Farm Aid Bill Moves Toward Feeless McNary Plan
Washington reports farm organizations dropping differences to back a feeless McNary bill seen as Hoover's preference. Senate work continues parallel to House hearings as leaders seek a unified approach with intermediate credit banks, revolving fund loans, and reduced commodity loan time limits.
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Paul R Mallon
United Press
Washington, D. C
McNary
Hoover
Senate
Darin
John D Rockefeller, Sr
Benny Ford
Secretary of the Treasury
Mellon
Owen Young
J P Morgan
Paul Warburg
Charles M. Schwab
Young
Morgan
Europe
Capitol
House Agriculture Commmittee
Senate Committee
House Committee
Treasury Department
Federal Farm Loan Board
Américan Farm Bureau Federation
National Grange
National Farmers’ Union
Manitowoc HS Conflagration Destroys Coal Warehouse
Manitowoc Wisconsin reports the largest city fire in a quarter century. A warehouse and coal dock storing 3500 tons of coal burned after flames breached the roof, causing an estimated 75000 dollars in damage to Manitowoc Land and Fuel Company property. Firefighters battled the blaze with river tug Peter Ross aiding from the water. wind was calm and the cause remains unknown though managers suspect spontaneous combustion. Thousands watched as crews worked to contain smoldering coal heaps near downtown buildings.
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Manitowoc
Wis
Manitowoc Land and Fuel Company
Peter Ross
Sheooigan
Saithough
F. H. Murphy
Downstown
Firewen
Quor Bill Deadlock Halts Michigan Legislature Action
Lansing Wisconsin news reports a bitter deadlock over a liquor bill in Michigan. The house rejected the measure by a two to one vote, sending it to a conference committee to iron out differences with the senate. The bill faced fines and imprisonment terms for first offenders, while the senate pushed longer penalties. A comprehensive program for state institutions emerged in committee, proposing about 28 million dollars for four years to expand hospitals and related agencies, funded by a real estate levy and an eight tenths mill tax.
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Lansing, Wich
Cuthbert
Feon Gu
House
Gus T. Hartman
Moughter
Senate Ib
Hartman
Senate
Conference Committee
Tragic fire kills twin sisters and girl in Emporium home
In Emporium Pennsylvania a coal fire started by Mrs John Smith burned three to death. The 12 year old Thelma Smith ran out then back to save her twin Wilma dying in the doorway. Their sister Mary Ann, 3, died in a crib. Dorothy Smith, 12, and the father escaped with severe burns. Harold Smith leaped from a second story window and was seriously injured. Mrs Smith escaped with burns.
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Emporium
John Smith
Thelma Smith
Wilma
Thelma
Mary Ann Smith
Dorothy Smith
Harold Smith
Mrs Smith
Missing Milwaukee Youth Prompts Police Search
Intensive search launched for Edward H. Brooks age 15 student at St John’s Military Academy and son of a wealthy Milwaukeean after he left his home and failed to reach the academy yesterday. Police pursue all leads as investigators seek his whereabouts.
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Milwaukee
U.P
Edward H. Brooks
St John's Military Academy
Seek Appointment of Fowler to the State High Bench
Fond du Lac Wisconsin petitions filed by county bar association urge Judge Chester A Fowler to fill the supreme court vacancy created by Chief Justice Vinje. They cite Fowler's 24 years on the circuit bench and 10 years on the state board of judges as qualifications, noting the region has lacked a high court representative for forty years.
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Fond du Lac
Wis
County Ha" Association
Chester A Fowler
Supreme Court
Vinje ' Tae
Fowler
State Board of Judges
Supreme Bench
Capone Charged With Contempt of Federal Court
Chicago reports United States agents arresting Al Capone on a contempt charge linked to evading a federal grand jury summons. Capone posted $5000 bond, protested his health claim, and was escorted by police to the Lexington hotel after appearing in the grand jury area.
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Chicago
United States
Scarface
al Capone
Capone
Federal Building
Chicago Heights
Lexington Hiatel
Mabel Walker Willebrandt
Ilness
Willebrandt
Kenneth Phillips
Milam
Florida
Grand Jury
Stille
Detective Bureau Police
Lexington Hotel
Yankee Doodle birdmen organize rebel air squadron
Juarez Mexico reports that American pilots form a fighting air squadron aiding the rebel army. Capt R H Polk of Jimenez has been named flight commander and plans to lead at least three additional U S pilots in an air war against Mexican federal forces.
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Juarez
Chihuahua
Mexico
R H Polk
Jimenez
Foreign Air Legion
United States
Lindy Lindbergh to Marry Anne Morrow in Maine
Boston Traveler reports Charles A Lindbergh and his fiancee Anne Morrow will wed at North Haven Maine on Morrows estate. The piece notes North Haven is an island in Penobscot Bay near Rockland with a village of summer homes.
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U Pi
Boston Traveler
Charles A Lindbergh
Anne Morrow
Nort
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Morrows
Anne
North Haven
Penobscot Bay
Rockland
Federals March on Red Strongholds
United Press reports nine thousand federal troops under Gen Plutarco Calles prepared to advance from Escalon toward Jimenez and Chihuahua City. Rebels reportedly abandoned Escalon, with Jimenez poised to block the push. Calles warned of extermination if they stand at Jimenez.
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United Press
Mexico City
Plutarco Rhys Calles
Escalon
Jimenez
Chuhuahua City
Calles
Bolson de Mapin
Burton Jones Escapes Reformatory Flight Ends in Milwaukee
Burton Jones, once confined at the state reformatory, escapes from a Oneida honor farm in 1926 and is recaptured in Milwaukee. He is serving a one to nine year burglary sentence when the escape occurred.
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Green Bay
Wis
Pany
Burton Jones
Oneida
Jones
Milwaukee
King Officiates At Ceremony In Sussex As Monarch Reopens Talks
King George officiated at a ceremony in Crmgwen House Sussex marking his first formal engagement since illness. Premier Baldwin presented new archbishops of Canterbury and York who paid homage and swore allegiance. The meeting followed by luncheon with Queen Mary and discussions on parliamentary dissolution. The Prince of Wales then performed a kingly duty investing several New Year honorees, a normally royal prerogative.
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Sussex
George
Great Britain
Crmgwen House
Stanley Baldwin
Canterbury
York
Baldwin
Landnd Im
Mary
London
Prince of Wales
Manuel
Wisconsin Conserve Funds into State Program
Madison ULP Wisconsin will not have an adequate conservation program without sufficient money to sustain it, Sen George W Blanchard Edgerton told the senate last night. A bill advancing 15 to 12 would require every resident fisherman over 18 to pay a $1 license with funds used for conservation purposes. Amendments proposing park purchases from surpluses and exemptions for adjacent landowners were defeated. The debate also covered a bill to eliminate justices of the peace, arguing Milwaukee would save money while others warned the move would remove the poor man’s courts.
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John C Schumann
Watertown
Justices of the Peace
Milwaukee
Milwankre
Bank Robbery on East Side Stirs Indy Police
Four men robbed the East Side State Bank in Indianapolis taking about $7000 in cash from Dorothy Edwards and others. The bandits fled in an automobile, prompting police to search for suspects amid a potential flight risk.
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East Side State Institution
Indianapolis
Ind
Stat Bank
Dorothy Edwards
Portage Courthouse Hears State v. Christian Trial
Crowds fill the Portage courthouse as Roy Christian 45 stands trial for murder before Justice J S Williams. Sheriff and Walter Farnsworth press witnesses as the body in the Lake Wisconsin marsh near Poynette is examined for bullet hole evidence and self defense is claimed by Christian. The case centers on the shooting involving the Christlaw and Knutson factions and the defense rests on self defense.
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Wis
Christlaws
Knutsuns
Lodi
Shera
Roy Christian
Justice of the Peace
J S Williams
Walter Farnsworth
Christian
Gilbert
Jengih
Lake Wisconsin
Poynette
John E Bentley
Portage
Two Drownings and Missing After Vessel Collision
Shanghai report says two children drowned and about thirty persons including six foreigners are missing after the collision of the Italian cruiser Libya with the coastwise vessel Kangti. The accident occurred in dense fog on the Yangtze River near Ranglao as Libia was aiding the sinking destroyer Muggia. The Kangti carried eighty eight passengers and a crew of forty. six foreigners and seventy Chinese were rescued.
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L P
Thuty Parsons
Libya
Chines
Ranglal
Labva
Muggia
Yangtse
Kangti
Lanchor
Sentenced Year and a Half at Stillwater
Minneapolis Minn Pi-Prea Russell was sentenced to a year and a half in the state prison at Stillwater Minnesota on a charge of violating the blue sky law. Judge W W Bardwell imposed the sentence after Russell pleaded guilty to selling unregistered stock in the Wisconsin Reck and Frehilizer company Elmwood Wisconsin. Indicted a year ago amid complaints from stock buyers who were promised lucrative positions in the concern. Russell was arrested in Seattle and brought back to face the charges.
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Stillwater
Minnesota
W W Bardwell
Russell
Settle
Graf Zeppelin Turns Toward Home After US- Palestine Flight
The Graf Zeppelin completes a nearly two day flight over Palestine and the Holy Land and eastern central Europe. The air voyage covers about 5000 miles in four days with a planned route over the eastern Balkans and central European capitals. Landing at Friedrichshafen is expected tomorrow, weather permitting.
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Athens
Hoover appoints medical corps chief and infantry head
Washington officials say President Tob ver has appointed Col Harry L. Gil christ as chief of the medical corps and Col Stephen C. Fuqua as chief of infantry. Hoth will attain the rank of major general.
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Tobver
Harry L. Gilchrist
Medical Corps
Chemical Warfare
Amos A Frits
Stephen C. Fuqua
Infantry
Robert H Allen Hoth
Mayor and Former Sheriff Named in False Arrest Case
Elkhorn mayor and Walworth county former sheriff Hal Wylie are named defendants in a $50 000 suit brought by Donald La Fave of Delavan. Attorneys Otto A Oestreich and Janesville Jane argue the complaint alleges false arrest and malicious prosecution after La Fave was arrested and released months ago in the Elk horn culvert murder case.
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Wic
EF T Rids- Way
Elkhorn
Hal Wylie
Walworth County
Donald la Fave
Delavan
Otto A Oestreich
Janestille Jone
Ice Gorge Flood Forces North Dakota Residents To Evacuate
Bismarck and Mandan face rising Missouri River floods as a large ice gorge blocks the river south of Bismarck. Army engineers plan to blast the jam with dynamite to release waters, with 55 tons en route. Air reconnaissance and multiple army planes monitor the situation while residents move belongings and await relief from the rising floodwaters.
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Bismarck
Mandan
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Upi
Here
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Join
Regan
Rhea
War Department
Location of I'm Alone when hailed set in dispute
Washington reports from the British consulate at New Orleans on the sinking of the Canadian rum runner Im Alone. The only point studied is the distance from shore when hailed by the coast guard cutter Wallcott. Diplomatic officials say the case may not reach full diplomatic representation if the vessel was within American jurisdiction.
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Washington
New Orleans
Coa T
Wallcott
State Department
Separate trials granted for two in Kenosha robbery case
Judge Byron B Park granted separate trials for the Dots brothers and Angélo Tarello in the Kenosha theater robbery case after an affidavit of prejudice led to the reassignment. Alex Dotz was a theater watchman, David Dotz a former Kenosha police officer, and Tarello allegedly planned the heist.
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Kenosha
Markham Bill Hoot Costs for Teachers
Madison reports Sen William H Markham introduces a bill to double resident and non resident fees at the University of Wisconsin and state teachers colleges with estimated revenue of 1 million dollars. Resident fees would rise from 22 50 to 50 and non resident from 62 50 to 150. The assembly passes the Ebbe bill for fire protection contracts. Leif Erikson Day measures advance.
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Willard R. Smith
United Press
Madison
University of Wiseconsin
William H. Markham
Markham
Senate
Ebbe
Pension proposed for Foch’s widow in French chamber
Paris new pension bill seeks 100000 francs yearly for Mme Foch widow of Marshal Foch. The measure provides continued pension to her if she dies until all of the marshal’s grandchildren reach adulthood. The proposal stems from cabinet advisers.
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Sisner Theron
Chamber of Deputies
Mme. Foch
Ghoron
Jemsire Cabiney
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