Wickersham says Prohibition improving despite 2.75 beer
Chairman of the Hoover Commission reports steady improvement in enforcement after an eight month study. He dismisses 2.75 beer as meeting robust tastes and urges continued tightening of rules on industrial alcohol while promising another commission report. He cites civil service reforms and greater vigilance as key factors.
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Wickersham
Hoover Law Enforcement Commission
Commission
America
Senate Judiciary Committee
Lis
Senate
Norris
Judiciary Committee
Tan
Prohibition Service
Robber Stages Dinner Hold-Up at Granada Gardens
A well dressed 23 year old man robbed Granada Gardens Restaurant at 15 21 East Sixth Street of 200 dollars after dining and sliding a pistol to the cashier Miss Dorothy Drexel 25 of Covington. He escaped into the early evening crowd after demanding only the big bills.
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Granada Gardens
East Sixth Street
Cody
Dorothy Drexel
East Sixteenth Street
Covington
Miss Drexel
Noree
Death
Florence Laurelmont
Council Studies Blasting Work at Bald Knob
The City Law Committee reviewed complaints about heavy blasting by Winston Bros. Construction for new railroad terminals at Bald Knob. South Fairmount Improvement Association, led by John James, urged a stop to blasting due to cracks in foundations and vibrations. Attorney Robert A. Taft defended the blasts as permitted and necessary for a $42,000,000 project with future cost risks cited at $65,000,000.
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Bald Knob
Winston Bros. Construction Company
City Council Law Committee
South
Col. Sherrill
Taft
Rairoads
People
Terminals Company
James
City Hall
SLEW DAUGHTER TO REGAIN LOVE OF HER MOTHER
John Francisco 49 confesses to beating his nineteen year old daughter Evelyn Edgington to death in a West Side apartment. He says the crime aimed to rekindle reconciliation with his wife over their only daughter. Police say Barrow the street car conductor was killed in an attempted robbery within a day.
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Columbus
John Francisco
Evelyn Edgington
Charles Barrow
Edgington
West Side
Barrow
Pennsylvania Avenue
Francisco
May Hessenauer
Pennsylvania and
Fifth Avenues
Fire department can't take joke Sauerbrey finds
George Sauerbrey of Riverside Drive Newport told the fire department there was a fire at Tenth and Park streets after calling from a drug store. He egged on the responding engines while companions waited nearby. Police will question him and notify Judge Alfred Maybury.
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George Sauerbrey
Riverside Drive
Newport
Sauerbrey
Walter Green
Tenth and
Ann Streets
John Beechley
Tenth Street
Park Streets
Sauverbrey
Alfred Maybury
Pilot Swerves Blazing Plane to Save Homes
New York pilot Boris Sergievsky battle to save four world records while a Sikorsky amphibian burned mid flight near Fairfield Beach. He ditched offshore to protect cottages, sprayed the blaze with a fire extinguisher, then swam to shore before being rescued by a canoe. He faced injuries but saved lives and property.
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New York World News Service
New York
Boris Sergievsky
America
Sergievsky
Long Island Sound
Fairchild
Conn
Fairfield Beach
Abyssinian Doctor Claims Poison Plot By Abyssinian Emperor
Dr Alexander Garabedian former court physician claims Ras Tafari ordered him to poison three royal family members. He says he faced persecution when he refused and has lodged a 300 page evidence pack with the League of Nations in Geneva. He cites prior service in Erivan Lausanne and Heracles hospitals and a tea invitation as the alleged turning point.
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League of Nations
New York World News Service
Geneva
Alexander Garabedian
Abyssinia
Ras Tafari
St. James
Garabedian
African Empiire
League
Lausanne
Erivan
Heracles
Menelik Hospital
Capone Freed From Prison Secretly By Warden
Philadelphia dispatch reports Al Capone, the Chicago crime boss, released from Eastern Penitentiary at 6 am to avoid attacks, then moved to Graterford Prison for final release. Accompanied by his entourage and bodyguards, Capone was suspected to head west as authorities claim a blind plane chartered to Chicago.
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Capone
Warden
Scarface
Philadelphia
Camden
Courtenay Terrett
New York World News Service
Aphonse Capone
Chicago
Eastern Penitentiary
Gratersford
Broadway Limited
Pennsylvania Railroad
North Philadelphia
Frankie” Cline
Ralph “Bottles
Jack Cazick
The
Capone Enterprises
Smith
Anry
Eastern
Harrisburg
John S. Fisher
Eastertn Penitentiary
Herbert M. Goddard
Godrd
Penitentiar
Parrot Fever Strikes Public Health Lab Investigators
Washington March 17. Eleven Public Health Service staffers at the Hygienic Laboratory fall ill with psittacosis traced to parrots. Dr Ludvik Hektoen of the University of Chicago is among the stricken, with one death already recorded. The lab is fumigated and work relocated as authorities seek the transmission method amid ongoing mystery.
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Washington
Public Health Service
Ludvik ‘Hektoen
University of Chicago
Harry Anderson
Cummings
Ludvik Hektoen
Dr. Hektoen
Chase National to World’s Largest Bank Through Merger
Chase National Bank is set to become the world’s largest bank via a merger with Equitable Trust and Interstate Trust, with total resources over 2.8 billion dollars. Special director meetings at 2:30 p.m. will approve the merger terms, followed by security company meetings.
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New York World News Service
New York
Chase National Bank
Equitable Trust Company
Interstate Trust Company
Wall Street
Chase and
Equitable
National City Bank
America
Great of
London
Chase
Equ Interstate
Interstate
Met Tt
Great Bank
Winthrop W. Aldrich
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
Tock
Ces
The
George B. Silzer
New Jersey
Bank
Thousands Witness St Patrick’s Day Parade in New York
An estimated twenty thousand marchers from Irish societies filled Fifth Avenue for the annual St Patrick’s Day parade. The procession passed St Patrick’s Cathedral where Cardinal Hayes and clergy reviewed the marchers. In the reviewing stand at 64th Street and Fifth Avenue sat state and city officials with Grover Whalen in attendance. Sheriff Thomas M Farley served as Grand Marshal.
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New York
Fifth Avenue
St. Patrick’s Cathedral
Cardinal Hayes
Sixtyfourth Street
Grover Whalen
Joseph V. McKee
Board of Aldermen
John F. Curry
Tammany
Thomas M. Farley
Crosley announces market plans for electric refrigerator and auto radio
Crosley Radio Corporation announced plans to mass produce an electric refrigerator with new patented features within a month and to assemble automobile radio sets free from motor interference. Powell Crosley Jr. said the refrigerator is ready for market and will be sold at a low cost. Demonstrations to dealers were well received and several automakers are showing interest in installing the radios.
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Crosley Radio Corporation
Powell Crosley, Jr
Crosley Distributors
Crosley
le Gt
Laborite Officers Call for Naval Delegates Home at St Patrick Banquet
At the sixty second Friendly Sons of St Patrick banquet in Louisville officials and speakers voiced opposition to Volsteadism. Rev John Malick warned of threats to church life while others praised Irish humor amid political divides. The toast on Our Country prompted concern about national unity and the role of Irish Americans.
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MR. Malick
Sons OF ST. Patrick
Harold Wilson Coates
Old Ireland
Erin’s
Friendly Sons of St. Patrick
Linton
Southern University
Kentucky
Russell Wilson
Mer. P. J. Hynes
A. J. Conroy
Neal Ahern
Friendly Sons
Wilson
James R. O'Neill
St. Xavier's Church
Russell’Wilson
Our City
John Wesley Hill
Lincoln Memorial University
Gig Stone Gap
Tenn
John Malick
First Unitarian Congregational Church
Prohibition Attacked at Irish Fellowship Banquet
Chicago ably crafted speeches at the Irish Fellowship Club banquet at the Alms Hotel condemning Prohibition as a grave evil. Michael L. Igoe argued the law violates constitutional liberties while Edmund Doylé urged that abolition harms democracy and fosters crime.
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Irish Fellowship Club
Alms Hotel
Michael L. Igoe
Chicago
United States
Edmund Doylé
St. Xavier College
R. R. Fillebrandt
Camp Washington
Doyle
Smallpox Strikes Gandhi Group During Salt March
A smallpox case was found among Gandhi’s volunteers in Mahatma Gandhi’s march for independence. The Ashram near Ahmadabad reported twenty two cases before departure, Gandhi ordered isolation, and the procession to Jalapur resumes with tough conditions and heat.
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Anand
Bombay Presidency
India
Mahatma
Gandhi
College of Devotees
Ahmadabad
Jalalpur
Tomorro
Jalapur
Bay of Cambay
Coal and Lumber Retaliatory Rates Restored in Tariff Bill
Senate reverses course and reinserts countervailing duties on coal and lumber as part of the tariff measure. The 51 to 18 vote preserves a 50 cent per ton duty on Canadian bituminous coal while other retaliatory provisions remain unchanged. Senator Glass accuses the State Department of overreach. LaFollette notes its opinion followed Smoot's request.
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Washington
Senate
Smoot
Finance Committee
State Department
Glass
Dem
Department
Congress
LaFollette
Rep
Wis
Virginian
Auto Refuses To Elope In Odd Tale Of Love
Eighteen year old Virgil Paul of Palestine Ohio courts Miss Ethel Lamb of Richmond Indiana who is 17 or 19 by her father or her word. They plan to marry in Newport but their car refuses to move. The lovers wait while repair efforts fail and Mr Lamb rushes to the scene.
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Virgil Paul
Palestine
Ethel Lamb
Richmond
Ind
Paul
Virgil
Ethel
Newport
Hamilton
Frank L. Lamb
Lamb
Parliament Storm as Naval Conference Stalls in London
A tense London naval conference fails to yield settlements or near agreements on major problems among the five leading powers. In Parliament, back benchers clash with government lines as Churchill urges restraint and Jos. Kenworthy calls the talks a failure, proposing a five year halt on building and a plan to delay further talks.
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New York World News Service
London
England
House of Commons
United States
Great Britain
Jos. M. Kenworthy
Labor
America
France
Temperature Outlook Across States With Rain Snow Change
Regional forecast lists rain and colder conditions through Tuesday and Wednesday across Ohio Kentucky Tennessee and West Virginia with snow flurries possible in places Eastport and major cities show varied temperatures from the upper 60s to mid 70s. The table notes current highs and precipitation in the last 24 hours.
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Ohio
Kentucky
Tennessee
West Virginia
Indiana
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Gretna Green
MacDonald’s Party
John IL. Balderston
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Winston Churchill
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