William Wrigley Jr Dies at 70 in Phoenix
William Wrigley Jr a multimillionaire gum maker and Chicago icon died at the Arizona Biltmore hotel at age 70 after a week of serious illness. He began his rise by running away at 11 from a soap factory and built a vast empire as a businessman sportsman and philanthropist. His son and daughter were noted as survivors.
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Phoenix, Ariz
William Wrigley, Jr
Sportsman Ad
Arizona Biltmore Hotel
Chicago
Wrigley Epigrams for a Life of Advice and Wit
Chicago U article notes William Wrigley Jr. offered quotable epigrams guiding younger men. He urged seizing real opportunities, pursuing liked work, staying persistent, keeping eyes on the bait, and maintaining enthusiasm. He stressed constant advertising, quick, frequent messages, and practical empathy in life and business.
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William Wrigley, Jr
Phillip K. Wrigley dies after long Cubs bid unfulfilled
Phillip K. Wrigley died at 2:30 a.m. with his wife at his bedside. He rose to lead a vast business empire and owned the Chicago Cubs since 1916, yet his greatest goal of a World Series pennant for Chicago remained elusive, with only the 1929 league pennant to his credit. He also owned the Los Angeles team in the Pacific Coast League as part of his diverse holdings.
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Phillip K. Wrigley
James R. Offield
Chicago Cubs
Cubs
Los Angeles
Plight of 200000 Coal Miners Before Biennial Meet
Indianapolis news report details the United Mine Workers of America biennial convention opening with 200000 jobless coal miners and industry distress on the agenda. Decreased soft coal production and price drops gloom delegates as relief measures and federal bills are discussed.
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Ind
U.P
United Mine Workers of America
United Mines Workers
Offi
Jonn
Senate
Sen- la Follette
Wisconsin
Costigan
Colorado
District 3 Paying During Next Season
Green Bay Wis U Highway get 168.4 miles of rear. D F Culbert announced total will 9 crete. The paying projects are located in Brown Calumet Door Fond du Lac Kewaunee Marinette Oconto Shawano and Winnebago counties. The longest paving is 33.5 miles of concrete on highway 142 from Abrams to Crivitz in Oconto and Marinette counties.
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Green Bay
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D. F. Culbert
Crete
Brown
Calumet
Door
Fond du Lac
Kewaunee
Marinette
Oconto
Shawano
Winnebago
Abrams
Crivitz
Aviator Dean Stinson Killed In Plane Crash At Jackson Park
Dean Stinson, Chicago aviation pioneer and head of Detroit Stinson Aircraft, died after a Stinson Detroiter aircraft wreck at a golf course near Jackson Park on the lakefront. Three companions were injured. He logged more than 14 000 flight hours in a 38 year career without using a parachute.
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America
Eddie Stinson
Iinois
Central Hospital
Jackson Park
Lake Michigan
Thhree
Wayne Mich
Detroit-Stinson Corporation
Stinson
Clark Field
Kalamazoo
Mich
John Tompkins
East Chicago
Ind
Frederick Gillies
Kinloch Field
St. Louis
Katherine
Marjorie
Jack
Salvadoran patrol boats shift position near La Libertad
Washington reports two American destroyers moved from Acajutla to La Libertad to broaden protection as Canadian warships monitor the former port. No landings reported. McCafferty notes slight improvement in gains by General Martinez government. Rochester cruiser due from Panama tomorrow. Philip and Wickes destroyers at La Libertad. Salvadorean legation lacks official reports since yesterday's cable about communist uprisings.
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la Libertad
State Department
McCafferty
San Salvador
Martinez
Santa Tecla
Ahuachapan
Acajulia
Rochester
Panama
Assistant Secretary of Commerce Injured in Plane Crash
Clarence M. Young assistant secretary of commerce for aeronautics was injured when his airplane crashed at College Park Maryland during radio tests. The aircraft fell 560 feet after the motor died. Young sustained leg bruises while pilot Ma Boggs escaped with no injuries. The plane toppled into soft ground and overturned after passing through a hedge.
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Washington
Clarence M. Young
Sec , of
Commerce For Aeronautics
Gin
Bev
Young
Ma Boggs
Commerce Department
College Park
Boges
Prohibition-era cattle deaths absolved by federal jury
A federal court jury absolved H. Boardman, a St. Croix County farmer, of blame for the deaths of four cows after they consumed masit emptied by May. The cows died from eating the contraband liquor materials found in a pasture where they grazed.
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Madison
H. Boardman
St. Croix County
Boardman
Shanghai Uneasiness Rises Amid Harbin Fighting
Warship movements and troop orders mark escalating tensions as Japanese forces near Shanghai and Harbin violence spikes. Forty five Chinese killed in Harbin after a railway guard looted the Chinese quarter. League of Nations holds a secret session on the Manchurian crisis while Nanking reshuffles its foreign ministry.
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New York
Shanghai
Harbin
Manchuria
Chinese Eastern Railway Guard
Kirin
Sasebo
Whangpo
League of Nations Council
Nanking
Chen Ming Shu
Eugene Chen
Chiang Kai Shek
National Defense Council
Chiang
Tokio
Joseph C. Grew
United States
W. Cameron Forbes
Washington, D. C
Japan
Middleburg Man Charged in Murder of Mrs Isley and Maid
Claude Farr, 53, a laborer from Middleburg, is charged with aiding and abetting in the killings of Mrs. Spencer Isley and her maid, Mrs. Minnie Buckn. The crime, blamed on a Negro, shocked the town where the two women were prominent socially. Farr was reportedly seen with intoxicated Black men the night of the murders.
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Middleburg
Claude Farr
Spencer Isley
Minnie Bucknhere Dan
Isley
Milwaukee
Farr
Restock State Raised on the Prison Farm Report
Milwaukee shrouded report notes state prison farm actions and a sustained restocking push. Haskell Noyes of Wisconsin censers league members, detailing a year with higher outputs, and a state commission map for a million trees annually as part of a reforestation program.
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Haskell Noyes
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Censer
Waupun
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Walton Club
Cleanup of Paradise of Pacific Plan Honolulu Housecleaning
Cleanup of Paradise of Pacific and efforts for law enforcement were outlined as Honolulu grows more organized. Two lawyers were named to assist in prosecuting Mrs Fortescue Lieutenant Massie and others tied to the Kahahawai slaying. The territorial grand jury recessed without indictments and planned further deliberation. A newly created police commission seeks a police chief by February 1 while debates over Massie trial handling and Hawaii’s status linger in the legislature.
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Pacific
Eugene H. Beebe
Barry S. Ulrich
Honolulu Chamber of Commerce
Granville Fortescue
Thomas H. Massie
E. J. Lord
Albert ©. Jones
Joseph “Ahahawai
Mitre
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Massie
Fortescue
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House
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Congress
Hawaii
Students Rate President Hutchins Tops in Daily Maroon Poll
In a Daily Maroon symposium Hutchins, the university president, leads with a rating of plus 12, ahead of Greta Garbo, beer, and rumble seats. The survey also includes The Daily Maroon and the new educational plan with varied scores.
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Counting the Ducks in Washington Census Effort
The air corps undertakes a duck census urged by biologists to count birds in a bay wintering area. The effort tracks numbers and birth and death rates, noting droughts may reduce births and increase mortality.
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Army
Air Corps
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Hoyo
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Move to Cut Vast Amounts Expected in Relief Bill
Madison and Wisconsin senate reconvened to dispose of 15 bills as the Polakowski unemployment relief bill is postponed to be referred to the finance committee for hearing. AFinance committee action may break a partisan deadlock and set new surtax provisions to scale down appropriations by three to four million and tax dividends.
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U.P
Polakowski
Assembly
Senate
Senate Finance Committee
Kenneth Hopping
Associated Press
Joint Finance Committee
J. H. Carroll
Glidden
Finance Committee
Wisconsin
Dill criticizes Reconstruction plan over railroads
Sen C G Dill of Washington blasts the Reconstruction Finance Corporation at a Kn county Democratic victory dinner. He warns a $1,000,000,000 rail loan could push the government deeper into railroad ownership and trigger further loans to protect earlier surrenders, describing the RCC as a big name for a big organization lending to big business.
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Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Washington
Carter Glass
The
Treasury
Eugene Meyer
Dawes
Mt. Vernon
O.—P
Sen
C. GC
Dill
Kn County
Joan Prelree
Wood postpones speedboat record attempt in Miami Beach
High winds forced veteran speedboat racer Gar Wood to cancel his bid to beat the 119.223 mph world mark as winds from the east-southeast reached 14 mph and weather bureau prospects remained unsettled. Also noted, Willard Smith clocked about 159 mph in a Ninety Mile Beach first trial for a 10 mile record, with a second run hinted. An Oshkosh professional basketball team fell to Port Washington 37-29, with Jorgenson of Neenah leading Oshkosh in scoring.
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Gar Wood
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Oshkosh
Port Washington
Jorgenson
Neenah
Garner Keeps The House On An Even Course
The House under Speaker John N Garner has shifted from minority humor to steady leadership. Garner, a tax expert and political fighter, tightens party discipline and guides committee actions while keeping the Democrats on course with a narrow six vote margin. The change has made the House the pace setter in Washington, clashing at times with the Senate over leadership roles.
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Raymond Clapper
United Press
4Ington
D. C
House of Representatives
John N. Garner
Washington
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Senate
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George H. Moses
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Doctors to Reveal Facts to Laymen at Pittsburgh Meeting
The American College of Surgeons will hold a public convention session in Pittsburgh where surgeons present lay accessible talks on nervousness the ache in your back and related topics Dr Alfred W Adi Minn and Dr Philp H Breuaener of Chicago are among speakers explaining medical issues in plain terms for general audiences.
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American College of Surgeons
Medina
Alfred W. Adi Minn
Philp H. Breuaener
Chicago
Rochester
Campbell Auto St Louis Scene Sparks Confusion
A garbled report describes an incident near Campbell Auto in St Louis where a man was reportedly released and claimed to have been driven in his car to another vehicle. The fragment mentions police, a transfer to a second machine, and unclear references to locations and people.
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St. Louis
Campbell
Drapers Tear
Kansas
Houdini trio escape from Georgia prison cage
Aubrey Smith Abe Powers and Roy Gardner escaped from a steel cage at the state penal farm in Middleville. They struck down a trusty, John S. Williams, who died minutes later as guards attempted to stop the trio in a stolen car. The escape reopens the notorious murder farm case from 1921 22 and highlights Williams alleged peonage of Black prisoners.
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Aubrey Smith
Abe Powers
Roy Gardner
John S. Williams
Georgia
Williams
Trusty
Houdini
Smith
Leland Harvey
Jack Martin
Harvey
Martin
Powers
Woodward Bunco
Gardner
Willams
Monticello
Nlmber
Farm Trucks Exempt From Ten Mile Tax, Says PSC
Madison reports the Public Service Commission will amend the 1921 law interpretation confirming farm trucks used to transport farmers’ products to operate on highways without the ten mile tax. Assemblyman Ray Lawton of Viola notes the change aims to align with the legislature’s intent, limiting taxes to commercial use and not ordinary farm transport.
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Madison
Public Service Commission
Blyman Lawton
Damage Suit Names Milwaukee Firm and BBB Manager
A damage suit targets Milwauker time ommore business and the better bureau of the association along with Geoff Willoughby as manager. Plaintiffs seek a permanent injunction and damages for interference with a business in Wisconsin. A parallel suit by Thomas I. Morey of Waukesha is pending against Willoughby and the Better Business Bureau.
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Milwauker
Ime Ommore
Better Bureau of the Association
Geoff Wileloughbsy
Rales
Fred
Step & Business
Wisconsin
Thomas I. Morey
Waukesha c Man
Wilbughby Land
Better Business Bureau
Wittman Snowbound in Joliet Plans Oshkosh Stop
A Joliet telegram reports Wittman snowbound at the Joliet airport. he aims to fly to Oshkosh Wednesday if weather clears. S. J. Wittman, Oshkosh flyer, phoned confirming a storm halted him for a few hours. he hoped to depart via Chicago if conditions improve and promised to notify friends. Local reception plans and a high level of interest formed as preparations for his Oshkosh arrival began.
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Oshkosh
Miami
Fla
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Joliet
Wittmax
S. J. Wittman
Oshkosh Flyer
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Wiltman
Byron
Wis
Willman
Favorable Weather Drives Wisconsin Road Building in 1941
Madison reports favorable construction weather and higher federal and state funds boosted Wisconsin highway work in 1941. M W Torkelson says the state highway commission handled 18 million dollars in contracts, laying 987 miles of concrete and 369 miles of gravel roads, 251 miles of grading and draining, and 171 miles of bituminous paving.
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Madison
Wisconsin
M. W. Torkelson
State Highway Commission
Torkelson
Snow Probable and Weather Advisory Across Lakes Region
The forecast indicates snow probable tonight and Wednesday with little temperature change. Strong winds from Lake Michigan bring snow near the lakes and advisories issued for Lakes Erie and Michigan. Upper Michigan expects snow tonight and Wednesday, mainly in western sections. Temperatures today show a high near 41 and a low around 20 with southwest winds and a barometer about 29.52.
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