Fugitive SLAIN After Prolonged Shootout in Mississippi
A massive chase across Mississippi ends with Joe Pullen killed after seven hours eluding a posse of over a thousand. Three whites dead and nine wounded in the outbreak. Pullen, who shot planter W Sanders then retreated to a canebrake, faced heavy machine gun fire before his capture and death. Doggett, a machine gun squad member, died from a bullet wound in the chest.
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Mortaby
Joe Pullen
Bree
Pullen
W. Sanders
R. L. Metheven
Hess
Sanders
Clarksdale
Ghs
J. L
Bud" Doggett
Doggett
Britain Pays Second Semiannual Interest on War Debt
New York reports the British government made the second semiannual interest payment and first principal payment on its war debt to the United States using Liberty bonds. The $92 million total breaks down to $69 million in interest and $23 million in principal, with an estimated saving of about $1.8 million from bond purchases at a discount.
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John Bull
Sam
New York
United States
Coolidge Will Not Block Bonus to Speed Tax Laws
President Coolidge does not intend to block early enactment of a gold star bonus bill. He will not dictate Congress on tax revision procedures and favors Mellon tax reduction. A White House spokesman said the President will be satisfied with any plan that expedites tax reform.
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Coolidge
Washington
API
Congress
Ted
White House
Governor Small Accused in Illinois Bank Deposits Case
Springfield report says Gov Small, while state treasurer, faced civil proceedings for an accounting of state funds. It alleges $2,700,000 deposited in Grant Park Bank and $6,088,000 in all other banks combined, with charges of improper handling of Illinois funds.
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Springfield
Charles
Briggle
Len' Small
Grant Park Bank
Smalae
Koretz Secret Love Nest Found by Chicago Probers
Chicago investigators uncovered a hidden apartment linked to Leo Koretz the so called bubble swindler worth about 5 million dollars. The discovery reveals a veiled affair with a woman not his wife and forms part of the four year probe into his financial deception.
President Coolidge Mingles With Capital Shoppers
President Coolidge, incognito, walks among Christmas shoppers in Belfast news, described in muted detail with references to a blue serge suit. The Ulster government reportedly purchases a castle in County Down as an official governor residence for the governor general, with figures cited as millions yearly mysteries.
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Coolidge
Woodshington
United States
Belfast
Ulster Government
Swindler Koretz: Multimillion Oil Scam Exposed in Chicago
State's Attorney Robert Grove led a raid on the Majestic Building offices of attorney Leo Koretz at 22 West Monroe. Koretz vanished a week ago amid revelations that the Bayano River Trust of Panama was a myth and that a rumored $25,000,000 Standard Oil NJ offer for Koretz’s stake was fiction. Police broadcast a lookout as Koretz’s network collapsed after his mother provided $45,000 supposedly invested in the bogus Panamanian timber scheme.
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Chicago
Pake
Robert B
Grove
Leo Koretz
West Monroe Street
Drake Hotel
Attorney Koretz
Sian
Pamima
Girl Detective Traps Bootleggers in Richmond Cal
Twenty two year old Delta Halverson a girl detective posed as a bootlegger and testified against John Casey leading to the downfall of more than 100 bootleggers in Richmond California Her methods included learning that Frank Orsella had won dealer confidence by running a bootlegging operation in the city
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Richmond
Cal
Delta Halverson
Miss Halverson
John Casey
Frank Orsella
Micit
Gain of Million Members Noted by Church Body
The executive committee of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America reported a gain of 1,000,000 church members in the last year. The committee includes 150 church leaders from 2 percent of Protestant denominations, with an adult membership of 20,000,000 and a constituency of 50,000,000.
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Columbus
Federal Council of the Churches of Christ In America
Soldiers' Bonus Bill Reintroduced by Veterans Groups
Representative Mackenzie of Illinois introduced the soldiers' bonus bill in the house, with veterans’ organizations urging passage. Referred to the Ways and Means Committee, the measure is substantially the same as Harding’s vetoed proposal, with minor language refinements.
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Washington
Veterans’ Organizations
House
Mackenzie
Rep
Ill
Ways and Means Committee
Harding
U S Tea Imports Rise by Sixty Million Pounds
U S imports of tea totaled 96,267,920 pounds for the fiscal year ended June 30, up from the previous year. Four students were killed and three injured when a car crashed into a bedsled carrying Colorado students. Four men drowned in Lake Centennia when a skiff capsized during a storm near Vicksburg Mississippi.
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U. S
Washington
United States
Boulder
Col
University of Colorado
Vicksburg
Mies
Lake Centennia
Ao Bawall
Germany asks Ruhr showdown to Paris conditions
Berlin seeks a direct Berlin Paris settlement framework and asks France to spell conditions for reparations. Foreign Minister Stresemann reveals plans to press Premier Poivaré to state if Ruhr Rhineland will be kept permanently or used as pawns. He also proposes a reparations commission inquiry and direct Berlin Paris talks.
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Berlin
Germany
France
Rhineland
Ruhr
Stresemann
Polivare Point
Blank
Reparation Commission
America
Paris
Blizzard Hits Southwest Nine Die Frozen to Death
Nine persons including three women and two children were found frozen to death at Blue Ranch Springs fifty miles southeast of Albuquerque after a violent blizzard. A party traveling in two wagons loaded with wood perished trying to build a fire in fierce wind. Two boys and a colored man died of exposure near Clovis, New Mexico, and another man perished in southeastern Arizona.
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Albuquerque
N. M
Blue Ranch Springs
Clovis
Arizona
Bloc Gives Old Guard Shock in the Senate
The Senate remained deadlocked over electing a chairman of the interstate commerce committee. Senator Smith of South Carolina fell one vote short on three ballots. Senator William Cabell Bruce of Maryland blocked a Democratic chair for a Republican committee.
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Senate
Washington
Interstate Commerce Committee
Senator Smith
South Carolina
Smith
Cummins
William Cabell Bruce
Maryland
Miss Ruth Muskrat Dines at White House with Coolidges
Cherokee student Miss Ruth Muskrat from Mount Holyoke College urged federal aid for Indian schools to restore heritage and nobility. President Coolidge invited her to lunch with him and Mrs. Coolidge after her persuasive appeal.
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Ruth Muskrat
White House
Washington
Dawes Among Three Men Considered for War Debt Body
Washington reflects on Charles G Dawes and George M Reynolds of Chicago and Mortimer L Schiff of New York as top candidates to join the reparations commission to inquire into Germanys fiscal affairs under the new U S plan approved by the government.
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Dawes
Washington
Charles G. Dawes
George M. Reynolds
Chicago
Mortimer L. Schiff
New York
Reparations Commission
Germany
United States
Senator Lodge Favors World Court Split From League
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts, Senate majority leader and Coolidge ally, announces against American entry to the World Court unless the tribunal is fully divorced from the League of Nations, reflecting opposition to entangling alliances.
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Lodge
Washington
Henry Capot Lodge
Rep
Mass
Senate
President Coolidge
Worlt
League of Nations
Former Office Boy Becomes Amex Co. President
Robert E M Cowie, who began as an office boy forty years ago in Cleveland, is elected president of American Railway Express. He succeeds the late George C Taylor, former head who died recently. Cowie had served as operating vice president in the East.
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New York
Robert E. M. Cowie
American Railway Express
Cowie
George C. Taylor
Strike Vote Ends Walkout At Lehigh Valley Mines
Seventeen thousand anthracite mine workers in the Moosic Pittston district voted to return to work after a week on strike at the Lehigh Valley Coal company.
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Heronton
Lehigh Valley Coal Company
Moosle-Pittston
City Looted by 3000 Bandits in Shanghai Raid
Three thousand bandits led by Chey Yenteh and Wang San-lng captured the town of Chigha on Wednesday, burning houses looting property and taking the magistrate.
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Shanghai
Iowa Legislative Notes on Taxes and Code Revision Controversy
Legislative notes from Iowa discuss repealing a 1244 per cent tax, refunding collected funds, and criticisms of current code revision methods. The piece cites M L Bowman executive secretary, fears over divorce law changes, hair bobbing rulings, and debates on liquor, insurance, and franchise terms. It notes delays, committee strife, and Speaker Anderson and Lieutenant Governor Hammill's roles while reporting on legislation costs and educational bills.
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Iowa Goods Roads Association
M. L. Bowman
Bowman
Blackhawk County
Senate
Code Commission
House
Harrison
Pottawattamie County
Hone Judiciary Committee
John Fletcher
Marshalltown
Segaion
Sand Clarke
Assembly
Iowa
Sven
Judiciary Committee
Dés Moines
Hammill
Bension S
Anderson
State College of Agriculture
Fairfeld
Town Horticultural Society
Walter Ramsay
Dwe
John B. Hammond
Polive
Women's Christian Temperance,uoion
Anti-saloon League
Divorce bill eyed as Iowa House revises code
Iowa House judiciary committee reports the divorce bill with a remarriage provision after three months with court approval. An amendment forbids cohabitation during that period for those in a marriage from another state. The session details include mileage pay figures, committee efforts, and broadnotes on code revision. Hawkeye state news notes budget, roads, school, and legislative concerns as lawmakers push to revive Iowa’s code, with emphasis on economy and procedural changes.
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Judiciary Committee
House
Committee On
Iowa
General Assembly
John Hammil
W. J. Burbank
Burbank
Senate
Hardin County
Board of Control
Code Commission
Bowman
Dia
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Clear Lake
State Board of Agriculure
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Poultry Club
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Phillips
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Parsons College
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Lowa
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Historical Department of Iowa
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Des Molines
Saylor
Indianapolis
Ind
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John Saylor
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Vinton
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Children's “Hospital
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Waterloo
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