Fire claims twelve lives in worst Upper East Side blaze
A five story tenement at 69 East 109th Street destroyed by a rapid fire killed twelve people and injured twenty as flames trapped residents mostly women and children on the upper floors. Firefighters battled three alarms while civilians aided by a taxi driver helped others escape through smoke and flames.
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Conternational News Wire
New York
East One Hundred and Ninth Street
Mount Sinai
Etree
Mount Sinail Hospital
Ames
Tone Mpant
Edward Bronstein
Mount Sina Hospital
St. Daris’s Hospital
Otipin
Harlem
Mandelbaum
Minnie
Mitchell
Benjamin
Alexander
Martha
Kenton
Robert Mainzer
Angelo Magnatti
Beth David
Mainzer
McOntinimo
Boy Tries to Hang Self as State Executes Brother
In Walker County Georgia 12 year old Elbert Thomas Baker attempted suicide by hanging after learning Governor refused to alter George Baker’s death sentence for a deputy sheriff’s slaying. A neighbor intervened before the rope fully tightened as Elbert leaped from a chinaberry tree in the family yard.
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International News Wire
la Fayette
Elbert Thomas Baker
George Baker
George
Baker
Elbert
Walker County
Ma” Baker
Ralph
Hye
Editors to Discuss Ethics at First Annual Meeting
Washington April 27. The American Society of Newspaper Editors opened its first annual meeting with a program on ethical standards for the newspaper profession and practical journalism. Casper S. Yost of the St. Louis Globe Democrat spoke as president, with reports by officers and committees. President Harding was listed among tomorrow nights speakers.
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Washington, D. C
American Society of Newspaper Editors
Casper S. Yost
St. Louis Globe Democrat
Harding
Six Prisoners Shot in Attempted Escape
Six prisoners were shot by jail guards and several others beaten when an attempted mass escape from the St. Louis city work house was thwarted. Fifteen men were found in the jail yard after sawing through cell bars. shots were fired, order restored, and the wounded sent to a hospital.
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St. Louis
Northwestern crash ends in student deaths after class war
Chicago April 27 Northwestern University freshman Lewis Andere is dead and Ralph Williams of Kentucky is believed to be dying after a high speed collision that left seven others injured. The crash followed a confrontation between freshmen and sophomores tied to a bitter campus class feud dating to Leighton Flint's 1921 disappearance.
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International News Wire
Chicago
Lewis Andere
Northwestern University
Gay
Ralph Williams
Harlan
Arthur JD. Winslow
Wilmette
Jamesi Iany
Winslow
Leighton Flint
Northwestern
Dick Howell
Americans Prepare to Abandon Relief Stations in Russia
Moscow reports indicate liquidation of the American relief administration’s work in Russia has begun after a supervisors’ meeting with Col William N. Haskell. Supervisors say some undernourishment exists but food is ample in provinces, and no further emergency aid will be needed after the harvest. Recommendations were sent to Herbart administration, expected to order Hoover to evacuate relief workers during the summer.
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Associated Press
Moscow
Russia
Col
Wiliam N. Haskell
Reef Administration
Relief Administration
Hoover
Mine explodes near Dublin theatre wounding pedestrians
Two pedestrians were wounded in O Connell Street after a mine exploded near the Grand Cinema theatre. A three man two woman group in an automobile planted the device and one wounded is believed to be a party member. The theatre and nearby buildings suffered damage. Two Free State officers were killed in Kerry fighting with republican irregulars. Additional hunger striking women prisoners were released.
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Dublin
O'Connell Street
United States
Kerry
Free Staters
Bank embezzler denies bootlegging link in crackdown
Thomas B. Baird, a cashier, denies claims he stole about 800000 to fund bootlegging. He says the missing funds were used to speculate in stocks while officials say depositor money financed a bootlegging syndicate run from a prominent local club in York, Pennsylvania.
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York
Thomas B. Baird
Governor orders Brundage expense audit under oath
Gov Len Small instructed Attorney General Edward J Brundage to provide an itemized sworn accounting of all monies received and disbursed by his office since 1917. The demand accompanies a bill to fund the attorney general with 997240 plus 53060 for Williamson county mine massacre prosecutions.
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Springfield
Thi
Len Small
Edward J. Brundage
Williamson County
Sze Returns to U.S. with Peking Party
Dr. Alfred Sze, Chinese minister to the United States, leads a 20 member diplomatic party arriving Seattle May 15 en route to Washington to brief Secretary Hughes on the recent killing of an American in Peking. The U.S. demands a satisfactory explanation and Dr. Sze's return to this city.
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Seattle
Wash
Alfred Sze
United States
Washington
Hughes
Peking
Sze
Prohibition Enforcement Faces Bribes and Smuggling Probes
Washington officials report a tense day as Blair probes bribery charges against current and former prohibition agents while Haynes debates actions to curb run smuggling. Pittsburgh advises Kelton’s jail term for 12 months and two agents receive eight months each for conspiracy to sell 2000 barrels of confiscated beer.
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United Press
Washington, D. C
Prohibition
Internal Revenue
Blair
Haynes
Roscoe C. Andrews
Clinois
Caues
Chicago
Grammes & Ullrich
Andrews
Pittsburgh
William A. Kelton
Federal Prohibition
William McConnell
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Stewart
Baltimore
Conrad W. Austin
Alabama
Austin
Intelligence Service
Internal Revenue Bureau
the Treasury
Mellon
New Jersey Dty
Runaway Pella Boy Caught in Chicago
Frank Dyks ramkf, who ran away from his home in Pella Indiana after failing high school exams, was picked up by detectives on the street in Chicago and held for his parents. He said he could not face the shame of failure and had been living at the M C A hotel.
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Chicago
Frank Dyks‘ramkf
Pella
Frank
Mitchell resigns from Federal Reserve Board
Washington April 27 John R Mitchell of St Paul Minn has resigned from the federal reserve board citing pressure of his personal business the decision was announced at the treasury department this afternoon
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Washington, D. C
John R. Mitchell
St. Paul
Dumbbell Quota in U S Filling Rapidly Psychologist Says
Chicago April 27 A University of Chicago psychologist Professor Horest A Kingsbury asserts tests during the War show 24 percent of American men are dull or borderline, 12 percent superior. He warns the defective class is multiplying and becoming a social menace, naming officers, graduates, newspapermen and leaders.
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Chicago
Horest A. Kingsbury
University of Chicago
Kingsbury
Irish Rebels Will End War Monday
Irish war ends Monday per a Dublin source. Eamon de Valera orders the irregular army to cease hostilities at noon on April 30. The movement’s morale has fallen after Tim Lynch’s death, leaving de Valera with few followers, many arrested in recent weeks.
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Daniel O'Connell
International News
Dublin
Ireland
Eamonn Ide Valera
de Valera
Irish Free State
Women in Jail Buy Food But Go Hungry
Fifteen women arrested in vice raids allege a police matron took $25 to buy provisions and then denied them food and water. One detainee fainted under questioning, another said they were jailed for nearly 48 hours without meals. The incidents are under investigation.
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New York
Jaik
State Wins First Round in Jamaica Ginger Seizure Case
In Cedar Rapids Iowa the state prevailed in court over the return of Jamaica ginger seized from E W Speeding's drug store. The judge overruled the motion to return the material, and the state sought an injunction to restrain sale of intoxicants.
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Jamaica
E. W. Speediing
Radio Messages From Kite Antenna Attract Attention
Radio history may have been made at Burbank when a kite balloon was used to suspend an antenna from which broadcast messages were received. Fans declared the event significant as the improvised setup transmitted signals captured by the aerial.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Burbank
Omaha Woman Recalls Near Death After Adrenaline Rescue
Mrs. Finfast Mercurio, 58, revived by adrenalin under Dr. Gerrie describes dying and returning to life. She recounts felt pull of death, peaceful visions, and later partial consciousness for ten days with painless burns as her son nursed her back to full awareness on April 26.
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United Press
Omaha
Finfast Mercuria
W. Aa. Gerrie
Mercurio
Carpenters sue Rock Island for 115000 in Waterloo accident
Administrators of T B Carpenter and Celia Carpenter bring damage suits totaling 115000 after a Rock Island train at Duryea street crossing in Waterloo killed Thaddeus B Carpenter and others. Plaintiffs claim railway negligence including failure to signal, excessive speed, and lack of gates or watchman.
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Pam
Phaddens B. Garpenter
Colin
Rock Island
Duryea Street
Tenutes
Thaddeus B. Carpenter
Rock Island Railw
Colla Carpenter
Myrtle Ivrederleksen
Tf. B. Carpenter
Dml Frederickson
T. B. Carpenter
Rnook Tyland
J. 3. Newman
Celia Carpenter
G. M. Parker
Cedar Falls
Mears & Lovejoy
Waterloo
Maria Frederick
Myrtle
Emil
Black Hawk Creek
Freman
Art City
Carpenter
Fredericksen
B. Carpenter
Railway Company
Trotzky Promises Big Air Fleet Back of Soviet Strength
Moscow April 27 Leon Trotzky Russian minister of war urged expansion of the government air force in a Voluntary Air Fleet Society meeting. He contrasted Soviet isolation with capitalist hostility and said the Soviet will not be broken and will conquer the air as it has the ground. Coast guardsmen seized the motor lighter Napeague near Sandy Hook with about 16 000 cases of liquor en route to New Jersey shore.
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Trotzky
Moscow
United States of America
United States
Leon Trotzky
Voluntary Air Fleet Society
Highland
Coast Guardsmen
Napeague
Rum
New Jersey
Sandy Hook
Delivery notice for Courier service catchup
The Courier should be delivered at your home before 5 30. If the weather or other cause you fail to receive your paper by that time phone 5100 and a copy will be sent. Phone calls must reach this office before 6 30 p m.
Stork Delivers Baby After Wild Chicago Fireway Chase
In Chicago on April 27 a stork allegedly drops a baby after a chaotic scene involving an attorney named Shirley T. High and a frantic pursuit of incendiary fires. The pair, Mrs. John Losky and others, urged police to rush to a hospital as a fire vehicle raced toward Wilots Avenue where explosions were reported. The infant, an eight pound boy, arrived in the fire jeep before reaching the hospital.
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Chicago
Shirley T. High
Wgh
Wilsote Avenue
Hatriet
John Losky
Women Plan Large Sugar Boycott Across Cities
United Press reports a broad boycott movement by housewives and women’s groups in multiple cities to counter high sugar prices. Actions range from petitions and resolutions to planned curtailment of sugar purchases and appeals for official aid.
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United Press
New York
Baltimore
San Diego
Cal
Chicago
Dever
Kansas City
Detroit
Julian Heath
Home Economics Commmittes
Speed Maniacs Will Do Well to Avoid Oelwein
Warry McKennnn pleaded guilty to reckless driving in Oelwein Iowa and was fined 100 dollars plus costs by Judge Cook after a crash on First Street East Thursday night left two cars badly demolished. No serious injuries were reported.
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Oelwein
Warry McKennnn
Cook
First Street
American divorce in Russia costs two dimes
By United Press Moscow April 27 an American can obtain a divorce in Russia for 20 cents covering stamps and publication. The process takes about two months after filing with the civil court. no reply means the divorce is granted. Wives must support themselves after divorce unless children exist. Only two men have used the law for multi marriage.
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United Press
Moscow
Russia
Burbank Refuses to Be Tool of Officials in Bond Row
Des Moines April 27 A dispute over the bonus bond sale pits State Treasurer Burbank against Gov Kendall and state officials. Burbank rejects charges of delaying the sale and says he proposed a 5 percent rate and competitive bidding. He accuses the executive council of misusing his ideas and criticizes their handling of the case.
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Associated Press
Des Moines
Riley
Tomore
Burbank
Gov. Kendall
Associated Presay
State Executive Council
Executive Council
Fort Ges Moines
New York
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