Five powers agree to limit submarine warfare to surface-ship rules
London Feb 11 United Press reports Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson announced that the five power naval conference agreed to apply surface vessel rules to submarines during wartime. Stimson urged abolition of submarines as practical and common sense, noting subs are costly and prone to abuse. Britain and Italy backed ending submarine warfare while France and Japan opposed and pressed a French resolution.
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London
Henry L. Stimson
Naval Conference
St. James Palace
Stimson
Great Britain
Italy
France
Japan
Speakeasies in Orleans Shut Under Padlock Drive
Federal padlock orders close New Orleans speak easies and cabarets as prohibition agents step up action against dry law violators. Whisky was seized and couples were locked out at locations including the Yo Yo Inn on Iberville Street and the Family Restaurant at Bucktown along with two other spots.
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New Orleans
Iberville Street
Bucktown
Engineers Advise On Zoning Plan Around Georgia Tucker School
City planning engineers from C E Smith & Company of St Louis are advising Monroe on zoning as Mayor Arnold Bernstein meets Georgia Tucker PTA representatives led by Mrs L F Grigsby and Mrs W E Smyth. Police protection for children during peak traffic hours is promised if nearby stores are built. PTA members expect the engineers’ report before action on restricting development near the Georgia Tucker school.
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C. E. Smith & Company
St. Louis
Monroe
Arnold Bernstein
L. F. Grigsby
W. E. Smyth
Georgia Tucker Parent-Teacher Association
Smith
Bernstein
Georgia Tucker School
Man Dies After Streetcar Accident in Memphis
William W. Neely age 46 died in a Memphis hospital from injuries after a street car severed his legs as he clung to the side and fell beneath the rear tracks. Neely, separated from his wife since last August, was to meet her today for a reconciliation.
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Memphis
Tenn
William W. Neely
Neely
Fleischmann Yeast Firms Facing Profit Indictments
Federal authorities moved to fast track 156 persons and 31 corporations indicted in Illinois for conspiring to divert specially denatured alcohol to bootleg channels. Fleischmann Yeast and Corn Products Refining charged with supplying yeast and sugar to illicit distillers. 16 buyers indicted. Prosecutors say this targets higher ups in the supply chain.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Springfield
United States District Attorney
Fleischmann Yeast Company
Corn Products Refining Company
Walter M. Provine
Department of Justice
Tragedy in Ulgood Elizabethton Aged 17 Shoots Self
Virginia Schroeder a 17 year old blonde died from a pistol wound to the heart after she turned the weapon on herself following Valentines at a neighbor's home. Before dying she summoned Bart Smith a married man who visited her bedside.
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Ulizabethton
Tenn
Virginia Schroeder
Valentines
Bart Smith
Smith
Train Dispatcher Shot in Atlanta Apartment
John S. Gorman, 41, a Terminal Station train dispatcher, was found slain with three bullet wounds in Mrs. Reggie French’s apartment. Police said Mrs. French admitted firing, claiming Gorman threatened to kill her and then die by his own hand. She spoke guardedly to officers for hours.
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Atlanta
John S. Gorman
Reggie French
Chicago Relief Strikes Breakthrough in City Morass
In Chicago on February 11, bread milk and clothing lines fed Cook county workers as Mayor Thompson and Silas Strawn's relief committee agreed to negotiate. President Cermak opened charity stores to those owed salaries, allotments capped at 25 dollars. A joint meeting was planned for today or tomorrow after Strawn's East arrival.
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United Press
Chicago
Cook County
William Hale Thompson
Citizens’ “Relief Committee
Anton Cermak
County Board
West Polk Street
Silas H. Strawn
Far Rasier
Strawn
Meyor Thompson
Strawn Group
Bilbo to Veto Miss. Tax Payment Extension Bills
Governor Bilbo announced he will veto House and Senate bills that extend tax payment time from February 1 to April 1. The bills merely delay sheriffs from collecting damages on all 1929 taxes if paid by April 1.
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Jackson
Miss
House
Senate
Bilbo
Arkansas farmer seeks arbitration or machine gun
A Saline County farmer in Arkansas asked the state railroad commission to arbitrate or supply a machine gun to defend his farm against crowded buses and highway traffic. He offered to retire from competition with bus companies for compensation and asked for a sled mounted gun with ample ammunition to live peacefully and garden.
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Little Rock
Ark
Saline County
Arkansas Railroad Commission
P. S
Edison observes 83rd birthday with half day of work
Fort Myers Florida February 11 Thomas A Edison reaches his eighty third birthday and plans only a half day off from his labors. He makes a brief park appearance to dedicate a tablet and greets a few friends while continuing work on a new rubber source, a project he has pursued for years at his winter home near McGregor Boulevard.
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Fort Myers
Fla
Thomas A. Edison
Menlo Park
Edison
McGregor Boulevard
Birmingham Man Struck by Suburban Train in New Orleans
George Healey age 46 of Birmingham Alabama was struck by a suburban electric train early today at Murat and Canal streets He suffered probable skull fracture along with fractures to the right jaw left arm and left hip He had alighted from a street car and stepped into the train's path.
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Associated Press
New Orleans
George Healey
Birmingham
Ala
Healey
Murat and
Canal Streets
Hambone's Meditations by J P Alley
A brief humorous vent in dialect voices laments a sermon day and a commenter questions why Bob acts so late to church with lively rural cadence.
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Hambone’s Meditations
J. P. Alley
Meningitis in new form spreads east in the region
Memphis health officials believed they had checked a threatened meningitis epidemic that had killed seven people in four days. No new deaths were reported, but several patients remained in serious condition as authorities urged crowd avoidance and precautionary steps after a meeting of city health officials. Health officials also examined school children today.
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Memphis
Tenn
Meningitis Cases Rise On Pacific Coast In 1929
Chicago report recalls a year of rising meningitis cases on the Pacific coast. In March 1929 the United States public health service issued a statement warning of the outbreak and urging monitoring and preventive steps.
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Chicago
Pacific Coast
United States Public Health Service
Grotto Band to Expand and Tour This Spring
The Teflis Grotto band plans to broaden its tours to nearby towns and cities this spring. The goal is to increase personnel and broaden the band's role to promote both the group and the Grotto. New officers were elected and membership stands at about 215 with more joins hoped.
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Teflis Grotto
Masonic Temple
Grotto
B. M. MecKain
Monamh
Roy Beaman
Henry Ray
Texas trio arrested in Shreveport for Mann Act violation
Two men and a woman from Texas were arrested in Shreveport and charged before a U S commissioner with violating the Mann act. John B. Mann of Houston and Wilson Toner and Miss Inez Donnell also of Houston were remanded to parish jail after pleading not guilty. The group, said to be hitchhiking from Texas toward Detroit, were taken from a box car in the railroad yards.
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Shreveport
United States
John B. Mann
Houston
Tex
Wilson Toner
Inez Donnell
Louisiana and Arkansas
Texas
Detroit
Youth Dies After Lumber Car Accident Near Alexandria
Shreveport report says 17 year old J. W. Bowlin son of Jim Bolin of Cotton Valley died in a local sanitarium after lumber on a car fell and crushed his chest near Alexandria.
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Associated Press
Shreveport
J. W. Bowlin
Jim Bolin
Cotton Valley
Alexandria
Orleans Citizens Defend Against Two Bandit Attacks
In New Orleans on February 11 citizens fought off two robberies. Gene Powell, cashier at Thompson's restaurant on St Charles Street, and Mrs Irma Farace confronted a well dressed male robber who fired a pistol and demanded money as the cafe opened after midnight.
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Associated Press
New Orleans
Gene Powell
Thompson's
St. Charles Street
Irma Farace
Thompson
Opposition Grows Over Hughes Nomination in Senate
In Washington on February 11, midwestern Republican senators including Borah of Idaho and Brookhart of Iowa signaled rising opposition to the confirmation of Charles Evans Hughes as chief justice. They were among about a dozen lawmakers expected to speak or vote against the Hoover pick to replace William Howard Taft.
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Washington
Charles Evans Hughes
The
United States
Senate
Borah
Idaho
Brookhart
Iowa
Hughes
Hoover
William Howard Taft
Clerk in Hotel Heard Goad Beg Wife Not to Kill
A hotel clerk testified that a man urged his wife not to kill him, noting the heated exchange and underlying threat. The testimony appeared during proceedings continuing on page twelve.
Dixie Goad Goes On Trial In Tallahassee Murder Case
In Tallahassee on February 11 Mrs. Mariana E. Dixie Goad faced a preliminary hearing for the murder of her husband Henry Goad a reputed Memphis bootlegger. A large crowd packed the courtroom as hotel employee H P Thompson testified he heard pleas from Goad and quoted him urging warning.
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Tallahassee
Fla
Mariana E
Dixie
Goad
Henry Goad
Memphis
Cherokee Hotel
J. Kent Johnston
H. P. Thompson
Goads
Thompson
Writer Gilberts Punch Up in Hollywood Cafe
Hollywood star John Gilbert and writer Jim Tully admitted exchanging blows in a cafe after a heated exchange over a two year old magazine item. Gilbert, with Ina Claire, said he acted as any man would. Tully said he stood and knocked Gilbert down.
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Associated Press
Los Angeles
John Gilbert
Jim Tully
Hollywood
Gilbert
Ina Claire
Palm Springs
Tully
May Cruze
James Cruze
Nicholas Kelly
Miss Claire
Sid Grauman
Monroe Weekly Building Permits Hit High Milestones
Building permits for February 3-10 totaled 65 350, a weekly high for Monroe 1930. January already set a monthly record with over 119 000, hinting a record year ahead. Notable permits include a 14 000 dollar 10 room residence by Paul Fudickar and a 10 000 dollar brick building on Wood street for Peyton Parker Realty.
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Monroe
Paul Fudickar
Peyton Parker Realty Company
Wood Street
Roy O. Hale
Glenmarle
Louisiana plan would add 11 reservoirs to Mississippi flood control
Georgia Democrat Representative Cox questions adopting a more costly plan than the Jadwin proposal. Harry Jacobs, Louisiana state engineer, outlines a Mississippi flood control scheme below Arkansas River combining 11 reservoirs with navagation aims at a total cost of 773.85 million versus 493 million for Jadwin. The plan would save land for floodways and use basins for backwater areas.
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Washington
Mississippi River
Arkansas
White Rivers
House
Harry Jacobs
Louisiana
Jacobs
Atchafalaya
Boeuf
Federal
Treasury
Mississippi
Arkansas River
Jadwin
Cape Girardeau
Gulf of Mexico
Cox
Georgia
Congress
Three Aged Inmates Die In Massachusetts Fire
Brockton Mass Feb 11 three aged inmates Luella Bacon George Brown and Minot Copeland died when a city home fire swept the building early today Twenty others were hospitalized many seriously hurt by the blaze authorities feared additional deaths among the elderly survivors amid the ruins police and firemen searched the debris
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Brockton
Mass
Luella Bacon
George Brown
Minot Copeland
Prohi Raiders Find a Still at Pastor's Home
Prohibition agents raided the home of Rev. Luther Marlar ten miles from Harlan Ky. and found a 28 gallon still. Officers said the apparatus showed evidence of recent use.
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Prohi
Harlan
Prohibition
Luther Marlar
One of Largest New York Hotels Faces Padlocking
Federal prohibition agents raid the Hotel Manger in Manhattan arresting 13 men including two bootleggers, six bell boys, and five waiters. Warrants were issued for eight more staff as padlock proceedings loom to close the 20 story hotel with 1750 rooms amid evidence the management knew of illicit activity.
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Associated Press
New York
Manger
Theatrical
Maurice Campbell
United States
Francis O'Neil
Major Campbell
Campbell
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