Divers Hope to Penetrate Hull of Sub S-4
Provincetown Mass December reports divers aiming to pierce the sunken S-4 hull off the coast after two weeks. Weather conditions and gale warnings on Monument Hill threaten operations. Crews had nearly completed a second tunnel for raising chains to unwater compartments in preparation for unwatering and lifting by pontoons. Some victims’ bodies may be brought to the surface today.
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Provincetown
Mass
Monument Hill
Skyrocket Fire Damages Historic Warder Home
A skyrocket ignited the Warder homestead porch causing a fire that spread to the front part of the 50 year old house. Neighbors formed a bucket brigade to control the blaze, with water drawn from the well. The damage is estimated in the thousands while investigators have not yet pursued charges against youths involved.
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Webster
Grafton
Miss Warder
Hugh Warder
Charles Warder
Warder
Clara Warder
Grand Jury Report Described as Status Update
A historic grand jury report described as a court status update noted names like Sin i Day and Clk and Burns Agency leaders under surveillance from oath to action. Secret service raids targeted Wardman Park Hotel headquarters as Chief Justice McGoy received the non indictment presentment detailing the jury’s view of the case.
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Sin i
Burns
Fall-Linclair
Secret Service
Ward ‘Man Park
Gordon
McGoy
Crime link tied Hunt and Hickman to California robbery
Kansas City reports unsigned confession by Frank Bernoudy age 20 linking William Edward Hickman Welby Hunt and himself to early crimes. Bernoudy said the trio read crime books in a library after school and planned further robberies. He claimed Hunt and Hickman showed a stolen car and proposed a California trip, but he refused.
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Ry Hunt
William Edward Hickman
California
Hunt
Hickiman
Kansas City
Hickman
el Paso
Texas
Seminole
Oklo
Los Angeles
Kansas
City
Frank Vincent Bernoudy
Welby Hunt
Bernoudy
Hernoudy
Lindbergh Lands in Belize During Central American Tour
Belize, British Honduras, Dec. 30. Col. Charles A Lindbergh landed at 9:45 a.m. local time on a swampy field at the northern edge of Belize City while completing the second leg of his Central American tour. He chose Belize to inspect the field as a potential landing place and would have continued to San Salvador if the field proved unsuitable. The landing set a new record as the first landplane to touch down there.
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Belize
British Honduras
Cuaries A
Lindbergh
Col. Lindbergh
San Salvador
Lindbergh Return Delayed by Weather Conditions
Weather delays the final leg of Mrs Lindberghs journey from Mexico City to St Louis to Detroit postponing her return to be with her son Col Charles A Lindbergh as she spent Christmas in Mexico City with him.
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St. Louis
State Road Worker Hurt by Blast Near Rowlesburg
State road employee Peter Ship, with the state road commission, was struck by a large rock during blasting near Rowlesburg. He dislocated his hip, was admitted to Gratton City Hospital, and reported the blast was set off by a fellow worker while he walked away. Vienna dispatch notes 40 gypsies found dead in Bielitz forest camp, 20 hospitalized from cold.
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Rowlesburg
Peter Ship
Ge Gratton
Ship
State Rad Commission
Vienna
Bielitz
Former local Lady Margaret Walker dead at 76
Mrs. Margaret Walker 76 formerly of this city died at 6 15 this morning at the Brownton home of her son Jerry Basford. Cause listed senility. She lived years in Grafton and Pittsburgh before returning to Grafton then Brownton. Survived by six children from two marriages and a sister with several nieces and nephews here. Funeral arrangements not completed. McGrumphy Funeral Company in charge.
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Margaret Walker
Jerry Basford
Brownton
Walker
Pittsburgh
Grafton
Mollie Whitescarver
Claremont
Florida
Nick Ketter
Braddock
Peter Vierberg
Homestead
William Walker
New Brighton
Mary Flanagan
Gratton
Lawrance Flanagan
Ella Flanagan
Addie Heihnert
McGrumphy Funeral Company
Fire Devastates Hoboken Riverfront Destruction
A massive blaze in Hoboken destroyed the Clyde liner Seneca two 700 foot piers and eight barges along the riverfront causing over a million dollars in damage. The Hendrick Hudson was towed to safety as flames spread from a Fletcher Drydock pier to the Lackawanna pier. Captain J K Chadwick and an officer of the Seneca were rescued from a raft after escaping amid the fire.
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Hoboken
N. J
Seneca
Hudson River
Hendrick Hudson
Lackawanna Railroad
Fletcher Drydock Company
Lacka’ Y Wanna
J. K. Chadwick
Smith
Whiley
Uncle Rescues Girl Who Offered Self in Marriage
In Frackville Pennsylvania Mary Luzuske a nineteen year old shirt maker offered herself in marriage to raise nine thousand dollars to ease her father William Luzuske’s debts. An uncle in Boston read her appeal, provided the money, and Mary will wait for love to inspire a wedding.
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Madelin Leaf
Central Press
Rackville
Mary Luzuske
Mary
Pottsville
William Luzuske
New York
Frackville
Ita
Boston
Pennsylvania
Jon Mary
Trace Slayer of Aged Pair in West Virginia
Police narrowing murder case to search for Wise Bailey, son of Mrs Tolliver, after witnesses place him near Mullens and Ashland. Bailey's Pike County Kentucky roots cited as investigators trace possible routes from Mullens to Itman and Welch via train and bus. His wife questioned about movements. Photographs from his home shown to a bus driver corroborate a Monday ride.
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Mallens
W. Vai
Enoch Tolliver
Bailey
Pike County
Kentucky
Scross
Wiliamson
W. Va
Mullens
Ashland
Itman
Welch
Brother sees Wise Bailey near Tolliver home after warning
A brother, Charles Bailey, near the Tolliver home, says he saw Wise Bailey Monday morning and called, but received no reply. Police also found three empty purses in a coal car at Maben on the murderer's flight, one purse holding Enoch Tolliver's hunting license.
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Charles Bailey
Tolliver
Wise Bailey
Maben
Enoch Tolliver
Three Vagrants Arrested by B and O Police
Bert Stoub and John Paladine were picked up in the B and O yards by railroad officers and lodged in the county jail last evening. They will be given a hearing in a local justice court some time today for traveling via the blind baggage.
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Bert Stoub
John Paladine
Japanese Steamer Dainichizai Maru Lost in Snow Storm
A Yokohama dispatch says the Japanese steamship Dainichizai Maru was lost with all aboard during a snow storm near Otaru on December 28. Two other steamships reportedly went ashore during the same storm.
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London
Yokohama
Otaru
West Virginia Supreme Court Extends Bus Case Stay
Charleston December 90 22 an extra 30 day extension of execution of the decree in the bus line cases was granted by the West Virginia Supreme Court to allow time for appeal to the U S Supreme Court. The Bartlett Brothers Bus Company and Reynolds Taxicab Company appealed Kanawha county decisions upholding railroad priority in granting certificates of convenience for competing bus lines.
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Charleston
West Virginia Supreme Court
Supreme Court
United States
Bartlett Brothers Bus Company
Reynolds Taxicab Company
Clarksburg
Kanawha County
State Supreme Court
Baltimore and Ohio Rail
Road and Public Service Challenge Certificates in State Case
Road and Monongahela West, Penn Public Service Company and their bus subsidiaries were plaintiffs in the original suits that led to certificates issued to the Bat and Reynolds firms by the State Road Commission.
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Road
Monoggahela
Penn Public Service Company
Bat
Reynolds
Atate Road Commission
Toney Sentenced Ten Years For Bridge Bombing
Fairmont December 30 James Toney was sentenced by Judge L B Schwenek to ten years in the state penitentiary at Moundsville for dynamiting the Western Maryland bridge at Binggamon Junction about three years ago. He was convicted by a criminal court jury weeks ago. Pending appeal to the State Supreme Court, he was released on five thousand dollars bail.
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Fairmont
Maryland
Binggamon Junction
James Toney
Schwenek
Moundsville
Criminal Court
Toney
State Supreme Court
Robbers Sought After Stolen Letters Cash Checks
Police and city officers hunt two or more suspects who entered 200 offices in the Security Trust building and escaped with hundreds of letters containing cash and checks. Several checks later surfaced along the Ohio Riverbank.
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Ling
Olors
Ohio
Senator Watson to testify before Marion County grand jury
Indianapolis December 30 United States Senator James B Watson Indiana will be asked to appear tomorrow before the Marion County grand jury investigating political corruption. After questioning Watson the grand jury will draft its final report as its duties end at midnight tomorrow. The grand jury has indicted Governor Ed Jackson the former Indianapolis mayor John L Duvall a half dozen city councilmen and other public office holders.
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Indianapolis
United States
James B. Watson
Indiana
Marion County Grand Jury
Watson
Ed. Jackson
John L.duvall
Friesland Province Women’s Skating Race Held in Holland
One of the outstanding winter sports events in Holland is the women’s skating race at Le Puwaarden for Friesland province championship. A $10,000 open golf tournament in Los Angeles early January will feature Archie Compton, the crack English golfer, adding international flavor.
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Holland
Lepuwaarden
Friesland
Los Angeles
Archie Compton
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