Soviet Leaders Curb Coercion in Peasant Collectivization
Moscow reports official inquiry into coercive seizures for joining collectives as Stalin warns against violence while expanding the five year plan. The government seeks persuasion over force, amid peasant resistance, water shutoffs in Turkestan, and a 49 percent industrial growth target next year. Emilian Yaroslavsky says anti atheism crusade backfires by energizing propaganda.
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United Press
Moscow
Commissariat of Agriculture
Josef Stalin
Communist Party
Stalin
Soviet Republic
Turkestan
Emilian Yaroslavsky
Society of the Godless
Yanaroslavsky
Labor Blames Reds Over Religious Persecution Claims
The American Federation of Labor denounces persecution reports in Russia, linking anti religious action to the Soviet state and its Communist influence. The statement notes the USSR's shared leadership with the Communist party and Red Internationale in shaping policy and religious attacks. A United Press item from London reports on Sir Esmond Ovey's Moscow embassy dispatches regarding charges.
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American Federation of Labor
Russia
A. F. of L
United States
Communist Party
Red Internationale
Soviet
United Press
London
Esmond Ovey
Moscow
Red Scare Plot Charged to Veil Unemployment Crisis
United Press reports in Washington that Senator La Follette charged a new red scare is being used to distract from unemployment. He tied claims of a Communist demonstration on March 6 to alleged plans financed by Moscow and urged that laborers seeking work not be branded as Reds. He criticized wage-cutting by industrial leaders and called for accurate employment data.
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United Press
Washington
Senator la Follette
Rep. Wis
Senate
Palmer
Daugherty
United States
la Follette
Wagner
Dem
N. Y
Fess
Rep
Lafollette
Gerald P. Nye
South Dakota
Chicago
N. W. Thatcher
St. Paul
Farmers’ Union
Legge
Nye
Spain silent on request to queen
Reports from Pittsburgh claim the queen of Spain was bequeathed 100000 dollars in the will of the late Alexander P. Moore former U S ambassador to Spain. Madrid officials had no comment as to whether the bequest would be accepted or used for charity as the queen is known for such work.
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Madrid
Pittsburgh
Spain
Alexander P. Moore
United States
Fire damages Ralph Ice and Fuel Company building at Fowler Street
Fire officials determine incendiary origin for a blaze at the Ralph Ice and Fuel Company building 934 Fowler Street. Early today the fire caused $25 damage and investigators suspect tramps started it.
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Ralph Ice and Fuel Company
Fowler Street
Lost Zep contest ends tonight with prizes
Time is short for The Times-Lyric theater Lost Zep contest entry. Pick last Thursday’s Times, submit "What’s Wrong With This Picture" to the editor before midnight for a chance at 150 Zeps in prizes, including a Giant Zep with electric motor on display at Kirk Furniture Store, Washington Street.
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Times-Lyric Theater
Times
The
Kirk Furniture
Washington Street
Taft's Will Pushes Through Illness Amid Death Fight
Former President William Howard Taft shows remarkable vitality as doctors warn arteriosclerosis may end his life. He battles illness and overwork with the doctors noting slight improvement but no guaranteed recovery. Taft, who became president twenty one years ago, faces a critical health moment with time uncertain.
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Hy United Press
Washington
William Howard Taft
Taft
Francis Hagner
Thomas Claytor
Parley to Continue as Navy Secretary Spells Stay in Session
Secretary of the Navy Adams stated in a London radio address that the fire power naval conference will remain in session until it achieves a settlement. He spoke from London on the Columbia network on Monday.
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Wieerrewac
New York
London
Columbia
Supreme Court to Review Liquor Purchase Conspiracy Case
The government won a step toward prosecuting liquor buyers under the Volstead Act. The Supreme Court granted review of a circuit ruling that banker Alfred E. Norris could not be prosecuted for conspiracy tied to a telephoned order to a Philadelphia bootlegger. Argument set for April 14.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Circuit Court of Appeals
Alfred E. Norris
New York
Philadelphia
Movie Star to Wed Sidney Bartlett in Chicago
Hollywood report says screen star Alice White will wed Los Angeles broker Sidney Bartlett after a return from Chicago. The couple, who left Friday for the Midwest, planned to marry in Chicago near future where Bartlett's parents live.
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United Preas
Radical religious address halted at Butler College
Butler University cancelled room 260 for Dr. Jesse H. Holmes Swarthmore philosophy professor after a Collegian headline portrayed his talk as radical. Holmes spoke instead at Orchard School to a Butler faculty presence and later quotes say his views were less extreme than reported.
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Hell
Butler Collegian
Butler University
Jesse H. Holmes
Swarthmore Co
Robert J. Aley
Butler
Holmes
Collegian
Prince of Wales Contracted Malaria in Kenya Hunt
The prince of Wales fell ill with subtertian malaria while on safari near Nairobi after traveling from Voi. He is under government house care, with physicians predicting a quick recovery, and the hunting trip halted until his health improves. He had photographed game and filmed scenes of Masai and wildlife before illness.
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Bu United Press
Nairobi
Kenya
Colony
Africa
Prince of Wales
Government House
Voi
Wales
Prince of Wales Falls Ill During Global Travels
King George and Queen Mary were alerted immediately when news of the prince of Wales fever reached London. It marks the first serious illness the prince has faced during his extensive worldwide travels.
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Bay United Press
London
George
Mary
Prince of Wales
No Solicitation Decree Distinguishes Press Club Plans
Indianapolis newspaper men study forming an Indianapolis press club while denying any link to the Indiana State Press Association which promotes Hoosier Magazine and solicits ads from Room 834 Architects Building. A committee prepares press club by laws and will not solicit advertising funds or support. The two efforts are unrelated says the organizer today.
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Indianapolis
Indianapolis Press Club
Indiana State Press Association
Hoosier
Architects
Dennett Sex Side pamphlet acquitted by appeals court
Mrs Mary Ware Dennett, once fined 300 for sending obscene literature titled The Sex Side of Life through the mails, was permanently acquitted by the United States circuit court of appeals. The pamphlet explaining sex to children was written for her sons and widely distributed by the YMCA.
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United Press
NEW York
Mary Ware Dennett
Unitedtees Circuit Court of Appeals
Methodist board criticizes prohibition hearings in Congress
The board of temperance prohibition and morals of the Methodist church says the anti prohibition stance hurt its own cause in the house judiciary committee hearings. It notes no remedy program was offered and that representations favored rebellion or outright repeal of the amendment.
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United Press
Washington
House Judiciary Committee
Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Morals
Methodist Church
Shifts Made at Indianapolis Postoffice
Reorganization at the Indianapolis postoffice outlined by Postmaster Robert H. Bryson follows postal inspector recommendations. A. B. Mundelle becomes assistant postmaster. Ella H. Parker returns to secretary to Bryson. Wallace Buchanan rises to superintendent, John H. Robert becomes mailroom foreman. Finance division formed with Edgar Brown superintendent and A. A. Goodwin assistant.
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Indianapolis
Hoover Ends Year In Office With Notable New Programs
United Press reports President Hoover closes his first year in office with a record of initiating many domestic and foreign projects. He faces critical issues in naval disarmament tariff and prohibition while pursuing oil conservation public lands inland waterways and child health.
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United Press
Washington
Hoover
Congress
Local Schedule Fragments From a Page
Fragmentary OCR shows a timetable with times 8 a m 9 a m 11 a m 12 noon and names like Deese and Sinaneae amid unclear context. No clear event or outcome is stated.
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Sinaneae
Cold Wave Past Peak Slow Warmup Expected
The mercury fell from near 50 to 16 by 6 a.m. today as a cold wave spread south to Georgia and reached Ft. Wayne at 10 degrees. Light snow flurries covered the middle west while February posted above normal warmth, with February averaging over 10 degrees above normal for the month.
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Georgia
Ft. Wayne
United States Weather Bureau
Middle West
Radio listening marathon ends with two survivors in New Jersey
An aged plumber and a young Italian in a New Jersey radio shop show window completed 109 consecutive sleepless hours of listening. At 10 this morning they finished the endurance run and one will win 200 dollars. Survivors named Joe Buell and Michael Petillo.
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United Press
N. J
Joe Buell
Michael Petillo
Yank Assumes Barony 2Pool March 3
Sir John Hart Lee Fagge of East Pepperel Massachusetts arrived to assume his position as tenth holder of the ancient barony after the death of his brother Sir John Charles Fagge. Fagge, aged 61, was known as a Jack of all trades in the Massachusetts town.
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United Press
John Hart Lee Fagge
East Pepperel
Mass
John Charles Fagge
Fagge
Jack of All-Trades
Massachusetts
Byrd Expedition Men Expected in Dunedin Soon
Wireless messages report Richard E. Byrd Antarctic expedition members finishing two seasons of exploration and anticipated to arrive in Dunedin, New Zealand within two weeks.
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New Zealand
Dunedin
Richard E. Byrd
Zoo Is Open Adds New Mascot to The Times Comic
The Times announces its new zoo themed comic Animal Antics joining the strip family. Readers can see the characters on Page 13 and follow daily in the classified pages for light humor suitable for all ages.
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Times
Nye probes wheat price drop amid trade conspiracy claim
A Senate investigation into the wheat price decline was demanded by Senator Nye who accuses grain traders of conspiring to defeat the aims of the federal farm board. The resolution was introduced in Washington on March 3.
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Washington
Nye
Republican
N. D
Federal Farm Board
Dictator's Son Fights Duel in Pamplona
Miguel Primo De Rivera, son of the former Spanish dictator, dueled with swords with Antonio Rexach, an artillery commandant, today in Pamplona. Both were wounded slightly but remained unreconciled, though their honor was satisfied.
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United Press
Pamplona
Spain
Miguel Primo de Rivera
Antonio Rexach
Thieves Crack Safe At Virginia Motor Safes Office
Cracking a safe at the Virginia Motor Safes Company office 650 Virginia Avenue Sunday night thieves used a punch to turn tumblers. They took $250 from the safe, and police reported no other damage.
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Virginia Motor Safes Company
Virginia Avenue
Lost plane sighted near Lake Arrowhead after disappearance
Western Air Express air liner missing since February 16 was believed found in a smashed condition about twenty miles north of Lake Arrowhead in the San Bernardino mountains. Sheriff’s office reported rancher J. T. Barber reached within a mile of the wreckage but saw no signs of life through strong field losses.
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United Press
Los Angeles
Cal
Western Air Express
Lake Arrowhead
San Bernardino Mountains
San Bernardino
Prohibition Poll Opposed By Days Anti-Saloon Leader
Westerville Ohio March 3. Dr Ernest Cherrington leader of the Anti-Saloon League and World League Against Alcoholism urges abstention from Literary Digest poll on wet and dry sentiment saying the poll is a gesture and wet states will dominate overshadowing drier smaller states.
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United Press
Westerville
Literary Digest
Ernest Cherrington
Anti-Saloon League
World League Against
Alcoholism
Aged couple lose life savings in oil stock scheme
Earl Coble of the state securities commission tells of a fraud where George A. Hogue and George C. Chrisman of the Ohio Michigan Oil Company persuaded J. J. and Amelia Clemens of near South Bend to invest nearly $12,000 with a promised return of $21,500 and profits over a million dollars. The company, dissolved in 1926, operated an asphaltum field in Jasper county that had been exhausted in 1895. The salesmen showed the field to the couple to seal the sale. restitution is sought by the securities commission.
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Jasper County
Earl Coble
State Securities Commission
J. J
Amelia Clemens
Near
South Bend
George A. Hogue
George C. Chrisman
Ohio-Michigan Oil Company
Ohio
Coble
Securities Commission
Club Attack on Beech Grove Girl Reported Near Sherman Drive
Frieda Baldwin a 17 year old Beech Grove high school student was assaulted as a youth in a car grabbed her on a roadside near Sherman drive and Southern avenue. Neighbors rescued her and William Phillips 24 was arrested on assault charges and jailed pending investigation.
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Sherman Drive
Southern Avenue
Frieda Baldwin
S. Sherman Drive
William Phillips
Huber Terrell
Beech Grove High School
Elkhart Couple Die in Auto Truck Crash
Elkhart Indiana March 3 Two members of the Unger family George R Unger 41 president of G R Unger Inc and head of the Tax Adjustment Company and his wife Ermyn 39 a social leader were killed when their car collided with a truck near Wolf Lake Michigan The couple left three children Glen 16 Robert 13 and Phyllis 11.
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Elkhart
Times
Ind
George R. Unger
Ermyn Unger
Wolf Lake
Mich
Unger
G. R
Glen
Robert
Phyllis
Norris predicts end of civilization during Kansas City revival
Baptist preacher J Frank Norris of Fort Worth Texas warned in Kansas City that Levittism and atheism herald the second coming of Christ. He said civilization is on the verge of toppled and derided the naval disarmament conference as futile.
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J. Frank Norris
Ft. Worth
Tex
Transfer of Lavon Apartments to Frank Osborn
W J Gemmill announces transfer of the Lavon apartments on Virginia avenue and Noble streets to Frank Osborn by George Weber. The deal includes a trade of 522 acres of Gibson county farm land valued at $50,000. The Lavon building contains fourteen apartments.
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Virginia Avenue
Noble Streets
Frank Osborn
George
Weber
W. J. Gemmill
Gibson County
Osborn
Secretary Lamont Foresees a Business Rebound Soon
Washington reports a predicted business upturn after a brief rest period with Secretary Lamont saying a fresh start will come in a month or two. In Anderson Indiana Caleb C Shinkle retires after 42 years in the fire department with a pension and a dinner at No 2 station where he once served as captain for 36 years.
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United Press
Washington
Lamont
Grume Caén’ Entypuys Eggage
Anderson
Ind
Caleb C. Shinkle
No. 2
Shinkle
Death asked in Times Special
A suit in Madison county circuit court seeks to declare Ulysses Todd legally dead and appoint an administrator for his estate. Todd has been missing from Johnson county Kansas since June 15 1912 and has not been heard from since. His estate includes real and personal property.
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Times
Anderson
Ind
Ulysses Todd
Madison County
William O. Todd
Johnson County
Kansas
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