Parley Resumes as France Navy Demands Put Under Review
London march 17 delegates at the naval conference resumed talks after France’s heavy tonnage demands appeared to loosen. At Chequers Premier Ramsay MacDonald and Andre Tardieu discussed new formulas with Briand Massigli and Dumesnil. A British communique noted both sides sought means to ensure successful negotiations and possible trimming of France’s claims.
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Webb Miller
United Press
London
France
Brokhten
Chequers
Ramsay MacDonald
Andre Tardieu
Irance
MacDonald
A. V. Alexander
Admiralty
Tardieu
Aristide Briand
Rene Massigli
Jacques Louis Dumesnil
Beans Growers Fight Rates In Interstate Hearing
Michigan bean growers elevator men and skippers will protest proposed freight rate increases at a Saturday hearing before Interstate Commerce Commission representatives at the Statler Hotel Detroit. Robert Dunn of the State Utilities Commission will attend. The protest argues the rate hike would cause heavy annual losses for Michigan interests and put them at an unfair disadvantage to Western growers.
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Lansing
Mar
Michigan
Interstate Commerce Commission
Statler Hotel
Detroit
Robert Dunn
State Utilities Commission
Dunn
Commission
International Air Derby Plans $25,000 Prize Loop
Detroit reports an international airplane race planned by I R Maxwell of Marysville Michigan featuring a 7 586 mile circuit across the United States Mexico and Canada with New York City as starting point on July 21 Stops include Atlanta Houston Mexico City Dallas El Paso Los Angeles Salt Lake City Omaha Chicago Montreal and back to New York Winners awarded 15 000 7 000 and 3 000 based on minimum elapsed time between control points
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United Preas
Detroit
United States
Mexico
Canada
I. R. Maxwell
Marysville
Mich
New York City
Atlanta
Houston
Mexico City
Dallas
el Paso
Los Angeles
Salt Lake City
Omaha
Chicago
Montreal
New York
Haiti Adopts Forbes Treaty Plan Amid Occupation Tensions
Haiti shows growing optimism over the Forbes plan to stabilize politics as the Hoover commission leaves Haiti aboard the Rochester. Officials expect a new U S diplomatic minister replacing Russsell and a post election treaty, while provisional leader Eugene Roy is set for nomination and council election.
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Harry
United Press
Port Au Prince
Haiti
Forbes
Hoover
Investigation Commission
Rochester
John H. Russell
United States
Miami
Fla
Guantanamo
Cuba
Washington
America
Republc
Eugene Roy
Luis Borno
Council of State
British racer Kaye Don aims for record speed in Florida trial
British driver Kaye Don, here in Daytona Beach to push a 4000 horsepower car toward land speed records, shows a calm view of the challenge. He talks little of himself, notes the sport’s appeal, and lives with a light routine of golf, walking, roadster drives, and casual meals as he prepares.
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Morris de Haven Tracy
United Press
Daytona Beach
Fla
Kaye Don
Don
Brooklands
England
Ingland
Coe
Indian Witchcraft Trial Shocks Seneca Reservation
Buffalo March 17. Tiny witchcraft tokens and a paper doll found in the Seneca reservation cemetery are used by defense to argue an insanity defense for Lila Jimerson in the murder case against Mrs. Clothikie Marchand. Nan cy Bowen stands accused with Jimerson. Marchand is a material witness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Buffalo
Lila
Jimerson
Clothikie-Marchand
Henri Marchand
Miss Jimerson
Nancy Bowen
Marchand
Mys
Floods threaten Bordeaux area after heavy rains
In the Pyrenees foothills and along the Adour and Garonne rivers floodwaters threaten the Tarn flood zone. Dikes breach and evacuations occur as 106 deaths are officially recorded in Tarn et Garonne with 7,800 still homeless. Flooding has already inundated 200 farms and destroyed livestock, while a landslide hits near Bagneres de Bigorre.
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Bordeaux
Pyrenees
Tarn River
Adour
Bagneres de Bigorre
Garonne
Tarn-et-Garonne
State Trooper Fights Marsh Fire Near Stake Farm
Dowagiac Michigan March 17 State Trooper George Hay battled a wide swath of marsh flames alone for two hours to save S E Stake’s home and farm buildings from a fast spreading fire. The house survived though the area was scorched.
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Dowagiac
Mich
S. E. Stake
George Hay
Hay
Michigan Brief: Bolt Takes Own Life at 75
Lansing March 17 Charles A Bolt 75 calmly sat in a chair with his feet propped in another held a mirror in his left hand and a pistol in his right before killing himself. Ill health is blamed by relatives.
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Lansing
Charles A. Bolt
Wife of Doheny Takes Stand in Bribery Hearing
Mrs Edward L Doheny testified in a bribery case involving her husband and former Interior Secretary Albert B Fall denying any improper payment. The proceedings covered a note exchanged after a controversial loan and included testimony from Navy officials on the Pearl Harbor storage base plans and a 1922 wartime scare.
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Washington
Edward L. Doheny
Cee
California
Gil
Albert B. Fall
Elk Hills
Doheny
Frank J. Hoan
Navy
Pearl Harbor
Hawaii
Manhunt for Benzie County Murderer Reaches Across Swamp
United Press reports a major search in Benzie County Michigan for Morris Brozofsky alias Theodore Allen after Undersheriff Edward M Rarey was shot and killed near a Platte Lake cottage. Prosecutor Kenneth Fewlass and state police Lieutenant Harl Hathaway lead the hunt as deputies追 pursue the suspect near Beulah and surrounding swamps.
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Mieh
Platte Lake
Edward M. Rarey
Beulah
Kenneth Fewlass
Benzie County
Harl Hathaway
Manistee
Morris Brozofsky
Theodore Allen
Desperado
Platte Lake’ District
Rarey
James Crawford
Brozofsky
Beuash
Flags
Crawford
Chicago Awaits Return Of Scarface Al Capone
Chicago awaits the return of Al Capone from a Philadelphia prison where he served ten months for carrying concealed weapons. The piece notes a chaotic homecoming plan with varied actors and mob scenes, plus local reactions from beer distributors and Capone’s family in a tense urban mood.
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Chicago
Scarface
al Capone
Robert T. Loughran
United Press
Big Shot
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Capone
House of Capone
Bie
Caponé
Spike’ O’don~Nell
Syike
Nolice Department
Local Pioneer Merchant J. H. Johnson Dies at 70
J. H. Johnson, a Mt Pleasant pioneer merchant born in Peterborough Canada on March 17 1859, died after a long illness. He opened the town mercantile store with his brother James in 1894 and built a regional landmark. Funeral Tuesday at Sacred Heart with Rev J A Mulvey and others officiating. He leaves wife Mary Ennle and five children Lucile, Beatrice, Helen, Philip, and James, plus a brother and sister.
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James
Mr. Johnson
Peterboro
Canada
Johnson
Ann Arbor
Sacred Heart
William McGann
Mary Ennle
Paul C. Henry
Lucile Johnson
Detroit
Beatrice
Helen
Philip
James. Johnson
William Hickey
Vandouver
Cainida
Five women receive prison terms in Kalamazoo liquor case
In Grand Rapids federal court 47 violators faced sentences for liquor law violations. Five women from Grand Rapids Kalamazoo and Ionia counties received two to three year terms to serve at Alderson Federal Reformatory. Other defendants from Kalamazoo area got sentences up to two and a half years at Leavenworth or state jails.
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Grand. Rapids
Mich
Martha Overholt
Grand Rapids
Mary Leonard
Ionia County
Cora Pregel
Anne Haner
Kalamazoo
Fane Edwards
Federal Women's Reformatory
Alderson
W. Va
Ford Rowley
Leavenworth
Albert Luther
Grand Traverse County
Charles Anderson
Detroit
Leavgnworth
Raymond L. Fierce
Tansings
Leave
Chillicothe Penitentiaries
New Trans-Neptunian Planet Photographed At Perkes Observatory
Lake Geneva Wisconsin March 17 The new trans-Neptunian planet was sighted and photographed by University of Chicago astronomers at Perkes observatory last night The photographs were forwarded to the university today directed by Prof George Van Buessbroek acting director.
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Lake Geneva
Wis
University of Chicago
Perkes Observatory
George van Buesbroeck
Prohibition Looms As Campaign Issue
Berlin observes war dead as German ora tors push abolition of war. Dr August Kahl of the folks party links outlawry with Kellogg pacts, noting 2,000,000 German soldiers died in World War I and 200,000 rest on homeland soil while the rest lie in 38 countries or at sea.
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Berlin
August Kahl
Folks Party
Reichstag
Germany
Reichswehr
Communists in New York Hold Demonstration
In New York on March 17 a counter demonstration drew 12 000 communists to a police guarded Bronx drill shed while Christians and Jews prayed for persecuted religious groups in Russia. Speakers included William Z Ioster Count Michael Karolyi and Charles Smith.
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New York
United Press
Russia
Cathedral of
St. John the Divine
William T. Manning
St. Patrick’s Cathedral
American Jewish Congress
Simeon D. Fess
Ohio
Hamilton Fish Jr
Bronx Coliseum
William Z. Ioster
Michael Karolyi
Charles Smith
American Association For the Advancement of Atheism
Benito Mussolini
Grover Whalen
Walker
Nikolai Lenin
Red Army
Navy
Prohibition to Dominate Coming Congressional Elections
Washington observers say prohibition will shape the midterm contests more than since the 18th Amendment. Democrats and Republicans alike push to force candidates to take a stand on prohibition or modification. Drys are at their peak in Congress, while wets fear a referendum atmosphere aiding political campaigns toward 1930. Raymond Robins urged a ten year trial as a basis for judging prohibition's merit.
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Washington
Mar
Massachusetts
William M. Butler
Republican’ National Committee
Hoover
House
Senate
Armerican
Congress
Aespha
Alis
Raymond Robins
Chicago
House Judiciary Committee
Senate Defeats Leather Tariff Amendment
Washington Mar 17 The Senate rejected the Oddie amendment to the tariff bill proposing duties on hides leathers and shoes now on the free list The vote was 37 to 42 The defeat stemmed from a lack of compromise between shoe and hide interests Shoe manufacturers opposed high hide duties and Western senators backing the hide tariff opposed the high shoe rate
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United Press
Washington
Mar
Senate Today
Oddie
De Valera Alarmed By Emigration From Ireland
Eamonn De Valera warns in a message from the United States that Ireland faces a continuous drainage of population. From 1911 to 1929, 650000 Irish emigrants left, reducing Ireland’s living population and undermining future prosperity. Emigration remains driven by economic policy of the 19th century and affects mainly young adults.
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de Valera
Ireland
St. Partick
Eamonn de Valera
United States
United Press
New York
Cork
Irish Free State
Weather forecast for lower Michigan March 17
Detroit report notes cloudy to partly cloudy skies for today with a chance of showers tonight in the southeast portion. Colder tonight and Tuesday in the southeast, with moderate to fairly fresh winds mostly from the northwest.
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United Press
Detroit
Lower
Michigan
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