Agriculture gains but still faces long recovery, Gore says
The 1924 25 crop year may yield about 12 billion in gross income, up from 11.5 billion the prior year, with a better price readjustment between farm and industry. Yet farmers still endure hardship from the postwar depression as gains must become lasting realities, the Gore era report notes.
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Associated Press
Washington
Agriculture Department
Coolidge
Henry ©. Wallace
Howard M. Gore
Wallace
Quiz Mortimer In Graft Case Today
Cross examination of Elias H. Mortimer, chief government witness in the Forbes Thompson veterans bureau conspiracy trial, will begin tomorrow. James H. Easby Smith will conduct the questioning. Colonel Forbes, former head of the bureau, will testify in his own defense as both sides hope to finish before the holidays.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Elias H. Mortimer
Forbes- Thompson Veterans’ Bureau
James H. Easby-Smith
Charles R. Forbes
Forbes
Veterans’ Bureau
Kid McCoy Goes on Trial for Murder of Theresa Mars
Firebrand boxer Kid McCoy faces trial today for the murder of Theresa Mars. His first lawyers quit, a defense of insanity was proposed, but McCoy argues the death was the woman’s own doing and maintains his sanity.
Kid McCoy Faces Murder Trial in Los Angeles
Norman Selby known as Kid McCoy goes to superior court in Los Angeles for a murder charge arising from the Aug. 13 shooting of Mrs. Theresa Mars. Thirty three witnesses for the state and as many for the defense expected. defense seeks delay over sanity reports. McCoy claims Mars killed herself and he acted after learning of her death. He also implicated Albert Mors as to the tragedy.
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Associated Press
Los Angeles
Norman Selby
Kid McCoy
Theresa Mars
McCoy
Albert Mors
Mors
Miss Berglund and Miss Nystul Escape Chinese Bandits
Miss Elizabeth Berglund and Miss Ineborg Nystul, Augustana synod missionaries from Minnesota, escaped bandit raid at Juchow in Kiuhow province and are now with friends at Kiuhsien. Bandits hold Juchow with about 1000 men. soldiers refused to fight.
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Associated Press
Hankow
Elizabeth Berglund
Ineborg Nystul
Augustana Synod
Juchow
Province
Kiuhsien
Minnesota
Foreign Reds Ousted by French Secret Police
The French government expelled 60 foreign communist agents under interior ministry warrants. Among them were 43 Italians, seven Belgians, six Poles, and one each of Yugoslav, Swiss, Swede, and German. The operation targets organizers of the communist centuries at Bobigny. Premier Herriot defends anti foreign agitation policy amid sharp press criticism.
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Associated Press
Paris
Herriot
Bobigny
Elevator Door Is Closed
Frank Barnes aged 63 died at St James hospital from a fractured skull after a reported plunge down an elevator shaft in the Harbour Building at Main and Broadway. Coroner and police investigate as witnesses describe unlocked first floor door and possible basement access by others.
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Frank Barnes
St. James Hospital
Harbour Building
Main and
Broadway
Barnes
Jerome Leveque
West Gold Street
Leveque
Sherman & Reed
Undertaking Establishment
J. C. Murphy
Heavy snow storms hit the Middle West and Nebraska
A major snow storm drenches western Iowa northeastern Nebraska and eastern South Dakota with NE reports of 10 inches. Nebraska experiences a second snow event in four days with four to ten inch accumulations hindering traffic and closing roads in several localities.
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Associated Press
Sioux City
Iowa
Nebraska
South Dakota
Omaha
Brigands Kidnap Chinese Christians In Canton Launch
Forty eight teachers and students from Canton Christian colleges were seized Saturday aboard a launch flying an American flag. Six attackers overpowered crew, boarded the vessel, abducted the captives, and sent the craft back to Canton with a foreign woman and several Chinese girls aboard. The bandits then fled inland with the kidnapped group.
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Associated Press
Canton
China
Canton Christian Colleges
Ne Ton
Iing
Mexican Prisoners Reported Missing After Rebel Charge
Mexican federal troops returned from Agua Prieta to Douglas with 13 civilians who were arrested for fomenting rebellion. The 13 were said to have been executed en route to Nogales, while the garrison at Naco denied knowledge of their fate. In Tapalpa, Jalisco, bandits killed eleven unarmed civilians and wounded seven during a town raid.
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Associated Press
Douglas
Ariz
Agua Prieta
Mexico
Calles
Naco
Nogales
Borquez
Mexico City
Tapalpa
Jalisco
Mian and Fila Wife Injured In Reckless Car Crash
Fred Clark 37 of 1461 Longfellow Ave was badly cut and bruised and likely internaled after a touring car rearended his light truck while he adjusted a radiator blanket. Mrs Clark suffered a deep scalp wound when thrown into the windshield. The drunken touring car driver fled into the darkness leaving a flask and demijohn at the scene.
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Fred Clark
Longfellow Avenue
Harrison Avenue
Clark
A. Bracme
Butte
Braeme
Coast Guard Records Record Year of Rescue and Inspections
The 12 months ending last July saw 2 462 rescues and 46 152 ship inspections by the Coast Guard, a year of peak activity with daily services to vessels in distress and increased boarding for prohibition enforcement, plus 44 aid cases in one day.
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Preas
Washington
United States Coast Guard
Guard
Coast Guard
Last survivor of Light Brigade dies in Iowa at 87
Hills H. Cutting believed last survivor of Balaklava charge died at 87 in Cedar Rapids after a paralytic stroke. A former railroad engineer and longtime civic speaker, he often recounted the famed order by Lord Raglan and the valley of death. He lived with his two daughters after retirement.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Hills
H. Cutting
Light Brigade
Balaklava
Cutting
Lord Raglan
Valley of Death
Som Clenrly
Coolidge
Mr. Cutting
Raglan
Prince of Wales
Catholic Priests Captured by Chinese Brigands Reported
Father Eugene Creegan of Chicago announced receipt of a cable from Chen Fu Chow stating Catholic priests including Father Mathias Dominic and Edmund were captured by Chinese brigands. The group, traveling between two Henan province cities, were on missionary work for the Passionist order.
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Preas
Des Moines
Iowa
Eugene Creegan
Chicago
Chen Fu Chow
China
Mathias
Dominic
Edmund
Creegan
Henan
Utah Professor's Wife Kills Children Then Suicides
Mrs Rose Mary Sparkman wife of University of Utah Spanish professor F Sparkman allegedly chloroformed her two children before carbon monoxide suffocation and then took her own life Neighbors discovered the scene after the family had been missing since yesterday The husband said his wife suffered pecsone disorders and had threatened self harm.
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Associated Press
Galt Lake City
Neurasthenia
Rose Mary
Sparkman
F. Sparkman
University of Utah
Memorial exercises honor Butte Elks members in Broadway theater
Judge John V. Dwyer spoke of growing universal brotherhood as Butte lodge of Elks held memorial exercises at the Broadway theater. The packed audience heard roll calls for those who had "gone to serve," with performances by Butte Mines band and solos by Kathryn Meagher and Dennis J. Sullivan.
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Lodge
Broadway Theater
J. Dwyer
John V. Dwyer
Butte Lodge of Elks
Butte Mines
Dean W. Phillips
Frank L. Riley
George Lester
Henry G. Klenze
William KE. Reynolda
George C. Thompson
Daniel J. Don
D. J. Glard
James M
William ®. Ralph
Philipc. Gillia
John FP. O'Neill
J. H. O'Gorman
David McPherson
Richard Thiermah
Richard I. Sutton
Claude V. Hammon
John J. Barrett
William P. McGuigan
The
Kathryn Meagher
Dennis J. Sullivan
Judge Lynch
Charles W. Meagher
Bryant
Alarm by Dog Saves 25 From West Side Fire
A dog named Biemareck barked to signal a fire in a west side apartment building. Twenty five tenants escaped the flames on the lower floors, but the janitor Eugene Buxton suffocated in the basement.
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Associated Preas
New York
Biemarck
West Side
Biemareck
Eugene Bexton
Sexton
Reichstag Election Returns Show Social Democrats Lead
Berlin reports up to 5 am show the social democrats with 62 deputies, German nationalists 37, centrists 24, German people's 22, communists 14, Bavarian 8, German democratic 7, extreme nationalists 2 and economic 2. partial results indicate socialists strongest, democrats gain, Ludendorff’s anti Semitic party collapses. clericals slight change.
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Associated Press
Berlin
Social Democrats
Reichstag
German People's Party
Communists
Bavarian People's Party
German Democratic Party
Extreme Nationalists
Economic Party
Ludendorif
Socialist Party
Democrats
Ludendorff
Marx
New England Leads Per Capita Savings In 12 Year Study
New England tops per capita savings with $434 this year while the Middle Atlantic trails. The American Bankers Association report covers 12 years showing Pacific $240 East Central $168 West Central $87 Southern $52. The South shows slow growth but rose 188 percent since 1912.
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Associated Press
New York
New England
Middle Atlantic
Bouth
Middle
Billings Axe Murder Victims Named Mr and Mrs Neila Anderson
In Billings Montana a husband and wife were found murdered at their Minnesota Avenue barber shop and Marcel parlor. The two victims were identified as Mr. and Mrs. Neila M. Anderson. Police suspect a homicidal maniac at large and note the cash remains untouched. The victims were 43 and 39, with Anderson born in Sweden and his wife native of Pelican Rapids Minnesota.
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Associated Press
Billings
Neila M. Anderson
Mercer Parlor
Minnesota Avenue
Marcel
Batu
Anderson
Mng
Sweden
Pelican Rapids
Minn
Nebraska
Angus
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Goast
Ellis H. Cutting
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