Neunkirchen Gas Tank Explosion Kills Dozens
A massive gas tank blast at Neunkirchener Iron Works caused enormous destruction tonight. At least 40 people are dead with hundreds injured as fires and debris devastate the city center. Rescue teams sweep the ruins along the riverfront and nearby streets as authorities assess damage and casualties.
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Neunkirchen
Germany
Neunkirchener
Tee
Thane Sulley
Catagne
Tae
Senate approves agriculture department economy study
An economy move in the Senate ordered a study of the Department of Agriculture to reduce price divisions and improve farmers’ interests. Senators Ware Semis of Wisconsin and Delaney of Peoria chaired the committee review while Henry J. Nericadin of Akron spoke to the body.
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Department OF Agriculture
Senate
Perrofeum
Bilatenat Gare
H. Cadnes
Ware
Semin Stiges
Wibing
Deliney
Peatvie
Malton
Gaefield
Sens
Henry J. Nercadin
Akron
Ohio
Kaglow
Carroll
Musselstelt
Keeley
Powell
Two Guilty Verdicts Reported in Skeele Case
Court records show two guilty verdicts in the Skeele affair tied to a kidnapping involving the wife of a college professor. Howard, an ex-convict, claimed others were responsible and offered to name them, while the trial docuмents indicate further details continue on page 3.
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Lins Angeles
Ly Alge
Mia
Mary He Serle
Taciia Dearly
Hanmer
Howard
Kitaro Ye Vietlin
Misa Ehoumoer
Poe
Kateasor
Walter
Skeele
Muaty
Harlowton Suffers Third Fire In Brief Span
A fire in Tarlowton destroyed the Jordel garage balding early today, marking the third blaze in Harlowton since Sunday as temperatures ranged 20 to 40 degrees below zero. Loss estimated between 16,000 and 20,000 dollars and partly covered by insurance.
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Tarlowton
GP Blekt
Many New Taxes Proposed In Last Minute House Bills
Several revenue measures emerge in late House actions including a two mill levy on taxable property to fund bond payments and interest. A university band sinking fund is funded by a levy, previously 245 units, and a retail store tax akin to Kentucky law is introduced. Also includes a one fourth of one percent tax on gross sales over 100 000.
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Tha Menaire
University Band
Kentucky
Knowles
Helpless Man Sees Wife Burn To Death In Home
Monticello Ind Feb 1 A desperate man watched his wife burn to death in their home as bystanders arrived too late to save her The husband a frail invalid sat nearby as the blaze destroyed the dwelling and left him in shock
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Monticelto
Ind
Nelplers
Robert Ciehrin
Wesenders
Carhran
Negotiable Loot of Raid in Sacramento
Four postal inspectors captured a heist team credited with a Sacramento truck raid that yielded about 840 in old money, bonds, securities, and checks plus 120 in dewoleg. The robbers, all under 40, wore white handkerchiefs, and the loot per bandit was about 150. The crime was handled under federal direction in San Francisco.
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Sacramento
Cal
San Francisco
Rerona
Witel
Fara
Prisny Sete
AML
tManon
URS
Telnxpeetora
Fifty-Year Elopements Mark County Couples Jubilee
Brunawick Missouri February 1 Fifty years ago two very young cousins rode in a spring wagon with James A Walden and Mary Mivy to Key trains where a Methodist minister performed a double elopement. The couple later celebrated their golden wedding at the Bixby home. They have lived in the same area, rearing three sons and three daughters each, and now join in a long anniversary. Vern Folk and others mark the occasion.
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Brunawick
Ifty
James A. Waleenna
Town May Change Name to Coolidge
North Attleboro Massachusetts residents consider renaming their town Coolidge in honor of Calvin Coolidge. A February article outlines the plan and a March town meeting vote on the name change.
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Coolidge
North
Attleboro
Mags
Hia
Nani
Calvin Coolidge
Coolidss
Debates Loom Over Blaine Repeal and Dry Funds
Washington reports a heated push toward early debate on Blaine repeal and proposed limits on dry enforcement funds. Leaders aim to move the war department and state department appropriations, with an $8.14 million dry funds allocation kept intact despite a subcommittee cut proposal. Continuous wrangling signals lengthy discussion, with a postponement to consider broader appropriation measures.
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Washington
War Department
Jay
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Ivatlee
Commerce and Labor Departments
Senate
Nine Escape Death In Burning Plane Over California
A burning passenger plane north of Bakersfield narrowly escaped disaster as nine people survived with possible serious injuries before the craft landed. The aircraft was destroyed and one passenger suffered burns.
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Los Angeles
Bakersfield
Severe cold moves east as death toll feared
The Atlantic coast grapples with a brutal cold wave after a western deep freeze moves eastward. Record lows stud the region with isolated severe readings while fishermen endure wrecked nets and waterfront damage in St George's Bay and nearby Newfoundland harbors. Travel delays persist as crews assess coastal losses and the storm’s reach continues.
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Vou
St. George's Bay
Woman and two children leave tent after brutal cold
In Albany, Selma Wagerlin and her two children abandoned a winter tent after enduring a 40 below zero cold wave. She cited too many sympathetic visitors and planned to move into a more substantial home, insisting the move was not due to fault but the harsh conditions.
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Atl
Selma Wagerlin
Mra
Wagerlio
Alcohol in radiator deaths shock Kansas City
Kansas City report says three residents of the Jackson County Home for the Aged died within 24 hours from acute alcoholism. County physician J W Groone of Independence confirms the claim, with superintendent J W Mostecter noting the victims said they obtained the menthol by draining radiators of allinniabiles at the home.
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Kansas City
Joseph W. Groone
Indapandance
Jackson County
J. W. Mostecter
IT S GRAND TO BE BUGHOUSE DECLARES WM A WHITE
Kas Feho 1 ui Win Aen White Ramporta editor and writer on his 6th birthday writes that his life motto was grand to be ings bona White explains adopting it after reading it many years ago at Coney lat with a banner across the street He notes there is no insanity no devastating sin and that whiskey is not the answer He reflects on aging and questions how the 60s seem strange while the 85 years he has known remain steadfast and curious
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Imporia
Kas
Feho
Aen White
Ramporta
Ings Bona White
Coney Lat Andana
PLAN MAY HOLD FARM BILL BACK
Washington February 10 plan may hold the farm bill back as emergency farm relief faces debate. Southern senators show optimism while cotton farmers seek surplus relief and city homeowners press for mortgage moratorium measures. Senators Lull Walcott Steiner urge separate bill to cover owner occupants in cities.
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Washington
Senate
Lull
Fenn
Walott
Conn
Steiner
Ore
Compromise Likely on Power to Next President Roosevelt
Washington sees a probable compromise on granting broad power to the President-elect Roosevelt to reorganize the government. Speaker Garner pushes to “go the limit” while facing stiff Senate Republican opposition. The debate remains partisan as Democrats and Republicans clash over the scope of autocratic authority and Treasury Post Office department supply details.
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Washington
Congress
Roosevelt
Garnet
Senate
House
Treasury-Post Office Department
FarL Lund Free Nan After Lon Legal Skirmish
Cha trick Indge We dismissed after information charging Hurl Land with grand inveeny and a felony, with the defendant confined to the Lewis and Clark county jail for one month and released. The state supreme court denied a rehearing on a ruling that testimony did not prove trespass against the owner’s will, creating a fatal variance between charge and proof. Lund, once president of the Great Westerns Bond and Mortgage Company, was mentioned in the report.
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Shermain W. Smith
Sf Informations
Chatrick Indge We. 1
Poorman
Lewis and Clark County
Arthur Ce. Parsons
Vourt
Los Pyert
Lund
Great Westerns Bond and Mortgage Company
Wat
Roosevelt yachting cruise reports large fish lost
Miami Feb 10 The first vest fish story from the Roosevelt yachting cruise says the president-elect lost a big fish as large as a whale The Nourmahal message to Vincent Astor’s yacht notes the president-elect had a big haul with about 20 small fish and several large ones lost, including a whale-sized catch.
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Miami
Fla
Roosevelt
Nourmahal
Vincent Astor
Vincant Astor
Italy has no alliance with Hitler regime, foreign office says
Rome reports Italy does not have a formal alliance with Adolf Hitler's government. A foreign office spokesman dismissed rumors of a three nation pact with Hungary and Germany, stating the interpretation is unfounded. He added Italy is pleased by Nazi rise as a sign of fascism's spread.
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Rome
Italy
Adolf Hitler
Germany
Foreign Office
Tonighn
Europe
Hungary
Menocal denies plot for Cuban revolution from Miami camp
General Mario G. Menocal former Cuban president and refugee leader in Miami denied reports that about 150 Cuban refugees would sail to Cuba to join rebels. Tavana dispatches said the group at a refugee camp planned to depart on a boat that had arrived from Baltimore with arms and ammunition aboard.
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Miami
Fls
Mario G. Menocal
Cuba
Havana
Tavana
Baltimore
Florida
Young mother in custody for kidnapping children
Lewistown Meh AP four percent young mother held in custody accused of attempting to kidnap her two children, ages 3 and 1, from their father Maurie Johnston in a divorce action. The incident occurred after the mother fled with the children from the Johnston home in a taxicab, transferring to a waiting car in another part of the city before driving toward Scott.
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Lewistown
Meh
Maurie Johnston
EG. J. Yaker
Young Johnston
Glni
Johnston
Ried
Terkely
Calif
Wilson Would Let Tillers Enforce Allotment Plan
Prof. Me L Wilson proposed a farm relief plan where county farm cooperatives would administer and enforce allotments. The idea shifts enforcement from central agents to local contracts, with farmers agreeing to reduce production to curb surpluses and raise prices.
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Wilson
Chicago
Mel L. Wilson
Hhrough
Wilken Etd. Ag
Wilson and
Mlar
Worce Yrof
Soup line setup for robins in Oklahoma
In Oklahoma City on February 10 a snowbound yard hosted a soup line for robins. Kline arranged a large trough of oatmeal and water to feed the beleaguered birds gathering despite ice and cold, with his own birds nearby.
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Owlahoma City
Kline
Lark Yard
Herohit
Condition of Pershing in Midland Satisfactory
Midland Texas February 10 Dr W E Ryan described General John J Pershing now held here in bronchitis as in satisfactory condition Pershing and his sister Miss May Pershing halted here en route to Arizona after learning their brother James Pershing was seriously ill when word reached relatives in New York of his death their niece urged not to undertake the trip but circumstances prevented a further journey
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Midland
Texas
W. E. Ryan
John J. Pershing
Pershing
Mix May Pershing
Arizona
James Pershing
New York
Kidnap Plot Leads to Federal Arrests in Lindbergh Case
Roanoke Feb 10 Three suspects including two men and a woman are in custody over a staged extortion plot against Colonel Lindbergh. FBI agent John M. Keith directs the inquiry as investigators examine ransom notes and handwriting relating to a feared kidnapping. Mrs Harper Bryant and Norman Kapvay are among those charged with conspiracy. other details remain under federal review.
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Roanoke
United States
Coronel
Charles A. Uindbergh
John M. Keith
Washington
Federatureai
Investigaton
Kovarment
Limadtha
Mra Slnrvey
Norman
Abe
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