Glass Advocates Repeal Hoch Smith Resolution Clash over lake cargo rates
Senate debate centers on Senator Glass resolution to repeal the Hoch Smith joint resolution of 1925. Southern senators argue it did not alter law while Esch and ICC officials face questions on using economic conditions to adjust rates. The ICC continues its investigation into rate structure amid disputed interpretations.
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Washington
Pittsburgh
Southern
Interstate Commerce Commission
Senate
Glass
Democrat
Virginia
John J. Esch
Wisconsin
West Virginia
Kentucky
Pennsylvania
Commission
Neely
Esch
Cincinnati Train Shed Falls Injuring One
A section of the Central Union depot shed in Cincinnati collapsed injuring one person and causing about 15 in damages. The wreck affected five tracks as trains from Baltimore Ohio and Big Four were moving through the yard. debris fell around idle cars but no fatal injuries were reported.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Central Union Depot
Njur
Sville
Nashville
Atlanta
H.rea Porshmen
Cakeiels
National Limited
Baltimore Ohio
Ope
Chicago Clergy Appeal to Mellon Over Cabarets
The Chicago Church Federation sent a letter appealing to Secretary Andrew Mellon to head the nation s prohibition forces and ignore Mayor Thompson s plea to restrain cabaret closures in Chicago.
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Retary
Andrew Mellon
Chicago
William Hale Thompson
Chicago Church Federation
Five Children Walk Out Over Parental Discipline
James Toscano an ice dealer reports five daughters aged 12 19 15 14 and 10 left home Sunday night after he disciplined one of them and have not returned. He asked the missing persons bureau to search for Josephine 12 Rose 19 Margaret 15 Frances 14 and Antoinette 10.
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New York
James Toscano
Josephine
Rose
Margaret
Frances
Antoinette
Missing Persons Bureau
Pittsburgh Coal Ad Says Union Policy Is Its Right
Pittsburgh Coal Co publishes full page ads defending its Jacksonville agreement stance and criticising the Senate sub committee as biased. The firm claims it did not break the Jacksonville pact though it severed ties with the United Mine Workers, citing open shop operations and past wage scales. A pending international investigation into the soft coal industry is noted.
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Pittsburgh Coal Company
Jacksonville
Pittsburgh
Senate Interstate Commerce
Senate Committee
Pittsburgh Coal
Morrow
Gooding
Wheeler
Wagner
United Mine Workers
Pennsylvania
Coneeng
Lewis
John O'Leary
Philip Murray
International
Washington
O'Leary
Northern Coal Merger Committee to Convene in Fairmont
A preliminary executive meeting in Fairmont, West Virginia, will name a date for a Marion county operators conference as part of talks toward consolidating Northern West Virginia mining interests. Morgantown and Clarksburg meetings already secured tonnage pledges from Monongalia, Harrison, Barbour and Taylor counties totaling 17 million tons, toward a 23 million ton threshold for the merger.
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Fairmont
W. Va
West Virginia
Marion County
Morgantown
Clarksburg
Monongalia
Harrison, Barbour
Taylor County
Ficure
Dry forces seek to block Smith and keep prohibition on ticket
Florida dry leaders plan a anti Smith campaign and push for prohibition planks at a St Petersburg conference March 4. They aim to keep Southern Democrats from nominating Smith and may draft McAdoo for a dry ticket with Republicans invited to toe the prohibition line.
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Washington
Smith
New York
St. Petersburg
Fla
Florida
C. A. Upchurch
North Carolina
Anti-Saloon League
Ritchie
Maryland
Reed
Missouri
Port Te
Uston
William G. McAdoo
Houston
Dryocrats
Virginia
North
South Carolina
Georgia
Alabama
Mississippi
Tennessee
Kentucky
West Virginians Seek Separate Prohibition Enforcement Unit
Representatives England and Bachmann urge the Prohibition Commissioner to create a distinct West Virginia enforcement unit. They note 145 city agents in Pennsylvania versus 19 in West Virginia, with about 500000 dollars allocated for both states, arguing WV could enforce liquor laws more effectively with its own unit.
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Washington
West Virginia
Doran
England
Bachmann
Pennsylvania
Mine Quiz Will Again Open Soon
Washington reports the senate investigation into central bituminous field conditions will resume next week under Senator Watson. A five member sub committee led by Senator Gooding returns from a Pennsylvania field inspection and will report after Senator Wagner arrives. Officials of United Mine Workers and railroad executives may be summoned to address charges amid the Johnson resolution controversy.
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Washington
Senate
Watson
Indiana
Gooding
Idaho
Pennsylvania
Wagner
New York
United Mine Workers of America
New York Central
Baltimore and Ohio
Johnson
Ing
Mine Workers’ Union
Decree Bans Marriage or Divorce Under Revolutionary Rule
At Kaifeng Henan Marshal Feng Hu Hsiang known as the Christian general issues a decree forbidding bachelors to marry and married men to seek divorce. Disobedience carries the death penalty.
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Peking
China
Kaifeng
Henan
Feng Hu-Hsiang
Great Dirigible Los Angeles Heads Home From Canal Zone
The U S Los Angeles dirigible, after a 2200 mile non stop flight from Panama, departs France Field for Lakehurst. It moors at Guantanamo Bay before final return as officers and crowds hail the airship and its crew.
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France Field
Canal Zone
Paname
United States
Los Angeles
Lakehurst
N. J
Panama City
Guantanamo Bay
Cuba
Patoka
Hose
Charles A. Lindbergh
St. Louis
E. C. Rosendehl
Endorsement forgery evidence in Bond embezzlement case
In Charleston on February 28 the embezzlement trial of John C. Bond slowed as prosecutors compared Bond signatures with check endorsements. The state introduced forged endorsement evidence to show intent in embezzling about $5,000 of state funds. Jurors viewed many signatures. T. H. McCool, a handwriting expert, is the final witness, with trial expected to finish Thursday.
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Charleston
W. Va
John C. Bond
Bond
Lee
T. H. McCool
Philadelphia
Tare
M. F. Matheny
Reed Again Leads Democratic Bloc in Missouri Convention
Missouri Democrats backed Senator Jim Reed for the presidential nomination with a unit vote strategy promising 36 Missouri votes. The platform praised Reed as a champion of good government, signaling a likely stance near a wet position on prohibition.
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St. Joseph
Missouri Democracy Today
Jim Reed
Hovneton
Reed
United States Senate
Reed Takes Day's Rest as Prohibition Plays Gatekeeper
Los Angeles dispatch reports Senator James Reed of Missouri dismissing prohibition as a campaign issue while touring California for the 1932 Democratic nomination. He vows to press reform, attack “corrupt Washington,” and suggests dissolving major parties to fight prohibition with new alliances. Stops planned include Reno, Ogden, Salt Lake City, and Frankfort where he will address Kentucky’s legislature.
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Reed
Los Angeles
James Red
Miscouri
California
Aga
Washington
United Democratic Party
Democratic Presidentia
Reno
Nev
Ogden
Salt Lake City
Utah
Frankfort
Kentucky
President and Mrs Coolidge Dine with Hoover Couple
Washington February 28 The President and Mrs Coolidge were guests of Secretary and Mrs Hoover at dinner tonight part of a sequence of official functions.
Century-old Grandmother Soars In First Plane Ride
Catherine Fenton of Jamestown New York aged 104 takes her first airplane flight with pilot George Haldeman recalls Ruth Elder voyage and pictures a future of aviation while crutches support her knee and a cheering crowd urges her to smile grandma as the Gulf of Mexico lies below and a month-old voyage across Scotland memories spark.
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Catherine Fenton
Jamestown
N. Y
St. Petersburg
Fla
Times
Associated Press
George Haldeman
Ruth Elder
Atlantic
Ruth
Gulf of Mexico
Mr. Haldeman
Scotland
America
New York
Bill to ban companionate marriages in DC introduced
Washington February 28 A bill by Representative William C Hammer Democrat of North Carolina would prohibit companionate or trial marriages in the District of Columbia The measure defines such marriages as those where an agreement at wedding time that the husband will not support his wife exists Penalties include fines up to 1000 dollars or as low as 100 dollars and six months to five years in prison Also penalties target anyone who promotes encourages or conspires to bring about such marriages
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Washington
District of Columbia
William C. Hammer
North Carolina
Rail Hearing Set Today on Abolishing Branch Trains
A Bluefield hearing before the West Virginia Public Service Commission will consider Norfolk and Western requests to discontinue certain trains on branch lines in Southern West Virginia. Col E B Wintere will preside as DL representatives hear Dry Fork and Wide Mouth residents. The April 4 sched change was postponed for 30 days on his recommendation.
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Widemouth
Dry Fork
Norfolk and Western Territory
Bluefield
West Virginia Public Service Commission
West Virginian Hotel
Col. E. B. Wintere
Commission
Dry Park
Norfolk and Western
Colonel Winters
West Virginia
Hickman Confession Excluded From Trial
In Los Angeles on February 28 the court barred the confession of William Hickman from the Hickman Hunt murder trial of pharmacist C Ivy Toms. Hunters attorney argued the confession showed Hickman’s dominance. prosecutors and Hickman’s counsel objected. Hickman awaits execution for the Parker killing. Hunt maintains he did not fire the fatal shot, claiming Hickman carried out the holdup.
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Los Angeles
William B. Hickman
Marian Parker
Hickman
Wesley Hunt
C. Ivy Toms
A. Gray Gilmer
Hunt
Parker
Toma
Remus Unfit for Freedom, Doctors Testify
Lima Ohio February 28 two assistant physicians at the Lima state hospital for the criminal insane testified before the court of appeals that George Remus Cincinnati wife slayer is mentally unsound and not fit to be at large. They urged denial of his habeas corpus release arguing he is a dangerous character while noting a disputed criminal tendency in his Chicago years.
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Lima
Ohio
Lima State Hospital For the
Court of Appeals
George Remus
Cincinnati
Remus
Habeas Corpus
Kenneth L. Weber
Albert Pfeifferon
Weber
Pfeiffer
Chicago
Illinois
Moody to Seek Re-election in Texas Nomination
Dan Moody, Texas governor, said he will seek another term in a letter made public to Tom, a member of the state Democratic executive committee, disclosed in Austin. Moody, youthful at the time, plans to pursue re-election in the coming race.
Eastern Trunk Lines Would Divide Northern State Roads Plan
The New York Herald Tribune reports the Van Sweringen brothers with J P Morgan First National Bank and rail systems aim to redraw the eastern railroad map. The plan would shift lines among New York Central Baltimore and Ohio Pennsylvania and other systems creating a four trunk line division and ending earlier seaboard to Great Lakes fast freight schemes.
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New York
New York Herald Tribune
van Sweringen
Lehigh Valley
Delaware and Hudson
Wabash
Western Trunk Line
Herald
Buffalo
Rochester
Pittsburgh
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western
Virginian
Lehigh
New York Central
Pennsylvania
Norfolk and Western
Chesapeake and Ohio
Erie
Pere Marquette
Reading
Central Railroad of
New Jersey
Baltimore and Ohio
Wheeling and Lake Erie
West Virginia
Maryland
Paplin
Parachute Fails as Sal Lives After Flight Incident
St Petersburg Florida February 28 18 year old stunt flyer Jeanne Durand escaped with slight injuries when a world record parachute jump failed. Her pilot R L Bills maneuvered to land the plane with Durand hanging from the undercarriage and she fainted upon landing. Doctors treated her and she left the hospital after examination. Durand hoped to retry the altitude record Sunday, while witnesses credited Dr Ellis with saving her life by tilting the plane to the landing site.
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St. Petersburg
Fla
Jeanne Durand
Miss Durand
Mies Durant
Dr. Ellis
Ellis
Search for body of aviator continues in Melbourne
Hope brightened as a sea sighting of an object resembling a human body prompted renewed search for Harry Brooks Ford chief pilot missing since his monoplane crashed Saturday. The object fifteen miles south of Melbourne was gone when a seaplane reached the area. Veesela later were brought to the spot.
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Melbourne
Filia
Harry Brooks
Ford
Here
Veesela
Pittston Mine Union Leader Slain in Ambush
Alex Campbell Pittston faction leader of the United Mine Workers and Peter Kelly treasurer were shot to death in Pittston as unknown assailants ambushed them. The killings follow the shooting of Frank Agaty district organizer earlier this week in a tense Pittston area labor dispute.
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Alex Campbell
Frank Agaty
Wilkes-Barre
Pittston
United Mine Workers
No. 6
Pennsylvania Coal Company
Peter Kelly
Campbell
Samuel Bobita
Miners’ Bank
Agaty
Bonita
Steve Mendola
Adam Molesci
Luzerne
Union
Moleski
Wank Baiding
Reilly
Molesk
Pittston Mine
Bell
Confession Debate Shifts in Ottawa Bombing Trial
At Ottawa Illinois, Hiram Reeds confession on dynamiting Pleasant Valley schoolhouse dominates a tense trial. State witnesses describe Reed admitting guilt to placing dynamite in the school store to avoid fatherhood with Iola Bradford, a 23 year old teacher, as defense seeks to strike the confession. The courtroom heard garbled phrasing in the confession and the judge considers admissibility amid denials and family presence.
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Ottawa
Ill
Hiram Reed
Pleasant Valley
Iola Bradford
Hayes
Herbert Bradford
Cour
Esterday'a
Oret
Russell O. Hanson
Hanson
George Sprenger
Chicago Buys O Leary Home for Fire Station
The city council ordered the purchase of the 558 Dekovep homestead, the site where the great Chicago fire began, to erect a monumental fire station on the property.
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Chicago
O'Leary
Dekovep
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Mellon
Concern
Northern Coal Merger Committee
Prohibition
Parley
McAdoo
West
Senator Watson
E. C. Rosendahl
Democrat Party OF Home State
Plan
van Sweringens
Sal
Miss Iola Bradford
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