Bootlegger Henry Engel slain in Bayonne ambush
Four gunmen sprayed Engel with machine gun fire near his Bayonne speakeasy on Avenue C and 54th Street. He died forty minutes later in Bayonne Hospital. Police linked him to bootlegging and hijacking with ties to Hoboken beer king Frankie Dunn and Frank Bach, whose car had been stolen for an attempted post office cash shipment robbery.
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Bayonne
N. J
Henry Engel
Frankie Dunn
Hoboken Beer King
Engel
Avenue C
54Th Street
Jera
Syngel
Dunn
Frank Bach
Tavenne
Tdach
Rule
Bach
Atlantic City Mayor Held on 14 Charges in Bail of 28000
Atlantic City Mayor Anthony M. Ruffu Jr. was arrested on a bench warrant and held under 28000 bail for court appearances to plead to 14 indictments charging penal code violations. The move follows a probe into vice and corruption, marking a second city official charged after Building Supervisor John Conway was previously arrested.
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Atlantic City
Anthony M. Ruffu, Jr
William HM. Smathers
Smathers
John Conway
Tony
Runkle Elected President of Vassar Student Association
Miss Elizabeth Runkle of Cambridge Mass Vassar 31 was elected president of the student association today at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie March 13. This is the highest undergraduate honor.
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Vassar
Poughkeepsie
Elizabeth Runkle
Cambridge
Mass
Desperate Prison Break Ends With Death At Trenton
A 29 year old prisoner, Charlies F Evans, killed by guard Ernest Gordon after a pistol battle in a New Jersey state prison. Two guards injured, one killed. Evans had completed an eleven year double life sentence and was a former Navy deserter and trusted employee. Page two continues.
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Trenton
N. J
Liberty
Ufe
Charlies F. Evans
Ernest L. Gordon
Evans
United States Navy
Edward B&b. Stone
Frank Butcher
Ernest Gordon
Thomas Foren
Delaware
T. P. Leydon
Evang
Governor Fights Nassau County Garbage Plan Ruling
Governor Roosevelt vetoed a Nassau County sanitary district garbage disposal bill after citing two serious flaws. He urged county or town wide coordination, criticizing many fragmented local districts. He named Hempstead health officer, Long Island park commission head, and Tempstead Development Commission for a state led committee to craft county wide disposal.
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Albany
Roosevelt
Nassau County
Hempstead
Long Island Park Commission
Tempstead Developent Commission
South Fights Strange Paralysis In Three States
Health officials in Mississippi Georgia and Tennessee probe a mysterious paralysis affecting about 160 people in the past week. No deaths yet, cases start with cold sore throat and numb legs then progress to inability to flex muscles. Reports suggest possible epidemic encephalitis or neuritis linked to alcohol use, with officials noting non contagious features.
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Atlanta
Halth
Mississippi
Georgia
Tennessee
L. Bishop
South
East
Atlantic
Europe
American Medical Commission
Japan
England
J. C. Eldridge
Chattanooga
Tenn
Appellate Court Throws Out Magistrate Vitale Unanimously
Five justices of the Appellate Court voted to remove Magistrate Albert H. Vitale after finding him guilty of borrowing $20,000 from Arnold Rothstein. They acquitted the other charge but held Vitale negligent and incompetent in his handling of cases.
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New York
Appellate Court
Albert H. Vitale
Grover A. Whalen
Bar Association
Vitale
Arnold Rothstein
Broadway
Charles Fawcett
Vitalie
Doheny
Albert BE
Manila
Prisoner spins false gang slay yarn to dodge Napanoch reform
Philip Van Etten confessed in Hoboken that he invented a graphic tale of Frankie Dunn’s murder by machine gun and pistol to avoid returning to Napanoch reformatory for a parole violation. He stuck to the story until confronted by detectives and was sent back to Napanoch.
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Elmira
Philip van Etten
Frankie Dunn
Jersey
Hoboken
Napanoch Reformatory
Napanoch
Woman tamer killed trying to save bear from lion attack
In Cassel Germany on March 18 a lion tamer entered a circus cage armed only with a whip and freed a bear from the lion’s grip. The lion turned on her fatally as attendants shot the animal. The bear died from injuries sustained in the clash.
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Bear
Lion
Cassel
Germany
Prohibition Support From Alonzo Stagg At Hearing
Five men including Alonzo Stagg testified before the House judiciary committee opposing any change to national prohibition laws. Stagg argued youth grow up in a country where liquor is banned and labeled different social classes as the main non observers. The testimony included Sherwood and Hay with others questioning and several prepared statements withdrawn.
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Washington
Alonzo Stagg
University of Chicago
House Judiciary Committee
LaGuardia
New York
Moat
Irving Fisher
Yale
Graham
Fisher
Carlton M. Sherwood
Citizens’ Committee of
One Thousand
Charles M. Hay
St. Louis
Clarence True Wilson
Board of Temperance, Prohibition
Methodist Episcopal Church
Stagg
Sherwood
Hay
Arthur H. Wood
Philadeli Insurance
John A. McS8perran
Purnell
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania State Grange
United States
Neer Dowells
Indians Protest State Control Over Iroquois Jurisdiction
Washington civil rights clash as New York seeks to extend state jurisdiction to Iroquois Indians. The Six Nations elders protest a Snell bill that would place them under state control, arguing it violates treaty rights. the measure sits in the Indian Arts committee.
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Washington
New York
House
Daniel A. Reed
Dunkirk
Supreme Council
Joshua Jones
Sachem
United States
Six Nations
Theodore A. Gordon
Gowanda
Bertrand H. Snell
Potsdam
Mr. Snell
Committee On
Kirkland's Senate Bills Advance To Third Reading
Albany report notes Senator Leigh G. Kirkland's measures moving to third reading in the Senate. Bills address motor vehicle liability for guest injuries, typhoid epidemic funding for Olean, Chautauqua Lake navigation rules, settlement of infant injury claims, eradication of bovine tuberculosis, and an Assembly bill for typhoid costs in Olean.
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Albany
Leigh G. Kirkland
Senate
Chautauqua Lake
Assembly
Third Reading
James W. Watson
Olean
Discovery of ninth major planet announced from Lowell Observatory
Cambridge report says Professor Harlow Shapley announced the discovery of a trans Neptune planet larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune. The object, observed at Lowell Observatory with a 13 inch telescope, fits predicted longitude and magnitude and remains unconfirmed in orbit. It is visible only with the era’s most powerful telescopes.
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Cambridge
Mass
Lowell Observatory
Fingetaff
Ariz
Harlow Shapley
Harvard College Observatory
Shapley
Percival Lowell
A. Lawrence Lowell
Harvard
Lowell
Leverrier
France
Adama
England
Delta Geminorum
Shapely
eUa
Divorce drives man to wound two kill wife and himself
Johnson's City Tenn March 13 A farmer Fred Range was served divorce papers and shortly after opened fire killing his wife and wounding her sister and brother in law He then shot himself fatally two hours later Police report the incident and note Range threatened to kill his two children before the fatal act
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Johnson’ City
Tenn
Fred Range
Sugar tariffs, cement duties dominate tariff votes
The Hawley Smoot bill keeps a 2 cent per pound sugar duty and a 6 cent per hundredweight cement duty, with a 7 cent per pound cotton tariff contested. Senate votes kept this path amid coalition friction while pro protectionists push for higher wool and cotton protections and an intersession ballot on sugar.
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Washington
Senate
House
Egypt
Nye
North Dakota
Grundy
Blaine
Wisconsin
Labor Government Wins by 73 Votes in Commons Clash
London reports a Labour victory by 308 to 235 over a censure motion led by Former Prime Minister Baldwin. Churchill headed the Tory attack while Liberals largely abstained and sided with Labour. The win preserves MacDonald’s administration amid ongoing unemployment and safeguarding duties debates.
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London
House of Commons
Baldwin
Winston Churchill
Labor
Churchill
Philip Snowden
Snowden
Wedgwood Benn
India
MacDonald
Contract Requiring Speed Like Bremen Post in Ocean Mail Award
Postmaster General Brown announced a $60,000,000 contract to United States Lines for two new ocean mail vessels to operate New York to Southampton. The ships, built by the Leviathan operator, must meet top-tonnage and speed, with total government spending reaching about $98.5 million including prior awards. US Lines was the sole bidder on the Southampton route in January.
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Washington
Brown
Ocean Mail
United States Lines
High Seas
New York
Southampton
Leviathan
Postoffice Department
Trans-Oceanic Service
Postmaster General
Department
Tardieu On Way And Hope Rises In Naval Parity Talks
Italian delegate Dino Grandi discussed a non aggression pact as a possible solution to the Italo French naval parity dispute during the Five Power conference. France seeks a tangible estimate of Italian needs while Italy pushes for parity with a 724 thousand ton target, and Premier Tardieu's return renews cautious optimism.
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London
France
Associated Press
Dino Grandi
MacDonald
Signor Grandi
Italy
Locarno
Tardieu
Schroeder and Death Car Driver Identified in Pa. Trial
In New Castle Pa on March 13 1930 trooper Ernest Moore identified Irene Schroeder and Glenn Dague as occupants of a car linked to a December 27 fatal highway incident. Moore testified he and Brady Paul were sent to pursue bandits after a Butler store robbery and that Dague was the driver. Mrs Schroeder and Dague face separate trials.
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New Castle
Brady Paul
Schroeder
Here
Ernest Moore
Commonwealth
Moore
Paul
Glenn Dague
Irene Schroeder
Dague
Discovery of a ninth planet beyond Neptune reported
Day's News notes a distant space discovery of a ninth planet beyond Neptune. Page 1 reports related astronomy item and page references.
Dunkirk Docket: Murder Charge and Civic Notices
Warrant issued charging Joseph Ta bone with first degree murder. Annual Board of Public Utilities report presented at monthly meeting. Seventeen Dunkirk grade crossings to be removed at an estimated cost of 3.5 million dollars. Citizens' Training Camp enrollment underway. Isaak Walton League chapter holds annual meeting. Emmet Beardsley, Civil War veteran and last Dun kirk G A R post member, dies at 87. Page references noted.
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Joseph Tabone
Board of Public Utilities
Dunkirk
Chautauqua County
Isaak Walton League
Emmet Beardsley
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New York City Bar Association
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Morning Post
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Neptune
Earth
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Bremen
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Stegg
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