Fiery Shaft Yields Bodies of Two Entombed Workers
In Dixon Kentucky on January 15, rescuers recovered the bodies of Aaron Bridewell and Dorris Woods from the Car Melton Coal Mine after a four day air cutoff following a severe fire. A rescue party led by A. D. Sisk found the men in a rear gallery, with relatives unwilling to view.
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Dixon
Car Melton
A. D. Sisk
Madisonville
Aaron Bridewell
Dorris Woods
Andy
Sisk
Sethe
Cecal
United States
Auto death toll in Hamilton County reaches ten
Louis Preusch a 62 year old tailor of Lockland Ohio died yesterday at General Hospital from auto injuries becoming the tenth auto fatality in Hamilton County this year He was struck Monday night by Willis Fricke of Reading at Main Street and Maples Avenue Reading He was taken to the hospital with a skull fracture and internal contusions No charges have been filed against Fricke.
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Louis Preusch
Lockland
General Hospital
Hamilton County
Preusch
Willis Fricke
Reading
Main Street
Maples Avenue
Fricke
Western Hills Viaduct Drives City Plan To 11 Million
Col Sherrill filed a 1950 city improvement program with the plan for street and sewer upgrades plus a Western Hills Viaduct costing about 11.05 million dollars. The city’s share could reach around 5 million, with the viaduct at 3.4 million funded partly by railroads. The package includes 41 major and 175 minor street projects, four grade crossing eliminations, three bridges, one viaduct and 42 sewer improvements led by sewer projects totaling about 1.09 million.
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Western Hills
Col. Sherrill
Highways and Sewers Committee
Union Terminals
West Fork Road
Mill Creek
Ludlow Run
Beechmont Ave
Broker's Wife Strangled by Own Necklace Tragedy
New York January 15. Harriet Adler 38 wife of a bond broker was found dead in Dudley Murphy motion picture director penthouse on East Forty first street. Police noted a necklace imprint on her neck and suspect she may have become entangled while falling. Autopsy planned. Murphy says he does not know how she died and denies involvement. He and John Barbour shared the penthouse and had been drinking. they are not held.
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New York
Harriet Adler
Dudley Murphy
East Forty First Street
Murphy
Barbour
Henry Weinberg
Fire at Fox Jewelry Store Causes $5000 Damage
A ten blow fire in the basement of Gustave Fox Jewelry Company at Third and Race streets was controlled after substantial interior damage. Two firemen were overcome by smoke. names not reported. The blaze likely started from a pilot light under boilers. The four story stone building is led by Leonard Fox and G Fox. Damage estimated under $5,000. Water damaged many dies for stamping jewelry and joists in sub cellar.
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Gustave Fox Jewelry Company
Third and
Race Streets
Leonard James Fox
Milford, O
G. Fox
Barney Houston
Anti-Saloon League Opens Biennial Convention militancy urged
Detroit Jan 15 The Anti-Saloon League opened its biennial convention with calls for relentless militancy and conquest in the war on prohibition. F Scott McBride pledged the league will fight with vigor until law and order prevail nationwide. Rev A J Barton urged greater state league autonomy and continued prohibition as a national goal, predicting both major parties will soon back enforcement and the dry cause. Officers elected included Bishop A R Clippinger as Vice President Foster Copeland as Honorary Treasurer and I B Sowers as Treasurer. James A White was chosen to represent the Sixth District on the Executive Committee.
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Detroit
Anti-Saloon League
F. Scott McBride
A. J. Barton
Atlanta
National Executive Committee
Barton
National League
Mr. Barton
White House
Board
The
Anti-Saioan League
A. R. Clippinger
Dayton
Foster Copeland
Columbus
I. B. Sowers
Westerville
James A. White
Prohibition Anniversary Highlights Costs and Losses
The New York World News Service reports ten years of national prohibition have cost the federal government over 400 million dollars and caused a revenue loss around 3 billion, with half a million people sent to prison. The piece notes alcohol-related issues and cites President Hoover calling the period a noble experiment.
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New York World News Service
Washington
Sam
Hoover
Governor Dillon Calls for Prohibition Enforcement by Troops
Santa Fe New Mexico January 15 reports Gov. Dillon urged strict enforcement of prohibition laws using U S troops as border patrols to test whether the nation wants prohibition. He affirmed being a strong prohibitionist but seeks an early clear solution to the issue.
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Santa FE
Xii
Budget Crisis Sparks Era of Aggressive Law Enforcement
The text portrays a sweeping fiscal failure equated to the size of the federal budget, linking it to widespread violent crime and mass incarceration. It claims about 200 law enforcement deaths, hundreds more from gang warfare, 550000 arrests for illegal alcohol acts, and 250000 citizens housed in federal prisons for over 33,000 years total.
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Uncle Sam
New York Congressman Start les Capital Plan Riles States
New York congressman pushes a capital plan citing Section 3 to secure ratification. He contends most states should ratify, while a few remain void or undecided, triggering political contention across the union.
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New York
Prohibition Ends as Hoover Proposals Push in Congress
Washington January 15 leaders in Congress move to speed up enforcement measures as Hoover proposes to shift the prohibition unit from Treasury to Justice Department. The Williamson bill to transfer the unit awaits Expenditures Committee report with drafts of additional bills likely to reach the House soon.
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Washington
Congress
Hoover
House
Treasury
Justice Department
House Expenditures Committee
Snell
New York
Rules
Illness Parrot Fever Seen In Plymouth Boy
Eight year old John Nickerson in Plymouth contracts parinafts conjunctivitis, an psittacosis eye infection linked to animal fur. Dr Allan Greenwood of Boston, with forty years of practice, notes this as his fifth such case. The boy suspects musk rat fur touched his face, though a pet cat is also possible source.
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Plymouth
Mass
Jan
John C. Nickerson
Allan Greenwood
Boston
John
Indiana Guards Protect Bridge Approach From Dynamite Threat
Indiana troops guard a three mile bridge approach to U S Highway 41 over the White River at Hazelton to relieve upstream flood pressure. Governors and Red Cross officials discuss relief as a cold wave trims rivers and flood danger. hundreds displaced, vast lowlands inundated, but no deaths reported.
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Indiana
Indianapolis
Ind
Wabash
White River
Vincennes
Knox County
Leslie
Indiana National Guardsmen
Hazelton
John J. Brown
State Highway Commission
Trae
Harry G. Leslie
W. 5. Williamson
Washington
American Red Cross
Williamson
Jail For Buyers In Prohibition Law Change
Gov John G Richards proposed in his annual message to the South Carolina General Assembly that the buyer of whisky be made equally guilty with the seller and that a jail sentence be mandatory upon a second conviction for violation of the prohibition law.
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Columbia
U S. C
John G. Richards
South Carolina General Assembly
Temblor Shakes Southern California Cities
A brief earthquake rattled from the Mojave Desert to Coachella Valley on January 15. Los Angeles reported a gentle rolling motion with flagpoles swaying northeast to southwest, but no major damage or fear. Indio and Niland felt the tremors near Salton Sea while Barstow and Ludlow also reported shaking with minimal impact.
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Los Angeles
California
Mojave Desert
San Diego
Pacific Ocean
India
Niland
Coachella Valley
Santa Barbara
Owens Valley
Imperial Valley
Calexico
Indio
Salton Sea
Cajon Pass
San Bernardino Mountain
Barstow
Lud
Federal raids net 71 arrests in Georgia city
In Columbus Georgia seventy one people were arrested in widespread prohibition raids by federal county and city officers. Under cover investigators had located violators and warrants were served on eighty two targets with only eleven warrants unserved by noon today.
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Columbus
Fred Dismuke
Macon
W. Kk. Johnston
Dismuke
Battle for Fortune Based on Identity of the Long-Dead Dancer
Paris report revives the long unsolved mystery of dancer Gaby Deslys with claims she used the real name Hedy Navratil. Hungarian claims, a Marseilles fortune, and a web of aliases fuel a new twist as parents, partners, and officials dispute Deslys identity and birth records.
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Gaby Deslys
New York World News Service
Paris
Hedy Navratil
Tout
Gaby
Eldwige
Spain
Manuel
Portugal
Edwige Navratil
Hungary
Mme. Caire
Marseilles
Harry Pilcer
Gabrielle Caire
Navratis
N. World News Service
N. Y. World) Press Pub. Co
Young lifer seeks release and reform in plea
Cincinnati pondered a letter from Dale Reed Waterfield, 17 when jailed in 1923 for a robbery in which a man was killed. He requests pardon or parole, arguing release would boost his chances of becoming a self supporting law abiding citizen, challenging the system’s aim of punishment for punishment’s sake.
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Cincinnati
Ohio State Penitentiary
Dale Reed Waterfield
Tam
Earle
LaGuardia to raise point on Prohibition amendment validity
Representative LaGuardia of New York plans a point of order during debate on the Treasury Post Office annual supply bill. He argues the Eighteenth Amendment is null and void because only ten states ratified the amendment after enactment. He asserts three-fourths ratified its enabling resolution but not the article itself, with Senator Sheppard among others.
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LaGuardia
N. Y
Treasury Post Office
Sheppard Dem
Arizona chase ends with three in jail over police slaying
In Phoenix a posse captured two men and a woman after a mountain chase. They face kidnapping for robbery charges linked to the December 27 slaying of Pennsylvania highway police Corp. Brady Paul and to bank hold ups in Texas and Pennsylvania. The woman, claiming to be Irene Schroeder then Mildred Winthrop, showed a neck wound from a rifle shot. The suspects are M. Glen Dague alias Albert Winthrop and Joe K. Wells. Wells bears a leg wound.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Arizona
Pennsylvania
Texas
Irene Schroeder
Trigger
Benwood
W. Va
Dague
Corp
Brady Paul
Pennsylvania’ Highway Police
Pigal County
Ohio River Crest Forecast Near Flood Stage
Fair weather and continued cold are forecast as the Ohio River in the Cincinnati district is expected to crest around noon at about forty two feet, ten feet below flood stage. At 6 p.m. yesterday the level stood at 40.9 feet and rose slowly. Colder air in the Ohio Valley yesterday helped check the rise.
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W.C. Devereaux
United States Weather Bureau
Ohio River
Cincinnati
Ohio Valley
Ohio
Johnny Carroll's remarkable rise from Baker alley to Col. Carroll
The boy Johnny Carroll, found after a winter in a packing box in Cincinnati, grows up to become Col. John H. Carroll chief legal counsel for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. He plans to attend the Children's Home Association annual meeting in Cincinnati at noon today. The tale covers his abandonment, rescue, and later life tracing his origins back to 1862 in New York and Cincinnati.
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Baker Alley
Johnny Carroll
Cincinnati
Children’s Home Association
Madisonville
Col. Carroll
South
New York
Johnny
George Wilson
Baker Court
Fourth Street
Main
Walnut Streets
Hospital Escape Shocks City as Suspect Escapes
William Ritchey, 38, beat after attempting to rob a 14 year old. taken to General Hospital where two patrolmen allowed him to enter a treatment room and then he fled through a hospital window. Officials, including Col. Sherrill and Police Chief Copelaw, refused to comment. Civilians had earlier beaten Ritchey after the failed robbery near Twelfth and Main.
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Col. Sherrill
General Hospital
William Ritchey
Vine Street
Copelaw
Ritchey
Twelfth
Main Streets
Thirteenth Street
Yukon Alley
First District
Joseph Duffy
Robert Lischer
City Plan Disapproval Meets Councilman Rose Wrath
Councilman Charles C. Rose clashs with City Plan Commission over zoning near Norfolk & Western Railroad by Duck Creek. Commission backs Industrial zoning, Rose favors Residence A and Business B as council defers action. Attorney Burton Hollister urges upholding, while councilman Woeste dissents on traffic plea fines ordinance.
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Charles C. Rose
City Planning Commission
Norfolk & Western Railroad
Duck Creek Road
Ra@se
Rose
Commission
Burton B. Hollister
Railroad
Council
Joseph H. Woeste
Woeste
Alex Patterson
W. Meredith Yeatman
Britain Optimistic On Reduced Naval Pact At London Talks
Paris reports France will seek a fleet level to protect its colonies and world status while backing reductions in battleship tonnage and gun calibers. Paris cites Levgues pushing 900,000 tons total and 100,000-ton overseas squadrons. Britain’s MacDonald warns failure means 10 to 20 years of competitive buildup, but aims for a London accord cutting navies to minimum security levels.
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Paris
France
Rome
Associated Press
London
Georges Levgues
Europe
Levgues
Africa
Indian Ocean
Caribbean Sea
Pacific
Mediterranean
Italy
MacDonald
King George
Buckingham Palace
Great Britain
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Newhall
Hanlon
Felix Koch
Ralph Hitz
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Commercial Tribune
Alfred M. Murray
Dale Waterfield
Cincinnati Children’s Home
City Plan Commission
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