Hearings on Prohibition Reform Recess to Next Week
Washington March 27 AP The Hoover commission's proposals to improve enforcement of prohibition are under study by the House Judiciary Committee in executive session. Public hearings on repeal of the eighteenth amendment resumed Wednesday with drys and wets clashing over reform, then recessed for two weeks. Next week dry witnesses including F Scott McBride of the Anti Saloon League will testify. The committee is also weighing transferring the prohibition unit to the justice department broadening US commissioners powers and revising the Jones law penalties.
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Washington
Hoover Law Enforcement Commission
House Judiciary Committee
McBride
F. Scott McBride
Anti-Saloon League
Irving Fisher
Yale
Clarence True Wilson
Board of Temperance Prohibition and Public Morals
Methodist Episcopal Church
Fisher
Graham
Pennsylvania
Law Enforcement Commission
Treasury
Justice Department
House
Senate
United States
Chaplins May Be Reconciled Says Ex-Wife
Lita Grey Chaplin told a reporter in Paris that she and Charles Chaplin might reconcile for the sake of their two children. The Paris edition of the Chicago Tribune reported the remark as she disembarked from the Aquitania.
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Paris
Chicago Tribune
Lita Grey Chaplin
Aquitania
Charles Chaplin
Aunt Het Ry Robert Quillen
A fragment quotes Robert Quillen on shaming a man into abstaining from drinking and resisting bossy pressure to prove courage.
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Hetry Robert Quillen
Immense Sum to Be Paid Labor on Iowa Road Work
Iowa highway labor costs for the year are estimated at 17.9 million dollars, per Fred H. White chief engineer. The figure accounts for more than half of the road program with 1000 miles of new paving aimed and wages averaging 54 to 55 cents per hour.
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Iowa
Ames
Fred H. White
State Highway Commission
White
Chicago Snow Ends but Slush Clings to City
Chicago ends its historic snowfall with 19.1 inches blanketing the area yet lingering slush and drifts delay traffic and paralyze side streets. Streetcar lines were heavily disrupted as 20,000 workers and 250 machines labored through the night to clear rails, while Loop hotels filled with workers seeking shelter downtown.
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Chicago
Lake Front
Weather Bureau
Tardieu Wins in First Skirmish Over Young Plan
Paris March 27 AP Premier Tardieu won his first skirmishes on the Young Plan ratification in the chamber of deputies. He twice faced confidence questions and was sustained by raised hands before a final vote of 319 to 262 against him.
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Paris
Tardieu
Chamber of Deputies
Briand Pushes New Pact Idea At Conference
In London at St James Palace the five power naval conference delegates plan a plenary session in a week. France signals willingness to cut naval tonnage if a Mediterranean mutual guarantees pact is agreed, aligned with league of nations model treaties.
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London
St. James's Palace
Tomor
Aristatle Briand
Arthur Henderson
France
Mediterranean
M. Briand
League of Nations
Women petition for naval disarmament at Geneva
Women from 14 countries filed petitions urging delegates to speed naval disarmament. The memorial by affiliates of the International Alliance of Women for Suffrage and Equal Citizenship asks for courage and vision to push decisive arms cuts guiding Geneva talks.
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Landes
Naval
International Alliance of Women For
Geneva
Briand Returns To London To Discuss Naval Pact
French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand arrived in London from Paris for talks with Britain and the United States. The aim is to determine what new offers Britain and the U S are prepared to make in response to France's naval estimates and to assess the possibility of a consultative pact.
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Great Britain
League of Nations
Briand
London
Aristade Briand
Paris
United States
France
Britain
Diamond Salesman Robbed in Chicago Lobby
Harry Peck a Baltimore diamond salesman told police he was robbed of gems worth 100000 by three men in a downtown building lobby. He said the assailants pressed revolvers against his side and snatched two wallets containing the diamonds.
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Chicago
Harry Peck
Baltimore
Ohio Bootleg Gangland Takes Two Men for Ride in Parked Auto
Two more victims of a bootlegger feud were found dead in a Brecksville car. The Cleveland men Anthony Borsellino and his 39 year old cousin were bound and strangled after leaving for Akron to visit a friend. Police link the killings to a gangland war that may span other Ohio cities and involve rum runners and hired gunmen. Local history includes a July murder of Isadore Fuerstman and Skinny Schiller nearby.
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Ohio
Cleveland
Brecksville
Anthony Borsellino
Akron
Lorain
Elyria
Isadore Fuerstman
Schiller
Einstein Advances Gravity and Electricity Link
The Associated Press reports Albert Einstein and W Mayer present a Prussian Academy paper detailing two static solutions to the field equations of his uniform field theory. The work claims a rigorous solution for a charged sphere and for multiple uncharged masses at rest, linking gravitation with electricity.
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Berlin
Albert Einstein
Prussian Academy of Sciences
W. Mayer
Einstein’s Field Equations Link Gravity and Electricity
Cambridge March 27 AP Einstein’s first practical proof of a link between gravitation and electricity is announced in his new paper. He states mathematical field equations show a relation among the two universal forces, a breakthrough that followed earlier, questioned attempts and subsequent modifications.
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Associated Press
Einstein
M. S. Vallarta
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Howard W. Blakeslee
Cambridge
Mass
Heinstein
Hoover sends greetings to Maine Republicans at convention
President Hoover telegraphs greetings to the Republican state convention in Bangor Maine declaring the party has met national issues with constructive measures. He says the party's record of legislation and administration justifies the people’s continued confidence.
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Bangor
Maine
Hoover
Perry elected as church head
The Rt. Rev. James De Wolf Perry, bishop of Rhode Island since 1911, was elected primate of the Protestant Episcopal Church in America by the house of bishops in St James cathedral. On the seventh ballot he received 69 votes. Perry named Hugh Latimer Burleson as assistant and Frederick F. Reese as vice chairman. The assembly also protested religious persecution in Russia.
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Chicago
James de Wolf Perry
Rhode Island
Protestant Episcopal Church
Bishop Perry
Germantown
Calvary Episcopal Church
Hugh Latimer Burleson
South Dakota
Frederick F. Reese
House of Bishops
William T. Manning
New York
Russia
Weather sketch Iowa Illinois forecast and river notes
The weather section forecasts Iowa showing fair tonight and Friday with some cloudiness and a slight rise in temperatures in the west. Illinois expects mostly fair conditions with little temperature change. River levels are listed: St Paul 0.3 with a fall of 0.4, La Crosse 3.8 with a fall of 0.1, Dubuque 6.1 steady, Davenport 5.3 up 0.1, Muscatine 6.2 up 0.1, Keokuk 3.4 down 0.8.
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Iowa
Illinois
St. Paul
la Crosse
Dubuque
Davenport
Muscatine
Keokuk
Prison riot erupts at Missouri penitentiary
Warden Leslie Rudolph reports an organized plot by convicts to burn factory buildings and escape. Tear gas bombs and clubs rout 750 inmates from the dining hall amid a renewed mutiny, with about twenty prisoners injured. national guardsmen with machine guns standby, but no shots fired.
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Jefferson City
Leslie Rudolph
Missouri Penitentiary
Missouri National
National
Aged Deaf Woman Bequeaths Ears to Medical Unit
Miss Abby Hosmer a wealthy deaf woman of Chicago wills her ears to the Chicago Laryngological and Otological Society. Dr. Austin A Hayden hails the bequest saying science can study ears after death to understand why one in ten people become deaf.
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Chicago
Abby Hosmer
Will Rogers Remarks On Democratic Candidate
Beverly Hills March 23 editor quotes Will Rogers as saying his preferred Democrat earned a university degree for advice in high finance and predicting tariff impacts. He claims Owen D Young is the man and warns tariffs will cause unemployment with Republicans swept from office in November.
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Beverly Hills
Calif
Owen D. Young
Owen
Grundy
Woman recounts abduction and kidnapping attempt in Michigan
Mrs Elsie Mills of Detroit testified she was bound with a dog collar, adhesive tape, and ropes while two or three men forced her to drive from 4 45 p m until midnight near Bad Axe. A second car followed as the assailants sought a safe imprisoning shack. Sheriff search found no trace.
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Bad Axe
Mich
Elsie Mills
Detroit
Here
Husherd
Landord
John L. Hoffman
Veteran Doctor Dies at His Cedar Rapids Home
Dr. George E. Crawford, 81, longtime Cedar Rapids physician since 1877, died today from age infirmities. He held every honor in the Iowa Medical Society including president. Native of Ohio, he spent most of life in Iowa after one year at the University of Iowa and completing his medical studies in the East.
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Cedar Rapids
George E. Crawford
Iowa Medical Society
Ohio
Iowa
University of Iowa
East
Huckins Jurisdiction Postpones Arraignment in False Pretenses Case
Elmer S. Huckins, jailed in Cedar Rapids after extradition from Wisconsin, awaits arraignment on three counts of obtaining money under false pretenses. Judge F O Ellison postponed arraignment, pending jury trials or next Monday. Huckins seeks bond reduction, faces potential September jail stay if bond cannot be posted. His son George Huckins was recently convicted on a similar charge.
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Cedar Rapids
Elmer S&s. Huckins
F. O. Ellison
Ellison
Elmer S. Huckins
Wautoma
Wis
Huckins
Carl Hendrickson
Hendrickty
R. S. Milner
Wisconsin
H. J. Manchester
George E. Huckins
Iowa farmer to face first degree murder charges in double slaying
Newton March 27 AP George McKinney Mitchellville farmer likely to be charged with first degree murder for beating Artie Dora 25 and Gladys 12 to death on his farm three miles southeast of Mitchellville He then shot himself in the hand and surrendered to sheriff O Kelly Officials seek motive amid possible insanity theories as family details emerge and investigation continues for the spring term of court.
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Newton
George McKinney
Artie Dora
Gladys
A. M. Miller
Miller
McKinney
Jasper County
Mitchellville
Artie Dorn
E O. Kelly
Lloyd
Loren
Marshall
Leavalsa
TomcKinney
Azytion
Grace
Farson Merchant Dies Battling Fire
Frank Thompson a 63 year old hardware merchant was killed in a blaze that destroyed a business block in Farson. The fire began around 11 p m and raged until 2 a m destroying his hardware store the Rudy grocery and general store a garage and the Prunty produce station with losses in the thousands.
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Farson, Jr
Frank Thompson
Thompson
Rudy Grocery and
R. C. Prunty
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Perry
Missouri
Will Rogers
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