Bolivian Forces Strike Back in Chaco Fort Clash
In La Paz a Bolivian Army communique says Bolivia occupied Fort Boqueron after Paraguayan detachments threatened Bolivian forts near the Gran Chaco. The clash at Vanguardia left over twenty Bolivian soldiers dead or captured, and diplomatic relations with Paraguay were broken. The League of Nations urged restraint as both sides seek satisfaction and possible arbitration.
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LA Paz
Ft. Vanguardia
Granchaco
Paraguay
Ft. Boqueron
Chaco
St. Boqueron
R. Suarez
Bolivia
Siles
Ft. Vanghardia
Council
League of Nations
Vanguardia
Kellogg
League
Council of the League Today
Fr. Boqueron
Paraguay River
Gran Chaco
Shipment of Arms for Bolivia Through Argentina
A large quantity of war materials destined for Bolivia passed through Santa Fe by the North Central Argentine Railway. Four airplanes of German manufacture were part of the cargo, indicating transit of arms to Bolivia.
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Bolivia
Argentina
Santa FE
North Central Argentine Railway
Murder Seen In Auto Death In Henderson Ky
Ben T. White Jr. automobile dealer found dead beside his car with a jack underneath. Coroner jury ruled death a broken neck with unknown cause, amid theories of accident or homicide. Blood on shoes and revolver on the car seat support foul play. wallet missing despite claims of a large sum.
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Henderson
Ben T. White, Jr
White
Peach Pilots Horse Into Inn After Sip of Rival Wares
In Hagerstown Maryland on December 15 J W Peach a grape juice salesman from New York tried to drive his horse into a hotel lobby. Officers pulled him from the saddle and jailed him awaiting a charge of riding a horse while under the influence of liquor if a suitable law exists.
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New York World News Service
Hagerstown
J. W. Peach
New York
Peach
Flu Epidemic Spurs Early Christmas Recess Across Nation
Reports from multiple states indicate schools and colleges closing earlier for Christmas due to a widespread influenza outbreak. Some closures cite rising cases, others use precaution. Seattle notes prevalence, Port Townsend staff exposed, Charleston and New Orleans report cases among seamen and institution staff. Public Health Service monitors trend. no major change in situation. Officials urge avoiding crowding and following preventive guidance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States Public Health Service
Seattle
The
Health Service
Port Townsend
Charleston
S. C
San Pedro
Cal
Marine Hospital
New Orleans
Ft. Stanton
N. M
Congress End of First Sessions Shakeup and Bills Progress
Congress closes two weeks of its short session with Boulder Dam advanced, prison labor terms debated, and naval cruiser needs urged. Moves to extend Radio Commission powers are introduced in both chambers. Orville Wright receives the Distinguished Flying Cross as Watson nears Senate leadership.
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Washington
Congress
Senate
House
Agriculture Department
Longworth
Burton
Ohio
Bruce
Maryland
Gillett
Massachusetts
Boulder Dam
Friends of
Radio Commission
Watson
Senate Commerce Committee
White
House Merchant Marine Committee
Orville Wright
Dawes
Indiana
Curtis
Jones
McKeown
Oklahoma
Robbery at River Road Cafe Ends in $600 Take
Two well dressed young men armed with two pistols apiece held up Edward Moscher and six customers at his cafe near Melbourne Kentucky. They escaped in a high powered auto with New York plates after netting $600 though Moscher hid some especially large denominations. Police cordon and pursuit followed but the bandits vanished. Moscher, a noted local sportsman, believes he was misled about the cash.
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Edward Moscher
River Road
Melbourne
Moscher
New York
Falmouth
Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad Company
Silver Grove
George Gugel
Newport
James Fuller
Citizens’ Bank and Trust Company
Highth
Monmouth Streets
Campbell County
King George’s doctors add ray therapy for king’s illness
London December 15 reports a five physician consultation at Buckingham Palace as doctors decide to add ray therapy to treatments for the king. bulletin says he had a quiet day with some sleep though exhaustion persists. pulse steady and fever moderate. Duke of York and Prince of Wales dine with the queen.
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London
George
Buckingham Palace
Stanley Hewett
Lord Dawson of
Penn
Hugh Rigby
Frank Hewitt
Robert Stanton Woods
Royal College of Surgeons
Woods
London Hospital
Howitt
Humphrey Rolleston
E. Farquhar Buzzard
Prince
Frank Howitt
St Xavier College Closes Over Influenza Outbreak
St Xavier College of Liberal Arts closed until January 3 due to rising influenza cases among students. The University of Cincinnati keeps ban on nonessential public gatherings beyond class time. Edward D. Roberts notes child cases remain relatively small.
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St. Xavier College
St. Xavier College of Liberal Arts
University of Cincinnati
Edward D. Roberts
Couple killed in liquor war near Belmont Park
Police hunted boot leggers after an unidentified man and a well dressed woman were found shot in a sandpit behind Belmont Park Race Track Franklin Square Long Island. They were found apart with no ID. a wedding ring had been removed from the woman.
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Rockville Center
Belmont Park
Hempstead Turnpike
Long Island
Franklin Square
Temple U Receives $500000 Gift From Cyrus Curtis
Philadelphia report states Cyrus H K Curtis donated five hundred thousand dollars to Temple University. Dr Charles E Beary temple president announced the gift tonight, detailing the benefaction and its anticipated impact on the university.
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Temple U
Philadelphia
Temple University
Cyrus H. K. Curtis
Charles E. Beary
Holding Company Forms United Aircraft and Transport
New York announces the creation of a 150 million dollar holding company uniting Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Chance Vought and Boeing Airplane and Transport. William E. Boeing to chair. Frederick B. Rentschler to be president with Chance Vought as vice president. The consolidation covers engine and plane manufacture and transcontinental air routes carrying about a quarter of current air mail.
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New York
United Aircraft and Transport Corporation
Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Corporation
Hartford
William E. Boeing
Boeing Airplane and Transport
Frederick B. Rentschler
Pratt & Whitney Aircraft
Chance Vought
Charles W. Deeds
United States Navy
Former Kansas Banker Sentenced in Frontenac Bank Failure
P. J. McGinley, ex president of the Kansas State Bankers' Association, received a sentence of three to fifteen years in the Kansas Penitentiary after being convicted on embezzlement charges tied to the June 1926 Frontenac State Bank failure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
Kan
P. J. McGinley
Kansas State Bankers’ Association
Kansas Penitentiary
Frontenac State Bank
U S Stamps No Good In Pittsburgh Court
In Police Court William E Brent of Pittsburgh was unable to persuade Judge Hitt that United States scent stamps were cash. He faced a choice of a $20 bond or ninety days a vagrancy sentence after he testified he had money and produced two 1 cent stamps as proof.
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Washington
William E. Brent
Pittsburgh
Hitt
United States
Mone
Tunney Leads In Prayer For King George In Portsmouth
Gene Tunney former heavyweight champion and U S Marine captain led Royal Marines in a two minute silent prayer for the recovery of King George. He presented a silver cup as a token of friendship between the U S Marines and Royal Marines. Generals Halliday and Little attended and Tunney noted his France service in World War I.
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King
Royal Marines
Portsmouth
England
Gene Tunney
United States Marines
King George
Gene
United States Marine Corps
Halliday
V. C
Little
Corps of Marine
Tunney
France
Italy
United States
China
Mars
Briand defuses crisis as Stresemann and Zaleski clash
At the League of Nations council Briand calms a bitter exchange over Polish Silesia minorities. Stresemann accuses Poland of agitation. Briand vows to safeguard minority rights while urging swift petition review. Big Three pledge continued reparations talks and a March meeting.
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Lugano
Switzerland
Briand
France
Fifty-third Council of the
League of Nations
Stresemann
Germany
Zaleski
Poland
Polish
Upper Silesia
League
M. Briand
Dr. Stresemann
Silesia
Council
League of Minority Peoples
Europe
Berlin
Austen Chamberlain
Rhineland
Bolivia
Paraguay
London
George
Fatal Hotel Fire in Hazard Kentucky Claims Two Lives
Hazard Kentucky December 15 two persons died when the Hotel Combs burned. The fire destroyed part of the downtown area and left three others missing. Identified victims are Mr and Mrs Ed Pirtle. Fire originated in a rear kitchen as Lexington sent a 1000 gallon pumper and hose lines on a special train.
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Eastern
Kentucky
Ed Pirtle
Lexington
Hazard
Louisville & Nashville
Symphony Goes On NBC Network Broadcast by Cincinnati
Fritz Reiner announced a deal with General Motors to broadcast a Cincinnati Symphony concert series on NBC from WEAF New York. The Dayton Westminster Choir joins the program and an ensemble of forty five principals will perform from the Gibson ballroom. Dates for remaining concerts will be announced later.
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Fritz Reiner
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
General Motors Corporation of America
WnLw
Cincinnati
National Broadcasting Company
WEAF
New York
Dayton Westminster Choir
Reiner
Cincinnati Symphony
Gibson
All M. P.'s Quit at Monte Carlo
Monte Carlo Monaco December 15 The Parliament of twenty one members resigns over who should run the country the people or the Casino. Backed by casino management the National Council falls to an anti casino faction urging Monaco for Monacans. The principality faces a roughly six hundred thousand dollar treasury deficit and poor business.
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Monte Carlo
Monaco
Monacans
Principality
Three Thugs Sought in wake of Witness Slayings
Hamilton detective chiefs pursue three or more suspects in the Dumele Andres case and the shooting of Robert Kolker, a key state's witness. Kolker, wounded and dying, identified a hotel suspect James Spencer alias George Clark as linked to the gang. Authorities warn Kolker’s friends and family may face retaliation as investigations continue.
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Gansdom
Peter Dumele
Robert Andres
Dumele
Richardson
Kolker
Cincinnati
Mercy Hospital
Schaefer
John Clippinger
Hamilton
Kolotzik
Clippinger
James Spencer
George Clark
Spencer
Damele
Andres
Jack Parker
Parker
North College Hill
Pelican Club
John “Todd” Messner
Breck Lutes
Middletown
Rodney Ford
Robert Zwick
Lfe
AX Man Nabbed After Attack In Birmingham
Police identify Lonnie Taylor as the man captured while leaving Mrs. Mattie Souder’s home after threatening her with an ax. He is held on felony charges and is suspected in other recent city attacks by an alleged ax man.
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Birmingham
Lonnie Taylor
Mattie Souder
Harry Smith
Taylor
Son of Dead Man Held in Murder in Illinois
Victor A. Hundley thirty nine year old coal dealer and son of J C Hundley slain ex mayor of Carbondale was arrested on a charge of killing his father and step mother Wednesday night. Sheriff Flanigan and a deputy arrested him minutes after he returned home from the funeral and he was jailed at Murphysboro. Hundley attended the funeral with his wife child and sister Lola Drake of Memphis. He was taken into custody shortly after entering his house.
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Carbondale
Ill
Victor A. Hundley
J. C. Hundley
Flanigan
Hundley
Jackson County
Murphysboro
Lola Drake
Memphis
Tenn
Fifteen Mexican convicts escape from Texas prison farm
Fifteen Mexican convicts escaped from the Blue Ridge state prison farm near Houston, Texas, by sawing a hole in the floor of their bunk racks early today. A posse with bloodhounds tracked the fugitives as they fled. The men were serving short terms.
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Houston
Tex
Blue Ridge State Prison
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Boulder
Watson G. O. P
Monarch
His Majesty
Prince of
Wales
Duke of York
Form Airplane Holding Concern
Pratt & Whitney
Boeing
Kansas
U. S
Pole
Teuton
Combs
Symphony
NBC
General Motors
M. P
Rebel Party
Fusillade
Dixie Highway
Ford
Robert Kolker
Joseph Schaefer
Parish Avenue
Kenneth Richardson
Ax-Man
Ilinois
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