Miners Rescued After Fiery Cave-In At Warner Mines
88 miners were brought to the surface from the Warner collieries mine near Amsterdam Ohio after a fire trap blocked the main shaft. One of the rescuers died from smoke. The only other fatality was an asthma patient, 65 year old Paul Borkowski. The fire started when a mine car derailed a trolley causing a short circuit. Communications failed as crews fought flames with 6000 feet of hose and fresh air was forced into the mine.
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Steubenville
Ohio
Wott Run
Warner
Amsterdam
Jack Pewosky
Paul Borkowski
Farm Board denies dumping wheat export plans
Chairman Legge of the Farm Board said the Wheat Stabilization Corporation has no plan to send wheat abroad at prices below those paid by American millers. He noted millers take about 80 percent of the crop and that foreign import restrictions limit dumping. He also denied a reported $2 million paper loss from buying wheat above market.
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Washington
Legge
Farm Board
Wheat Stabilization Corporation
United States
Tabone Kills Youth Over Unpaid Grocer Bill
Joseph Tabone stabbed Theodore Harns after a dispute over a $5 grocery bill. Harns died at the curb. Tabone also died later. The murdered youth’s father Frank and landscape worker Harry Holdsworth aided the victim. Police searched for Tabone. his wife was jailed as a witness.
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Joseph Tabone
Washington Street
Theodore Eldridge Harns
Falconer
West Fifteenth Street
Harns
Tabone
Axel Levin
Washington and
Fifteenth Streets
Frank Harns
Theodore Harns
Fifteenth Street
Harry Holdsworth
Holdsworth
Mr. Holdsworth
Young Harns
Trigger Woman Smiles Wearily After Four Jurors Selected
New Castle Pa March 10 and day of legal fencing yielded four jurors for the trial of Irene Schroeder the trigger woman suspect in the slaying of highway patrolman Brady Paul on December 27. Court adjourned at 5 pm with half the venire exhausted and both sides using seven of twenty challenges. Schroeder smiled wearily as she was led back to her cell. Debates centered on aggravating death penalty provisions for accomplices in robberies with murders.
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New Castle
Irene Schroeder
Brady Paul
Veniremen
Pennsylvania
Americans warn Haiti president to keep promise
The Hoover inquiry in Cape Haitien reports President Borno may break the provisional government plan. Commissioners warn of consequences, insisting he serve out his term and support elections. They consider an ultimatum to protect the process, while opposition expresses confidence in the Hoover plan.
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Haiti
Cape Haitien
Hoover Investigating Committee
Louis Borne
Port-Au-Prince
Hoover
Borno
Council of State
W. Cameron Forbes
Henry P. Fletcher
John H. Russell
Hinche
Federated Group
Poent
Prefe
council of a#tate
Hoover Commission
Rochester
Vare Withdraws From Senate Race In Favor Of Davis
William R. Douglas said William S. Vare will withdraw as Republican Senate nominee and back James J. Davis. Davis to announce candidacy in Pittsburgh against Joseph R. Grundy, as Vare cites health and plans to retire to Florida. Francis Shunk Brown and local party leaders backed the move at a war-board meeting.
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Philadelphia
William R. Douglas
William 8. Vare
Vare
James J. Davis
Davis
Joseph R. Grundy
Pittsburgh
Mr. Douglas
Ware
Francis Shunk Brown
Douglas
St. Lucie
Fla
Souvenir Fiend Steals Coolidge Peace Pipe
The peace pipe Calvin Coolidge smoked at the Coolidge Dam dedication in Arizona last Tuesday has disappeared in Florence. A $25 reward is offered for the recovery. The Arizona souvenir association, custodian of the pipe, suspects a souvenir hunter made off with it.
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Florence
Ariz
Calvin Coolidge
Coolidge Dam
Arizona
Arizona Yegeuree Association
Democrats Fight Republican Slash In State Budget
In Albany the Assembly passed the executive budget bill after debate and prepared for Senate action amid a Democratic minority push to restore cuts. The budget totals were trimmed from 311 million to 308 million, with judicial and legislative appropriations approved separately.
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Albany
Assembly
Senate
Roosevelt
Saul 8
Streit
New York
Democrat
Eberley Hutchinson
Page Hight
Interurban Plans Extensions Despite ICC Rejection
Piedmont and Northern Railway Directors announce two extensions despite the Interstate Commerce Commission denial. President W S Lee says construction will start tomorrow on links from Charlotte to Winston-Salem and from Spartanburg to Gastonia in the Carolinas. The ICC argues the build would create a new southern trunk line by linking with the Norfolk and Western at Winston-Salem.
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Greenville
8. C
Piedmont and Northern Railway
Interstate Commerce Commission
W. S. Lee
Charlotte
N. C
North and
South Carolina
Winston-Salem
Spartanburg
Squaws Deny Guilt After Indicted For Marchand Murder
In Buffalo two Native women are indicted for first degree murder in the slaying of Henri Marchand, wife of the artist. Miss Lila Jimerson, 35, is accused of an affair with Marchand, and Mrs. Nancy Bowen, 66, allegedly influenced by Jimerson through use of black magic and the Ouija board. They were arraigned before County Judge F Bret Thorn and fingerprinted before jail. District Attorney Guy B Moore plans immediate trial within two weeks. Jimerson seeks counsel with her father. The elder Jimerson lives on the Cattaraugus reservation near Gowanda.
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Nancy Bowen
Lila Jimerson
Cattaraugus Indian Reservation
Marchand
Henri Marchand
F. Bret Thorn
Guy B. Moore
Miss Jimerson
Jimerson
Cattaraugus Reservation
Gowanda
Buffalo
Governor Roosevelts survey of jobless figures urged
Governor Roosevelt asked State Federation of Labor representatives to collect complete unemployment reports from all local labor unions by Monday. He telegraphed chambers of commerce and employe organizations for latest figures and may call a conference of mayors and board chairmen if substantiated. He favors prioritizing New York residents in public works.
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Albany
Roosevelt
State Federation of Labor
Chambers of Commerce
State of
New York
Film Blaze at Chinkai Naval Base Kills 194 in Fire
Reports from Chinkai Korea and Seoul Korea state a fire at a naval base during a screening of a war film killed 194 people mostly mothers and children, with 103 children among the dead. The blaze started in a warehouse theater amid a patriotic celebration in a crowd of Japanese naval officers and families.
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Tokyo
Chinkal
Korea
Seoul
Japan
Mukden
Manchuria
Togo
Sea of Japan
Chinkai
Chinkai Bay
American Weds in Mexico
George Vaillant assistant curator at the American Museum of Natural History in New York wed Suzannah Beck of Mexico City in Mexico City on March 10.
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Mexico
Mexico City
George Vaillant
American Museum of Natural History
New York
Suzannah Beck
Hoover Honors Taft at Boy Scout Anniversary Dinner
President Hoover diverted from his prepared remarks to honor William Howard Taft, first honorary president of the Boy Scouts, at a March 10 dinner marking the organization’s 20th anniversary and launching a $10,000,000 expansion drive. He stressed the Boy Scout movement as a solution to shaping boys’ leisure time into constructive activity and praised Taft’s lifelong devotion to youth.
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Washington
Hoover
William Howard Taft
Boy Scouts Organization
Boy Scouts
Boy Scout Movement
Boy Scouts of America
Republic
William Howard Tait
Mr. Hoover
Capital's Whirl Geases for State Funeral of Taft
Taft to be laid to rest with honors in Arlington Cemetery after state funeral rites at the Capitol and church services. Army Navy and Marine Corps to join proces sion. Taft selected Arlington burial plot on wooded slope overlooking Washington. Congress Supreme Court and President Hoover observe day of mourning with nationwide condolences flowing in.
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Army
Navy
Marine Corps
Arlington Cemetery
Washington
William Howard Taft
Congress
Supreme Court
President Hoover
America
Taft
He Sererig
Bo Om
Helen Taft Mann
National Republican Club urges repeal of dry amendment
The National Republican Club in New York voted 401 to 335 to urge Republican members of Congress to repeal the Eighteenth Amendment. The four hour meeting featured clashes between Wet and Dry factions and proxy battles over motions to table the resolution. Richard W. Lawrence faced accusations but reversal preserved the final defeat of the motion to table by 479 to 360.
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New York
National Republican Club
Congress
Republican Party
Richard W. Lawrence
Lawrence
Day's News items mix in varied topics across pages
Hoover notes best boy safety valve in Boy Scout movement. Filmblaze in Korea reports 104 dead on Mukden anniversary. A manicurist seeks 36000 alimony from a millionaire claiming common-law marriage. Steel magnates contend over 220 million for Youngstown Sheet and Tube plant. Britain presses to curb French fleet. Two women deny guilt in March murder indictment. Democrats press in-state budget fight against Republicans. City reports Erie favors station site change and Joseph Midgley is elected City Clerk. Judge Ottaway orders new trial after Sunday guilty plea. Prohibition law arraignments occur. Falconer School Board declines to reconsider principal Fish contract. Taxpayers file complaints with Board of Review. Former Cherry Creek man dies in crossing accident near Bi.
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Filmblaze
Korea
Mukden
Steel Kings
Youngstown
Britain
Erie
Joseph Midgley
Utilities Board
Ottaway
Falconer School Board
Fish
Board of Review
Cherry Creek
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