Wallace Reid Dies After Drug Addiction Struggle
Wallace Reid, star of romance films, died in Hollywood amid treatment for narcotics habit. He had been unconscious for two days as wife Dorothy Davenport stayed by his side. Doctors cited congestion of lungs and kidneys from a collapse while attempting to quit drugs. Reid had fallen ill during a filming break two years earlier and had begun a mountain rest before returning to Los Angeles for sanitarium care. Funeral planned for Saturday at an episcopal church with Benevolent and Protective Order of Silk involvement. ashes to be sent east.
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Los Angeles
Wallace Ried
Hollywood
Dorothy Davenport
Reid
G. 8
Herbert
Mamma
Riots Break Out as Chamber Votes to Lift Immunity
Paris January 18 Associated Press reports the French Chamber of Deputies amid its wildest scenes ever voted 371 to 143 to suspend parliamentary immunity for Marcel Cachin. A government probe found possible conspiracy linked to Ruhr strike plans prompting the move. fists flew as Right and Left clashed. Argo suspended the session amid chaos.
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Paris
Chamber of Deputies
Marcel Cachin
Chamber
Cachin
Ruhr
France
Machin
Leon Daudet
Francois Argo
Prince Joachim Murat
Argo
Congress condemns grants of money to state projects
The Senate approved Senator Davis' concurrent resolution condemning Congress funding state projects with matched state funds after a two hour debate. It accuses "organized minorities" of pressuring Congress to enable such practices.
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Congress
Austin
Tex
Senate
Davis
Senate Debates Federal Aid Projects and Passes Two Bills
Wallace Reid referenced federal aid topics such as road aid the Sheppard-Towner bill and vocational training amid a Senate debate. Voting reached 21 to 3 as two bills passed this afternoon one on court procedure recovery and another regulating blanket policies by fraternal insurers.
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Darwin
Bailey
Senate
Senator Davis
Dallas
Strong
Senaor Davis
Cousins
Senate Committee Insurance and Banking
Bank Commission
J. L. Chapman
Ed Hall
Evolution Denounced as Subject for Schools
A scathing denunciation of Darwinian evolution and protest against its teaching in Texas public schools was voiced by Rep. J. T. Strader of Navarro County. He argued the theory infests schools from the little red schoolhouse to universities and denounced it as infidelity and a slander on American education. The floor debate followed a motion to recommit and then a minority report printing, with Strader defending the measure.
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Austin
Texas
J. T. Strader
Navarro County
Strader
Committee On Education
Committee On State Affairs
Arnold
Houston
Moore
Greenville
Little Red
Herrin Jury Deadlocks After 10-Hour Deliberation
The Herrin murder trial jury in Marion Illinois failed to reach a verdict after ten hours of deliberation over five defendants charged in the Hoffman killing. Judge Hartwell prepared to receive a verdict at dawn, with possible separate findings of guilty or innocent and punishments ranging from death to fourteen years.
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Associated Presa
Marion
Ill
Herrin
Howard Hoffman
Defense Council
D. T. Hartwell
Startwell
Good Roads Booster Dies at Tucumcari
J W Corn a prominent business man and good roads booster died in Tucumcari N M after brief illness and surgery He had remarried Katherine Hale of Crockett Texas Survived by wife a daughter Margery Corn of Shawnee Okla his parents Ennia Corn and family in Shawnee a brother S J Corn two sisters Mrs M B Keator and Mrs C H Meeker Services held at the First Baptist Church with a Mason lodge escort of Knights Templar.
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Tucumcari
N. M
J. W. Corn
Good Roads
Mr. Corn
Game
Katherine Hale
Crockett
Texas
Margery Corn
Sheawnee
Okla
Ennia Corn
Shawnee Okla
J. Corn
M. B. Keator
C. H. Meeker
First Baptist Church
Masone
Knights
Man arrested in Childress wanted on arson charge
Walter Young admitted to federal agents that he is the man sought by Illinois authorities for the August 27 dynamiting of two Chicago and Alton Railway bridges near Woodhouse. A fugitive from justice complaint was filed in Dallas. Young was arrested in Childress, Texas, and taken to Springfield, Illinois.
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Dallas
Walter Young
Department of Justice
Federal
Southern Division
Illinois
Chicago and Alton Railway
Woodhouse
Federal Offaers
Young
United States
EH. V. Davidson Jr
W. S. Hightower
Springfield
Childress
Texas
Man Perishes in Fire After Saving Family
COOPER January 18 A. B. Harper 56 burned to death when his home burned last night from an oil stove. Harper and his son awoke and helped save the family. Harper then returned for papers and was killed. He was born, raised here and survived by wife and six children. Funeral services will be held tomorrow by the Masonic lodge of which he was past master.
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Cooper
Harper
Masonic Lodge
Ku Klux Parade in Waco Draws Large Turnout
In Waco Texas on January 18 a dozen unmasked Ku Klux Klan members led by the cross and flag paraded the main streets in eight cars. It was the largest such display in the county since last year's Lorena incident. A derailment near May Pearl reduced the number of marchers and trains arriving from Fort Worth.
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Waco
Texas
Lorena
McLennan
Fort Worth
Maypearl
Trains Return Ku Klux Klan Delegates After Engine Trouble
Two special trains carrying Klan members to a Waco parade were returned to Fort Worth by the regular night train due to engine trouble on one of the specials.
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Fort Worth
Texas
Ku Klux Klan
Waco
Knights of the Ku Klux Klan ride to Waco on special train
About 200 Knights of the Ku Klux Klan rode a Santa Fe special train from Temple Texas to Waco for a demonstration tonight leaving at 6:80 o'clock and returning late, with autos left under guard at the athletic field before boarding.
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Temple
Texas
Ku Klux Klan
Waco
Santa Fe
Atheltic Field
Identity of Man In MerRouge Mob Sworn to In Trial
Bastrop La January 18 testimony in a Louisiana hooded band case identified Newt Gray as a member of the August 24 masked group that kidnapped Watt Daniel and Thomas Richard. Witnesses described clothing and equipment, while a judge barred questions that might incriminate Gray. The trial centers on the Morehouse parish killings and alleged torture devices.
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Bastrop
Watt Daniel
Thomas Richard
Newt Gray
Gray
White girl confronted by Black person in Hodge Texas
Fort Worth Jan 18 A white girl at Hodge Texas was confronted by an unidentified Black person as she walked in the yard at her father's home at 8 o'clock Thursday night. Sheriff’s posse were out tonight seeking to run down the Black individual.
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Hodge
Texas
Five Mine Directors Refuse Aid to Coal Delivery
Five prominent mine directors appeared before French authorities at Bredeny and refused to aid in coal delivery, urged to prepare to face a military court. Reports from Essen say occupying forces seized coal, bars, and barges, while locals mourn the new ban on singing patriotic songs under heavy penalties.
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RURR
Essen
Bredeny
Sone
Duesburg
Mannheim
German Government Forbids Coal Aid to France and Belgium
Berlin reports the German government forbids state railroad officials and workers to cooperate in any way to forward coal to France and Belgium, an order affecting energy supply amid postwar tensions.
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Berlin
France
Belgium
Hitler to Review 200000 Bavarian Fascisti Force
Munich January 18 Adolph Hitler head of the National Socialists and core of the Bavarian fascisti organization announced today that Sunday he would review 200000 Bavarian fascisti gathered to resist the French occupation.
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Munich
Adolph Hittler
National Socialists
Bavarian Fascisti
Attorney General Keeling to confer on Red River boundary
Attorney General W A Keeling departed Austin for Washington to confer with Texas lawyers in the Red River boundary suit and plan the final designation of the Texas Oklahoma boundary. State reclamation engineer A A Stiles will join later to implement the Supreme Court decision and place the boundary.
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Associated Prema Austin
W. A. Keeling
Austin
Washington
Texas
Red River
Oklahoma
A. A. Stiles
Supreme Court
Trumbull Bank Robbery Probed by Sheriff
Trumbull Texas bank robbery investigated after bandits blew the safe and escaped with cash estimated at 3600 dollars. Sheriff Forbes from Waxahachie led the inquiry as bank officials said losses were covered by a security firm. Residents heard an explosion about 3 am but did not observe the crime.
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Trumbull
Tex
Dan
Sherif Forbes
Waxahachie
Farmera State Bank
W. Bingham
Man Admits Mercury in Engines at Southern Pacific Shops
AP reports in El Paso that J E Williams, a defendant in the quick silver case, confessed by letter to his wife and in a signed statement before officials that he placed mercury in engines at Southern Pacific shops in San Antonio Texas. U S Marshal Walker testified Williams, while in his El Paso office, declared he was ready to thaw out and named defendants Dowk and Doak.
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Associated Press
EL Paso
Southern Pacific
San Antonio
Texas
J E. Williams
United States
D. A. Walker
Fed
Eral
Walker
Williama
Williams
John Dowk
James L. Doak
Tai Antonio
John Doak
Dowk
Deaks
Cose Libro
Plainview Man Dies After Appendicitis Operation
Plainview Jan 18 Special to The News John A Anderson aged 32 died at the Plainview Sanitarium after an operation for appendicitis Sunday morning around 1 o clock An abscess formed and the operation failed to save his life He is survived by his wife and daughter Velma 12 and by brothers Oliver and Elmer of whom live his sister Mrs C F Vincent of Plainview his mother Mrs M J Anderson of Plainview and his father B A Anderson of Wichita Kan He was born in Comanche in 1891 lived here since 1901 moved to Wichita ten years ago and returned in 1918 enlisted in the army serving in the Spruce section of the aviation Corps at Vancouver Wash He was in business at Portland Ore until November last year when he came here and opened the High School grocery.
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Plainview
John A. Amderson
Anderson
Wichita
Kans
Comanche
Aviation Corps
Vancouver
Wash
Portland
Ore
Oil Point Destroyed by Fire in Blossom Texas
A fire at the Blossom Oil and Cotton Company destroyed the main machinery and manufacturing building this morning. Loss estimated at 65,000 dollars. Origin of the blaze unknown.
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Blossom, Tex. Dan
Blossom OW and Cotton Company
New Mexico House Probes State Accounts
The New Mexico House launches a sweeping probe into state accounts by joint resolution No. 9. Floor leader Howard defends the inquiry as due to mismanagement reports, citing questionable duties and a beaver inspector’s oversights. Governor Hinkle submitted the budget with calls to trim excess and reduce expenditures. The Senate held a brief session and is viewed as opposing Democratic moves.
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Santa’ FE
House
Puyear
Chavez
Keter Howard
Roosevelt County
Howard
Game Wardens
Dedger
Senate
Flogging Charge Against Youth Dropped by Jury
Houston January 18 Detained since Tuesday in the Harrison Armand case Claude E B Huckley Goose Creek was acquitted today by the first county grand jury A no bill was headed Judge Robinson by Foreman Henry M Curtin shortly after noon Grand jurors heard more witnesses from Goose Creek this morning including Claude E B KH Smith J W Smith T J Hare and J D Hunnicutt L H Daingerfield chief of the weather bureau appeared Armand brother of the man whipped on January 6 testified before the grand jury Several more witnesses were scheduled for tomorrow
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Houston
Harrison-Armand Co
Claude
EB. Huckley
Goose Creek
Robinson
Henry M. Curtin
Claude EB. KH. Smith
Central
J. W. Smith
T. J. Hare
J. D. Hunnicutt
L. H. Daingerfield
Weather Bureau
W. K. Armand
Grand Jury
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