National Referendum on Repeal of Prohibition Sentiment Grows
Anti prohibition lawmakers propose a nationwide referendum on repealing the Eighteenth Amendment. A resolution would require a national majority vote to overturn prohibition, with state by state results potentially blocking repeal. The move aims to sharpen divisions between wets and drys and provoke hearings in the Judiciary Committee.
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Washington
House of Representatives
Congress
Watson
Rep
Ind
Board of Temperance, Prohibition and
Public
Methodist Church
Congress of the United States
Methodist Board
Committee of Antis
Representative Cochran
Dem
Judiciary Committee
Cochran
Representative Graham
Prohibition Speakers Rally in Cincinnati to Raise Funds
Oliver W. Stewart Norma C. Brown and Dr Edwin Co Dinwiddie from Washington DC spoke in Cincinnati to back Flying Squadron Foundation. They urged large donations to pressure enforcement of the Eighteenth Amendment and fund nationwide literature and tours. The event drew WCTU members and supporters eager to aid the cause.
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United States
Cincinnati
Yeserrday
Oliver W. Stewart
National Enquirer
Norma C. Brown
Edwin Co. Dinwiddie
Washington, D. C
Flying Squadron Foundation
Stewart
Trinity Methodist Church
Prohibition
Dinwiddle
Get Socially Prominent and You ll Knock Bottom Out of Bootleg Market
At an anti saloon convention Sheppard urges prominence in society as a tool to attack illegal bootlegging. He argues public opinion can pressure reform and reduce illicit alcohol activity.
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Sheppard
South American Troops Clash Over Early Land Grants Feud
The Paraguayan Legation reports Bolivian troops attacked a Paraguayan detachment near Isla Pol by Puerto Casado on the Paraguay River. One Paraguayan soldier was killed, with Bolivia showing activity on the frontier as mediation efforts by Pan American Union and a Uruguayan Commissioner seek arbitration to restore status quo ante amid 1928 clashes and outpost destruction.
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Buenos Aires
Paraguayan Legation
Isla Pol
Puerto Casado
Asuncion
Paraguay
Chaco Boreal
Bolivia
Legation
Avuncion
Jose Escalier
la Paz
Isla Paz
Paraguay River
van Guardia
Boqueron
Wilds
Pan- American Union
Washington
Dr Caroline Black Dies of Pneumonia on Visit
Dr Caroline Black 42 died of pneumonia last night at 4168 Forest Avenue Norwood while visiting her brother Robert Black attorney. She trained in Cincinnati earning MA and PhD from Indiana University and studied at Yale Harvard and in England. Survived by sisters Mrs Augustine Pohlman St Louis and Mrs Frank Mitchell Larchmont NY. Funeral arrangements not yet set.
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Caroline Black
Robert Black
Forest Avenue
Norwood
Pittsburgh
Black
Cincinnati
Walnut Hills
Delta Delta Sorority
University of New Hampshire
Connecticut College For Women
New London
Cincinnati Post
Athia Grey
Senator Morris Sheppard Pushes Liquor Buyer Penalty
Senator Morris Sheppard of Texas urged making buyers of liquor subject to the same penalties as sellers at a Detroit rally closing the Anti-Saloon League national convention. He criticized high society noncompliance and praised prohibition as a public good, urging action against bootleggers and their backers.
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Detroit
Morris Sheppard
Texas
Anti-Saloon League
Eight Die in Lillybrook Coal Mine Blast Near Beckley
Eight miners, six Negroes and two white men, were killed and four injured in an early January explosion at Lillybrook No 1 mine in Lillybrook, ten miles from Beckley. Rescue teams recovered the bodies about four hours later. injured workers described two brief flashes and a dusty, dangerous escape as they exited with the boss to seek help.
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Beckley
W. Va
Lillybrook Coal Company
Lillybrook
J. B. Clifton
R. L. Meadows
I. E. Ritter
Pal of Blonde Admits Party Slew Road Cop
Walter Glenn Dague told Sheriff Wright in Maricopa County that he, Mrs. Irene Schroeder of Kenwood West Virginia and an unnamed man were involved in the December 27 shooting death of Corporal Brady Paul of the Pennsylvania State Highway Patrol near New Castle Pennsylvania and wounding Private Ernest Moore. He said he did not fire the fatal shot and blamed either Mrs Schroeder or the other man. Authorities believe the companion was T. D. Crawford, Schroeder’s brother, who has not been found and may be dead after a Texas bank robbery. The trio were later arrested in the mountains near Laveen Arizona after kidnapping and injuring a deputy and being chased by an armed posse.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Walter Glenn Dague
CC. .H. Wright
Maricopa County
Irene Schroeder
Kenwood
W. Va
Brady Paul
Pennsylvania State Highway Patrol
Ernest Moore
New Castle
Dague
Coleman
Tex
Schroeder
Vernon Ackerman
Oklahoma
Laveen
Arizona
Catholic Men urged to form two commissions on crime and taxation
Bishop Joseph H. Albers urged Cincinnati area Catholic men to name two commissions to study crime and taxation at the Mt. St. Mary Seminary meeting. John F. Ankenbauer said the two commissions will be reviewed by the council’s advisory board with prompt action planned. He warned legislators and taxpayers should act with responsibility, noting the poor bear much of taxation.
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Albers
Cincinnati
National Council of Catholic Men
Joseph H. Albers
Mt. St. Mary Seminary
Norwood
John F. Ankenbauer
Deanery Council
Cold snap eases in Cincinnati with slight relief
Relentless cold yields slight relief in Cincinnati today with forecasts of 5 to 10 degrees above zero. Yesterday’s high marked 19.5 degrees, while early morning dipped near zero. Trains ran near schedule though freight moves lagged by switching delays. Police reported over a hundred homeless sheltered at two stations and two men with frozen feet treated at a hospital. The Shubert Theater delayed opening of The New Moon but the company arrived after long travel from Milwaukee and Chicago to perform as planned. Cold wave moves east with ongoing low temperatures across the Midwest and South facing flood fears.
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Cincinnati
W. C. Devereaux
United States
Raiilroad
First
Second District
General Hospital
Howard Bryant
Chattanooga
Tenn
James Robinson
Louisville
First District
New Moon Company
Milwaukee
Chicago
Pennsylvania Railroad
Quarrel Over Other Woman Triggers Wounding in John Street
Andrew Art, 46, shot Fannie Shannon, 42, at their John Street home after a liquor-fueled argument about another woman. Shannon was wounded in the breast and back and listed in serious condition at General Hospital. Art confessed to firing three times. police found moonshine and await charges.
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Fannie Shannon
John Street
Andrew Art
Shannon
General Hospital
Art
Cheney Award to Army Man for Heroic Fire Rescue
Lieut. William A. Matheny of the Army Air Corps received the Cheney Award for 1929 for rescuing comrade Lieut. Dwight Canfield during a crash in Nicaragua. Matheny fought flames in gasoline soaked clothing, saved Canfield twice, but both were severely burned. Canfield died that night. The award carries a $500 prize and a bronze plaque.
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William A. Matheny
Washington
Army Air Corps
Matheny
Carrington
N. C
Dwight Canfield
Canal Zone
Managua
Nicaragua
Canfield
Cheney
Italy
William H. Cheney
Foggia
Mary L. C. Scofield
Peterboro
N. H
Ruth
France’s London stance on disarmament and submarines
Paris reports the French delegation will link naval limits to general arms reductions. They insist sea land and air armaments are interdependent and that troop transport needs set naval requirements. The submarine is defended as essential for shore protection and troopship safety against superior fleets.
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Paris
London
France
League of Nations
Governor urges law to punish rum buyers equally with sellers
South Carolina Governor John G. Richards asked the Legislature to make buyers of rum equally guilty as sellers and to impose jail terms for a second offense.
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John G. Richards
South Carolina
Public Works Fund Set for Peacetime Record in 1900
Secretary Lamont cites government and private reports showing about 7 billion dollars to be spent on public works and utilities in 1900. Expenditures include 2.325 billion for public works and 3.25 billion for utility plant improvements with 410 million for maintenance. Major railroads and AT&T are among top spenders, while private residential and commercial building may push total spending above 10 billion if trends continue.
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Washington
Lamont
Department of Commerce
John M. Gries
Electric
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Independent Telephone and Telegraph
Clifton matron fends off burglars with pistol fire
Mrs Emma Townsley of 214 Ludlow Avenue Clifton fired through a door to stop burglars seeking a $10,000 haul. A 48 caliber bullet hit its mark as intruders loaded silver and fur, with about $60 stolen from a hidden drawer and a purse. Wires were cut to stop police lines as she called for help.
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Emma Townsley
E. A. Townsley
Ludlow Avenue
Clifton
Baltimore
Jack
Giant Transcontinental airliner crash kills sixteen near Oceanside
Officials confirm a Transcontinental Air Transport Maddux plane returning from Agua Caliente Mexico crashed eight miles south of San Clemente near Oceanside Cal. All fourteen passengers and two pilots died in flames after an attempted emergency landing. Bodies burned beyond recognition, with witnesses reporting a funeral pyre of flames.
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Angeles
Transcontinental Air Transport
Maddux Air Lines
Agua Caliente
Mexico
Oceanside
Cal
Copps
Coast Highway
T. A.i.maddux
San Clemente
Agua CaHente
Bowen
Miller
W.W. Paden
Castillon
Ais. Glover
Small
Miss Jameson
Squbb
Miss Rabold
Colliston
Cedric Brown
Basil Russell
Freddie Walker
Nervous Robbers Shoot Writer Garet Garrett in Restaurant
Police declare the incident at Chez Madelon on West Fifteenth Street stemmed from a bootlegger’s treachery and an amateur gunman’s nerves. Garet Garrett was wounded thrice with a bullet still lodged in his back but expected to recover. He confronted two young assailants and loud demands paused only after the shooting began.
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Garet Garrett
New York World News Service
New York
Garrett
Chez, Madelon
West Fifteenth Street
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Ack
National Prohibition Journal
Palm Beach
Doran
Ation
United States Weather Bureau
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ARMY
Alfred M. Murray
Public Works Fund
Ocean
Florida Lake
Fia
Lake Worth
William Lindley
Daytona Beach
Arthur
Amps
ED Lipsey
Butler
Miami
Elder Stossell
West Palm Beach
Florida Airways Company
West End
Bahamas
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