Freight Car Wrecks a Pennsylvania Flier; Fireman Killed and 4 Hurt Near Johnstown
By Special to The New York Times
1 killed, 4 hurt as N Y-Pittsburgh flier crashes into derailed freight car
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May 21, 1928
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Miltons to Occupy Cottage Once Rockefeller Employe's
By Special to The New York Times
Mr and Mrs D Milton, son-in-law and daughter, will occupy cottage on Tarrytown estate
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MINE TOLL MOUNTS WITH 64 KNOWN DEAD; Estimates of the Number Entombed in Mather (Pa.) Workings Run From 100 to 213.34 BODIES ARE TAKEN OUT Fourteen Men Escape--Rescuers Battle in Feverish Relays to Get Through Gas.
By Special to The New York Times
Death toll rises; rescue work; N Shrake, survivor, tells experiences
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AMERICA WARNS CHINESE NOT TO LET UNRULY TROOPS MOLEST OUR NATIONALS; NOTES SENT TO BOTH SIDES Declare Our Troops Will Protect Americans in Peking and Tientsin. ASK CONCESSION IMMUNITY Nanking Urged to Keep Army Out of Foreign Areas and to Use Only Disciplined Troops. NORTH CLAIMS 3 VICTORIES Peking Tensity Abates--South Resents Tokio "Ultimatum" to Chang on Manchuria.
By Henry F. Misselwitz. Special Cable To the New York Times
Sends notes to both Nanking and Peking Govts warning against molestation of U S nationalists; illus of his residence in Peking
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PUBLIC OWNERSHIP IN TWO MEASURES ISSUE FOR COOLIDGE; Muscle Shoals and Boulder Dam Bills Carry Test of the Government in Business. SHOALS CONFEREES AGREE Plan for Federal Corporation to Operate Nitrate Plant Will Go to Both Houses. FILIBUSTER LIKELY ON DAM President's Approval of Merchant Marine Bill Expected as Outgrowth of War Necessity.
By Richard V. Oulahan. Special To the New York Times
Govt control
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Notable Births
1928Tom Donahue, American radio host and producer (died 1975)[†]
Tom "Big Daddy" Donahue, was an American rock and roll radio disc jockey, record producer and concert promoter.
1928Alice Drummond, American actress (died 2016)[†]
Alice Elizabeth Drummond was an American actress. A veteran Off-Broadway performer, she was nominated in 1970 for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her performance as Mrs. Lee in The Chinese by Murray Schisgal. She may be best known as Alice, the librarian, in the opening scenes of the 1984 horror-comedy Ghostbusters.