Door Opened For End Of Anthracite Walkout
Operators issue a direct eight month wage proposal to 158,000 striking miners offering to return to work at pre August 31 1925 rates pending next week negotiations in New York. Union leaders condemn the move as an attempt to break morale amid a ten week strike while priests threaten drastic action if resumption by mid January cannot be guaranteed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
En United Mine Workers of
Afica
Pennsylvania
John L. Lewis
Miners’ Union
Anthraciteperators
William M. Inglis
Wilkesbarre
Ely
Holliday calls meeting of bus men Monday
Sam Holliday director of public safety calls a Monday afternoon meeting of bus owners operators and civic leaders at city hall to discuss bus terminals routing and congestion relief. Readiness to consider moving terminals one or two blocks away and reorganizing routes to ease center city traffic is stated, with no definite plan announced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sam Holliday
Council
Courtay
Second St
Stark Electric Line
Village Hero of Shenandoah Crash Held as Rummer
BELLE VALLEY December 6 villagers hail Andy Gamary as the hero of the Shenandoah disaster for aiding victims after the crash that killed 14 crew. He was arrested for illegal liquor manufacture, his third such charge, facing penitentiary terms. The story notes his supposed government bonus but ends with his arrest and jail transfer.
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Belle Valley
Ava
Shenandoah
Andy Gamary
Andy
Navy
Still
Andrews Tour May Be Start Of Rum Droute
A government party led by L C G Andrews assistant secretary of the treasury toured off Cape Fear N C to gauge a sharp rise in moonshine production in the southeast. The trip aims to inspect borders and ports for tighter enforcement and smoother imports and exports, with a focus on strengthening customs facilities and combating a growing illicit liquor network.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Andrews
Coast Guard
MODOC
Cape Fear
N. C
Wilmington
United States
L. C G. Andrews
North Atlantic Seaboard
Pacific Coast
A. I. McCaskill
South Atlantic
North Carolina
Dragnet closes on Brooklyn gang murder night
Dec 26 New York detectives sweep gangland to round up Merrymakers from Adonis Social Club in Brooklyn where three gangsters Lonergan Perry and Haines were killed. Bodies found battered in a grinding scene. four men arrested including hall owners and a bartender with one gunshot wound.
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New York
Adonis
Brooklyn
Peg Leg” Lonergan
White Hand
Neil Jo
Perry
Aaron Haines
Lonergan
Fury J. Agoglia
Tony Desso
Joseph Notel
James Hart
Air Mail Pilot Lands In Track At Cleveland Racecourse
United States Air Mail Pilot Paul Collins mistook North Randall race track for a government field near Cleveland. He swooped into the racing oval but neither he nor his mechanic were hurt. The plane was slightly damaged after hitting the fence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
United States Air Mail
Paul Collins
North Randall
Government Field
Editor Worest A. Levering Dies at St Marys Home
Worest A. Levering managing editor of the St Marys Evening Leader died at 2 35 PM at his home from pneumonia. He is survived by his wife and eight children.
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ST. Marys, D
Cardinal Mercier to Have Operation
Brussels Dec 26 Cardinal Mercier archbishop of Milines and primate of Belgium will undergo a surgical operation next Tuesday. His advanced age and weak heart raise concerns about the anesthesia and outcome. The 76 year old prelate has long opposed German authority during occupation and aided postwar rebuilding with funds from American friends for Louvain library.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brussels
Cardinal Mercier
Milines
Belgium
University of Louvain
Lowden Shadow Shapes Farm Relief Debate in Washington
Washington dispatch reports ex governor Frank Lowden of Illinois casting a long shadow over 1928 political prospects as Congress readies an early year agrarian relief bill. Western farmers press for federal aid to stabilize markets and dispose of surpluses, while eastern leaders oppose price fixing and federally backed surplus handling schemes. Des Moines meeting with Iowa Bankers Association expected to endorse federal aid to surplus selling and cooperative facilities under Coolidge farm program.
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Washington
Frank C. Lowden
Illinois
Coolidge
Seenate
House
London
White House
Eastern Farm Organization
Lowden
Des Moines
Iowa Bankers’ Association
Measles Stalls Adoption of Little Mark in Canton
A three year old named Mark with measles is kept in quarantine in New York, delaying Canton couple Mr. and Mrs. Jacob I Piper and their daughters from adopting him before Christmas. Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson has the boy and hopes the Piper family may still win him once health is clear and adoption rules are settled between New York and Canton.
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Mark
Jacob I. Piper
14Th St NW
Betty
Joyce
Marion
New York
Hese
Charles Dana Gibson
Piper
Daily News
State Charities’ Aid Association
Confidence Man Nabbed On Car In Los Angeles
H C Schippe a nationally known banco artist escaped from Alabama state prison and wanted in many cities was captured in Los Angeles as he rode a street car past police headquarters. Detective Chester Lloyd identified him from fugitive warrant posters and he was arrested. Additional photographs confirmed his identity.
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Los Angeles
H. C. Schippe
Banco
Alabama
Lieut
Chester Lloyd
Schippe
Clue Found In Payroll Raid Leads To Bandit Arrest
Pittsburgh December 26 First tangible clue leading to the arrest of the six bandits who shot and killed I L Gump coal company manager and robbed four messengers of the firms 59000 Christmas payroll comes tonight with discovery of the auto used by the highwaymen on a remote Pittsburgh street. Another messenger is near death in a hospital here after being slugged and beaten.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
I. L. Gump
Mollenauer
Wine raid reveals three thousand dollar wine cache in city home
Police uncover a wine stock valued between three and four thousand dollars with 21 percent alcohol at Rocco Ferrucci's residence 914 Lafayette SE. Officers say between five hundred and nine hundred gallons were seized and later reports raised questions about missing wine and misstatements by investigators.
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Rocco Petracs
Lafayette
SOO
Wan
Seret
Otto Miller
Bodenheimer
Bally
Ferrucci
Lengel
Miller
Mor
Ferrucci's
McLaughlin Named New York Police Commissioner
George V. McLaughlin of Brooklyn, state superintendent of banks, will become New York police commissioner, taking office January 1 after a conference with Mayor Elect James J. Walker. He accepted the post urged by Governor Smith and party leaders, succeeding Richard B. Enright as the Hylan administration ends.
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New York
George V. McLaughilin
Brooklyn
McLaughlin
International News Service
James J. Walker
Gov. Smith
Democratic Party
Richard KB. Enright
Hylan
Tramp Dog Sacrifices Life For Breckenridges Family
In Sandusky Ohio on December 26 a tramp dog, sheltered by a winter wind tunnel, saved Mr and Mrs Breckenridge and their child by barking to wake them as a fire consumed their home. The family escaped but later died trying to rescue the dog.
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Sandusky
Robert Breckenridge
Breckenridges
Dog
Club Women War On Short Skirts And Cigarettes
Washington society women led by Mrs John B Henderson push a movement to lengthen skirts to the ankle and ban cigarette smoking among women. Supported by the Daughters of the American Revolution the National Federation of Womens Clubs and the National Congress of Parents and Teachers the plan seeks international reach via letters to London and Paris newspapers.
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Washington
Dec
America
John B. Henderson
Henderson
London
Paris
Daughters of the American Revolution
National Federation of Women's Clubs
National Congress of Parents and Teachers
Common law wife slain by husband in Pittsburgh
George Matthews aged 30 fatally shot his common law wife Florence Goff 27 in Pittsburgh and then killed himself. A Ya ta wound in the head left the man dying. Their two children, ages two and a half and four, hid with the bodies until police found them.
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Pittsburgh
George Matthews
Florence Goff
Parental grief over accidental death near Bowden
ELKINS W Va Dec 26 Parents of Thomas C Coberley 19 were told their son died while trying to board a freight train at Bowden near Elkins. He and a companion stood in a store when the engine whistle summoned them. Coberley ran for the train but fell under the wheels in the attempt.
Proposals to end hospital dispute rejected by staff
Canton doctors reject arbitration as inadequate to settle the Aultman hospital controversy. They say the board's plan sidesteps core issues in the dispute over Dr J R Gelter as chief of surgical staff and Miss Ruth Wooding as superintendent of personal matters. They accuse the board of a deceptive tactic to keep resigned nurses from returning and call for removal of Bejter and Woodring to restore public confidence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aultman Hospital
Board of Trustees
Canton
J. R. Gelter
Ruth Wooding
Ohio State Medical Association
Ohio State Committee On
Board of Arbitration
Bejter
Miss Woodring
Man Suffers Crushed Skull In Camp Fight Near Louisville
A fight among several workmen at a construction camp between Louisville and Bayard left John Kelley 35 with a base skull fracture. He was taken to Mercy Hospital where doctors reported he remained unconscious after more than three hours. aggressors trampled Kelley during the melee at Camp No. 6 of Casey Construction Co. and the injury could be fatal.
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Louisville
John Kelley
Casey Construction Co
Kelley
Mercy Hospital
Keley
Bayard
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Missouri
Kirby McRill
Tonganoxie
Kan
Holliday
U. S
Slayers of Three
Senate
Lenger
Robert T. Small
Canton Daily News
Wshington
House of Representatives
M'Laughlin
Walker
Tramp
News of World
Grafton
W. Va
Harry Barnhart
West Virginia
Barnhart
Clarksburg
Bruce White
Bingamon Valley Coal Co
Tampa
Fra
T. S. J. Williams
Williams
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