Bitter Cold Sweeps Mongolian Steppe Storm Hits China
Shanghai reports a severe north China blizzard from Mongolia causing massive casualties. Temperatures plunged to 49 degrees below normal as hundreds died from cold and some 100 bodies were found in Peiping streets. Salvation Army and Chinese organizations set up steel kitchens to aid survivors.
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Shanghai
Birren
Mongolia
Crona Tameht
Peiping
Tientsin
Salvation Army
Stand Collapse Injures Sixty At Brooklyn Armory Game
About 60 injured when a temporary grandstand collapsed at a Brooklyn armory before a college basketball game. Fire and medical crews responded as spectators panicked, with several women fainting and many taken to nearby hospitals for treatment.
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New York
Brooklyn
Paylee
Cress
Cow ban humor ends in dismissed case in Augusta
In Augusta Georgia Emma Gary faced court for violating a city ordinance prohibiting keeping cows inside limits. The recorder quipped about the cow, saying it is a bell, and the judge dismissed the case.
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Augusta
Tan
Emma Gary
Berry IL. Ellison
Emma
British coal strike worsens poverty as fuel prices soar
Britain endures sharp rise in coal and fuel costs with 40 cent jumps and a fresh 40 cent rise planned. Hunger deepens as 150,000 miners face prolonged stoppages while cotton mills and tinplate sectors join stoppages. Weavers, spinners, and workers face mass unemployment and economic strain amid government mediation hopes.
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Britain
England
West Wales
Slavery Report on Liberia Sparks U S Pressure
A government report details slave like conditions in Liberia, with U S pressure to implement Commission recommendations. The inquiry, chaired by Cuthbert Chrisis and including Charles Spurgeon Johnson and Arthur Haralay, cites pawn practices and testimonies from President King and Vice President Yancy who resigned in December.
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State Department
Cuthbert Chrisis
League of Nations
Charles Spurgeon Johnson
United States
Arthur Haralay
Liberia
Department
King
Yancy
Ecuador Slide Buries 170 Workers in Guayaquil Region
A massive landslide near Hi era ten miles from Guayaquil buried about 170 track workers while they cleared a prior slide. Rescue teams found no survivors as rains persist and the river Trint has turned into a torrent menacing nearby towns. A locomotive recovered one body and an injured man, with officials fearing most lives were lost.
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Guayaquil
Etgador
Hiera
Debels
Wuigra
Guayaquail
Prince George's sister laid to rest at Windsor Chapel
In Windsor Castle's St George's Chapel the sister of King George lay in state before a solemn service attended by the king, Queen Mary, the princesses and royal family. The coffin rested on the Albert Memorial Chapel, borne by Knights of Windsor amid military pomp and pipers. In St James's Chapel, dignitaries including Ambassador Dawes met with foreign delegates at a conference.
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Windsor
St. George's Chapel
Windsor Castle
Rasal
Horne
Albert Memorial Hanel
Queen Mary
CirAeral Naves
Chapel Royal
St Tames Judace
Ambassadior Dawes
San Angelo Mayor Obituary: Jumped From Sixth Floor
San Angelo. Tow. Jan 14. Al A. Glover, 2, mayor of San Angelo, leaped to his death from a sixth story window after suffering long time health and financial troubles. Friends say he had been worried for months about his health and reverses.
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San Angelo
Tow
al A. Glovér
Dorothy Ellingsen Seeks Parole From San Quentin
Dorothy Ellingsen, 18 in 1925 when she killed her mother over a party dispute, applied for parole at San Quentin for the third time. The State Prison Board announced the move as she serves a Vivears to Life sentence. Her first two parole requests were denied.
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San Quentin Prison
Califf
Jan. I
Dorothy Ellingsen
State Prison Board
Nevada names first woman deputy sheriff in history
Miss Frances Kombrey Owls Chie, a 23 year old Goldfield resident, joins the sheriff staff as Nevada’s first female deputy. She wears a shining star badge and is empowered to arrest, suppress riots, and perform standard deputy duties under state law.
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Nevada County
Kptia
Dan
Nevada
Sheath WR Meter
Kamerslda County
Galdfield
Frances Kombrey
Nevadia
Three Men Rescued From Tunnel at Camp Mitchell
In Oakland California a tunnel accident at Camp Mitchell trapped 20 workers. One man crawled out through a constricted opening while 11 others remained safe and reachable by rescuers. Initial reports had hinted at all being freed, but progress showed only one man escape for the moment with more to come as rescue efforts continued.
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Oakland
Calif
Camp Mitchell
Oscar Nelson
Violence Erupts as Reds Protest in Public Cheering Crowd
A mob of about 300 to 4,000 gathered to protest criminal syndicalism laws. Officers Rudy Wilpot and John Snyder were assaulted as police reinforcements arrived. Demonstrators demanded release of Tom Mooney Warren Billings and eight radicals jailed for alleged sabotage two years prior in San Francisco.
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Hanners
Tom Mooney
Warren K Billings
San Francisco
Imperial Tahes
Rudy Wilpot
R&ciess
Iim
John Snyder
Wilpot
Ton
Wan
End of the World Foreseen by Eddington
Sir Arthur Eddington, noted British scientist, predicted in London that the universe will become a ball of radiation. He warned it would enlarge and double its radius roughly every 1,509,000,000 years, stirring physicists across nations.
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Sir Arthur Eddington
Mathematical Association
London
Deadlock on Power Outfit at Hoover impasse continues
President Hoover refused the Senate request to return three nominees to the new power commission. The Senate moved to strike those names from unfinished business. The impasse left the commission in limbo as the president insisted on maintaining the current appointees. Senator Wheeler announced opposition to salaries for the three commissioners when the next funding bill arrives.
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Senate
Washington
Hoover
New Power Commission
Oorer
Smith
Marcel Tarsaud
Claude L. Braper
Wheeler
Montana
Touver
Boulder School Inspection Quiet After Weekend
Great Falls dispatch describes Montana assembly idle as lawmakers study governor’s message while 30 senators and representatives travel to Boulder to inspect the state school for the deaf and feeble minded. Fireman B A Reilly dies in a Great Northern derailment near Loggingreek. Reilly leaves a widow and four children in Clancy.
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Great Falls
Reilly
Great
Northern Railway
Loggingreek
Here
Riley
Clancy
Rintte
Montana
Mit
Assembly
Capitol
Boulder
State School For
Klind
Plane Drops Explorer in Old Maya City
Dallas Times Herald reports Captain William F Bom parachuted into abandoned Maya ruins in Yucatan. Captain Leay dropped supplies as part of a treasure hunt while the expedition plans a return journey with noted American archaeologist aboard. Long leads a group that must trek back by mule or foot if a landing site isn’t cleared.
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Dallas
Dallas Times-Herald
William F. Bom
Yucanm
Leay
Tnesdis
Trehans
Times
Fanil
Bartain
Martyes
Mexico City
Long
Capone Brother Arrested in Miami Vagrancy Case
John Capone, brother of Al Capone, was arrested on a vagrancy charge in Miami. Police said a standing order to pick up any Capone family member led to the arrest alongside a local business owner, Fells Cicerell.
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Miami
Fla
John Capone
al Capone
Fells Cicerell
Bits of Montana History We Should Know About
Montana origins expert M B Milligan presents a Sunday Independent series on the state’s beginnings. Reader interest spans Lewis and Clark, Hudson Bay trade, the Mullan Road, Missouri steamboats, and overland trails shaping the early Montana landscape. The feature debuts this Sunday and continues weekly throughout the year.
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Hudson Bay
Mullan
Missouri
M. B. Milligan
Sunday Independent
Rockefeller Reading Poem to Galli-Cu rt at Ormond Beach
John D. Rockefeller Sr presented flowers and an inscribed photo to opera singer Madame Amelita Galli-Curt at Ormond Florida on January 10. He also read her a poem and attended a Daytona Beach event last night.
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Ormond
Fla
Lokens
John D. Rockefeller
Amelita Galli-Curet
Yaya
Stockefeller
Daytona Beach
Prohibition Issue Heads to State Legislatures
The prohibition battle shifts to 16 state legislatures this year with efforts to repeal state enforcement laws or memorialize the federal government. In California Senator Tallant Tabba from San Francisco introduces a resolution urging Congress to repeal the 18th Amendment on state rights grounds.
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New York
California
Tallant Tabba
San Franciisco
Congress
Red Cross Plans Ten Million Drive For Drought Victims
Washington AP January 10 relief efforts form at White House and Capitol as Red Cross proposes a ten million dollar appeal to buy and distribute food and clothing to stricken farmers. Congress moves to set special legislative status for a sixty million drought loan bill though opposition by LaGuardia and others blocks quick action. Continued on Page 4.
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White House
Conitol
Pete Ann
Hoover
Payne
Red Cross
House
Wood
Appropriations Committee
Rules Committee
Senate
Legislature expected to advance school law and tobacco bills
This week the legislature is expected to make progress on bills in committee. New measures to change high school laws and to tax tobacco and cigars will be introduced, including proposals by Ekegren and others to alter methods and timing.
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Tex Tobacco
Ekegren
Vet Chief Seeks New Helena Hospital Construction
Missoula Jan 16 AP Captain Herman H Weimer national commander of Disabled American Veterans urged ex service men that to remedy conditions at Helena Veterans hospital they should tear down the old building and seek a new one Congress will be asked to appropriate a million dollars for a new hospital and improved equipment The DAV also seeks 5000 more beds and facilities for disabled veterans
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Missoula
Herman H. Weimer
The
Disabled American Veterans
Ajright
Hellena Veterans’ Hospital
Congress
Los Pastor fights for right to use radio station KOR
In Los Angeles the Rev Shuler contests federal radio commission action over his right to operate KOR. Prosecutors sought the source of his informants while Shuler refuses to name them. His militant broadcasts have drawn jail for contempt of court and repeated detentions.
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Los Angeles
Vee
Erhime
Jrsiges
Shaler
Federal Radio
KOR
Cusmiahits Wleanl
Politico Nuisaner
Tay Poosteeke
Shier
Ima
Stipe
Ted
San Quentin Penitentiary
Ar Shuler
Jon
Ihel
Pearl OLoughlin Is Given Life Sentence In Oklahoma Case
Pearl O Loughlin, woman linked as stepmother in a murder near Oklahoma City, received a life sentence after a denied new trial appeal. The trial concluded last month with the defendant declaring innocence while her attorney sought to overturn the verdict. A stay of execution was noted, and the defense planned further appeals.
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Pearl O'Loughlin
Denver
Jan
Pearl’ O Tongiin
Dean O'Loughlin
Searald
Chi Wae
Shade Honey
Hfe
Botta Quit Glssint Seattle's Firemen
A garbled historical note describes the Seattle fire department adopting a phonograph to record fire reports for citizen guidance. The device, similar to business recorders, records addresses and responses, though confusion over similar street names creates distress and misaddressed alarms.
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Seame Fire Department
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