Navy House approves 14.8 million for battleship upgrades
The House Naval Committee approved a 14.8 million plan to modernize the battleships Pennsylvania and Arizona. It would add 10 600 yards range, anti aircraft deck protection, submarine and air attack defenses, catapults, fire control, and reboilering. The plan leaves three other capital ships under review pending 1931 conference outcomes.
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Washington
Pennsylvania
Arizona
House Naval Committee
Britten
Illinois
Navy Department
New Mexico
Mississippi
Idaho
la Follette
Wisconsin
Bratton
McKellar
Tennessee
House
Bernstein Wept as Court Orders $300 Monthly Alimony
In Los Angeles on March 1 Arthur L. Bernstein cried as a judge ordered him to pay his wife Cora Bernstein $300 a month temporary alimony pending divorce litigation alleging alienation of affection by Mrs. Lillian Coogan, mother of film star Jackie Coogan. Bernstein, an executive at Coogan Pictures, testified through tears about his position and cited Coogan’s insistence he remain at the company. Mrs Bernstein testified she had received only $50 weekly since last September.
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Los Angeles
Arthur L. Bernstein
Corabel
Bernstein
Lillian Coogan
Jackie Coogan
Coogan Pictures Corporation
John Coogan
Coogan Pictures
Coogan
Drown Misery in Dance Tune at Prison Yawns
Dorothy Mackaye, famed stage and screen star, begins a prison term at San Quentin for concealing facts in the fatal Hollywood slaying of Russell Raymond. She accepts a grim routine, vows to cope, and a possible future reunion with Paul Kelly.
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New York World News Service
San Francisco
Dorothy Mackaye
San Quentin Penitentiary
Ray Raymond
Hollywood
Kelly
Paul Kelly
Raymond
San Quentin
Dot Mackaye
Paul
San Francisco Bay
Miss Mackaye
Su lon Dioglams Kinship To Boy He Called Soa
Detroit March 1 Myron Libby Boyer son of Joseph Boyer Burroughs Adding Machine Co chairman filed in Ingham County Circuit Court to deny kinship to a four year old he believed was his son and heir He says his wife adopted the child in infancy and led him to think it was his own If the birth is expunged from state records he would miss a trust for a grandchild The petition names Secretary of State John S Haggerty and asks that the birth be removed The Boyers have been separated and the child is with Mrs Boyer The mother Miss Laura Miller of Kansas City Mo previously married The attorney for Boyer Leo Butzel said suspicions arose from nurse remarks Windsor Ontario officials doubt the legal adoption No Ontario record exists The couple have been separated for months
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Detroit
Myron Libby Boyer
Joseph Boyer
The
Burroughs Adding Machine Company
Circuit X Court
Ingham County
Boyer
Tn Windsor
Ont
John S. Haggerty
Laura Miller
Kansas City
Three Die Fighting Montana Mine Blaze
Three men died while combating a fire at the Diamond mine of the Anaconda Copper Mining Co in Butte Montana The victims were James White shift boss Edward Barnes and W M Hasty The Badger State mine fire forced suspension of work across Diamond and Elm Orlu properties as large crews battled flames and smoke through the night
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Butte
Mont
Anaconda Copper Mining Company
Badger State Workings
James White
Edward Barnes
W. M“ Hasty
Badger State Mine
Diamond
Elm Orlu
SOUTH'S RAILROAD PIONEER IS DEAD
John Reese Kenly 81 longtime Confederate veteran and president of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad died after influenza illness. Born 1847 in Baltimore he fought with the Confederacy and was at Appomattox. He began railroading in 1868 and led ACL through years of growth. Survived by his daughter Edna Kenly and three brothers. Funeral services set for Saturday in Wilmington.
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N. C
John Reese Kenly
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
Baltimore
Kenly
Army
Confederacy
Appomattox
Lee
Pittsburgh & Connellsville
Richmond & Petersburg Railroad
Atlantic Coast Line
Edna Kenly
A. C. Kenly
W. C. Kenly
Annapolis
Davies
L. Kenly
Wrecker's misfortune and large blaze strike two days apart
A local man known as a wrecker, Herschel Howard of 215 West Seventh Street, suffers a jaw and facial injuries after a fall and car fire while driving his wrecker. A day earlier his mirror-breaking superstition brings a string of bad luck, and a separate blaze at the Empire Tile Plant in Zanesville causes $600,000 in damage and 500 workers to lose jobs.
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Herschel Howard
West Seventh Street
Howard
J. L. Rosenthal
Seventh Street
Elm
Edward Franks
General Hospital
Zanesville
Empire Bloor and Wall Tile Company
Dolly Sisters Retire From Stage Amid Marriage Breakup
Paris March 1 The Dolly Sisters announce retirement from the stage after marriage secret becomes public Rosika Mardhin to Mor Timer Davis of Canada Jenny joins in retirement They plan charity dance shows and will keep their apartment with marble columns and fountains The sisters generated notoriety in Cannes for gambling with Rosika reportedly winning $20 000 and Jenny involved in a $750 000 swing
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New York World News Service
Paris
Dolly
Newfork World News
Rosika
Mardhn
Mortimer Davis
Canada
Jenny
Brewster
America
Cannes
N. Y
Mrs. Coolidge Visits Sick Mother in Northampton
Mrs. Calvin Coolidge spent three hours at the bedside of her mother Mrs. Lemira Goodhue in Northampton Massachusetts. The 78 year old patient, ill since December with influenza complications, remains under care at the Dickinson Hospital as plans for a weeklong stay are announced to avoid surprise.
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Northampton
Mass
Calvin Coolidge
Lemira Goodhue
Dickinson Hostal
Washington
Northapton
Mrs. Goodhue
Mr. Hayes
Go Ihue
Fuelless motor mocked as electric hoax by experts
New York report details Dr. Frederick Hochstetter’s accusation that Lester J. Hendershot’s so called fuelless motor is a fraud. Hochstetter demonstrated alleged patent rejections and offered to test the device, while noting investors lost money.
Chicago Doctor Convicted of Murder and Death Sentence
A Cook County jury convicts Dr Amenti Rongetti of murder for an illegal operation on Loretta Enders, 19, and sentences him to death. First death sentence in Cook County since electrocution replaced hanging. Rongetti’s defense cites conspiracy. motion for new trial slated for Saturday.
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Chicago
Amenti Rongetti
Loretta Enders
Cook County
Chigo
Woman admits murder in child case at Vanceburg
Marie Frazier 32 pleaded guilty to murder in the death of 3 year old Mary Magdalene Pitts and received a life sentence in exchange for agreeing to aid prosecutors against Robert H. Pitts the child’s father. The plea came against her counsel and in the judge’s presence as jury selection for Pitts’ trial was expected to begin.
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Vanceburg
Marie Frazier
Mary Magdalene Pitts
Robert H. Pitts
Pitts
Frazier
Reed charges Coolidge with misfeasance in White House
Missouri Senator Reed in Long Beach accuses President Coolidge of misfeasance for inactivity in the Senate oil leases inquiry. He also attacks Hoover and Mellon, calling Hoover’s wartime grain pricing illegal and accusing Mellon of backing a corrupt Pennsylvania Senate race as crowds greet the candidate after filing for California primaries.
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Coolidge
White House
Senate Oil
Los Angeles
Senate
Reed
Missouri
Long Beach
Here
Sena
Naval Oil Reserve
Daugherty
Hoover
Mellon
Harry Daugherty
Pers
California
Commerce
England
Four Die in Ohio City Fire and Coal Smoke Asphyxiation
Firemen found two men dead in a rear shack after a blaze at 3522 Brotherton road Oakley. Coroner Swing ruled the deaths of Steve Thomas and Charles Roberts from coal stove smoke. William Marty, 54, was found dead at 145 East Mc Micken avenue and Coroner Swing said natural causes. William Rabould, 62, was found dead in a hotel room and death was listed as natural causes.
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Marshal Fagin
Margaret Kane
Brotherton Road
Oakley
Steve Thomas
Charles Roberts
Swing
William Marty
East
McMicken Avenue
William Rabould
Hotel Adams
West Fourth Street
William Stark
Southern Queen sinks after collision in South Atlantic
The English whaler Southern Queen, 400 feet long and over five thousand tons, sank February 24 after a collision with an iceberg in the South Atlantic. The crew was rescued by other vessels in the whaling fleet. she was due in Montevideo mid March with whale oil.
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Montevideo
Uruguay
South Atlantic
Two Slain Boys Found Bound In Indiana Harbor Canal
Police suspect murder after two well dressed boys are found bound and drowned in the Indiana Harbor Canal near Indiana Harbor Illinois. Autopsy shows drowning for the first boy and signs of assault on the second while investigators seek missing child reports and consider fiend or parental foul play theories.
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Indiana Harbor
Ind
Indiana Harbor Canal
H. B. Martin
Indiana
Illinois
Angie
Indiana Harbor Ship Canal
Chicago
Fortune tellers nabbed as police foil hustle in East End
Two gypsy women were arrested after Maj Rudolph Wehking watched Mme Nora Theodorwitzh 35 at Sixth Street and Lodge Alley as she allegedly told fortunes. Her customer George Gilbert 59 stood witness. the Major warned that the pair faced unlawful fortune telling charges while the other man to be questioned. A bakery truck driver, Syesy Schoonover 1553 Pleasant Street, noted the vehicle scene as the scene continued across East End.
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Mme
Nora Theodorwitzh
Sixth Street
Lodge Alley
Maj
Rudolph Wehking
Police Department
Mme. Theodorwitzh
George Gilbert
East Court Street
Maj. Wehking
Gilbert
S. W. Schoonover
Pleasant Street
Schoonover
East End Grocers
Eastern Avenue
Corbin Street
Corrigan Estate Valued at Nearly 9.83 Million in Ohio
James W. Corrigan late president of Corrigan McKinney Steel Co. of Cleveland left an estate estimated at 9,832,076. The inventory in Lake County Probate Court lists 10,000 shares of McKinney Steel Holding Co. stock valued at 8,512,500 and 22 Thoroughbreds in England valued at 44,000 plus other assets. Mrs. Laura Mae Corrigan is expected to receive the bulk of the estate for support this year.
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Cleveland, O
James W. Corrigan
Corrigan McKinney Steel Company
Cleveland
Lake County
Painesville
Corrigan
McKinney Steel Holding Company
Laura Mae Corrigan
England
Master of Liner Impostor Triggers Citywide Checks
A man posing as the master of the liner Leviathan and identifying as Commodore Harold A. Cunningham circulated 6500 in bogus checks across Atlantic City hotels and shops. Authorities say Cunningham never visited the city and a flood of messages followed his claimed return.
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New York
Commodore Harold A. Cunningham
Atlantic City
Commodore Cunningham
Rose
Philadelphia
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Soa
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Virgil Jordan
Industrial Conference Board
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Jordan
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