Three-Power Naval Treaty Draft Near If Five-Power Pact Fails
London reports Britain Japan and the United States will draft a three power naval pact within a week if the five power treaty fails. Japan’s proposed reservations meet no U.S. objections, including limits on cruisers with 8 inch guns. Stimson and Briand attend talks at St James Palace as Schuman conference moves ahead.
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Japan
United States
London
Great Britain
St. James
Tokio
America
Vino Grandi
Henry L.stimson
Aristide Briand
Jacques-Louis Dumesnil
Marine
Dumesnil
Briand
Stimson
Ritz
Cotton predicts pace of London Naval Conference decision
Acting Secretary of State Cot ton says talks this week will decide within four to five days whether a five or three power agreement to limit armaments can be reached. He previously indicated a decision on the conference scope by April 8.
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Washington
Cotton
Americans and Britons Held by Chinese Bandits in Yuanchow
Reports from Shanghai say Miss N E Gemmell of the United States and Mr and Mrs R W Porteous of Great Britain were held captive after bandits attacked Yuanchow. The raid looted the town, killed shopkeepers, and tortured several victims including a Chinese pastor and a school principal.
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Shanghai
U.P
N. E. Gemmell
R. W. Porteous
Great Britain
Yuanchow
China Island Mission
Burglary, Property Crimes Rise in Ohio in 1929
Ohio statistics show burglary indictments totaling 2,729 in 1929, up 40 percent from 1928. Prosecutions for property crimes reached 0,544 with 38,731 convictions, about 39 percent. The 1929 prosecutions involved 10,720 persons, compared with 19,423 in 1928.
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Columbus
UPR
Ohio
Brown
Vore Ridge Shooting After Family Dispute
Troy Fields 22 of Vore Ridge was wounded in the back of the neck and other sites when Virgil Good opened fire during a quarrel at the Good residence near midnight Sunday. Fields’ condition was serious at Sheltering Arms Hospital as officers searched for Good with sheriff deputies leading the hunt.
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Troy Fields
Sheltering Arms Hospital
Virgil Good
Vore Ridge
Vere Ridge
Athens County
Good
Fields
William Williams
Wayne Wingett
Cheating The Cormorants Giants Graves Northern California
Brief column fragment notes topics in Northern California. Mentions cheaters of cormorants and invites readers to come and see the giants and very nice graves.
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California
Northern California as travel hub and forest spectacle
The writer extols northern California as an ideal headquarters for travelers and a place to stay, praising the cypress and myrtle landscapes. They describe towering cypress trees at the ocean edge bending before Pacific winds, noting legends of seeds from Japan carried by birds. Continued on Page 4.
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America
California
Pacific
Japan
Youngstown
Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company
Bethlehem Steel Corporation
Pennsylvania
Bethlehem
Eugene G. Grace
James A. Campbell
Sheet and Tube
Broadway Star Allyn King Ends Life In Village Apartment
Allyn King a former Ziegfeld star known for Broadway glamour died after leaping from a Greenwich Village apartment. She told doctors I did it because I can never return to Broadway. Once elevated by Florenz Ziegfeld she faded after strict dieting amid the 1920s fashion craze.
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New York
U.R
Allyn King
Broadway
Bellevue Hospital
Greenwich Village
Florenz Ziegfeld
New Haven
Edward Walz Charged With Auto Theft After Family Tragedy
Chicago March 31 Edward Walz 17 could not learn from others pain. He witnessed his brother William shot by a policeman after a store robbery at age 12. At 15 he saw another brother Charles executed in the death cell. Now Edward faces jail charged with stealing an automobile.
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Chicago
U.R
Edward Walz
William
Charles
Edward
Two Autos Collide. Artista Killed In Columbus Crash
Ercole Artista, 21, was killed in Columbus when two cars collided. Kenneth E. Driggs, 24, a musician, was arrested at his home after witnesses said he was driving 65 mph at the time of the crash.
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Columbus
Ercole Artista
Kenneth E. Driggs
Kentucky deputy to be arraigned in homicide near Ownsley Fork
In Richmond Kentucky Deputy Sheriff Floyd Lane awaited arraignment on a homicide charge after a farmer Amaro Williams 35 was shot during a prohibition raid. Williams wife and two children watched as Lane and others pursued and opened fire. a moonshine still was found. Lane reportedly told County Judge John B Goodloe of the shooting and was remanded to await arraignment.
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Richmond
Ownsley Fork
Floyd Lane
Amaro Williams
Williams
Albert Bogie
Lane
Boyd Sandlin
Sandlin
John B. Goodloe
Judge Goodloe
Lightfritz Fined for Intoxication in Athens County Jail Release
Pearl Lightfritz of Carbondale paid a $5 fine assessed by Felix Riley, justice of the peace, after pleading guilty to intoxication. He was arrested Saturday night by Constable Harry Junod and W. Li. Riley of the Ohio State Protective Association. A chase near Kimberly for two presumed intoxicated men was unsuccessful, State Officer Riley reported.
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Pearl Lightfritz
Carbondale
Athens County
Felix Riley
Lightfritz
Harry Junod
W. Li. Riley
Ohio State Protective Association
Kimberly
Riley
Family feud leaves three dead near Bee Springs Kentucky
Police investigate a deadly family feud at Bee Springs in March that killed James Meredith age 42 and his nephews Floyd Duvall 26 and Isaac Duvall 32. Curley Johnson Meredith's son in law 25 was arrested after admitting he killed the nephews as they shot Meredith during a gun battle on a public highway.
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Brownsville
Bee Springs
Here
James S. Meredith
Floyd Duvall
Isaac Duvall
Meredith
Curley Johnson
Professor Wylie Spencer resigns Yale post for Miami University
Yale University philosophy chair Wylie Spencer resigns to become chairman of the same department at Miami University Ohio. The move was announced today.
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New Haven
Conn
U.R
W. Wylie Spencer
Philosophy
Yale University
Miami University
Ohio
Parachute Save After Aerial Escape At Buffalo Flight
Mildred Kauffman, 24, Kansas City aviatrix, fell from a biplane at 10 000 feet during an inside loop attempt to beat a world record. Her foot snagged a parachute cord, she freed herself, opened the chute at 100 feet, and landed face down in mud. plane was demolished.
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Buffalo
N. Y
U.P
Mildred Kauffman
Kansas City
Miss Kauffman
Ping
Minister Takes Back Charges Against Author
Kansas City reports Dr. William L. Stidger, former minister now in Boston, retracted accusations that Sinclair Lewis was drunk while writing Elmer Gantry. Lewis dismissed the apology as insincere and three years late after receiving Stidger’s letter.
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Kansas City
U.P
Sinclair Lewis
Elmer Gantry
William L. Stidger
Boston Church
Stidger
Lewis
L. M. Dirkhead
All Souls Unitarian Church
Boston
Marion Ohio Among Three Dry Districts in Digest Poll
Readable fragments show Marion Ohio listed with 402 enforcement 274 modification and 165 repeal in the Literary Digest prohibition poll. Other dry districts include Spokane Washington and Elgin Illinois with varying tallies, while Philadelphia leans wet with 11,495 enforcement 18,155 modification and 44,603 repeal.
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New York
U.P
Marion
Warren G. Harding
Literary Digest
Spokane
Wash
Elgin
Ill
Philadelphia
Weekend crashes claim eight lives in Ohio survey shows
Traffic and other accidents killed eight people across Ohio over the weekend. PD I Gaston 64 of Tranquility died after being struck by a hit and run driver in Seaman Adams County. Harley Eubanks of Washington DC died in a near Cincinnati crash. Anthony Barton a section worker was killed unloading rails near Massillon. G N Tenge 6 perished in a hit and ship incident at Hamilton. Francis Young 7 drowned after falling from a log raft into a cycle pit near Chillicothe. Amos Stoner retired farmer died from injuries after a fall at his brother Levi Stoner’s home in Millersport Fairfield County. Edgar Claude Trimmer Jr 2 of Lakewood fatally burned when bedding near his crib caught fire from an electric heater.
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PD. I. Gaston
Seaman
Adams County
Harley Eubanks
Washington D. C
Cincinnati
Anthony Barton
Massillon
G. N. Tenge
Hamilton
Francis Young
Chillicathe
Amos Stoner
Levi
Millersport
Fairfield County
Edgar Claude ‘Trimmer, Jr
Lakewood
Attorneys to Fight for Aged Indian's Life
Buffalo March 31 Attorneys for Lila Jimerson a 36 year old Indian woman charged with plotting the murder of Mrs Henri Marchand came forward with arguments to persuade a jury that some life remains in the weakened body of the defendant Twelve witnesses are scheduled to testify six for character and two physicians expected to say she has at most two years to live The state contends Lila s love for Marchand led her to induce Mrs Nancy Bowen aged Indian to kill Mrs Marchand Bowen who admitted the killing will also be tried for murder
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Buffalo
U.P
Lila Jimerson
Henri Marchand
Lila
Marchand
Nancy Bowen
Four Dancers Wounded in Cabaret Jealousy Duel
In Mexico City four Mexican dancing girls were wounded in a dawn fight over a cabaret habitué. Maria Luisa Gonzales Lopez Enriqueta Hernandez Juarez and their seconds Concha Meneses and Margarita Hernandez were injured by knife and fingernails in a jealousy quarrel that spilled into the streets.
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Mexico City
Maria Luisa Gonzales Lopez
Enriqueta Hernandez Juarez
Concha Meneses
Margarita Hernandez
Maria Luisa
Enriqueta
Plane in River Near Grasselli Plant at Ashland
A Huntington airport employee used grappling hooks in a river search for a plane said to have fallen into the Ohito River near the Grasseli Chemical plant seven miles west of Ashland. The river was dragged but no wreckage found. The lootmaster at Dam No. 30 departed for the scene.
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Ashland
U.P
Huntington
Ohito River
Grasseli Chemical
Here
Dam No. 30
National Route 60 Association Opens Athens Office
The National Route 60 Association will locate after April 1 in Room 144 of the Hotel Berry in Athens. The space serves as headquarters for the South East Ohio Motor Club and the Ohio Highway Association, with H N Burgett in charge and services from the American Automobile Association and Ohio Motor Club available to members and travelers.
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National
Cincinnati
H. N. Buregett
Berry
American Automobile Association
Ohio Motor Club
Tariff Bill Dominates House Agenda as Deadlock Looms
In Washington on March 1 the Tariff Bill returns from the Senate to the House where Liates and Shearing Committees seek to reconcile hundreds of rate differences. Beet-sugar states press coalitions to block a separate sugar schedule vote while the House handles minor business. The Senate, rested, readies to tackle backlog behind the tariff bill and Muscles Shoal reappears via the Norris Resolution authorizing government power generation.
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Washington
U.P
Senate
House
Jack Dempsey Mulls Return for Right Money
Jack Dempsey said he would fight again if the right money is offered as he started a vaudeville run in Cedar Rapids. He refused to elaborate on reports he had signed to fight Primo Carnera somewhere in the United States in September.
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Cedar Rapids
Jack Dempsey
Dempsey
Primo Carrera
United States
Athens man fined for liquor possession in city court
James Ballinger a colored resident of Athens was fined 100 and costs by Mayor Robert 8 Wood this morning for liquor possession. He was arrested Sunday night by Night Officer McGrath in a police action.
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James Ballinger
Athens
Robert 8. Wood
McGrath
American Holds Story of Kidnapped Citizens in China
American citizen Nina Eleanor Gemmell and two British subjects were reported seized by Communists in Kiangsi China. The capture and loot near Yuan Chow were relayed to the U S state department by Frank P. Lockhart American consul general at Hankow.
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Washington
U.P
Nina Eleanor Gemmell
Yuanchow
Kiangasi
China
State Department
Frank P. Lockhart
Hankow
Prohibition Debated as Congress Races to End Session
Senate leaders map a two month push to pass urgent bills and adjourn by June 1. Major measures include Muscle Shoals and Williamson bills, a tax on enforcement shift to Justice, and a Power Commission reorganization, with a Prohibition debate looming and Judge Parker's Supreme Court nomination awaiting action. The Lobby Committee probes prohibition lobbying as Senator Robinson plans to summon John Raskob to testify.
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Washington
Sene
Treasury
Justice Department
Power Commission
Congress
Charlaudius Huston
Replican National Committee
Senate
John J. Parker
North Carolina
Supreme Court
Organized Labor
Hit
Robinson
Indiana
John J. Rase Kob
Democratic National Committee
HITS WILL HAYS NEW YORK MARCH CHARGES
Rev Dr George Reid Andrews, executive secretary of the Church and Drama League, charged that Wil Haya and other officers of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America maintain men and women in clubs and in educational and religious institutions for the industry. He spoke before the C Service Forum, noting the organization’s influence extends to the Federal Council of Churches.
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New York
Wil Haya
Motion Picture Producers and Distributors
Amereca
George Reid Andrews
Church and Drama League
C Service Forum
Andrews
Federal Council of Churches
Park Issue Sets FPC Probe Over Cumberland Falls Plan
The Federal Power Commission asked Attorney General Mitchell to determine federal jurisdiction over Cumberland Falls in Kentucky after state lawmakers moved to create a park in the area.
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Washington
Federal Power Commission
Mitchell
Cumberland Fatla
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King Features Incorporated
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