Taft Battles Severe Illness From Home of Holmes
Former president and chief justice William Howard Taft, aging and frail, fights a serious blood and heart condition from his home in Washington aided by Mrs Taft and medical staff. President Hoover expressed regret at Taft resignation as chief justice with Holmes visiting amid a cold.
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Thomas L. Stokes
United Press
Washington
William Howard Taft
Asheville N. C
Francis R. Hager
Thomas A. Clayton
Taft
Charles
Robert Taft
Hoover
Mr. Taft
White House
Oliver Wendell Holmes
High Tribunal
Holmes
Mystery Shrouds Fate of Rum Runner at Lake Brig
Leo Leonard of Green Bay Wisconsin was to face federal court in Cleveland today on a rum running charge. He was aboard the Gray Ghost when it sailed January 7 from Erieau Ontario with 125 cases of liquor. The vessel vanished, wreckage with a man at the helm was found on ice near Pelee Island but no confirmation of Leonard’s death or fate has been made. Weather data and stray figures accompany the report.
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United Prena
Cleveland
Leo Leonard
Green Bay
Wis
Brig
Gray Ghost
Erieau
Ont
Leonard
Pelee Island
Health pages by Dr Morris Fishbein expose quackery
The paper notes the health articles carry the stamp of approval of top medical authorities and are written by Dr Morris Fishbein editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association, highlighting active campaigns against quackery.
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Morris Fishbein
The
Journal of the American Medical Asso
Wets Plan Educational Hearings On Prohibition Bill
Washington february 5 business men physicians scientists and prison officials will front hearings on anti prohibition bills before the house judiciary committee next week. wets drop famous spokesmen and aim to persuade through changing views and educational testimony. the tariff issue blocks action on repeal plans as wet and dry leaders work under a gentleman's agreement to clear the tariff first.
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United Press
Washington
House Judiciary Committee
House Wet
Alfred E. Smith
Nicholas Butler
Columbia University
Wet
Wet Bloc
Prohibition Bureau
Treasury
Justice Department
House
Senate
Bull gore fatality shocks Riverside farmer near Kessler
Alexander Christoff fifty died after a bull gored and crushed him in a barn five miles north of Riverside park near Kessler boulevard. He staggered to safety and barred the door but died at Methodist hospital Tuesday night. Widow and four children survive. Coroner C H Keever investigates.
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Alexander Christoff
Riverside Park
Kessler Boulevard
Methodist Hospital
Christoff
C. H. Keever
Governor Leslie plans trip to flood regions in Indiana
Governor Harry G. Leslie will tour southwestern Indiana flood areas next week after an Evansville citizen group invited him to join a delegation to Washington to seek federal flood control programs and Wabash River navigation from the Ohio River to the Great Lakes. He has not decided but will visit sites of recent devastation.
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Harry G. Leslie
Indiana
Washington, D. C
Marcus Sonntag
Evansville
Virginia Jenckes
Terre Haute
Capital
Wabash
Ohio River
Great Lakes
Jury Deadlock Ends Texas Judge Death Case Deliberations
After seventeen hours the jury in the trial of former Judge John W. Brady for the killing of Miss Lehlia Highsmith reported it was hopelessly deadlocked. Judge J. D. Moore faces next steps as defense and prosecution await further action in Austin.
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Texas
United Press
Austin
Tex
John W. Brady
Lehlia Highsmith
J. D. Moore
Chicago bombs fuel murder spree. police map strategy
Secret plans to curb a city wide crime wave were drawn up by a board of strategy led by State's Attorney Swanson and Police Commissioner Russell. Investigations into bombings target gang figures like Machine Gun McGurn and Tony Accardo as detectives press for fast trials amid a murder rate described as murder a day.
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United Prear
Chicago
Board of Strategy
John A. Swanson
William F. Russell
Swanson
McGurn
Tony Acardo
Joseph Buchere
Philip Marchese
Leaders call for national liberal party in New York
President Samuel H. Church of the Carnegie Foundation founded a liberal party at a New York dinner. He urged an aggressive anti prohibition campaign and a fight for religious, political and social liberty. He attacked the Lord's Day Alliance, the Ku Klux Klan and the Anti-Saloon League and warned of laws aimed at tobacco, boxing, public dancing and Sunday pleasures.
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New York
Samuel H. Church
Carnegie Foundation
Pittsburgh
Pierre S. Dupont
Lord’s Day Alliance
Ku Klux Klan
Anti-Saloon League
U S Stands Put On Tonnage Shift
London report says American delegates urge focusing on overall conference program before any preliminary battleship cuts. They plan no treaties on cruiser or battleship strength until a general, definite plan is agreed. Big five to reconvene with Tardieu return as progress reviews likely later in the week.
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London
France
Great Britain
United States
America
Andre Tardieu
Paris
Fugitive Fred Mosteller Surrenders After Nationwide Shadow
Fred Mosteller 32 of Lena Indiana, famed for being photographed in reform school images, returns to Pendleton with Deputy George Coogan to serve a two to twenty one year jail term. He recounts running from arrest after escapes with another inmate and wishes the infamous mugshot would be torn up.
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Fred Mosteller
Lena
Ind
Indiana State Reformatory
Pendleton
George Coogan
Reformatory
Texas
Arkansas
Kansas
Oklahoma
Mason-Dixon Line
Mosteller
Coogan
Oscar Bratton
Freddie
Boys Drift on Ice Floe Toward Niagara Falls
Officials on both sides of Niagara Falls race to halt a drifting ice floe feared to carry two boys toward the falls. Early reports said the youths were on the floe but visibility hindered confirmation. rescuers plan to cast lines from Goat Island to slow the drift.
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Niagara
United Press
Buffalo
N. Y
Niagara Falls
Goat Island
Contest Arranged For Achievement Week Essay Prize
The Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce announces a prize essay contest titled What Achievement Week Has Taught Me. Prizes are 25, 15, 10 and 5 dollars. Open to all residents except staff and employees. Essays up to 500 words must be typed and sent to Achievement Week Contest Chamber of Commerce. Deadline is 5 p.m. February 13.
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Chamber of Commerce
Felix M. McWhirter
Indianapolis
Merchants Push Widening of Massachusetts Avenue
The Massachusetts Avenue Merchants' Association urged the city to remove a bottle neck at Massachusetts Avenue and Tenth Street. A petition will circulate to widen the street beneath the elevation at Tenth Street to ease traffic overload. City Engineer A H Moore spoke to the group Tuesday night.
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Massachusetts Avenue
Toledo Detectives Identify Bandit in Buffalo Killing
Detectives Melvin Henshaw and Walter Holz of Buffalo New York positively identified Frank Stone alias Frank Kaminski of Toledo as the bandit who killed Patrolman Carl Wunderlich during an attempted holdup in Buffalo. A Bertillon photo identified by Wunderlich before his death tied Stone to the crime. Wunderlich was shot Monday when he surprised a burglar in a Buffalo store.
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United Press
Toledo
Melvin Henshaw
Walter Holz
Buffalo
N. Y
Frank Stone
Frank Kaminski
Carl Wunderlich
Henshaw
Holz
Stone
Wunderlich
Robbers Steal Police Car In Cleveland Crime
Two gunmen seized a police cruiser from in front of Cleveland central station and drove to Public Square where they forced seven restaurant patrons and workers into a basement and escaped with 140 dollars. Police recovered the car in the southwest city after a vigorous search.
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United Press
Cleveland
Public Square
Rubio Takes Office as Mexico President in Historic Oath
Pascual Ortiz Rubio sworn in as constitutionally elected Mexico President for six years before a vast crowd in the national stadium. He succeeds Plutarco Elias Calles and the late Alvaro Obregon, vows to enforce the constitution and fulfill duties, saying let the nation condemn me if I fail.
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United Press
Mexico City
Pascual Ortiz Rubio
Mexico
National Stadium
Plutarco Elias Calles
Alvaro Obregon
Bandits rob Toledo bank fleeing with cash
Five bandits assaulted Farm ers and Merchants bank cashier J C Issland in Toledo Ohio punching him with a gun butt and forcing the vault key. They grabbed about 1000 from open drawers and fled in a car pursued by a Sylvania constable. Authorities believe they hid somewhere between Toledo and Trilby.
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Toledo
Sylvania
Trilby
J. C. Issland
Farmers and Merchants Bank
Poison death attempt shocks Danville bookkeeper
Miss Vileta Bailey 22 is in serious condition after an attempted suicide by poison in Danville Indiana. A note in her room directed the finder to her automobile on a road southwest of town. She had not reported for work at the C A Edmonson Company where she was employed as a bookkeeper. No motive was given.
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United Press
Danville
Ind
Vileta Bailey
Detroit Grows Fast as 1929-30 Population Estimate
R L Polk Directory officials report Detroit city population at 1,641,718 in the 1929-30 canvass, up 85,448 residents. Greater Detroit area including Hamtramck Highland Park and Grosse Pointe totals 1,888,985.
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Detroit
R. L. Polk Directory Company
Greater
Hamtramck
Highland Park
Grosse Point
Duke of Library Pleage Gift to Dartmouth College
George F. Baker the financier has donated 1 million dollars to Dartmouth College for the maintenance and operation of its library. The gift continues his earlier act of erecting the library as a memorial to an uncle.
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United Prese
New York
George F. Baker
Dartmouth College
Craze Killer Hunter Hunted After Ambush Slayings
In Bracketville Texas on February 5 residents awaited word that rangers and county officers hunted an armed lunatic who killed private Hale of Ft Clark and wounded corporal Reed after Hale was shot near the camp edge. Soldiers and deputies joined the search as motorists reported later gunfire from the assailant.
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United Press
Hoover to appoint Haiti commission as Marines withdrawn
Ask Marines removed Port au Prince Haiti February 5 report that President Hoover will appoint a commission in days to study conditions in Haiti. Opponents of President Louis Borno praised the move saying they are more than satisfied with Hoover’s action and favor withdrawal of the Marine occupation.
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United Press
Port AU Prince
Haiti
Hoover
Das
Maine Corps
Louis Borno
Eighteen Children Injured in Ohio School Bus Crash
Eighteen school children were injured, none seriously, after a school bus collided with a truck driven by Marvin Woods of Shelbyville Indiana near Elizabethtown Ohio. The bus carried thirty children. Woods was arrested on reckless driving charges after Delbert Watkins, the bus driver, claimed the bus was speeding.
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United Press
Cincinnati
Marvin Woods
Shelbyville
Ind
Elizabethtown
Woods
Delbert Watkins
Paroled? Dr Frederick Cook gains parole bid after fraud conviction
Washington reports United States parole board recommends parole for Dr Frederick Cook Arctic explorer and physician serving a fourteen year sentence at Leavenworth for mail fraud. Parole hinges on approval by Pardon Attorney and Attorney General with eligibility set for March 5 after one third of the term. Cook once claimed to reach the North Pole in 1909 and was celebrated before Copenhagen disproved his feat.
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United Press
Washington
Frederick Cook
Leavenworth
United States Parole Board
Justice Department
Finch
Mitchell
Cook
Ft. Worth
Tex
Arctic
North Pole
University of Copenhagen
Auto makers to post profits equal to last year says Willys
John N Willys a Toledo based automobile maker told President Hoover the stock market crash effects will disappear in thirty to sixty days. He said overhead saving from efficient automotive processes will leave profits this year as large as last year.
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United Press
Washington
John N. Willys
Toledo
Hoover
End Liquor Plot Trial Winds Down in Oklahoma City
District Attorney Roy St. Lewis prepared to wind up the governments case in the Pottawatomie county liquor conspiracy trial in federal court. Testimony from county and city officials, oil field workers and dance hall girls tied current and former law enforcement to a widespread liquor operation across oil field centers. Assistant Attorney General W. O. Gordon was named and later resigned.
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United Press
Oklahoma City
Okla
Roy St. Lewis
Pottawatomie County
W. O. Gordon
Aged Villager Slain by Bandit in French Landing
Ben Laframboise a 65 year old saloon keeper in French Landing was found dead with his throat cut and a bed fire burning. A revolver and a bloody knife were nearby and investigators suspect the victim surprised a bandit. Justice George C. Coleman noted the body was found shortly after the crime.
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Belleville
Mich
Ben Laframboise
French Landing
Ness Dee An
George C. Coleman
van Buren Township
Laframboise
Tragedy as husband kills wife then ends own life
William Barker 58 shoots his sleeping wife in Furman Street addition six miles west of the Monument, then shoots himself. Sons, William Henry 15 and Clarence 13, find the bodies and summon help. Finances and repeated quarrels preceded the double tragedy.
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William Barker
Walton and
Elnore
William Henry Barker
Clarence Barker
Barker
Clarence
Furman Stout Addition
Rockville Road
Greenfield
La Porte Herald Argus Plans Modern Plant on 50th Anniversary
La Porte Printing Company announces purchase of a site for a modern newspaper plant to be erected within eighteen months. The Fifty anniversary edition highlights the event. H. A. Lindgren serves as publisher and C. A. Beal as editor.
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la Porte
United Presse LA Porte
Ind
la Porte Printing Company
la Porte Herald- Argus
H. A. Lindgren
C. A. Beal
Road to the City play by Semper Fidelis class
The Semper Fidelis class of Speedway Christian church presents The Road to the City at the church on Fourteenth street Friday night. Leading roles are Mary Strouse and Charles Stewart.
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Semper Fidelis
Speedway Christian Church
Mary Strouse
Charles Stewart
Constance Bennett Spends 250000 A Year On Wardrobe
The screen star Constance Bennett reveals a lavish wardrobe purchase spree totaling a quarter of a million dollars annually. She showcases a wardrobe refresh after returning from a major film project.
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Constance Bennett
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