Public Opinion Weighs Prohibition Debate in Congress
Washington January 26 Republican leaders in Congress forecast only debate on nationwide prohibition this session. No vote expected this session. Howell bill on District of Columbia enforcement offers only general debate. Fort of New Jersey hints at forming concrete sentiment as session ages. Wickersham, Judge Kenyon, and McCormick cited as law enforcement figures.
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Congress
Wickersham Commission
Howell
District of Columbia
Senate
Representative Fort
New Jersey
Wickersham
William S. Kenyon
Paul J McCormick
Law
Gandhi Released From Prison At Poona In India
Mahatma Gandhi 61, frail leader of Indian Nationalists, is released from Poona prison. He is moved secretly by car to a rail station, then to Bombay by train with Sarojini Naidu nearby. Armed sentries guard the route as huge crowds await a sight of the leader.
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India
Mahatma Gandhi
Bombay
Sarojini Naidu
America
Former New Jersey Governor Edwards Dies by Self-Inflicted Gunshot
Edward S. Edwards former governor and U S senator died from a self inflicted wound at his Kensington Avenue home in Jersey City. His son Irving Edwards said years of ill health and despondency preceded the tragedy. once a political and financial force in New Jersey, his career waned after 1928 and a rift with Mayor Frank Hague. Cloudy tonight with rain in the far north tomorrow.
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N. J
Edward S. Edwards
New Jersey
United States
Kensington Avenue
Irving Edwards
Edwards
Atlantic Ocean
Senate
Frank Hague
Idaho Girl, 17 Drinks Poison at Grandparents Home
Lucille Priest, 17, committed death by her own action by drinking strychnine at her grandfather Ed Wadsworths Taylorville home Saturday. She died a few minutes after being found on the kitchen floor by her grandmother. No motive given. coroner says no inquest necessary.
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Idaho Falls
Lucille Priest
Ed Wadsworth
Taylorville
Wadsworth
B. J. Allen
James Priest
Allen
25000 Missing in New York in Year
New York reports more than 25 000 missing persons in the past year including 2450 girls and 3600 boys Capt John H Ayres of the missing persons bureau told a St Johns Episcopal church audience. He warned girls are vulnerable and blamed home conditions for many runaways while noting boys more often self reliant.
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New York
John H. Ayres
Missing
St. John’s Episcopal Church
Legion endorses immediate cash retirement of veterans certificates
The American Legion national executive committee endorsed paying veterans compensation certificates in cash on application with an estimated cost around 3.5 billion dollars. The action follows earlier debates at the Boston convention and comes as Veterans Administrator Hines testifies before the Senate Finance Committee on the 3.5 billion dollar figure and the hearings on proposals to pay the certificates. The committee avoided preferring any specific bill pending in Congress.
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Indianapolis
Congress
National Executive Committee
The
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Boston
Washington
Hines
Senate Finance Committee
Senate
House
Watson
Smoot
Share Croppers Worst Hit By Drought In Arkansas
In Marked Tree Arkansas farm laborers described as share croppers trek to Red Cross relief offices or return home with thin rations. Wagons and bicycles carry sacks of flour and pails of lard while many sold cars due to hardship. The drought's toll is clear in eastern Arkansas towns and farms.
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Arkansas
Red Cross
Coast Guard fires on rum ship as captain dies in chase
In a five mile pursuit off the Jersey coast the coast guard fired a one pound shot mortally wounding Captain William J. Cluett of Nova Scotia. The Josephine K scow and Lynbrook of Newark plus tug Dauntless were seized with liquor valued at 100000 and 19 men aboard. Canada seeks information from the United States as the U S government defends the action as performing its duty against smuggling.
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Coast Guard
Lower Bay
United States
Canada
William J. Cluett
Lunenberg
Nova Scotia
Marine
Staten Island
Brooklyn
Newark
Washington
Jersey
White House
Lowman
The
Treasury
New Jersey
Search for missing air mail pilot Walter Case continues
Spokane reports two signal fires as aerial and ground crews hunt for Walter E. Case missing since Thursday. One fire spotted in the Rattlesnake hills near Yakima prompts a ground search from White Bluffs. Residents heard a plane in fog the morning Case vanished.
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Spokane
Wash
Walter E. Case
Air Mail
Rattlesnake Hills
Yakima
White Bluffs
Case
Parrot Hints at Motive in East Side Murder Case
Police study parrot habits as a possible clue after Mrs Francis Yalmes 44 was found slain in her east side apartment. Neighbors recall the bird crying out whispers like dont papa dont as a blood stained axe lay nearby.
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East Side
Francis Yalmes
Civil Service Rules Questioned Over Pocatello Police
A letter rails against police officers engaging in political activity in violation of civil service rules. It singles out a member as adviser to county commissioner R. T. Hale and warns against politicizing the force, urging adherence to civil service standards.
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Pocatello
R. T. Hale
Hale
Court Grants Week Delay in DeBoe Case
Los Angeles January 26 AP sentencing of Daisy DeBoe for alleged theft of $825 from Clara Bow was postponed to next Monday. Judge William Doran granted a new trial motion and a one week delay to allow defense to prepare arguments.
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Los Angeles
Daisy DeBoe
Clara Bow
William Doran
Doran
Nathan O. Freedman
Miss de Boe
William Blerne
Blerne
Fire devastates Bueneventura business district in $5 million loss
Fire, believed incendiary, wipes out Buenaventura's business district causing an estimated $5,000,000 loss. In Washington, House Rules moves to start hearings on a $95,000,000 revolving fund for drainage, irrigation, and levee districts. Senate rebuffs further study of a prohibition enforcement bill for D C. Utah considers a 400 mile secondary road system and a half cent gasoline tax increase. Representative Jorgensen introduces the bills.
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Columbia
Washington
House Rules Committee
Senate
Salt Lake City
Utah
8. M. Jorgensen
Sevier County
Jury to Try Ise and Boyle for Spokane Bomb Plot
Jury selection started in San Francisco for Henry Ise and Thomas Boyle charged with attempting to bomb two Spokane newspaper buildings. Judge Isadore Harris presides as proceedings begin.
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San Francisco
Henry Ise
Thomas Boyle
Spokane
Isadore Harris
Booth to push bill on immediate cash retirement for veterans
Senator John K. Booth of Spanish Fork said he will introduce a memorial urging Utah's congressional delegation to back a bill for immediate cash retirement of veterans compensation certificates upon application. In Washington the Heydings resolution to probe Wickersham Commission recommendations was set aside by the Senate after opposition.
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Salt Lake City
John K. Booth
Spanish Fork
Utah
Washington
Realignment Planned for Utah Highway Segment
In Utah, a spring project will realign parts of the state highway between Ogden and Brigham City. State Highway Commission member Preston P. Peterson announced the plan today.
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Ealt Lake City
Ogden
Brigham City
Preston P. Peterson
State Highway Commission
Solon presses stock inspection to curb losses
Senator R. B Hafferty of Valley county insists on intercounty stock inspection and opposes abolishing interstate livestock shipment checks. He says cattle losses arise from mispicked stock and mislabeling during loading, and an inspection would prevent further errors and theft.
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Solon
Boise
R. B Hafferty
Valley County
Andrus Named to Land Office in Boise
Cowles Andrus, former Custer county legislator, selected to be state land commissioner to succeed I H Nash. Agreement among Republican land board members led to formal approval planned for later today. Nash has served 12 years and will stay until April 1 at the request of the board.
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Cowles Andrus
Custer County
I. H. Nash
Land Board
C. Ben Ross
Andrus
North
Idaho
Department of Public Works
Boise Flying Service
Nash
Carpenters in Local Lockout Amid Wage Dispute
About eighteen carpenters from the Pocatello Building Trades Council were locked out by the Pocatello Master Builders Association after a wage dispute. The union says carpenters have earned 8 per day under a tentative June agreement, while the association seeks a new 8 rate, leading to the action. Roy L. Getty, Master Builders secretary, notes the lockout aims to pressure a settlement.
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Pocatello Master Builders
Roy L. Getty
Master Buildiers
Carpenters
Mr Getty
Nation's Builders See Prosperity at AGC Convention
A. E. Horst of Philadelphia, president of the Associated General Contractors of America, told the twelfth annual convention in San Francisco that business is rising from Maine to California. He cited more than half a billion dollars of new construction in progress and a three billion dollar normal program, and blamed speculative building for low mood while outlining financing controls.
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Associated General Contractors of America
Maine
California
A. E. Horst
Philadelphia
Idaho Senate backs veterans home at Coeur d’Alene site
Boise Idaho January 26 AP senators urged and passed a memorial for a home for disabled veterans to be built in the Northwest at Coeur d Alene. Senator Ralph Nelson said Coeur d Alene offers ideal scenic health and recreational advantages and has been studied by the national homes board. The house will take up the measure tomorrow. A separate bill by Emma Cloudhek Myrtle Bernard Larsen and McDonald seeks an eight hour workday for women reducing the work week from 54 to 48 hours with a 12 hour consecutive rest period.
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Cover d'Alene
Senate
Ralph Nelson
Kootenai
Coeur d'Aelene
Idaho
Board of Managers of
National Homes
Congress
Northwest
Coeur d'Alene
Nelson
Emma Cloudhek
Twin Falls
Myrtle Bernard
Canyon
Larsen
Bannock
McDonald
Nez Perce
Gasoline tax bill would charge cities including Boise
Idaho bill drafted for the highways committee would require municipalities to pay the state gasoline tax and establish a revolving fund for refunds. Dealers and importers must post bonds or prove financial responsibility, delinquent taxes incur ten percent interest, and railroads must report shipment origins and destinations.
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Boise
Highways Committee
Fred E. Lukens
Department of Government
Department of Origin and Destination
Will Rogers Wires The Tribune On Prohibition Debate
Will Rogers writes from Austin Texas discussing the Wickersham report and the public split on the liquor amendment. He outlines groups labeled retainists abolitionists appropriationists and state riters and notes Hoover’s position among the undecided.
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Austin
Texas
Wickersham
Mr. Hoover
Minister Carl D. Case Dies in Quincy Portraits of Turbulent Divorce
The Rev Carl D. Case, a widely known minister who attracted national publicity during a controversial divorce case years ago, died of heart disease yesterday in Quincy. He was -----
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Carl D. Case
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