Bandits Drive Bank Telller to Vault in Snowbound Heist
In Chicago a crew posing as prohibition agents kidnapped teller George Anderson and his parents, forced entry to Ravenswood National Bank, and, after holding them in a garage, coerced the teller to operate the vault with a time lock. The gang escaped with $80,000 as an armed lookout warned of a machine gun.
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Chicago
Ravenswood National Bank
George Anderson
Algot Anderson
George
Anderson
Andersons
Andersen
Aew
Prohibition
Youthful shoplifters sentenced to church
Five girls and two boys confessed shop lifters were sentenced by Judge Henry C. Niles in York County Court to a three year probation period to go to their ministers confess their sins and attend Sunday school. The alternative was commitment to state institutions. The tearful seven pledged to follow the instructions and were released when parents paid the prosecution costs.
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York
Henry C. Niles
Cowboy Comes East To Deny He Is Dead
Lakewood New Jersey dispatch reports Austin W. P. Newman, who left Fullerton California twenty five years ago to seek cattleman life, plans to return east to dispute a death declaration and estate sale. Local memory recalls tales of a Texas gunfight years after he departed, a story Newman’s daughter recently learned.
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Cowboy
Lakewood
N. J
Fullerton
Cal
Austin W. P. Newman
Newman
Texas
Widow of S-4 Commander Says She Would Give Boy to Navy
Mrs Roy K Jones widow of the ill fated S-4 submarine commander declines accusations against the Navy Department. She says she has no criticism and loves the service. She plans to seek an Academy appointment for her six year old son Roy Jr in the future.
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NAVY
Baltimore
Roy K. Jones
Navy Department
Naval Academy
Lindbergh Heads for Salvadors in Belize at Daybreak
Belize dispatch reports Col Charles A Lindbergh planned to take off from a polo field at daybreak for a 260 mile flight to San Salvador, continuing along the coast over the Gulf of Honduras. Locals praised the aviator for his peace mission as he toured Belize and sailed the Belize River with Governor Sir John Burdon.
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Belize
British Honduras
Col
Charles A. Lindbergh
Salvador
Gulf of Honduras
Linabergh
Lindbergh
Guatemala City
Col. Gran
John A. Burdon
Salvadorean
New Year Revels Darken City with Gin and Jollity
Cincinnati welcomed 1928 with a rambunctious New Year’s Eve marked by crowded hotels and cabarets. Liquor flowed freely amid widespread revelry as some revelers faced drunkenness charges, while taxis ran non stop and private homes hid gin made from tested alcohol. Maurice Campbell, Prohibition Administrator, delivered New Year’s remarks.
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Alexander
Cincinnati
Maurice Campbell
Lindbergh Party Flies From St Louis to Detroit
Mrs. Evangeline L. Lindbergh leads a party en route from St. Louis to Detroit on the final leg of their tour. The group travels by air on a December 31 report from Chicago.
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Chicago
Evangeline L. Lindbergh
St. Louis
Detroit
New York Ringing In The New Year With Celebration
New York cities celebrate New Year's Eve with a mix of church chimes and revelry as liquor flows freely in many districts. Police monitor the crowds while revelers ring in new year amid a carnival atmosphere on Broadway and surrounding areas.
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New York
New York World News Service
New York City
Broadway
Marooned Ferry Crew Faces Death in St. Lawrence Ice Jam
Twenty five passengers aboard the Levis ferry between Prescott Ontario and Ogdensburg NY are marooned after an ice jam in the St. Lawrence River. The wooden boat is held by ice since about 7 p m with fear it could be crushed. Vanderberg of the same company is attempting rescue from the Ontario shore.
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St. Lawrence
Ogdensburg
N. Y
Levis
Prescott
Ontario
Oswegatchie
St. Lance
Vanderberg
Ogdensburgh& Iglescott Transportation Company
New York World News Service
Rochester
Algernon Sidney Crapsey
Andrew’s Episcopal Church
Jesus
St. Andrew’s Church
Batavia
Crapsey
Dr. Crapsey
Fairmount
Cincinnati
Jacob Tomkins
Rachel Morris Crapsey
Seventy Ninth
Ohio Volunteer Infantry
Kentucky
Blizzard and Zero Temperatures Halt Railroads nationwide
Nationwide winter storm cripples rail traffic and shipping with subzero temps. New Orleans endures its coldest New Year’s morning in 30 years. Minnesota and the Dakotas report 20 below zero. six inches of snow falls near Kansas City. The storm causes several deaths, air mail service disruption, and maroons 22 Boy Scouts near Long Barn California.
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New Orleans
Rio Grande
Texas
Atlantic Coast
Kansas City
Canadian Rocky Mountain Region
Mountain States
Middle West
Oklahoma
Oklahoma City
Arkansas
Gulf
Pacific Coast
Washington
Oregon
Montana
Wyoming
Minnesota
Dakotas
Colorado
Kansas
Nebraska
Central
Chicago
Towsend
Mont
Chicago- Dallas
Sierra Mountains
Long Barn
Cal
Tax Reduction Bill Delayed Until March Returns
Senate Finance Chairman Smoot confirms possible postponement of the tax cut until after March 15 when the first tax returns are filed. Administration leaders push for passage this session while debates continue over delaying the measure and limiting the overall reduction.
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Washington
Senate
Smoot
Senate Finance Committee
Senator Simmons
North Carolina
Harrison
Mississippi
King
Utah
White House
Coolidge
Congress
Salvage Halted Over S-4 Sunken Submarine
Rough seas and storm threats force suspension of salvage operations on the sunken S-4 off Provincetown Massachusetts. Divers planned to enter the engine room to recover possible bodies, with ten believed inside. weather permitting, entry is set for tomorrow.
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Provincetown
Mass
Frank H. Brumby
Coast Guard
Paulding
Woman killed in Chicago yard train wreck
A Chicago & Alton flyer the Hummer rear ended an Alton fast mail in yard tracks near Union Station. One woman died and another was trapped for hours in a steel compartment before rescue. More than fifty passengers were injured, with many minor cuts and bruises. The dead woman was identified tentatively as Mrs W D Barry Jr of St Louis.
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Chicago
Chicago & Alton
Kansas City
St. Louis
Sara Stekell
Tulsa
Okla
Union Station
Metropolitan Elevated
Chicago River Bridge
Alton
Theda Jacobsmeyer
Grace Maune
Florence Kessler
Agnes McMahon
W. H. Price
Columbus
O. I. M. Lande
Verne Cawley
Elkhart
Ind
Leonard
Indiana's Republican Leader Indicted for Fraud
Indiana political figure and former head of a defunct bank faces fraud charges. The report notes his high profile within the party, outlining limited details of the indictment and ongoing legal proceedings.
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Indiana
Spanking Death Suit Opens In Wapakoneta Case
Grace Watkins a schoolteacher testifies she spanked eight year old Helen Montague for an immoral act but did not punish her strenuously. Algie Montague sues for ten thousand dollars claiming peritonitis from the punishment. Doctors differ on cause noting appendicitis and subsequent infection. The incident occurred March 22, 1927 with death on April 29.
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Wapakoneta
Grace Watkins
Helen Montague
Algie Montague
St. Mary’s
Miss Watkins
C. C. Berlin
Harry Noble
Washington woman slain in field sparks $2500 reward
Washington County Commissioners offered a 2500 dollar reward for the capture of Thelma Young 17 domestic at the Washington and Jefferson College Athletic Training House found dead in a field. Suspect Fred Drew 19 and friend John Johnson 20 are held amid contradictions as detectives pursue the motive and attackers.
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Washington, Pa
S St
Thelma Young
Washington County
Washington and Jefferson College
Fred Drew
John Johnson
Drew
Johnson
Esch Loses I C C Post After Senate Inaction
Washington December 31 announces that John J. Esch of Wisconsin automatically leaves the Inter state Commerce Commission chair after the Senate fails to act on his renomination. Esch had chaired the I C C during 1927 and ends tenure as the old year ends.
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John Esch
I. C. C. Post
Washington
Senate
John J. Esch
Wisconsin
Interstate Commerce Commission
Woman Visited Hickman Room Day Before Marian Parker Killing
Los Angeles investigators seek a woman who reportedly visited William E. Hickman in his Bellevue Arms apartment the day before Marian Parker's death. The inquiry questions whether Parker was slain on Friday or Saturday December 16 or 17.
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Los Angeles
Hickman
District Attorney’s Office
William E. Hickman
Marian Parker
George Contreras
Bellevue Arms
Donald Evans
Eddie
Freight train wreck near Alliance claims two lives
Louis Baschky, 40, engineer, and Frank Brown, 47, fireman, both of Alliance Nebraska, were killed when a narrow gauge freight train derailed from a bridge and plunged forty feet into a snow filled ravine. The engine and six cars left the tracks. Brown’s body was not recovered. Snow buried much of the wreckage.
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Louis Baschky
Frank Brown
Alliance
Neb
Brown
Two Michigan University figures killed in auto crash
Henry Winchester of Ann Arbor and Prof. Herbert Smallory of the University of Michigan rhetoric department were fatally injured when their car collided with a moving freight near Ypsilanti. Both died in hospital shortly after the collision.
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Ypsilanti, Mich
Henry Winchester
Ann Arbor
Herbert Smallory
Rhetoric Department
University of Michigan
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