Britain proposes parley to curb armament in new move
Sir Esme Howard, Britain’s ambassador, announced in Washington that London plans a preliminary conference on naval armament limits ahead of a major 1931 parley. The move follows Congress’s cruiser construction bill and reflects cautious U S support for further disarmament efforts.
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Great Britain
Esme Howard
Congress
Caid
Dritieh
Kellogg
Eame
League of Nations
League
United States
Cruiser Building to Start July
President Coolidge backed a plan to start a sixteen ship program in the next fiscal year with a $12 370 000 request, while $700 000 would be spent in the current period to begin the first six ships. Senate and house leaders weighed budgets and potential cuts as talks continued in Washington. Paderewski is ill with grippe and cancels engagements in Nice.
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Washington
Coolidge
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Senate
Navy Department
Capitol
Britten
House Naval Committee
Navy
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Senate Naval Advocates
Treasury
Resident-Elect Hoover Weighs Agriculture Secretary Pick
The president-elect searches for cabinet options with Thomas PD Campbell of Harding Montana emerging as a top candidate for Secretary of Agriculture due to his deep knowledge of farmer problems.
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Hoover
Thomas PD. Campbell
Harding, Mont
Doomed vessel menages shipping near Unimak Pass
The freighter Alloway, deemed a menace to navigation, drifts near Unimak Pass after the Chelan's rescue of James L. Posey an oiler who stayed aboard while his mates were taken off by the Montauk. Posey was saved by a Chelan surf boat crew under Lt Cmdr John Trebes and Executive Officer Dempwolf. Posey refused to leave the ship citing a better chance of survival aboard the vessel.
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Seattle
Washington
Alloway
North Pacific
Unimak Pass
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Chelan
James L. Posey
Montauk
Posey
Associated Press
Ralph W. Domwelf
John Trebes
Dutch
Koon Executed for Nelsonville Robbery Slaying
Everett Koon, 28, was electrocuted at the Ohio Penitentiary for the killing of Henry Foos, a Marion County farmer. His criminal career began in 1920 after a manslaughter charge and time at Manefield reformatory, followed by a life of crime.
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Columbus
Ohio
Everett Koon
Nelsonville
Ohio Penitentiary
Henry Foos
Marion County
So Koon
Manefield Reformatory
Harrison Robinet
New Cold Wave Sweeps Europe
Berlin reports a sharp drop in temperature with nine degrees above zero. A gas main froze extinguishing lights in the government quarter and downtown, prompting school closures and darkness in parts of the city. Coal and potato supplies run low as prices rise and water rationing begins. wildlife forced to suburbs.
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Berlin
Germany
Blast May Claim Another Victim At Gilliam Mine
A powder magazine explosion at Gilliam Coal and Coke Company in Welch at 6:20 am killed John Blackwell 34 and left Beverly Fulcher 35 in critical condition. James Mack 34 and Horace Prillerman 23 were also burned and hospitalized. Officials suspect loose powder and a dropped match ignited the blast as miners described flames like human torches.
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Welch Bureau Daily Telegraph
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Gilliam Coal and Coke Company
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Beverly Fulcher
James Mack
Horace Prillerman
Fulcher
Blackwell
Wallace
Rowan
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Page
Disappearance of Child Deepens Lewis Family Tragedy
In St. Joseph Michigan on February 15 a missing infant adds to a grim case involving Mrs Ethel Lewis 49 year old grandmother and her daughter Mrs Okel Gorham 25 both held on charges tied to multiple infant deaths. Police pursue leads as the youngest Lewis child remains unfound.
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St. Joseph
Mich
Ethel Lewis
Okel Gorham
Lewis
Gorham
James Wallace
Dowagiac
Gorman
Three Die in Norfolk Army Depot Explosion
An explosion at the Big Point army ordnance depot near Portsmouth, Virginia, killed three civilian employees Clyde Curling John Duncan and Sam Freeman and left five others injured. The blast occurred late today, prompting investigations by local authorities.
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Norfolk
Army Ordnance Depot
Big Point
Portsmouth
Clyde Curling
John Duncan
Sam Freeman
Jury awards 20 year term to woman in bank robbery
Grace Browder Smith, 22, was sentenced by a Kentucky jury to twenty years for aiding her husband Carl Browder in a January bank robbery at West Louisville near Owensboro. One juror favored three years in a mixed verdict when considering her husband’s case. Two robbers shot as they left the bank.
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Owensboro
Kentucky
Grace Browder Smith
Carl Browder
Veniremen
West Louisville
Here
Exoneration for Tate policemen in moonshine raid shooting
Logan West Virginia February 15 The circuit court inquiry backed state policemen who raided a Smoke House fork Hart’s creek moonshine still. Two men Lewis Conley 22 and George Conley 35 died in a pistol battle after the officers ordered surrender Brice Conley 26 surrendered and awaits federal trial on operating a still State policemen C S Wilson Ney Hinkle and H W Paul were discharged by Judge Naaman Jackson after the inquiry
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George Conley
Brice Conley
O Lewis
Huntington
C .S. Wilson
Ney Hinkle
H. W. Paul
Naaman Jackson
Knife threat erupts in Tennessee senate clash
In Nashville on February 15 a factional fight in the Tennessee general assembly erupted when Senator John Brown of Shelby county advanced on Senator A H Wiggs of Perry county with a closed pocket knife. Brown was halted and restrained by sergeant at arms and by colleagues. The exchange included insults as Wiggs accused the Shelby delegation of slobbering over Sam Bratton after voting against him for speaker.
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Tenn
Senate
Tennessee General Assembly
John Brown
Shelby County
A. H. Wigge
Perry County
Brown
Wiggs
Scott Fitzhugh
Shelby
Sam Bratton
Stone, AP director for 25 years, dies at eighty one
Melville E. Stone, longtime guiding force of the Associated Press, died at home in New York City at age eighty one. He retired as general manager in 1921 and is survived by his widow, daughter Elizabeth Creighton Stone, a brother Orion dston, and two sons Herbert S. and Melville B. Jr., who preceded him.
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New York
Melville E. Stone
Associated Press
East Tith Street
Elizabeth Creighton Stone
Professor Ormondston
University of Virginia Faclty
Herbert
Melville B., Jr
West Virginia Lawmakers OK Pension for Aged Judges
Charleston West Virginia lawmakers approved an optional pension plan for judges of the state supreme court after a two day House debate. The measure, already passed by the Senate, allows a judge aged 65 with 12 years served to retire from practice while forfeiting state office salaries. The bill moves to the governor for approval.
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W. Va
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Supreme Court
West Virginia
Senate
William B. Hoge
Mingo
W.S. Wysong
Webater
Hoge
Wysong
House
Wil F. Crow
Marshall County
State Department of Education
House of Delegates
House Educational Committee
Department
Taxation and Finance Committee
Used Insurance To Buy Furs For 'Other Woman'
Somerset, Ky. Feb. 15. The trial of Mrs. Ida Cross Perkins for the killing of Mrs. Pearl Decker Owens last August was described in court today. Perkins testified detailing how her husband Logan Perkins bought furs and diamonds for Owens using insurance money from a home fire, while Perkins received nothing. she claimed she later shot herself and could not recall the shooting when later questioned. She said a telegram about Somerset business was fake and recounted following events on a train where Owens and Logan sat together.
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Somerset
Ida Cross Perkins
Logan Perkins
Whitley City
Perkins
Logan
Lexington
Danville
Mass Murder at Garage Ties Moran Capone Rivalry
A NEA Service cameraman captures the body of James Clark carried from a garage where seven men were killed by Chicago beer racketeers. Clark is described as brother-in-law to George Moran and associated with Al Capone as alleged West Side gang leader.
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NEA Service
James Clark
Chicago
Clark
George
Bugs) Moran
al Capone
West Side
Court Rejects England Writ In Sixth District Congress Fight
Charleston W Va February 15 The West Virginia Supreme Court denied an alternative mandamus request by E T England Republican to compel Kanawha County Board of Ballot Commissioners to issue him a certificate of election to Congress from the Sixth District over Joe L Smith Democrat The court rejected England's petition while recount proceedings in Kanawha County continued The county court acting as the board heard testimony from election officials in twelve precincts labeled queer by Smiths attorneys Dublin Irish Free State February 15 Colonel James Fitzmaurice named chief of the Irish Free State air force He led the landmark nonstop North Atlantic crossing era before the Bremen flight.
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W. Va
E. T. England
Board of Ballot
Kanawha County
Congress
Joe L. Smith
State Supreme Court Today
England
Smith
Board of Ballot Commissioners
Dublin
Irish Free State
James Fitzmarice
North Atlantic
Woman in Brampton Tries Self Immolation After Knaak Case
Chicago dated report describes Miss Helen Frederichs 22 attempting suicide by crawling into a furnace at her Brampton home after being influenced by the self immolation of Miss Elfrieda Knaak in Lake Bluff. Frederichs survived badly burned and is hospitalized as police investigate possible influence of Knaak's death and beliefs.
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Chicago
Helen Frederichs
Elfrieda Knaak
Brampton
Mise Fredericka
Mise Knaak
Misa Fredericks
Charleston Concern May Boost Its Output
New York date line reports Weat waco Chlorine Products of South Charleston West Virginia weighing expansion to meet rising demand. The firm plans an offering of common stock to stockholders to finance the expansion.
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Charleston Concern
New York
Weatwaco Chlorine Products Corporation
South Charleston
W. Va
Wilkins Returns From Polar Trip After Bird Hazard
Sir Hubert Wilkins arrived in Talcahuano Chile after Antarctic flights from Deception Island. He reported a new danger low in southern latitudes as flocks of birds damaged the propeller. He plans another expedition from New York with his companions and praised mapping Bowmen coast and 100 miles of new coast west of Weddelsea.
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Chile
Hubert Wilkins
Antarctic
Deception Ieland
Alaska
Spitabergen
New York
Wilkins
Globe
Weddelsea
Bowman
American Geographic Society of New York
Isaiah Bowman
Date Set for Gravel Freight Rate Hearing
Public Service Commission in Charleston West Virginia set March 19 for hearings on charges of unreasonable rates on land and gravel shipments via the Baltimore and Ohio railroad from Well Pit Wheeling and Moundsville to Silverton Liverpool destinations. Complaints filed by Ohio River Gravel Standard Sand and Gravel Well Pitt Sand and Moundsville Sand companies.
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Charleston
W. Va
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Welle Pit
Wheeling
Moundsville
Silverton
Liverpool
Public Service Commission
Oh'o River Gravel Company
Standard Sand and Gravel Company
Wella Pitt Sand Company
Moundeville Sand Company
Dark Room Struggle Ends in Fatality at Folsom Prison
In a prison photo darkroom at Folsom Henry Kracke 34 and Donald W. Martech 21 clashed during a fight over alleged burglary. Kracke fatally attacked Martech with a kitchen knife and a broken jar before others intervened. Martech, severely injured, was found later in a daylight area.
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Sacramento
UPA
Folsom Prinom
Henry Kracke
Donald W. Martach
Kracke
Martech
Kebeke
Bete
The Moran Gang Slayings Stir Chicago Theories
Chicago investigators sift today after seven Moran gang members were killed in a mass shooting. Competing theories blame hijacked police or Detroit Purple Mob assassins, while jurors witnessed the body lineup and gunfire scene. The inquest resumes February 23.
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Moran
Fred D. Silloway
Prohibition
Facta
Russell
Silloway
John A. Swanson
Moran Gang
Gam Ae
Detroit
Purple Mob
Leseer
Hoover Views Everglades Reclamation Plans In Florida
President elect Hoover toured Lake Okeechobee and the Everglades district with Gov. Carlton and engineer Fred C. Eliott. They discussed drainage canals, levees on the southern shore, and navigation outlets to Fort Myers and Port Everglades for reclaimed lands, highlighting potential sugar cane development.
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Clewiston
Fla
Hoover
Lake Okeechobee
Everglades
Doyle K K. Carlton
Fred C. Eliott
Edgar Jadwin
Army Engineers
Washington
Canal Point
Okeechobee
Moorehaven
Congress
Atlantic
Gulf of Mexico
Fort Myers
Port Everglades
P. G. Bishop
Southern Sugar Company
San Francisco Woman Wins Decree in Hollywood Case
San Francisco society figure Mrs Anna B Wheeler won a court decree against Clifford and Hollywood figures accused of pressuring her husband claiming he faced a handicap in Hollywood. The ruling clarifies marital dispute and directors named.
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Anna B. Wheeler
Clifford
Hollywood
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