Gangland War Rumblings Echo In Chicago Rumblings
Chicago reports of gang war tensions unfold as authorities wiretaps reveal racketeering plots aimed at extorting millions from labor unions and businesses. The Moran Alello and Capone factions are cited as vying for supremacy, with police chiefs from New York and Chicago discussing methods to curb racketeering.
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Chicago
Examiner
Scarface al” Capone
Philadelphia
New York
Weau
Bill Hostetter
Inployers’ Association
Texas father kills six in poverty crash before Christmas
Vernon Texas December 20 five children and their father died in a tragedy attributed to poverty. J H Haggard 56 a farmer and his children Simon 18 John 10 Alta 15 Alma 12 Dorothy 6 all perished in the incident. A note on the door read All died. Justice of the Peace H C Justin planned verdicts indicating death by own action for the father and gunshot deaths for the children.
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J. H. Haggard
Farmer
Simon
John
Alta
Alma
Dorothy
Justice of the Peace
H. C. Justin
Haggard
Gqitaren
Father Wants to See What His Prospective Son-in-Law Looks Like
Kansas City December 20. Matt G Glass seeks to meet Rich A Dix film actor believed engaged to his daughter Maxine a USC student. Glass divorced from his wife 12 years ago in Topeka and has not seen his daughter in 10 years. The engagement was reported in Long Beach after Maxine showed a diamond engagement ring. Friends say the couple would marry in three months.
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Kansas City
Matt G. Glass
Richd Dix
Glass
Dix
Maxine
University of Southern California
Topeka
Kansas
Long Beach
Cal
Subsidizing of Athletes Draws Fresh Attack
Howard J. Savage of the Carnegie Foundation urged a renewed focus on college sports subsidizing. In a luncheon speech, he referenced the Carnegie report on commercialism in college athletics and warned that recruiting high school athletes often hinges on subsidies, a practice still serious and needing attention.
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New York
Howard J. Savage
Carnegie Foundation For the Advancement of Teaching
Sportsmanship Brotherhood
Carnegie
Savage
Butler Labels Law Fanatics in Annual Report
New York December 30. In his annual report Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler president of Columbia University declares that those who want enforcement of all law are fanatics demanding punishment of some particular law. If law enforcement meant enforcement of all law the social order would be paralyzed by the absurdity of many laws.
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New York
Nicholas Murray Butler
Columbia University
United States
Two of Bandit Trio At Large In Kentucky Chase
Bowling Green Kentucky December 30 A manhunt involving National Guard citizens and officers failed to locate two of three bandits who robbed the Oakland bank and killed J Robert Kirby president of Farmers Bank at Smiths Grove. Authorities believe the men remain in the area and continue checks of trains buses and private cars as guards patrol roads.
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Bowling “Green
National Guard
Oakland
J. Robert Kirby
Farmers’ Bank
Smith's Grove
Bowling Green
Narcotic Ring Raid Unearths Magistrate Vitale Contact
U S Attorney Charles H Tuttle disclosed that a narcotics raid found a card bearing Magistrate Albert H Vitale name and Fordham 6435 among notes in a bag once owned by Louis Facearena Harlem venfe. The find ties Vitale to a loan from Arnod Rothstein and accompanies 16 arrests in three national drug rings.
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New York
United States
Charles H. Tuttle
Albert H. Vitale
Vittle
Tuttle
Louis Thecarona
Harlemvenfe
al Vitale
Fordham
Vitale
Arnod Rothstein
Broadway
Rothstein
Facearena
Ranch Tragedy in California Ranch near Tijuana
Francisco Guzman was shot and killed at his ranch four miles south of Tijuana in lower California. His wife was shot and their three month old baby badly beaten during a quarrel over a 50 cent fee for use of the grounds. Mrs Guzman defended her husband and held the baby as the attackers fled toward Tijuana. Police and others aided in the search for the two American men and a girl involved. Prisoners in Smyrna were found using homing pigeons to obtain opium.
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San Diego
Cal
Francisco Guzman
Guzman
Tijuana
California
European Gale Takes Toll Of Lives In Wake
A southwest gale across England and western France over the weekend killed at least seven people and injured more as winds reached about 80 mph at Seilly Isle. The storm eased overnight but forecasts warned 1929 could remain boisterous with another low pressure system developing over the eastern Atlantic. A woman and her daughter died and four others were injured in the latest fatalities.
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London
England
France
Seilly Isle
Weather Bureau
Atlantic
Plane crash kills three boys in Hearne field
Hearne Texas December 30 three negro boys ages 7 9 and 12 died when an airplane piloted solo by Dorothy Stocker Houston stunt flier plunged into a crowd at the flying field. One boy Direk Wright was critically injured as Miss Stocker attempted to land and could not regain height.
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John Hearne
Jim Webster
John Webster
Direk Wright
Miss Stocker
Three Rum Smugglers Killed In Dry Era Coast Guard Action
Weekend enforcement by prohibition authorities led to the death of three rum smugglers in a Newport speed boat attempt to run 500 cases of liquor. Coast Guard Rear Admiral Billard announced the service would act decisively. An illicit still was raided in Mecklenburg County Virginia near the North Carolina line, with Deputy Puryear and Officer Tuck seriously wounded.
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Associated Press
Prohibition
Coast Guard
Virginia
California
Coeur D'Alene
Idaho
Mullen
Washington
Senate
Newport
Black Duck
F. C. Billard
Recast Guard
Bernard Puryear
Mack E. Tuck
Clarksville
Ginia
Mecklenburg County
Oxford, North Carolina
Coast Guards Mean Business Says Billard
Washington reports Rear Admiral Frederick C. Billard, commandant of the coast guard, warned the service will not stop liquor smuggling with soft words. The statement followed three deaths at Narragansett Bay during a liquor run, amid intensified enforcement during the holidays.
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Coast Guards
Washington
Coast Guard
Pittsburgh Fire Destroys Stanwix Shops Causing $200000 Loss
In downtown Pittsburgh the Stanwix Shops building housing a business college and 15 firms burned in a three alarm fire. Two firemen were injured when roof sections collapsed as more than twenty companies fought the blaze through a snow storm. The origin is undetermined and smoke damaged several adjoining buildings.
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Pittsburgh
Stanwix Shops
Resolutions for Complete Indian Independence Debated
The 44th National Congress opens in Lahore with resolutions urging full independence from Britain approved by the executive committee. The vote was 134 to 77 in favor of presenting the resolutions to the congress.
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Lahore
India
Bec
44Th National Congress
all-India National Congress Party
First Gift Club Membership Draws Great Public Interest
The Sentinel notes heavy public interest in The Gift Club offering thousands of dollars in prizes including automobiles and cash. Members gain by accumulating counts before February 22, with a partial list of nominations published and future updates promised on a three to four day schedule.
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First Gift Club
the Sentinel
The
Sentinel
Great
Reading
Gift Club
Natives Report Eielson Plane Sightings Amid Arctic Search
Reports from Siberian natives claim they saw the missing American aviator Carl Ben Eielson's plane. With two months of search underway, Soviet and local parties push to Cape North via seaplane and icebound routes as frigid weather hampers efforts.
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Moscow
Siberia
Carl Ben Eielson
Borland
Sibéria
Ahs
Alaska
Ivan Chukhnovsky
Italia
Willy
Shadge
Alekseev
Stefa Ngovy
Krasnoyarsk
Cape North
Milozorov
Stravropol
Wrangle Island
Towas North Cape
Siberian Arctic
Earl Bor Jland
Teller
North Cape
Oif
Prison escape attempt ends with guard stabbed
In Jefferson City Missouri two inmates made a failed escape bid. Guard John T. Bradley was stabbed in the abdomen and injured about the head with a blackjack. Convict Virgil Davis, 24, and fellow inmate Clarence Hansen fled over the wall but Davis was shot and Hansen captured nearby. Bradley remained hospitalized with serious injuries.
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Dee
John T. Bradley
Isunt
Virgil Davis
Bradley
Davis
Clarence Hansen
Liberty
Sen
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