Alpine Flood Destroys Liechtenstein Dam and Resorts
Floods across Liechtenstein and eastern Switzerland and Trentino Italy caused widespread destruction after heavy rains. The Rhine swelled and a 5000 foot Liechtenstein Swiss border dam collapsed flooding villages, with many people missing or drowned and millions in property damage. Relief requests have been issued as downpours ease.
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London
Principality
Liechtenstein
Switzerland
Trentino
Italy
Rhine
Lake Constance
Upper Rhine
Rounding Out the News feature linked to geography teachers
The notice informs geography teachers and instructors that three weekly articles on the editorials page of The News-Star under the title Rounding Out the News connect current events with descriptive material for classroom use. The features are published through a special arrangement with the National Geographic Society.
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News-Star
News- Star
National Geographic Society
Psychic research depicts spirit thumbprints in Paris congress
James McMaster Bird of New York displayed photographs he called spirit thumbprints at an international psychic research congress in Paris. He linked the prints to a medium Mrs. L. R. G. Grandon of Boston, alleging matches with a deceased father’s thumbprint from a razor used before death and a series of seances producing teleplasms and brief spirit hand impressions. The audience noted the readings and related phenomena drew strong interest.
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Associated Press
Paris
International Congress For Psychic Research
James McMaster Bird
New York
Bird
Congress
L. R. G. Grandon
Boston
Night Club Hostess Aids Mystery Over Missing Reynolds Heiress
A missing Richard J. Reynolds, heir to the Reynolds tobacco fortune, prompts a police search aided by a Broadway night club hostess and a retrieved yellow Rolls Royce. Reynolds drew about $6,000, stayed in Manhattan, dined on Long Island, and disappeared after boarding a club visit. investigators fear foul play as his whereabouts remain unknown.
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New York
Long Island Sound
Richard J. Reynolds
Reynolds Tobacco Company
Reynolds
Reynolds Airways, Inc
George W. Orr
Winston-Salem, N. C
Marie Houston
Grand Central Station
Graham
Manhattan
Miss Houston
St. Louis
Grand Central
Mineola
Port Washington
Nassau County
R. J. Reynolds
Magruder’s Charge of Naval Waste to Be Aired in Congress
Rear Admiral Thomas Magruder faces congressional scrutiny over his criticism of naval administration and wartime spending. Senators and representatives debate his magazine charges, with calls for a formal hearing and possible reforms as Secretary Wilbur orders new recommendations.
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Magruder
Congress
Washington
Wilbur
Thomas Magruder
Mavn Department
Department
Var
Atlantic
Navy Department
Quiz Mechanic Jailed in Alabama Attacking Case
Birmingham news reports police questioning J B Kennedy mechanic held on assault with intent to murder and robbery charges after he allegedly attacked his wife Ruth Kennedy and T B Bell. Both victims sustained critical injuries with crushed skulls and were found at a boarding house and nearby rail yard. Bell recovered briefly to implicate Kennedy as the assailant. A sum of money Bell had was missing.
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Associated Press
Birmingham
J. B. Kennedy
Ruth Kennedy
T. B. Bell
Bell
Kennedy
Cal Coolidge Drawn as Juror in Mass Case
Leominister Mass September 27 Calvin Coolidge a comb maker has been drawn as a juror in a local case. The surprising civic duty news highlights the future president’s participation in the legal process.
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CAL
Leominister
Mass
Calvin Coolidge
Killing Girl Confession Ties Boy to Fatal Shot
New York police report 10 year old William Sattarelli confessed to killing seven year old Angelina Constanzo with a shotgun in an apartment accident during play. Biaggis Arsenio, 62, also held in homicide court for a separate matter connected to the case.
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Associated Press
New York
Angelina Constanzo
William Sattarelli
Biaggis Arsenio
Angelina
Sattarelli
Constanza
Memphis firm likely to get city contract
A Lincoln Nebraska firm declined the Monroe water purification plant bid of 202 939 leaving B E Buffalo company Memphis Tennessee as the next lowest bid at 217 543 The total for seven waterworks contracts will be 463 572 97 leaving 136 427 03 of the 600 000 appropriation The Robertson Karr bid was split across two contracts and was not accepted for Contract No 5 awarded to W H OToole Construction of Alexandria.
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Robertson-Karr Company
Lincoln
Neb
Monroe
B. E. Buffalo Company
Memphis
Tenn
Buffalo Company
Robertson-Karr
Italian premier's fourth child born at Villa Carpena
Donna Rachele Mussolini gave birth to a son at Villa Carpena near Forli. The baby will be baptized Romano at Carpena church. Mussolini and family are reported well. The premier arrived yesterday to be with his wife for the birth.
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Associated Press
Rome
Donna Rachele Mussolini
Villa Carpena
Forli
Romano
Church of
Carpena
Mussolini
Duce
Edda
Vittorio
Bruno
Balilla
Blue Sedan Key Clue in Lilliendahl Murder Probe
A blue sedan matching a vehicle owned by Willis Beach of Vineland is the latest clue in the murder case of Dr. A William Lilliendahl. Beach, a poultry raiser, is a material witness free on 5000 bail. Three men from Morrisville Pa saw the car near the crime scene.
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Associated Press
Hammonton
N.J
William Lilliendahl
Willis Beach
Vineland Poultry Raiser
Lilliendahls
Morrisville
Frank Harrold
Atlantic City
Beach
William Hudson
Vineland
Lilliendahl
Hudson
Margaret Lillendahl
Warmer Weather Forecast for Corn Belt After Frost
The first general frost hit the western upper Mississippi valley with a cold wave that began Sunday in the Rocky Mountains. Forecasters expect warming in the mountain states and a rise in temperatures across the middle west, with fair weather and a return to warmth likely by Thursday.
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Associated Press
Kansas City
Mississippi Valley
Corn Belt
Rocky Mountains
Middle West
Liechtenstein Towns Swamped After Rhine Dam Break
Liechtenstein towns are buried to their roofs in mud after the Rhine dam breach in Bregrenitz Austria. About 9000 adults strive to cut passageways to homes as floodwaters recede. Children and cattle are kept on high ground. three weeks may be needed to clear mud from villages.
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Bregenz
Austria
Liechtenstein
Black couple dies after West Monroe public safety melee
Algie Richardson aged 19 and Mary Dolphin aged 20, both Black, died after a Saturday melee in Williams quarters West Monroe. Joe Richards 20, Malinda Walton 23 and Otha Hallam 27 are jailed on public safety incident charges with varying claims.
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Algie Richardson
Mary Dolphin
Williams Quarters
West Monroe
Joe Richards
Dolphin
Malinda Walton
Negress
Richardson
Otha Hallam
Hallam
Richards
Walton
Ballone
Pardon for American in French Foreign Legion
Bennett J. Doty of Biloxi Mississippi who enlisted as Gilbert Clare was pardoned by the French government after being court martialed in Damascus Syria in August 1926 and sentenced to eight years in prison Doty a World War veteran served with Battery E 115th field artillery 30th division faced charges of abandoning his post amid Syrian fighting and earlier earned the Croix de Guerre while denying cowardice and citing homesickness and a desire to return to America with honor
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Paris
Bennett J. Doty
French Foreign Legion
Gilbert Clare
Syria
Biloxi
Miss
Doty
115Th Field Artillery
Damarras
Herrick
Kellogg
France
Damascus
Associated Press
Foreign Legion
America
Boy Survives Removal Of Nail Near Lung
In Baton Rouge on September 27 doctors at a local hospital successfully removed a four penny wire nail from near the lung of five year old Leroy Jackson son of Mr and Mrs E H Jackson of Gloster Mississippi.
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Baton Rouge
Leroy Jackson
E. H. Jackson
Gloster
Miss
Blasdell Bookkeeper Arrested For False Alarm
In Blasdell a dairy office fire led bookkeeper Henry Catler to call the Lackawanna department after Blasdell could not be reached. Police charged him with a false alarm, later changed to malicious mischief, arguing he had no authority to summon an outside fire company.
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Blasdell
Henry Catler
Blasdell Department
Lackawanna Department
Catler
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