Senate impeachment trial formed for Huey P Long in Louisiana
The Louisiana senate convened as a court of impeachment to try Governor Huey P. Long after the house indicted him on one charge of suppressing press freedom. Chief Justice Charles O Neills sworn as judge and the chamber recessed to next Thursday.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana Senate
Huey FP. Long
House
Charles O’neills
State Supreme Court
Senate
Cyr
Justice O'Neill
Charles P. Manship
Huey P. Long
Louisiana
Daily State Times
Manship
Six Die in Des Moines Kirkwood Hotel Fire
Fire swept the historic Kirkwood hotel in Des Moines killing six. Seventeen injured and a further unidentified body were found as investigators probed the ruins. Victims include Carl Jerrup, a waiter, Mrs. Ted Watson, W. P. Raidley, John P. Watt, 60 year old Tom Coates, and an unidentified man. Des Moines officials will question survivors as a formal investigation by Fire Marshal Storm and Barker proceeds.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Kirkwood
John W. Storm
Charles Barker
William C. Carpenter
Jimmy Wray
Carl Jerrup
Moorehead
Ted Watson
W. P. Raidley
John P. Watt
Mexico City
Tom Coates
Farmers’ Union
Midwest Storm Toll Rises With Twenty Deaths
Toronto reports seven deaths from heavy rains and floods across Ontario as trains wrecked and engineers died. In Minneapolis and Wisconsin the storm caused twenty fatalities and numerous injuries, with Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Iowa hit hardest. The toll could rise as communications improve.
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Toronto
Ontario
Darlington
Robert Milne
Canadian Pacific
Bowmanville
Jack Kennedy
Minneapolis
Minn
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Iowa
Little Rock
Forest Lake
Lindstrom
Taylorsville
Exeland
Surgeons Charged With Malpractice After Drunken Operation
In Mecklenburg County a $25 000 suit claims Dr Lucius Glenn and Dr C H Pugh of Gastonia performed an operation while intoxicated in July 1928. Mrs Fannie Brigman and husband Levi Brigman allege infection and critical illness as a result.
Wilkins Delays Arctic Submarine Crossing Planned For Summer
Captain Sir Hubert Wilkins postpones his Arctic submarine voyage from this summer to next. Publisher George Palmer Putnam cites time constraints as the reason. The Defender would need to depart June 1 if the trip were to occur this year.
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New York
Sir Hubert Wilkins
Polar Explorer
Arctic Seas
George Palmer Putnam
Sir Hubert
Today
Putnam
Simon Lake
Postmaster General Denies Aid From W F Brown
Postmaster General Brown told reporters he has not asked Charleston W F Brown for help solving administration problems and denied any relation to him. A South Carolina man claimed to head a patronage committee and cited a secret order A M O 1776, which Brown said he does not know.
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Washington
W. F. Brown
Hoover
Charleston
S. C
South Carolina
Brown
Senate
Strikes Expand as Textile Walkouts Hit Carolinas
In North and South Carolina the textile strike edges into Pineville Gastonia and Greenville with more than 5 000 workers idle. NC guards patrol Gastonia after a near riot while NTWU organizer Fred Erwin Beal mobilizes the Chadwick Hoskins plant actions.
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North
South Carolina
Charlotte
N. C
Chadwick-Hoskins
Pineville
Here
Fred Erwin Beal
National Textile Worker's Union
North Carolina
Conny
Gastonia
Nion
Greenville
Anderson and
Woodruff
S. C
Loray
Manville—Jenckes Company
National Textile Workers Union
National Guardsmen
Morrow Plans Weekend Getaway Amid Mexico City Tension
United States Ambassador Dwight W. Morrow and family, with Colonel Charles Lindbergh, traveled by car to Cuernavaca for a weekend retreat as revolutionary unrest in Mexico calms. The visit by Lindbergh to his fiancée Miss Morrow nears its end with a possible wedding in June in Mexico City or New Jersey.
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Mexico City
United States
Dwight W. Morrow
Anne
Elizabeth
Charles 4
Miss Morrow
New Jersey
Atlantic to Pacific in 31 Hours by Air
Announcement by the American air transport association details a 31 hour air mail service between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts starting May 1. The schedule cuts flying time by over twelve hours and enables letters mailed after business close on either coast to be delivered before offices open the next morning. Night flying facilities on the western leg enable the improvement.
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Chicago
Atlantic
Pacific
American Air Transport Association
Salt Lake City
Los Angeles
California
Green to Address Mass Meeting in Elizabethton
William Green president of the American Federation of Labor will speak at a public mass meeting in Elizabethton Tenn after two union officials were kidnapped and six men charged with kidnapping and felonious assault. Edward McGrady and Alfred L Hoffman were forced at pistol point to leave the area and warned not to return.
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Elizabethton
Tenn
William Green
American Federation of Labor
Edward McGrady
Alfred L. Hoffman
United Textile Workers of America
Pistol Point
McGrady
Bristol
Va.Tenn
Hoffman
North Carolina
American Glanzstoff Corporation
American Bemberg Corporation
Green
Washington
J. M. Moreland
Escaped Convicts Nabbed in Charlotte
Two men believed to be escapees from the South Carolina penitentiary at Columbia were jailed in Charlotte after admission of their identities as Smith Elliott and A. D. Martin. Both men, life prisoners for murder, were arrested in connection with an automobile theft and identified by photographs, police said.
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Charlotte
N. C
South Carolina
Columbia
Smith Elliott
A. D. Martin
Notting ham Bank VP C C Nottingham Dies in Chattanooga
C C Nottingham vice president of the First National Bank of Chattanooga died at his home in Chattanooga Tennessee today. He was well known in financial circles.
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Cc. C. Nottingham
Chattanooga
Tenn
First National Bank of Chattanooga
Norris Urges Stimson On Mrs Ganns Table Status
In Washington on April 6 Senator Norris urged Secretary Stimson to decide where Mrs Edward Everett Gann sister and hostess of vice president Curtis should sit at official dinners or refer the matter to the world court. He warned delay could disrupt social activities and society’s ability to shine.
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Norris
Stimson
Mrs. Gann
Washington
Republican
Nebraska
Edward Everett Gann
Curtiss
Senate
Capital Society
Gann
Senator Norris
United States
Liberia
War Dept Sends Planes For Patrol Of Border Battle
Rebels attacked Naco on the Arizona Sonora border wounding four people north of the line. The War Dept ordered 18 airplanes to Naco to deter further bombings and the Navy sent a destroyer from San Diego to protect Americans in Sinaloa. Federal casualties included a cavalryman wounded in the chest and a civilian injured by a rebel bomb.
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Naco
Arizona-Sonora
International Line
United States Saviory
War Department
State Department
Navy
San Diego
Sinaloa
Ariz
el Paso
Washington
Key To Pritchard's Office Returned
Frank Clarkson superintendent of the house office building said today the key to the office assigned Representative Pritchard of North Carolina had been returned. He added that Pritchard's secretary made no reference to the office next door to Representative De Priest of Chicago. Clarkson said there was no other office to assign to Pritchard.
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Washington
Frank Clarkson
House
Pritchard
North Carolina
de Priest
Chicago
Clarkson
Ministers Seek Ban on Sunday Flying at City Airport
Charlotte ministers urge Mecklenburg County commissioners to stop Sunday airplane flights for a consideration at the city airport arguing it violates state Sunday closing laws. They compare passenger flights for pay to amusement ventures like a theater.
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Charlotte
Apr
Mecklenburg County
Beer Runner Killed As Explosions Mark Re opening
Chicago reports mark a new round in gang warfare after the St Valentine era with the assassination of Frank Red Krueger in his car and two stockyards district explosions. Police detain Paddy Ryan and Red Purcell linked to Krueger case while Quinlan chauffeur James McCormick was wounded and vanished.
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Chicago
Stockyards
Frank
Red) Krueger
Thomas Truitt
Thomas Quinlan
Krueger
Paddy Ryan
Paddy the Bear’ Ryan
Red” Purcell
Ryan
Forest Park
James McCormick
Quinlan
McCormick
Hoover Seeks Camping Site on Virginia Fishing Preserve
President Hoover, returning from a Virginia fishing trip, inspected the preserve with Mrs. Hoover and aides. Three tentative camping spots were chosen for an overnight visit, as the party traveled by car, horse, and on foot from Alexandria toward Madison near the Blue Ridge.
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Washington
Hoover
Virginia
White House
Wilbur
Charlies Y. Ritten
New York
Lawrence Richey
Wilson Brown
EB. C. Long
Marine Corps
Wie
Alexandria
Arvington National Cemetery
Fairfax
Warrant
Culpepper
Madison
Blue Ridge Mountains
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NEA
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George Pershing
Communist Party
National Textile Workers’ Union
A. F. of L
John J. Pershing
Germany
Midwest
Pittman
Rice Lake
Clayton
Barron
Glenwood City
Wausau
Edwin Erdman
Wilkins
North Pole
W.F. Brown
Morrow
U. S
Mexico
Lindy
Cuernavaca
Federal Army
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