Florida Moves to Padlock Capone Home in Miami
A Florida court heard arguments on a petition to padlock Al Scarface Capone’s palatial Palm Island residence as a nuisance. Judge Barns may rule next week after witnesses for both sides debated Capone’s alleged wrongdoing and connections to crime while Capone and family were named defendants.
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Miami
Criminal Court
Ake
Paul D. Barns
al “Scarface
Capone
Palm Island
Barns
N. Vernon Hawthorne
Mae Capone
Frankie Newton
Frank Gallat
John Capone
Ralph Capone
Chicago
Philadelphia
Florida
Vincent Giblin
Prohibition Officials Test Liquor Possession Prosecutions
Washington reports federal prohibition directors will prosecute individuals openly possessing liquor tested in other states. James Doran says New York City will see how a Possessor case proceeds after Maurice Campbell led 11 men from a Broadway club raid to be charged. Campbell plans to test precedent in NYC courts.
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Washington
New York City
James M. Doran
Maurice Campbell
Broadway
New York
Doran
Campbell
Sunday unsettled weather with thundershowers
The forecast calls for unsettled conditions Sunday with cooler temperatures and local thundershowers. Monday is expected to be probably fair with improving conditions.
Pocatello Band Wins Class A at Second State Music Contest
The second annual state music contest crowned winners across more than 20 events. Pocatello led with the Class A band title, ahead of Idaho Falls and Twin Falls, with numerous solo and small group winners from Boise, Hailey, Moscow, Parma, and other cities.
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Boise
Pocatello
Idaho Falls
Twin Falls
Driggs
St Margaret's of Boise
Hailey
Boys’ Glee Club
Ammon
American Falls
Buhl
Parma
Wallace
Moscow
Willard Spies
Virginia Fox
Bill Wright
Lois Richards
Montpelier
Bill Eggert
Merle McKaig
Alice Freeman
Caldwell
Nell Kinney
Neela Fox
Earl Erickson
Coeur d'Alene
Glee Club
Sugar City
Bob Rupperle
Mary Wallis
Blackfoot
Don Porter
Parama
Judson Brinkley
Bob Shawhan
Nampa
Myr Hughes
Mayor Proclaims In Favor Whiskers
Boise officials announce a whisker growing drive urging all men to cultivate facial hair by June 12. The plan supports Boise Basin Days a three day celebration marking the pioneers trek along the Old Oregon Trail with Legion Post 2 backing and merchant support.
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Boise
James P. Pope
Boise Basin
John Regan
American Legion
Boise Retail Merchants’ Bureau
Oregon Trail
Weather keeps delegates indoors on westward voyage
The westward bound American delegates to the naval conference, more than halfway to New York, stayed indoors due to bad weather. All were in good health and ate in the dining hall as rough seas and squalls raked the ship. By day's end the weather cleared and Colonel Henry L. Stimson, the secretary of state, used the confinement to work in his state room.
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S. S. Leviathan
New York
Henry L. Stimson
Miller admits robbery in Ivester killing but denies firing shot
George Miller, charged with the October murder of John Ivester in Spokane's American Express office, admitted the robbery today but denied shooting Ivester. He named a "pal" as the shooter claiming Ivester was merely winged. The two entered the express office, killed Ivester, restrained his assistant, and escaped with $600, later dividing the money at Cheney, Washington.
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Express Clerk
Spokane
Wash
George Miller
John Ivester
American Express Company
Ivester
Express
Miller
Cheney
Libel Suit Against Standard Examiner In Recess
Trial of the $100,000 libel suit brought by City Commissioner Fred Williams against the Standard Examiner was in recess today and will resume Tuesday.
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Ogden
Fred Wiliams
Standard Examiner
Chiesman Breaks Hundred Straight in Idaho Trap Tourney
Guy Chiesman of Winchester broke 100 straight at 16 yards to win high score honors in the Idaho State Trapshoot second round in Lewiston Idaho. John Cecil Humphrey led doubles with 42 and Boise paired teams tied for second with 70 birds. The two day event concludes tomorrow with Boise and Lewiston contenders in team competition.
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Lewiston
Idaho
Guy Chiesman
Winchester
John Cecil Humphrey
F. C. McCabe
C. A. Adams
W. D. Bush
Boise
Marsh Wright
E. L. White
Tip Hamblem
W. C. Geddes
Robert Moore
John Robinette
Otto Heuck
Death by Own Action Details Emerging in Laguna Beach
Moresby White, attorney for Mrs. Guy Bates Post, reports a letter found in Post's desk indicating she and Mrs. Doris May Palmer planned a death by own action pact. White said Palmer's papers show no awareness of such a plan. He disclosed no other contents of the letter.
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Laguna Beach
Cal
Moresby White
Guy Bates Post
Doris May Palmer
Gandhi Urges Confiscation of Salt Stations
Gandhi in Bombay announces plan to lead a group to seize the Dharasana salt depot. He vows to bring only homespun adherents and those who resist liquor and foreign cloth. He says breaking the salt act alone won t gain independence and urges martyrs while other regions report relative calm and ongoing mining strikes.
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Bombay
India
Mahatma Gandhi
Dharasana
Charwada
Bulsar
Mahatma
Ramnik Nal
Peshawar
Iron vapor in sun's atmosphere outlined by scientists
Dr. Samuel A. Mitchell reported at the American Philosophical Society that a thick iron vapor rises in the sun’s atmosphere, circulating with water vapor but too hot to condense. He cited iron and hydrogen as abundant components alongside calcium and helium, with temperatures around 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit.
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Philadelphia
American Philosophical Society
Samuel A. Mitchell
Leander McCormick Observatory
University of Virginia
Earth
Mitchell
Lindbergh Reaches Canal Zone on Inaugural Air Mail Leg
Colonel Charles A Lindbergh completed the first leg of a new Miami to Cristobal air mail route, landing at Pan American Airways field in Havana after 2 hours 3 minutes. He will depart Havana at daybreak for Cristobal via Puerto Cabezas, refueling there, with Basil Roe and Bert Denickey aboard.
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Havana
Miami
Caribbean Sea
Canal Zone
Charles A Lindbergh
Pan American Airways
Cristobal
Puerto Cabezas
Nicaragua
Basil Roe
Sikorsky
Fruitland High Wins Class B District Track Meet
Caldwell Idaho April 26 Fruitland high school captured the district track meet scoring 55 points to finish first for the second straight year. Eagle 22 Mountain Home 20 Parma 165 Franklin 14 Notus 10 Meridian 9 Cambridge 2.
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Caldwell
Idaho
Fruitland High School
Eagle
Mountain Home
Parma
Pranklin
Notus
Meridian
Cambridge
Gridiron Club recalls event with Hoover at dinner
At a Gridiron Club dinner in Washington on April 26, President Hoover and the British ambassador attended a ceremony recalling a 30 year old joint rescue in Tientsin. John Philip Sousa led a new march titled The Royal Welsh Fusileers as the tale was retold.
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Washington
Tientsin
Hoover
John Philip Sousa
Gridiron Club
Royal Welsh Fusileers
Girl Poet Maud Nesselrodt Found In Thicket Near Home
Maud Nesselrodt a 21 year old former school teacher and aspiring co ed poet was found unconscious and chilled in a nearby thicket within a half mile of her Williamsburg home after disappearing yesterday Vincent D McManus of Richmond reported spotting the figure and she was rushed to a doctor for treatment with hopes for recovery from exposure.
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Williamsburg
Maud Nesselrodt
Vincent D McManus
Richmond
D. J. King
Boise Attorney Disbarred by State Supreme Court
T. S. Risser of Boise was disbarred by the Idaho Supreme Court after the State Bar Commission charged him with withholding client funds from a note. While the case was pending he said he would move to Spokane but did not respond to defense requests.
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Bohwise
Risser
Boise
Supreme Court
Russer
State Bar Commission
Commission
Spokane
Eleven states gain seats as census totals rise
Washington April 26 AP reports the 1930 census advances reapportionment, with California gaining six seats, Michigan four, and Ohio three. Several states may lose delegates while others gain, reshaping the congressional balance ahead of the 1932 elections.
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Washington
House Census Committee
California
Michigan
Ohio
Crail
Hudson
Detroit
Dayton
Toledo
Census Committee
Nevada
New Mexico
Delaware
Wyoming
Connecticut
Florida
New Jersey
North Carolina
Oklahoma
Texas
Mystery Envelopes Surround Millington Slaying In Seattle
Seattle, April 26 AP Mystery surrounded the death of William Indian Bill Millington a Seattle night life figure shot twice in the hotel hall after answering a telephone call in the south end hotel corridor Guests heard a loud exchange and glimpsed the killer fleeing Millington was found dead with two gunshot wounds in the back by hotel guests in the hall.
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Seattle
William
Indian Bill) Millington
Millington
Roemers
American liner sinks a collier in fog off Heligoland
The American liner President Harding, en route to Hamburg, collided with the British collier Kirkwood in thick fog off Heligoland. The Kirkwood sank, with all but one fireman rescued. The fireman is missing. President Harding sustained slight damage and continued toward Hamburg as fog remained dense.
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Hamburg
Germany
Harding
Elbe
Kirkwood
Heligoland
United States Lines, Inc
Retrial Ordered in Morris Murder Case in Wyoming
Coincident with Morris retrial on charges he killed Denver housekeeper Mrs. Anna Grabe and her 5 year old daughter Geneva, an inquiry begins into the deaths of Dr. T. H. Roe and coroner Frank P. Rogan. Bones of the Grabe family were unearthed in 1928. Morris was arrested in Carthage Missouri after Mrs. Grabe’s 1904 death.
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Morris
Wyoming
Rock Springs
Wyo
Henry Basil Morris
Anna Grabe
Denver
Geneva
T. H. Roe
Frank P. Rogan
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Hawthorne
Utah
P. E. Thomas
John J. Chester
Thomas
Pocatello Band
Chiesman
Gandhi
Ooorgaum
Lindbergh
Fruitland
Baker
Associated Press
Uheo To
Earl F. White
Mary Baker
Famous Press Organization
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