Gompers Re-elected AFL President for 63rd Year
Samuel Gompers was unanimously re-elected president of the American Federation of Labor at its 44th annual convention in El Paso Texas. He pledged continued fight to advance the labor movement and oppose wage reductions while urging industries to meet American standards of life or exit.
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Associated Press
EL Paso
Texas
Samuel Gompers
American Labor Movement
American Federation of Labor
Federation
Gompers
Federal Judge Accused Of Drinking On Bench
Testimony before a House Judiciary subcommittee contends U S District Judge William E. Baker bore liquor odor and appeared drunk on the bench. Clerk Marion Greer testifies of late night corridors and a party scene in Parkersburg and Bikini, as investigation into impeachment charges proceeds.
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Parkersburg
W. Va
William E. Baker
United States District Court
West Virginia
Akter
Judiciary Committee
House of Representatives
T. A. Brown
Baker
Judge Baker
Marion C. Greer
J. Wade Coffman
Bikini
Daniel Welch Dead Purchasing Agent for Anaconda Co
Daniel A. Welch purchasing agent for the Anaconda Copper Mining Co died suddenly in New York at 10 o clock from cerebral hemorrhage. He had served seven years in the post and was a well known figure in Butte and Anaconda where he often visited and kept Butte as his home.
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Daniel A. Welch
Anaconda Copper Mining Company
Butte
Anaconda
New York
D. Murphy
C. F. Kelley
Mr. Welch
Anaconda Company
Silver Bow Club
Honest Citizens Versus Auto Bankers Study Declares
Chicago reports 10,000 honest citizens to 50 dead beats in a study of 2,600,000 automobile purchases. Of 659, five are women, based on statistics compiled by 1,600 corporations for the national auto bankers convention on December 10 and 11.
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Associated Press
Chicago
National Association of Auto Bankers
Indictments for Publishing Tax Returns Hit Two Papers
Kansas City journal post owner Walter Dickey and Ralph Ellis editor indicted by a federal grand jury for unlawful publication of income tax returns. New York Herald Tribune publishers also indicted on three counts testing legality of publishing tax data. No names of individuals were charged in the New York case.
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Associated Press
Kansas City
Walter 8. Dickey
Kansas City Journal-Post
Ralph Ellis
New York
New York Tribune Company
Herald-Tribune
J. Stanley Webster
Washington
John E. Joyce
United States District Attorney
Stone
Joyce
Los Angeles Navy Dirigible Christened in 1920 Event
The Los Angeles, first flight completed since transatlantic voyage, arrives at Lakehurst and is commissioned as a U S navy ship ZR 3. Mrs Calvin Coolidge christens the air liner with a ribbon as pigeons release a message for the ceremony.
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Giant Air Liner
Calvin Coolidge
Nation’s Capital
Lakehurst
N. J
Germany
Los Angeles
U. S
Associated Press
Washington
United States
California
Navy
Naval Air Station
Anacostia
Jackies
Hutchinson
Washington Navy Yard
George W. Steele Jr
Foreign programs heard over radio
Trans Atlantic broadcasting dubbed a phenomenal success by amateurs reporting tonight’s foreign program. Between 11 and 12 o’clock hundreds of reports flooded in from amateurs across the eastern states of successful reception of broadcasts from Aberdeen Scotland New Castile Bournemouth England and Madrid Spain through Radio Broadcasting’s initiative.
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Associated Press
York
Radio Broadcasting
Aberdeen
Scotland
New Castile
Bournemouth
England
Madrid
Spain
Forbes and Thompson Face Trial On Veterans Hospital Fraud
In Chicago on November 25 the Forbes and Thompson trial entered opening statements after two days of juror selection. The case centers on defrauding the government through veterans' hospital contracts with jurors including two veterans, while Judge Carpenter separated the conspiracy to bribe and conspiracy to defraud charges. The government will try first the conspiracy to defraud charge tied to site selection and hospital construction contracts.
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Chicago
Charles R. Forbes
Veterans’ Bureau
J. W. Thompson
St. Louis
Carpenter
City Wins Recondemnation Battle Along Rowe Highway
The city of Butte won in district court to reappraise Hannah O Leary property on Rowe road at Colorado and Greenwood. Three appraisers will value the land and report findings to the court. Previous appraisals set at 700 dollars. neighboring properties settled higher. The ruling allows condemnation for public road use and paving replacing a detour plan, opening a paved highway from Montana Street to Harrison Avenue.
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Butte
District Court
Hannah O'Leary
Colorado
Greenwood
Carroll
O'Leary
Jackson
Fr. V. Kemper
John J. Haggerty
Wiliam McGrath
Judge Carroll
Council Chamber
Cornelius Sullivan
Samuel Hastie
Rowe Road
Montana Street
Harrison Avenue
Supreme Court to revise bankruptcy rules nationwide
The Supreme Court is expected to enact amendments to federal bankruptcy and equity rules after recommendations from the Judicial Conference of senior circuit judges. Taft, chair, transmitted the proposals adopted with input from circuit and district judges and bar associations.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Judicial Conference
Taft
American Bar
National Creditmen’s Associations
Chaplin Marries Lita Grey in Mexican ceremony
News dispatch from Guaymas reports Charlie Chaplin wed Lita Grey at Empalme near the Gulf of California. Civil Judge Antonio Haro officiated. witnesses were the same as in the October license. The couple traveled to Guaymas after the ceremony and kept details private.
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Associated Press
Mexico City
Empalme
Guaymas
Gulf of Californa
Chariie Chaplin
Lita Grey
Antonio Haro
Albin
United States
Mexico
Chaplin
O'Donnell Divorce Grants $750000 Settlement
Mrs Lilian O'Donnell was granted a divorce from Thomas A O'Donnell president of the American Petroleum Institute in superior court here. She charged desertion and a property agreement providing 760000 in cash and securities and a 40000 annual income was approved.
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Associated Press
Angeles
Lilian O’donnel
Thomas A. O'Donnell
American Petroleum Institute
O’donnell
Exhumation Sought in Ohio Furnace Mystery
Investigators await chemist and pathologist analysis of stains found on items in the Christ Evangelical Lutheran church parsonage after the cremated body of Mrs. Addie Shearsley was found in a furnace. If the stains are human blood, authorities may exhume the body for skull examination.
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Associated Press
Columbus
Ohio
Bexley
C. F. Long
HW. M. Brundage
Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church Parsonage
Addie Shearsley
C. V. Shearsley
Paris
Shearsley
Milton
Clarence
Elizabeth
Alice
King
Harry Carson
Lithopolis
Gladys Redelfe
Apet Selppa
Mra Redelfe
Tor
Brundage
Edwin M. Abbot
Soldiers guard jailed negro as mob protests in New Bern
New Bern North Carolina November 25 1929 the Craven county jail was surrounded by a mob demanding John Godette a negro accused of fatally injuring Edna Williamen a 12 year old girl after a car strike near Croatan. The local National Guard Battery PD 117th Field Artillery was deployed at nightfall to protect the jail. Godette asserted he would appeal to the US Supreme Court from a conviction under the prohibition law and had been arrested hours after the incident.
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Newbern
N. C
National Guard
Morrison
Craven Treaty
John Godette
Battery PD
117Th Field Artillery
Godette
United States Supreme Court
Croatan
Here
Edna Williamen
British troop moves loom over Cairo amid show of force
Cairo quiet as Britain readies a full battalion parade and ships head to Egyptian waters. Lord Allenby gains wide powers as troops confusion raises questions about League of Nations intervention and parallels with Italy’s 1923 actions surface.
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Associated Press
London
Egypt
Cairo
Mediterranean
Malta
Dorsetshires
Suez
Port Sudan
Alexandria
Ismaila
Lord Allenby
Austen Chamberlain
Foreign Affairs
Admiralty
Earl of Gavan
Imperial General Staff
Great Britain
League of Nations
Italy
Greece
League
Bingham and Holt Race for Senate
In New Haven Connecticut Hiram Bingham the Republican elect of Connecticut and Huen Holt of Woodstock the Democrat were nominated for United States Senate. Bingham a Yale professor and lieutenant governor was chosen at the Republican convention in Hartford while Holt a former editor of the New York Independent and national advocate of the nations was acclaimed by the Democratic convention in New Haven.
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Associated Preas
New Haven
Conn
Hiram Bingham
Connecticut
Huen Holt
Woostock
New York Independent
The
of Nations
Frank B. Brandegee
Bingham
Yale
Hartford
Holt
Senate to Decide At Least Three Election Contests
The Senate will case three or more election contests next session with a fourth possible if the Mayfield contest is not disposed of. Bursum will challenge Bratton, Steck plans to contest Brookhart, and Johnson will contest Schall. Ashurst notes voting intent governs, while Smoot cites King seating as precedent.
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Washington
Senate
Mayfield
Texas
Benater Bursum
New Mexico
Sam G. Bratton
Brookhart
Lowa
Daniel F. Steck
Steck
Johnson
Farmer-Labor
Minnesota
Representative Schall
Schall
Ashurst
Arizona
Senate Committee On Privileges
Mittee
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Daniel
WELCH
Anaconda CO
Herald- Tribune
Treasury Department
Treasury
Internal Revenue
U. S. Navy
Pour
Col
Charles W. Forbes
Rowe Highway
Olty
Board of Appraisers
Lita Gray
O'Donnell
Allenby
Bingham and Holt
Bursum
Magnus Johnson
Congress
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