Navy parley plans changed full session called
Senator Brookhart displayed a letter alleging real gin cocktails and a club importing President Hoover as a member and Wickersham as an officer. He urged enforcement chief Wickersham to act, citing the Century Association at 7 West 43rd Street New York. Tydings boasted of fifty such clubs in major cities as Brookhart pressed the liquor issue amid a Senate debate on prohibition.
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NAVY
Senate
Century Club
New York
Associated Press
Washington
Brookhart
Hoover
George W. Wickersham
Law Enforcement Commission
Wickersham
Century Association
West 43Rd Street
New York City
William Cullen Bryant
Tydings
Copeland
Bingham
Connecticut
Charles A. Platt
Manila Protests Against Rioting Overseas
Manila plans a peaceful national humiliation day service at Luneta to protest anti-Filipino riots in Stockton San Jose and Watsonville California. University of the Philippines students urged restraint while authorities limit parades and step up police surveillance to prevent backlash at home.
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Manila
Stockton
San Jose
Watsonville
Cal
Luneta
University of the Philippines
California
Tondo
Philippines
Thirteen Miners Die In Turkish Coal Mine Explosion
An explosion at the Zongouldak coal mines in Istanbul killing thirteen miners and seriously injuring six last night marks the third disaster at the mine in three months. Turkish authorities investigate cause and safety lapses.
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Istanbul
Turkey
Zongouldak
Fresno man faces life for 15 year old sheep herder murder
Isadore Indart was convicted of the murder of Cypriano Urtasun, a sheep herder, and was sentenced to life imprisonment. He was captured recently in Rawlins, Wyoming.
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Fresno
Cal
Isadore Indart
Cypriano Urtasun
Rawlins
Wyo
Lawmaker Says Farm Board Won't Buy Commodities
Representative Legge states the federal Farm Board will not purchase agricultural commodities. He urges focus on price support measures and market stabilization without direct procurement programs. The stance aims to ease farmer reliance on government purchases while preserving market mechanisms.
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Washington
Legge
Federal Farm Board
Alfonso Seizes Spain as Berenguer Opens New Cabinet
Madrid reports General Berenguer forms a new cabinet under King Alfonso XIII with the duke of Alba as education minister. Alfonso appears to dominate policy while efforts begin to restore judicial and constitutional norms and dissolve Primo de Rivera's dictatorship and the national assembly.
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Duke of Alba
Madrid
Spain
Damasco Berenguer
Primo de Rivera
Alfonso XIII
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Alfonso
Duke of Berwick
Berenguer
Primo del Rivera
National Assembly
Primo
Weather Forecast for Virginia Fair and Warmer Saturday
Fair tonight and Saturday in Virginia with not quite so cold conditions in the east and center. Temperatures rise gradually Saturday with moderate west and northwest winds becoming variable. Yesterday's high 41, low 19, readings taken at 6 p m by C L Bunn U S W O.
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Virginia
C. L. Bunn
Chicago Banks Loan Aims To Ease City Cash Crunch
Chicago and Cook county officials discuss advancing nearly 2 million dollars to cover expenses through February 1 as Gov. Emmerson pledges speedier 1928 tax reassessment. State says 2.7 million in 1929 distributive funds owed, while Cook county owes 30 million in 1929 taxes. Pensioners receive Feb payroll via tax anticipation warrants. plans surface to replace 1928 1929 taxes with a 400 million dollar bond issue over 40 years.
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Chicago
Cook County
Citizens’ Relief Committee
Silas H. Strawn
Louis L. Emmerson
Tax Commission
Emmerson
Illinois
George Schmidt
Warants
Mothwurf resigns from Rayon Mills leadership in Tennessee
Dr. Arthur Mothwurf resigns as president of the American Bemberg and American Glanzstoff Rayon Mills at Elizabethton after locating the plants and heading them since opening. Charles Wolff of New York and Canada named to succeed him, with Mothwurf planning a trip to New York but hoping to return to East Tennessee residence.
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Johnson City
Tenn
Arthur Mothwurf
Bemberg
Charles Wolff
New York
Canada
Mothwurf
East
Tennessee
Flashes of Life: Kuh Says Wife Favors Separation Idea
Lloyd H. Kuh, sued for separation, claims his wife admires Fannie Hurst and has adopted the notion that married couples should live apart for a few months annually, a stance cited in the case.
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Associated Press
New York
Lloyd H. Kuh
Fannie Hurst
Edna Louise Malone Recalled From Paris Drama Studies
New York report notes Mary Garden helped Edna Louise Johnson pursue drama in Paris and later marry Dudley Field Malone. Esther Johnson claims Mary acted as Cupid in arranging the union and Edna’s Paris study.
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New York
Mary Garden
Esther Johnson
aMry
Edna Louise
Paris
Edna
Dudley Field Malone
Richest lot grows richer as Sassoon inherits
London reports Philip Sassoon 41 grandson of a nabob and former undersecretary for Air has inherited 750000 dollars from a cousin increasing his wealth. The transfer highlights Sassoon's ongoing prominence in society and politics.
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London
Philip Sassoon
Air
Primo Camera Opens With Unrecorded Craft Details
Brockton report notes Primo Camera wears size 21 shoes for the ring. The vessel description lists nine inch beam and 18.5 foot length along bow to stern with gross tonnage and draught not recorded. A pair was produced locally for him.
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Brockton
Mass
George Smart Dead After Long Struggle To Learn Trade
Chicago man George Smart, once a skilled horse-shoe smith and aspiring automobile mechanic, died by his own hand after years of struggle. The obituary notes his lifelong passion for metalwork and the mental burden he bore. He will be remembered for his craft and perseverance despite hardship.
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Chicago
George Smart
Pair of Slavers Pay With Lives
Lawrence Mabry, 19, is reported hanged for murder in a 1927 case in which William Mosley, a 54 year old man, killed his common law wife Mildred White and two white victims Marcus and Bass in a Bass grocery store. The killings also wounded their baby.
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ST. Louis
William Mosley
Mosley
Mildred White
Marcus Bass
Bass
Mesley
Mabry Hanged for Murder in Cooper County Jail Yard
Lawrence Mabry the 19 year old Sedalia youth was hanged at 9 17 am in a barn garage behind the Cooper county jail for the February 4 1928 murder of law student William Busch in Sedalia. He proclaimed innocence and urged fellow inmates to go straight as authorities noted duress in earlier confessions by Mabry and Ellis Collins.
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Booneville
Lawrence Mabry
Sedalia
William Busch
Cooper County
Busch
Mabry
Ellis Collins
Collins
Supreme Court
Henry S. Caulfield
Going Too Fast Leads to Bank Robbery Arrest
Four men tied to a Medina Banking Company holdup were arrested after an auto speeding pursuit in Memphis. Berry Bibbs, his farm hand William H. Neal, and Henderson county youths Floyd Burton and Cleland Jones confessed to parts of the crime. Officers found 1107.26 dollars on Jones and Burton. Bibbs allegedly planned the robbery and provided the car and idea, and split the money.
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Memphis
Medina Banking, Company of Medina
Berry Bibbs
Madison County
William H. Neal
Henderson County
Floyd Burton
Cleland Jones
Medina
Neal
Jones
Burton
Bibbs
Bob
Roy Graves
Glove and helmet found at Siberian wreck site
In Nome Alaska January 31 searchers digging 90 miles southeast of North Cap Siberia recovered a glove and a helmet from the Eielson plane wreck. The items were Borland’s and no bodies were found. Recovery efforts proceed despite firm ice and wolves in the area.
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Nome
Alaska
North Capt
Siberia
Carl Ben Eielson
Earl Borland
Eielson
Borland
F Eielson
Nanuk
North Cape
Joe Crosson
Harold Gillam
Stavropol
Siberian
Gillette Divorce Suit Filed by Elizabeth Caldwell Gillette
Elizabeth Caldwell Gillette filed for divorce from King Gaines Gillette of Beverly Hills California, head of the Gillette Razor Blade Manufacturing Company. Papers placed on secret file. public release unlikely before Monday.
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Reno
Elizabeth Caldwell
Gillette
King Gaines Gillette
Beverly Hills
Cal
Gillette Razor Blade Manufacturing Company
Washington House Approves Parkway Budget on Potomac Banks
The House approves a $23,000,000 appropriation to construct a parkway along both shores of the Potomac between Mount Vernon and Great Falls. The project, backed by state and local authorities, aims to improve dam and river access while boosting regional transport and recreation.
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Washington — House
Potomac
Mount Vernon
Great Falls
Anti Bombing Plan Proposed in Chicago Policy Shift
Chicago on January 31. States Attorney John A Swanson heard a plan from special investigator Pat Roche to end bombings by closing all speakeasies and gambling dens. Roche argues eliminating liquor and gambling revenue would cut gangster funds by about 200000 daily, forcing steps to halt bombings and prevent recurrences.
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Pat Roche
Swanson
Chicago
John A. Swanson
Roche
Beche
Tetuan Finds Dinosaur Skeleton Mystery Solved
A skeleton arriving in Tetuan from Chicago is revealed by a scientific mission to be not a dinosaur remains but a farmer’s hay rake made in the USA. The alleged long iron teeth were misinterpreted, tied to the 1917 eviction by tribesmen.
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Tetuan
Morocco
Chicago
Fire power naval conference goes executive session in London
London, Jan 31 AP The fire power naval conference moved to an executive session at 3 PM to smooth makeup and procedure of a special committee, amid reports Britain and Dominions dispute representation. Delegates flocked to morning talks between Prime Minister and Dominions, while Stimson will skip as topics mirror yesterday’s committee agenda.
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London
Fire Power Naval Conference
Dominion
Henry L. Stimson
Five naval powers begin plan for measured limits
London January 31 government urged conciliatory approach as a five nation council formed by United States Great Britain Japan France and Italy prepares a compromise plan for measuring navies. The group aims to draft technical groundwork for a system of limits with debates over total tonnage category transfers and future action likely to take weeks. France seeks broad latitude to convert tonnage into cruisers while Britain and the United States push for strict fixed limits on every category.
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London
International Council
Naval Conference
United States
Great Britain
Japan
France
Italy
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