Birthday of Fire Force Anniversary in DeKalb Fire Dept
Twenty five years ago DeKalb’s fire department joined the city, with the 1904 fire station opening on February 3. Captain William Wall, M H McEvoy, and Murray shaped early leadership as chief changes followed, from horse drawn equipment to motorized trucks.
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DeKalb
William Wall
M. H. McEvoy
McEvoy
Murray
Ohe
Iron River
Mich
Michigan
Hoover eyeing Lindbergh role in aviation plan
President elect Hoover drafts a broad aviation development scheme with Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh possibly serving as assistant secretary in charge of aviation. Talks underway to place Lindbergh in the commerce department while he weighs leaving private aviation for government service. Lindbergh, turning 27, flew to Panama on his birthday and declined further comment on the talks. Hoover aims to establish an air link between North and South America, a key objective highlighted during his Latin American tour.
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Miami Beach
Fla
U.R
Hoover
Charles A. Lindbergh
Lindbergh
Commerce Department
Panama
Belle Isle
Mr. Hoover
South
North
South America
Unsettled Illinois Weather Tonight and Tuesday
An unsettled weather pattern moves through Illinois with snow probable. Tonight will be milder in the far north, while temperatures remain notably cold elsewhere as a cold front holds. A higher likelihood of snow exists across central regions on Tuesday with lingering unsettled conditions throughout.
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Ilinois
Twins Born Aboard liner Sparking International Dispute
On the Santa Maria returning from South America in Mollendo Peru Captain E N Parker reported twins born to German parents Mr and Mrs Leonard Kulenkanpf aboard the ship flying the American flag. The ship’s manifest in dispute lists the newborns as Germans while some called them Americans or Chileans and authorities weigh nationality.
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Port Prove
New York
U.P
E. N. Parker
Santa Maria
South America
Leonard Kulenkanpf
Mollendo
Peru
China
Parker
Gas Station Robbery Ended as Owner Foils Youth
William Klages caught a youth robbing the cash drawer at Klages filling station on South Fourth Street. The same high school boy admitted entering about fifteen times in recent weeks. Police dropped restitution charges after relatives intervened. the youth promised to reform.
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Klages
South Fourth Street
William Klages
Ee Station
Mr. Klages
Traffic Ditches Reported Across Cities
Reports say many cars slid into ditches on slick pavements yesterday and today. A De Kalb resident counted about 20 vehicles in ditches between his city and Geneva, while another traveler from Sterling noted around 70 cars in ditches on the same trip. Drivers report chains less effective and no serious accidents over the weekend.
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DeKalb
Geneva
Sterling
Two Deaths Mark Sunday in DeKalb City
Longtime DeKalb resident Austin S. Cooper aged 77 and English-born Mrs. Margaret Edlund 38 died Sunday morning after strokes. Cooper suffered his fourth stroke in two years and died at home on North Fifth Street. Edlund had been ill several weeks and passed at her North Seventh Street home. Funeral plans set for Tuesday and Wednesday at the Methodist church with interment at Oakwood Cemetery. Cooper leaves son Leslie and widow Lena. Edlund leaves two sons and two daughters, plus a sister.
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Austin S. Cooper
Margaret Edlund
Cooper
Iris
DeKalb
Mr. Cooper
North Fifth Street
Massilon
Ohio
Lena Eddy
Creston
Leslie Cooper
American Steel & Wire Company
Modern Woodmen
Methodist
J. C. Spencer
Oakwood Cemetery
England
Edlund
Frank Rickard
Rickard
J. P. Edlund
DeKlb
Fred Reynolds
North Seventh Street
Oakwood
Methodist Church
Henry Rickard
Augusta Avenue
James Rickard
Belvidere
Bert Courtright
Bangor
Mich
Ellen Marshall
Waterloo
Iowa
Mrs Will Minnegan In St Marys Hospital
Mrs William Minnegan of McGirr is a patient at St Marys hospital, admitted Saturday after about a week of illness. Doctors began medical treatment and reported she was much improved today, with possible return home in a week or ten days.
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William Minnegan of
McGirr
St. Mary's Hospital
Pioneer Boy Tells of Churches of Early Day
A reminiscence recounts the First Baptist Church in a pioneer town. It describes an oblong wooden building with steep steps, east-facing layout, and an interior with Amen pews, a rear gallery, and a stove-heated edge. Details include helpers chopping wood, worshippers carrying hot bricks, choirs in the gallery, and early hymn tuning practices.
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Pioneer Boy
First Baptist Church
Baptist Church
Willie King
Rivera puts foes in jail in Spain crackdown
Valencia reports say Primo de Rivera's government expanded arrests to 60 or more suspected political revolutionaries including Castro Girona and Gen San Jurjo to curb the biotrope revolt. The crackdown followed a Valencia football match disruption and the transfer of Jose Sanchez Guerra to the gunboat Canalejas amid ongoing investigations.
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Valencia
Spain
Ur— Primo de Rivera
Castro Girona
Jose Sanchez Guerra
Canarlas
Ciudad
General Aguillera
San Francisco
Madrid
Castro Girona Queppo de Llano Pintes
Sanchez
General Cabanellas
Girona
Gen. San Jurjo
Denia
San Jurjo
Sanchez Gurria
Family Fight Ends In Death At Rockford
Josie Maurice, 24, lay near death and husband Joseph Maurice was dead after a quarrel that began when she left home without telling where she went. She returned Saturday and was stabbed six times in the face and neck, Maurice then shot himself upstairs. The couple had married last July and had recently quarreled. They had come from Rock Island, NL, to Rockford two years ago.
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Rockford
U.P
Josie Maurice
Josie
Joseph
Maurice
Tom
Rock Island
Confession Ties 1920 Murder to Railroad Brakemen
Noah Burns 40 a railroad brakeman confessed to Rev. Elbert Shelton that fellow brakeman Robert Stone 48 shot and killed railroad detective and Howard Thurston's brother in the Pennsylvania yards nine years ago. Stone is under arrest. Burns implicated Stone after weeks of guilt amid Thurston's coming appearance and Shelton's sermon. Police found a photo of Howard Thurston with a large ink question mark at Stone's home.
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Columbus
Howard Thurston
Pennsylvania Yards
Noah Burns
Elbert Shelton
Shepard Church of the Nazarene
Robert Stone
Stone
Thurston
Shelton
Burns
Howard
Senate Debates Navy Cruiser Bill Amid Party Clash
Debates closed on the navy cruiser construction bill with 30 minute speeches. Senator Tyson endorsed the bill while Senator Harrison proposed to strike the five ships per year over three years and allow building earlier if the 1931 disarmament talks justify it. Republicans push to defeat the amendment as Democrats split on timing and urgency.
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Washington
U.P
Tyson
Dem
Tenn
U.R
Coolidge
Senate
Pat Harrison
Mississippi
Harrison
Mr. Coolidge
Hoover
White House
Dem. Tenn
Hindus Fight Pathans Over Rumor Of Plot
Rioting erupts in Bombay as Hindu mill hands attack Pathans over a kidnapping rumor tied to sacrificial rites in Baroda. Dozens injured, hospitals report heavy casualties, with thousands suspected in violent clashes across mill districts.
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Bombay
India
W.s
King Edward Memorial Hospital
Mill
Baroda
Man Arrested After Afternoon Police Roundup
Three young men were picked up yesterday afternoon for disorderly conduct. Two were released as they could not be charged with drunkenness. the third was arrested and brought before the police court this morning. He said he obtained liquor at Maple Park, which has remained closed for weeks.
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Maple Park
Booth to Make New Attack On Council Fees
London February 4 Salvation Army headquarters announced Gen. W Bramwell Booth who has left a sickbed to fight the attempt to depose him as head of the army has started legal proceedings to have the 1904 deed poll of the army declared invalid The general s latest strategic move if successful would strip the army s high council of any power to force his out and leave Booth with sole power to name his successor.
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London
U.—Salvation Army
W. Bramwell
Booth
Sled Found by Police Identifies Boy Owner
A boy's sled is held at the police department after being found days ago. Police say the owner may reclaim it by identifying it, though they have not located the owner yet.
Standard Stock Up At New York Curb Exchange
New York February 10 active trading sees Standard Oil of Indiana rise as 10 000 shares sell at 95. Proxies must be recorded by tomorrow in Chicago for the March 7 board meeting where John D Rockefeller Jr will challenge Col Robert W Stewart as chairman. Senator Walsh backs Rockefeller hoping to secure coupon payments on Continental Trading Company bonds. discussions involve stockholder interests and potential suit.
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New York
Standard Oil
Indiana
New York Curb Exchange
Chicago
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
Robert W. Stewart
Walsh
Col. Stewart
Standard of Indiana
Continental Trading Company
Frank D. Brewer
Glen Ridge
N. J
Rockefeller
Continental
Stewart
Brewer
Chicago Police Sweep Third Weekend Underworld Raid
Chicago police arrested nearly 306 people over the third straight weekend raid through the city’s underworld. Fourteen robbery victims identified eight prisoners as holdup men, with two suspects tied to more than 30 robberies. Eddie Piech, a former Saltis gang member, was shot while fleeing and is hospitalized awaiting questions. Officers seized narcotics and equipment from a dope syndicate’s headquarters, detaining two men and a woman.
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Chicago
Eddie Piech
Jack Joe" Saltis
Piech
Lindbergh Opens Pan American Mail Service Route
Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh flies from Havana to Belize in a Sikorsky Amphibian inaugurating Pan American Airways mail and passenger service to Cristobal Panama Canal Zone. He marks his 27th birthday aboard with a cake as 1,500 gather. The flight continues toward Cristobal while officials and ambassador Noble Judah greet him. Weather light rain, the crowd waits as the pilot plans the long route over the Yucatan coast.
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Havana
U.P
Charles A. Lindbergh
Belize
British Honduras
Miami
Fla
Cristobal
Panama Canal Zone
Pan-American Airways Company
Canal Zone
Lindbergh
Caban
Pan-American Airways
Pan-American Air Port
Trippe
Hambleton
Née Air Service
Central America
Brandon Judah
Cuba
Sikorsky
Plea Is Not Confession In Boswell Case
Vandalia Ill February 4 UPI By no mure of the imagination can Arie O Boswell s plea for leniency for a defendant in the Williamson county case be considered an admission of guilt James G Burnsides Boswell s chief counsel told the United Press today Boswell was sentenced Saturday at Danville by District Judge Walter C Lindley to two years in the federal penitentiary and fined 5000 on his conviction in district court at East St Louis January 25 George Bell former coroner in the county where Boswell was state s attorney was sentenced to a year and 4 days and fined 2906 Both Boswell and Bell left for Leavenworth penitentiary to begin their sentences Burnsides said an appeal is unlikely though not settled and if Boswell should appeal he would have to post a bond to cover the fine even if higher courts affirm the conviction He maintained Boswell s plea of not guilty stands and said evidence against him was overwhelming without Bell and the Johnston City police chief s involvement in the indictment
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UPI
Boswell
Williamson County
James G. Burnsides
The
United Press Today
Danville
Walter C. Lindley
Federal Penitentiary
East St. Louis
George Bell
Bell
Leavenworth
Burnsides
Bell and Burn
Johnston City
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Mrs
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Fie
Mize
Honduras
Managua
Nicaragua
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L. I
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Rivera
Aguillera
Ciudad Real
Louis Boreman
Boreman Drug Company
Pittsburgh
Standard Oil Company of
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