Kinloch mine blast era death toll climbs amid rescue efforts
Amid Kinloch mine explosion near Parnassus Pennsylvania rescuers pressed deep into wreckage as the confirmed death toll reached twenty five by noon with three bodies recovered and approx thirty miners still unaccounted for. Swollen Mississippi floods 12 000 acres of crops after levee breaks near Indian Grave district threatening hundreds of homes and forcing mass evacuations while Alabama faces rising rivers and new flood fatalities.
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Parnassus
Kinloch
James Poole
Jesse Ando
James
Davis
Quincy
Hi—i
Wgrave
Pakiols
Hood Path
Mark
Fabius
Missour
Lima Lake
Quinney
Howevr
Mississippi
Keokuk
Ise
Jawa
Soan
Inaugural Chairman Compliments Wisconsin State
Madison and Governor Kohler receive praise from AMaugural committee chairman Grant III for Wisconsin's parade participation at the March ceremony. He notes rain reduced comfort but highlights troop service and public appreciation, and expresses hope for a future, less crowded visit in person.
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Madison
Grant
Amaugural
Koh’er
Wisconsin
Mooney and Billings face extended prison term again
San Francisco reports that Mooney and Warren K. Billings, both serving life sentences for the 1917 murders, may not be freed this year as Gov. Young delays reopening the case until the current legislature adjourns. An affidavit from Estelle Smith claims false testimony influenced Billings’s conviction, adding pressure for renewed inquiry.
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San Francisco
Calif
U.21
Thomas Mooney
Warren K. Billings
Friends of the Law
C. C. Young
Estelle Smith
Autings
Billings
Mooney
RETURN OF FORDY CHECK POINTS TO MORE PROCEEDINGS
Fond du Lac Wis return of the county check in settlement of state taxes deducted refunds to Fond du Lac and Ripon indicates continuation of long Quark proceedings after the bank stock case. State Treasurer Solomon Levitan refused to accept the check and said the state will not return legal taxes to counties. Dane county event court papers were sent in a mandamus proceeding to force the treasurer to accept the check.
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Fond du Lac
Wis
Ripon
Solomon Levitan
Levitan
Gooding
Dane County
Airmail Pilot Survives Parachute Landing in Fog
In heavy fog and rain near Walnut, Kansas City pilot Paul J Kanint used a parachute to bail from his damaged airmail aircraft and landed safely this morning. The incident underscores peril in poor visibility as authorities investigate the cause of the fogbound flight.
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Kansas City
Pyiot
Paul J Kanint
Cmeage Air- Mail
Walnut
Til
Mexican Navy High Officers Arrested After Vera Cruz Revolt
In Mexico City six senior naval officers were jailed in Santiago Tiubelolco prison after an attempted revolt linked to the Vera Cruz occupation. President Provisional seeks to probe commanders including Jesus and Aguirre as the Atlantic fleet moved to Tampico. Commodore Hernandez reported forcing Aguirre to retreat while pledging loyalty to the government. Washington warns border breaches by Mexican rebels may trigger action if necessary. Ambassador Morrow reports a small rebel force near Mexico City.
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Mexico City
Santiago Tiubelolco
Vera Ortuz
Protescul
Ger Jesus
Maca Aguirre
Velaine
Vera, Cruz
Steige
Tampico
Hernandez
Aguirre
Potand
S. S. Watching
Washington
Aimer-ican
Aoai
Hele Ingg
Morrow
State Department
DETROIT RUM BRIBER CONVICTED IN FIFTEEN MINUTES
Detrow, Med-UP- Saies S Mack, the first of twenty-one former customs border patrol inspectors to stand trial for taking bribes from rum smugglers, was found guilty and sentenced to two years at Leavenworth and a $5000 fine. The jury deliberated fifteen minutes. Nineteen bootleggers face indictments in a whisky and beer smuggling conspiracy that allegedly allowed about $5,000,000 in contraband liquor to cross the Detroit River to Windsor Ontario.
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Detrow
Med
Saies S . Mack
Custom Border Patrol
Leavenworth Penitentiay
Here
Windsor
Ont
Study of Borneo Wild Man Home Life Under Way
University of Chicago researchers depart to study the home life of the wild man of Borneo and another expedition to uncover fossil records of early reptiles and mammals in South Africa. Prof Alfred Romer leads a dig in the Orange Free State and Transvaal while graduate student John M proceeds to study the Siang Dyak tribes in Borneo.
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Chicago
UPK
University of Chicago
Borneo
Theather
Alfred Romer
Orange Free State
Transvaal
John
Strike Vote Underway Among 8,000 Southern Shop Workers
A strike vote is being taken among 8,000 Southern railroad shop men in Washington D C Ballots will be opened March 31 The workers first requested a wage increase on May 10 1928 and negotiations have failed to settle the dispute
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Washington, D. C
Southern Railroad
Weather Digest From The Great Lakes Region
The bulletin reports rain and rain or snow across southern areas with no major temperature changes. Northern regions see snow tonight and Saturday. Winds shift to the east. showers and colder conditions are noted in the west and south Saturday with fresh Lake Michigan northerly influences.
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San San Rios
Associated Press
Lake Michigan
Minnesota
Northwestern
Renewed Civil War Near as China Faces Clashes
Reports from Hankow say fighting near the Hupeh border pits Nanking government warlords and Hankow chiefs. About 80 000 Nanking nationalist troops and 70 000 Hankow troops mobilized. Chiang Kai Shek directs maneuvers in the Yangtse valley amid provincial disputes and a fractured Nanking government.
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Peking
China
Elye
Imino
Hankow
Hupeh
Nanking
Chiang Kai Shek
Yangtse River
Kwangsu
Hunan Province
Negro Pupils Victims Of Alabama Twister
Tornado struck a negro school two miles west of Maxwellhorn Alabama. Reports say two pupils killed and eight to ten injured. Other towns, including Anniston and Jacksonville, reported damage and casualties with a negro school demolished and about thirty buildings blown down.
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Maxwellhorn
Ala
Here
M. B. Maxwellhorn
Maxwellborn
Lincoln
Hee
Anniston
Ane
Niston
Alabama
Merrellton
Jacksonville
Journal Post to Charge for Radio Programs Adverts
Kansas City Journal-Post reports the new board of trustees will treat radio programs as advertising and require payment for their publication. The change applies to all radio content published by the paper in Kansas City Missouri.
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Kansas City
Kansas City Journal-Post
Journal-Post
Northwestern college leader to head Wisconsin college presidents
Kowalke of Northwestern college Watertown was elected president of the Association of Wisconsin College Presidents and Deans for 1929 at a meeting in Milwaukee. Dean J C Graham of Ripon college was named vice president and Dean Aleida Peters of Milwaukee-Downer college acting secretary.
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Milwaukee
Efe Kowalke
Northwestern College
Watertown
Association of Wisconsin College
Othr
J C Graham
Ripon College
Aleida Peters
Milwaukee-Downer College
Confession by Negro Killer in Gary Murders
Gary Indiana police announced the confession of Mack a 28 year old black man to two Gary killings and a recent attack on a girl. He implicated an unnamed companion in several assaults in the Calumet region as detectives prepare murder charges.
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Gary
Ind
Beaden
Healey
Mack
Ieitch
Mary Gal
Milwaukee
Chester Dybalski
Pal
James Walsh
Kiired
Abolition of Markets Department Vetoed by State Senate
The Wisconsin State Senate voted 10 to 10 against Sen John Schumann Waterteyn's bill to fold the markets department into the state agriculture department. Supporters cited recent market actions like resolving the Chicago milk strike and pressuring distributors to recognize cooperative producers.
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Abolition OF Markets Department
State Senate
Madison
Department of Markets
John Schumann Waterteyn
Senate
Schumann
State Department of Agriculture
Assembly
Edward Nordman
Lehumann
Walter 8
Goodland
Uipe
John B. Cashman
Market Department
J Hf Vint
Chicago
I Distributing
Chippewa Falls Faces Vote On Utility Ownership
Chippewa Falls residents will vote on April 2 to decide whether the city will take over the Northern States Power Company and run its own utility. The council approved resolutions calling for the referendum at a special meeting.
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Chippewa Falls
Wis
U.P
Northern States Power Company
Floods Rise Across Wisconsin Rivers Amid Record Waters
The Fox River, Rock River, Wolf River, and Fox River tripled flood threats as Wisconsin towns face rising water. At Berlin the Pow River exceeds ten feet. locals report a high water record of thirteen years. A canoeist, Alex Maleyn, survived after overturning in the Fox River, gripping a bush until help arrived.
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Madison
Wisconsin
Rock River
Wolf
Fox
Watertown
Cully Landing
Alex Maleyn
Proposal to Defer Vote On Children’s Code Bill
A proposal to defer the children’s code vote was offered to place the matter before an interim committee for study and report at the next session. The move aimed to avoid patchwork regulation, with the assembly approving a Carow resolution for an interior committee to study the situation in Wisconsin and advise changes.
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Matisog
Wold
Sesson
Ben Ben Grtlieman
Moidyauker Geilemans
Resolulien Sare
Carow Junt
Sen BJ Rothes
Jess
Senate
Organized Labor
Michigan repeals life for a pint law for bootleggers
Lansing legislators repeal the Hire for a pint statute that imposed life imprisonment for a fourth bootlegging offense. The amendment exempts about 210 minor felonies from this harsh category, limiting life terms to offenses with a maximum penalty of at least five years. The revised scope preserves stricter penalties only for liquor offenses with longer maximum sentences.
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Lansing
Mich
Michigan
Firefight Hangs On as Doren Battle Near Critical Moment
Fire department relays have fought for about 12 hours for Ruth Van Doren a 17 year old pneumonia patient. Doctors predicted the crisis would end within a day as oxygen supply was managed and the patient stayed under treatment.
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Milwaukee
U.P
Ho Smive
Ruth van Doren
van Doren
Death of Dr. P. Foat, longtime Ripon surgeon
Dr P Foat prominent Ripon physician died at his Wat-son street home after a three year illness. He retired last year after twenty seven years practice and served as city health officer and school board member. A veteran of the Spanish American War and World War I, he held many posts including state commander of the United Spanish War Veterans. Survived by his wife Green Kate and daughter Mrs John Foster Holmes, with services Sunday at his residence led by Dr Silas Evans.
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Ripon
Wis
P. Foat
Wat- Son Street
Willam J
Olive
Adams County
Dr Font
Ripon College
Rush Medical College
Chicago
Bruno Sehaltern
Reims
France
Board of Education
Fout Srived
Vetterans Find
Odd Fellows
State Medical Society
T'r County Med—ical Assortation
Kiwanis Club
Foal
Green Kate
John Foster Holmes
Jaf
New Governor for Puerto Rico Not Chosen Yet
Washington official says the 1965 resignation of Gov Horace M Towner of Puerto Rico will be accepted only after a successor is selected. Brig Gen P Parker of the bureau of insular affairs indicated no definite action has been taken. Towner, a former U S representative from Iowa, was appointed by President Coolidge.
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Washington, DC
IUP
Horace M Towner
Porto Rico
Pianeis i Parker
Bureau of Insular Affairs
White House
Governal Towner
House of Representatives
Tawa
Coolidge
Fire devastates Peoria market injuring two firemen
In Peoria downtown a large blaze caused over 250000 in damage. Firemen Frank Lyons and Thomas OConnor were found amid the ruins while M Stroyer the watchman was recovered from the third floor of the Peoria market. The fire also heavily damaged the Black and Kuhl department store though flames did not reach the store.
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Peoria
M Stroyer
Frank Lyons
Thomas O'Connor
Black and Kuhl Department Store
Entitled to fight? Burlington men fined for brawl
Stanley and John Popolowski of Racine were fined five dollars each after claiming as brothers they were entitled to fight when and where they chose. The incident led to their appearance in justice court in Burlington, Wisconsin.
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Burlington
Wis
uRs
Stanley
John Popolowski
Racine
Charges Dismissed in Chicago Heights Raid Case
Chicago officers dismissed liquor charges against fourteen men after a January raid on the Chicago Heights suburb due to lack of evidence. Assistant district attorney Daniel Anderson moved for dismissal.
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Chicago
Chicago Heights
Daniel Anderson
Wisconsin Senate sells tax bill backs relief for limited incomes
The Kohler administration's income tax bill was presented to the Wisconsin Senate by Sen. H. B Daggett. It preserves tax rates but increases exemptions for individuals to ease the burden on those with limited incomes and align with federal rules. It also ends the three year average for taxable income and adopts the federal loss rule for 1829 onward. A spring recess from March 29 to April 9 was forecast after Assembly support.
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Madison
Kohler
Senate
H. B Daggett
Milwaukee
Conservaiie
Tas
Knownether
Daggett
UPI
Wisconsin
Assembly
Homes For
Wisconsin Assembly moves to study state crime status
A proposal adopts a resolution to create an interim legislative committee to study crime and procedures, report to the 1931 session, and address rising crime, court failure, and law enforcement. Assemblyman Carow leads the measure as others debate its scope amid proposals for a state aeronautics chief. Charles Lindbergh sent a message noting scheduling conflicts.
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Madnon
Wisconsn Assembly
Amercan
J. W. Caraw
Joseph J. Huber
Wisconsin
Col
Charles A Lindbergh
Oho
the Assembly
Madison
Women urged to oppose Duncan referendum in Wisconsin
Mrs. Harry E. Thomas, Sheboygan national Republican committeewoman, urged women voters in Waupun Wisconsin yesterday to oppose the Duncan referendum in a speech highlighting civic participation and party alignment.
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Waupun
Wis
U.1
Harry E. Thomas
Sheboygan
National Republican
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