Skidding Auto Kills Clintonville Business Man
Clintonville Wisconsin news reports Henry Zarling age 58 died after his sedan skidded off a rural road near Clintonville into a telephone pole while en route to his Pella cheese factory. His 14 year old son Ervin was critically injured. no witnesses. Event occurred about 7 pm two miles northwest of Clintonville.
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Clintonville
Wis
Henry Zarling
Ervin Zarling
Zarling
Pella
Albert Erdman
Kurt
Koeller
Appleton
Erdman
Norma
Darling
Watertown
Atlas Engine Company
Patterson Manufacturing Company
Topp-Stewart Tractor Company
State Bank
Embarrass
Rindt Hardware Company
Farmers’ Milling Company
Paul Boin
Miwaukee
Henry Thusias
Oconomowoc
Norma Zarling
Ervin
Herman Zarling
August Krueger
Louis Krueger
Lebanon
Herman Krueger
Ashatun
Fred Schley
Gambler Paid $50,000 Ransom for Freedom
James M. Wood, a Chicago Heights gambler missing for a week, walked into the Danville police station and said kidnapers freed him after his relatives paid $50,000 on the Dixie highway. Ward reported he was released near Danville after the ransom was wired.
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Danville
U.P
James M. Wood
Chicago Heights
Ward
Dixie Highway
Here
Alfalfa Bill Murray, Oklahoma Chief, Busy Man
In Tishomingo the famed political figure William H. Murray, known as Alfalfa Bill, prepares for a six month legislative session amid a homefolk audience. He shuns Oklahoma City advisers, works in a bare hotel room with the state constitution he wrote, and faces economy, oil prorations, and tax revision as he plans his governor's agenda.
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Frank O. Hall
United Press
Tishomingo
Okla
Clackasaw
William H
Alfalfa Bill
Murray
Oklahoma
Oklahoma City
Congress
Bill Murray
Yeas
Appeals From Clark Decision Holding Day Amendment Invalid
United States Attorney Philip Forman appealed to the Supreme Court from Federal Judge William Clark's ruling that the Eighteenth Amendment is invalid. The same action quashed the indictment against William Sprague of Wantage for illegal beer transport, with Forman seeking permission to appeal and filing notice with the district court.
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Newark
N. J
United States
Philip Forman
Supreme Court of the United States
William Clark
Frederick M. P. Pearse
William Sprague
Wantage
Forman
Clark
Hoover Dam work bids set for March four
Washington announces bids for the Hoover dam project in Boulder Canyon on the Colorado River. A single contract will cover storage and power works with completion targets through 1935, total cost set at 165 million dollars, and a 1000 man workforce planned with priority to ex service members.
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Washington
Hoover Dam
Boulder Canyon
Colorado River
Congress
Black Canyon
Interior Department
Arrests for Counterfeit Coins Stun Ashland Officers
Three Virginia men Stanley Papin Emil Lenderman and Vernon Hansola were held in Ashland Wis after police intercepted counterfeit coins worth 37.50 in quarters and two dimes found on them. Crude imitations were tied to slot machines with 12 pounds of babbit dies and a melting device recovered. The men claimed they were bound for Wakefield Mich and a federal officer from Minneapolis was en route.
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Ashland
Wis
Virginia, Minn
Minneapolis
Stanley Papin
Emil Lenderman
Vernon Hansola
Inc
Wakefield
Mich
Sheboygan Plans Night Games for High School Football
Sheboygan coaches plan to push high school football into night games next year to combat declining attendance from radio broadcasts of college football. Plans to be discussed at January conference. Oshkosh All-Stars defeated Racine list 27 to 21 with Rut Walter scoring 14 of the points.
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Sheboygan
Fox River Valley Agh
Oshkosh All Stars
Racine
Rut
Walter
Northwestern
Green Bay
St. Norbert’s College
Stevens Point State Teachers College
St. Norbert’s High School
West Green Bay High School
Symnasium
Bloodgood of famous Milwaukee law firm dies at 59
Obituary notes the death of Bloodgood senior partner of a longstanding Milwaukee law firm at age 59 from pneumonia. He led labor, anti trust and defense efforts, chaired Wisconsin defense league during World War I, served as civilian aide to the secretary of war since 1923, and was active with the National Civic Federation and American Academy of Political and Social Science. He is survived by his wife and four children.
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Milwaukee
Pheumonia
Wheeler Peckham Bloodgood
Bloodgood
Wisconsin Defense League
United States
Academy
National Civic Federation
American Academy of Political and Social Science
Wisconsin
John W. Weeks
War Department
Coolidge
ST. John's
St.John's Miliary Academy
Delafield
Portion of State Income Tax Law Is Declared Invalid
Milwaukee four that part of the Wisconsin income tax law for collect ion of income taxes from persons who take up residence in Wisconsin during the tax year was declared unconstitutional today by Circuit Judge A E Braun His decision overruled the state tax commission and John H Leenhouts assessor of counties The case was that of George W Hannam formerly of Michigan who moved here in October 1926 He made 422000 selling General Motors stock in Michigan but lost 34000 in stock transactions here The law says such persons shall pay income taxes in proportion to the portion of the year they are resident in Wisconsin Hannam lived in Wisconsin 76 days Judge Braun ruled that as long as one was resident of some other state he owed no allegiance or support to this state
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Milwaukee
Wisconsin
A. E. Braun
State Tax Commission
John H. Leenhouts
Iitores
George W.ffannam
Michigan
General Motors
Hannam
Braun
Hoover content to let court issue rest
Washington D C press reports Hoover showing no plan to overrule the foreign relations committee decision on the world court issue. He will not call a Senate session before March 4, and peace groups urge reconsideration. Frederick J Libby of the National Council for Prevention of War calls the vote a challenge and urges immediate action either this session or a special session to secure Senate action. In Marquette Michigan a hobo tale notes Joseph Leon Lazarowicz returns $10 bill found in a store to a worker, refusing any reward.
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Washington, D. C
Hoover
Foreign Relations Committee
Senate
Frederick J Libby
National Council For Prevention of War
Friends of the Court
Marquette
Mich
Joseph Leon Lazarowicz
Brooklyn
New‘herry
Lazarowatz
Lumber Company Wins a Lower Assessment in Ladysmith
John S. Owen Lumber company, a new nonresident landowner in Ladysmith Wisconsin, won affirmation of a decreased assessment on its unimproved property after appealing to the state tax commission. Town officers had cut assessments on improved land and raised them on unimproved land in 1929, and the board of review upheld the reassessment.
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Ladysmith
Wis
John S. Owen Lumber Company
Board of Review
State Tax Commission
Tax Commission
Berenguer Improves amid Health Reports and Travel
Madrid reports Premier General Berenguer shows slight improvement despite tensilitis and leaves his bed. In Paris, Raymond Poincare’s condition increases optimism after a sudden attack, with doctors hopeful he will survive the vascular spasm. En route to Madeira, French and Polish officials travel from Bordeaux for rest and recovery.
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Madrid
Berenguer
Poincare
Paris
Raymond Poincare
Eetinues
Madeira
Bordeaux
Marchal Pulsudsk
Madeba
Outlaw King Is Slain on Swinton Island
In Burma's Mergui Archipelago a mysterious Burmese outlaw, rulers of a bare island community, was hunted by police for years after a spree of robberies. He fled into caves and resisted capture, dying in a final confrontation with officers who traced him to the island.
No Evictions On Holidays Says Danville Official
Danville Virginia authorities halted threatened Christmas evictions of 47 striking textile workers from company housing. With two feet of snow and impassable roads, City Magistrate W E Griggs announced there would be no removals. The workers, part of a 4000-strong United Textile Workers strike against Dan River and Riverside mills, faced court orders to show cause on December 23 24 25 and 26. Some welcomed the decision while others prepared to resist if forced out.
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Danville
Griggs
Dan River
Riverside
United Textie Workers of America
Senate Republicans defend Hoover after McKellar charge
Senate Republicans charge Tennessee Democrat McKellar with dishonesty and malice for criticizing President Hoover over the 1919 $100 million European food relief funds. Senators Vandenberg and Glenn dismiss the claims as political, urging that war records and relief efforts not be tarnished for partisan ends. Glenn condemns late accusations while urging unity beyond party lines in this crisis.
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Washington
Senate
Hoover
McKellar
Tennessee
Europe
Vandenberg
Michigan
Glenn
Tillnois
United States
Whitehouse
Repidan River Lodge
South America
House
Herbert Hoover
Business to Pick Up Soon in Great Lakes Area
Buffalo reports from the 28th Great Lakes regional advisory board indicate modest improvement ahead in early 1931. Toledo transportation commissioner Clare B Tefft cautioned against expecting full capacity gains, noting plants operated at about 80 percent of 1929 peak. Banking leaders voiced optimism, with a Detroit bank vice president predicting an end to the decline and an upturn in sight. The group suggested improvements could begin by April 1931, with districts slowly emerging from downturn.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Great Lakes
Toledo
Telft
Fred M. Renshaw
Graydon Bowers
Marine Trust Company of Buffalo
Bowers
F. J. Parker
Lie First National Bank
Detroit
United States
Tefft
Thal
Shepard Defense Rests in Wife's Murder Trial
The defense rested its case in the Majo Charles A Shepard murder trial in Kansas City. Prosecution plans rebuttal testimony today or tomorrow as witnesses cast doubt on the mercurial poisoning claim. Weather notes from Milwaukee show cloudy, snow in east and south. temperatures near freezing with light winds.
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Kansas City
Kan
Majo Charles A Shepard
Wafe
Shepard
Valnesesc
Tedusy
Tomorro
Hoover gets free hand on emergency fund for drought aid
In Washington Congress quickly backed the farm board with a $150,000,000 request and the Senate approved the House provision giving President Hoover discretionary power to allocate the $116,000,000 emergency construction fund. The vote on adoption was 226 to 146, with Democrats opposing the substitute aimed at loans for food. The dispute moves to a conference to reconcile differences.
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Washington, D. C
Congress
House
Farm Board
Senate
Hoover
Robinson
Jones
Appropriations Committee
Ten States Have Old Age Pensions Move Aiding Unemployed
New York reports ten states with old age pension laws designed to aid unemployment relief. Wisconsin counties pay or share costs. Massachusetts phases in July 1921 with 20 years in state. New York and Kentucky show mixed implementations. California, Minnesota, Montana, Colorado, Wyoming, Maryland, and others display varied applicability and funding. Final totals vary by year and legality.
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New York
Wisconsin
Massachusetts
New York State
Jane Stair
Kentucky
Maryland
Wyoming
Colorado
Montana
California
Minnesota
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Isa
Montreal
Montreal Athletic Commission
National Boxing Association
Plankinton Arcade
Milwaukee Journal Club
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Famous Law Firm
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North Carolina
George Wilson
Durham
N.C
Cheriton
Mary ‘Anne Birch
Manteo
Cape Henry
Patricke County
Virginia
Rutherfordton
Forest City
N. C
Roanoke
Frank Shelton
Eastman
Hunter
Macon
Frank H. Coleman
United States Weather Bureau
Lumber Company
M'Kellar
Tony
Mops" Volpe
al Capone
Chicago
Secretary of Labor
William N. Doak
Volpe
Great Lakes Area
Lake Michigan
Upper Michigan
Buckstaff Observatory
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