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...Pittsburgh, noonday crowds were alarmed to see a plane come spinning down through the murk, straight for the rooftops. At 500 ft. a small form separated itself from the plane, a parachute billowed out. The ship crashed noisily on the roof of the old Machinery Building at Frankfort & Duquesne Streets, tumbled off and fell upon two unoccupied automobiles. Floating earthward Pilot Melvin Garlow of Pennsylvania Airlines got his 'chute fouled on a cornice of the building. He cut himself loose, reached the ground with only a sprained ankle. Before accepting aid, Pilot Garlow crawled into his wrecked plane, made...
Died. Constance, Lady Battersea, 88, grande dame of the British House of Rothschild, daughter of Sir Anthony de Rothschild who stemmed from the original Frankfort family; in Overstrand, Norfolk, England. A philanthropist, temperance worker, Lady Battersea was a friend of Queen Victoria, Queen Alexandra, Gladstone, Disraeli, Palmerston...
...been brilliant. In the warm, bright afternoon, the crowd that filled Sportsman's Park chortled and cheered; a hog-caller who had begged his way to St. Louis from Arkansas appalled his section of the grandstand by making curious noises. Derringer, whose brother owns a drugstore in West Frankfort, Ill., and who pitched his first professional game at Gary, W. Va. with famed Sheriff William Hatfield for an umpire, struck out four batters in the first two innings. Between times, St. Louis made two runs against Grove...
...executive vice president, and Collins, vice president in charge of operations, like to boast that the Ludington Line is the nearest thing to railroading in the air. Director Martin Wronsky of Germany's Luft Hansa made a careful study of it, began an hourly service between Cologne and Frankfort last summer. Last week Ludington added a new fast express schedule, 68 min. between Newark and Washington...
...severely wounded. A commissary clerk was also killed. Though the deputies sprayed the ambush with their automatic rifles, they got only one of the 100 attackers. Sheriff Blair was alarmed. No longer confident that he could handle "this thing'' alone, he telephoned to Governor Flem Sampson at Frankfort for aid. Not until a petition of 50 substantial citizens was relayed to him would the Governor act. Then, ordering 350 National Guardsmen under Colonel Daniel Carrell into Harlan County. Governor Sampson declared: "A reign of terror has been precipitated. . . . Outsiders from Illinois and other States are responsible. . . . This must...