Deaths in Santa Clara Valley Rise to 264
Unverified reports claim the Hinch trans Atlantic plane landed near Menlo Park New Jersey sparking a search. Police and residents noted airplane noises along the New England coast and in New Jersey as attempts to locate the missing aircraft continued.
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New York
Menlo Park
X. J
Nalice Jeft
Metuchen
Mento Parl
New England
New Jersey
Atlantic City
Philadelphia
Klinchliffe
American missionary on trial in Turkey at Broussa
Miss Lucile Day an Oberlin College graduate is one of three American missionaries tried by Turkish authorities at Broussa on charges of disseminating Christian propaganda in violation of national education laws.
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Lucile Day
Oberin College Grad
Broussa
Tax Receipts Today May Determine Size of Proposed Slash
Washington March 14 AP tax time returns loom as tomorrow due. Senate finance committee delays verdict on a House tax cut. Early figures show a drop in income. preliminary data suggest a 9 to 14 percent peak fall, but no clear trend yet. Treasury notes a year to date surplus and ongoing debate over a 290 million tax cut. Committee plans to reconvene March 23 after reviewing returns.
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Washington
Sam
Senate Finance Committee
House
Treasury
Skister Smoot
Finance Committee
Smont
Bond probe widens to Chicago hearings on 1920 deficit
Washington dispatch reports two Tea Pot Dome investigators Nye and Norbeck head to Chicago to probe Sinclair bond dealings linked to Republican campaign financing. Five score witnesses expected as subcommittee hearings set for Friday and Saturday to uncover how bonds helped wipe the 1920 deficit.
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Chicago
Harry F. Sinclair
Elsie Mackay First Woman to Fly Trans Atlantic Solo?
Elsie Mackay and Captain Hinchliffe shared a hurried trans Atlantic start in the Stinson-Detroiter Endeavour with Major Gordon Sinclair later joining at Varely. The sole passenger on board was Miss Mackay, as her husband’s voyage sparked family concern while she kept vigil at home awaiting news.
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London
Walter G. R. Tinchhife
Elsie Mackay
Endeavour
Gordon Sinclar
Hinchliffe
Varely
Tle
Miss Mackay
Major Sinclair
Start
Cranwell
Capt. Hinchliffe
H O
Ansazy
Hinchlith
Budd Expects Gains as Great Northern Reports March
Ralph Budd, president of the Great Northern, forecasts continued earnings strength after February's $7,300,000 gross and $1,000,000 net operating income, up from $6,592,000 and $572,580 respectively last year. March loadings rise about 12 percent. increases in miscellaneous loadings are noted as encouraging.
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Santa Paula
Calif
Ralph Budd
Great Northern
Landes Swept From Seattle Office In Landslide Vote
Seattle voters ousted Mrs Bertha Landes who became the first woman mayor of a major U S city three years ago. Frank Edwards, a retired theater operator, won with about 1900 more votes, to take office June 4. Landes received roughly 31,819 votes to 28,873 for Edwards.
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Seattle
Bertha K. Landes
Frank Edwards
Te Wall
Mre Landes
Father of 12 Slain Duel With Officers
Houston report says Sam Magalitto killed Cat Greene 33 district attorney investigator and assistant Claude Beverly after Greene entered his farmhouse to serve a liquor search warrant. Magalitto died in the afternoon after being shot. Magalitto's daughter Bessie, 22, was wounded in a fire. Mrs. Magalitto said he had been making liquor for about a week to feed a large brood of 12 children.
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Houston
Tex
Cat Greene
Sam Magalitto
Magalitto
Greene
Claude Beverly
Bessie
Reduction of Armament to the Theme in Geneva Meet
Geneva March 14 AP Hopes for any eventual reduction of world armaments will be raked or diluted in accordance with the success or failure of the preliminary disarmament conference opening here tomorrow with delegates from many nations including the United States Russia and Turkey The meeting is that of the special commission appointed by the League of Nations to prepare the agenda of a later international conference for the limitation and reduction of armaments naval land and air Bask Proposal was discussed at the last session when Soviet Russia startled the world by proposing the total abolition of all armaments which would include scrapping warships and guns destroying factories and even abolishing the general staffs whose business is national defense and offense
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Geneva
Switzerland
United States
Russia
Turkey
Special Commission
League of Nations
Bask
Soviet Russia
Oldfield calls for house cleaner in GOP over Teapot Dome
Washington dispatch reports Representative Oldfield, chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, urging President Coolidge to purge the Republican Party after Teapot Dome disclosures. He claims cabinet members knew part of the Teapot Dome oil loot financed the party, and holds Coolidge responsible as president and party leader.
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Washington
Coolidge
Oldfield
Democratic Congressional Campaign
Republican Party
Senate
Teapot Dome
Walsh bill seeks Fisk station in Montana
Washington March 14 APJ Senator Walsh Democrat Montana introduces a bill asking for 335000 to establish an auxiliary fish cultural station in Montana. The station would be subsidiary to the Bateman station already in operation and set at a site chosen by the secretary of commerce.
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Washington
APJ
Montana
Walsh
Secretary of Commerce
Slayer of Father Found Guilty Again in California
Los Angeles reports Carl Westcott was convicted again today of murdering his father at the threshold of their home on October H6. The verdict upheld first degree murder with life imprisonment recommended. A prior trial ended with a similar verdict but was reversed on appeal and sent back for another trial. Westcolt allegedly shot his father to gain an interest in a supposed trust estate where the father was beneficiary.
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Los Angeles
Carl Westcott
Hry Fatter
Wry
Westcolts
Property loss may total thirty million in Santa Paula area
Santa Paula Calif March AP San Francisquito canyon and the Santa Clara river valley faced ruin after the St Francis dam broke. Deaths numbered 264 with many homes destroyed, 20 miles of citrus land buried, bridges washed out, and critical lines down. Officials caution weeks to finalize a property loss estimate likely between 7 and 30 million while towns struggle to recover from the disaster.
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Santa Paula
Calif
San Francisquite Canyon
Santa Clara River
St. Francis Dam
Los Angeles Municipal
Mrs Hickman Says Goodbyes To Her Son
In Los Angeles a tearful farewell marked by hopeful wishes for Marion Parker’s fate as Mrs Hickman and her son Alfred left the jail for their Kansas home. The mother spoke briefly of a new filial judgment from the appellate or supreme court while both remained composed amid tears.
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Los Angeles
William Udwart Wehner
Lady Mary Bailey Pauses in Sicily
Lady Mary Bailes pauses in Sicily during a journey from England to South Africa. She arrived from Naples today and plans to resume travel tomorrow with her next stop at a location named Maha.
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Lady Mary Bailey
Sicily
Catan
Sih
Mary Bailes
Leiglend
South Africa
Naples
Last Wilson Appointees Quit Trade Commission
Edward P. Costigan resigns as the last Wilson appointee on the Trade Commission, accusing President Coolidge and fellow commissioners Marvin, Lowell and Brossard of blocking decisive action. The White House accepts the resignation amid a clash over tariff rate policy and the commission’s usefulness.
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Trade Commission
Washington
Tant Commission
Edward P. Costigan
Costigan
Coolidge
Marvin
Lowell and Brossard
White House
Opankee Lorene Back With Mama
Lorene Jones, a 15 year old from Kansas City, returns home after her mother, Kristine Woodside, was arrested last week over allegations of excessive spanking. She had been kept with teachers since the incident and was briefly denied further action before authorities released her.
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Kansas City
March
Lorene Jones
Kristine Woodside
Walters kills his sweetheart then fatally wounds himself
Law Clue Wisconsin March 14 A quarrel between a seven and a year old youth ended tragically when Walter shot and killed Noa Ferrans, his sweetheart, and then fired two shots into his own body. He later died.
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Wis
Tohe Walters
Noa Ferrans
Arin Fimeel Walters
Leon Phat
Snow Guts Michigan Towns In Severe Blizzard
A crippling blizzard isolates Sault Ste Marie and two nearby hamlets Raber and Detour. Dr John F Deadman, aiding a dog and cat pulled toward the villages, stays in a farm house about 20 miles south. A snow motor with supplies to the famine threatened residents has vanished after advancing 60 miles toward Detour. Deadman reports the dog team nearing exhaustion. relief hoped from an army transport plane from Selfridge field. Detour residents prepare landing strip for the plane as the storm lingers.
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Sault Ste Marie
Mich
Mareh
John F. Deadman
Raber
Abdont
Here
Deadman
Hus
Russel Goetz
Detour
Mra W.llace Henson
Selfridge Field
Clemens
Flood damages Northern Pacific bridge near Glendive
March 14 AP report says a high water flood caused a Northern Pacific bridge to collapse under an engine load from a work train. The engineer was cut and bruised and rushed to hospital. fireman Tugby escaped injury. Train service suspended on the Sines branch, expected back by Thursday.
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Glendive
Tutuki
Savaie
Paciie
Hese
Thurerlas
Search for disaster victims continues in Santa Clara valley
Workers in calm heat combed sand-laden stretches of the Santa Clara river valley seeking bodies from the St trends dam disaster. Officials warned that the missing count near 300 is unlikely to be reduced quickly as survivors and relatives confront a grim scene of mud and debris buried under 30 feet of sand.
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Santa Vanla
Cal
Mare 14
Santa Clara River
St. Trends
Jay
Fillmore
Newhall
Scarch. Org
Seek Dead in Debris at Dam Collapse Santa Paula
In the wake of the St Trancia dam flood 38,000 acre feet of water unleashed devastation as hundreds of officers and volunteers search debris for victims. The central dam section remains, while a silted canyon bed shows the flood’s path. Bodies of men women and children are found in debris fields across the ruined area.
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Santa Paula
St. Trancia
Viclima
Aged Rancher Loses 7 of His Family by Bursted Aqueduct
An elderly New Kent California man and his family perished as a damaged aqueduct burst. Coroner statements noted multiple fatalities among relatives at the Santa Valley ranch. authorities began investigations into the tragedy.
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New Kent
Lh Cal
Greta
Ivensinger
Santa
Tara Valley Rancher
Rensinge
Flood Zone Roads to Be Repaired in Sacramento
An emergency appropriation of 830000 for highway repairs washed out by the St Francis flood was signed in Sacramento on March 14 by state actor G. Meek public works official.
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Sacramento
Cal
St. Francis
G. 3. Meek
Public Works
Los Angeles Criticized Over Quotation Horror Incident
Santa Paul Calif March 14 API CLCL Teague president Southern California Fruit Gray fre exchange and Dr W W Molt summer state senator voiced the sentiments of the wriving presidents of the Santa Clasalies when they placed responsibility on the shoulders of Log igvles atv whicholt the dane or is water system over the pro issty of valley inhabitants.
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Santa Paul
Calif
Sapi
Clcl Teague
Southern California Fruit Gray Fre Exchange
W. W. Molt
Santa Clasalies
Logigvles Atv
Dane
Two Inquests Will be Held on St. Francis Dam Case
Coroner Oliver Reardon announced two inquests for victims of the St Francis dam flood. Morning sessions at Moor Park and Fillmore cover corpses brought there, while afternoon hearings at Santa Ana and Oswald address other deaths. District Attorney James Collingsworth will attend both inquiries.
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Moor Park
Fillmore
Santa Tana
Oswald
James Collingsworth
Daquesta
Fos
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