Bomb menace develops as league opens
Geneva January 13 AP reports security by Swiss authorities at the fifty eighth session of the League of Nations opening amid rumors of anti fascist plots to bomb the Italian delegation. Dino Grand Italian foreign minister sat with Briand and Von Schubert as a Swiss secretariat visitor was found with a revolver and blank cartridges and arrested for threatening entry to the league council chamber.
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Geneva
Council
League of Nations
Quatay Stresemann
Zaleski
Poland
von Schubert
Stresemann
Dino Grand
Italan
Mussolini
Briand
France
League Secretariat
League Council
Wounded in Gun Scrape Leads to Accident in Home
Jan. 13 report from Beattle states J C Drace shop foreman is hospitalized with a bullet wound in the abdomen after a dispute over a revolver during a drinking session with G W Wennerlind, a U S customs inspector, and his wife. Wennerlind says the weapon misfired during a struggle for possession. Drake’s account remains unavailable.
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Drake
Wennerlind
Funeral services set for 71 year old Idaho Falls victim
Aged man James Oliver McBride 71 died after being struck by a car as he alighted from a frame bus in Idaho Falls. Relatives say funeral services will be held here Wednesday or Thursday. McBride had lived near Padfoot for 32 years and was visiting a son, Virgil McBride, when fatally injured by driver W. Anthony of Rio.
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Moreland
Idaho
Puneral Services
James Oliver McBride
Idaho Falls
McBride
Ppadfoot
Tdaho Parls
Virgil McBride
Ne W. Anthony
Riri
Pioneer Newspaper Woman Martha J. Parker Dies
Mrs Martha J. Parker aged 76 widow of Colonel Frank J. Parker, noted pioneer coast newspaper woman, died last night at Santa Monica hospital after a stroke. Born in Maryland, she moved to California as a child. her father W. H. Newell helped found the San Francisco Morning Call and later established the Times Mountaineer in The Dalles, Oregon.
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Los Angeles
Martha J. Parker
Frank J. Parker
Santa Monica
Enforcement Report Urges Strengthening National Prohibition Law
President Hoover transmits the Law Observance and Enforcement Commission's preliminary report to Congress. It warns federal courts are burdened by rising federal criminal prosecutions, mostly from prohibition violations, and urges reforms including court reorganization, agency consolidation, and expanded prisons to improve enforcement and observance. The document notes disordered federal legislation and calls for action to curb delays and uphold the law.
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Congress
Hoover Commission
Treasury
Justice Departments
Hoover
Law Enforcement Commission
Congress of the
United States
Commission On Law
Department of Justice
Treasury Department
Criies
District of Columbia
Reid's Aerial Search Party Emerges From Alaskan Wilds
Pairbanks Alaska January 13 four airmen forced down while fleeing from Pairbanks to Nome join the hunt for Carl Kielnon and Karl Borland. The crash party, led by Pat Reid, tested repairs at Ungalik river mouth after their plane was damaged. They awaited a chance to depart for Unalakleet, keeping others nearby as the search continues today.
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Pairbanks
Alaska
Nome
Carl Kielnon
Karl Borland
Sorota
Miers
Pat Reid
Seeneee
Ungalik River
Reid
Unalakleet
Ssen, Mene Ant
Deaths Rise From Weekend Exposure Across West
Winter storms leave six dead, four critical, and many missing across Arizona Washington and California. Timothy Kirkpatrick and David King, both 30s, found frozen near Mingus Mountain after their stalled vehicle. Seattle reports a 15 year old killed and six injured in a sled collision.
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San Francisco
Arizona
Washington
California
Fresno
Timothy Kirkpatrick
Jerome
Ann David King
Mingus Mountain
Jerome-Prescott
Prescott
Washingto
Seattle
Jay Whitteman
Abducted Admiral Yang Shu Choang Reported
A cryptic note claims Admiral Yang Shu Choang was abducted by bandits in Feechew, with unclear details and no corroborating sources.
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Yang Shu-Choang
Aye
Missing Western Air Express pilot Maurice Graham sought in snowbound Nevada Utah
Maurice Graham age 35, veteran air mail pilot with 178000 flying miles, disappeared after departing Las Vegas Friday night bound for Salt Lake City. Air and ground search teams from Los Angeles Las Vegas St George Milford and Utah counties scoured snowbound terrain aided by multiple planes despite poor visibility from a Nevada Utah storm.
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Salt Lake City
Maurice Graham
Western Air Express
Las Vegas
Nev
St. George Utah
St. George
Milford
Utah
Pertes
Leeds
Hurricane
Anderson
Los Angeles
Nevada
Air Mail
Graham
Bombers Attack Attorney Home in Melrose Park Suburb
Two bombs exploded at the home of Guy C. Guerine, village attorney of Melrose Park, early today. Guerine and Mrs. Guerine were home but unharmed. He said letters demanded he lay off liquor raids but denied instigating any raids, claiming government agents and village police conducted them.
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Chicago
Guy C. Guerine
Melrose Park
Guerine
Two Utah Students Injured In Ogden Salt Lake Car Crash
Marietta Reese 19 of Malad Idaho and Rowena Kelly 19 of Salt Lake City were injured in an Ogden Salt Lake highway collision early Sunday. Reese sustained a cut near the right eye while Kelly suffered severe scalp wounds and loss of blood. Both other university students escaped injury as they traveled back from a basketball game in Ogden.
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Salt Lake City
Marietta Reese
University of Utah
Malad
Idaho
Ogden-Salt Lake
Sugar Bounty Bill Presented by Senator Howell
A sugar bounty bill was introduced today by Senator Howell of Nebraska. The measure would cost about 18 million dollars annually and replace the sugar tariff with treasury warrants funded by customs sales. Howell and the Republican independent group discussed the proposal but did not reach a decision.
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Continental United
Howell
Nebraska
Treasury Department of Customs
Republan Independent
Eday
Idaho Couple on Honeymoon Missing Since 1928
Jan 13 St George Utah. P R C Hyde of Hansen Idaho and William Hailey father of the bride plan to organize a searching party from Los Angeles to scour south of the Colorado River for clues to the fate of Glenn Hyde and his bride who vanished November 30 1928 while a honeymoon voyage.
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ST. George
Utah
P. R. C. Hyde
Hansen
Idaho
Glenn Hyde
Colorado River
William Hailey
Young Hyde
Los Angeles
Hyde
Jeann
Hatley
Diamond Creek
Colorado
Canyon
Halley
Weather Forces Logan Girls to Wear Stockings
Sub zero conditions in Logan Utah on January 13 cause the girls basketball league at Logan Senior High to require silk and wool stockings for all players until temperatures rise. Four girls suffered frostbitten legs this past week on their way to school.
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Logan
Utah
Bere
Logan Senior
Snow Tonight and Tuesday Likely in Southeast
The STAH WEATHER forecast calls for snow tonight and likely Tuesday with colder temperatures concentrated in the southeast portion. Expect accumulating flurries, decreasing visibility, and frigid wind chills in affected areas. Monitor local advisories for travel impacts and school delays.
Union Pacific Rail Smashup at King Hill
Union Pacific trains were delayed by a freight car pile-up at King Hill Boise on January 13. Thirteen loaded cars were crushed when a brake bear failed, no injuries reported, and rail traffic largely cleared by today with 75 workers building a temporary track to resume service.
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Boise
Union Pacific
King Hill
John Ozman
W. R. Rose
Rose
Glenns Ferry
Glenns Perry
Tunney In Hospital Kidney Complaint
Gene Tunney retired heavyweight champion is under observation at Presbyterian Hospital for a kidney ailment. Dr George Winthrop Fish said a bulletin would be issued this afternoon to decide if an operation to remove a stone from the right kidney is needed. Mrs Polly Lauder Tunney has joined him at the hospital to be near her husband.
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New York
Api—Gene Tunney
Presbyterian Hospital
George Winthrop Fish
Tunney
Polly Lauder Tunney
Tragedy in Dallas: Father Slays Son Then Ends Own Life
Brice L. Adams, 28, killed his 3-year-old son Billy before slashing his own throat as a phonograph played a lullaby. Both died en route to a Dallas hospital. An inquest found the father distraught over estrangement from his wife.
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Dallas
Tex
Brice L. Adams
Billy
Adams
Chicago School System Bankrupt Amid Payroll Crisis
Chicago leader President H Wallace Caldwell of the board of education declares the system bankrupt and likely to shut down within weeks. He pins the crisis on a reform group that blocked warrants sales and notes inability to meet teachers' payrolls in December.
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Chicago
H Wallace Caldwell
Board of Education
New York
Silas HK. Strawn Citizene Committee
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