Youthful Check Forger Sought After Erie Jewelry Theft
Francis Watson, 20, who served time for an Erie jewelry store robbery, was tracked from Buffalo while attempting to dispose of loot. Ralph Hoffman, his companion, was picked up. Watson fled. Police broadcast his description and seek charges for forged checks including Ernest Morrow and Ward Keppel names. He faces possible penitentiary time if captured and convicted.
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Francis Watson
Erie
Buffalo
Cay
Ralph Hoffman
Watson
Erle
Ahant
A. H. Homer
West Main Street
Ernest Morrow
Ward Keppel
G. Cy Miles
Aaill
Hoffman
Tate
Storm Waif Identified as Butler Family Parents Hurt
Alabama storm waif identified as 18 month old girl linked to Floyd Butler family of Union Grove. Butler parents injured in Monday tornado, hospitalized in Birmingham with multiple injuries. Search for the child’s parents ended as clue dismissed. the baby’s condition worsened with pneumonia risk. Many storm victims, including parents, reported loss of nursing children amid widespread devastation across five southern states.
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Olanton
Ala
Alabama
Floyd Butter
Union Grove
Birmingham
Ald
Brst
Butler
Floyd Butler
Wip Hadden
Former Corry Native Faces Life Term in Car Looting Case
Lawrence Woodard, once of Corry, now facing life imprisonment on habitual criminal charges after looting cars in Erie. District Attorney Mortimer Graham notes Woodard has five prior convictions. Accomplice George Helsch of Erie pleaded guilty to car robbery with sentence deferred as investigations continue. Both were released from Western Penitentiary under two years ago.
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Lawrence Woodard
Corry
Woodlard
Torney Mortimer
Graham
Erie
Jay Br
George Helsch
Woodard
Helsch
Western Penitentiary
Two Underworld Suspects Sought in Lindbergh Kidnapping
Hopewell New Jersey March 24 police seek two men nicknamed jcidmapers Abie Wagner and Harry Fleischer after raids failed to locate the Lindbergh baby kidnapper. Wagner seen near Newark before the crime, Fleischer a Detroit Purple Gang alumnus, both unverified since weeks of tips.
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United Press
Hopewell
N. J
Underworld
Jcidmapers
Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr
Abie Wagner
New York
Harry Fleischer
Purple Gang
H. Norman. Schwartzkopf
Wagner
New Dier, Sey
Meischer
Tate
H. Wallace Caldwell
Chicago Board of Education
Chicago
Soviet Troop Activity Reported Along Manchurian Frontier
TOKIO March 2 Reports of Soviet troop concentrations along the Manchurian frontier revived here today via Nippon Dempo. Dispatches from Harbin say several divisions have arrived in the far east and heavy guns airplanes and tanks are en route in large numbers.
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Tokio
Manchurian
Nippon Dempo
Herbin
Manchuria
Far East
Lives of six at stake in Georgia radicals trial
Atlanta March 24 The lives of six persons were at stake as Judge Edgar H W Pomeroy held under advisement charges that they as communists conspired the forcible overthrow of the state of Georgia. Death is the penalty under the statute likely the harshest anti communism law in America dating to post Civil War fears. Defendants Ann Burlack Mary Dalton Joe Carr M H Powers white John Story and Gilmer Brady Negroes face charges of inciting insurrection and circulating insurrectional literature for actions nearly two years ago. John H Hudson assistant solicitor general of the county said he would seek the death penalty asserting the defendants urged overthrow by persuasion speech and literature and aided others to elude arrest on March 9 1920.
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United Press Atlanta
Lves
Edgar HW. Pomeroy
Georgia
America
Ann Burlack
Mary Dalton
Joe Carr
M. H. Powers
John Story
Gilmer Brady
John H. Hudson
Muscle Shoals leasing bill advances by committee
The House military affairs committee approved a Muscle Shoals bill by a 19 to 0 vote. It allows liberal leasing of the nitrate facilities but keeps government control of power. The president would appoint a three member board to oversee fertilizer plant leasing with preference to states and nonprofit farmer groups.
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Washington
House Militay Affairs Committee
Tornado Death Toll Reaches 354 Across Five States
Unitec Press reports a devastating tornado in Alabama and surrounding states. National Guard trucks and volunteers distribute medical supplies food and clothing to thousands made homeless as rehabilitation work begins. The death toll rose to 354 in the five affected states.
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Unitec Press
Birmingham
Ala
Maren 24
National Guard
Alabéms
Trial underway for Bell and three others on impersonation case
In Erie on March 1 testimony began in the Bell case. Anthony W. Bell Jr and three co defendants are charged with impersonating federal prohibition agents as part of an extortion scheme. First witnesses include Sheriff J. J. Mohl and business partner Mrs C F Walls.
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United Press Erie
Mar
Anthony W. Bell, Jr
Fayette County
United Press
Central City
Neb
Laura Morison
U. S. Aulorey Zena Fritz
Washington, Pa
Theodore Dawson
Frank
Archanowits
New Hansington
Prenls Pavwioski
S. Anni ‘Weber
Stanley Pawlost
Campaign for Relief Drive Set for Next Week
Committees charged with leading the second relief drive meet at the Municipal building next Monday to finalize canvass plans. New ward chairs and members are announced, subscription cards will be handed out, and volunteers urged to attend and solicit generous subscriptions to fund relief work through the coming months.
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Tie Corry Felief
S. Bentley
Avin
W. Hy
Meetck
L. J. Kelly
Howard Sheen
C. M. Howard
Worth Mammond
Milon Waller
Sidney Elston
Harold Powell
M. L. Brown
Frank Babbitt
M. Hengst
Mervyn Nast
P. Williams
Caiman
F. A. Winer
W. P. Lampard
V. Willard
Ben FP. Starr
Harry Auer
C. My Elonil
H. TE. Manley
Tite
Wong
Snowbound Philadelphia Woman Nursed by Alaska Cousins
Mrs. Edward Biddle of Philadelphia, stranded since January 19 in the Quigleys cabin inland Alaska, is cared for by Jos and Fannie Quigley. Joe Quigley, a former resident of Kittanning, met his wife in Fairbanks after typhoid fever. The couple live simply, hunting for meat and farming vegetables, with yearly mail only when they travel to Fairbanks.
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United
Pittsburgh
Edward Biddle
Philadelphia Society
Jos
Fannie Quigley
Willig Quigley
Verona
Quigleys
Biddin
Alaska
Joe Quigley
Kittanning
Armstrong County
Fairbanks
Quigley
Woman shoots husband after quarrel in Dale, Pa
Mrs Sadie Devlin aged 40 shot her husband following a quarrel over drinking at their Dale home. Police report the fatal shooting occurred today with authorities investigating the incident in East Pittsburgh area.
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Pittsburgh
Sadie Devlin
Dale Hinmene Hore
Two Men Killed by Machine Gun Fire Near Collinsville
Two men died on Mutler Hill near Collinsville Illinois after being overtaken by another car. Joseph Corone 43 a Collinsville politician and former St Clair deputy sheriff was found with bullets in his body. Charles Bowers 41 of Collinsville was found shot on the highway after being released from a Springfield jail on a prohibition charge. Police reported the men died from machine gun fire and both scenes showed spent shells.
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United Press
Collinsville
St Clair County
Mutler Hill
Joseph Corone
St. Clay County
Am Autoprobile
Charles Bowers
Linsville
Equienem
seelPeas
Springfield
Edewardaville
Jane Bowers
Bowers
Jeillers
Morgan Heard Over Big Radio Hookup
Morgan, an international financier long silent in public, spoke to a worldwide radio audience from his home library last night. After delivering a five part message he asked if it was over and smiled as engineers congratulated him on the performance. He called talking to the whole world wonderful.
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Unites Press
New York
P. Morgan
Mike Fright
Roosevelt Wins Georgia Votes by Big Margin
Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt captured Georgia’s 28 Democratic convention votes in a landslide, winning every county except possibly one. The state’s delegation totaled 91 votes for Roosevelt, with Alaska 6 New Hampshire 8 North Dakota 0 Washington 16 Minnesota 24 Georgia 28. The Georgia result stemmed from a contest between Roosevelt and a Garner proxy from Atlanta.
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A. L. Sanders
United Press
Atlanta
Franklin D. Roosevelt
New York
Georgia
John N. Garner
Texas
House of Representatives
Garner
Initar
Hearst
Texan
Alaska
New Hampshire
North Dakota
Washington
Minnesota
Roosevelt
Thdge
G. H. Howard
Teachers College Admission Rules Tightened in Pennsylvania
Harrisburg March 24 The board of presidents overseeing 14 Pennsylvania teachers colleges approved admission changes to raise standards Applicants must rank in the top half of their high school class provide a thorough physical and mental examination and interview a representative of the college before registration The changes take effect with the 1992 term September A one year residence rule for athletics was established and extended to transfers between the teachers colleges
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United Press Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Gilson Serves as Special Counsel in Gas Case Hearing
Samuel L. Gilson attended a Harrisburg hearing as special counsel for Warren and Corry in the gas rate case against Pennsylvania Gas Co. He previously represented Erie and was relieved earlier this year during municipal administration changes.
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Erie
Corry
Warren
Eric
Samuel L. Gilson
Harrisburg
Wagen
Erie City Counsel
Gilson
Te Warren
Rce
Pennsylvania Public Service Commission
Pennsylvania Gas Company
Two Princeton Students Die in Easton Highway Crash
On the Easton-Freemansburg highway two Princeton sophomores Francis H. Trimble of Avon Pittsburgh and William H. Zink Jr of Steubenville Ohio were killed in a head on collision. three other students Burton Dunn Bruce Hill Jr Norton A Coyle were injured. Hill suffered possible back fracture and Coyle had internal injuries. Russell Saylor of Trenton was unhurt.
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Easton
Princeton
United Press
Mare
Waston-Freemansburg
Francis H. Trimble
Ben ‘Avon
Pittsburgh
William H. Zink, Jr
Steubenville
Ohio
Burton Dunn
Bruce Hill
Norton
A.v. Coyle
Hill
Coyle
Easton Hospital
St. Luke's Hospital
Bethlehem
Russell Saylor
Trenton
Jnirt
Path
Disorder precedes vote on sales tax in House
In Washington the insurgent rank and file pushed to remove the two and one quarter per cent sales tax from the billion dollar revenue bill, resulting in a 223 to 157 vote defeat of the tax and signaling disorder as leaders brace for a pivotal House session.
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United Press
Washington
Mch
HOUSE
Snell Troken
Jeff
Abbney
Leir Dently
March Tax Collections Surpass Estimates Early in Month
The Treasury reports March income tax receipts for the first 21 days totaling 178.97 million dollars, nearly four million above monthly forecasts. Analysts anticipate 10 to 12 million more by month end, keeping fiscal-year deficits manageable with short-term securities rolling over and new 100 million dollar 91-day bills issued.
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Treasury
United Press
Washington
Tia Treasury
Five Best Radio Entretainments on NBC CBS and WABC
Listings show NBC and CBS networks presenting a 2:01 segment Big Siz of the Ain, 9:30 Ensemble with Walter Wiecelly on WABC, and 117 Toada Seidel on WABC CBS network. Also includes USA Trumipeters and GSS network items.
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WEAF
NBC Network
NBC
WABC
CBS Network
Walter Wie
Celly
GSS Network
117
Toada Seidel
USA ‘Trumipeters
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