Theatrical magnate killed in jealous quarrel in Nice
In Nice France Mrs Charlotte Nixon Nirdlinger shot and killed Philadelphia theater boss Fred G Nixon Nirdlinger after alleging his jealous rage and choking her. She claimed self defense showing throat marks. The couple had a turbulent marriage with multiple separations and remarriages. Police detained her as investigations continue.
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Nice
France
A&p
Fred G. Nixon-Nirdlinger
Philadelphia
Nixon-Nirdlinger
St. Louis
Atlantic City
Rivera
Nixon - Nirdlinger
Peru swears in provisional President Sama nez
Lima reports the provisional government under President Sama nez is sworn in. Across Europe a winter storm brings snow gales and cold, hindering traffic and disrupting shipping as the system continues.
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Lima
Peru
Samanez
London
Europe
Walker Presses for City Clean-Up Probe
A petition from the Society for the Prevention of Crime urged Governor Roosevelt and the Albany legislature to authorize Samuel Seabury to launch a sweeping inquiry into New York City government. It criticizes Mayor Walker’s flippant attitude and wisecracking remarks while calling for aggressive action to prove the mayor's commitment to a clean city.
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Walker
Society For the Prevention of Crime
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Albany
Ralph Capone's Club Raided by U S Bay Agents
Federal prohibition agents raided the Cotton club in Cicero, seeking liquor records for an investigation into the liquor traffic. They attempted to burn open the safe after a prior incident with doors man Jack Karron, and released guests after the search. Ralph Capone, Al Capone's brother, faces an income tax case appeal.
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Cotton Club
Ralph Capone
Cicero
Roy Budd
Dan Copely
Jack Karron
Budd
Copely
Karron
Chorus
Jacob Spielman
Alphonse Capone
Tailors Work Overtime in Odd Robbery Tale
In Chicago on March 12 two gunmen robbed Louis Hirsch shop manager Edward Pence and assistant Peter Zimmerran. With no ready made pants, Pence and Zimmerran sat down and stitched two pairs themselves, finishing around midnight.
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Chicago
Louis Hirsch
Edward W. Pence
Peter Zimmerman
Pence
Zimmerman
Gandhi begins second Salt March retracing route to defy British law
On the first anniversary of his salt march Gandhi leaves Ahmedabad to retrace the route and make salt again in defiance of the salt monopoly. He aims to visit Borsad Surat Baroda and Dandi then return to Bombay and go to New Delhi and Karachi as Congress debates the truce terms with Lord Irwin amid opposition for immediate independence.
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Ahmadabad
India
Mahatma Gandhi
Lord Irwin
Gandhi
All India
Borsad
Karachi
All- India National Congress
Congress
Weather Forecast Virginia Fair and Warmer Tonight
Fair tonight and Friday with increasing cloudiness and warmer conditions. Virginia sees rising temperatures Friday with a high around 43 degrees yesterday and a 27 degree low today. No rainfall reported on either date. Readings recorded at 6:00 p.m. by T. C. Harris U.S.W.O.
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Mer
Virginia
T. C. Harris
U.S.W.O
Progressives Discuss Shorter Hours and Wealth Spread
Washington March 12 AP Suggestions to ease unemployment focus on shorter working hours and wider wealth distribution. Scripps and AFL President Green push two point plan as LaFollette leads independent movement. Locomotive workers chief notes one third of his members are on the streets. five day week proposed. six hour day urged. Green hopes Norris faces a new dawn. Continued on page six.
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Washington
Mar
Progressive Conference
Robert P. Scripps
Scripps-Howard
William Green
American Federation of Labor
LaFollette Speaks
LaFollette
Wisconsin
Norris
Nebraska
Independent
Federation
Widow Daisy Dycus Indicted for Murder in Kentucky
Daisy L. Dycus, 24, is indicted for willful murder of her husband Edwin Dycus, 28, a Hopkinsville patrolman who died January 28 likely from poison. The grand jury also probes photographer James McClures's death after Dycus fled his studio wounded. Prosecutors cite letters suggesting a death pact and Dycus seeking poisons. Trial likely set for the June term.
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Hopkinsville
Daisy L. Dycus
Edwin Dycus
Dycus
James McClures
McClure
John King
King
Lourt
Five arrested in probe of girl bazaar case
San Diego investigators shifted the inquiry to Los Angeles and filed charges against Alexander Pantages and others in a girl bazaar case. Pantages and John Mills were arraigned with bonds set at 10000 and 15000 dollars respectively. Olive Day was released on bail and faces renewed charges in Los Angeles.
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San Diego
Cal
Alexander Pantages
Los Angeles
Pantages
John P. Mills
Jesse H. Shreve
William Jobelmann
Olive Clark Day
Mills
Agua Caliente
Mexico
Marckets
Hollywood
Queer Death Watch Puzzles Police In 2-Body Case
Police puzzled by deaths of Miss E Weil aged 52 and Esther White aged 50 found in an apartment. Both had been there for weeks with Weil appearing to die first and White dying after living with the body for a week.
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Chicago
Mar
Miss E. Weil
Esther White
Miss Weil
Miss White
Poison Charges Hit Daisy Dycus in Kentucky Case
Hopkinsville report says Mrs. Daisy Dycus is indicted on a poisoning charge in connection with her husband’s illness. In France, Mrs. Fred C. Nixon Nirdlinger is accused of killing her husband, a Philadelphia theater magnate.
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Hopkinsville
Daisy Dycus
Nice
France
Fred C. Nixon-Nirdlinger
Philadelphia
Taming of River Gets Under Way
In Las Vegas Nevada on March 12 the Colorado river work began on Hoover Dam. The project marks a landmark engineering effort in a region famed for romance since the sixteenth century. Government engineers have studied the river for more than forty years.
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Las Vegas
Nev
Colorado River
Hoover Dam
Gulf of California
Wickersham Sees Prohibition Report Favoring Wets
Boston March 12 AP Chairman Wickersham of the law enforcement commission interpreted the prohibition report as favoring the wets over the drys. He noted the anti prohibition voices were most vehement, while saying the wets would gain encouragement from the report and the commissioners statements. He set the total cost of the study at 56 958.59 plus overhead and said the commission has little time left to review related expert reports before it ceases July 1.
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Boston
Mar
Wickersham
Law Enforcement Commission Today
Commission
Boston Chamber of Commerce
Comsion
U S Gunboats Under Attack on Yangtse Patrol
U S gunboats of the Yangtse patrol faced more than thirty seven bandit attacks since last July along 1000 miles from Nanking to Chungking. American guards on merchant ships were attacked eighty seven times with most brigands killed by machine gun and rifle fire. Seaman Samuel Elkins of Brooklyn was killed July 5 near Yachow in a clash with a shore battery. two British sailors were wounded.
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Shanghai
Mar
United States
Yangtse
Nanking
China
Chungking
Samuel Elkins
Brooklyn
N. Y
Guam
Yachow
Triplets Born in Breathitt County Named Amos Andy and Madam Queen
In Wick Breathitt county Kentucky Mr and Mrs Levi Deaton welcomed three newborns two boys and a girl Amos Andy and Madam Queen the unusual trio named after principals in a celebrated radio breach of promise suit.
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Jackson
Kentucky Mountains
Levi Deaton
Wick
Breathitt County
Amos
Andy
Madam Queen
Clerical error delays arrest of Lea and Caldwell
Nashville publisher Col Luke Lea and financier Rogers Caldwell face federal indictments on conspiracy to violate banking laws and aiding abetting. Misfiled capias copies delayed service in East Tennessee. Ramsey posted 25000 bond after Knoxville arraignment. Lea Caldwell Ramsey set for Knox May 25.
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Nashville
Tenn
Luke Lea
Rogers ‘C Caldwell
Greeneville
J. Basil Ramsey
Holston Union National Bank of Knoxville
Lea
Caldwell
R. V. McLane
Middle Tennessee
Knoxville
Lee
East Tennessee
McLane
U. S
Ramsey
Indictments Charge Lea Caldwell Ramsey in Banking Conspiracy
Federal indictments against Col. Luke Lea Rogers Caldwell and J Basil Ramsey allege conspiracy to violate national banking laws and specific Holston Union Bank offenses. Ramsey already posted 25000 bond. Lea Caldwell to be arraigned May 25 in Knoxville federal court.
Tennessee lawmaking panel weighs further recess for deep probe
Tennessee legislators reconvene after a six week break to hear a committee report and consider extending the probe into state affairs. Chairman Walter Faulkner seeks another recess to push the investigation to the depths of the state purchasing department.
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Nashville
Tenn
Legislative Investigating Committee
Tennessee General Assembly
Walter Faulkner
Faulkner
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Franz Voelger
Alzace
Rolph McPherson
Aimee Semple McPherson
Lorna D. Smith
Oklahoma
Rolph
Roberta
Singapore
U.S. Bay
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Love Bazaar
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Helen Livingston
Billie Timmons
Miss Day
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Yangtse River
RADIO
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Holston Union Bank
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