Senate Debates Immigration Policy and Prohibition Funding
Washington a quiet post campaign day as Senate debates the national origins clause and immigration levels with Hoover and Smith cited. La Guardia leads House attack on a 13.5 million prohibition bureau allowance amid routine session business. President Coolidge names Roy West and William Whiting for Interior and Commerce. Nye seeks West appearance over Insull ties. Committees meet but no major actions or hearings.
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Washington
Congress
Herbert Hoover
Gov. Smith
Senate
Mr. Hoover
Boulder Dam
House
Treasury Post Office
Prohibition Bureau
la Guardia
New York
Detroit
Coolidge
Roy O. West
Illinois
William F. Whiting
Massachusetts
Interior and Commerce Departments
West
Nye
Public Lands Committee
Samuel Insull Utility Interests
Chicago
House Agricultural Committee
Haugen
Vestris
Commerce Committee
Bull Market Unshackles Amid Selling Panic
The market collapsed as prices dropped across more than one hundred stocks by five to twenty two fifty a share amid panic selling. The Associated Press averages for industrials and rails fell sharply, with record daily sales and a jump in call money rates to twelve percent. The NY Fed reported broker loans at a new high of five point three nine four five billion dollars as selling intensified.
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Associated Press
New York
New York Federal Reserve Bank
Canadian Pacific
New York Central
Chesapeake & Ohio
Union Pacific
Atchison
Federal Reserve Bank
Plan to Appeal Ellict Blocking Public Library
Judge Charles Bell ruled that the library proceedings in Cincinnati violate state law and issued a permanent injunction against bonds and site purchase. If upheld by higher courts, the Library Building Commission would be abolished and all actions rescinded, forcing new legislation and a fresh referendum before any building can proceed.
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Cincinnati
Charles&. Bell
Common Pleas Court
Bell
Special Library Building Commission
Garfield Place
Race
Elm Streets
Henry W. Merland
Carl Lehman
Albert H. Seeker
Sinking Fund
Taft
Herbert F. Koch
Chief of Police Slain in Chicago Suburb Home
Leroy Gilbert, Chief of Police of South Chicago Heights, was shot dead as he sat in his home. Two gunmen fired sawed off shotguns into his head while he read. Mrs. Gilbert was wounded in the hand. Relatives blame associates of two men Gilbert had arrested two weeks earlier for liquor transportation.
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Chicago
Leroy Gilbert
Chicago Heights
Court denies $11,089 for leg broken in home brew incident
Ernest S Kopf lost an $11,089 damage suit after a barrel of beer fell on him while he helped carry it downstairs. The court ruled the transportation of the beer unlawful and dismissed Kopf's suit against Joseph Lickosar for medical costs.
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Cleveland
Ernest S. Kopf
Kopf
Joseph Lickosar
Lickosar
Aigler Favored For President Pro Tem In Ohio Senate
In Columbus on December 6 observers expect Allan G. Aigler of Bellevue to win the post of President pro tem and floor leader in the all Republican Eighty-eighth General Assembly. He leads over Senator Paul M. Herbert of Columbus, with projections around 18 to 13 votes out of 31, aided by Cleveland and Cincinnati supporters and rural backing from Anti-Saloon League influence. Herbert trails but vows effort. Marshall bill opposition harms his chances.
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Columbus
Senate
Eighty-eighth General Assembly
Allan G. Aigler
Bellevue
Aigler
Paul M. Herbert
Herbert
Cleveland
George H. Bender
Cincinnati
Anti-Saloon League
League
Atlanta auto dealer shot in love triangle
G Hall Davis, 38, head of an Atlanta auto agency, was shot five times in his car by W L Shippey, 28, a grocery warehouse clerk. Shippey surrendered and faced murder charges, claiming Davis had relations with his wife. Davis, a West End civic figure and bond commissioner member, left behind a six year old daughter.
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Atlanta
G. Hall Davis
W. L. Shippey
Davis
Shippey
Solicitor- General’s Office
Davis Agency
West End
Horgan and Zielonka Sued Over Florida Land Deal
Federal suit seeks 9716.66 from John L. Horgan and Anna Marcus Zielonka for taking on debt in a Dade County land purchase. E. J. Lott, Miami, alleges mortgage foreclosure left only 1135.36 after notes unpaid, with property resold.
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John L. Horgan
Linton
Anna X. Marcus Zielonka
Hamilton County
Mr. Lott
Dade County
Mr. Meineke
Lott
Bank of Bay Biscayne
Miami
Meincke
Isabelle Meineke
Marcus
Saul Zielopka
Horgan
King George Ill Improving. Official Bulletins Say No Temperature Rise
London reports two official bulletins on King George VI illness noting no temperature increase and slowly improving general condition. Local infection near the chest base becoming more localized, observers hopeful, with fewer people outside the palace awaiting news.
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London
George
Buckingham Palace
Stanley Hewett
Lord Dawson of
Penn
E. Farquhar Buzzard
Humphrey Rolleston
Lord Dawson
Lancet
British Medical Journal
King
Coolidge Nominees Hickenlooper to Sixth Circuit Judge
President Coolidge named Smith Hickenlooper of Cincinnati to the United States Circuit Court for the Sixth Circuit. Also announced were nominations for district judges in Ohio Louisiana New Jersey and Oklahoma and U S attorneys for Louisiana and New Jersey.
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Washington
Smith Hickenlooper
Cincinnati
Coolidge
United States
George P. Hahn
Ohio
Wayne G. Borah
Louisiana
James W. McCarthy
New Jersey
Edgar S. Wang
Oklahoma
Nelson McVicar
Pennsylvania
Edmond Earl Talbot
Phillip Forman
Gannett Demonstrates Teletypesetter Revolution in Newsroom
Rochester publisher Frank Gannett unveils a teletypesetter that typesets from telegraph and wireless signals, projecting a future where one operator could feed copy to many cities. Demonstration shows automated tape, foolproof operation, and questions on direct news writing and reporter substitutes.
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Howard W. Blakeslee
Associated Press
Rochester
N. Y
Frank E. Gannett
New York
Mr. Gannett
Modern Paganism and church money talk at Rotary
Dr. Frank H. Nelson of Chr Church condemned advertising church services and policing sermons by collection plate totals. He warned churches across denominations against treating religion as a commodity and urged a return to spiritual purpose beyond money, attendance, and publicity. He titled his talk Modern Paganism.
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Nelson
Rotary
Frank H. Nelson
Chr Church
Rotary Club
Hotel Gibson
Mer
Carmel Baptist Minister Faces Virtue Gold Allegations
A Carmel pastor is accused of charging virtue gold to parents, sparking controversy at the Carmel Baptist church. Authorities investigate the pastor over the fundraising claim and financial conduct affecting families.
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Virtue Gold
Protest over church paper blamed for urging action against editor
The Bugler editor Rev. John R. Gilpin faces protests from Rossmoyne and nearby communities, accused of calling residents heathens and urging morality attacks. Critics demand retraction and apology or face a mass meeting and church action. Gilpin invites to Sunday services as tensions rise.
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Rossmayne
Deer Park
Silverton
Blue Ash
John R. Gilpin
Mt. Carmel Baptist Church
James L. Cooke
Mt. Carmel
Cooke
Gilpin
Rossmoyne
Plainfield Pike
Grant Womack
Rossmoyne Plaster and Stucco Company
Thomas H. Womack
Sycamore Road
Bugler
Jesus
Parent-Teacher Association
T. A. Ulkner
Hell
Heaven
Jurors Award Husband One Cent In Alienation of Affections Suit
In Newport Kentucky a Campbell County Circuit Court jury awarded George Tedrow one cent in a suit against Henry Haines for alienating Mrs Georgiana Tedrow s affections. The verdict aimed to forestall an appeal and was delivered after about ninety minutes of deliberation by a mixed jury of six women and six men.
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Campbell County
Newport
George Tedrow
Pendleton Avenue
South
Bellevue
Henry Haines
Empress Avenue
Cincinnati
Tedrow
Georgiana Tedrow
Law
Haines
Physician Father of Ernest Hemingway Dies by Suicide
In Chicago on December 6 Dr. C. E. Hemingway age 67 a prominent Oak Park physician and father of author Ernest Hemingway shot himself in his bedroom after years of illness He had remained in active practice and the motive for the act was not disclosed.
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Chicago
C. E. Hemingway
Oak Park
Ernest Hemingway
Assailant in Kidnapping and Slaying Confesses in Detroit
Peter Kudzinowski, a small violent man, tells detectives in Detroit how he lured seven year old Jose Storela from New York and killed him in a Hackensack swamp. He also recounts killing a man named Harry Quinn years earlier near Rockney Glenn Park, Pennsylvania.
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New York World News Service
New York
Peter Kudzinowski
Detroit
Jose Storela
East Side
Pennsylvania
Jersey
Jersey City
Orpheum Theater
Second Avenue
Hackensack Meadows
Secau
Jose
Harry Quinn
Rockney Glenn Park
Bowery
Fox
Frahm
Dickson City
Quinn
National Rivers and Harbors Congress urges swift waterway work
The National Rivers and Harbors Congress, in its final session, unanimously recommended prompt federal action to improve and develop the nation’s waterways and to complete all authorized waterways developments within five years if possible.
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Washington
National Rivers’ and Harbors’ Congress
Midget George Washington Winner Found Drowned
Col. Noble George Washington Winner, a circus midget twenty eight inches tall, was found drowned in a bath tub in San Francisco. Acquaintances suspect suicide due to loneliness. The incident was reported on December 6.
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San Francisco
Noble
George Washington Winner
Secrets of Sycamore disappearances solved after photos found
Two faded photos from the personal effects of an elderly La Grand, Oregon woman revealed the fates of J Wesley Lytle and Phoebe Schafer, who vanished from Sycamore in 1879. The photographs identified as the missing couple were found with Mrs. James W. Lytle, who died recently, ending a half century mystery.
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Oregon
Upper Sandusky
la Grand
Ore
Sycamore
J. Wesley Lytle
Phoebe Schalkr
Lytle
A. K. Hall
LaGrand
Phoebe Schafer
James W. Lytle
Jesse
Judson Lytle
Wyandot County
Judson
Twin girls born in Kansas and Nebraska
Mrs. William Schneider of Hiawatha Kansas had twin daughters born on December 6. The first baby was born at Hiawatha early in the morning and the second daughter followed at noon after Mrs. Schneider was brought to Falls City Nebraska for delivery.
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Falls City
Neb
Kansas
Nebraska
William Schneider
Hiawatha
Kan
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Occu
the Interior
National Army of Speculators
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Atlanta Citizen
Zielonka
Hickenlooper
Sixth Circuit
Silverton and
James Milliken
Friend
Dudley Nichols
Edward H. Fox
Fred W. Frahm
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