Bandits Hold Up Train Near Bellefontaine
Six masked armed men robbed a Big Four train from Detroit to Cincinnati near Bellefontaine. Edwin K. Nelson Jr of Tampa was shot in the arm while seeking help. Passengers’ valuables were taken. seven aboard, five filed no loss reports. The robbers fled toward a filling station after the hold up.
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Abellefontaine, CO
Edwin K. Nelson, Jr
Tampa
Fla
Mary Rutan Hospital
Toledo
There
Bellefontaine
Nelson
Morrison
Prohibition Split Over Revision Delays in Senate Action
Washington January 22. Senator Ess of Ohio, a Hoover ally, says Hoover did not close the door to revision of the 18th Amendment though he rejected the substitute. He notes the administration aims to keep prohibition from becoming a political issue while awaiting possible changes. Senate moves to refer back nominations of power commission members refused by Hoover face possible court action and rulings on reevaluation.
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Washington
Hoover
Wickersham Commission
Senatoress
Reublican National Committee
White House
Ohioan
National Prohibition
Oover
Law Enforcement Commission
Congress
United States
Hoov
Jan
Senate Interstate Commerce Committee
Power Commission
Senate
Walsh
Montana
Smith
Garland
Draper
Vanderburg
Michigan
Borah
Idaho
Collision cripples steamer Commercial Mariner near Chester
Philadelphia Jan 22 The steamer Commercial Mariner outbound for Tampa Mobile and New Orleans lies partly submerged in the Delaware River four miles south of Chester after a collision with the San Simeon Unconfirmed reports say the chief engineer of the Commercial Mariner is unaccounted for The crew abandoned ship as it sank but the captain and boatswain returned to the vessel The San Simeon was inbound to Grays Harbor Washington via New York with heavy damage but proceeded to Philadelphia
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Philadelphia
Commercial Marner
Tampa
Moile
New Orleans
Boastwain
San Simeon Gras
Grays Harbor
Washington
New York
Fatally Injured Man Reported Alive In Bath County
OWINGSVILLE Ky Jan 22 Sheriff Omer Rogers announced he had received information that Richard Williams five reported fatally injured in a raid in Bath county was alive at the home on Caney creek near Nick. The report of his death came as the coroner prepared an inquest into his reported death. Williams had been reported dead last night.
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Owinsvill BE
Omer Rogers
Richard Williams
Bath
Caney Creek
Ick
Williams
Rogers
Illiams
Pollard Orders Relief Troops to Strike Area in Virginia
Governor Pollard announced 250 National Guard troops will be sent to the Danville strike area to relieve units since November 26. A provisional regiment under Col. Alonzo E. Wood will serve as relief troops amid ongoing law enforcement demands.
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Richmond
John Garland Pollard
National Guard
Danville
Pollard
Samuel G. Waller
Schoolfield
Waller
Pittsylvania County
Dan River
Riverside
C. R. Murphy
Alonzo E. Wood
Lynchburg
Dan River Mill
Clemson Students Confined by Flu Epidemic
Clemson college students have been confined to campus for over a week due to a mild influenza outbreak. Dr. James A. Hayne, state health officer, reported 1,078 new flu cases last week, double the prior period, as influenza prevalence in South Carolina rises steadily.
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Columbia, &. C
Clemson College
James A. Hayne
Hayne
South Carolina
Nurses' Home Opens at Goldsboro Hospital
Formal opening of the $106,000 annex and nurses' home was marked by a banquet for staff and trustees. The new building is funded by a $50,000 Duke Foundation gift and $56,000 raised by Goldsboro citizens.
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Goldsboro
Jan
Goldsboro Hospital
Duke Foundation
Goldsboro Ceitizens
Death Ends Life of Film Actress Alma Rubens
Alma Rubens, once Hollywoods brightest star, died in Los Angeles after a 60 hour coma from pneumonia following recent federal narcotics charges. Once famed for The Half Breed and Humoresque, she battled addiction since 1929, endured multiple hospitalizations, and made a faltering comeback before her death in the home of Dr. Charles Pfienger with her mother and sister nearby.
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Los Angeles
Alma Rubens
Misa Rubens
Miss Rubens
San Diego
Charles J. Pfienger
Theresa Rubens
Hazel Large
Madera
Cal
Douglas Fairbanks
Hollywood
Siberia
Writers’ Club
Hayes to Speak at Wake Forest Founder’s Day Address
Judge Johnson J. Hayes of Greensboro will deliver the Founder's Day address at Wake Forest College on February evening. An alumnus of the college, Hayes speaks on the 97th anniversary of its founding.
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Hayes
Wake Forest College
Wake Forest
Johnson J. Hayes
Greensboro
Judge Hayes
One Cent Damages Awarded To Boy
A court awarded a penny in damages to Luther Schmidt a 15 year old boy after an October incident in which Jacob Zander aged 83 grabbed the youth and shook him. The boy's father Rev. Richard Schmidt had sued for $2000. the jury deemed the penny judgment sufficient.
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Washington
Luther Schmidt
Jacob Zander
Richard Schmidt
Senate Asks Payment Of Certificates No Opposition
The North Carolina Senate passed a resolution urging Congress to pay veterans and support a full state term. House debates included opposition to a wage list for married women and a bill for eight month school term. The body also moved to delay mortgage foreclosures by federal land banks and to abolish the state highway patrol.
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Congress
Raleigh
State Senate
Grier
Iredell
Johnson
Duplin
House
Reptive Helms
Union
Salary and
Butler
Sampson
Lassiee
Senate
Moore
Dortch
Wayne
State Highway Patrol
Baggett
Harnett
Dan River and Riverside Mills Boss Reports Strike Pain Minimal
Danville Va January 22 1931 H R Fitzgerald president of Dan River and Riverside Cotton Mills told stockholders the strike by union workers caused little disruption and the company posts a 1930 net loss of 685432 69 while showing a 900000 manufacturing profit offset by heavy depreciation and value drops. He also denounced depraved conduct tied to the strike and questioned church endorsements.
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Danville
H. R. Fitzgerald
Dan River and Riverside
Federal Council of Churches
First Woman To Sit in State Senate in Georgia
Mrs Charles E Cannon became Georgia s first female state senator. She took oath as senator from the fortieth district after winning a special election January 8 to fill her late husband s unexpired term.
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Atlanta
Charles E. Cannon
Georgia
State Senate
Cannon
Liberia Says Slavery Not Liberia’s Core Trouble
Geneva Jan 22 Liberia’s Antoine Sottile told the League Council that Liberia rejects dictation by any superstate and that its worst trouble is not human slavery. The Liberian delegate said the republic seeks international aid to end financial bondage while preserving sovereignty and accepts reform recommendations within limited resources.
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Geneva
Liberia
Black Republic
League Council
Antoine Sottile
African Republic
United States
League
International Commission
Sottile
Call For Special Session On World Court Protocol
Washington Jan 22 600 women urging a special Senate session if the current meeting fails to ratify the world court protocol. They conference on the cause and cure of war seeking swift action and strong support for the measure.
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Washington
Senate
Senate Adopts Drought Loan Reapportionment Plan
The Senate approved a resolution to reallocate repaid drought loan funds from Florida Georgia North Carolina and South Carolina for new loans. About 2.5 million dollars repaid by farmers since 1920 will finance feed and seed loans for farmers not served by the 45 million dollar drought relief fund already allocated.
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Washington
Senate
Florida
Georgia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Fleas Not Tied To Heart Disease, Doctor Says
Dr Hugh McCulloch of St Louis associate editor of the Heart Association Journal denied a Chicago claim that fleas spread heart disease. He called the idea an antiquated theory once held by an early English scientist and said fleas carry rheumatic fever germs is not supported. AP correction issued.
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ST. Louis
Hugh McCulloch
The
Heart Association Journal
Chicago Heart Association
Associated Press
Frost Over Florida Report Across State
Frost was reported this morning from every weather bureau station in Florida except Key West. W J Bennett, government meteorologist, noted widespread damage to vegetables flowers and tender shrubs. Official low in Tampa was 40 degrees, Bartow Sanford and Orlando 30, Miami 36.
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Tampa
Fila
Weather Bureau
Florida
Key West
W. J. Bennett
Bartow
Sanford
Orlando
Miami
N C Man Charged With Auto Theft In Detroit
Janca M Flack 22 of Rutherfordton North Carolina held on national motor theft act violation in Detroit after allegedly stealing a car from Robert Turner Bond set at 3500 and Flack pled not guilty before United States Commissioner J Stanley Hurd
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Detroit
Janca M. Flack
Rutherfordton
N. C
Flack
Robert Turner
United States
J. Stanley Hurd
Kidnap Plot Foiled By Detectives In Detroit
In Detroit on January 24 a $100,000 kidnapping plan against Horace Maynard’s child was stopped by detectives. Two men were arrested at the Maynard home and four more, including a woman, were later caught. The five men confessed to conspiracy and were detained. Suspects are George B. Spears Kenneth Harrington Bernard Adusky Anthony Orlando and Lena Orlando. Welfare aid was noted for all but Spears.
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Detroit
Horace 5
Maynard
Duncan B. McCrea
George B. Spears
General Motors
Kenneth Harrington
Bernard Adusky
Anthony Orlando
Orlando
Lena
Spears
Department of Public Welfare
Russia Observes National Lenin Holiday
All Russia marked the seventh anniversary of Lenin's death with offices closed and only essential work. Citizens skied and skated while attending meetings that extol Leninism.
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Moscow
All Russia
Nikolai Lenin
New York Stock Exchange Suspends Anderson Co for Insolvency
The New York stock exchange suspended Lorenzo E. Anderson and Company of St. Louis today for insolvency. The action reflects financial distress and halts the firm's trading activities pending further proceedings.
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New York
New York Stock Exchange
Lorenzo E. Anderson and Company of
St. Louis
Controversy Over Prohibition Debated In House
In Washington on January 22 the House resumed debate on prohibition enforcement funding while the Senate sent the Red Cross relief appropriation to a committee for review. The House immigration panel backed a bill to cut immigration by 90 percent for two years.
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Washington
Wickersham
House
Senate
Eugene Meyer, Jr
Federal Reserve Board
Interstate Commerce Committee
Brookhart
Iowa
Justice Department
William E. Hull
Illinois
Celler
New York
Blaine
Raspulionn
Wisconsin
Blanton
Laguardia
Appropriations Committee
House Immigration Committee
Administration
Search Conducted For Columbia Man
Police hunted Asa C. Squiers an 80 year old Columbia man after a note said he intended to drown himself in a canal. He was last seen yesterday afternoon on the Broad River Bridge outside the city limits.
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Columbia
C. C
Asa CC. Squiers
Broad River
Five Die After Drinking Anti Freeze Solution
Five men died after drinking an anti freeze solution bought at a local filling station in Ashland Kentucky. The station operator Marion Collins and his 17 year old assistant William Bates were arrested. Two men who drank small amounts were held as material witnesses. Murder charges to be filed as the coroner inquest was ordered.
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Ashland
Marion Collins
William Bates
C. R. Hunter
Yellow Kid is Arrested in Chicago a Second Time
Chicago January 23 The notorious confidence man known as the Yellow Kid was arrested last night by Captain Patrick J. Harding after spotting him in an expensive motor car. His partner Fred Buckminster was also taken into custody. Weil, an ex convict, had returned to Chicago from the Leavenworth Federal penitentary last March after nearly five years for involvement in a mail robbery. The capture followed Harding's recognition of Weil despite the missing beard that earned him his nickname.
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Chicago
Joseph Well
Patrick J. Harding
Fred Buckminster
Leavenworth
Kan
Harding
Weil
Ban Johnson Faces Toe Operation in Hot Springs
Hot Springs Ark Jan. The Hot Springs New Era reports Ban Johnson former president of the American League must undergo an operation to remove the little toe of his right foot in the near future. Physicians are trying to build up his vitality for the procedure. Johnson came to St Josephs infirmary after four months illness in St Louis. The infection stemmed from an injury in a crowd when someone stepped on his toe.
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Hot Springs
Ark
Jan
Ban Johnson
American League
Johnson
St. Josephs Infirmary
St. Louis
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