Prohibition Debate Opens as Lawyer Delivers Rights Ruling
J Weston Allen former Massachusetts attorney general urges the House Judiciary Committee that courts never granted a citizen the right to manufacture for personal use. He calls repeal efforts legal gymnastics and cites 19th century decisions denying personal liberty to make drink. Massachusetts hosts strong wet groups amid Revolutionary era imagery.
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Washington
J. Weston Allen
Boston
Massachusetts
House Judiciary Committee
Allen
Beck
Pennsylvania
Two Billion Oil Wells Deepest In The World
Kenneth R. Kingsbury president of Standard Oil of California arrives in Bakersfield California for a business morning tour. He flies from Fresno in a Ford plane to survey oil country including Kettleman Hills and Taft where his own well reaches 9 500 feet and keeps going deeper daily.
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Bakersfield
Calif
Kenneth R. Kingsbury
Standard Oil Company of California
Kettleman Hills
Fresno
Ford
Mr. Kingsbury
Taft
Dry side of prohibition case closes before House panel
The House Judiciary Committee ended live testimony in the dry side phase as prohibition leaders led by F. Scott McBride submitted written statements. Wet members, including LaGuardia, protested cross examination limits but accepted the time-saving plan.
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Washington
U.P
House Judiciary Committee
Ete
F. Scott McBride
Anti-Saloon League
McBride
Anti- Saloon League
LaGuardia
Republican
New York
Donnie Sent To Fore New Castle For Death Case
Interest in the Schroeder Dague murder case shifts to Wheeling West Virginia where courts may decide the fate of Donnie four year old son Irene Schroeder whose state ent says Mama shot two cops as authorities pursue Irene and her lover Glenn Dague both under death sentences for the murder of highway patrolman Brady Paul Donnie was taken to Wheeling after farewell to his mother in the county jail yesterday and was brought here by state police in January
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New Castle
Schroeder- Dague
Wheeling
W. Va
Donnie
Irene Schroeder
Mama
Glenn Dague
Brady Paul
Contracts Awarded for Ohio Road Improvements
Columbus April 2 Contracts for about 2.5 million dollars in road improvements were awarded by the Highway Department after bids opened March 25. Among winners announced by director Robert N. Waid are Fairfield County Albert D. Ebersbach Middleport 19743.07 for a concrete beam bridge over Toby Creek and related structures on Lancaster Circleville Road.
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Columbus
U.P
Weer
Highway Department
Robert N. Waid
Fairfield County
Albert D. Ebersbach
Middleport
Toby Creek
Lancaster- Circleville Road
Chick Brooders and Farm Equipment in Classifieds
Local classifieds advertise two 1,000-chick brooders for sale at five dollars each. A grain drill with fertilizer and grass attachment used two years is seventy five dollars. One acre of land on Richland Avenue is available to rent for gardening. A whiteg about 100 near Sig unidentified.
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Messenger
Richland Avenue
Census Opens As 1930 Count Begins Across Nation
Census Bureau agents begin data collection for the Fifteenth American decennial census with about 30 million households to visit. President Hoover to be questioned. Steuart urges courtesy and prompt answers, noting new questions on employment home ownership and rent.
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Census Bureau
Washington
Hoover
White House
William M. Steuart
National Broadcasting Network
Senator Hearst’s gold and copper mine trail ride described
The account recalls Senator George Hearst traveling by wagon over rugged country half a century ago in search of gold and copper. He reportedly located the Ana conda copper mine and the Homestake gold mine among others, using mule and horse transport along narrow trails.
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George Hearst
Oil geologist maps prospect region beneath surface
A Fresno Field scene shows A. R. reach pilot R. S. Allen co pilot in the cockpit with G. M. Cunningham standard oil geologist beside the oil president. They study elaborate maps showing the surface topography and theoretical life beneath the earth.
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Fresno
A. R. Reach
R. S. Allen
G. M. Cunningham
Standard Oil
Wealth and Oil Riches Tied to Kettleman Hills Lands
The article notes Standard Oil’s purchase of Pacific Oil giving it, among others, vast Kettleman Hills oil lands once owned by E. H. Harriman and the Southern Pacific Railroad. It estimates Standard Oil’s stake at two thousand million dollars in Kettleman Hills and suggests overall potential value around two billion dollars. The piece implies widespread interest in California oil wealth and territorial reach.
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California
America
Standard Oil
Pacific Oil
Kettleman Hill
E. H. Harriman
Southern Pacific Railroad
Standard Kettlemen Hills
Photographs by Cunningham Reveal Rapid Geological Flight
Photographs brought by Mr Cunningham, taken during a brief flight, provide geologists with more detailed insights than expected. The images showcase terrain features, rock formations, and stratification observed from the air, aiding geological analysis.
Congress to Tackle Merger Problem Soon
Washington April 2 Congress plans a serious review of proposed industrial mergers seen as creating a new billion dollar era of big business. Congress weighs temporary or permanent checks on rail road steel oil and chain store consolidations amid railway labor opposition and public interest concerns.
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Washington
U.R
Congress
Gunfight at bootlegging resort leaves man dead
In Cleveland on April 2 a gunfight ended with John Vitalie, 35, of Buffalo dead and two youths wounded. Vitalie fired on robbers who were holding up the resort. the robbers were wounded and surrendered at St Alexis Hospital.
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Cleveland
O.R
John Vitalie
Buffalo
St. Alexis Hospital
Unwritten Law to Be Plea in Murder Case
Mrs. Ruth Robinson 19 of Carry Kentucky to plead unwritten law in murder case after a street altercation with Mrs. Sophie Massingale on a Carry downtown corner. Police say Robinson accused Massingale of alienating her husband and fired after hair pulling and curses. She then surrendered at a local estate, telling a clerk to call the sheriff.
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Pineville
U.P
Ruth Robinson
Carry
Sophie Massingale
Robinson
Massingale
Trial Stoppered as Lila Jimerson Ilness Delays Case
Buffalo April 2 The New York case against Lila Jimerson was adjourned as she remained ill with tuberculosis. The Indian suspect faced the electric chair for the murder of Inchand, a trial interrupted yesterday by illness and resuming at 2 p m today.
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Buffalo
N. Y
U.P
State of
New York
Lila Jimerson
H Iliness
Inchand
BARGES IN AIR
Detroit April 2 A U P report says Capt Frank Hawks plan may spawn aerial barge lines carrying fast freight using an airplane towed glider. William Perid of the Stout Engineering Laboratories indicated the idea as a potential first step toward such an innovation.
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Detroit
U.P
Frank Hawks
William Perid
Stout Engineering
Black Ribbon Clue Tied To Chicago Bride Murder
A knotted black ribbon and a marriage keepsake box mark the scene of Mrs Mildred Helsing 26 found dead in her Chicago apartment. Police question a Negro janitor as evidence points to a lone robber. her husband Reuben Helsing 28 an auditor for Western Electric returned home to find her slain. A purse containing 15 dollars missing.
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Chicago
U.P
Reuben C. Helsing
Mildred Helsing
Western Electric Company
Cicero
Helsing
Claude Weldy
Ben
Nelsons Reported Dead in Automobile Crash
A noon report from Athens states Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Nelson of Athens were killed in an automobile accident at Circleville while returning from Cincinnati. Mr. Nelson owned Union Grocery Store in Athens and had operated a store there for several years. They were former Meigs County residents.
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Athens
H. B. Nelson
Circleville
Cincinnati
Nelson
Union
Meigs County
Sudden Death of Diplomat Basil Miles Probed
Washington April 2 U P reports an inquiry into the 1928 death of Basil Miles a diplomat and economist. Assistant District Attorney Burkin Shaw and the Justice Department pursue new information as Miles died after an operation at a Washington hospital the death certificate cites a bleed on the line. Miles widow now Mrs Henry H Rogers Standard Oil official.
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Washington
U.P
Basil Miles
Burkin Shaw
Justice Department
Miles
Henry H. Rogers
Standard Oil Company
Burkinshaw
Tower
Deputy Sheriff Destroys Old Still at Three X Mine
Logan April 2 Deputy Sheriff Joe Farbear and an assistant went through deep water pools at the Three X Mine near Murray City to reach and dismantle a reported liquor plant. The ancient still, unused for months, was found and destroyed by the officers guarding the site.
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Logan
Murray City
Joe Farbear
World’s largest landplane flies from Cleveland to Indianapolis
The 32 passenger Fokker monoplane departed Cleveland airport today bound for Indianapolis with 18 passengers aboard. Pilot Silas Morehouse, ace of Western Air Express pilots, was at the controls.
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Cleveland
U.P
Indianapolis
Silas Morehouse
Western Air Express
Editor shot by mayor in Yazoo City feud
In Yazoo City Mississippi editor R Birdsall of the Yaxoo Sentinel was shot late yesterday by Mayor J Stricklin and died in a hospital today. The mayor then killed himself. Authorities cite a long standing feud tied to the recent mayoral election in which Stricklin defeated Dr Hawkins as the motive.
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Yazoo City
Miss
R. Birdsall
Yaxoo Sentinel
J. ©. Stricklin
8&Tricklin
R. E F. Hawkins
Million Seals Moving North
Nearly 2 million seals migrate northward through the Pacific toward the Arctic to spend summer on Pribilof Islands. Indian canoes join coastlines as Aborigines hunt with native weapons. most seals head to St Paul Island. A notable bull claimed 182 mates.
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Seattle
Wash
U.R
Pacific Ocean
Arctic
Pribilof Islands
Washington
Indiana
Unimak Paas
St. Paul Island
Senate Passes Bill Requiring Newspaper Ownership Filings
The Senate passed a bill demanding newspapers file with the Post Office Department the names of their real owners including stockholders bond holders mortgage and other security holders.
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Washington
Postoffics Department
Senate
Treasury to Step Up Dope Crackdown After Enforcement Shift
Washington reports a tougher drive against dope peddlers and smugglers as enforcement duties move from Treasury to Justice, with details to be announced following the shift.
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Washington
U.P
Treasury Department
Justice Department
Toledo Revealed as Key Narcotic Hub Tied to Rothstein
Toledo was revealed as a major narcotic traffic hub in government findings. Correspondence found in Miami linked the city to operations directed by New York gambler Arnold Rothstein, whose unsolved murder remains noted from a year ago.
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Toledo
U PR
Miami
Fla
Arnold Rothstein
New York
Pilot Lands In Hamilton Bermuda After Calm Sea Night
The New York Bermuda airliner The Pilot landed in Hamilton Harbor on April 2 after a night of silence over a calm sea fifty miles north of Bermuda.
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Hamilton
Bermuda
New York-Bermuda
Hamilton Harbor
Sleeping quarters set for police operator in city hall
Mayor Robert Wood announces a night police telephone operator will use the former safety director’s office in Athens City Hall, not the service director’s office as earlier reported.
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Athens City Hall
Robert & Wood
Pressure on Italy at London Naval Conference
The London talks progress as France and Britain move toward a security pact under Locarno ties. Italy seeks full naval parity with France, while France hints that unity on the treaty could pressure Italy to yield in tonnage demands.
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London
Locarno
Italy
Belgium
Acta
Ate ‘Lause
League
Nationa
France
Dino Grandi
Farmer Groups Join Plans to Form Super-Farm Organization
St Paul April representatives of the Farmers Union Terminal Association Northwestern Grain Association and Minnesota Farm Bureau Federation pledged support to a Federal Farm Board program aimed at reducing spring wheat planting by 2 000 000 acres and eliminating duplicate farmer organizations to create a large cooperative structure overseeing farmers nationwide.
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ST. Paul
Minn
Northwestern
Federal Farm Board
Br. John Lee Coulter
United States
James Howard
Farmers’ Union Terminal Association of
Northwestern Grain Association of Minneapolis
Minnesota Farm Bureau
Ford Motor Co seeks 7000 workers as city police patrol gates
Dearborn reports Ford Motor Co plans to hire about seven thousand men while twelve police officers patrol the gates for any trouble as workers stream toward the River Ford plant in Dearborn Michigan.
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Dearborn
Mich
U.R
Ford Motor Co
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