Police officer under surveillance in Chicago killings probe
Chicago investigators report a policeman is under surveillance as a suspect in the Valentine's Day gang massacre. A liquor depot raid exposed the officer’s name, address, and possible contact hours. Deputy police commissioner John Stege doubts police involvement, citing paid killers from out of town.
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Chicago
John Stege
Jack McGurn
Stege
McGurn
George Moran
Fred Burke
James Ray
St. Louis
Bean
Rats
Attoreny David Stansbury
Burke
Ray
Frank Yale
New York
Yale
Scarface
Heavy fighting and troop movements reshape Mexican revolution
At least two fronts flare as government and rebels deploy forces in north and south Mexico. Monterey’s capture alarms authorities, while Vera Cruz remains bottlenecked. Rebels press toward Juarez and Nogales as border tensions rise. estimates place about 10,000 defectors among 60,000 army personnel.
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Monterey
Nuevo Leon
Escobar
Vera Cruz
Juarez
el Paso
Nogales
Sonora
Mexico City
Sarquez
Jalisco
Calles
Navarette
Topete
Lindbergh
Coolidge Content as Private Citizen Arrives Home
Calvin Coolidge settled into private citizen life in Northampton Massachusetts after a homecoming and a quiet morning of settling back into his Masassoit street frame house. Mrs Coolidge tended house duties and hoped for gentle weather to resume her daily walks as she visited her ill mother in Cooley Dickinson hospital.
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Northampton
Magss
Calvin Coolidge
New England
Massasoit Street
Submarine S-4 Leaves for Deeper Oxygen Lung Tests
The S-4 left Key West in tow of the Mallard for tests of an oxygen lung system to aid divers in sunken submarines. Earlier tests at 40 to 140 feet were successful but the navy ordered deeper tests to 159 to 200 feet.
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Key West
Fla
Mar
Gulf Stream
Navy Department
Convention Of Baptist Women Opens In Green Street Church
About 1000 attendees join the 39th annual Woman's Missionary Union convention at Green Street Baptist Church Raleigh leaders preside. Mrs. Wesley N. Jones outlines widening missionary horizons and two centuries of mission progress including Europe.
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North Carolina
Wesley N. Jones
Raleigh
Woman’s Missionary Union of
State Baptist Denomination
Green Street Baptist Church
Getate
Asheville
Charlotte
Elizabeth City
Greensboro
Wilmington
Liberty Association
Edna R. Harris
Dorothy Kellam
Elsie K. Hunter
Clyde Liner Mohawk Floated and Undamaged
The Clyde Liner Mohawk was freed from a mud bank in the St. Johns River near Jacksonville and cleared for voyage to Miami. Officials reported no damage after a thorough inspection and most passengers appeared unaware of the incident.
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Jacksonville
Fla
Miami
St. Johns River
Extra guard requested for Chicago contempt hearing
Chicago March 6 an extra detail of deputy sheriffs to guard the court against violence was requested by Judge Herbert Immenhausen for the hearing today of four policemen on contempt charges. The judge called the arrest of his personal bailiff a personal affront and said he would not let hoodlum policemen mar his reputation.
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Chicago
Herbert Immenhausen
Immenhausen
Poison liquor death toll rises to seventeen in Peoria case
In Peoria on March 6 authorities reported 17 deaths linked to poison liquor, with two men and their wives held on murder charges and another man charged with manslaughter. The alcohol contained 15 percent wood alcohol, traced to a Chicago dealer as investigators from federal channels probe the source.
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Peoria
Lil
Mar
Galesburg
Federal Prohibition Department
Morris Mansfield
Chicago
Mansfield
G. O. Guffin
Clarence Hoppe
John Cox
Vermont
Seek Slayer Rich Man's Housekeeper
Miami officials conclude Nora Wilson death was by her own action after three hours of witness questioning. Richard H Hunt states no further inquiry will be held. Loomis and Miss Margaret Cramer identified as associates, while two unnamed gamblers tied to her past are being pursued for information.
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Miami
Fla
Richard H. Hunt
Nora Wilson
Lancaster
Guy Loomis
New York
Dade County
Florida
Loomis
Margaret Cramer
Miss Cramer
Charlie
Hoover to Call Extra Session on Farm Relief Tariff Review
President Hoover plans a special session of the seventy first Congress to consider farm relief measures and limited revision of the Ford Ney McCumber tariff act. He met with Rep Tilson to set a date likely April 19 or between April 15 and 22 to avoid delays once the houses convene.
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Washington
Mar
Hoover
Seventy-First Congress
Representative Tilson
Connecticut
House
House Ways and Means and Agriculture Committees
Capitol Hill
Curtis
Moses
New Hampshire
Senate
Representa
Policeman Slain in Auto Theft Patrol Shootout
In Cleveland on March 6 Patrolman Carl Sherman was killed and Sergeant Martin Hoffman wounded when they tried to stop two car thieves. The robbers opened fire as officers arrived, fleeing in the stolen auto. A bus driver named Anthony Blandy found the officers later.
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Cleveland
Carl Sherman
Martin E. Hoffman
West Side
Anthony Blandy
Sherman
Hoffman
Indiana Oil Town Readies For Rockefeller Stewart Fight
Whiting Indiana awaits the Standard Oil of Indiana annual meeting with kitchens stocked and hotels filled as stockholders prepare to decide the battle between John D Rockefeller Jr and Colonel Robert W Stewart for chairmanship. Oil industry and town residents brace for a two day proxy driven showdown in a city built on refineries and pipelines.
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Allen Dalrymple
Associated Press
Whiting
Ind
Standard Oil Company of
Indiana
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
Robert W. Stewart
Chicago
Lake Michigan
Stresemann Urges Protecting Minority Rights at League
In Geneva on March 6 German Foreign Minister Gustav Stresemann spoke calmly for stronger minority protections before the League of Nations council. He proposed a special commission to study the issue and asserted that peoples attached to nations not their own have an eternal right to speak their language and retain their faith.
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Geneva
Mar
League of Nations Council
Gustav Stresemann
Lugano
Zaleski
Poland
Upper Silesia
Stresemann
State College Students Plan Gala Celebration
North Carolina State college students left classes to host a mammoth reception for the southern conference basketball champions. A 750 strong reserve officers training corps unit was ordered to march to union station to escort the team and coaches Tebell and Sermon, with military honors planned for coaches and players.
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Raleigh
Mar
North Carolina State College
Officers Training Corps
Union Station
Tebell
Sermon
Tom Taggart Dies at Indianapolis Home
Thomas Taggart veteran Indiana Democratic leader died at his Indianapolis home after several months illness. He was 72, passing at 10 39 this morning after remaining in critical condition since yesterday.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Thomas Taggart
Taggart
Tom Taggart
Indiana
Fbf
Creelman
Diplomatic Mail Carried by Eakers on Pan American Hop
Greenville, S C March 6 Captain Hoyt refueled en route to San Antonio carrying diplomatic mail for Captain R A Eakers to take on a dawn to dusk flight from San Antonio to Panama Hoyt departed Washington at daybreak arriving at the Greenville airport at 8 10 am Twenty minutes later he lifted off aiming for Jackson Miss for fuel and hoping to reach San Antonio by nightfall
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Greenville
S. C
Washington
San Antonio
R. A. Eakers
Panama
Hoyt
United States Army
Jackson
Miss
Musical Directors Meet in Asheville for All Southern Groups
Musical educators gather in Asheville for the Southern Conference on Musical Education. Students arrive from southern high schools for rehearsals of the All-Southern Orchestra and the All-Southern Chorus.
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Asheville
N. C
Southern Conference On Musical Education
Southern High School
All-Southern Orchestra
All-Southern Chorus
First Woman Senator Improves After Car Crash
Carterville Ga March 6 Rebecca Lattimer Felt the first woman to sit in the United States Senate rests comfortably and receives visitors for the first time since an automobile accident last Sunday at age 93.
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Cartersville
Rebecca Lattimer Felton
Georgia
United States Senate
Girl In Coma Is Better
Lynchburg Virginia March 6 AP Marjorie Dowdy a 10 year old girl in this city had been in a coma for 618 hours since an automobile crash on February 8. Doctors report slight movement of her arms and legs indicating her condition was improving this morning.
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Lynchburg
Marjorie Dowdy
U S to Supply Arms to Mexico Under Licenses
A dispatch from Mexico City reports that after a Hoover Kellogg conference the U S government will provide arms and export facilities to the Mexican government upon request. The policy aims to curb illicit arms exports while maintaining the 1923 embargo requiring State Department licenses.
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Mexico City
Mar
Tellez
Washington
Hoover
Kellogg
State Department
Mexico
Obregon
United States
Adolfo de la Huerta
Experts Seek Shift of Reparations From Politics to Business
Paris March 6 experts at a plenary session pursued removing reparations from political framing to commercial terms. The committee aims to present Germany's payments as business obligations between nations, developing a trusteeship plan after three sub committees and private talks among delegates.
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Paris
Germany
De Valera Released Before Sentence Ends
Eamon de Valera Irish Republican leader was freed from jail in Belfast four days early from a 30 day sentence for illegally entering Ulster territory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Belfast
Northern Island
Eamonn de Valera
Ulster
Eight Minor Amendments Put Into Senate Action
The North Carolina house passed the workers compensation bill after a brief debate with eight amendments adopted, mostly minor. The measure returns to the senate for action on house amendments as political factions clash over registration and primary rules.
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Mhouse
Senate
Raleigh
Mar
House
Taylor Executed for Slaying Girl at Salisbury Beach
George E H Taylor a 47 year old itinerant barber street dancer coal miner and former convict was executed at Charles Town state prison for the murder in June 1927 of Stella Pomikal a 21 year old Lawrence girl. He was baptized and received communion but declined to leave a final statement. The killing occurred at Salisbury Beach after an attempted assault and his disappearance the following day.
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Boston
Mar
George E. H. Taylor
Charlestown State Prison
Stella Pomikal
Lawrence
William B. Whitney
Salisbury Beach
Taylor
Salisbury Girl Named Maid of Honor at Sweet Briar May Day
Miss Josephine Kluttz of Salisbury North Carolina was chosen maid of honor for Sweet Briar College May Day celebration on May 3. Miss Helle Brockenbrough of Lafayette Indiana named May Day queen with Miss Mary Marshall of Leaksville North Carolina as garland bearer.
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Salisbury
Sweet Briar
SWEET
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