Levee Breaks Threaten Louisiana as Flood Spreads
Widespread levee failures flood the sugar belt of Louisiana with 10 000 square miles inundated. Convicts from the state penitentiary join others in rescue efforts at great personal risk while refugees seek safety. News notes on Arctic exploration flights and early jet mail concerns appear, along with clergy takes on heaven and government treatment of workers.
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Sugar Belt
Louisiana
Louisiana State Penitentiary
Little salesmen win early in classified box
Two five line ads in fesx will run the same day as two more in the classified section. Auto Laundry operates day and night with free storage and wash or grease. Warren Auto Laundry advertises. For rent four rooms and bath with electricity first floor at 21 Canton Street.
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Warren Auto Laundry
Ireet
Bath school blast shocks Michigan town deaths blamed on dynamite
Explosion under the Bath Consolidated grade school kills and injures dozens, with ten sticks of dynamite found under the east wing after the collapse. Adults A. E. Kehoe and E. E. Huyck among the dead. floods of ambulances rush pupils to Lansing area hospitals.
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Foster Eaton
United
Bath
Mid
Bath Consolidated
Charles Lane
Michigan
A. E. Kehoe
Kehoe
E. E. Huyck
Glenn Smith
Lansing
Activi
Unis
Bath Village
Hugo Delfis
Sparrow Hospital
St. Lawrence Hospital
Four bandits hold up Conshohocken bank for cash
In Conshohocken Pennsylvania four masked robbers robbed the West Conshohocken branch of the Conshohocken Trust Company, taking about $1000 and unknown silver before fleeing in an automobile. Teller Gerald Rath, 20, was injured when a robber pressed a pistol to his side during the robbery.
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Conshohocken
U. P
West Conshohocken
Conshohocken Trust Company
Gerald Rath
Telier
Rath
Radio stations shift to new wavelengths on June 1
Washington May 18 Radio fans must log favorite stations anew June 1 as the federal radio commission reallocates wave lengths to cut interference. About 300 of 61 stations will share time. others keep full schedules. The move aims to consolidate stations and reduce transmitters to about 440 within a year.
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Washington
U. S
Federal Radio Commission
Betlaws
Dancer Maurice Mauvet Near Death In Lausanne Hotel
In Lausanne Switzerland on May 8 Maurice Mauvet heir to Vernon Castle's fame was dying in the Savoy hotel. Doctors abandoned by Mauvet's physicians three days ago kept the patient alive with oxygen and administration support as his condition deteriorated.
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Lausanne
Switzerland
U. P
Maurice Mauvet
Vernon Castle
Savoy Hotel
Maurice
Oil Conservation Action Held Up by Oklahoma District Group
Washington May 18 The Okmulgee Oklahoma District Oil and Gas Association wired Secretary of Interior Work urging the federal conservation board to delay any action on oil production conservation until independent operators can present their viewpoint.
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Washington
U. P
Okmulgee, Obla
District OR and Gas Association
Secretary of Interior
Federal Conservation Board
St Paul pitcher Addie Meade found dead in hotel room
Addie Meade, pitcher for the St Paul Association baseball team, was found dead in a hotel room in St Paul Minnesota with a bullet wound over his heart. Police believe he shot himself. A hotel guest discovered the body.
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ST. Paul, Minn
Addie Meade
St. Paul
Meads
Bottle claim taints Nungesser and Coli flight mystery
Reports from London and Falmouth recount a discovered bottle claimed to carry words from Captains Nungesser and Coli, with doubt over its authenticity due to currents. Boston dispatches note searches for wreckage from the missing White Bird, including a sighting near the U S Coast Guard St. Bellepline. Coast guards in Falmouth report a bottle message saying engine trouble forced a landing off the Irish coast, but officials question its truth.
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London
United Press
Nungesser
Coli
Falmouth
Lloyds
Lloyd’s
Ireland
Boston
G. P
Gloucester
Massachusetts
Chas. Nimgessee
Francois Coli
F. Inge
U. S
Sten - Bellepline
Pencellenie Coast Guard
Inge
White Bird
Feng
U. P.1
Coast Guards
Charles Nungesser
Coast Guard
Great flood grips Mississippi Valley country
United Press reports a catastrophic flood sweeping the lower Mississippi valley. Lebeau’s Mulatto community is deserted as ten feet of floodwaters flood streets, Acadian villages are wrecked, and Lafitte’s fort may be submerged within a week. Plantations survive. the Atchafalaya flood broadens relief, with levee breaks near Melville reducing southern risk. Evacuations surge as mule wagons and boats move residents from Opelousas toward safety amid drownings feared in the sugar belt.
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United Press
New Orleans
Sissippi Valley
Lebeau
Jean Lafitte
Fensas
Sugar Bowl
Melville
Baton Rouge
Atchafalaya
Sada
Ius
Opelousas
Toombs
Get Out After Subscriptions In Tribune Drive Now
The Tribune calls readers to join the great circulation drive with early action winning the top prize. It argues hesitation costs rewards and that hustling, steady effort, and salesmanship lead to profits, noting popularity contests are outdated and emphasis is on real work and votes earned through subscriptions.
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Field
Tribune
A. H. Prinet
Ute
Pune
Vico
Aten
Usal
Mayday Festival Character Cast
The Mayday Festival hosted by the Prothean class of First Baptist Church features Miss Lynette Havens as teacher and Olive Archibald as writer director. The program includes a spring awakening drama with Maypole dance, entertainers, and refreshments.
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First Baptist Church
Lynette Havens
Mary
Olive Archibald
Miriam Trexine
Charlene Scott
Eleanor Wallmas
Vera Kings
Gourt Jester
Sayalt McNill
Flowers
Bernice, Anderson
Dorothy Ericksen
Elaine Williams
Marian Edgett
June Berdine
Melena Klinesiiver
Martha Mortensen
Bernice Seafert
Sabelle Wilson
Illage
Martha Patersen
Kathryn Bryan
Dorothy Brown
Evelyn White
Valjean King
Jane Caughey
Marian Kirby
Rita Kofod
Beatrice Edgart
Mary Gilson
Marian Gage
Ana Larson
Quen
Bunny
Rachael Sloan
Maid Marian
Margaret Ruhlman
Mayola
Isabelle Wilson
Genevieve Strickland
Jily Jindmark
Gladys Mitten
Pianini
Fatal plane crash blamed on flier at Middletown depot
At the Middletown army depot Major Harold Geiser of Phillipsfield Aberdeen Me died in a crash blamed on a pilot error. Officers report the pilot misidentified a carburetor control for a fuel shutoff, leading to the crash and the plane falling to the ground.
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Middletown
U. P
United States Army
Harold Geiser
Phillipsfield
Aberdeen
Earl de Mord
Trinity Members At Convention In Titusville
The seventeenth annual diocesan convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the diocese of Erie opened at St James Memorial church Titusville with Bishop Ward presiding. Delegates were named for the Provincial convention and Canon Dunlap of Washington Cathedral addressed the audience alongside a talk on the Washington cathedral project. The session included holy communion breakfast and a luncheon, with a banquet planned for clergy and lay delegates later.
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Monvcopal
Diocese of
Frio
St. James Memorial Church
Titusville
Joby Chamberton Ward
Albert Broadhuest
Walforth Tyng
Changaha
China
Trinity Church
Warren
Férest
Warren Epscopalians
Ware
Walter W. Beaty
George T. Brockway
George T. Brockway To the Committee of Canons
Canon Dunlap
Washington
W.C. A
RP Allison
Wycoming Mission
New York
Warsaw
N.Y
DuBois Firm Secures Rouseville Viaduct Contract
PICESBVURGHS May 1800 The Malleran Construction Company of DuBois Pa today won the contract to build a viaduct over the Pennsylvania railroad tracks at Rouseville The project calls for an expenditure of about $80,000 and is expected to take generous time under the terms of the award
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Malleran Construction Company
DuBois
Teday
Pennsylvania Railroad
Ofuseville
Dispute Over Bellanca Far Sets Final Tests Plans
A breakdown in talks between Charles Levine and Lieut. Bertaud over the Bellanca flight to Paris prompted Byrd’s group to press for final weight tests despite forecasted bad weather. Lindbergh visited Sagamore Hill with Theodore Roosevelt Jr as discussions continued and Balchen faced a possible role change in the Paris flight. Weather reports warned of unfavorable sea conditions for the New York Paris run, with rain in New York and clouds offshore over the next two to three days.
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NAW
York
U. P.J
Liev Bertaud
Charles Levine
Bellanca
Paris
Byrd Organization
Charles Lindbergh
Sagamorel
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr
Pope
Pneeverin
Byrd
Pole
Wasitington
U. P
New York
United States Weather Bureau
New Foundland
Azowes
Tabby the Black Cal Follows Wanderlust to Engine Cylinder
May 18 report from Harrisburg notes Tabby, a big black cat at the Pennsylvania Railroad roundhouse in Baltimore, rode on the driving stage cylinder of a passenger engine during a wanderlust episode. The engine was later found safely in repairs.
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Narrisburg
Weather Letter Shows Cooler Tonight With Showers
The weather report notes a developing low pressure system from the St. Lawrence Valley to New Mexico bringing widespread rain and thunderstorms from western Pennsylvania through Ohio Indiana Illinois Iowa Missouri and Kansas. Cooler air moves in east of the low while the Canadian high trends colder in the west. Temperatures in New York Pittsburgh Washington Yellowstone Park and others range from 32 to 58 degrees with changing precipitation and sunset times.
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St. Lawrence
New Mexico
Kansis
Concordia
Wichita
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Indiana
Ilinois
Iowa
Missouri
Kansas
I Toba
Saskatchewan
Manitoba
A.M
New
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Great Britain
Walter Duncan Buchanan
Minch Simons
Heaven
Hell
Straton
Snyder
William W.W. Cohen
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Army
Navy
Yeggs Rob Bank
Williamsport
John P. Hoagland
3. D. Coney
Hoagland
Hepburn Club
Loyalsock Creek
WANT
Philadelphia
Carrie
North of Ireland
Mississippi Valley
Little Colony
Lewis
Mayday Festival
First Baptist
Trinity
Warren Episcopalians
Rouseville
Bertaud
Levine
Qutal Sea
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