Liner Planes Crash in Alk Killing Six
A foggy crash near Thientloy 7 miles north of Paris kills six aboard two planes bound Paris to London. Passengers include M Bouries and the Jolien Brusi couple. One British pilot dies. another plane’s pilot survives. The Paris–London service, with 35 routes, had just resumed after the war.
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Alk
Paris
SA Midaire
London
Thientloy
Avex
M. Bouries
Mme
Jolien Brusi
Piet Mire
le Bourget
Paris City
Buke
Park and London
Cricklewood
Johnson
Denisons
Diva in After-Holdup Strains Jewelry Worth Forty Five Thousand
Opera singer Galli Curei and husband Homer Samuels endured a theft at San Juan Capistrano where two girls stole jewels valued at 45000 after lunch. The pair escaped in a car, prompting Curei to retire to her San Diego hotel suite for recovery from the incident.
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Mme. Galli Curei
San Diego
Cal
Mme
Galli Curei
San Juan Capistrano
Homer Samuels
Walt
Miss Altha White Goes to Davenport on Business
Miss Altha White travels to Davenport this morning for business purposes according to a brief hometown report.
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Altha White
Davenport
Holds Sleuths for Thefts in Kansas City Stores
Eight employees and former workers of detective agencies were held by police in Kansas City in a scheme to rob places they were paid to guard. Several have confessed and implicated others. Goods valued over $7,000 recovered. Downtown stores wholesale houses and shops targeted.
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Kansas City
Police Board to Hire 1192 New Patrolmen in Gotham
New York officials authorize 1192 additional patrolmen to curb rising banditry. The board of aldermen will consider issuing bonds totaling 1,000,000 dollars to fund the hires.
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New York
Board of Estimate
Enoright
Board of Aldermen
Jury awards widow $47,500 for six children in Hedden case
In New York a jury before Supreme Court Justice Tierney awarded Mrs. Charles L. Jones 47,500 for support of herself and her six fatherless children in a suit against Hedden Construction. Jones died when a bundle of iron work fell from an apartment house scaffold.
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New York
Supreme Court
Tierney
Charles L. Jones
Hedden Construction Company
Jones
Angel Rons
Olath
United States Girds Policy for Genoa Conference
Washington April 8 cabinet meeting signals a possible shift in U S policy toward Russia and readiness to aid if Genoa conference succeeds. A trade agreement may come first followed by recognition once Europe shows a plan for economic rehabilitation. Officials say no recognition yet and steps hinge on European progress and reciprocal trade links.
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Washington
United States
Russia
Europe
Harding
Offcials
Irish in Raid on Customs Store House in Dublin
About one hundred members of the Irish Republican Army forced into the Dublin bonded stores of the customs house and smashed casks of wine and whisky, with damage estimated in the hundreds of thousands. Reports say acts targeted shipments and liquor during a broader crackdown.
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Republican Army
Belfast
Ireland
Irish Republican Army
Custom House
Dublin
Spumount Street
New Lodge Road
Donfanaghy Road
County Donegal
Falearragh
Dunfanaghy
Free State
De Valera Warns Ireland On Treaty Installment
Fammon De Valera declares that Irish opposition will resist the treaty era while London reports five former Royal Irish Constabulary officers shot in Ireland. Two killed in Kerry, three in Clare, another wounded in Kerry.
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Ireland
Famonn de Valera
Don Laoghaire
Kingstown
London
Apri
Royal Irish Constabulary
Dublin
Morning Post
Kerry
Clare
British Premier Heads to Genoa for Economic Conference
Prime Minister Lloyd George led a 20 member party including his wife and daughter Megan to Genoa for the international economic conference starting Monday. Security crews bar discussion, with wives limited to official staff, and delegates warned against greeting outsiders.
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London
Lloyd George
Megan
Genoa
Louis Barthen
France
Santa Margherita
Maly
Italy
Imperial Palace Hotel
Tehitcher's
Litvinos
Joffe
Great Hotel
Disnes
Juviel Grounds
Gabrieles Annunzios
Miners in Hocking Valley claim hunger amid strike
Representative Edwin D. Ricketts of Ohio, a former miner, told the House that striking coal workers and their families in the Hocking valley are starving. The debate focused on labor amendments to an appropriations bill as Mondell defended the administration and lawmakers debated farmer inclusion and labor funds.
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Ricketts
Ohio
Hocking Valley
Washington
Congress
House
Edwin D. Ricketts
Ohie
Mondell
Allinois
Nolan
House Labor Committee
Edward H. Denison
Ben Johnson
Kentucky
Meyer London
New York
Denison
Department of Justice
Coal miners strike debate hinges on wages and charity
The document cites miners earning under $750 yearly at under 100 workdays and asserts protesters suffer while propaganda wrongly blames wages for high coal prices. It notes charity for 127 families, a call for a end to the strike, and quotes John Brophy on underground darkness and hidden profits in coal financing and distribution.
First Woman Jailed for Traffic Violation
In Detroit on April 8 Judge Bartrett jailed the first woman for a traffic violation since his tenure. Mrs Sadie Davis aged thirty five was found guilty of driving without a license and sentenced to one day in jail, to be spent in the prisoners box.
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Sadie Davis
Detroit
Mich
Bartrett
Davis
Harding Signs Austria Grain Loan Extension
President Harding signed a joint resolution authorizing a 25 year extension for Austria to repay a $24,000,000 advance for flour and other foodstuffs purchased through the United States Grain Corporation.
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Harding
Washington
Congress
Austria
United States Grain Corporation
Judge O Day Defends Beck Slaying As Self Defense
County Attorney Forrest Hughes released a signed statement on the Beck case saying Lieut Col Baul Ward Beck was shot from behind and Day acted in defense of his home not his life. He cites an X ray indicating Beck was not facing Day and that Day’s account may omit crucial facts.
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Oklahoma City
Okla
Forrest Hughes
Baul Ward Beck
Jean P. Day
Belved Day
Army
Day
Beck
Judge Day
Hughes
Bin
Tom
Big Landslide Threatens West Los Angeles Area
A ten acre landslide near Topanga Canyon head, about two miles away, is slowly moving down the mountainside. About 500 feet of earth shifted from its origin while a few houses, fences, trees, and a stretch of Scenic Highway slide in tandem with the ground. The cause remains speculation, with movement starting soon after a heavy truck passed earlier.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Topango Canyon
Royalist Demonstration Follows Emperor Charles Mass
In Vienna faithful gathered at St Stephen's Cathedral for a rectiem mass to honor Emperor Charles sparking Vienna's first royalist protest. Nobles and officials filled the church while crowds outside sang the royal anthem and marched to parliament demanding pension and pay. Police dispersed the crowd as flags at parliament were lowered to half mast.
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Vienna
Austria
Charles
Schober
Perliamwent
Arment
Ae Peror
Flaga Meanon
Cyclone Claims Iowa Woman Death in Woodward Area
A cyclone ripped through Woodward Iowa during the night killing Mrs Wil Tierman wife of a farmer. Many farm houses and outbuildings were wrecked and the damage is estimated at about Gane 000 dollars.
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Farmer
Woodward
Irish Use Boats in Raids Near Middleton
Motor boats filled with armed men supported by machine guns invaded Middleton in Cork. They left their boats, men searched stores, and employees were marched into the streets. In St. Louis Miss Maud A. Richie, 18, a telephone operator, shot her father, George A. Richie, 53, who she said abused her mother.
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Middleton
Cork
Ireland
St. Louis
April
Maud A. Richie
George A. Ritchie
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