Market Rebound After Liquidation Slump On NYSE
The New York Stock Exchange saw a sharp liquidation over a week, then a broad rally as big and small financiers moved in. The volume fell to 2,626,400 shares with more than 250 securities gaining, led by General Electric and American Can as oils resisted selling.
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New York
New York Stock Exchange
Associated Press
United States Steel Common
Commission
Shorts
General Electric
United States
Associated
Tidewater
New York World News Service
Washington
Hoover
Mellon
Mr. Mellon
Mr. Hoover
Stock Exchange
Mexico
Coolidge
Interstate Commerce Commission
van Sweringens
Palm Beach society figure directs street cleaning effort
Mrs. Arthur B. Claflin, wife of a wealthy Palm Beach resident, acts as foreman for a city street-cleaning squad each morning at 7. She leads the workers with consent of local government and receives no pay. She also presides over the Woman’s Civic Club.
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Palm Beach
Fla
Arthur B. Claflin
White Wings
Unsigned Trial Notes Delay Kresge Divorce
New York March 4 The presiding court delayed the Kresge divorce case as Sebastian S Kresge refused to sign pre trial examination records. Doris Kresge seeks 1 million dollars under a pre nup claiming stock promises and a dog gift before their marriage. The hearing was postponed with records to be signed Monday after argument.
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Associated Press
New York
SebastianSresge
Doris Kresge
Kresge
Sueme
Nathan Burkan
City Council to fast track seventeen street upgrades
A conference set a definite list of seventeen immediate street improvements for rapid Council action to resurface roads this year with Madison road first. The project could use a $60,000 bond if the Street Railway Company agrees to relay rails and repave between tracks, allowing $175,000 prior bonds to be redirected to sinking fund retirement. Officials cited co operation from the railway company and pledged company funds for rails and paving between Elmhurst place and Vista avenue.
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Colonel Sherrill
Fred Schneller
Council
Charles O. Rose
Frank Shipley
Charles Greve
Board of Sinking Fund Trustees
Louis Blakemore
Madison Road
Woodburn Avenue
Erie Avenue
Reading Road
Sherrill
Elmhurst Place
Vista Avenue
Peace Now Looms In Dula Divorce
New York, March 4. In the ongoing voice suit of Mrs. Elsie Hinman Dula wife of Robert B. Dula Jr. former vice president of American Tobacco the couple's trial neared a possible reconciliation. After a conference with her husband in Justice Proskauer office she said he urged a reunion and a Palm Beach second honeymoon. The trial resumes Monday with hints the dispute may be settled soon.
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New York
Elsie Hinman Dula
Robert B. Dula, Jr
American Tobacco Company
Dulas
National City Buys Peoples Trust of Brooklyn for 16.7 Million
National City Bank, the nation’s largest, acquires Brooklyn’s Peoples Trust Company for 16.7 million dollars. The merger, first in five years for National City, follows earlier bank consolidations and expands total resources beyond 1.29 billion.
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New York World News Service
New York
National City Bank
Peoples Trust Company of
Brooklyn
He Price
Charles L. Schenck
National City
New York City
United States
England
Mechanics and Metals National Bank
Chase National
National
Charles E. Mitchell
Withdrawal of American Recognition of Mexico Demanded
Mother Superior Lorenza Rivarrez, founder of the Order of St. Theresa in Mexico and now a refugee in New York, recounts her expulsion with tears. She says her convent, nuns, and thirty years of work were destroyed by the government in a day as she and fellow clergy flee toward Barcelona.
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Mexico
New York
Lorenza Rivarrez
Order of St. Theresa
Mother Lorenza
Havana
Barcelona
Spain
Lorenza
Fabre
Chanoine
Associated Press
The
House Demands End to US Recognition of Mexican Gov
Representative Boylan urges immediate withdrawal of American recognition, arguing Mexico’s constitution violates international law, human rights, and religious liberty. He says the US cannot negotiate or maintain friendly relations with a regime that disrespects fundamental rights.
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Washington
Boylan
Dem
N. Y
United State
Mexico
Russia
Thermite Set To Break Ice Gorge On Allegheny River
Franklin Pennsylvania reports one ton of new thermite chemical arriving from Pittsburgh to melt the Allegheny River ice gorge. Dr. Howard T. Barnes of McGill University prepares tubes to deploy the thermite while officials hope it will burn away the eight to eighteen mile ice pack. Charges of aluminum compound and dynamite to follow with time fuses amid improving river conditions and restored transit services.
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Allegheny River
New York World News Service
Franklin, Pa
Pittsburgh
Metal and Thermite Corporation
Howard T. Barnes
McGill University
Montreal
Allegheney River
Big
Barnes
New York
Oil City
Franklin
National Transit Company
Brandon
New Castle
Erie
Earthquake in Peloponnese Causes Train Wreck
A Greek earthquake near the Peloponnese caused a mountainside cliff to topple into a valley crushing a train. The courier reports several passenger cars were buried and many lives were lost as a seismograph recorded the shock.
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Sofia
Peloponnsus
Greece
Earthquake Recorded at Georgetown University Observatory
An earthquake described as very severe was recorded on the seismograph at Georgetown University from 4 50 to 7 a m today. Father Tondorff, director of the observatory, estimated it moved more than 6000 miles in a northerly direction from Washington with maximum intensity at 6 30.
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Associated Press
Washington
Georgetown University
Father Tondorff
Packard to Build 150 Aero Engines for Navy
Secretary Wilbur announced a $2,364,000 contract with Packard Motor Car Company for 150 airplane engines the largest aviation contract since the war. The orders total 116 planes and 261 engines with more contracts nearing signature for 127 more planes and about $3,700,000.
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Associated Press
Washington
Wilbur
Packard Motor Car Company
Detroit
Mich
Naval Air Service
Veterans Bureau plan to close regional offices faces opposition
Senator Willis demanded details from Frank T. Hines after reports the Veterans Bureau would abolish Cincinnati and Cleveland offices and relocate functions to a new Columbus hub. H. E. Michaels of the Robert E. Bentley Post American Legion Cincinnati protested the plan as costly and inconvenient to Ohio veterans.
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The
Commercial Tribune
Washington
Veterans’ Bureau
Cincinnati
Cleveland
Columbus
Willis
Frank T. Hines
H. E. Michaels
Robert E. Bentley
American Legion
Hines
Ohio
Mystery Death Inquiry Ordered in Minnesota
Governor Theodore Christianson ordered a state inquiry into the November death of Knute B. Birkeland a former clergyman Arctic whaler and businessman in Minneapolis. Attorney General Clifford L. Hilton was told to lead the inquiry and pursue extradition against Mrs. Mayme Hodge now held in La Crosse Wisconsin. Birkeland disappeared November 24 and was found December 1 in a vacant apartment. a coroner's jury ruled death from unknown causes.
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ST. Paul, Minn
Theodore Christianson
Knute B. Birkeland
Minneapolis
Clifford L. Hilton
Mayme Hodge
Lacrosse
Wis
Birkeland
Nesbitt suspect under arrest in Cambridge Cambridge
A suspect in the Nesbitt murder case is in custody in Cambridge. A prisoner admits being in Troy on the murder day. The report mentions legal proceedings and custody arrangements tied to the case. Other items include statements about Lady Cathcart and immigration hearings in New York.
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Nesbitt
Cambridge
Troy
Wisconsin Extradition Hearing Sets for Birkeland Case
Mrs Mayme Hodge charged with murder in the disappearance and death of Knute Birkeland in Minneapolis is jailed in Lacrosse Wisconsin awaiting extradition decision after a Madison hearing on March 12. A woman named Mae Reylands rented the apartment. coroner tests found no poison.
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Mae Reylands
Lacrosse
Rescue of six afloat men on sailless schooner
A Holland America Line ship Volendam rescued six men who had been aboard a disabled schooner since December 17. The radiogram from Ossian Lang, Grand Historian of the Masonic Order, identified the skipper and five crew members. The schooner’s name was not released and the vessel was en route from Spain toward Newfoundland.
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New York
Volendam
Ossian Lang
Masonic Order
Associated Press
Spain
Newfoundland
Holland-America Line
DeKoning
Plymouth
England
Cherbourg
France
Rotterdam
Lang
Frauleins Organize Society to Ridicule Short Haired Girls
In Jena Thuringia on March 4 German frauleins protest bobbed hair by forming a society of long haired maidens. They claim bobbed styles resemble Premier Mussolini and employ newspaper ads to mock short hair. One jibe imagines Lorelei with six inch hair. The campaign carries notable bitterness.
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Frauleins
Jena
Thuringia
Mussolini
Italy
Lorelei
Consent Decree Ends National Food Products Control Stakes
The government reached a consent decree in New York Southern District Court requiring National Food Products Corporation to dispose of voting stock in affiliated firms and prohibiting further control. Officers and directors are barred from dual roles that lessen competition. The DoJ filed suit February 13, and the decree limits the company to at most one overlapping director or officer with similar business interests.
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New York
Bondy
National Food Products Corporation
Abbott-Alderney Dairies, Inc
James Butler Grocery Company
Economy Stores Corporation
Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company
Incc
National Dairy Products Corporation
Reid Ice Cream Corporation
United States Stores Corporation
United States
Buckner
Food Products Corporation
Mr. Buckner
H. C. Bohack
H. C. Bohack Company, Inc
Co. C. Burdan
Burdan Bros
L. Benedict
New England
Philadelphia
Bankers
P. M. Chandler
Associated Press
Washington
Southern District of
Department of Justice
Department
Fraternity ban lifted in Mississippi colleges
Jackson Mississippi March 4 Fraternities once outlawed for fourteen years by state law are to be allowed back into state colleges in Mississippi with new regulations guiding their reentry and oversight by campus authorities.
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Associated Press
Jackson, Miss
Mississippi
Peddler Held in Troy Murder Probe in Cambridge
Paul F. Becker an itinerant was arrested in Cambridge Ohio on suspicion in the Troy murder case. He had told a motorist he knew details of the crime and confessed briefly before retracting when turned over to police. Harriman a traveling salesman from the Nesbit company arranged the lift that led to the arrest.
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Zanesville
Troy
Cambridge
Here
Paul F. Becker
Becker
Harriman
Mystery Car Witness Links Nesbitt Murder to Drive Away
A broom peddler who saw a man leave the Nesbitt home in a Ford coupe near the murder scene corroborates reports of a mystery car. Troy officials plan to hire a detective as nine businessmen form a committee to fund the inquiry while other leads and a bloodstained bag surface.
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Nesbitt
Coupe
Associated Press
Troy
Ridge Avenue
Alva Campbell
Campbell
G. H. Stokes
Stokes
Paul F. Becker
Cambridge
Jacob Nesbitt
Pinkertons
Cal Crim Detective Agency
Cincinnati
Crim
aa Vien _ Nesbitt
Piay
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Georgetown Records
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Packard
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Vera Cathcart
Ellis Island
Department of Labor
Special Board of Inquiry
Tonight
Earl of Craven
Arthur G. Hays
Raymond, Wise
South Africa
William Zukor
London
Lord Cathcart
Craven
Mother Germania
IAM Mist
SFI Allied Holdings
National Corporation
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