Prohibition Fight Roils Congress After Palm Beach Shootings
Washington debates Hoover plan as two dry agents are killed in West Palm Beach Florida. Senator King pushes transfer of enforcement from Treasury to Justice, while Doran’s sharp remarks draw Capitol scrutiny. House and Senate set seven days of action on enforcement reforms.
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Washington
Congress
West Palm Beach
Fis
Doran
Prohibition Bureau
Thair
Capitol Hill
House
Senate
Mr. Doran
Hoover
Williamson
Treasury
Justice Department
Sena
Willem H. King
Uteh
Prohibition Enforcement Service
Senate Judiciary Committee
Law Enforcement Commission
King, Herbert and
Waterman
Harris Democrat
Georgia
Five Die From Exposure Across Cities In Cold Wave
A brutal cold snap killed five people in Chicago including three infants as a coal stove and blankets failed to save them. One baby died from coal gas in the kitchen, another from blankets over a bed, and a third when crib coverlets ignited. William Daly, 65, died of cold in his basement home, Christopher Weyhe, 67, also perished from exposure. In Virginia and Arkansas a separate cold spell claimed eight more lives, with Sheriff John Owens, 46, and Chancery clerk W B Jones, 62, freezing to death near Denton, Mississippi, as a hunting boat capsized on the Big Black River.
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Chicago
William Daly
Atlanta
Shenandoah Valley
Virginia
Arkansas
Southland
John W. Owens
W B. Jones
Chancery Court
Denton
Miss
Big Black
Ten Billion Building Programs Forecast This Year
Government and private sectors anticipate expenditures exceeding ten billion dollars for construction nationwide in the coming year. Public works, utilities, railroads, and telecom projects drive the total with Idaho Oregon Wyoming Montana and other states contributing sizable announced sums.
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Washington
Lamont
Hoover
Commerce Department
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Independent Telephone and Tele
Idaho
Oregon
Wyoming
Montana
No sectarian teaching in Idaho public schools says official
Boise January 20. Idaho education commissioner Wo D Vincent reports no sectarian instruction invading public high schools. Inspectors found fewer than a dozen seminaries among 191 high schools, all activities carefully within legal limits. Idaho has a law similar to Utah preventing sectarian teaching in public schools.
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Boise
Idaho
Wo D Vincent
Leva Tn
Theteh
Utah
Senate approves 33 cent rate on felt hats in tariff bill
The Senate approved 33 cents a pound and zero ad valorem on finished wool felt hats as part of amendments to the tariff bill. An increased differential for finished hats was rejected. Amendments wipe out several contraband related provisions including coal gunpowder and various boards. President Hoover named postmasters for Idaho New Mexico and Worcester Ohio in the same notice. Tulsa operators seek curb on flush oil areas reducing production by 30 percent and restricting the Konowa pool in Beminola county.
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Wastiington
Senate
Pulp Board
Tulsa
Okla
Beminola County
Norris Not Republican Says Nebraskan Opposing Filing
A Nebraska man protests the certification of George W. Norris as a Republican primary senatorial candidate arguing Norris does not affiliate with the Republican party under a reasonable legal standard. The claim frames Norris as an independent or non aligned figure in the party race.
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Norris
Nebraska
Lincoln
Neb
George W. Norris
Republican Party
Worris
Big Five Naval Conference To Begin Sessions Tuesday
Prosecution of George W Moore on murder charges connected to the slayings of two federal agents was sought by federal authorities as Moore's attorney claimed the officers entered the residence without a legal warrant. Detret Administrator Robert E Tutte said data from the Moncure and Patter nom case would be turned over to Florida for action against Moore. Baynes asserted the agents overstepped bounds and Moore had warned them not to search after dark without a warrant.
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West Palm Beach
Fla
George W Moore
Moore
Robert E. Tutte
Savannah
Robert K Moncure
F. R. Patternom
Florida
Moncure
Ben M Baynes
Hoover Eyes Battleship Cuts Ahead of London Conference
London opens tomorrow as five-nation delegation chiefs prepare a program to avert prior Geneva weaknesses. President Hoover signals willingness to pursue battleship reductions, with Japan favorable and Britain silent amid Italy seeking parity with France.
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London
Italy
Westminster Palace
MacDonald
No. 10
Downing Street
Geneva
Dean to appoint public lands committee in Utah
Governor George H. Dean announced plans to consider forming a Utah public land study committee. He would consult William Peterson of Logan the Utah representative on the Hoover public land investigating committee.
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Salt Lake City
George H. Dean
Utah
William Peterson
Lagan
Hoovers
Lund
Peterson
Hoover
Snow delays school buses and highway travel in Utah state line
Drifting snow slowed school buses in rural areas and slowed mall deliveries as crews faced hazardous travel on the highway between Salt Lake City and Ogden.
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Ogden
Salt Lake City
Unsettled Weather Brings Cold Wave Overnight
The UTAM weather bulletin warns of an uncettied and much colder night with a developing cold wave. Tuesday is expected to be generally cold with lingering wind chills and below normal temperatures across the region.
Bootlegger Sought After Shooting of Garrett at Greenwich Village Eatery
New York police hunt a bootlegger after a robbery attempt left Garrett, a magazine writer, wounded at a Greenwich Village restaurant run by Mrs. Madeleine Brown. Garrett, shot through the thigh and wounded twice more, was hospitalized at St. Vincent's and described as out of danger. Others present included Frederick Simpich, Magdeline Davis, and Hazel Mumm. The robbers gained entry posing as delivery men for a package from "J."
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New York
Garet Garrett
Garrett
Madeleine Brown
Greenwich Village
St. Vincent’s Hospital
Frederick Simpich
United States
Magdeline Davis
Hazel Mumm
Tragic T A T Maddux Airliner Crash Claims Sixteen
A T A T Maddux airliner returning from Agua Caliente Mexico crashed near Oceanside California killing all aboard, including eight women and eight men. Witnesses cited dense fog and a 200 foot ceiling as factors. the wreck burned intensely with bodies identified including Edward J. Bowen Sedric Brown and others from Los Angeles Pasadena and San Francisco. The graphic account from pilot Lamar Nelson is among the most detailed descriptions of the disaster.
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Los Angeles
Oceanside
Here
Agua Caliente
Mexico
Western Express
Edward J. Bowen
Union Tank and Pipe Company
Sedric Brown
J. L. Maddux
T. A. T.-Maddux Air Lines
Doris Cantillon
Richard Cantillon
Ida M. Glover
Cantillon
Oil Companies Found Guilty in Sherman Act Case
United States circuit court of appeals ruled 52 oil companies guilty of monopolizing the oil industry by pooling patents and cracking processes. The Standard Oil Co of Indiana, Standard Oil Co of New Jersey, Texas Company, and Gar Line Products were among those accused. Decree execution was stayed pending appeal to the Supreme Court.
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Chicago
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Standard Oil Company
Indiana
Texas Company
Standard Oil Company of
New Jersey
Gar Line Products Company
U.S. Supreme Court
New York Rep Sirovich Urges Safer Denatured Alcohol
Representative Sirovich of New York urged President Hoover to back legislation requiring nonpoisonous denatured alcohol materials. He cited England France and Germany as using nonpoisonous denatured agents that deter drinking without harming consumers.
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Washington
Sirovich
New York
Hoover
England
Frances
Germany
Terrific Crash Records Greatest Air Disaster Yet
New York January 20 AP reports the loss of 16 lives in a passenger plane crash at Oceanside California stands as the greatest disaster in aerial transportation history. Earlier noncommercial airship tragedies had higher tolls, with 14 killed at Rio Janeiro on November 14, 1928. 13 killed at Newark New Jersey March 17, 1929. and 10 at Catalina Islands on January 2, 1930.
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New York
Oceanside
Cal
Rio Janeiro
Newark
N. J
Catalina Islands
Former Judge Brady Faces Murder Charge in Austin
Former Texas judge John W. Brady aged 59 stood trial in Austin on a murder charge linked to the death of 28 year old stenographer Lehilla Highsmith last November. Texas rangers aided order as Brady appeared in court with Mrs Brady nearby at the district clerk’s office.
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Austin
Tex
John W. Brady
Third Court of Civil Appeals of Texas
Lehilla Highsmith
Texas Rangers
Brady
Searchers Trek Heavy Snows in Nevada Utah For Missing Pilot
In clear weather today searchers by air, on horseback, and on foot resume tracking a missing mail pilot, Maur ice Graham, last heard from January 10. Weather and fog have hampered efforts. 36 airplanes and 350 men scoured the southeast Nevada and southwestern Utah wastes, chasing rumors with no solid trace yet.
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Las Vegas
Nevada
Utah
Maurice Graham
Mountain Apes
Here
Detriet
Graham
Las Venar
Saltroe City
Speaker Longworth Objects to Use of Upper and Lower Houses
Speaker Longworth denounces the phrase lower branch of Congress and warns that the constitution grants co equal authority to Senate and House. He says there is no upper or lower house and that many people misname the branches.
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Washington
Longworth
Congress
House of Representatives
Senate
House
Supreme Court
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Mdvale
George Mitchell
New Meadows
Hugh H M Hamilton
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Grace Eubanks
King George
London Naval Parley
Seeecided Press Proto
King George Center
Mmng Power
St. James Palace
Dawes Ft
Slayer
Palm Beach
Prohibition
France
Presa Pri
Cire Terraneva
Associated Press
Piere
Ben G. Finke
Lamar Nelson
Western Air Express
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