Ford subpoena eyed by Senate panel on coal reform talk
The Senate Soft Coal Investigation Committee scheduled to subpoena Henry Ford to hear if his mining experience can ease industry troubles. Percy Tetlow testified Ford mines pay about eight dollars daily, while others pay as low as two dollars forty five, raising wage contrasts with U S Steel and Ohio operators noted in the hearing.
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Washington
Henry Ford
Senate
Soft Coal Investigation Committee
Watson
Ford
West Virginia
John. D. Rockefeller, Jr
Charles M. Schwab
R. B. Mellon
Percy Tetlow
The
United Mineworkers
New River Export Coal Company
Lookout
W. Va
Boonesboro
Fayette County
Boone Interests
William P. Belden
Ohio
Dr. Jekyll and
Mr. Hyde
Lewis
Beiden
Belden
M. A. Hanna Coal
W. E. Warner Company
U. S. Steel
United States Steel Corporation
Tetlow
Senator Wheeler
Dem
Mont
Bomb warnings echo in Chicago political battles
Chicago, March 28. Bomb threats and violence warnings appear in the second Chicago report from Republican factions amid the statewide primary preparations for April 10. Threats target Charles S. Deneen, Judge John A. Swanson, U S Senator, and several Republican figures while police guard homes and investigate new bombings with no positives found yet.
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Chicago
Charles S.deneen
United States
John A. Swanson
Swanson
Commissioner of Police
Herman J. Haenisch
Deneen
Thompson
Forty-sixth
George E. Q. Johnson
Frank J. Link
Sanitary District
A. K. Mose
Fiftieth
Goat Hill Memorial Site Approved And Parkway Lighting Plan
City Council approved Goat Hill as the war memorial site and passed an emergency lighting ordinance for Central Parkway from Broadway to Brighton. Lighting goes into effect immediately with bids to be advertised. Union Gas and Electric likely sole bidder, lights may come on around April 15. Formal park board and rapid transit board approvals pending. Citizens War Memorial Committee will raise funds for a $100,000 bond issue. final transfer remains to be arranged under Park Board supervision. Street and sidewalk ordinances were referred to the Highways Committee.
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Goat Hill
Central Parkway
Broadway
Brighton
Seasongood
Stanley Matthews
City Planning Commission
Council
Commission
Parkway
Union Gas and Electric Company
Park Board
Board of Rapid Transit Commissioners
Citizens’ War Memorial Committee
Walter S. Schmidt
Buckner Wallingford
Col. C. O. Sherrill
Crandall Alley
Second
Commerce Streets
Court Street
Gilbert Avenue
Palos Street
Rosemont
Highways Committee
Carr Street
Sixth
Eighth Streets
West Side
Illinois Coal Operators Cut Ties With Union Over Wages
The Illinois Coal Operators' Association severed ties with the United Mineworkers until wage reductions are agreed. President W. J. Jenkins warns most mines may shut after April 1, signaling a deepening slump for Illinois coal and related industries. John L. Lewis allegedly misled operators about relief by April 1, 1928. Harry Fishwick states Illinois miners will honor local contracts and continue under Jacksonville wage schedules.
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Chicago
Illinois Coal Operators’ Association
United Mineworkers
Miners’ Organization
Jacksonville
W. J. Jenkins
St. Louis
Jenkins
Illinois
John L. Lewis
Harry Fishwick
The
Illinois Miners
Nine Plead Guilty in Bar Scandal
In Columbus the State Supreme Court contempt case tied to the bar examination scandal saw five of twelve defendants plead guilty and seven plead not guilty. Conspiracy was alleged as the basis for contempt with sentencing set for April 13. defendants include Robert E. Albin and Charles Batten among others from Cleveland and nearby communities.
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Columbus
State Supreme Court
Robert E. Albin
Cleveland Heights
Welcome T. Blue
Charles X. Batten
C. Reid
George Schneider
Cleveland
Carlton F. Miller
Supreme Court
Ralph W. E. Miller
Mussolini Pushes Induction of 80,000 Youths Into Fascist Ranks
Rome March 28 Premier Mussolini told his Council of Ministers that 80 000 Balilla and Avanguardista youths must join the regular Fascist party Sunday He called it a key step in universal education and state control of schooling The pope’s criticism of Fascist youth education prompted sharp Fascist and anti papal commentary across Italian papers including L Impero and discussions of reconciling positions with the Vatican
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Rome
Mussolini
Council of Ministers
Balilla
Avanguardista
Pope Pius
Italy
Aviator Flies Away With Farmer's Fence
Pittsburgh dispatch reports J Warren Smith piloted a night flight from Lima to Pittsburgh pulling 800 feet of barbed wire as a tail. The wire contacted high voltage lines near town causing sparks and burning lines while two passengers noted the flashing lights.
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Pittsburgh
J. Warren Smith
Lima
Smith
Wife testifies husband spanked her in divorce case
In Domestic Relations Court Mrs Velma Dietz Schrand 32 says Henry Schrand 34 used spanking as punishment for misbehavior often with a paddle or spoon and once left her black and blue. She claims humiliation and drunkenness. the suit was dismissed for lack of evidence.
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Velma Dietz Schrand
Central Avenue
C. W. Hoffman
Henry Schrand
Students Coat Nudity From Posters With Paint in Vienna
In Vienna on March 28, Pan German College Fraternity members emptied paint pots over posters and lithographs of female cabaret performers and cinema stars. The action aimed to cover nudity, provoking lawsuits by theatrical producers while students denounced obscenity and government inaction on obscene literature and certain art.
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Vienna
Josephine Baker
Lindbergh Flies to Lexington Amid Nation's Watch
Col. Charles A. Lindbergh arrives in Lexington from Washington with four companions after a 6 hour flight signaling a retreat from public life. Attended by Col. Henry S. Breckinridge and others the party stays briefly for a reception before Lindbergh heads to an unspecified western destination.
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Lexington
Charles A. Lindbergh
Washington
Henry S. Breckinridge
New York
Col. Lindbergh
Spirit of
Scott D. Breckinridge
West
Entire Warren family slain in Newark double murder
Newark New York March 28 an entire family father 42 mother 42 and son 13 were murdered in their beds after a late night movie outing. bullets from a .22 automatic entered the parents eyes and a shot struck the boy above the heart. a gun of the same calibe was found under the boy bed and shells missing. coroner and sheriff deem it murder with a staged fire to cover evidence.
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New York
Newark
N. Y
Frank S. Warren
Edith J
Jackson S
Warren
Arthur Bessemer
John L. Newman
Wayne County
Bessemer
Warrens
Lindbergh receives new airplane with night flying gear
A new Lindbergh airplane was completed at Mahoney Field in San Diego. Finishing touches precede test flights and delivery within a week. The craft features cats eyes for night flying, two wing projectors with 250 000 candle power and parachute flares. Col. Lindbergh is expected to visit to accept the plane.
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San Diego
Cal
Charles A. Lindbergh
Mahoney Field
Army Deserter Admits Killing Aged Woman
Dewey Doss confessed to slaying Martha Smith an 82 year old Rising Sun Iowa farmer's wife after she aided his desertion from the army. He beat her with a pistol fired at her and burned the body on a couch, before being returned to Des Moines for further proceedings.
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Des Moines
Potosi
Dewey Doss
Findlay
Polk County
Martha Smith
Rising Sun
Army
Bev Enue Minn
Doss
Dewey White
Bank cashier kills masked robber during Monroe holdup
Aus tin Smith, 43, cashier of the Monroe National Bank, shot and killed Lon nie Morgan, 22, during a bank robbery attempt in Monroe Ohio. Morgan, recently unemployed, faced financial pressures tied to a camp residence, a local woman, and a Ford plant layoff. Morgan’s plan involved fleeing to Gary Indiana to meet a woman and later California, with a letter to a Middletown businessman in sheriff custody.
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the Commercial Tribune
Monroe
Austin Smith
Monroe National Bank
Louise Sollsmuth
Middletown
Tod Hood
Hamilton
Morgan
Warren Sollsmuth
Gary
Ind
Sloneker
Butler County
California
Nationwide Business Survey to Publish by The Commercial Tribune
The Commercial Tribune will begin tomorrow the publication of a nationwide survey on business and industrial conditions in the United States. It covers conditions in the first quarter and forecasts for the year ahead, based on direct statements from involved parties and supported by strong authority. Publication will continue daily until completion, with further details on page 8.
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the Commercial Tribune
United States
Indictment Of Eleven In Chicago Alcohol Ring
Federal Grand Jury charges alleghed eleven including an Alderman and a former Lincoln Park official in a $5,000,000 Chicago bootleg operation. Prosecutors say the ring flooded the Midwest with liquor, operated multiple stills, and paid off politicians and agents. Titus Haffa, a council candidate, denied the charges claiming persecution.
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Chicago
Lincoln Park
Middle West
Titus Haffa
Gold Coast
Haffa
Forty-third Ward
Thompson
Prohibition
Midwest
Borah Urges Clear Stand on Prohibition at Conventions
Senator Borah of Idaho urged Republicans and Democrats to take a firm stance for enforcement of the prohibition amendment. In a radio address transmitted from Columbus to a women’s law enforcement conference, he warned against powerful party influences seeking to suppress the issue and urged voters to repudiate wrongdoing in party management. He cited the Teapot Dome era and named officials linked to liquor indictments including Albert P. Bauer Joseph Bagheria and John J Wahl with indictments and multiple overt acts cited.
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Washington
Boreh
Idaho
Idaho Republican
WTFF
Fellowship Forum
Columbus
Law Enforcement
Borah
Harry F. Sinclair
Teapot Dome
Republican Party
Mr. Borah
Albert P. Bauer
Lincoln Park
Republican Boosters’ Club
Forty-third Ward
Joseph Bagheria
John Joseph Wahl
Prohibition
Wahl
Bauer
Haifa
Negro janitor accused of assault on white woman
Fitz McAdams a 19 year old negro and assistant janitor at the Greenwood Court Building was identified by Mrs Emma Seinsheimer 50 as the assailant of her morning attack. Police found a key and watch linked to the crime and plan charges of attack and burglary to be filed.
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Fitz McAdams
Greenwood Court
Greenwood Avenue
Emma_ Seinsheimer
Kirgan
Frank Seinsheimer
General Hospital
Sergt. Adams
Ira Hurt
Reichert
Weaver and Stout
McAdams
Maj. Arata
Genter and
Frick
625 West Sixth Street
Sixth Street
Hart
Seinsheimer
Mrs. Seinsheimer
Senate Flood Control Vote Unanimous in Quick Passage
Washington March 28 The Senate approved a large flood control measure to curb the Mississippi in a swift unanimous roll call sending it to the House. Only King of Utah abstained briefly, while Wesley Jones was praised as the bill’s master harmonizer. The House moved on foreign affairs bills as Muscle Shoals awaited action.
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Washington
Senate
Mississippi
House
King
Utah
Wesley Jones
Ransdell
Louisiana
Foreign Affairs Committee
House Military Committee
Alabama
Fess
Ohio
Jones
Eady
River States
Congress
Coolidge
Hoover
Davis
War Department
American Red Cross
Thompson
Chicago
Stephens and Harrison
Heflin
Swanson
Virginia
McKellar
Tennessee
Coolidge Down
Harrison
Lorimer
William Rmer
Illinois
Commerce Committee
Kendrick
Wyoming
Caraway
Arkansas
Hawes
Missouri
Train Wreck Kills Three Stockmen In Kansas
Three stockmen died and four stock attendants were injured when a Rock Island freight slammed into the rear of a stock train near Bonner Springs Kansas. The dead were Charles A Lass Riley Kansas R E Maxwell Smith Center Kansas and Walter H H Perry Council Groves Kansas. All men were asleep in the caboose. no railroad workers were hurt.
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Bonner Springs
Kan
Rock Island
Here
Charles A. Lass
Riley
R. E. Maxwell
Smith Center
Kansas
Walter HH. Perry
Council Groves
Train derailment near Woodside Station injures several
Five cars of a Long Island Electric train from Speonk to New York derailed at Woodside Queens during rush hour. About 600 passengers were aboard. one man reported seriously injured, four others hospitalized, nearly a score treated for bruises and cuts. Cars did not overturn. Gelatinous spreads were blamed for the crash.
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New York
Long Island Railroad
Speonk
Woodside
Queens
Suit Seeks 10000 Damages For Blindings By Rum
Mrs. Annie C. Ramey filed a $10,000 damages suit in Norfolk Virginia alleging her son Alexander H. Ramey was blinded and disabled by Louis Levin who supplied intoxicating liquor. The petition claims she is old and infirm and dependent on her son. the suit is described as a first of its kind in Virginia.
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Norfolk
Annie C. Ramey
Louis Levin
Alexander H. Ramey
Levin
Virginia
Ramey
Coolidge Signs Radio Bill Extending Commission Life
President Coolidge signed a bill extending the Radio Commission for one year and authorizing allocation of broadcast wavelengths among stations in various regions in proportion to population.
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Coolidge
Washington
Radio Commission
Autoist Must Be Cautious At Crossings Court Says
Ohio Supreme Court rules motorists on main highways have right of way but must use caution approaching intersecting roads in a broad opinion. The decision clarifies how drivers should behave at intersections and summarizes key points from prior cases.
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Columbus
State Supreme Court
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Goal Inquirer
Lewis and Ohio
Dr. Jekyll
Goat Hill Memorial
Citizens’ Committee
Llinois
Fasgiot
L'Impero
Lindy Tunns
Nation Waits
Kentucky
Sgun
Father
Lonnie Morgan
Heaton Street
Harry Custer
Custer
Ford Motor Company
Woodsdale
James Newman
Avondale
Chamber
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