France Gains Procedural Victory at Naval Conference
France wins a procedural point at the five power naval disarmament talks in London over limiting naval armaments by total tonnage rather than categories. Italy待s a separate question on fleet composition while Britain announces suspension of two 10 000 ton cruisers.
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Frank Haviland King
Associated Press
London
France
No. 10
Downing Street
Italy
Stimson
Junch
Northumberland
Surrey
MacDonald
Admiralty
Three Women Robbed by Negro in Stolen Auto
A well dressed Black man used a stolen car to abduct and rob three women yesterday at different suburbs. He first stole Edward Hastings's car at Norwood and then stopped Ida Helm on Daytona Avenue to steal $5. In Clifton he robbed Jean Cozie of $14, and at Northside he took Ada Blackman’s purse with $10, a $35 check, and a Liberty bond.
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Edward Hastings
Section Avenue
Norwood
Daytona Avenue
Hooker Avenue
Mors
Ida Helm
Hildreth Avenue
Westwood
Clifton
Jean Cozie
Probasco Avenue
Parity seen as phantom at London Disarmament Conference
Columbia professor Lindsay Rogers says parity cannot ensure security and warns against mixed signals from the United States. Liverpool’s Charles Webster echoes the view that parity is illusory, urging united, determined peace efforts and consistent U.S. policy.
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London
Lindsay Rogers
Columbia University
Foreign Policy Association of Cincinnati
Gibson Hotel
Charles K. Webster
Liverpool University
England
Mr. Rogers
United States
Budding Love Spoils Hold-Up Game Hero Jailed
Kansas City report details Willie Blades who knocked out assailant Anthony Mazerelli during a theater cash heist. Miss Marine Ellwood fainted after a pipe gun was shown. Blades came to her aid and was jailed as investigators weigh reward versus arrest.
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Hero
Kansas City
Willie Blades
Willie
Springfield
Ill
Marine Ellwood
Anthony Mazerelli
Dagger Man Tries Death Pact In City Drive
William Steele, 20, told police of a well dressed white man about 23 who forced him to drive through Columbus streets in a car. The man threatened with a dagger and stabbed himself in the chest. he then asked to visit someone before dying and vanished at Sixth Street as police observed.
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William Steele
East Rockdale Avenue
Steele
Arthur Shuck
Eden Avenue
Bluntenthaul
Burnet
Erkenbrecher Avenues
Charles Goodman
Catherine Street
Highland Avenue
Roots
Goodman
Reading Road
Sixth
Sycamore
Sixth Street
Monoplane Crash Near Kansas City Kills Five
A Travelair monoplane from Wichita bound for Kansas City crashed near Fairfax Airport at low altitude, bursting into flames. Pilot Landeman and four passengers LauDemAn Dyke, Dice Margaret, McKinnon C Ray, Flynn William, Eggert James died. one passenger Mr Haffler left earlier. Ettinger from Wichita registered but did not fly.
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Kansas City
Kan
Central Air Lines
Wichita
Fairfax
Laudeman
Dice
Margaret
St. Joseph
McKinnon
C. Ray
Chicago
Flynn
William
Kansas
Landeman
Mr. Haffler
Topeka
CC. K. Ettinger
Buck, Slevinger
Universal Aircraft Corporation
New purple five cent air mail stamp announced
The Postoffice Department said a new five cent air mail stamp will be the same size as the current issue and colored purple. It shows a pilot insignia with a globe and wings, rays in the background, and the inscriptions United States Postage and Cents. It goes on sale in Washington February 10 and at the Philatelic Agency the same day.
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Washington
Postoffice Department
Air Mail
Pie SaeAdTo eMailes
Ein Aeenorizontadt
Widow of Chicago Executive Accused in Family Deaths Suit
The Chicago widow May Murphy faces a suit to set aside John B. Murphy Sr. will worth about 1.9 million dollars. The filing alleges she caused four deaths in the family and influenced witnesses to back a will favoring her.
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Chicago
John B. Murphy
May Dunn Murphy
Kohler Company
Superior Court
Sarah Carroll
Milwaukee
Wis
Murphy
May W. Dunn Murphy
Department of Health
Duchess Stunned by Nervy Knight at Ball
Dorothy Knapp a stage hopeful and Duchess suffered a bruised nose from two punches at the Beaux Arts costume ball Friday night. The assailant, described as a knight, fled after Miss Knapp refused his invitation to dance.
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New York
Today’s Daily News
Dorothy Knapp
Atlantic City
Searchers dig for Eielson's body in snow
Nome reporters describe the search for aviators Carl Ben Eielson and Carl Borland near a wreckage 90 miles southeast of North Cape Siberia with Crosson and Gillam locating the plane. Four men from the Nanuk helped inspect the site as dog teams head toward the wreck amid questions about a faulty altimeter.
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Nome
North Cape
Siberia
Carl Ben Fielson
Carl Borland
Joe Crosson
Harold Gillam
Nielson
Borland
Crosson
Gillam
Wielson
Nanuk
Nelson
Lorland
Eielson
Four Bits and a Nickel Cab Heist Reported
In Chicago Jan 27 four men robbed cab driver Jack Mecher at gunpoint taking his four bits and a nickel. The bandits used pistols and fled with the driver’s entire capital.
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Chicago
Jack Mecher
Elks Refuse Water, Favor Snow in Bovill Corral
In Bovill Idaho the Isaac Walton League imported elk from Yellowstone National Park. The herd thrives yet refuses city water and eats snow. Sportsmen plan to keep the herd for another month before releasing them, possibly hauling snow to feed the animals as drifts run low.
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Bovill
Idaho
Isaac Walton
Second Methuselah Dies in Romania at 150
A telegram from Macin near Braila reports the death of Johann Georgii at an alleged age of 150. The peasant left about 100 direct descendants and was described as still sound in mind and body despite extreme frailty.
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Bucharest
Rumania
Macin
Braila
Johann Georgii
Georgii
War Department bars plan to break ice gorges on Wabash
War Department district engineer in St Louis reports three ice gorges on the Wabash River to be eight miles at Palestine Indiana and six and eight miles upstream. He says the danger from water rushing to break the jam would exceed current flood damage, so no action will be taken. Arkansas refugees provisioned for ten day siege as Big Lake area exploration completes. Red Cross aims rehabilitation for families inundated in Southwestern Indiana floods as relief proceeds.
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Washington
Jan
Wabash River
War Department
St. Louis
Palestine
Ind
Big Lake
Arkansas
Indianapolis
Indiana
American Red Cross
Longworth Photo Gun Aimed At Outlaw Ends In Tragedy
In Bay City Michigan a newspaper image of Speaker Nicholas Longworth aiming a revolver led to the death of Dorothy Conklin, an eighteen year old. Her brother Nathaniel then retrieved a rifle and fired, killing Dorothy with a shot to the heart.
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New York World News Service
Bay City
Mich
Nicholas Longworth
House of Representatives
Dorothy Conklin
Longworth
Jesse James
Senator Hawes
Missouri
Dorothy
Nathaniel
Sherman Conklin
Cincinnati crime boast leads to arrests in Dayton case
Two men in Cincinnati were jailed after bragging about crimes. Edward Sullivan alias Hardy, a former Dayton patrolman, was arrested and returned to Dayton to face murder and escape charges. Suspicions grew from a woman who heard Sullivan boast of killing Patrolman Walter Rausch in Dayton on Christmas night 1927 and from a farmer of liquor that Sullivan allegedly planted to frame others.
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Dayton
Cincinnati
Walter Rausch
Edward Sullivan
Hardy
Pine Street
Gregory
Kincaid
Cross
Lola Langdon
Sullivan
Chauncey D. Pichel
Cooley
Langdon
Rausch
Senators Demand Removal of Prohibition Official in Montana
In Washington on January 27 senators Borah and Wheeler urged immediate dismissal of John F. C. Herbert as prohibition administrator for Montana and Idaho. They cited Department of Justice findings of malfeasance linked to Herbert and his Baltimore aide J. C. Quinn, arguing political interference and weak enforcement undermine Prohibition. Wheeler accused politicians of using enforcement as a political football and questioned the President's telegram to the Women's Christian Temperance Union.
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Washington
John F. C. Herbert
Montana
Idaho
Senate
Borah
Wheeler
Department of Justice
Herbert
Baltimore
J. C. Quinn
Quinn
Prohibition
Doran
Prohibition Bureau
Montanan
United States
Women’s Christian Temperance Union
Morgan chosen city manager of Cleveland
State Senator Daniel E. Morgan will assume the Cleveland city manager post tomorrow, after receiving 19 council votes to replace ousted William R. Hopkins. Hopkins had six years in the role. Morgan plans cabinet overhauls and may appoint Albert J. Cornsweet as secretary while Mayor John T. Marshall serves as ceremonial head.
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Cleveland
Daniel E. Morgan
Morgan
William R. Hopkins
John Zangerle
Hopkins
Harold H. Burton
Council
State Senate
Myers V. Cooper
Albert J. Cornsweet
John T. Marshall
Thief linked to hospital escape robs Rose Place woman
A purse snatching on Rose Place near Matilda Druendenman home follows a hospital escape tie to William Ritchey. Ritchey, beaten by civilians after attempting to rob a lunchroom fund, escaped from Vine Street rooms and later vanished from a hospital ward. Police pursued Ritchey through the General Hospital area without success.
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Evry
General Hospital
Rose Place
Matilda Druendenman
Druendenman
William Ritchey
Vinestreet
Ritchey
Vine Street
Robert Lischer
Joseph Duffy
Albert Webb
Webb
Bank officials identify Doxey in Ohio robbery case
E L Doxey of Chicago was identified by Dayton detectives and bank officials as one of three bandits who robbed a bank in Ohio on January 24, netting 16000. He faced charges in Kentucky for a separate January 16 restaurant robbery and will be transferred to Dayton to face related charges.
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E. L. Doxey
Drexel Boulevard
Chicago
Dayton
Asne
Doxey
Ft. Thomas
Walter Luken
Silver Grove
Newport
W. W. White
River Road
White
C. & O. Railroad
Louis Cook
Former Texas Judge Faces Murder Trial Witnesses Testify
State witnesses testified that John W. Brady former State Appellate Court Judge and lawyer stabbed stenographer Miss Lehlia Highsmith after a quarrel at a rooming house. F R McNaughton described wrestling the knife and seeing Brady strike. Frank Graham testified Brady held a knife and continued hitting after the scream.
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Austin
Tex
State of Texas
John W. Brady
Lehlia Highsmith
F. R. McNaughton
Brady
McNaughton
Stationery Company
Miss Highsmith
Frank Graham
Graham
Dry Group Hails Prohibition Test for Federal Posts
Attorney General William D. Mitchell announced that belief in prohibition will be a strict fitness test for United States Attorneys, assistants, and Marshals in the Hoover administration. Special agents will probe candidates’ drinking habits and views on prohibition, a move praised by dry groups as decisive though controversial.
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Washington
William DD. Mitchell
United States Attorney
United States Marshal
Anti-Saloon League
Methodist Board
Mitchell
Mitchell Special
United States
Temperatures and Weather Across States with Rain Snow Flurries
A weather table summarizes current temperatures highs and precipitation across Ohio Kentucky Tennessee West Virginia Pennsylvania Indiana and nearby cities. It notes rain and snow flurries in portions, colder nights, and generally fair days with variable wind and cloud cover.
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Kentucky
Indiana
Eastport
Louisville
Boston
Nashville
Albany
Cleveland
New York
Detroit
Atta
City
S. S. Marie
Jackson'le
Duluth
Atlanta
St. Louis
Orleans Fein
Galveston
Omaha
Pittsburgh
Denver
Chicago
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Niles
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John Bb. Murphy
Carroll
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