Communists Stir Trouble Across Cities on Unemployment Day
Demonstrations marked the international unemployment day with arrests in Washington London Berlin and New York where tear gas and police clashes occurred. In the United States authorities warned no rioting would be tolerated while protecting peaceful assembly amid widespread European protests.
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St. Louis
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Toll of Death Floods Near Toulouse in France
Official estimates put the southern France flood death toll near 400 around Moissac and surrounding countryside. Some 1500 houses were destroyed or damaged as rescue efforts continued amid swift currents and scarce food. Dozens of rescuers risked their lives. twelve reportedly died aiding others.
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Toulouse
France
Moissac
Garonne
Bordeaux
Tarn
Prominent Society Woman Testifies for Prohibition
Mrs. Ruth G. K. Strawbridge a Philadelphia society woman testifies at the House judiciary committee prohibition hearing that a social register poll shows a majority of women favor dry entertainments. She says society matrons seek to enforce the law and avoid bootlegger ties while supporting President Hoover’s call for general observance. Patrick Callahan a Louisville Catholic layman defends the eighteenth amendment arguing prohibition is not Protestant driven and cites Catholic leadership in the dry movement. He references a Monsignor Foley letter describing anti prohibition efforts as a revival of the Whiskey Insurrection and denouncing wets as paving the way for the return of the saloon.
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Washington
Mar
Ruth G. K. Strawbridge
Philadelphia
House Judiciary Committee
Social Register
Society of
America
Patrick H. Callahan
Louisville
M. F. Foley
Baltimore
Callahan
Central Cooperative Committee For Prohibition Enforcement
Association of Catholics
James A. Ryan
National Catholic Welfare Council
Catholic University
Contempt Convictions Overruled by Ohio Appellate Court
The Cleveland Appellate Court overruled contempt convictions against Louis B. Seltzer and Carlton K. Matson of the Cleveland Press. They had been found guilty by Common Pleas Judge Frederick P. Walther who also acted as trial judge and plaintiff. The court ruled the editorial did not constitute contempt since the case was no longer pending.
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Louis B. Seltzer
Carlton K. Matson
Cleveland Press
Seem Op County
Common Pleas
Frederick P. Walther
Walther
Seltzer
Sonesel Te
Cellate
Baker
Seltzer and Matson
Mystery man sought in Salt Lake murder case
Salt Lake City March 6 AP The sheriff's office seeks a slender man 35 to 38 in light clothes and a light fedora who followed Mrs Dorothy Moormeister for days before her murder near Salt Lake City two weeks ago Three automobile salesmen saw a tan two door coach matching the description near her car on February 19 and a man with the same features appeared in downtown traffic last Monday Witnesses say Miss Moormeister believed she was being shadowed Larry Potter testified he and Paul Mitchell were with her at a hotel at that time
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Salt Lake City
Mar
Dorothy Moormeister
Here
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Governor Dern Congratulates Smoot on Sugar Tariff Passage
Salt Lake City reports Governor Dern telephoned Senator Smoot to congratulate him on the senate approval of the increased sugar tariff yesterday.
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Senate
Gandhi pledges peaceful civil disobedience against British rule
Ahmadabad dispatch reports Mahatma Gandhi warning of a campaign of civil disobedience if Britain does not concede independence. He calls British rule a curse, urges a round table solution, and threatens salt tax protest if no appeal succeeds. He insists nonviolence but vows disciplined action after March 11.
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Ahmadabad
India
Mahatma Gandhi
Gandhi
Lord Irwin
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New Delhi
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Died Upon Return From Funeral On Chesapeake Train
Representative James P. Glynn of Connecticut died on a Chesapeake and Ohio train about 6 a m returning from Huntington West Virginia where he attended the funeral of Representative James Anthony Hughes Glynn 63 a Republican from Winsted Conn died of a heart attack in his berth Survivors include his widow Glynn served in the Sixty fourth Congress from 1916 onward except the Sixty eighth and held local posts before election
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Washington
James P. Glynn
Connecticut
Chesapeake and Ohio
Huntington
W. Va
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James Anthony Hughes
Glynn
Winsted
Western Forestry and Conservation delegates wrap up session
In Portland Oregon delegates to the Western Forestry and Conservation association conclude three days of study on timber issues in the far west. The final session centers on a cooperative protective agency with Oregon state forester H J Eberly and Chief Forester R W Stuart urging patrols and fire prevention to curb fires.
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Western Forestry and Conservation Association
Far West
H. J. Eberly
Oregon States Forest Department
R. W. Stuart
Admiral Alfred Von Tirpitz Dies in Bavaria at 80
Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz, former lord high admiral and father of Germany's submarine warfare, died in a Bavarian sanatorium at 2:30 am. He would have turned 81 on March 19. Born in 1849, he led the Imperial Navy's rise, clashed with Kaiser Wilhelm II over submarine warfare, and later lived in retirement after political disengagement. He had been moved from Feldafing to Munich due to heart troubles. He had supported Hin-denburg for the presidency in 1925 and later became honorary chairman of the German Nationalist party, though he remained largely out of politics.
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Alfred von Tirpitz
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Paul von Hindenburg
Admiral von Tirpitz
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Wilhelm
United States
von Tirpitz
Car Used by Dynamiters Found by Officers in Idaho
Officers traced tire-chain evidence to identify an automobile linked to the recent dynamiting of M. H. Woods' home in Bernice Idaho. Woods, 75, remains at the damaged two story house with his wife as carpenters repair the blast damage. Prosecutor Jo G. Martin cautions against premature arrests while stressing evidence will support any future action.
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Bernice
Idaho
M. H. Woods
Jo G. Martin
Woods
Little Lost River
Martin
Chase Mecham
Woodmen Members to Institute Suit in Federal Court
Civil action filed by longtime Woodmen of the World members in San Francisco seeks their equity in an $8 million reserve fund. The group, formed from old members who left over higher insurance rates, plans to unite rival lodge factions in one federal suit. Actions also pending against the head camp in Utah and Colorado over recent rate increases affecting 58,000 members across nine western states.
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San Francisco
Woodemen of the World
Utah
Colorado
Fire Claims Three In Boston Apartment Blaze
A five story south end Boston apartment house fire left three dead and nine on danger list at City hospital. The blaze starting in the elevator well swept to the top of the building, with over 50 residents in the home. Victims named Athenius Xar hakols and his daughter Constantine 25 and Charles Zamkochian 2.
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Boston
City Hospital
South End
Athenius Xarhakols
Constantine
Charles Zamkochian
Lead price cut by American Smelting & Refining
The American Smelting and Refining company reduced lead price from 6.00 to 5.85 cents per pound.
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New York
American Smelting & Refining Company
Takes Issue With Governor In Matter Of Child Delinquency
Lewiston attorney Noel B. Martin testified before the Washington house judiciary committee on Idaho child delinquency data. Governor's office data refuted by Governor's numbers but Leeper claimed crime and immorality among Idaho children remain widespread despite enforcement and fines.
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Idaho
Noel B. Martin
House Judiciary Committee
Washington
R. D. Leeper
Martin
Governor's Office
Leeper
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