Giles
Dance Peddler Made Rich by Cotton Gins
Bristow Oklahoma November 8 Joseph Graham a Syrian immigrant who arrived with ten dollars fifty cents died a millionaire. His long journey as a soldier and wanderer led him to open a store. He later invested in cotton gins and an oil mill accumulating wealth.
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Bristow
Okla
Joseph Graham
Syria
Grand Street Property Sold At 200 Front Foot
The northeast corner of Grand and Calypso streets sold yesterday by L. H. Casper and others to S. K. Heninger for 200 front foot. The 20 000 price funds a large two story brick building for automobile sales after removing two small frame houses. Heninger says Grand will become a major business street and foresees stores extending outward.
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Grand
Calypso
L. H. Casper
S. K. Heninger
Court House
Mr. Heninger
Dunshie Sues to Put Name on State Ballot
In Baton Rouge the suit of ex rel James E. Dunshie against the state democratic committee seeks to reverse a committee decision barring Dunshie from candidacy for secretary of state. Bailey is named as secretary of state and later as an individual defendant. The case includes testimony from Harvey G. Fields and Major A. W. Newlin as the court considers whether to allow Dunshie’s name on ballots.
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Baton Rouge
James J. Bailey
James E. Dunshie
Democratic Central Committee
19Th Judicial District Court
Dunshie
Bailey
Mr. Bailey
Joseph B. Loret
Cecil Bird
Frank P. Krieger
New Orleans
W. Carruth Jones
Harvey G. Fields
Farmerville
State Democratic Committee
A. W. Newlin
Letters Advocating Leprosy Spread Linked to Nash Case
In Portland police seized letters advocating the reading of leprosy and anthrax in America tied to William Nash. One letter targeted a department in Vladh-Siberia, another went to Mexico City marked unclaimed, and a Rio de Janeiro letter discussed sending more germs. Investigators plan a sanity test.
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Associated Press
Portland
Ore
Nash
Rio de Janeiro
Brazil
Brother
Mexico City
Russia
Siberia
China
Body of Woman Slain After Road Attack Near Milwaukee
Mrs Emma Greenwald of Mt Horeb Wis was kidnapped and slain after a roadside ambush near Waukesha. Her husband who was slugged and left in a ditch is in hospital. Police suspect a moron or gang and tie the case to a prior disappearance in Milwaukee.
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Associated Press
Milwaukee
Emma Greenwald
Mt. Horeb
Wis
Dousnan
Waukesha
Greenwald
Frank Taol
Waukesha Hospital
Lillian Graef
Fox River
Greenwalds
Alabama and Vanderbilt End Two Year Football Pact
Alabama and Vanderbilt will terminate their two year agreement after this season and will not meet in 1928. Three new opponents join the Tide schedule for 1928 Mississippi Wisconsin and Tennessee. Alabama will face Wisconsin at Madison on the first Saturday in November with other dates to be announced.
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Associated Press
Tuscaloosa
Ala
Alabama
Vanderbilt
Crimson
Tide
Mississippi
Wisconsin
Tennessee
Wade
Madison
Blind Lecturer Seeks to Regain Sight in the U S
Henry Sanderson Furniss, a 59 year old English scholar long blind, has come to the United States for treatment he hopes will restore his sight. Retired from lecturing he plans to read and write with daily help from his wife and adopted daughter who read to him several hours a day. He graduated from Oxford in 1893.
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Associated Press
New York
Henry Sanderson Furniss
England
Ughter
Oxford
Husband loses complaint over wife’s poker winnings
In Oakland on November 8 a superior court ruled that a husband cannot fault his wife for poker games if she always wins. William Denahy sought to answer his wife’s divorce complaint by arguing she gambled. Mrs. Denahy admitted she played to win, and that her husband was stingy. The judge dismissed the husband’s cross complaint.
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Associated Press
Oakland
Cal
Superior Court
William Denahy
Fire destroys church school dormitory in New Jersey
Bernardsville New Jersey November 8 Three children missing after a fire of undetermined origin destroyed a large wooden dormitory at a school run by the Catholic Sisters of Charity in Peapack near here Eighty boys occupied the building as flames consumed it Nuns in charge believed all pupils escaped Many boys jumped from the low two story dormitory windows but none were injured A later check found three unaccounted for The dormitory served boys aged about three to ten years.
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Associated Press
Bernardsville
N. J
Catholic Sisters of Charity
Peapack
Here
Dunn Brothers Get New Chance After Judge Grant
Byron Dunn condemned for 1926 Lake Charles murder and set for hanging November 18 receives a probable cause order from Judge Ben C. Dawkins. The ruling may allow a new trial for Byron and W Robert Dunn whose sentence was commuted to life. The order moves their habeas corpus appeal toward the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans.
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Shreveport
Byron Dunn
Sam E. Duhon
Lake Charles
Ben C. Dawkins
United States District Court
Byron
W. Robert Dunn
Dawkins
Fifth Circuit Co
An. Is
New Orleans
Dunn Brothers
District Court
Western District of
Louisiana
Want Cream Route in Lincoln and Jackson
A series of farm meetings will be held in Clay Ansley Quitman Jonesboro Weston Chat ham Eros Vernon to promote butter fat production. A cream route from Ruston will send product to market twice weekly. Jackson parish school board approves using school trucks to concentrate cream at the high school for Ruston pickup.
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Ruston
Clay
Ansley
Quitman
Jonesboro
Weston
Chatham
Eros
Vernon
Jackson Parish
Mrs Idea Withers Harrison Dies After Fall
Lexington author and clubwoman Mrs Idea Withers Harrison, 76, died after a fall on a slippery sidewalk two weeks earlier caused a broken leg and later complications.
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Lexington
Idea Withers Harrison
Hambone's Meditations by J P Alley Seeks Honest Meal Advice
In this humorous dialect piece Hambone warns against overindulgence at the table. The speaker reflects on eating potatoes and what one should or should not eat, delivering a folksy moral about moderation.
Commission Rebuffs Lift of Earl Sande Ban
Maryland racing officials declined to lift Earl Sande's suspension after a hearing. The commission said the ban would continue indefinitely but not become permanent. Sande, in tears, protested he did not foul Reigh Count in the Futurity at Pimlico, while stewards and witnesses supported the foul.
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Baltimore
Maryland Racing Commission
Earl Sande
Pimlico
Earle Sande
Sande
Reigh
John H. Latane
Officer Biggar Seriously Sick At Sanitarium
Monroe police veteran Officer Hugh Biggar aged 65 and the force's oldest active member lies in St Francis sanitarium in serious condition. Doctors seek to diagnose an abdominal issue tied to shotgun pellets from an August 24 1909 attack when a crazed assailant wounded 29 Monroe citizens.
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Hugh Biggar
Monroe
St. Francis
Princess Ileana Deemed Physically Perfect by Academy Director
BUCHAREST November 8 Princess Ileana is nearly perfect physically according to the head of the state physical culture academy. He credits her athleticism with her beauty noting she rides fences plays tennis climbs mountains skates skis rows a boat holds sprint records and drives an automobile amid reports of her active lifestyle.
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Bucharest
Ileana
State Physical Culture Academy
Start Picking Jury in Trial of Evangelist
Luther Johnson of Fondale a negro evangelist goes on trial for murder of J M Simpson a negro pastor at the Missouri Pacific depot on Sep 7 five jurors selected with venire exhausted court recessed until 1 30 p m Johnson confessed firing on Simpson then surrendered the revolver to officer Hammonds Jurors named Rex Pipes Hampton Crawford and others booked as selected when court recessed
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Luther Johnson
Fondale
J. M. Simpson
Missouri Pacific
Johnson
Simpson
J. M. Hammonds
Rex
A. Pipes
W. J. Hampton
George H. Crawford
Millicent Rogers Weds Argentine Ramos in Quiet Long Island Ceremony
Millicent Rogers, heiress and former wife of Count Ludwig Salm von Hoogstraeten, wed Arturo Peralta Ramos in a Southampton church parish house. Only her father and close friends attended as Ramos received a dispensation for the Catholic ceremony.
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Millicent Rogers
Henry Huddleston Rogers
Standard Oil
Ludwig Salm von Hoogstraeten
Arturo Peralta Ramos
Peter Salm
Salm
Millicent
International Illustrated News
International Newsreel
New York
America
Col
Henry Huddlestone Rogers
Standard of
Ramos
Church of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary
Southampton
Long Island
Kenneth O’brien
Ellin Mackay Berlin
Robert D. Coe
Rogers
George H. Benjamin
Explosions Level State Theatre and Wreck Surroundings in Hammond
A series of blasts damaged the State theater in Hammond Indiana estimated at 500000. The explosions also damaged All Saints church and nearby storefronts while trolley poles and windows were toppled. No motive or suspects were identified and theater owner William Kleihig claimed no known labor disputes or enemies.
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Hammond
Ind
Navy
All Saints Church
State Street
Sibley Street
AM Saints Catholic Church
State Theater
William Kleiheig
Kleiheig
Detroit Auto Crash Claims Sedalia Family’s Third Child
An automobile hit six year old Robert Hendon in Detroit. He is the third child of Mr and Mrs James Hendon of Sedalia Kentucky to die in accidents within two years. Edmund, the youngest son, and Marian, a three year old daughter, were previously killed in separate accidents. The parents planned to return to Sedalia after the tragedy.
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Detroit
Robert Hendon
James Hendon
Sedalia
Hendon
Ruth Elder's Waiting for Homecoming Wife Reunites in New York
Ruth Elder's husband Lyle Womack arrives from Panama in New York aboard the Aquitania to meet his wife as Mrs Womack not an aviatrix. He plans to share the hardships of her Paris flight and asks her to return to Panama for domestic life. Aunt Susan Odom also arrives on the same steamer and disapproves of Elder's exploits.
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New York
Ruth Elder
Lyle Womack
Panama
Womack
Ace High
Aquitania
Paris
Miss Elder
Susan Odom
Susan
Ruth
Lindbergh
Ruth Elder Flight Saga Ends With Panama Hope
Ruth Elder, celebrated aviatrix, is linked with her husband and Aunt Susan after a perilous flight that ended at sea. The Barendrecht, a Dutch tanker, rescued them following the crash. Elder’s husband vows support while noting Ruth’s determination and professional identity in aviation.
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Aviatrix
Haldeman
Barendrecht
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