Four Power Pact Sought to Guard German Frontier Rejected
German proposals to guarantee the German frontier for 30 years were rejected by French Premier Poincaré after being submitted through the French ambassador in Washington. The plan, inspired by Jules Jusserand, would have a quadruple alliance of Great Britain France Germany and Italy to uphold borders with a referendum trigger. Poincaré argued the French constitution rejects such a referendum and warned Germany might evade obligations by fake votes.
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London
Charles E. Hughes
Washington
Poincare
France
Germany
Jules Jusserand
United States
Great Britain
Verbal Tempest in Senate Over Borahe Plan
A Louisiana murder kidnapping case looms as Watt Daniels and Thomas Richards are believed to have been killed. The state seeks no venue change for the January preliminary hearing in Bastrop, while T J Burnett denies Klan ties and defends remaining quiet.
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Mer Rouge
Louisiana
Watt Daniels
Thomas Richards
Bastrop
Parker
Morehouse Parish
Met Rouge
State Guard
Bolan Dies After Wood Alcohol Link, Shootings Probe
Columbus dispatch reports James Bolan 38 Crescent Springs Kentucky died from wood alcohol ingestion. Michael Berry a negro chauffeur is in serious condition after Bolan terrorized a neighborhood with a revolver. Several children narrowly escaped being shot.
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Columbus
James Bolan
Crescent Springs
Michael Berry
Bolan
Dog Licenses Now On Sale For 1928 Year
County Auditor Fred Cornwell announced dog tags for 1928 are on sale at the auditor's office. A brief delay in receipts was reported, but tags are now available. Enforcement of penalties for untagged dogs will start soon after the new year.
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Fred Cornwell
Cornwell
Commissioner's Office
War Minister Takes Command of Greeks
ATHENS December 26 General Pamkalos named commander in chief of Greek troops in Thrace to quell a mutiny affecting the Thracian army. Some Thracian units have allied with Bulgarians and Turks demanding autonomy for the region.
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Athens
Pamkalos
Thrace
Powers Debate Currency for Ruhr If France Seizes Ruhr
Premier Poincare is conferring with government experts on which currency to use if France takes over the Ruhr basin. It is unclear whether the German mark or the French franc will be used. The issue signals France’s likely stance ahead of the allied premiers meeting in Paris next month.
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Faris
Poin
Ruhr
France
Paris
Boy Dies From Scalding Coffee Accident
Dec 23 report from SCALDED BY COFFEE describes two year old Frank Cruslo, son of John Cruslo, who died hours after fellow children at play toppled a table pot of hot coffee causing fatal burns. Local authorities note the incident as a tragic accident.
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Lafferty
Frank Zuslo
John Cruslo
Snowy test shows one man scraper in Bucyrus works
Heavy snow in Bucyrus demonstrates a local firm's one man tractor scraper. The device clears gutters two feet deep at about 15 miles per hour.
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Bucyrus
Card from Van Sickle Reaches Major Johnson on Christmas
Major Rafel Johnson received a Christmas day card from Mr. and Mrs. Earl C. Van Sickle and Dorothy Slingluff. Van Sickle, a former Ohio university athlete, teaches in Cebu Philippine Islands, about 300 miles south of Manila. Card mailed November 7 arrived timely.
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Rafel Johnson
Earl C. van Sickle
Dorothy Slingluff
Cebu
Philippine Islands
van Sickle
Ohio University
Manila
Christmas toll in Manhattan rises to six dead
New York officials report six dead after Christmas celebrations, five men and one woman, with autopsies pending to confirm poison liquor as cause. A 14 year old boy is expected to survive. Prohibition authorities call it the driest Christmas in Manhattan.
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Manhattan
Poison Booze Tragedy Sculpts Ohio Funeral
In Shelby Ohio on December 26 1930 Philip Weiganott and Lester Elston were jailed after the murder charge following the death of Robert Longley from poison liquor said to be distilled by Elston and sold by Weiganott. Several others fell ill and an autopsy cited fusel oil and copper poisoning. The State chemists analyze the liquor as officials pursue the case.
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Shelby
Philip Weiganott
Mansfield
Lester Elston
Robert Longley
Elston
Weiganott
Longley
Weigawort
Robert Blake
Earl Clinchell
UP State
Tongley
Perplexing Near East Issues Dominate Peace Conference
In Lausanne on December 26 the Near East peace talks resume amid conflicts over Turkish oil rights and the size of battleships allowed in the Dardanelles. Reports say the Russo Turkish bloc may have strengthened during the recess as communications with their governments continued.
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Lausanne
Dardanelles
Christmas Day Drunkenness Crowds Fill Philadelphia
In Philadelphia on December 26 1926 about 500 people were arrested for drunkenness over the Christmas holiday. The Tenth and Bottomwood streets stations logged 150 cases as every precinct reported at least one arrest. Prisoners were discharged or given light fines in keeping with holiday mercy.
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Philadelphia
Edward Carney
Bottomwood Streets
Ohio Anti Saloon head owns touring car bought as gift
Columbus reports that Superintendent James A. White of the Ohio Anti Saloon League received a touring car as a Christmas gift. The car was funded by contributions from supporters across Ohio, organized by local dry leaders.
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Columbus
James A. White
Ohio
Anti- Saloon League
Jack the Ripper Again Sighting in Chicago
Police seek a mysterious killer nicknamed Jack the Ripper after Edward Joseph O'Day, 45, was found dead with his jugular vein severed on a bench in Douglas Park. He was seen with an unidentified man moments earlier and no weapon was found.
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Chicago
Jack the Ripper
Edward Joseph O'Day
Douglas Park
O'Day
Veterans group balks at Moscow Art Theatre visit
American Legion officers declined to commit to a Defense Society request to block the Moscow Art Theatre company’s U S visit. The matter was referred to the regional Americanization committee in Indianapolis for handling. The defense group warned Moscow’s regime works with the Third Internationale to overthrow the United States government.
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Washington
American Legion
American Defense Society
Veterans’ Organization
Moscow Art Theatre Company
United States
Defense Society
Indianapolis
Moscow
Third Internationale
Russia
Ohio hotel owner doubts raid reports at Union depot
Pat C. Patestides, proprietor of the Ohio hotel and restaurant near the Union depot, reports rumors of a raid on his establishment. Police say there is no record of any raid or intoxication finding at the property.
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Pat C. Patestides
Ohio
Union Depot
Pat
Elyria Forms Multiple Basketball Leagues
Elyria reports a basketball boom with over fifty teams across a grammar school league city league industrial league church league high school league and business men's league.
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Elyria
Bronx Chauffeur Sentenced to Death for Wife Murder
Abraham Becker of the Bronx was condemned to death today for the murder of his wife. Becker showed iron nerve despite the final verdict and sentence.
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New York
Abraham Becker
Bronx
Becker
Germany Offers Four Power Pact To Secure 80 Year Peace
Washington reports the new German government led by Chancellor William Cuno has formally proposed a four power peace pact with Great Britain Italy France and Germany to observe European boundaries as they stand for the next thirty years and maintain peace for eight decades.
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Washington
Geman
William Cuno
Europe
Germany
Great Britain
Ialy
France
Snake captured on Christmas Day at Tresize farm
James Ginley George Bur roughs Lyman Burroughs and Charlies Tresize hunted on the Tresize farm near Guysville Monday and found a five and a half foot black snake alive despite winter. Officials attribute the mild open winter to the unusual hibernation delay.
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James Ginley
George Burroughs
Lyman Burroughs
Charlies Tresize
Tresize
Guysville
Reptian
Donahey Gets No 1 Tag for Columbus Governor-Elect
Auto license tag No 1 of next year has been offered to Governor-Elect Don Ahe y by State Automobile Registrar Snow in Columbus.
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Donahey
Columbus
Snow
Met police sought for couple who wed despite DC law
Washington police were asked to locate Seba L. Christie aged 28 and his stepmother Bess Lee Christie aged 42 after they married today in violation of the District of Columbia penal code.
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Washington
Metropolitan Police
Seba L. Christie
Bess Lee Christi
District of Columbia
Lasting Peage Farm Bloc Takes Hand In Affair
The piece reports on the farm bloc led by Capper and McNary supporting Senator Borah's plan for an international economic and disarmament conference. It notes resistance from Lodge and Republican leaders who seek reservations to a navy bill amendment, and Borah's openness to substitutes. It cites hunger riots in Germany and calls for European debt readjustment through arbitration, referencing Roosevelt's Portsmouth precedent.
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J. Bart Campbell
Washington
Senator Borah
Lodge
Borah
Senate
Hague Tribunal
United States
Theodore Roosevelt
Portsmouth
N. H
Europe
Medill McCormick
Illinois
Germany
Capper
Republican
Kansas
McNary
Oregon
America
Idaho
Prohibition agent Dixie Blinn slain in Steubenville
Charles Dixie Blinn a prohibition enforcement agent was found shot to death in a dark Steubenville alley shortly after midnight. Police report multiple bullet wounds and a struggle with his revolver and pocketbook stolen. No definite clues yet as motives linked to his enforcement work.
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Steubenville
Charles “Dixie” Blinn
Marshalley
Blinn
Brian
Christmas Tragedy on Lakes Possible Clues Sought by Airplane
In Cleveland Ohio officials seek air reconnaissance to locate the tug Cornell missing since last Thursday after leaving Cleveland for Buffalo with eight crew. With tugs returning empty from a daylong search, officials plan a mail airplane survey to cover the lake from Cleveland to Buffalo for any wreckage or clues.
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Lakes
Lake Erie
Buffalo
Cleveland, CO
Cornell
Great Lakes Towing Co
Post Office Department
Here
Corneil
Youth charged after Cleveland shooting injures crippled man
William Mapp, 18, is held in the city jail on a charge of shooting with intent to kill after Louis Fellenbaum, 59, crippled since infancy, was shot in the doorway of his home following a Christmas meal. Police say Mapp, identified by neighbors, fired as he fled down the street, perhaps intoxicated.
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Cleveland
Dee
William Mapp
Louis Fellenbaum
Fellenbaum
Mapp
Revenge on alleged assailant ends in shooting on Main Street
Joseph de Bacco confronted Lorenzo de Andrea on Main Street after an alleged assault on de Bacco's 12 year old daughter. He fired four shots, wounding de Andrea who is dying in a local hospital. De Bacco fled but may be captured. witnesses are being held by police.
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Steubenville
Joseph de Bacco
Lorenzo de Andrea
Main Street
de Bacco
de Andrea
Women to Attend Industrial Conference in Washington
More than 100 national women’s groups will send delegates to the Women's Industrial Conference in Washington in January 1913. Women employment managers workers manufacturers economists and government administrators will participate and discuss issues of supreme importance to women nationwide.
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Washington
Women's Bureau
Department of Labor
Allen County Common Pleas Cases Reach 26 654 Since 1860
Lima report notes 26 654 cases filed in Allen County common pleas court since the February term of 1860, marking a long historical tally across sixty two years.
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Lima
Common Pleas Court of
Allen County
Isadora Dun dancing disruption halts show
In New York on December 26 Isadora Dun dun danced to a crowded house but made a facetious remark about pianist Max Rabinowitz who refused to continue. The performer and audience were unsettled and the show ended abruptly while her young poet husband searched for her.
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New York
Isadora Duncan
Max Rabinowitz
Cleveland’s new psychopathic hospital closed after escape
Cleveland Welfare Director Ralph Perkins ordered the $800 000 facility closed two weeks after opening. A patient became violent on Christmas Eve, wrecked the lighting, overpowered guards, and escaped in a nightshirt. He was captured in Parma and jailed in irons.
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Cleveland, O
Cleveland
Psychopathic Hospital
Ralph Perkins
Parma Village
Prince Enteres Noted Unit After Bank's Failures
Copenhagen December 26 Prince Ange nephew of Dowager Queen Alexandra joins the French Legion after losing his fortune in a bank collapse. He says losing money does not harm courage and departs to enlist with the section of the army open to inmates and former prisoners.
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Copenhagen
Prince Ange
Queen Alexandra
England
French Legion
Martins Ferry High to Build New Football Field on Riverfront
Martins Ferry High School Athletic Association bought land facing the Ohio River to construct an athletic field. Profits from school athletics, mainly football, will fund the project, providing several thousand dollars. The current field is deemed inadequate for crowd demand after six years with only four losses.
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Martins Ferry
Martins Ferry High School Athletic Association
Ohio River
All Night Celebration Tragedy In Steubenville
In Steubenville Ohio a quarrel during an all night Christmas celebration left Marsh Dee 26 in critical condition and Weirton Steel mill worker Evan Strauss 19 sought by authorities in two states for alleged stab wounds. The incident occurred as the men visited the Ohio Valley hospital where Dee lies dying from the wounds.
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Steubenville
Dee
Marsh
Weirton Steel Co
Weirton
W. Va
Ohio Valley
Evan Strauss
Clergy Debate Arbuckle Return to Screen
In Los Angeles on December 26 an open meeting of the ministerial union was called to discuss the proposed return of Roseao Fatty Arbuckle to film. Rev Bob Shuler said the clergy are wary and chiefly concerned with protecting future generations rather than granting Arbuckle another chance to rebuild.
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Los Angeles
Calif
Roseoa
Fatty” Arbuckle
Bob” Shuler
Arbuckle
McCune Home Looted Before Christmas
Cleveland Heights residents Sam El McCune and his parents were away in Chillicothe and Athens for the holidays when burglars broke into the MeCune home. Neighbors say the thieves fled after about 6 pm, taking silverware and valuables. The full loss will be determined when the family returns.
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Sam EL. McCune
Cleveland
John McCune
Lancaster Street
Cleveland Heights
MeCune
Keep Your Dates Straight With Free 1924 Calendar
A Washington Information Bureau offer promotes a free 1924 calendar printed in colors with monthly leaves. Readers are urged to mail a request with two cents for postage, including name address city state and information from Frederic J. Haskin director.
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Washington Information Bureau
United States Navy
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