Open Hearings Sought On Prohibition Report By Harris
Senator Harris of Georgia leads a push to end secrecy in the Hoover commission. He demands open hearings and a full report on prohibition with recommendations to centralize enforcement and reform federal laws. The controversy links to Borah Norris and White House critics as details delay. Lisbon tale ends with Dona Maria Ta Varég’s lottery tragedy and sudden death.
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Washington
Hoover Law Enforcement Commission
Commission
Harris
Georgia
Opét
White House
Nso
Coast Guard, Customs, Narcotics and Immigrations Services
Justice
Department
Treasury
Hoover
MiHs
Treasury Department
Senate
Congressional Committee
Congress
House Rules Committee
Glass
Virginia
Borah
Idaho
Nortis
Nebraska
Mellon
Mills
New Theory of Evolution Advocated by Osborn
Dr Henry Fairfield Osborn, retiring president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, proposed a plateau origin for humans. He argued brain development arose from harsh survival on open plateaus, not forest cliffs, citing Cro-Magnon and Neanderthal contrasts and plateaus in central Asia.
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Howard W. Blakeslee
Science
Associated Press
Des Moines
Iowa
American Association For the Advancement of Science
Henry Fairfield Osborn
New York
Association
Europe
Darwin
O.born
Central Asia
Peiping
Virginia business man killed accidentally on deer hunt
ESTILL South Carolina December 23 Fao C Easley of Richmond Virginia vice president of the Stern Bord and Mortgage Company and the Title Insurance Company was shot and killed accidentally yesterday on a deer hunt by the host's son William Harper said his sixteen year old son fired the fatal shot While guests moved to a stand Easley left the stand and was shot in the temple He was 67 years old
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Mr. Measley
Republicans Asked To Join In Coalition
Washington Dec. 28. Rep Garner of Texas the Democratic leader invited independent Republicans to form a coalition to pass the Senate tariff rates in the House. He said the plan would have the House approve Senate rate sections and send only admin parts to conference, with a record vote when the Senate bill returns. Some Republicans criticised Hawley tariff, calling it indefensible.
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Washington
Garner
Texas
House
Senate
Ramseyer
Towa
Ways and Means
Ers
Peg
Congress
Gangs Fight for Liquor Control in Ontario Output War
Federal investigators report Detroit liquor running gangs are in a deadly war for Ontario output. One smuggler was murdered, three others missing, as violence escalates from Bridgeport to Fort Erie. A former agent’s possible link to the seizure near Lackawanna is being probed.
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Detroit
Buffalo
N. Y
Ontario
C. M. Gramer
Treasury Department
Bridgepurg
Port Colborne
Fort Erie
Jeremiah Sullivan
Tonawanda
M. W. Rasmussen
Coast Guard
Norwegian aviator Leif Lier missing in Antarctic search
Oslo reports aviator Leif Lier, who has been with a Norwegian whaler homeward bound from the Antarctic, is missing for forty hours. Sixteen whalers are conducting a search for him.
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Oslo
Norway
Leif Lier
Antarctic
Rome Italy to Spend 50 Million on Roads Next Year
Rome allocates about 2.5 million dollars for road improvements in the coming fiscal year. Twenty major highways will benefit including the Lake Maggiore road to the Swiss border, a route popular with tourists.
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Romepi
Italy
Lake Maggiore
Mesmerist Prank Drains Long Count Stunt on Sergeant
In Chicago a mesmerist clowned with a Calumet City police sergeant Tony Hintz who arrested a man revealed as the trickster. After failing to prove real powers the conjurer teased with antics and a dramatic 1 000 count ending with the mesmerist vanishing.
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Mesmerist
Chicago
Gene Tunney
Soldier Field
Tony Hintz
Calumet City
Sergéant Hintz
K. O
Rhinelander Divorced From Octaroon Wife in Las Vegas
Leonard Kip Rhinelander, heir to a wealthy New York family, obtained a divorce from his octaroon wife Alice Jones Rhinelander in Las Vegas. The divorce, granted yesterday, was not contested and she had no representation. Rhinelander will remain resident in Las Vegas. the case follows a 1925 New York annulment battle over alleged concealed African ancestry.
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Les Vegas
Leonard Kip Rhinelander
New York
Alice Jones Rhinelander
Rhinelander
New Rochelle
Las Vegas
Alice Jones
White Plains
N. J
Nevada
Norway Airmen Claim New Land Discovery in Antarctica
Captain Riiser Larsen and Lieut. Luetzow Holm of the Norwegia expedition report discovering new land between Endberry Lane and Coats land. They flew from the Norwegia, landed on the open ice, went ashore and raised the Norwegian flag in the name of Norway under international forms.
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New Land
Oslo
Norway
Riiser Larsen
Norwegia
Lieut
Luetzow Holm
Endberry Lane
Coats Land
Wpen
Lami
Weather in Alabama Sees unsettled southeast and cooler night
The forecast notes unsettled conditions in the southeast of Alabama with partly cloudy skies in the north and west. A cooler night is expected followed by continued partly cloudy to Sunday.
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Alabama
Bank bandit captured after Oakland bank robbery
Elmer Grayson, wanted for the Smith's Grove bank president J. Robert Kirby’s killing, surrendered in Bowling Green and was taken to Nash ville for safety. Police hunted two other bandits across Southern Kentucky after the Oakland raid, recovering about $400 of the loot.
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Bowling Green
UPI
J. Robert Kirby
Smith's Grove Bank
Oakland
Nashville
Tenn
Grayson
Kirby
Kentucky
Body of Woman Still Being Held In Arkansas Slaying
Marked Tree Arkansas December 28 A body found in a bushes clump near here remains in sheriff custody as hundreds view the case hoping for a clue. A Blytheville farmer claimed the victim was his missing daughter Thelma Fortenberry though she lives in Philadelphia. A Memphis man said the body was his wife Thelma Clutts, but she is alive. Without positive ID the body will be buried January 1.
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Ark
H. H. Fortenberry
Blytheville
Thelma Howard
Thelma Hooker
Fortenberry Yast
Philadelphia
Horace Clutts
Memphis
Plutarco Elias Calles
Mexico
Mexico City
Calles
Senorita Leonor Liorente
Bank Messenger Beaten And Robbed Of 56 300
Two armed men accosted a Chemical Bank messenger in New York and beat him before fleeing with a 6 200 payroll. A nearby parked car held a second messenger and a chauffeur guarding nine other pay tells. The robbed messenger is Frank Lauer, 49, of West 1st Street.
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New York
Frank Lauer
Westwas N. 1
Chemical Bank and Trust Company
Skull of Peking Man Shown to Public Today
The skull of a newly discovered "Peking Man" near Peiping was publicly displayed by China’s Geological Survey. Officials said it is the most complete skull of its kind, with the brain case intact, unlike the Piltdown Man finds.
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Peiping
Ching
Qquarries
Geological Survey of China
Piltdown
League Nations Awarded Woodrow Wilson Prize for Peace
The Woodrow Wilson peace prize of 1929, worth 25 000 dollars, is awarded to the League of Nations for ten years of service to world peace. Sir Eric Drummond accepts tentatively. final approval rests with the League council in January.
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New York
League of Nations
League
Woodrow Wilson
Eric Drummond
Council of the
Newton D. Baker
Cleveland
Wilson
Foundation
Geneva
New Yorker Claims He Is Goat In Bronx Political Fight
Bronx artichoke merchant Ciro Terranova says he is being made the goat in a Bronx political row as two factions battle for party control. He denies police charges he organized a dinner hold-up to reclaim a contract tied to a murder plot involving a Chicago gunman. Mayor Walker dismisses Terranova as a jack ass.
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New Yorker
Bronx
New York
Ciro Terranova
Democratic Party
Alfred E. Smith
Edward J. Flynn
James J. Walker
John F. Hylan
Joseph J. Donovan
Albert Vitale
Chicago
Frankie Yale
Frank Marlow
Walker
Racketeers Die in Shootout Over Union Heist Demands
Three racketeers sought ten thousand dollars from Tire Workers and Repair Vulcanizers President Michael Powers at his union office in Chicago. Police, concealed at the headquarters, opened fire after the men attacked. Detective Ray Doherty was wounded. three assailants Quin, Wilson, and Ryan were killed as gunfire erupted.
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Chicago
Michael Powers
Tire Workers and Repair Vulcanizers
Power
Powers
William
Dinky) Quin
William Wilson
Walker
John Ryan
Itc
Red” Bolton
Ray Doherty
Doherty
Quan
Wilson
Ryan
Patrick O’connell
William Byrnes
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League Nations
Wilson Prize
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Chelwood
Elihu Zoot
Charles A. Lindbergh
Anne Wilmot
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