Solon Assals Marcotig Auren in Narcotics Probe Demand
New York City police faced a House rules committee request led by Representative Black to open a congressional investigation into narcotic enforcement. Black alleged a gangster linked case resulted in federal property status and protection, while narcotic agents allegedly faced interference from unashamed customs officials tapping wires and dealing with smuggled drugs.
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New York City
House
Representative Black
New York
Black
Narcotic Bureau
Restrictions on Clergy Protested in Mexican District
In Mexico City a congressional commission reviewed more than a dozen telegrams from Puebla area mayors urging rescission of the clergy restriction law and a reform of the religious article of the constitution to allow freedom to practice any religion indoors or outdoors. In Philadelphia Bishop Wyatt Brown decried homes as “filling stations” and parking spaces, blaming the machine age during a Lenten service.
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Mexico City
Mexico
Permanent
Congressional Commission
Puebla
Mexican Federal District
Congress
Philadelphia
Wyatt Brown
Northwest Mounties pursue fugitive trapper in snow
Royal Canadian mounted police and Canadian trappers chase Albert Johnson in the Porcupine valley toward Alaska. Johnson has killed one mountie and wounded another in prior encounters. Police use dog sleds and are confident of a capture before he reaches the border as he faces about 175 miles of tracking terrain.
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Aklaine
Northwest Territories
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Albert Johnson
Porcupine Valley
Alaska
W. R. May
Johnson
Short Selling Cage Debated In House Hearing
Washington February 17 hearings before a house judiciary subcommittee debated the practice of short selling in the stock market. William Perkins of New York testified that bear raiders and propaganda drove market liquidations, while H S Huebner of the University of Pennsylvania argued short selling is a normal market function and not a main cause of current business conditions.
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Washington, D. C
House Judiciary
William Perkins
New York
Huebner
University of Pennsylvania
Missouri Pacific Unable to Extend Notes to Morgan
The Missouri Pacific Railroad informed the Interstate Commerce Commission it cannot obtain an $11,700,000 note extension due April 1 held by J. P. Morgan & Company. William Wyer, secretary and treasurer, wrote to Oliver E. Sweet outlining the issue. A separate item notes Wheeling and Lake Erie petitioning Ohio utilities regulators to abandon intrastate passenger service, citing inadequate service.
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Washington, D. C
Missouri Pacific Railroad Company
Interstate Commerce Commission
J. P. Morgan & Company
William Wyer
Cleveland
Ohio
The
Missouri Pacific
Oliver E. Sweet
Commission
Bureau of Finance
Columbus
Wheeling and Lake Erlerad
State Utilities Commission
Skipper Tells Of Trials In Arctic Baychimo Story
Captain Sydney A Cornwall recounts the wreck and abandonment of the Hudson Bay Co ship Baychimo on the Alaskan Arctic coast near Wainwright. After planes evacuated the crew to Nome, the crew built a snow house, fought extreme cold and 60 below conditions, and watched the Baychimo trapped, later vanishing and likely sunk after brutal gales. Explorers and natives later report salvaging furs. The tale ends noting little remains aboard if found.
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Hudson Bay Company
Byychimo
Arctic
Associated Press
Sydney A. Cornwall
Cornwalt
Shin ‘Baychi Fairbanks
Alaska
Nome
Esther
Sea Horse Island
Wainwright
Sip
Bone Lo Wainwright
Buni Tress
Marchle
J. Lotimers
A.V. Elvely
Point Barrow
Barrow
D. Morris
Engineers to Hear Chef Skinner in San Antonio
Dr Charles Edward Skinner of East Pittsburgh Pa president of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers will address the San Antonio section at the original Mexican restaurant on Tuesday. The talk titled The Electrical Industry of Today will be the program as plans by a committee headed by I A thr of the local section are finalized Skinner has served at engineering congresses in England Belgium Japan Canada Italy and Mexico since 1908 He chaired the American delegation to Brussels in 1920 to the International Electro Technical Commission and traveled to Geneva in 1922 in a similar role He has been named by Secretary of State Henry G Stimson to the United States cooperating committee for the Fourth Pan American Scientific congress to be held in Mexico City this month.
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Charles Edward Skinner
Pittsburgh
American Institute of Electrical Engineers
San Antonio
I. A
Skinner
England
Belgium
Japan
Canada
Italy
Mexico
Brussels
International Electro - Technical Commission
Geneva
Henry G. Stimson
United States
Mexico City
Moonth
French Leave Arms Parley Deliberations Resume in Geneva
Geneva Feb 17 The disarmament conference reconvened with the French benches empty except for one observer as small powers push for broader measures. Andre Tardieu the former French war minister bid farewell amid reports of a looming cabinet crisis. Delegates from Finland and Romania urged frontier demilitarization and schoolbook revisions to curb war incitement while Estonia, Austria and Uruguay pressed economic disarmament and clarified border bonds.
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Geneva
Andre ‘Tardieu
Laval
Baron Yrlo- Koshinen
Finland
Ghika
Runanid
League of Nations
Pedro Costo
Uru- Busy
Anon
Russia Second in Crude Oil Output
Soviet Russia moved to second place as a world crude oil producer in 1931 while world output fell by about 40 million barrels. The United States remained first with 250,275,000 barrels, or 62.1 percent of global production.
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Washington, D. GC
Soviet Russia
United States
Murray Plans Georgia Primary Visit in March
Oklahoma Governor W. H. Murray plans to enter Georgia to gauge sentiment for the presidential preferential primary on March 23, challenging Governor Franklin D Roosevelt of New York. Murray aims to boost his national candidacy and evaluate support in the Peach State.
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Murray
Georgia
Atlanta
W. H
Franklin D. Roosevelt
New York
Man Is Sentenced in Auto Fatality
Fort Worth report states Alert Marrs, 23, was found guilty of negligent homicide for the automobile death of a city fireman two years ago and sentenced to 30 days in jail. Jury began deliberations Tuesday afternoon and returned verdict Wednesday morning.
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Fort Worth
Jal
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