Alpena Fire Destroys Wahl Grocery Block In Blazing Inferno
Alpena on June 21 reports a rear Wahl grocery fire around 2:30 AM that tore through the building and adjacent structures causing extensive damage estimated at 35 000 to 40 000. The blaze affected the Cook and Lewis hardware store the post office and journal office and even the Dreamland theatre with minor damage to the theater. Firefighters faced intense heat and smoke with an Oregonacn overcome but rescued. Mail saved and temporary post office quarters set up. Journal plant moving to new building. Earlier in fall Alpena suffered a major blaze destroying four buildings as reconstruction proceeds. The incident follows a fresh local manhunt after an assault on Mrs Thalia Massie in Honolulu and related grand jury actions involving other defendants.
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Alpena
Wahl
Cook and Lewis Hardware
Walel
Post Office
Jownal Publishing Company
Dreamland Theatre
Leonard A T
Origonacn
Ores
Mali
Firex Arc
Pos
M. B. Hanmer
Journal
Brigham
Main Street
Jasta
Tor Strees
Thramlend
McMillen Esd Tyres
Cook and
Lewis
Gore
Wahi Grocery
McMillan and Myran
North Dakota Republican choice remains undecided in split party
Bismarck January 2. The North Dakota Republican State Central committee, led by the nonpartisan league, failed to decide a presidential preference. Eleven delegates urged for a progressive leader. F J Graham and Minnie D Craig were endorsed for re election. Absent were independent voters association figures who assert control of a separate real Republican committee. A meeting of IVAs delegates planned for January 28 to back electors and officials. Both factions will list candidates on the March 15 primary ballot.
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Bismarck
N. D
North Dakota
Republican State Central Committee
Nonpartisan League
F. J. Graham
Ellendale
Minnie D. Craig
Esmon
Worsard
Independent Voters Association
Republcan Party
Independent Voters Association Tepublican
Minot
Hoover nominates Thad Frown to radio commission
President Hoover today nominated Thad Frown of Ohio to be a member of the radio commission in defense of Chairman Couzens of the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee. The nomination followed rapid speculation and political alignment.
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Brown
Washington
Jan. A
Hoover
Thad Frown
Ohio
Radio Commission
Couzens
Senate Interstate Commerce Committee
Weather forecast for Heron and South Dwkete
Mostly cloudy tonight and Friday with rising temperatures. South Dwkete shows generally fair conditions tonight and Friday with a warming trend.
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Aeee Heron
South Dwkete
Credit Measure Conferees Accept $50,000,000 Drought Aid
Conference on the Reconstruction Finance Corporation bill agrees to allocate fifty million dollars for seed loans to farmers in the Northwest. Funds would back crop mortgages, with loans for feed, work animals, and tractor fuel, administered by the agriculture department. Agreement seen as relief for South Dakota farmers and broader banking reforms advance next.
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Northwest
Washington
Peter Norbeck
South Dakota
Senate
Conference Committee
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
South
Norbeck
New York
Whestereng
Pierre
Congress
Federal Agriculture Department
L. G.troty
Governor Green
State Seed Committee
Ice harvest at Huron reaches 400 workers today
The Huron ice company reports 400 workers on a river harvest that has climbed since early January. With a 30,000 ton daily quota, operations run three shifts, producing about 5,000 tons per day and moving blocks via conveyor to storage as Armour & Company and the Chicago North Western rely on the supply.
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Re Huron [Ce Company
Hares
Armour and Company
Chicago É North Western Railroad
Chicago & North Western
Huron
Armour & Company
G. M. Anderson
Armour
Armour Packing Plant
Wetertown
Chicago & North Western Railways
Birthdays Observed for Two Cousins at Jobaeman Home
Two cousins shared a Jan 2 birthday celebrated at the home of Mr. and Mrs F W Jobaeman with a 6:0 dinner Monday evening. One cousin Johnson turned 36, while James Brooking, son of Mr. and Mrs FL A Brooking, was 27.
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Specia
Birthaye
F. W. Jobaeman
Johnson
James Brooking
Brooking
Chinless Race Predicted By Dr Abt
Chicago January 21. Dr Isaac Abt of Northwestern pediatrics foresees a future with fewer chins as jaws shrink and teeth crowd. He spoke before the Chicago Bengal Society noting modern civilization as a cause.
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Chicago
Isaac Abt
Chicago Bengal Society
Abt
Department’ of Pediatrics
Northwestern University
Dry Issue Again Faces Democrats
Democratic leaders faced the dry issue anew as Jouett Shouse urged courage to confront temperance, criticizing the Anti-Saloon League and a bishop tied to campaign funds. In Washington, a Senate move by Senator Bingham aimed to referendums on repeal or modification of prohibition law, reflecting party division and ongoing prohibition agitation.
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Angus ‘McLean
North Carolina
Dawes
the Treasury
Meyer
Faders Farm Loan
Philadelphia
Jouett Shouse
National Committee
Shouse
Raps Anil-Ssheen
Anti-Saloon League
James Cannon, Jr
Washington
Virginia
League
Senate
Bingham Republican
Connecticut
Gowartress
Bingham
Honolulu manhunt follows attack on woman near airport
Honolulu reports a fresh manhunt after a 28 year old mother of two, Mrs. Taka Okazaki, identifies Daniel Lyman as her assailant near John Rodgers Airport. The attack occurs as authorities prepare grand jury evidence in a separate lynching case and amid a special legislative session seeking stronger law enforcement. Police note Lyman recently escaped Oahu penitentiary with Lol Kaikapu. the incident follows prior violent cases involving a navy officer’s wife and other suspects.
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Vonduln
Teka Okazaki
Daniel Lyman
New York
Washington
Tou Kahahawai
Thalia Massie
Honolulu
Lieutesant Massie
Mrrs
Fortescue
Lord and
Jones
Taka Okazaki
John Rodgers Airport
Joseph Kalhawai
Navy
Thomas R. Massie
Massie
U.S. N
Kwa Navy
Albert O. Jones
E. J. Lard
Kehahansi
Okazeki
Takeo Harimoto
Pearl Harbor
Jmith
Lol Kaikapu
Bridge Lessons from Centra Son Dekotens Greatest Teacher
Beginning Saturday the Ernits Hur, renowned as the era’s top contract bridge mentor, announces a new series teaching techniques, strategies, and bid conventions to players of all levels at Centra.
Lausanne Paris Talks Delayed Not Abandoned Says Officials
London reports postpone reparations conference does not end it and officials expect eventual meeting. Newspapers warn only a definite wind up of liabilities can avert Europe’s drift to catastrophe. Berlin notes Britain offers no surprise and Germany opposes a one year moratorium extension.
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London
Lausanne
Avbieh
Ieposable
Germany
News Chronicle
Isily
Europe
Foreign Office
Berlin
Bruening
Gel
Young Plan Advisory Com Mites
Basel
Auto Theft Ring Busted by Austin Police
Austin Minnesota January 3 officers today believed a ring of mute tileves operating. Four were involved and taken into custody. Details say the criminals used a scheme to steal vehicles and covertly remove items from homes. The investigation continues.
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Austin, Minn
Ring of
Miagesta Cormien
Ecistodty Bey Shar
Lytton Strachey Biographer Dies in Berkshire
Lytton Strachey aged 52 and a leading biographer, died at his Marlborough home Berkshire after a long illness. He wrote Queen Victoria and Elizabeth and Her Times among others and suffered a paratyphoid fever last December before his death.
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Lytton Strachey
Inkpen
Berkshire
Eng
Minnesota Students for Woman Leader Cited by Campus Club
Lilian Gilliland, president of the peers campus club, cited by Minnesota Students for Woman as backing a 40 hour work pledge on behalf of a congresswoman.
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Minnesota
Students For Woman
Aiereik Mae
Bieee Ot
Lilian Gilliland
Peers
Acganize
L 40 -Work
Finale
Congressweman
Youthful Killer Faces Execution in Sing Sing
OSSINING N Y Jan 2 Francis Crowley a scrawny youth who spent his 20 years in New York faced the electric chair tonight for murdering Patrolman Frederick Hirsch of Nassau county Crowley known as Two Gun had a troubled life from birth to late adolescence and his crimes led to a deadly chase and a final death sentence Behind a cell wall he refused to look at the electric chair and explained with a shrug that he did not want to forget it. More than 6000 people applied for tickets to witness his execution and the case linked him with a string of holdups and the killing of Virginia Brannen in Yonkers and the death of Rudolph Duringer for such crimes his fate was sealed in Sing Sing.
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Ossining
N. Y
Francis Crowley
New York
Scarecely
Sing Sing
Crow
Youls
Two
Dore Dietz
Anna Crowley
Virginia Brannen
Yonkers
Frederick Hirsch
Nassau County
Crowley
Helen’ Walsh
Rudolph Duringer
Upper West Side
Duringer
Bramien
Lewie EB. Lawes
Bicknell Declares Senate Candidacy in Huron Dinner
Webster attorney Lewis W. Bicknell announced his run for the U.S. Senate at the Huron Jackson Day dinner in Aberdeen. He endorsed by Democrats, pledging to avoid negative campaigning and focus on duty.
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Bicknell
Senate
Aberdeen
Lewis W. Bicknell
Webster Attoney
U.S. Senate
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Mrs. Granville Fortescue
Lieutenant Thomas HH. Massie
Albert G. Jones
E. J. Lord
Fnance Corporation
House
Bernard M. Baruch
Federal Reserve
Eugene Meyer
Federal Reserve Board
Finance Corporation “Board
Baruch
Serk Refesendums
Turkey
Fx Thief Assault
Council
H. FL. Prescott
St. Paul
F. M Clark
Trancis Crowley
le WiLey
Wiley's
American Legion
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