Unemployment Day Riots Reported Across Europe
European capitals saw Communist and jobless parades on International Unemployment Day with arrests but limited unrest. Berlin deaths and Halle killings marked Berlin and Halle clashes. London Tower Hill drew 3000 with injuries. Glasgow and Manchester saw arrests. Hamburg Breslau Kiel and Paris stayed relatively calm. A separate New York charge sent hundreds to prison hospital including three police.
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London
Europe
Berlin
Halle
Germany
British Isles
Dublin
Leinster House
Tower Hill
Glasgow
Manchester
Hamburg
Breslau
Kiel
Paris
New York
Red Thursday Riots Hit Multiple Cities Over Unemployment Protest
Thousands gathered from Boston to Seattle as unemployment demonstrators clashed with police in Union Square New York and other cities. William Z. Foster, presidential candidate for the Workers' Communist Party, was among those arrested as officers used tear gas and nightsticks to restore order.
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Boston Common
Martius
Detroit
Pennsylvania Avenue
White House
New York
Union Square
Seattle
Roaring
Chicago
Flota
America
Bellevue Hospital
Cleveland
William Z. Foster
Workers’ Communist Party
Grover A. Whalen
Broadway
City Hall
James J. Walker
Mar‘ius
Cadillac Square
Woodward Avenue
Washington
Public Square
Toronto
Milwaukee
Baltimore
Charlotte
N. C
Oakland
Cal
Houston
Tex
St. Louis
Governor Roosevelt faces sharp critique on rate making
Irwin Kurtz former deputy attorney general attacked Governor Roosevelt’s take on Public Service Commission action and telephone rate cases at a New York luncheon. He said the governor invites biased advocacy and could push utilities to file in Federal Court raising overall public costs.
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New York
Roosevelt
Irwin Kurtz
New York Young Republican Club
Public Service Commission
Kurtz
Southern Tornado Kills Three Injures Score Across States
A tornado plowed through Mississippi and Arkansas killing three people and injuring about twenty in Bolivar Sun Flower and Humphreys Counties and near Augusta Arkansas. The Adams plantation near Kosciuke Mississippi was struck killing a 65 year old woman and injuring two tenants. The storm damaged churches businesses homes and many tenant houses across Gregory and surrounding areas.
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Memphis
Tenn
Mississippi
Arkansas
Bolivar
Sun Flower
Humphreys
Augusta
Ark
J. W. Adams
Adams
Kosciuke
Miss
Gregory
John Eldridge
Planitation
Society Seeks to Retain Prohibition Amid Dry Movement
Washington reports a public hearing where prohibitionists urged retention of the Eighteenth Amendment as a social and economic benefit. Witnesses including Mrs Ruth Strawbridge and Louis Taber attacked repeal advocates, while North Dakotans disputed grain-farmer claims of prohibition harm.
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Washington
Ruth G. K. Strawbridge
Philadelphia Society
Louis J. Taber
National Grange
W. W. Atterbury
Pennsylvania Railroad
Pierre 8. du Pont
Wilmington, Delaware
Patrick H. Callahan
Louisville, Ky
Democrat
New York
Evangeline Booth
Salvation Army
Wet
Callahan
William Howard Taft
Atterbury
Mr. du Pont
Taft Greeted Visitors as Health Remains Unchanged
Washington March 6 Taft's condition showed no improvement since morning yet he took nourishment fairly well according to physicians Dr Francia R Hagner and Thomas A Claytor The bulletin said Taft has taken nourishment but his state remains unchanged Doctors will monitor by telephone with attending nurses and Taft was able to greet those who entered the room.
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Washington
William Howard Taft
Francia R. Hagner
Thomas A. Claytor
Mr. Taft
Allegany Supervisor Bill and Dunkirk Court Bill Advanced
Albany reports Assembly action on two bills. H. E. Goodrich's measure would authorize Allegany County to hold at most one monthly board of supervisors meeting. H. E. V. Porter’s bill advances to extend the Dunkirk municipal court.
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Allegany
Dunkirk
Assembly
Morning Post
Albany
H. E. Goodrich
Allegany County Board of Supervisors
H. E. V. Porter
Rochester Slayer Suspect Captured in Syracuse
Syracuse police arrest Thomas Lowden wanted for the killing of Isadore Rotenberg, a billiard hall proprietor in Rochester, two weeks after the incident. He was captured during a roaming house raid in Syracuse this afternoon.
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Rochester
Syracuse
Mareh
Thomas Lowden
Isadore Rotenberg
Canners Battle Discriminatory Freight Rates Battle
Hearings before the Interstate Commerce Commission in Washington concern New York State canners seeking to equalize rates for mixed carloads with single commodity carloads. Prominent NY figures argue diversified production supports farmers and industry, warning higher rates risk shrinkage of shipments and economic harm.
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George HH. Manning
Morning Post
Washington
New York State
Interstate Commerce Commission
New York
Wisconsin
South
Frank H. McMahon
Rochester
Snider Packing Coporation
Newark Carners
T. A. Snidereserve Company
T. Bernard Jones
Atlantic Sales Corporation
Empire State
McMahon
Jones
Flood Devastates Southern France Spreads Across Vineyards
A massive four day flood in southern France, reaching from the Tarn to Tarn et Garonne, devastates Barsac vineyards and 500 homes. Death toll officially 201 with estimates up to 400. billions in losses feared as premier figures tour the stricken area.
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Bordeaux
France
Pennsylvania
Garonne
Barsac
Doumergue
Tardieu
Department of the Tar
Cerons
Buffalo salesman killed in auto crash in Gloucester
A Buffalo salesman, believed to be Le Roy H. Kemper of Wilkes-Barre, Pa., was killed in Gloucester when his car collided with a second vehicle and he was thrown from the wreck, his skull crushed against a railroad warning signal at Crescent and Highland Boulevards.
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Gloucester
N. J
Crescent and
Highland Boulevards
Leroy H. Kemper
Wilkes-Barre
Buffalo
Carl R. Snyder
New York Telephone seeks Supreme Court appeal for higher earnings
The New York Telephone Company plans to appeal to the U S Supreme Court for a higher rate of return and an added depreciation reserve base of 87 million dollars, after the Public Service Commission cut rates and a federal court set 7 percent. Company officials argued depreciation accrues faster than needed, while PSC counsel called the move a “club over the Public Service Commission.”
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Albany
New York Telephone Company
United States Supreme Court
Copegeee
Public Service Commission
George Whittemore
Charles G. Blakeslee
Whittemore
Blakeslee
Lindbergh Thrown From Polo Pony in California
Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh was bucked off and dragged 25 feet on the Del Monte polo field. He escaped injury and laughed off the mishap while visiting for glider test flights after poor wind delayed his flying schedule. The pony was owned by J. Cowdin of New York.
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DE Monte
Cal
Charles A. Lindbergh
Lindbergh
J. (. Cowdin
New York
del Monte
Polo Field
Reds receive long terms in Belgrade trials
In Belgrade Yugoslavia on March 8 thirteen communists were sentenced to prison terms ranging from one to twelve years after a trial. The group faced charges tied to communist activities and the proceedings were reported by the national press.
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Reds
Belgrade
Jugoslavia
Buffalo Artist's Wife Slain by Woman Suspect Sought
Buffalo March 6 Mrs Clotilde Marchand wife of Henri Marchand a Buffalo Museum of Natural Sciences artist was found murdered in her Riley Street home. Police report deep head wounds and signs of a struggle with a possible female killer believed motivated by jealousy. The museum dog was present and son Henri 12 alerted authorities after finding the body. The investigation continues with a female suspect being tracked.
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Buffalo
Mrea
Clotilde Marchand
Henri Marchand
Buffalo Museum of Natural Sciences
Riley Street
Marchand
Missy
Robry
Henri
Paul
George
Groom Takes Gas As Bride Vanishes After King Bought
Joseph H. Bennett 38 obtained a marriage license to marry Martha Donnelly 48 yesterday in Binghamton. This morning he died by gas self harm in his room after breakfast and dressing. Police search for Miss Donnelly as coroner rules death suicide.
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Binghamton
Joseph H. Bennett
Archie 4. Jones
Martha Donnelly
Bennett
Donnelly
Hitchcok
Three Die in Boston Apartment Fire
State and city officials investigated a south end blaze that killed three people and injured many in the Boston apartment building. Victims named Athenius Zarakols Constantina Nikopolos 25 and Charles Zamkocht 25.
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Boston
South End
Athenius Zarakols
Constantina Nikopolos
Zarharkois
Charles Zamkocht
Briand Returns to Lead French at London Naval Conference
French delegation returns to the London Naval Conference with Aristide Briand acting as head while Tardieu handles France’s flood crisis. Talks aim at broad disarmament including Anglo American and American Japanese issues, with progress on cruisers and warship categories. France seeks concessions to push a successful conference amid parity dispute with Italy left for later.
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London
St. James’ Palace
Arthur Henderson
Malcolm MacDonald
Aristide Briand
Carlton Hotel
Briand
Tardieu
France
Reed
Matsudaira
Stimgon
Reijiro
Wakatouki
Cireles Ls
United States
Japan
Eea
Bodies of Couple Found in Automobile Wreckage
Memphis, March 6. The bodies of a man and a woman believed to be James W. Gardner, 30, and Miss Nina Keatmer, 22, both of Chicago, were found today in an automobile buried in mud and water off the Bristol Memphi highway near Stanton, Tenn.
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Memphis, Tenn
James W. Gardner
Nina Keatmer
Chicago
Stanton
Tenn
Schoolboy Passes Air Test in Harrisburg
Luther R. Himes a seventeen year old junior at Willam Penn High School passed an examination for a private airplane pilot license in Harrisburg on March 6.
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Harrisborg
Luther R. Himes
Willam Penn High School
Days News World wide battle with police marks Unemployment Day
Buffalo artist's wife slain and jealous woman is sought. French hailed like prodigal sons on return to naval parley. Copeland loses renewed fight for faise in casein duty. Canners battle discriminatory freight rates. Fox refinancing plan votes with prospect of lawsuit. Society is ready to cease serving rum leader testifier. New York Telephone Company to appeal to Supreme Court. Parade and meeting are held by unemployed. Officers are elected by the Elks. Former Buffalo and Gowanda man hangs himself at daughter's home in Fredonia.
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Buffalo
Prodigal Sons
Naval
Copeland
Fox
New York Telephone Company
Supreme Court
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