Severe winter storm cripples midwest and south in sweeping outage
The nation endures the worst storm of the winter as at least 12 die and scores are stranded from 12 to 24 hours. Chicago traffic collapses, trains run late, and power and telegraph lines are down. Snow blankets Kansas Missouri Oklahoma and Texas panhandle with drifts up to ten feet, high winds sweep Indiana.
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Chicago
South West
Mid-West
Ilinois
Texas
Kansas
Missouri
Oklahoma
Texas Panhandle
Indiana No. 4
State to pay half of road improvement cost
County commissioners met with the State Highway Department in Columbus to secure state aid for North Ridge road now Inter County Highway No B55. The state will cover one half of the cost, with the remainder by the county villages and property owners along the route. Work will begin after plans are approved, timing for this season is uncertain.
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Columbus
State Highway Department
North Ridge Road
Atata Department
Former Follies Headliner Killed in Auto Crash
Thomas Spencer baritone singer and former Fol lies headliner was killed in a crash near Syracuse New York early today. He had recently sued the Dimacan Sisters actresses for 50 000 for breach of contract.
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Syracuse
N.Y
Thomas Spencer
Here
Spencer
Dimacan Sisters
Hungarian Deacon Fazekas Faces Deportation After Fifteen Years
Paul Fazekas of 111 West River Street, a Hungarian Reformed Church deacon, has lived in the United States nearly 15 years and is facing deportation on immigration charges. He was arrested at a local plant where he worked as a roller on a federal warrant alleging he was smuggled into the country five years ago across the Canadian border after a visit to his father in Babay Roumania. Fazekas is held on a $500 bond at the county jail and will be tried in Cleveland.
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United States
Paul Fazekas
West River Street
Fazekas
Boundry
Babay
Roumania
W. H. Flynn
Lloyd Sweet
Cleveland
America
Hungary
Paul
Vera Countess of Cathcart sails home after failed play
New York reports Vera, Countess of Cathcart, leaves for England with $30,000 loss from her play Ashes of Love. She praises American women and press, notes illness of fiancé Ralph Neale, and plans to write about My Experiences in America to recoup finances.
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New York
Vera
Countess of Cathcart
England
London
Ralph Neale
America
United States
Ellis Island
Washington
Earl Carroll
New Submarine Tender to Be Launched at Puget Sound Yard
The new submarine tender Holland will be launched April 16 at the Puget Sound navy yard. Sponsor will be Miss Elizabeth Saunders Chase, daughter of Rear Admiral John V. Chase.
Controversy Over State Fair Advertising Payments
Ohio officials opened a hearing into alleged irregularities in the state agricultural department. Attorney general Crabbe charged director Truax with liability for permitting payments to newspapers for fair advertising in exchange for use of fair buildings. Truax argued the plan saved money and complied with law, while a bidder testified the state fence work failed to meet specs.
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Columbus
Mar
Crabbe
Charles WV. Trucy
Tracy
State Agricultural Department
Truax
Traax
State Board of Agriculture
Ohio
Roff
Asheville
France avoids new cabinet crisis as socialists abstain
Paris March 31 France appears to have been spared a cabinet crisis as socialist deputies in caucus abstain from voting on Briand cabinet financial project. Radical socialists split over support or abstention, signaling passage with a narrow majority. Abstention not approval, just avoiding crisis.
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Paris
France
Briand
Tragic Double Shooting in Taxi Ends in Suicide
In New York a man shot and killed a young woman believed to be Christine Spagnon 22 then killed himself in a speeding taxi. A series of notes found on the youth Peter Patrissl 25 a mechanic suggested premeditation in the murder suicide.
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New York
Christine Spagnon
New Haven
Conn
Christine Spagon
Peter Patrissl
CoLAIN Police on Watch for Burglars
Lorain officers with riot guns rushed a vacant house at 3332 Georgia avenue owned by Michael Thomas after a man barricaded himself inside. They kicked the door and found no one present and no signs of recent occupancy.
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Lorain
March
Michael Thomas
Georgia Avenue
Cooper Seeks Republican Nomination for Ohio Governor
Myers L. Cooper of Cincinnati announced he will seek the Republican nomination for governor at the statewide primaries next August. He is president of the Ohio council of churches and of a Cincinnati bank.
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Myers Y. Cooper
Columbus
Mar
Myers L. Cooper
Cincinnati
Cooper
Ohio Council of Churches
Candy Kid gang hunts loot of jewels in New York
Investigators search a West Side rooming house for part of a $1,000,000 jewel hoard linked to Richard Reese Whittemore known as The Candy Kid. Indictments against two fences are expected as detectives pursue confessions to recover the loot.
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New York
Richard Reese Whittemore
Candy Kid
Kings County Grand Jury
Joab H. Banton
Whittmore
Tiger Kid
Halter
Law
Prison jury returns verdict in Mrs. Emma Goodbar case
A Urbana jury found Mrs. Emma Goodbar, 34, Lima, guilty of shooting with intent to wound promoter Urbana grocer Warren Lorette, 28. The judge ordered a prison term of not less than one year.
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Bulletin Urbana
Mar
Emma Goodbar
Lima
Rawren
Lorette
Urbana
Ong Yon
Copeland Urges Senate to Ratify Italy War Debt Pact
Senator Copeland of New York urged the Senate to ratify the 2,042,000,000 Italian war debt settlement. He said the terms should not be rejected to “get the last Shylock pound of flesh.”
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Washington
America
Copeland
New York
Senate
Dayton tragedy ends in death after shooting
Roy Dobbins, 69, fatally shot Elizabeth Buckner, 46, in a Dayton house. After the act he fled when ordered to halt by a patrolman, then shot himself in an alley. Buckner died early this morning. Dobbins died by his own hand from a wound.
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Dayton
Lizzie
Roy Dobbins
Elizabeth Buckner
Tobbing
Dobbins
Hig Wage
Senate approves Caraway bill restricting future cotton and grain trades
The Senate agriculture committee today approved the Caraway bill prohibiting the use of cotton and grain in future markets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate Agriculture Committee
Ridiculous 3.75 Percent Beer Tale Denounced
Prohibition officials denounced sensational Washington wires claiming the federal government allows 3.75 per cent beer. Treasury permits for Anheuser Busch and Pabst to make a malt tonic with 3.75 per cent alcohol sparked protests from anti saloon groups.
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United States
Washington
Prohibition
Anti-Samon League
Treasury Department
The
Anheuser- Bush
Pabst
Manufac
Secrets of Weird Pomeroy Murders Stun Grand Jury
A county grand jury investigates murders on the Mount of Horrors with tales of murder for hire at prices from moonshine to fifteen dollars. Witnesses describe cross racial parties and confessions reveal two solved cases while Hedrick and Rhodes face action after Cheated payments of fifty dollars.
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Pomeroy
Pomeroy Bead
Mount of Horrors
Wyllys Hill
John “Shorty” Tryant
James McCumber
John Wedrick
Richard Rhodes
Hedrick
Rhodes
Two Lorain men accused after highway robbery arrest
William Gander wrestled a raider to the ground after three highwaymen robbed him of $14 at 231h Street and East Avenue. The captured bandit, Chester Carson of Buffalo with a Lake Carrier's card, pleaded not guilty but was bound over to the Grand Jury on $10,000 bond. Carson named two Lorain men sought by police.
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Lorain
Mareh Ok
William Gander
231H Street
East Avenue
Gander
Mama Ul Chester Carson
Buffalo
Lake Carrier's Association
Neal Avenue
Columbus
Oldto
Wighway
Carson
Probate case outlines Edward Scripps will provisions
Hamilton Ohio March 31 Edward W Scripps well known newspaper publisher who died at sea off the coast of Liberia March 12 probate of his will opened today in Butler county. The document names a yacht bequest to Inesen Robert and a trust plan granting Mrs Scripps annual income of 6000 and life use of Miramar plus one million dollars from the trust. It also provides 60 000 yearly for Me a Thomas F E Meantoy and 15000 to Miami University and 20000 to Science Service. One third of estate income funds new newspapers. Separate trust for Dol B Scripps. annuities for Gilson Gardner and Robert F Paine. 25000 to Harry J L Smithton. Residual income to Robert P Scripps and heirs.
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Hamilton
Hdward W Sermpps
Liberia
Africa
Butler County
Ohio
Miramar
Scripps California
Thomas FE Meantoy
Latolla
Cal
Miami University
Oxford
Ohi
Science Service, Inc
Washington, D. C
Dol B. Scripps of Escondido Lal
Jury Directed to Render Plaintiff Verdict in Kohlmyer Will Case
The Kohlmyer contested will case ends as attorneys state inability to proceed and request further conference with the client Mrs. Francis Holden and her brother. Judge Thompson presides as hush of the courtroom follows an afternoon delay.
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Henry Kohlmyer
C. W. Adams
Adolph Resek
W. B. Thompson
Francis Holden
W. Redmond
Walter, Mears
A. W. Cinninger
Hohimyer
Adams
Resek
Mrs. Holden
Chapman Clings to New Appeal as Hanging Looms
Hartford Connecticut March 31 with less than six days to the gallows Gerald Chapman seeks reprieve through a so called Gaystery witness a 70 year old man who may testify in his favor Attorney Frederick F Groeh of New York carries a signed affidavit from the witness the witness last night after prison officials denied admission The state district attorney questions the new appeal and notes another missing witness Charles William Gregory is said to have been deported to Canada Authorities plan for a late Friday or early Saturday appeal for a new trial based on newly discovered evidence as the prison prepares for Chapmans execution next Monday night or Tuesday morning The 48th execution at the state prison was Emil Schutte in 1922.
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Hartford
Conn
Gerald Chapman
James Skellay
New Britain
Chapman
Frederick F Grocl
New York
John St. Trumbull
Groeh
Connecticut
Has Little Hope
Hugh M. Alcorn
Thle
Alcorn
Hope
Charles William Gregory
Canada
Charles W. Murphy
Danbury
Superior Court
Waldo Mar- Val
Chapmay
API
Emil Schutte
Kecker Sues Ice Company Over Truck Accident
Anton Kecker files a $26,327 suit in Lorain Common Pleas against The Lorain Crystal Ice Company and C. C. Myers alleging a collision as Kecker walked along Giary Avenue toward Edist Street. He says the light delivery truck dragged him about fifteen feet, caused five weeks in hospital and ongoing loss of work and use of his right leg.
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Asuit
Anton Kecker
Lorain Crystal Ice Company
C. C. Myers
Court of Common Pleas
Ice Company
Giary Avenue
Edist Street
Impeachment Proceedings in U S District Judge English Case
Washington March 31 Democrats and Republicans join to push impeachment of U S District Judge George W English East St Louis Illinois accused of leading a bankruptcy ring misusing language on the bench and other misdeeds. Supporters say charges warranted while defenders claim no crime just mistakes.
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Washington
The
Nouse
U. S
George W. English
East St. Louis
Mia
Wilson
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Robert F. Paine
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