Four children barely escape from flames
Milwaukee reports heavy rain storms cause lightning to destroy a home injure a church and apartment building. Four children in Michael Turner’s house escaped as the roof collapsed. The Augustana church steeple fire was controlled with minor damage. No injuries reported. In Kansas, floods drown four in Herington and many missing, with towns flooded and rescues underway. Boats salvage goods as water rose to knee height in Council Grove.
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Milwaukee
Michael Turner
Bel~ Fry
Augustana Evangelical
Lime Creek
Council Grove
William Larimer
Barber
Graf Zeppelin sales talk ties Cleveland Los Angeles
Reports in Wall Street claim talks are under way to buy the Graf Zeppelin for a Los Angeles to Honolulu air passenger service with Cleveland and Los Angeles capital. Skyways Inc. President John Elden says details will be drafted Sunday at a conference and the price is about 1 million dollars. Aviation officials doubt the deal, noting Goodyear Zeppelin’s Akron agency and other plans for a California Hawaii line.
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New York
Wall Street
Los Angeles
Honolulu
Cleveland
John Elden
Skyways, Inc
Zeppelin
Goodyear-Zeppelin Company of
Akron
Paul W. Littlefield
Akron Company
Goodyear- Zeppelin Company
Fires Roar Through Dry Forests of Northern Manitoba
Fires roared through parched forests in northern Manitoba and Saskatchewan destroying timber and threatening settlements. A strong wind and no rain aided the blazes as rangers and settlers struggled to contain them. One fire tracked a five mile wide path north from Flin Flon with dozens more burning to the east, threatening Basue and Porcupine reserves eighty miles east of Prince Albert.
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Winnipeg, Man—Pi
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Flin Flon
Sacedchewan
Basaue and
Porcupine Forst
Prince Albert
Commandant Dies at Portsmouth Naval Prison
Pi Lieut Col James Kennard Tracy of the United States marine corps, commandant of the Portsmouth naval prison, died at the naval hospital in Portsmouth today. Born in Pennsylvania fifty years ago, he joined the marine corps in 1900.
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Portsmouth
N. H
James Kennard Tracy
United States Marine Corps
Portsmouth Naval Prison
Naval Hospital
Pennsylvania
Marine Corps
Dream of Love to Be Realized in Paris Sultan's Heir to Wed
Paris hosts a society gala where Prince Luis Ferdinand DOrleans de Vegion of Spain announces engagement to Mabelle Gilman Corey, former musical star, after she converted to Catholicism to satisfy family matins. The couple plans a June 1 wedding in San Remo Italy. The Infanta Eulalia attends, expressing cautious approval.
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Paris
Luis Ferdinand D'Orleans de Vegion
Spain
Mabelle Gilman Corey
Infante
Mrs Corey
William Ellis Corey
San Remo
Italy
Infanta
Eulalia
Pennsylvania
New York
Corey
Pittsburgh
Laura Cook
Death knell for the plugged nickel and wooden money
In Times Square today the death knell sounded for the plugged nickel and other wooden money as the first robot slug detective was shown. It attaches to an automatic change maker and detects bad coins with an electric magnet and a loud voice urging users to use good coins only. Joseph Shermack, the inventor, initially planned a harsher alert but reconsidered to avoid wrongly accusing innocent users.
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New York
Times Square
Reparations Experts Mark Time at Paris
Paris reports show Dr Schacht and Sir Josiah Stamp drafting a revised conference report on Germany's acceptances under Owen Young's plan. The main sticking point remains German reservations and whether repartitioning surplus among Allied creditors will be resolved, with a plenary session expected early next week.
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Samuel Dashiell
United Press
Paris
Hyalmar Schacht
Josiah Stamp
Owen D Young
Reich
Germany
Stamp
Schacht
Young
Dr. Schacht
Cen
Hjalmar Schacht
Reichsbank
Committee of Experts
Sir Josiah
Dr Schacht
Sir Jossiah
Mr Young
Dr. Schacht le Matin
Greatritain
Belgium
United States
Federal dry agents admit shaking dice in saloon evidence
Milwaukee reports federal dry agents testified that they shook dice for drinks in Antone Smith’s saloon as part of evidence gathering in the federal case against Smith and his wife Martha Smith. The act violated city and state gambling laws, with the couple charged under Enuor laws. A related carage suit from a raid four years ago involves Lane Maloney, a city agent, who is alleged to have slugged Smith during the raid.
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Milwaukee
Antone Smith
Smith
Martha
Lane Maloney
Stimson Begins Broad State Department Reorganization
Secretary Stimson starts a wide reorganization to coordinate divisions within the State Department. Under secretary J Reuben Clark Jr would act as coordinating officer while the secretary handles key matters, with division chiefs consulting through the under secretary. Stimson notes possible legislation or funds and may personally present the budget to Congress. The aim is to better gather facts and project American policy worldwide.
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Washington, D. C
Stimson
State Department
J. Reuben Clark, Jr
Stamson
Congress
America
Australian Premier protests Young plan to London
Premier Bruce of Australia cables Premier Baldwin in London opposing the proposed Young plan. He denounces excluding Dominions from claims against Germany and supports Churchill’s remark that the American plan is unacceptable to Great Britain.
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London
Owen I Young
Bruce
Australia
Baldwin
Dominions
Germany
Winston Churchill
Great Britain
Truck Hit Fatal Skull Fracture In Crossing Accident
Donald Caswell died after a Milwaukee Road freight train struck a truck he and his mother were in near Springfield. The collision threw him onto the engine pilot. his mother and sister Marian, 4, were not seriously injured.
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Janesville
Wis
Springfield
Donald Caswell
Milwaukee Road
Donald
Marian
Harvard Student Walter Huntington Suicide Theory Debated
Hartford United Press detective Edward J. Hickey declared Harvard student Walter Huntington shot himself and that remorse over recent party indiscretions drove the act. Investigators spoke with Huntington's classmates, dismissed murder theories, and noted a crude drawing showing a revolver pointed at a head with a murder reward inscription.
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Cedric W. Foster
United Press
Hartford
Conn
Edward J. Hickey
Walter
Treadway Huntington
Harvard
Huntington
Hickey
Patrick J. Hurley
A Baldwin
Weather forecast for Great Lakes and surrounding regions
The forecast shows mostly cloudy conditions with showers across Wisconsin and Michigan, cooler temperatures in some areas, and variable winds. Regions around the Great Lakes expect showers east and fair skies in the west, with rain in Upper Michigan tonight and Sunday. Additional notes indicate cooler trends by midweek and minor temperature changes across Minnesota and the northern plains.
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Associated Press
Wisconsin
Michigan
Superior
Huron
Upper Michigan
Minnesota
Northwestern
Great
Upper
Mississippi
Lower
Missouri
Vanessa
Great Plains
Navy to aid Graf Zeppelin round the world flight
Secretary Adams announced the navy will cooperate with the Graf Zeppelin voyage this summer. The ship will visit the United States twice in May and August with stops at Friedrichshafen Kajima Gaura Lakehurst and Los Angeles. A mooring mast will be built at Los Angeles and readiness kept at Fort Lewis American Lake Washington and Ewa Hawaii for emergency landings.
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Washington
Adams
Navy Department
United States
Naval Air Station
Lakehurst
Friedrichshafen
Germany
Kajima- Gaura
Lake Hurst
Los Angeles
Pacific
Atlantic
Director of
Naval Communications
Fort Lewis
American Lake Washinton
Ewa Plantation
Hawaii
Convention Rejects Motion to Ban Women from Speaking
In Memphis the Southern Baptist Convention overwhelmingly rejected a motion to bar women from addressing sessions. The vote upheld inviting Mrs W J Cox of Memphis, president of the Women’s Missionary Division, who began speaking before Rev J W Porter of Lexington walked out. Porter warned feminism as harmful and cited biblical subjection teachings during his remarks.
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Memphis
Tenn
Southern Baptist Convention
W J Coz
Women’s Missionary Division
J W Porter
Lexington
Kentucky
The
Baptists
Cox
Porter
the American Baptist
Kellogg Sees Europe Favor Disarmament After War Pact
Chicago report notes Frank B Kellogg, former secretary of state, says Europe favors disarmament more than ever after the multilateral treaty to outlaw war. Kellogg, who helped sponsor the pact, passes through on return from a continent visit and plans to resume his law practice in St Paul. He stayed in Washington until Henry L Stimson arrived from the Philippines.
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Chicago
Europe
Frank B Kellogg
Kellogg
St. Paul
Hoover
Henry L. Stimson
Washington
Philippines
Bipartisan tariff talks open to member suggestions
Washington leaders announce that Republican members of the Ways and Means committee will hear proposed changes to the pending tariff bill starting Tuesday. Amendments may be offered on the House floor if warranted, following a conference between Hawley and Dickinson, with western Republicans pressing for higher agricultural rates.
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Washington, D. C
Hawley
House
Ways and Means
Dickinson
Towa
Full Time Road Board to Officiate in State
Governor Walter J. Kohler signed the Goodland bill creating a three member full time highway board with $6 000 annual salaries to replace the existing part time body. The action, witnessed by a delegation at the cape titol, also established Leif Erikson day and included presentation of signing pens to Senator Goodland and Professor Rasmus Anderson.
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Madison
Walter J. Kohler
Goodland
State Highway Commission
Kohler
F. E. Turneaure
University School of Engineering
E. F. Bean
Congress Agenda Mixes Tariff Debates and Proposals
Senate adjourns for weekend while House pursues tariff debates and farm relief amendments. Hearings on proposed federal communications commission reforms continue. Talks on sugar duties and dairy products clash as senators propose limits and new taxation ideas.
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Senate
House
Senate Interstate Commerce Committee
Federal Communications Commission
William S. Ware
Pennsylvania
FRIDA
Republicans
Federal Farm Board
Colquitt
Texas
Tailway Board of Mediation
Walsh
Massachusetts
Copeland
New York
Michigan
Indiana
Hall
Tennessee
Ways and Means
Timberlake
Colorado
Brookham
Towa
Congress
Brockhart
Iowa
Cassville Boy Fatally Burned From Painting Brush Incident
Patrick Vogt, age 6, was fatally burned when a burning paint brush thrown from a window ignited his clothing. A brother was cleaning the brush near a stove and it flared up, striking Patock. A sister suffered serious burns while trying to extinguish the flames.
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Cassville
Wis
Patrick Vogt
Patock
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