Tuesday, April 22, 1930

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The Headlines

335 CONVICTS DIE IN OHIO PRISON FIRE; TROOPS SUBDUE 2,000 FREE IN THE YARD; THREE OTHER FIRES SET IN ESCAPE PLOT; INMATES TRAPPED IN CELLS Burned and Suffocated While Rescuers Try in Vain to Reach Them. YARD LIKE A BATTLEFIELD Dead and Dying Cover Ground as White-Robed Doctors Try to Save Them. 4,300 IN CROWDED PRISON Prisoners and Guards Show Heroism--Regulars and Militia Called to Prevent Outbreak. 311 Bodies in Prison Yard; 24 Others Lying in Basement Hundreds of Bodies on Grass. New Fires Are Started. 335 CONVICTS DIE IN OHIO PRISON FIRE Start of the Disaster. Says 100 Could Have Been Saved. General Escape Was Feared. Warden's Family in Panic. Machine Guns Posted. Key to Cells Misplaced. KNOWN DEAD IN PRISON FIRE. Convict Victims at Columbus Listed With Home Counties.

Best-selling Sheet Music

Happy Days Are Here Again

Milton Ager

The must-have

Charlotte Clark Mickey Mouse

Slang

Tech Check

Jet Engine Concepts, Scotch Tape & Flashbulbs.

Style of 1930

Silhouette: Bias-cut and clinging

Material: Satin and crepe

• Puff sleeves
• Backless gowns
• Finger waves

Cost of Living (1930)