Negro Chauffeur Kills Man and Attacks Woman in Car
Mrs. Dorothy Burgess describes a negro, Alonzo Price, who killed her companion and abducted her in an automobile on a lonely road. He forced her to accompany him, revealed personal details, threatened with poison, and fled as another car appeared. Police seek Price, a 35 year old with a cork leg and WW veteran status.
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Baltimore
Dorothy Burgess
Laltimore
Oee
Reuben Heyman
Captain Burns
Detetive Bureau
Heyman
Alonzo Price
Murder on lonely road shocks Baltimore scene
Baltimore January 3 after a patrolman found Reun ben Heyman dead on a road outside the city and Mrs. Dorothy Burgess sobbing in the city says a negro attacker forced them to the road. Burgess described a pistol and assault with Heyman killed and the aggressor taking poison tablets before vanishing. Police report difficulties interviewing Burgess due to distress as investigators hunt clues, including a two-bullet wound on Heyman and a single bullet hole in his outerwear. Continued on page five.
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Baltimore
Reunben Heyman
Dorothy Burgess
Heyman
Druid Hill
Cuae A
Dolly Gann To Host Official Dinner At DC
Washington January 3 Dolly Gann will preside at an official vice president dinner Saturday honoring Sir Esme Howard retiring British ambassador. Guests include cabinet diplomats and members of Congress. Sir Esme argues for equal social rank with a vice president's wife.
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Washington
Curtis
Dolly Gann
Esme Howard
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Diplomatic Corps
Hoover
Gann
Esme
London Explosion Kills Two Children at Rail Station
An oil barrel exploded at a London railway freight station in Holloway killing two children and injuring seven others. Police suspect the children started the fire. five hospitalized victims are in serious condition.
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London
Holloway
Door Fall Kills Tennessee Eastman Worker
Lee Wood 34 an employee at the Tennessee Eastman plant died in a local hospital at 10 05 am from injuries after a heavy wood door fell on his head in building 51 during early morning work with the concrete crew. The exact cause remains unclear though none of the carpenters admit touching the door. Wood had just four days with the company, formerly farmed, married with three children.
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Lee Wood
Tennessee Eastman Corporation
Tennessee Eastman
Mr. Wood
Wood
J. E
Raymond Gott
Woman charged with grand larceny over Morgan coat swap
Irene Thompson, 27, allegedly traded a cheap fur coat for Miss Anne Morgan's $3,000 garment without consent and faced grand larceny charges. The Morgan coat, found safe, was taken from a hallway at the American Women's Association clubhouse on West 57th Street. Thompson had past arrest records in Brookline, Mass., and a prior prison term under another name.
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New York
Anne Morgan
Miss Morgan
J. P. Morgan
Irene Thompson
Brookline
Mass
Mabel Smith
American Women’s Association
West 57Th Street
Heflin and Locke Plan Mass Meeting in Birmingham
Senator Heflin and Hugh Locke, barred from the Democratic primary for backing the 1928 nominee, will discuss independent campaigns at a mass meeting in Birmingham. Heflin denounced the state committee action and claimed 85 percent of Alabama Democrats oppose it. Ben F. Ray will preside. no formal program announced.
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Birmingham
Ala
J. Thomas Heflin
Hugh A. Locke
Locke
Il Duce
Democratic Executive Committee
Heflin
Mussolini
Jefferson County
Alabama
State Committee
Bessemer
Ben F. Ray
State Executive Committee
Governor Pardons Carthell Henley in Lauderdale County
Governor Horton grants clemency to Carthell Henley a Lauderdale County murder convict sentenced to ten years who has served two years and three months and is reported near death from tuberculosis in this January pardon.
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Nashville
Horton
Carthell Henley
Lauderdale County
Henley
Court Congestion Blamed for Enforcement Problem
Attorney General Mitchell says court congestion hinders law enforcement including prohibition. He urges two additional judges for Washington and notes similar conditions elsewhere. He cites the need for adequate detection prosecution and prison systems to keep agencies from slowing each other.
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Mitchell
Washington
Capper
Senate Committee
District of Columbia
United States
Borah Proposed as Chairman of Prohibition Study Panel
Senator Fess of Ohio calls Idaho’s Borah for chair of the proposed joint congressional committee to study strengthening liquor laws. He cites Borah’s expertise on the alcohol permit system and criticism of its administration.
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Washington
Borah
Idaho
Joint Congressional Committee
Fess
Ohio
Treasury Department
Jones
Law Enforcement Commission
Congress
Treasury
J. M. Doran
Department of Commrce
Mellon
Weather Summary Tennessee and Virginia Forecasts
Tennessee fair tonight and Saturday with a rising temperature Saturday and colder tonight. Virginia generally fair and much colder tonight with a colder Saturday, fresh to strong northwest winds diminishing Saturday. Readings note 69 high yesterday, 34 low yesterday, 42 rain yesterday with no rain year ago.
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Tennessee
Virginia
C. L. Bunn
Detroit Shooting Leaves Inspector Garvin Wounded
Detroit police late today reported no solid lead after 24 hours of investigation into a gang shooting that wounded Inspector Henry J. Garvin and critically injured 11 year old Lois Bartlett. Suspects numbered over twenty in a black sedan fled the scene as Garvin drove to work. Bartlett survived five gunshot wounds while Garvin was expected to recover.
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Detroit
Henry J. Garvin
Garvin
Receiving Hospital
Lois Bartlett
Bartlett
Tennessee elementary school funds report for January apportionment
Commissioner P L Harned announced the January apportionment of elementary school funds totaling 1 12766493 with a July total of 1900186. Readables include Shelby 87480 Hamilton 71979 Cater 9342 Dyer 10260 Hamblen 13165 Lauderdale 9902 Madison 16024 Montgomery 10110 Sullivan 16790 Washington 13934 Knox 67035 Davidson 55872
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Nashville
Tenn
P. L. Harned
Department of Education
Shelby
Hamilton
Cater
Dyer
Hamblen
Lauderdale
Madison
Montgomery
Sullivan
Washington
Knox
Davidson
Probe aircraft carrier blaze prompts court of inquiry
A court of inquiry will convene aboard the USS Saratoga to fix responsibility for a gasoline fire that killed two sailors, burned four others, and damaged the carrier. The blaze started from a turpentine pot aboard a punt beside the ship, with bodies of Mathew LaVielle and Vincent Lalor not recovered. The captain’s gig burned as flames rose 20 feet, but interiors remained safe as 1,500 crew fought the fire.
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U. S. S. Saratoga
A. C. Reid
Saratoga
Mathew LaVielle
Hamilton Street
Schenectady
N. Y
Clara LaVielle
Vincent Valentine Lalor
Pacific Avenue
Brooklyn
Muriel McCaffrey
West Ninty Fourth Street
New York City
LaVielle
Lalor
Navy reports fire damage on aircraft carrier Saratoga
Washington January 3 the Navy department announced a fire aboard the aircraft carrier Saratoga causing injuries to six sailors with two missing believed drowned.
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Washington
Navy Department
Saratoga
Planes Crash While Filming Scene Kills Kenneth Hawks
Ten people die when two camera planes collide midair near Santa Monica as they prepared a parachute sequence. Kenneth Hawks and Max Gold are among the dead. other recovered bodies include Donald Wells and George Eastman, with several others unaccounted for.
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Santa Monica
Calif
Kenneth Hawks
Max Gold
Hollywood
Mary Astor
Donald Wells
George Eastman
Ben Frankel
Otto Jordan
Ody
Tom Harris
Hank Johannes
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Moran
Man
Lonely Road
City
Moran Gang
Chicago
St. Valentine’s Day
Albert H. Vitale
U.S
Charles H. Tuttle
Arnold Rothstein
Dolly Cann
Tenn. Eastman
Workman
Democratic Party
Legislative Commission
Probe Aircraft Carrier Blaze
San Pedro, Cal
Ross Cook
Hallock Rouse
Jacob Triebwasser
Col
Rescoe Turner
Fred Osborne
Bert White
Triebwasser
White
Turner
L. W. O'Connell
Fox Film Corporation
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