Court Denies Clemency in 1916 Bombing Case
San Francisco December 1 The California Supreme Court voted six to one to deny Warren K Billings clemency and urged Governor to reject pardon petitions for Billings and Thomas J Mooney. The long inquiry found the men convicted of the July 22 1916 Steuart and Market Street bombing in San Francisco. Ten killed forty injured.
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SAN ‘FRANCISCO
Warren K. Billings
C. ©. Young
Waste
Langdon
supreme court
John MacDonald
Baltimore
Billings
Mooney
Steuart
Market streets
lfe
Folsom
San Quentin
Train wrecking plots invited near Sims California
A report of an attempted wreck or interception and robbery of Southern Pacific passenger train No. 13 near Sims California is under sheriff investigation. The engineer, seeing ties on the track, slowed but could not stop and the locomotive rammed the obstruction. Eight years earlier the same train route was robbed at the Oregon line by the D Autremont brothers, killing four crew members.
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REDDING
Cal
Southern Paviffe
Sims
sheriff's office
Portland
Ore
San Francisco
Oregon line
D'Autremont brothers
Young bandit under arrest in Long Island crime spree
Police questioned Edward Schaefer fifteen about a crime wave he allegedly perpetrated single handed in Plandome Heights Long Island. Detectives said the Bergenfield N J youth boasted of burglaries in New York Philadelphia Pittsburgh Chicago and Indianapolis. He was arrested at Plandome Heights with a suitcase full of silverware.
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NEW YORK
Edward Schaefer
outet
Plandome Heights
Long Island
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
Chicago
Indianapolis
Schilefer
Bergenfield
N. J
Pladome Heights
Friend of Labor Dies at 100 in Washington
Mary Jones born in Cork Ireland died in Washington at age one hundred after a life of relentless labor activism and union organizing. She survived jail, deportations, and setbacks from the 1867 yellow fever epidemic and 1871 Chicago fire, earning praise from AF of L president William Green for her unswerving dedication to workers.
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WASHINGTON
Mary ‘Mather’ Jones
Walter Burgess
John D. Rockefeller
IRELAND
Mary Jones
Cork
United States
Canada
Michigan
Monroe
Chicago
William Green
American Federation of Labor
labor
Post Office Lease Rents Labeled Excessive
Senate committee chairman Blaine said most large post office leases are grossly excessive with annual rents from 23 to 40 percent of property value. He urged condemnation actions by Congress to intervene in all such cases.
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WASHINGTON
Blaine
senate
congress
post office department
Robber Leader Killed by Police During Escape
Oakland report details Frank E. Smith alias William Z. Smith, a long-time gang leader linked to the Nobel train robbery and numerous California heists. Trapped at his home, he tried to flee the bath in handcuffs and was shot in the back by Inspector Walter Garret as officers closed in. His wife Evelyn Ellis was arrested.
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OAKLAND
Cal
Southern Pacific
Nobel
here
ehtertain
Frank E. Smith
Frank E
William Z. Smith
Smith
Vancouver
D. C
Fresno
wien Smith
ters
Evelyn Ellis
California
Rodeo
Bank of Pi' hole
Arthur McDonald
Tracy, port office
Calwa winery
Everett
Wash
B. C
SEVENTER Smith
Santa Clara
Seattle
San Quentin prison
Washington state
Walter Garret
Red Cross chief dies in East Washington hotel
J Arthur Jeffers, head of the Pacific area for the American Red Cross, died suddenly from a heart attack in a Washington hotel. Chairman Joan Barton Payne praised him as a valued coworker whose service began in the World War I era.
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WASHINGTON
J. Arthur Jeffers
Pacific
American Red Cross
Joan Barton Payne
Sugar envoys hold parleys in Amsterdam talks
Representatives of European Cuban and American sugar interests press for a world production limit. Delegations met through the day and commissions were named to study figures so a plenary session can resume tomorrow morning.
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AMSTERDAM
Twin Is Killed by Motorcar As Brother Falls From Horse
New York dispatch reports the Baldwin twins aged sixteen, one killed by a truck and the other badly injured after Alford was thrown from a horse near Northport, New York. Clifford died at Huntington Hospital the same day. Alford may recover but has not been told of his twin’s death.
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Twin
Brother
NEW YORK
Baldwin twins
Alford
Hast Northport
N. Y
Huntington
Clifford
Five Year Plan in Soviet Industry Claims Ahead of Schedule
Moscow dispatch summarizes Valery Kuibyshev’s assertion that the Soviet five year industrialization plan has surpassed targets in two years, with total output in planned industries exceeding projections. He notes heavy industry shows notable overfulfillment and predicts completion within four years rather than five.
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Valerian
MOSCOW
state planning commission
eM. Kulibyshev
Bourgesia
Soviet Union
piatiletka
Franco Seeks French Refuge From Madrid Escape
Unconfirmed rumors in Toulouse claim Maj. Ramon Franco, Spanish aviator, who escaped a Madrid prison, found refuge in Toulouse. One version says he planned to reach the United States on a German seaplane pod, but after its fire damage he sought asylum in France and possibly Morocco.
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TOULOUSE
France
Ramon Franco
Madrid
Christmas club checks delayed by bank suspension
Norwalk Connecticut December 1 1930s report says Christmas club checks totaling thirty thousand dollars were halted when Central First Trust Company was suspended by a restraining order from the state bank commissioner. The order bars payments and new deposits until a court hearing occurs. The suspension is described as temporary despite a heavy shrinkage in commercial deposits. In Buenos Aires robbers killed a paymaster and fled with twenty two thousand pesos.
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NORWALK
Conn
Central Feirfield Trust Company
Referendum on day law and repeal drive in Congress
Congress proposals include a national referendum on the eighteenth amendment and a call for a constitutional convention. A separate plan seeks a nationwide vote on repeal, with supporters predicting Senate approval for a drought relief seed loan program and broader measures to curb racketeering.
British Aviatrix Safe in Nassau After Flight Absent
Mrs C S Beveridge says she received a cable from Nassau via Mrs J M Keith-Miller confirming her daughter's safety after a missing attempt flight from Havana to Miami. The telegram arrived at 5 20 p m in New York. Miami Herald dispatched a plane to Peters Fla to probe a report of a wreck in the Everglades.
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NEW YORK
C. S. Beveridge
Associated Press
Keith-Miller
Nassau
Bahamas
Havana
Miami
Fila
East Fifty-fifth street
Fin
The
Miami Herald
Peters
Fla
J. M. Keith-Miller
Everglades
Highway aid bill offered by Wisconsin Republican Browne
Authorization for 500 million dollars to be spent in two years in federal highway aid was proposed today by Rep Browne. The plan would have the federal government pay eighty percent of costs with the state covering the remainder, replacing the current fifty-fifty split. Half the total would be directed to truck roads used by farmers to haul produce. Prince's Doctor Bies. MADRID, Dec. 1. Dr Javier Barthing, physician to the Prince of Asturias, heir to the Spanish throne, died today.
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WASHINGTON
Browne
Republican
Wisconsin
Bies
MADRID
Javier Barthing
Prince of Asturias
Tear Gas At Communist Parade Paralyzes Capitol
Washington December first. A crowd of several hundred demonstrated before the Capitol with placards. Police used tear gas and arrested six for disorderly conduct and assaults. Among those named were John Zilic and Clack Smith. The march ended with dispersal around the Garfield monument amid torn placards and lingering smoke.
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WASHINGTON
capitol
Jonn Zilic
Clacksmith
McReesport
Markle
New York
house
capitol plaza
capitol grands
Garfield monument
usa
capitol grounds
Helen Robinson
F. Dengale
Britain reports birth increase in England and Wales
Britain reported a rise in births for the third quarter ending September 30 with 165 768 babies born in England and Wales. Infant mortality fell to 45 per thousand, the lowest in registry history, while the cause of the improvement remained uncertain. Lisbon marked Portugal’s 290th independence anniversary from Spain with celebrations.
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LONDON
England
Wales
registry bureau
LISBON
Portugal
Spain
Labor Secretary Assumes Post Amid Confusion
Washington Dec 1 4 There was confusion at the labor department over who was secretary of labor William N Doak of Virginia went through the oath and photos were taken though officials said he was acting secretary Senator elect James J Davis said Doak had assumed office The resignation of Davis was to take effect when he became senator from Pennsylvania Senate confirmation was pending Nye committee inquiry added to the muddle Doak could not be sworn until Senate confirmation arrived
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WASHINGTON
labor department
labor
William N. Doak
Virginia
James J. Davis
Dak
Davis
Pennsylvania
Nye
Doak
senate
seventy-first congress
muc
capitol
house
congress
clecs Davis
secretar of
Curtis
B. Phillips
Thomas Gere
Oklahoma
Senator Pine
tern
MORROW
Dwight W. Morrow
New Jersey
Walter E. Edge
France
Ambassador Edge
Longworth
Tilson
Connecticut
Hawley
Oregon
Garner
Texas
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Pearl Oldfield
Arakansas
Essie Gene Wingo
Otis Wingo
Arkansas
Ruth Bryan Owen
Florida
Longsworth
James Shera Montgomery
Robert J. Buckley
Ohio
Roscoe C. McCulloch
Theodore Burton
George McGill
Kansas
Henry J. allen
Charles Curtis
Robert D. Carey
Wyoming
Patrick J. Sullivan
Francis Warren
Ben Williamson
Kentucky
John M. Robsson
Frederick J. Sackett
Germany
Watson
Indiana
Robinson
Oddie Proposes Public Land Highway Fund Bill
Washington Bureau Reno Evening Gazette reports Senator Benster Oddie introduced a bill for a five million dollar annual appropriation for three years under the Oddie Colton highway law. Nevada would receive about 1.1 million yearly to build highways on public lands, in addition to regular federal state funds. The amendment lets the agriculture secretary spend funds in townships where public lands exceed privately owned land. Oddie argues larger funding is needed due to unemployment, with Nevada set to gain a substantial share under the act.
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Washington Bureau
Reno Evening Gazette
LEO A. McCLATCHY
WASHINGTON
Oddie
Oddie-Calton
Oddie-Colton
secretary of agriculture
Nevada
Valuable hog being hunted in San Francisco case
San Francisco on December 1 1 a householder Mrs F W Beardslee reported a theft of a decorated interior scheme valued at 84575 after placing jewels in a waste basket and discarding it down a garbage chute. The trash reportedly ended up at a hog ranch.
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SAN FRANCISCO
F. W. Beardslee
Money truck robbed by two in Cincinnati
Two men robbed a Cincinnati street railway money truck today, taking 18,800 dollars from three employees. Police were initially told an American Railway Express Company truck had been robbed.
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CINCINNATI
Cincinnati street railway
American Railway Express Company
Night Sessions May Speed Up Congress Work
Washington, Dec. 1. Night sessions of the House were seen by Republican leaders as a way to speed action on legislation during the short session. Representative Tilson said there is time to consider controversial matters and enact required laws, and that meetings at night could be held if more time is needed.
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house appropriations committee
Senatr Oddie
Oddie
WASHINGTON
house
Representative Tilson
Congress opens amid cheers and clashes in Capitol
The seventy first congress began with handclaps and outside clashes as police used tear gas against banners bearing Communists. Davis seat talks were averted as he did not appear. New members were sworn and parties organized while motion pictures filmed the opening.
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