Five Bombs Rock Chicago District in Vice Ring War
Five blasts hit residences and factories in North and South Side Chicago in a single day terror campaign tied to organized vice rings. An attempted bombing aimed at Chief Investigator Pat Roche was thwarted when a garage attendant surprised two men trying to plant a package on Roche’s car. Police later killed a man resisting arrest and linked two suspects to the attack as Roche warned the attempt aimed to trigger a bomb at his car.
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Chicago
Pat Roche
State Attorney's Office
Roche
Andrew Wright
Denver
Colo
Gold Wave Hits Southern States
A Gulf of Mexico storm near hurricane strength swept through the South, tearing roofs, bringing rain, sleet and snow. It hit Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia with cold air driving snow in Birmingham and Atlanta while Merridian, Laurel, and Vicksburg saw light snow. Frigid winds extended into extreme North Florida, with widespread freeze forecasts inland toward the Wf coast of Alabama and Louisiana.
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New Orleans
Gulf of Mexico
Florida
Mississippi
Alabama
Georgia
Gulfport
Merridian
Laurel
Vicksburg
Miss
Birmingham
Atlanta
Louisiana
Arkansas
Move to strip Sampson of appointive powers
Kentucky lawmakers push to strip Governor Sampson of the power to appoint members of the highway commission as the House opens an investigation into the highway department. Representative Andrew W. Nichols of Nelson County reads letters and telegrams alleging ties between bond financing and relatives of E C ORear, while denying he accuses anyone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. Ross
Furland & Co
New York
Sampson
Ross
E. C. O’rear
Frankfort
O’rear
Nicholas
Nichols
Porter Hawley push to establish independent narcotics bureau
Representative Stephen G Porter of Pennsylvania and Representative Willis C Hawley of Oregon plan a campaign for stricter narcotics laws. Porter intends to introduce a bill creating an independent narcotics bureau under a commissioner to lead the effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stephen G. Porter
Pennsylvania
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Willis C. Hawley
Oregon
House
Ways and Means
Porter
New Problem Faces Parley Plan Heads
London and New York dispatches describe looming procedural clashes at the naval conference as a five power tonnage method agreement nears completion. The steering committee dispute could shift to British dominion representation, with Prime Minister MacDonald weighing a garden variety expert panel.
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New York
London
National
Columbia Broadcasting Systems
The
Parley
Brith Corporation
WABC
Columbia Network
France
Italy
Ramsay MacDonald
House of Commons
Henry L. Stimson
Reijiro Wakatsuki
Dino Grandi
MacDonald
Empire
Stimson
Hugh S. Gibson
Belgium
Senate May Get Philippine Bill
Washington January 29 32 year old controversy over Philippine independence likely to reach a senate decision in the present session. Terratories committee chair Bingham said hearings should finish by February 10 and a bill reported soon after. House action appears unlikely with two bills before the committee one by Senator King Utah to free the Filipinos and another by Bingham to appoint a commission to investigate and report recommendations to Congress.
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Washington
Senate
Bingham
Territories Committee
House
King
Utah
Congress
Senators Defeat Lew Gut Moves in Tariff Debate
Washington January 29 The Senate blocked four attempts to cut tariffs on straw hats as it considers the pending bill. Eastern Democrats and Republican regulars defeated Barkley proposals to ease rates on unsewn hats and sewn hats. Debate paused with a plan to decide tomorrow which rates to approve.
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Washington
Italy
Senate
Barkley
Kentucky
Finance Committee
Deming resigns as Civil Service chief amid Wyoming senatorial bid
William C. Deming, president of the civil service commission, has submitted his resignation to President Hoover. A letter states his name was advanced by friends in Wyoming for the Republican nomination to the U.S. Senate.
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Washington
William C. Deming
Civil Service Commission
Hoover
Wyoming
Mystery disease baffling Clinchburg officials
Two rabbits inoculated with serum from a Clinchburg Va child organ fluid as researchers chase the cause of four family deaths. Victims include twins Martha May Rector and Emma Gay Rector aged 7 and aunt Bessie May Patrick 31 and Mary Helen Rector. Clinchburg placed under quarantine while state epidemiologist H G Grant notes no infectious basis and no further action expected from the state yet. diagnosis due in 2 3 days.
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Clinchburg
M. Lee Hawley
Washington County
Ian
Hawley
Martha May
Emma Gay Rector
Bessie May Patrick
Mary Helen Rector
H. G. Grant
Richmond
Washington County Health Board
Deep Sea Divers Try to Free Pal Trapped in River
Two expert divers Queanel Morency and Lewis Begin arrived by airplane at Riviere au Outardes Quebec to rescue Peter Trans trapped by snagged equipment in the St Lawrence River. They descended to a twenty foot depth under strong currents hoping to saw through wooden bars and reach him before the window of life closes. Officials of the Ontario Paper company awaited word on the progress of the risky operation.
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Quebec
Que
Riviere Au Outardes
St. Lawrence
Peter Trans
Queanel Morency
Lewis
Trang
Ontario Paper Company
Diver Trapped Deep In Outarde River Tragedy
Rescue efforts for deep sea diver Peter Trans trapped at the bottom of the Outarde river 175 miles north of Quebec were hampered by snow and swift currents. A laborer attempted a risky approach with a diving spear but could not reach Trans. Rescuers Moreney Begin and a third diver Dudley pursued the search from Rimouski to Quebec as daylight and weather permit the next steps.
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Quebec
Outarde
Peter Trans
Ontario Paper Company
St. Lawrence
Trans
Quesnel Moreney
Lewis Begin
Riviere Aux Outardes
Toronto
Ont
W. T. Dudley
Canada Seeks Return of Murder Suspect
Canada seeks extradition of Sarro Vaccaro in a case charging murder kidnapping and larceny. The proceedings in Baltimore drag on as evidence is completed and arguments are set for tomorrow before US Commissioner J Frank Supplee. Vaccaro and an accomplice are accused of killing Amedee Billodeau of Quebec north of the border in May 1925, stealing his car and kidnapping Robert Price to a Vermont jail.
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Baltimore
Dominion of Canada
Sarro Vaccaro
United States
J. Frank Supplee
Dominion
Fits
Vaccaro
Amedee R Billodeau
Quebec
Canaan
Robert Price
Vermont
Englishman Converts Jail to Hotel In Knutsford
Knutsford England January 29 Englishman Thomas Oakley buys Knutsford jail from the government and plans a 390 guest hotel charging three shillings per bed and breakfast The prison gallows will be removed for a gasoline pump He has bought four jails including Genport Derby and Worcester and is using bricks and stone from them Oakley also paves three acres of the prison grounds as a parking area.
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Knutsford
England
America
Thomas Oakley
Knuteford
Oakley
Genport
Derby
Worcester
Three Men Arrested In Taxi Driver Strike
Pittsburgh on January 29 three men were arrested and charged with assaulting three taxi drivers amid a strike by 1,200 drivers now in its eighteenth day. Police say the arrestees were strikebreakers identified by drivers treated for stab wounds. R A Newman 41 was hospitalized after a beating. Louis Brickey 22 was detained as a suspected assailant.
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Pittsburgh
R. A. Newman
Louis Brickey
Newman
Anne Lindbergh Earns First Class Glider Pilot License
Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh made her first glider flight at Soledad Mountain in San Diego lasting just over six minutes. She earned a first class pilot’s license for gliders as Colonel Lindbergh, William Van Dusen, and J. L. Hicklin observed with Hawley Bowlus’ sail plane.
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San Diego
Cal
Charles A. Lindbergh
Soledad Mountain
Hawley Bowlus
Colonel Lindbergh
William van Dusen
J. L. Hicklin
National Glider Association
Search for Lost Airmen Continues in Alaska Rescue
Workers recovered scattered tools parts of the motor batteries and mittens from the ice cased snowdrifts near North Cape Siberia where Carl Ben Eielson and companion Parl Borland perished. No bodies were found as crews face difficult ice conditions and vast search area.
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Name
Alaska
Carl Ben Eielson
North Cape
Siberia
Elelson
Parl Borland
P Lane
Manuk
Pat Reid
Ed Young
Teller
St. Lawrence Bay
Bering Strait
Harold Gillam
Joe Crosson
Kolluchin Bay
Ohio River steamer Clyde destroyed by fire
The river steamer Clyde, operating between Pittsburgh and Memphis, burned on the Ohio River at Point Pleasant while tied at the Marietta boat‑building plant. The vessel drifted a mile, broke in two, and sank with no one aboard. its value was about 80000 dollars.
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Point Pleasant
W. Va
Clyde
Pittsburgh
Memphis
Ohio River
Marietta
Ohio
Rus H. Burnside
Walter Windsor
Burnside
Fort resigns post as committee secretary
Representative Franklin Fort of New Jersey resigns as secretary of the Republican National Committee. Fort, Hoover campaign manager, has held the post since the Kansas City convention. A letter from Claudius H. Muston accepting the resignation was also released. Fort says duties as secretary took too much time from his congressional and business duties except during the presidential campaign.
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Washington
Franklin Fort
New Jersey
Republican National Committee
Fort
Hoover
Kansas City
Claudius H. Muston
Bishop Anderson seeks election of a coadjutor bishop
Chicago January 29 The Most Rev Charles P Anderson primate of the Episcopal church who has been critically ill for eight days dictated a communication to the annual diocesan convention requesting the election of a coadjutor bishop The convention meets next Tuesday and election is expected the next day The new coadjutor would succeed the primate as bishop of the Chicago diocese The condition of Bishop Aldersons heart was unchanged to fight.
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Chicago
Charles P. Anderson
Episcopal Church
Alderson
Moundsville Man Raises Site Offer for Veterans Hospital
J A Bloyd a Moundsville business man announced he increased his free site offer from 100 to 150 acres for the West Virginia veterans hospital after learning the government would need 150 acres. The land lies just south of Moundsville on a flat tract atop a ridge.
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Moundsville
W. Va
J. A. Bloyd
West Virginia Veterans’ Hospital
Congress
Bloyd
Jury Verdict Finds Hall $18 500 Against Carriers in Suit
In Bluefield an 18 500 verdict for G W Hall was returned against Norfolk Western and American Railway Express for injuries from December 14 1927 while Hall served as express messenger. The case moves to the United States circuit court of appeals.
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United States District Court
G. W. Hall
Norfolk & Western Railway Company
American Railway Ress Company
Blackstone
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
George W. McClintic
Hall
Bluefield
Kee
Harry G. Hammer
Norfolk & Western Railway
Harry Hammer
Kimball
Norfolk & Western Railroad
Doubts Exhumed Body Is That of Husband
Mrs. W. Paul Loveland of Pasadena expressed doubt that a body brought to the international line at Algodones Mexico after being exhumed from a three day old grave at Cuervos is her husband who had been missing since Christmas.
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Pasadena
Cal
W. Paul Loveland
Algodones
Mexico
Cuervos
Plea of Showman Delayed by Judge
Superior Judge Charles W Fricke delayed until tomorrow arguments on the second petition of Alexander Pantages the showman convicted of assault and sentenced to from one to fifty years in San Quentin He seeks release on bond pending appeal The girl Eunice Pringle 17 filed a $1 000 000 damages suit Doctors Barrow Boehme Jr said further incarceration would not harm him While three defense doctors warned of immediate danger of angina pectoris the court heard testimony on his medical condition
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Los Angeles
Charles W. Fricke
Alexander Pantages
Pantages
Eunice Pringle
San Quentin
John Barrow
Gustav Boehme Jr
Benjamin Blank
Senate approves higher federal highway aid measure
The Senate passed a measure to increase federal highway aid. Franklin Fort resigned as secretary of the National Republican Committee. William C. Deming resigned as president of the Civil Service Commission. The House approved a $113,599,000 annual supply bill for the state justice commerce and labor departments. The House judiciary committee planned to reopen hearings February 12 on dry laws amendments or repeal proposals.
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Senate
Franklin Fort
National Republican Committee
William C. Deming
Civil Service Commission
House
State
Justice, Commerce and Labor
House Judiciary Committee
Irene Fages New Charge In West
First degree murder charges were filed against Mrs. Irene Schroeder W Glenn Dague and Vernon Ackerman after Deputy Sheriff Lee Wright died from wounds suffered in a gunfight with the trio near Chandler and Florence. The suspects were held to face potential death penalty if extradition from Pennsylvania falters.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Irene Schroeder
W. Glenn Dague
Vernon Ackerman
Lee Wright
George T. Wilson
Wilson
Maricopa County
Pennsylvania
Dague
Wright
Chandler
Ackerman
Florence
District Attorney Powers Sees Strong Evidence in Case
New Castle Pennsylvania reports District Attorney John B Powers of Lawrence County said he is confident that the evidence in possession supports the case. He indicated further developments are expected as the investigation continues.
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New Castle
John 8. Powers
Lawrence County
Senate committee upholds Grundy seat in Pennsylvan ia
Washington January 29 by unanimous vote the senate elections committee ruled Senator Joseph R Grundy of Pennsylvania may keep his seat as Governor Fisher appointee to replace the banished William B Ware Nye North Dakota Republican had sought a vote on his resolution to deny Grundy contending Grundy aided Fisher in the 1926 primary and spent more money than the Vare ticket Chairman Shortridge noted the law and constitution authorize state executives to fill vacancies in the Senate and the report affirmed Grundy's status as United States Senator from Pennsylvania.
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Washington
Senate Elections Committee
Joseph R. Grundy
Pennsylvania
Fisher
William 8. Ware
Nye
North Dakota
Grundy
Shortridge
Senate
North
Charles C. Ambrose Dies in Wheeling At 40
Charles C. Ambrose, 40, longtime Associated Press operator in Wheeling, died today at his home. His career spanned years before the advent of the automatic printing machine. Ambrose resided in Wheeling, West Virginia.
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So” Vora
Man Wheeling
W. Va
Charlies C. Ambrose
Associated Press
Wheeling
Congress to Hear Prohibition Repeal and Beer Bill Proposals
Washington hearings on February 12 will cover repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment and modify dry laws. The House Judiciary Committee chair says wets and drys will get a hearing on seven repeal resolutions and a Dyer subcommittee plans a broad look at proposals to modify the Volstead act, including 2.75 percent beer. The House Expenditures Committee moves toward final action on Williamson’s bid to shift prohibition enforcement from Treasury to Justice.
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Washington
House Judiciary Committee
George 8. Graham
House
Dyer
Missouri
Treasury
Justice Department
Secretary of the Treasury
Justice Departments
Senate
Borah
Judge Brady Trial Sees Doctors Call Defendant Insane
In Aust Texas Jan 29 two physicians testified as John W Brady, on trial for the murder of Miss Lehlia Highsmith, was insane. The defense outlined a history of bootleg liquor trouble marital strain and a late affair before the doctors affirmed mental incapacity.
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Aust
Tex
John W. Brady
Brady
Lehlia Highsmith
E. A. Berry
Berry
Goodall
Joe Wooten
Civil Appeals Court
Th Wootens
Deter
John Brady
Public Service
Public Trust
Wooten
Ocea
Ee Brady
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Lew Gut
West Virginia
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Workman
Canada
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Eielson
Anderson
Moundsville Man
House Group
Irene Fages
West
Arizona
Western
Upholds Grundy
Judiciary Committee
Mitchell
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