Northeast Blizzard Kills Five in New York Area
A northeast blizzard with 75 mph gale and heavy squalls crippled the Eastern seaboard. In New York five people were killed and a sixth critically hurt as wires snapped and traffic halted. Telecommunication delays across Washington to Texas followed as press wires rerouted through Chicago and Buffalo.
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New York
Seaboard
Maryland
Texas
Western Union Telegraph Company
Washington
New York Harbor
Coast Marine
South Carolina
Havana
Associated Press
Chicago
Virginia
New York City
Buffalo
Indianapolis
Louisville
Nashville
Atlanta
Denmark
S. CC
Jacksonville
West Palm Beach
Pennsylvania
Storm Warning Ringed Coast to South as Blizzard Strikes
A nor’easter lashed the Eastern seaboard with snow and rain ending in Florida. Widespread wire outages left Washington without southward contact and many lines down to the North and West. The Weather Bureau called it one of the season’s worst storms, centered over Delaware with continued snow and cold into the South tomorrow.
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Maine
Florida
Washington
Gulf of Mexico
Eastport
Jupiter Inlet
Fla
Weather Bureau
Delaware
North Atlantic
South Atlantic
Two Die in Philadelphia Storm Train Wreck
Two people died and heavy property damage followed a 24 hour storm in Philadelphia. Edmund B. Seymour, a prominent lawyer, was fatally injured when an electric train on the Chestnut Hill branch hit a steel gondola blown onto the tracks. A live electric wire killed a five year old boy as the city endured the blizzard like weather.
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Philadelphia
Edmund B. Seymour
Chestnut Hill
Pennsylvania Railroad
Virginia Sways Under Winter Storm Wires Down
Virginia endured heavy snowfall and freezing weather causing widespread disruption as wire communications failed for hours. By nightfall partial connections were restored but officials warned normal service could take a week to resume.
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Virginia
Richmond
Associated Press
Natick Town Meeting Postponed Amid Blizzard
Severe storm conditions in Natick Massachusetts delayed the annual town meeting. Two ice alarms drew residents from their homes but a legal quorum was required to postpone. Citizens, frustrated, returned home after voting to delay the proceedings.
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Natick
Mass
Hamburg Harbor Strikes Halt Dock Operations
Hamburg report says dock workers began a morning strike causing a complete standstill of harbor operations. No details on negotiators or duration given.
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Hamburg
Newspapers Have Edge Over Street Gossip Says Morrow
Captain Thomas H. Morrow told the Woman's Democratic Club at the Hotel Linton that newspapers hold the edge over whispered political campaigns. He urged rejecting street corner rumors and defended newspapers as responsible and liable for libel if they print false political accounts.
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Thomas H. Morrow
Woman's Democratic Club
Linton
Seized In Ghase Smuggling Ring Breaks Up
Seven men and a force of six Revenue officers chased suspect boats from the Paris and the General W C Gorgas. Police seized fourteen liquor cases along with 9000 obscene books and pictures and two speed boats after a dramatic pursuit in New York harbor.
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Associated Press
New York
Paris
Special Revenue
George Barron
John L. Sumner
Society For the Suppression of Vice
Barron
Panama Railroad Company
Gorgas
Whisky seized as plumbers supplies in Cleveland box car
Federal agent W. L. Bence seized forty cases of imported Scotch whisky marked plumbers supplies in a box car at Cleveland after the consignee refused the shipment and no one claimed it. The 480 bottles had arrived from New York two weeks earlier.
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Cleveland
W. L. Bence
Consignee
New York
Mountaineer Held in Shooting of Agent
Robert Clower was captured after a raid on his Scott Mountain shack. He was charged with assault with intent to kill and violation of the prohibition law. Frederick Kroesen, a prohibition agent, was wounded during the raid and Clower escaped through a cellar passage before surrendering at the back entrance.
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Phillipsburg
N. Y
Robert Clower
Frederick Kroesen
Scott Mountain
Kroesen
Clower
One Killed in Wreck As Boston Montreal Flyer Leaves Rails
A Boston to Montreal express derailed one mile north of North Duxbury Vermont. One man, George Gaines of Burlington, was killed and two others critically injured. several passengers hurt. The wreck occurred after a broken rail, with six cars plunging down an embankment into the Winooski River. Joseph Garant of Minneapolis was hospitalized with bruises.
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Montpelier
Boston
Montreal
North Duxbury
Central Vermont Railway
White River Junction
George Gaines
Burlington
Winooski River
Joseph Garant
Minneapolis
Three Slayings in Linden New York Spark Manhunt
Three residents, Mr and Mrs Whalley and Mrs Mabel Morse, were killed in Linden New York as a firebombing set by a suspected maniac. A similar October 1922 slaying of Miss Frances Kimball remains unsolved, prompting a village posse to search for the killer.
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Linden
N. Y
Thomas Whalley
Mabel Morse
Batavia
Kimball House
Underwood Wins Alabama Presidential Primary Lead
Senator Oscar W. Underwood led in 52 of 67 counties with 39 802 votes to Musgrove 24 797 and Dinsmore 1 797. Underwood won most counties including his home Jefferson by about 1 200. Balloting was light amid bad weather as the state named its delegation to the Democratic National Convention.
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Birmingham
Ala
Oscar W. Underwood
Alabama
L. B. Musgrove
Underwood
Musgrove
M. A. Dinsmore
Jefferson
New Hampshire Delegates Solidly Back Coolidge Early
Early returns from the New Hampshire presidential primary show eleven Republican delegates pledged to Coolidge. In statewide results Senator George H. Moses led among eight candidates for seven at large spots but remained unpledged. Former Governor Albert O. Brown and Frank H. Challis led the at large vote, with Challis entering late as a protest against Moses’s nonpledge. Democratic delegates at large remain unpledged with scattered preferences.
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Manchester
N. H
New Hampshire
Coolidge
George H. Moses
Moses
Frank H. Challis
Lee
Albert O. Brown
Challis
Colorado Republicans Unite Behind President Coolidge
Colorado’s Republican state convention instructed the delegation to support President Coolidge at the national convention with a unanimous vote.
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Colorado Springs
Col
Colorado
Coolidge
Seven delegates chosen at Kansas Republican convention
In Topeka on March 11 seven delegates at large were selected for the Republican national convention and instructed for Calvin Coolidge.
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Topeka
Kan
Coolidge
Coolidge May Pick Navy Secretary in Days
President Coolidge holds talks in Washington with possible nominees for the Navy post. Officials indicate conferences within the next day or two may yield a tender of the secretaryship, but names are not yet released.
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Washington
Coolidge
Navy
Tomato can replaces dance cap at East Tech High
In Cleveland on March 11 a tomato can is awarded every six weeks to the pupil with the lowest report card average in O. S. Davidson’s home room at East Technical High School. A pupil who receives the can three consecutive times will have his picture published with the can in East Tech’s weekly.
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Cleveland
O. S. Davidson
East Technical High School
East Tech
Hoover Sees Radio as Public Utility and Favors Regulation
Secretary Hoover told the House Merchant Marine Committee radio must be safeguarded from monopoly as a public utility. He urged passage of the White bill to regulate radio communication and stressed it serves public interest, not private gain. Joseph A. Devery pressed for White bill citing AT&T and a five‑company radio combine in New York.
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Washington
Hoover
House Merchant Marine Committee
Herbert Hoover
New York City
Joseph A. Devery
Devery
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Combine
War Department Nitrate Scandal Charged by Kansas Congressman
Kansas Republican congressman J N Tincher told the state convention that Secretary Baker and nitrate importers profited from a government sale of 100 000 tons of nitrates at market price and planned to repurchase the same amount later at the same price, allegedly stealing millions and harming farmers.
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Associated Press
Topeka
Kan
War Department
Newton D. Baker
Teapot Dome
J. N. Tincher
Kansas
Tincher
Baker
New York
Bakers Denies Recall Of Nitrate Transaction
Newton D. Baker, former Secretary of War, replies to J. N. Tincher in Topeka, saying he has no memory of a nitrate deal. He recalls loans to importers and says the Ordnance Department managed the matter with a future replacement at ten for ten.
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Cleveland
J. N. Tincher
Topeka
Newton D. Baker
Boy 10 says father taught him to steal
In Fremont Ohio a ten year old boy who confessed to several robberies told police his father coached him to steal and then kept the loot. The boy was sent to Juvenile Court officials.
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Freemont
House Defers Inquiries Against Two Representatives
The House voted 222 to 108 to leave charges against two representatives to the Department of Justice for investigation by a Chicago grand jury. Democratic leaders planned a future move to form a special committee to seek names and charges from DOJ, while Rep Zihlman pressed for a full House probe to clear or censure the members.
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Washington
House
Department of Justice
Chicago
Judiciary Committee
Garrett
Zihlman
Rep
Chicago Grand Jury
Labor Committee
Maryland
John W. H. Crim
Graham
Chamber of Commerce Attacked as Threat to U S Government
Senator Brookhart accuses the Chamber of Commerce of seeking to become a super government for the United States during a farm relief debate. He argues private business interferes with government and cites the Chamber as a prime example.
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Brookhart
National Chamber
Washington
Chamber of Commerce of the
United States
Rep
Senate
Chamber of Commerce
Chamber chief defends chamber as info source
Julius H. Barnes president of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States defended the chamber at a Philadelphia dinner for foreign students. He said Senator Brookhart’s charge that the chamber seeks a super government would be correct if it means collecting precise data stimulating informed debate and aiding constructive relations between government and industry.
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Philadelphia
Brookhart
Chamber of Commerce of the
United States
Julius H. Barnes
Chamber
Barnes
Congress turns cold shoulder on Coolidge tax cut bid
Washington reports show the Senate Daugherty inquiry broadening with new lines of testimony. Subpoenas target Elias Mortimer in the Veterans Bureau case while leads allege stock gambling by high officials. Brookhart promises to trace dummy transactions and proceed with Mexican arms support questions as hearings may begin tomorrow.
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Daugherty
Washington
Senate Committee
Veterans’ Bureau
Elias H. Mortimer
Forbes
Senate Investigating Committee
Chicago Grand Jury
Brookhart
Oil Committee
Congress
Wheeler
Schmidlapp Trust Tax Question Tests Living Gifts
Ohio inheritance tax debate focuses on a 3 million dollar Schmidlapp trust. Sylvester Hickey argues living trusts may be taxable, potentially boosting state revenue near 817 thousand dollars. The ruling could set first test of the law in this state.
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Jacob G. Schmidlapp
Cincinnati
Ohio
Sylvester Hickey
William F. Hess
Schmidlapp
Hickey
Mrs Wilson halts publication of late President letters
Mrs Woodrow Wilson acting as executrix of the estate invokes copyright rights to stop unauthorized publication of President Woodrow Wilson letters and manuscripts. She may assemble a controlled collection or deposit papers in a national institution, with action affecting a major publisher recalling circulated copies.
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Washington
Woodrow Wilson
Library of Congress
University Receives 250000 Life Policy Proceeds As Beneficiary
Members of the University of Cincinnati board announced a donor's life insurance policy naming the university as beneficiary. The donor asked for anonymity. A resolution aims to honor donor wishes on the use of proceeds when policies are paid out.
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University of Cincinnati
Cincinnati
Coolidge asks Congress for immediate 25 percent tax cut
President Coolidge urged Congress to enact a 25 percent reduction in current year taxes before the 15th of March. House leaders opposed moving such a measure as a separate action, and the request drew criticism from Republicans and Democrats alike as the revenue bill moved through committees.
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Associated Press
Washington
Coolidge
Congress
House
Green
Ways and Means Committee
Longworth
Daugherty
America
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Commere Boly
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