Prohibition Storm Widens as League Denies Letter Link
Washington scene shows pro and anti prohibition forces sparring over enforcement and strategy. Wayne Wheeler of the Anti-Saloon League cites rising support while Rep. Gallivan jokes about uniforms for President Coolidge. A Bishop emphasizes the League has no ties to the United Committee for Prohibition Enforcement.
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Associated Press
Ashington
White House
Congress
Fifth Baptist Church
Wayne B. Wheeler
Anti-Saloon League
Gallivan
Dem
Mass
United Committee For Prohibition Enforcement
Coolidge
Hig
Clinton N. Howard
Clarence True Wilson
Pinchot
Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals
United C Committee For Prohibition Enforcement
Wheeler
America
Pius XI
James Cannon, Jr
League
Anti- Saloon League
Anti-Saloon League of America
Lleague
Plane crash kills two studio workers in Thorne
In Thorne California a movie plane crashed in a tailspin from a high altitude. Cecil De Vrietas aged 35 was killed and Delbert Howe aged 21 was severely injured. Both were motion picture studio employees.
GOP As Up Only 16 More Shopping Days Until Christmas
Voters face a final rush as the GOP races toward Christmas with 16 days left to influence outcomes. The call to choose now echoes through campaign stops and party messaging.
Chickie Great Serial Story Begins Today
A new serial tale titled Chickie starts in today’s paper with daily installments through the week and Sunday as it unfolds toward its conclusion.
League Bristles Over Force Clause and Disarmament Plans
In Geneva the Disarmament Council debates forcing stronger league commitments under Article XVI to aid the League in war. France and Belgium push for an obligatory military plan, while Great Britain resists binding commitments. Turkey rejects any Mosul decision that curtails sovereignty, urging mediation only.
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Geneva
League of Nations
League Disarmament Council
United States
Russia
France
Belgium
Special Commission
League
Germany
England
Great Britain
Lord Cecil
Council
Disarmament Council
Mosul
Turkey
Council of the
Angora
World Court of Justice
French Conclude Occupation of Hasbeiya in Syria
Beiruit December 6 The French troops completed the occupation of Hasbeiya ending the most serious fighting. General Duport head of the commission investigating the Syrian situation has departed for France. Unofficial reports say a clash yesterday at Kadem near Damascus followed an attack by Djebel Druses on a French cavalry post with rebels expelled after heavy losses.
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Associated Press
Beirut
Syria
Hasbeiya
Duport
France
Kadem
Damascus
Plans to Restore Lee Home in Arlington Cemetery
Washington December 6 Restoration of General Robert E. Lee's home in Arlington National Cemetery to its pre Civil War condition is proposed in a resolution by Representative Cramton of Michigan for introduction in the House tomorrow.
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Washington
Robert E. Lee
Arlington National Cemetery
Cramton
Rep
Mich
House
Three youths confess to 23 burglaries in Hamilton
Hamilton Ohio December 6 three youths aged 13 18 and 18 confess to a year of burglaries in residences businesses and churches. Police recover loot worth about 3000 including watches rings knives and candy truck thefts lead to a cache behind the Champion Coated Paper Mills. Chief Clements plans juvenile handling for Smith and Taylor and municipal court for Roberts.
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Hamilton
The
Commercial Tribune
Hamilton, O
Champion
Clements
Lements
Smith
Middletown
First United Brothern Church
Bethel Church
Liberty Sheet Metal Company
North B Street
W. C. Frechtling
South D Street
Sepin
Automobile ‘Company
Advance Manufacturing Company
C. F. Hiller
D Street
Hamilton Brokerage Company
Court Street
Robert Howell
Dick Avenue
Buckeye Foundry Company
Overbeck
West End Cigar
Main Street
Cole Hardware Store
Main
D Streets
McGregor Ice Cream Company
Millikin Street
Deutsch Bicycle Shop
North Third” Street
W. 8S. Tobey
North Cc
Smith and Taylor
Roberts
Rescues by El Almirante Highlight Atlantic Voyage
The Morgan Line freighter El Almirante rescued two groups at sea on its December voyage from New Orleans. First, it aided the Haitian freighter Hopper No 46 after its rudder failed, dragging it through rough seas for 26 hours before handing it to the Coast Guard. Later, the ship rescued two men from a drifting coal barge, Alfred Sorenson and Paul Falkenberg, after they had drifted 52 hours.
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New York World News Service
New York
New Orleans
Morgan Line
el Almirante
Louis Korn
Almirante
Florida
Korn
Coast Guard
Yamacraw
Savannah Harbor
El*Almirante
St. Lawrence Steamer Airedale Runs Aground at Couder’s Island
The steamer Airedale of 3044 tons ran ashore at Couder’s Island in the St. Lawrence River Saturday night and is likely a total loss. Forepeak and No 1 tank flooded. vessel in exposed position as the annual freeze up nears. Chartered to Canada Steamship Lines, Montreal.
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Quebec
Couder’s Island
St. Lawre River
Airedale
Canada Steamship Lines
Montreal
Five Die From Cold in Chicago and Midwest Chill
Five deaths in Chicago linked to extreme cold as snow blankets the Middle West. A Black porter was found dead in a railroad box car on the outski while four white men perished in rooming houses. Weather forecasts promised relief for the Chicago area.
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Chicago
Middle West
Speeding car hits pedestrian near Sharonville. victim dying
Charles Kinney 31, brake man for the Big Four Railroad, was knocked down by an automobile on Reading road near Sharonville. The car sped away with no rear light. Kinney is critically injured with a fractured skull. A second pedestrian, Mrs. Joseph Meyers, was knocked down nearby days earlier and is in critical condition.
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Reading Road
Sharonville
Charles Kinney
Big Four Railroad
Symmestown Road
Brecon Methodist Church
Joseph Meyers
Madisonville Pike
Brecon
Hazelwood
General Hospital
Kinney
Henrietta. Kinney
Buckhorn Street
Irointon
Big Four
Springfield
W. A. Ward
A. M. Vorhis
Lockland
Render Small Mammals Immune From Cancer
A method to render small mammals immune to cancer is reported by Dr W E Gye and Dr J E Barnard, discoverers of the filter passing cancer germ. Chickens and inoculated mammals gain immunity when first treated with dead cancer germs, blocking subsequent infections. The key challenge is isolating the chemical agent associated with cancer organism activity.
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Arthur E. Mann
New York World News Service
London
W. E. Gye
J. E. Barnard
Gye
N. Y
World News Service
N. Y. World) Press Pub. Co
Convicts Escape State Prison Hidden in Crates
Two convicts escaped Stateville Prison by hiding in crates and being loaded onto delivery wagons en route to Joliet. Warden John L. Whitman announced the escape while investigations proceed. The men were serving definite terms.
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Stateville, Ill
Joliet
John L. Whitman
Bologna Wins Pancake Contest As Myers Sets Record
Groton South Dakota December 5 Judges award the pancake eating title to W. P. G. Myers who consumed forty three five inch flapjacks. He also ate a ring and a half of bologna. C. C. Carter initially announced winner ate fifty one cakes but was disqualified for small size.
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Groton
S. D
W. P. G. Myers
Myers
C. C. Carter
Older temple found under Ashtaroth temple in Beisan
Philadelphia reports a pale s t ine expedition uncovers beneath the later Temple of Ashtaroth a older temple with a gold goddess image. The find suggests Bethshan was rebuilt after destruction before 1000 B C and that the older temple was more magnificent, possibly dating to 1500 B C or earlier during Moses and Abraham’s era.
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Philadelphia
Ashtaroth
Beisan
University Museum
Alan Rowe
Palestine
Museum
Bethshan
Saul
Mt. .Gilboa
David
Bethshda
Moses
Whdn Abraham
Land of
Canaan
B.C
Buried Sahara Skeletons Theorized By Paris Scholars
Paris reports dispute over Count Byron de Prorok expedition to Hoggar in Sahara. French historians doubt ancient cities buried beneath dust and question Libyan Venus dating. They suggest Tin Hanan king era and warn against prehistoric claims, while praising American support later.
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New York World News Service
Paris
Valley of
M.gautier
Sahara Algerien
Tin-Hanan
Stephane Gsell
Tin- Hanan
Hoggag
Sahara
de Prorok
Oeb
Kelsey
Carthage
Hoggar
Leo Ne En
Insurgents Challenge Longworth as Congress Opens
On the eve of Congress sixty ninth session insurgent Republicans in both houses threaten to oppose Longworth for Speaker and to push farm bill and tariff critiques. The President's message to be read in both houses with limited early controversy. Nicholas Longworth faces opposition as he steps to the Speakership.
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Congress
Longworth
Charles Michelson
New York World News Service
Washington
United States
International Court
Shipping Board
House
Army
Navy
William Mitchell
Tariff Commission
Interstate Commerce Commission
Federal Trade Board
Senate
Nye
North
la Follette
Ladd
Ralston
Spencer
Robinson
Williams
Bob la Follette
Gillett
David I. Walsh
Lodge
Curtis
Kansas
William M. Butler
White House
John Q. Tilson
Connecticut
Borah
Vec
Nicholas Longworth
Ohio
North Dakota
Minnesota
New York
Illinois
Wisconsin
John M. Nelson
Cooper
Garrett
Tennessee
la Foyette
Gerald P. Nye
Republican State Central Committee
Sorlie
Sinclair
Rep. N. D
Wefala
F.L
Minn
la Guardia
Soc
N. Y
Frear
Ue Enese
Republican’ Party
National Association of Manufacturers
Tax Commission
President Coolidge Westbound Express To Chicago
President Coolidge traveling westward from Washington on a special train with Mrs. Coolidge to discuss the agricultural situation in Chicago and address the American Farm Bureau Federation. Insurgent Republicans in the House vow to field their own speaker candidate and oppose the Mellon tax plan while pursuing farm relief and related policies.
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Chicago
Cumberland
Coolidge
American Farm Bureau Federation
Minnesota
Omaha
First Congregational Church
Potomac Valley
Secret Service
Youth accused by girl slain by her father
Fairfield Iowa December 6 Louis Bruey a 50 year old farmer confessed to shooting Henry McNeese 18 after the youth admitted improper relations with Brueys 14 year old daughter Bruey invited him to his home and after confirming remorse shot him through the throat with a shotgun He telephoned the Sheriff and was jailed
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Associated Press
Fairfield
Louis Bruey
Henry McNeese
Bruey
Anti-Saloon League Treasurer of Virginia Ends Life
Simon Peter Jones aged 57, Treasurer of the Anti-Saloon League of Virginia, shot himself at his Richmond home. Officials cite mental low mood as the reason for the fatal act.
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Virginia
Richmond
Simon Peter Jones
Anti-Saloon League of
Virnia
Coolidge to Address Farm Bureau Session in Chicago
President Coolidge plans to speak at the seventh annual American Farm Bureau Federation gathering in Chicago tomorrow morning shortly after arriving from Washington. The 11 oclock address will be broadcast by WLS WGN and KYW. O.E. Bradfute presides as Mrs. Coolidge entertains and police arrange tight security.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Coolidge
American Farm Bureau Federation
Washington
WLS
WGN
KYW
Sanders
James
F. Coupal
White House
S. A. Cheney
Adolphus Andrews
O. E. Bradfute
Federation
O.E. Bradfute
Coolidge to Return to White House Tuesday
President Coolidge will resume duties on Tuesday after a brief absence and will likely decline extended trips during Congress. He plans to receive the annual message ready for transmission to both Houses once the Senate and Horse (House) are prepared.
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Washington
Coolidge
Congress
White House
Congressional Committee
Horse
Senate
Atlantic East Gales Delay Liner Arrivals
Terrific easterly gales on the Atlantic delay incoming vessels. The US liner America reports fierce storms and is delayed eighteen hours, expected to reach Plymouth tomorrow evening. The Cunarder Antonia from Montreal cannot arrive until Tuesday morning. The Holland America liner Rotterdam, making the longest east bound trip, will not arrive until Monday noon.
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Plymouth
England
Atlantic
United States
America
Antonia
Montreal
Rotterdam
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