Drys Balk at Giving Police Search Right
Prohibition split the Senate Dry Bloc over a model enforcement law for the District of Columbia. Borah and George oppose search and seizure provisions while Howell defends the bill. The drys defeated a motion to bury it, 45 to 28, and Borah and George plan amendments.
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Washington
U.R
Senate
Hoover
White House
District of Columbia
Wickersham Commission
Borah
Idaho
Howell
Nebraska
George
Georgia
Judiciary Committee
Hearing opens on Canadian ram Josephine K. capture
The case centers on whether the Josephine K. was inside or outside the 12 mile U S limit when Coast Guard Fire killed its captain. The vessel crew claims the ship was beyond the limit and that the Coast Guard commander was intoxicated as they present their statements through lawyer Louis Halle at Staten Island Coast Guard.
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New York
U.P
Josephine K
U. S
Coast Guard
Staten Island Coast Guard
Louis Halle
Aggressive Sales Promotion Now In Order 1931 America Forward March
Business and industry leaders describe a turn from retrenchment to proactive growth as downsides fade. Firms plan Persuasive sales pushes, raise advertising, set quotas, and reassure staff to seize an upswing in the coming months.
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Efort
Today By Arthur Brisbane
An illustrated feature by Arthur Brisbane offers observational commentary on contemporary events and social trends presented in a concise daily column style. The piece blends editorial insight with a brisk survey of public life and opinions.
Los Angeles Harbor Exports Rise Amid 1930 Trade Shift
News from Los Angeles harbor notes exports totaling 140 million dollars in 1930, a rise despite a national drop in U S sales abroad. The local harbor sells to foreigners roughly two and a half times what it purchases, signaling strong regional export activity in a difficult year.
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Los Angeles
Los Angeles Harbor
Joseph Toplitzky
United States
Harvey Firestone Prepares 24 Hour Tire Plant Operations
In Los Angeles Firestone shifts his tire plant to three eight hour cycles around the clock. The plant, drawing airplanes and cars from across the states, benefits from favorable winter weather and abundant skilled labor throughout the year.
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Harvey Firestone
Los Angeles
United States Rubber buys Samson Tire to boost Pacific Coast tires
The United States Rubber Company acquires Samson Tire & Rubber in Los Angeles to manufacture tires on a large scale for the Pacific Coast, leveraging the harbor and proximity to rubber plantations for logistics and distribution.
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United States Rubber Company
Los Angeles
Samson Tire & Rubber Company
Pacific Coast
Salinas Valley to Host Rubber Plant Factories
The Salinas Valley north of here will soon host factories to produce rubber from the guayule plant. Thousands of acres are under cultivation with six thousand acres ready for harvest. Profitability versus Asiatic rubber and substitutes remains to be seen, even with potential harvesting machinery improvements.
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Salinas Valley
Merritt Hyde Dies
Merritt A. Hyde, 69, a retired Marietta businessman and former Ohio Aerie president of the Fraternal Order of Eagles, died at his home. He led the aerie for years and championed an Ohio old age pension law. He also served as Marietta Aerie president and participated in national F OE work at conventions.
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Marietta
U.P
Merritt A. Hyde
Ohio Aerie
Order of Eagles
The
Aerie
Ohio
Marietta Aerie
Riot erupts as Gandhi released sparks Bengal violence
In Rangpur District Bengal a Hindu procession came under attack by Muslims amid Gandhi's release. Police opened fire after mobs stoned the procession and assaulted officers. One Muslim died and about 50 were wounded in the clashes.
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Bombay
U.P
M. K. Gandhi
Rangpur
Bengal
Will Rogers in San Antonio Riffs on Texas Leaders
Will Rogers notes San Antonio’s heritage after arriving from Austin. He recalls friends Jim Ferguson Dan Moody and Pat Neff and mocks a governor as funny yet capable. He compares a legislator to Rudy Vallee before a chorus of opera singers and jokes Hoover’s mood trending like a volatile market.
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San Antonio
Tex
San Antono
Austin
Jim Ferguson
Dan Moody
Pat Neff
Rudy Vallee
Will
Oday
Hoover
Mother Says Goodbye as Son Faces Hanging in Colorado
John Walker and two companions Claude Ray and Andrew Halliday await execution for the Manter bank robbery and deputy killing. Walker's Missouri mother Mrs. Julia Rhodes, told she faced a death sentence for months as she sought clemency from Gov. Adams, who refused. The trio will be hanged together. Walker and Halliday to be buried in Missouri, Ray in Woodpecker's Hill prison graveyard.
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Canon City
Colo
John Walker
Manter Bank
Walker
Claude Ray
Andrew Halliday
Missouri
John
W. H. Adams
Adams
Julia Rhodes
Mary Taylor
Bert C. Brown
Manter
Bas
Eads
Walter
Halliday
Ray
Woodpecker’s Hill
Gandhi returns with demand for peace and three questions
Mahatma Gandhi arrives in Bombay after eight months as a self described pampered prisoner. He calls for peace with honor but insists on resolving salt, foreign cloth, and liquor issues before ending civil disobedience. He seeks withdrawal of repressive ordinances by the Viceroy and is greeted by massive crowds.
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Bombay
India
Mahatma
M. K. Gandhi
Lord Irwin
Poona
Yeroda
Gandhi
Athens High Debaters Prepare for Final District Meet
Athens High School debating teams enter the final district round in a state contest sponsored by Ohio State University. The Athens affirmative faces Gallipolis and the Athens negative meets Portsmouth at 1 p.m. in the Athens High Auditorium with the public invited.
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Ohio State University
Athens High School
Athens
Gallipolis
Portsmouth
Ohio
Nelsonville
Logan
Jackson
Wellston
United States
John Pickens
Mill Street
John Foite
Maple Street
Catherine Campbell
North Cemetery Street
Dorothy Radford
Sunnyside Drive
Arabella Chute
Miller Avenue
Betty Gullum
North Lancaster Street
Margaret Haskins
Grosvenor Street
Mary Ellen Bibbee
West Union Street
Anna K. Price
Hearing Postponed in Bethlehem Steel Directors Suit
Newark Jan 27. A rule to show cause why 19 Bethlehem Steel directors and officers sued to compel refund of 36 million in bonuses should not be restrained from selling stock was indefinitely postponed by Vice-Chancellor John H Backes.
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Newark
N. J
U.P
Bethlehem Steel Corporation
John H. Backes
Italy Protests Butler Mussolini Remark To U S
The Italian ambassador filed a protest with the State Department over a Philadelphia luncheon speech attributed to Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler. He reportedly recounted a ride with Mussolini and said Mussolini remarked a nation matters more than a single life after a child was hit.
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Washington
U.P
State Department
Ambassador de Martino
Italy
Smedievy Butler
Ted
Mussolini
Philadelphia
Butler
Legge Denies Favoring Corporation Farming
Lexington, Ky. Jan 27. Chairman Alexander Legge emphatically denied that the Federal Farm Board favors corporate farming as a solution to the agricultural problem. He said soap-box orators misrepresent the board and the Agricultural Marketing Act. Critics include John Simpson of the Farmers National Union and H A Butler of the Grain Dealers National Association.
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Lexington
Federal Farm Board
Alexander Legge
Agricultural Marketing Act
Farm Board
Legere
John Simpson
Farmers National Union
H. A. Butler
Grain Dealers National Association
Mary Pickford Says She Chooses Her Weight
Mary Pickford told reporters in Kansas City that she determines her weight by deciding strongly on the amount she wants. She said she thinks of the weight and it becomes her actual weight as she continues to Hollywood.
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Kansas City
U.P
Mary Pickford
Dr. Cone
Hollywood
Blame Proxy At Iowa for Big 10 Move
Des Moines reports a legislative resolution accuses University of Iowa president Walter A. Jessup of responsibility for Iowa's Big Ten dismissal. The 20 charges accuse Jessup and others of conspiring with Treasurer W J McChesney to favor a bank by depositing 2.5 million dollars without interest, with a legislative investigating committee proposed.
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Des Moines
University of Iowa
Walter A. Jessup
House
State University
Jessup
University of Town
W. J. McChesney
McChesney
W. Ki. Boyd
Board of Education
J. M. Fisk
Charles M. Dutcher
Federal Jobs To Give Work To 4500 Men
A total of 4500 men will be employed by March 1 on rivers and harbors projects to aid unemployment. Major General Lytle Brown testified before the House Appropriations Committee that most work under the 22.5 million emergency river and harbor appropriation is now under contract and all work will begin by April 1. The report also notes a separate nomination for Ohio’s David Burnett as internal revenue collector, succeeding Rob Lucas.
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Washington
Lytle Brown
Army Engineers
House Appropriations Committee
Brown
Red Cross
Senate
Interior Department
U.P
Senate Finance Committee
David Burnett
Ohio
Internal Revenue
Robert H. Lucas
Republican National Committee
Gallagher Is Dead
Frank Gallagher known as the Little Irish Organist died at his Cleveland home after a short illness. He pioneered coordinating cinema with organ music, conceiving the idea in 1909 and installing an organ at the Fourteenth Street Theater in New York. Notables like D. W. Griffith, Mack Sennett, Owen Moore, and Mary Pickford visited to see their films with his accompaniment.
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Cleveland
U.P
Frank Gallagher
America
Gallagher
Fourteenth Street
New York
D. W. Griffith
Mack Sennett
Owen Moore
Mary Pickford
Seven Indicted in Slaying of Radio Commentator Buckley
Six men and one woman were charged with the slaying of Gerald E. Buckley a radio commentator in an indictment returned by the special grand jury today.
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Petroit
U.P
Gerald E. Buckley
Special Grand Jury
Composer Gallur Rejoins San Quentin Band After Parole
Demasus Garcia Gallur, once prison bandmaster and nationally known composer, returns to San Quentin on humanitarian grounds after illness and hardship abroad. He led the convict orchestra for 14 years while serving a murder sentence, was paroled 18 months ago, and seeks to rest and rebuild in his former home among fellow inmates.
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San Quentin
San Quentin State Prison
Calif
U.P
Demasus Garcia Gallur
Gallur
Hollywood
James Holohan
Capital Thinks Dry Law Only for Masses
Washington faces stricter enforcement as the Howell bill aims to extend prohibition to the District of Columbia. Senator Howell cites bootlegging in hotels and citywide loopholes, arguing enforcement must reach top violators and key transit routes into the capital.
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Howell
Washington
Senate
District of Columbia
Eyven
Hoover
Congresa
Nebraska
Ut R
School Boys Shoot It Out Over 25 Cent Debt
Two 17 year old boys fought a pistol duel outside Wendell Phillips High School in Chicago over a 25 cent debt. Seven students and one other person were wounded as bullets went wild. The clash followed a prior knife fight between Rhoney Parks and Lawrence Rufus. Parks was struck in the left side while Rufus was wounded in the arm. others suffered leg or hip shots.
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Chicago
U.P
Rhoney Parks
Lawrence Rufus
Parks
Rufus
Wendell Phillips
Iufus
Varka
Gussie Barrett
Oscar O'Neal
Mack Archer
Curtis Johnson
Eithu Wynn
Ralph Miller
Cleveland Council seeks repeal of prohibition amendments
The Cleveland City Council voted 19 to 4 to petition Congress and the State Legislature to repeal the Eighteenth Amendment the Volstead Act and the Crabbe Act. The measure condemns the prohibition era and calls for an end to the so called noble experiment.
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Cleveland
U.P
Congress
A. L. de Maioribus
Water Main Break Disrupts North Court Street Service
Athens City Service Department workers repaired an eight inch water main break on North Court Street after it ruptured early today causing significant water loss before crews restored service.
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Athens
North Court Street
Negro slayer Harris Electrocuted in Tennessee Prison
Theodore James Harris, 22, a Black man from Knoxville, confessed to killing three white people on Christmas Eve 1929. He was executed by electric chair at the state prison in Nashville, Tennessee, on January 27.
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Nashville
Tenn
Theodore James Harris
Knoxville
16 Year Old Wife Is Slain
In Terra Haute Indiana 16 year old wife is killed by her husband Lawrence Johnson 22 who confessed to the murder claiming he saved her from childbirth. He said he prayed for guidance and then acted. The crime occurred in an upstairs room while her siblings were elsewhere. Her mother described Johnson reentering the room and striking again before concealing the body.
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Terra Haute
Ind
UPI
Lawrence Johnson
Johnson
Una Watts
Bitter Fire Destroys Uniontown Hose Co. No. 2 House
A massive blaze in Hastings on Hudson NY destroyed the Uniontown Hose Co. No. 2 firehouse and its new gear. Volunteers known for service watched helplessly as flames consumed the shed and all the red pumper chemical engine and hose cart inside.
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Hastings-On-Hudson
N. Y
Uniontown Hose Co. No. 2
Hoover Stands Put on Prohibition Views at White House
Washington January 27 The White House said no further clarification of President Hoover's prohibition views is planned and there will be no change to his stance as expressed in the message transmitting the Wickersham report to Congress.
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Washington
Hoover
White House
Wickersham
Congress
Bargains in Nelsonville and Coolville Classified Ads
In Nelsonville a Ford coupe coach or roadster is offered for 35 dollars. In Coolville pedigreed German police pups are advertised at a cheap price. High Street lists a nicely furnished room in a modern home with fur nace heat for rent. An E flat alto saxophone with case is available for 65 dollars.
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the Messenger
Nelsonville
Coolville
High Street
Three Clyde suspects named in Ohio murder case
Clyde residents are named as suspects in the death of Krussell Gibbs 28 whose charred body was found on a highway near Clyde last July 28. Prisoner in Marquette Michigan reportedly revealed the trio involved to authorities. No arrests yet but suspects are under police watch and may be taken into custody at any time.
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Fremont, O
Ohio
Clyde, Og
Krussell Gibbs
Clyde
Dorle King Ciycle
Frank Delora
Toeledo
Tom Pask
Sanedusky County
Acciden
Hut
Red Cross Dance Planned at Hotel Berry for Drought Relief
A public dance at Hotel Berry Friday benefits the National Red Cross drought relief fund. Campus Owls, an Ohio University student orchestra, donates services. J. B. Bailey sponsors the hall, and Mrs. Eugene Shafer leads the committee. Receipts go to relief funds.
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Hotel Berry
Naional Red Cross
Ohio University
Eugene Shafer
Drought Relief Fund
Star Under Knife
Screen star Grant Withers had an emergency operation at Passavant Hospital after collapsing on the way from the Vaudeville stage to his dressing room in Chicago. He had been performing in a local theater this week.
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Chicago
U.P
Grant Withers
Passavant Hospital
Withers
Duron Will Reveals Large Estate To Widow And Children
General T Coleman Duron former United States Senator leaves estate valued over 100 million dollars to his widow Mrs Alea Du Pont and their children as the will is filed for probate in Wilmington Delaware.
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Wilmington
Del
U.P
T. Coleman Duron
United States
Alea du Pont
Weather forecast for Columbus region Tuesday and Wednesday
Jan 27 weather outlook notes fair, colder conditions with scattered rain from Texas to the Ohio Valley. Below zero readings in several listed locations and a general shift toward colder air, with a slow advance of a northwest high toward the Lake Region.
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Los Angeles
Phoenix
Miami
White River
Pasa
Cochrane
St. Lawrence Eye
Lake Region
Texas
Ohio Valley
Plains
Montana
East Superior
Lake
Kentucky
West Virginia
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Will Rogers
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Crack Fire Company
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