Bombing Syndicate Suspects Held as Chicago Police Tightens Security
Chicago police report about forty suspects including women in custody over bombing operations. Commissioner O Connor calls the group the clearing house for the bomb racketeers as guards surround Barry Apartments and threats prompt residents to move. Police seek grand jury indictments and aim to arrest leaders. city officials remain on edge as investigations unfold.
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W. H. Reid
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Gold Coast
Frederick Arthur Poole
John B. Murphy
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Hughes
Kedzie Avenue
Chicago
Fatal fight ends after 24 hour drinking party
In a room at 231 Broadway a 24 hour drinking bout ended in a free for all that left Hugh McGuire dead at General Hospital. Edward Cardes, 66, also of 231 Broadway, is held on murder charges. Police report a skull fracture and a liquor fueled struggle with a heavy china cup used during the brawl.
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Edward Cardes
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Cardes
Plan to Bridge Capital Labor Gap Proposed by ABA
The American Bar Association Committee on Commerce unveils a platform to prevent industrial interruptions by promoting voluntary employer and worker contracts and creating a National Industrial Council. Hearings on February 16 17 18 will seek broad input from business labor and public groups as part of a move toward constructive American policy.
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Woman Admits Sending Five Threatening Letters
A 23 year old wife, Mrs Fay E Brinberry of Frankfort Indiana admitted writing five threatening letters to prominent men in an effort to extort money. She targeted wives with death threats and named sums from ten to one hundred fifty dollars. Authorities consider turning her over to federal authorities.
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Spinster Annie Dodge Ordered to Pay Debts After Dodging Creditors
Miss Annie Dodge of Council Bluffs New York and Washington daughter of Gen Grenville Dodge has been ordered by the Federal Court for Western Iowa to settle with her creditors after years of evading process. With an income of 72000 a year she lived in seclusion in Washington guarded by servants. The court rulings allow income from a 3 million dollar trust and a spendthrift fund to be attached to pay bills including coal and ice from Wanamaker dress bills and Maine rent.
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New York World News Service
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Annie Dodge
New York
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Connecticut Avenue
John Wanamaker
Annie Maas
Bride Elect Refuses Antnuptial Contract Ends Plans
Franklin S. Hardinge, 60, millionaire oil heater maker, and Miss Ann Livingston, 30, of Tulsa, did not marry after he drafted an anti nuptial contract guaranteeing her $100000 of his estate if she outlived him. Livingston refused to sign after consulting lawyers, ending engagement and wedding plans.
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Chicago
Franklin S. Hardinge
Ann Livingston
Tulsa
Okla
Lindbergh Reaches Maracay After Fog Near Venezuela
Col Charles A Lindbergh arrives from Bogota to Maracay Venezuela after an hour lost in fog off the coast. He is greeted by President Gomez at the flying field and decorated with the Order of the Liberator after delay caused by fog. He notes a ten hour plus flight of about 650 miles.
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Aviator Lands in Louisville on 16000 Mile Air Tour
British flyer Captain Joseph Donnellan arrived in Louisville at 6 15 PM during a 16000 mile air tour. He had taken off from Chicago around noon to visit South and Central America but was delayed near Paoli Indiana when a ruptured gas line forced a descent.
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Joseph Donnellan
Chicago
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Central America
Donnellan
Paoli
Ind
Pilot Opens 16000 Mile Good Will Flight to South America
Captain Joseph Donnellan formerly with the Royal Flying Corps starts a 16000 mile goodwill tour from Chicago in his plane I Will. The plan covers stops in South and Central American countries with daily hops of about 590 miles or more during daylight.
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United States
Joseph Donnellan
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Royal Flying Corps
Santiago
Chile
SOS Sails Aided by Three Ships Near Cape May
The Independent Wireless Telegraph Company reports an SOS from Norwegian freighter Arica about 200 miles east of Cape May. Coast Guard cutters and Shipping Board steamer Vincent rush to assist as patrol boat C G 107 is missing since Saturday off Cape May.
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Shipping Board
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Coast Guard Shaw
Maritime Register
Norfolk
Bordeaux
Hamburg
M. J
Fires Rage Across Ohio Wrecking Towns and Homes
Amid zero temperatures a wave of fires across Ohio caused one death and multiple injuries. Losses reached about 750000 dollars with facilities such as Salem Ohlen Bishop Law Company and the National Sanitary Company plant burned. Coshocton railroad station and Newcomerstown home destroyed leaving a widow with two children.
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Salem
Peter Reipetz
National Sanitary Company
Ohlen-Bishop Law Company
Columbus
Essie Ranser
Newcomerstown
Dennison
Pennsylvania Railroad
Coshocton
Tragic Fire Claims Three Children in Culpeper
In Culpeper Virginia Gid Rixxey aged 20 and his two sisters aged 5 and 8 died in a house fire three miles from town. Their mother and stepfather were seriously burned and hospitalized in Charlottesville with little hope of recovery. Eight other children escaped unharmed.
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Gid Rixxey
George Preacher
Charlottesville
Rixxey
Fire destroys Villanova College buildings in Pennsylvania
Fire at Villanova College in Villanova Pennsylvania destroyed College Hall and damaged the adjoining monastery. Father Daniel Driscoll estimated losses exceed $2,000,000 as flames threatened the entire campus complex. The blaze calmed after hours with extensive damage to the first and second floors.
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Villanova
Atlantic City
Pennsylvania
College Hall
Villanova College
Daniel Driscoll
Order of St. Augustine
Mayor Walker joins dry path after alcohol abstinence
New York Mayor James Walker, urged by Reverend Christian Reisner, says he has not touched champagne or any alcohol since last September. He reports improved health, follows an alcohol free diet, and a modest menu of chicken and tea with coffee banned by his physicians.
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New York
Walker
Christian F. Reisner
Chelsea Methodist Episcopal Church
Reisner
Army Flyers to Fling at Winter Camp
Pilots of the first pursuit group Army Air Corps Selfridge Field Mt. Clemens Michigan will endure nine days of winter camping and maneuvers in Northern Michigan. The tests measure mobility of pursuit aviation under severe winter conditions in the region.
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New York World News Service
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Army Air Corps
Selfridge Field
Mt. Clemens
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Michigan
Trials drama centers on Hickman mother witness
In Los Angeles a frail mother is set to testify that her son William Edward Hickman is insane, a move defense chief Jerome Walsh says could spare him the death penalty for kidnapping and murder. Nearby in Riga reporting notes Soviet troops possibly revolted in Moscow in sympathy with Leon Trotsky.
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Thomas Hickman
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Kansas City
Ban Naptha in Soap Ad Stirs FTC Action
Washington January 29 An order from the Federal Trade Commission directs Hewitt Bros Soap Co to discontinue using the word Naptha to describe soaps. The FTC says labeling kerosene based products as naphtha is unfair competition and could mislead buyers.
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Hewitt Bros. Soap Company
Dayton
Chicago
Federal Trade Commission
Women Leaders Split Over Voting Amendments Debate
Washington and New York Democrats clash over enforcing the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments as vigorously as the Eighteenth Amendment. correspondence released shows Mrs. Jesse W. Nicholson leading the National Woman's Democratic Law Enforcement League and Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt guiding New York women's activities differ on priorities and tactics.
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Jesse W. Nicholson
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New York
National Woman's Democratic Law Enforcement League
Democratic State Committee of
Nicholson
League
Roosevelt
National Woman’s Dry Enforcement League
Siege Ends in Police Killings at Chicago Home
In Chicago on January 29 a siege of a bungalow drew 1,500 spectators as nine police officers used tear bombs machine guns and shotguns. Joseph Weimer, armed with an automatic, fired on officers for about half an hour before dying in the kitchen. His wife and daughter fled the scene.
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New York World News Service
Chicago
Joseph Weimer
Weimer
Father-in-law saved from mattress blaze on Covington stairs
W H Ford a Covington salesman rushed into a bedroom fire to smother the burning mattress and rescue his mother in law Mrs Charlotte Sohn 78. Both suffered arm and face burns as the home at 412 East Forty-fifth street sustained about 500 dollars in damage with similar value in clothing lost.
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Sire
East Forty-fifth Street
Covington
Ford
Charlotte Sohn
Robert
Hazi
Ralph
Bill Connors the Bum Dies After Amputations in Newark
A Newark man known as Bill the bum, real name William Connors aged forty two, died an hour after surgeons amputated his remaining leg. He had been found drunk in a gutter and treated at City Hospital where his arms and leg were frozen and plagued by gangrene. He quipped he would make a fortune with a tin cup, then died after a final left leg amputation.
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New York World News Service
Newark
N. J
Newark City Hospital
Bill the Bum
William Connors
Bill
Rumored Moscow revolt under Tuchatschowstki reported
Unconfirmed dispatches from Warsaw circulated in Vilna claiming a military uprising has begun in Moscow led by Gen. Tuchatschowstki, Stalin opponent, with several divisions said to be bombarding the city.
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Warsaw
Vilna
Moscow
Tuchatschowstki
Joseph Stalin
Moscow Calm Despite Riga Uprising Rumors
Reports of a Moscow military revolt were dismissed as fiction by officials amid ongoing life in the capital. Leon Trotzky’s exile era continues with theaters full and the Kremlin quiet, while soldiers seen in parks on Sunday leave crack sunflower seeds and flirt with passersby.
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Riga
Leon Trotzky
Kremlin
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