Americans Seek Franco Italian Parity Bridge at Naval Talks
The American delegation met to resolve the Franco Italian parity stalemate at the naval conference. Ambassadors Dawes Morrow and technical expert Train drafted ideas while France and Italy stand firm on naval parity. Spokesmen denied rumors of Tokyo counterproposals and a three power deal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Morrow
Harold Train
Italy
France
MacDonald
A.V. Alexander
Admiralty
Stimson
Dawes
Reed
Daily Express
Tokyo
Matsudaira
Alleged Poisoner Is Refused Bail
Denver, March 13 Major Charles A Sheppard United States army surgeon is jailed in Denver County awaiting bail decision on murder charges linked to his wife Jat Sheppard who died in June at Fort Riley Kansas. Government says plot tied to affection for Miss Grave Brandon of Brooks Field San Antonio.
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Denver
Colo
Fort Riley
Kans
Charles A. Sheppard
United States Army
Miss Grave Brandon
Brooks Filed
San Antonio
Texas
United States
Robert E. Foot
Major Sheppard
Foot
Topeka
Sheppard
Playing Cards Among Antiquities Highlighted in Chicago Exhibit
A Chicago display during the National Bridge Association tournament showcased ancient playing cards as genuine antiques. The collection included medieval wood print cards, German woodcuts from the fifteenth century, and Chinese dominoes, with suit signs reflecting German, Italian, and French traditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
National Bridge Association
Car Thieves Need Badges To Tell Themselves Apart
CHICAGO Mar 18 1947 Two car thieves Joseph Weglarz and Stanley Madziarczyk met in a court proceeding after swapping cars. Weglarz was held to the grand jury while Madziarczyk, 16, was turned over to juvenile authorities. Each described obtaining a badge for the exchange.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Mar
Joseph Weglarz
Stanley Madziarczyk
Woglarz
Madziarczyk
Weglars
South la Salle Street
Kildare Avenue
McAllister Seeks Legislative Post In Beadle County Race
Beadle county faces a seven candidate field for three state legislative posts. J B McAllister, Beadle county register of deeds for four years, seeks the republican nomination. Other contenders include G I McDonald W T Quale F P Matz H M Whitman Charles E Wilson Richard Semoha and Martin Kars who also announced for state senate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McAllister
Register of Deeds
Beadle County
J.B. McAllister
County Register of Deeds
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Mr. McAllister
Tilford Collegiate Academy
Vinton
Cedar Rapids Business College
University of Iowa
Kingsbury County
South Dakota
McAlister
Manchester
Huron
Beadley County
G. I. McDonald
W. T. Quale
F. P. Matz
H. M. Whitman
Charles E. Wilson
Whiteside Township
Richard Semoha
Wolseye
Kimm
Martin Kars
Benton County
Hartland Township
Wolsey
Wilson Barber Auto Company
Sioux Falls
Promotions Shake Huron Standard Oil Office
L Bailey of the Huron division announced three promotions affecting the Huron office. Q W Ice moves to general clerk succeeding L Patterson who was promoted to assistant office manager in Minot. R B Matson becomes sales chief in Mitchell and B M Thorson transfers to Billings as credit man in the Rocky Mountain division. Also notes group banking claims.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Standard Oil
L. Bailey
Huron
Standard Oil Company of
Indiana
Q. W- Ice
L. C. Patterson
Minot
N. D
Mr. Ice
R. B
Pope Says Mass In Protest Of Russian Anti-Church Acts
Pope Pius XI led a solemn Mass at St Peter's Basilica in protest of Russia's anti religious actions. A large Russian Orthodox Greek and Ruthenian choir sang Slavic hymns to the Pontiff's mass. Catholics, diplomats, and guards filled the basilica as cardinals kissed his ring and the ceremony proceeded in clear voice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vatican
City
Mar
Pius XI
St. Peter's Basilica
Christendom
Russia
St. Petar's
Baldacchino
St. Peter
Sifter
Pope
Daniels Upholds National Dry Law At Prohibition Hearings
Former secretary of the navy Josephus Daniels testified for national prohibition before the house judiciary committee as hearings continued on repealing the eighteenth amendment. He joined four witnesses for the prohibitionists including Horace B. Taft Colonel Jenkins of the Salvation Army and William S. Bennett. Additional reserves included Irving Fisher and Dr. Clarence True Wilson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Josephus Daniels
House Judiciary Committee
Horace B. Taft
Taft School For Boys
Watertown
Conn
Jenkins
Salvation Army
Evangeline Booth
William S. Bennett
House
New York
Daniels
Navy
Wilson
Naval
Irving Fisher
Yale University
Clarence ‘True Wilson
Board of Temperance Prohibition and
The
Methodist Episcopal Church
Youth Killed In Car Crash In Nebraska
A six year old boy died late last night when an auto collision on a highway near WORK Nebraska injured his parents and two others. Mrs Floyd Ault and Mr Harry Lymaster, friends of the family, were seriously hurt. Occupants of the other vehicle sustained only minor injuries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nebraska Work
Neb
Mar
Floyd Ault
Here
Harry
Lymaster
Aults
Weather Update For Huron And South Dakota
Mostly cloudy tonight and Thursday with possible snow and a sharp cold wave. South Dakota remains unsettled tonight and Thursday with snow probable, turning much colder and strong winds likely by Thursday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Huron
South Dakota
Earl Succumbs To Long Illness In Surrey
The Earl of Balfour, veteran British statesman, died at 8 45 a m in Woking Surrey England in his 82nd year after a lengthy struggle with laryngitis. He had recently improved but declined again and never returned to his Whittingehame home. He led Parliament from 1874 and served as a key British political figure who also headed the British delegation to Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur
J. ‘Balfour
Earl of Balfour
England
Woking
Surrey
Gerald Balfour
Whittingehame
Prestonkirk
East Lothian
America
Doheny Bribery Case Nears End
Washington March 19 counsel for Edward L Dortney Doheny near end of testimony to show he did not bribe Secretary Fall with a 100000 loan before Elk Hills lease to Doheny interests. Case likely to go to jury tomorrow or Friday morning with defense resting and closing arguments pending. The government noted civil courts voided the lease after the operator refused to testify.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Mar
Edward L. Doheny
Fall
Interior Department
Elk Hills Naval Oil Reserve
Doheny Company
Doheny
Fal T
Elk Hills
Iowa Congressman Attacks Tariff Law on National Farm Hour
Des Moines reports Rep Ed H Campbell of Iowa’s 11th district denounced the Hawley Smoot tariff bill on a Farmers union program over NBC. He condemned rebates on income taxes as favoring fortunes over farmers and urged Philippine independence while opposing duty free product imports. Kansas Rep Strong also spoke.
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Iowa
DES_ MOINES
Ed H. Campbell
Iown
Congress
National Farm and Home Hour
Farmers Union
National Broadcasting Company Network
House
Congressman Strong
Kansas
Washington
N. B.C
Campbell
Philippine Islands
Rathay
John D Happy To Win Prize In Flower Contest
In Ormond Beach Florida on March 19 John D Rockefeller Sr wins two flower show prizes via the Halifax County garden club entries. A blue ribbon goes to a double petunia basket and a pot of Easter lilies. other entries include potted foliage and a decorative flower boat. Rockefeller enjoys flowers as much as golf and surveys his Casements garden on winter visits.
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Ormond Beach
Fla
John D. Rockefeller
Garden Club
Halifax County
Rockefellar
Rapid City rejects Dakota Power franchise vote
Rapid City citizens cast nearly 2500 ballots and voted 1683 to 808 against granting a 20 year franchise to the Dakota Power company. The defeat was uniform across all wards as the company continues to operate under an expired franchise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rapid City
Mar
Dakota Power Company
Senate Returns To Tariff Bill Strike on censorship in tariff debate
The Senate revised the tariff bill to allow seizure of foreign literature deemed obscene or treasonous at entry ports while awaiting federal court ruling. A proviso allows admission of literary classics for non commercial use, amid a contentious debate led by Smoot and opposed by Cutting.
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Washington
Mar
Senate
America
Secretary of Treasury
Smoot
Finance Committee
Cutting
New Mexico
House Passes Merger Measure Creating Veterans Agency
The House expenditures committee approved the revised Williamson bill to create a new veterans administrator. It would consolidate the pension and veterans bureau and the homes for disabled volunteers under one agency, aligning with President Hoover's push for coordinated veterans services.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
House
Washington, Mar
Williamson
House Expenditures Committee
Pension’ and Veterans Bureau
the Nations Homes For
Hoover
Wise Man's riddle on bachelor worth a say and delay
A playful exchange has Bertie asking what a bachelor is and the father answering with a quip about a man who thinks before acting yet still does nothing. The exchange reflects witty dialogue and comic tone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bertie
Sewage bond plan shown for Huron city election
Huron citizens will vote on a 250000 dollar sewage disposal plant bond issue at the April 15 city election. A 12,500 dollar annual payment is planned for 20 years with five percent interest. The project includes pumping stations, intercepting sewers, a new trunk line, and land for construction. An ice cream ordinance and water main bids were also discussed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Huron
Huron Izaak Walton League
Izaak Walton League
Commission
J. P. Sauer
O. A. Ricker
Tuttle and Ferguson
Mitchell
Dark Savenell
Sioux City
Orr Construction Company
Yankton
Elleman and McLain
Phelps Drake
Minneapolis
Tuttle and
Ferguson
Huston testifies on 36100 deposited to account for Muscle Shoals
Washington March 19 recall before Senate lobby committee. Testimony linked $36100 from Union Carbide to Blyth and Bonner with Huston depositing to his personal account and later turning over to the Tennessee River Improvement Association. Krick said two checks totaling 36000 were deposited and funds in 14100 were used to buy stocks. Huston, former president of the association, helped push Muscle Shoals bid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tennessee River Improvement Associaion
American Cyanide Company
Muscle Shoals
Passing house marked by poet’s former residence tablet
A fragment suggests a writer and companion observe a house with a recently fixed tablet noting a poet once lived there. The author muses about what might be placed on his own door after death, while a friend quips about the house being for rent.
Chase National Is World Leader
The merger creating the world’s largest bank places Chase National in a three member leadership trio. Albert H. Wiggin will chair the governing board, Winthrop W. Aldrich becomes president, and Charles D. McCain will chair the board of directors. The consolidating bank, with over 2.8 billion dollars in resources, awaits stockholder approval at a April 24 meeting.
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New York
Mar
Chase National Bank
Wall Street
Midland Bank of London
National City Bank of New York
Equitable Trust Company
Interstate Treat Compegey
Equitable
Charles D. McCain
Pine Bluff
Ark
National Park Bank
Little Rock
Name Department Heads For Fair Selections
The South Dakota State Fair set 18 department heads after a board session. Homer W. Smith leads admissions, G W Preston agriculture, Mrs C N McIlvaine women’s building, Horace M Jones boys and girls clubs, N J Lund concessions, Florence E Walker child welfare, Frank Agnew horses and cattle, J L Jensen dairy, Jesse T Hayes education, George W Gurney horticulture and apiary, W F Michel machinery, W C Boardman poultry, R A Tait speed, H & Kelley sheep, John Tripp swine, J M Lord press building, R G Doucette grandstand, John F White attractions. The board also okayed 10,000 for horse racing purses. Races begin May 15. prelims May 13 per Secretary White.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fair
Homer W. Smith
Sioux Falls
G. W. Preston
Hitchcock
Agriculture
C. N. McIlvaine
Huron
Horace M. Jones
Brookings
N. J. Lund
Rapid City
Florence E. Walker
Waubay
Frank Agnew
Bancroft
J. L. Jensen
Kimball
Jesse T. Hayes
Onids
George W. Gurney
Yankton
W. F. Michel
Watertown
W. C. Boardman
Aberdeen
Dr. R. A. Tait
H. & Kelley
Blunt
John Tripp
Howard
J. M. Lord
Willow Lake
R. G. Doucette
John F. White
Accord
Pioneer Mail Carrier Dies at Conde After Illness
Charles Lucas, pioneer rural mail carrier in Conde, died Tuesday after a five day pneumonia siege. His wife also ill with pneumonia. Lucas, who moved to Conde 15 years ago, served as a mail carrier 14 years. Survived by daughter Evelyn a local high school teacher son Archie and stepsister Mrs Retton. Funeral arrangements pending.
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Conde Conde
Mar
Charles Lucas
Mrs. Retton
Ninda
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Roy A. Young
Federal Reserve Board
House Banking Committee
Ping
St. Peter 'S Guards
National Dry Law
Earl
John D. Happy
Huron City
Chase National
New York City
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