Fatal Blast Wrecks Two Pekin Factories Killing Forty
In Pekin Illinois a massive explosion destroyed two factory buildings. Forty workers are dead and fifty three injured in the blast. Hiram Johnson criticizes the rise of Southern delegates as political tensions flare. A separate seafaring incident in Babylon New York ends with a monster wave washing nine men off a powerboat during a rescue mission, with most rescuers drowned. The Electra owned by C C Eccleston of B Shore remains afloat amid the storm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pekin
Illinois
Hiram Johnson
Babylon
N. Y
Sid
Great South Bay
Fire Island Inlet
C. C. Eccleston
B ‘Shore
Wit Eccleston
Storm Rages Italian Coast. Nine Ships Sunk
A severe storm along the Apulian coast battered Barletta Trani Bisceglie and Moreta with extensive damage. Moreta suffered severe effects as many residents faced food shortages while nine large fishing smacks were destroyed and forty damaged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Italy
Bari
Barletta
Trani
Bisceglie
Moreta
Two Boys Drown After Raft Capsizes on Mill Creek Pond
In a Mill Creek backwater near Alfred Street at 1:45 pm yesterday, a raft overturned and two Sacred Heart School pupils Herbert Schulz and Joseph Mueller drowned, while 15 year old Robert Dillworth escaped. Firemen recovered the bodies after a flood-swollen pond stretched over several acres.
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Mill Creek
Alfred Street
Herbert Schulz
Herman Schulz
Cook Street
Joseph Mueller
Anthony Mueller
Spring Grove Avenue
Sacred Heart School
Robert Dillworth
Ernest P. Epperson
Burlington Place
Robert
Herbert
Joe
Andrew Jergens Company
Dillworth
Oklahoma mob leader bound over for murder trial
Marvin Kincannon, 22, alleged leader of a mob blamed for the December 17 deaths of A. L. Birch hotel proprietor and Robert Journegan porter at Marlow Oklahoma, was bound over without bond to await District Court trial. Six other alleged mob members were held.
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Duncan
Okla
Marvin Kincannon
A. L. Birch
Robert Journegan
Marlow
Ohio River in rising flood threat from cold snap
The Ohio River surpassed the fifty-one foot mark in Cincinnati and may reach fifty-four or fifty-five feet as heavy rains eased. A flood stage of fifty-two feet threatens traffic at Central Union Station and streets in Newport Campbell County, with higher levels risking Cross town service to Covington. A cold wave helped avert greater damage and homelessness, rivermen say, while warnings extend to Southgate Isabella streets and Fourth and Isabella streets.
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Ohio River
Ohio Valley
Kanawah River
Kentucky River
W. C. Devereaux
United States
Cincinnati
Devereaux
Central Union Station
Ohio
Newport
Campbell County
Southgate
Isabella
Fourth
Isabella Streets
Patterson Street
Isabella Street
Fifth Street
Covington
Fifth and
Bridge Streets
Vandyke quits pew over schism at Princeton church
Dr. Henry Vandyke, former New York pastor and Princeton professor, resigns his pew at First Church Princeton blaming schismatic preaching. Rev. Dr. John Machen temporarily fills pulpit as church seeks a permanent pastor amid calls for revival.
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Henry Vandyke
Princeton
WN. J
D.D
Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church
New York
United States
Netherlands
Princeton University
Old First Church
Vandyke
John G. Macher
Theological Seminary
First Presbyterian Church of
Christ
God
Man
J. Ross Stevenson
Princeton of Hedilogical Seminary
Dr. Machen
Machen
Congress Debates and Adjourns Amid Senate Deadlock
Congress returns from recess and adjourns until Monday as committees prepare to push tax and budget work. Senate fights to elect a Chairman of the Interstate Commerce Committee, with ballots 26 and 27 failing to break the deadlock. A possible solution next week centers on shelving floor fights and letting the committee pick a temporary presiding officer.
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Congress
Senate
Washington
House
Ways and Means
Interior Department
Interstate Commerce Committee
Cummins
Iowa
Smith
South Carolina
Couzens
Michigan
la Follette
Rep
Wis
Resolutions Filed In Congress To Halt Arms Sale To Mexico
In Washington on January 3 Congressmen Fairchild of New York introduced two resolutions to block a sale of surplus U S arms to the Mexican government. One seeks full state department information on negotiations and the other bars government arms sales to any foreign government. The move follows high level talks with Secretary Hughes and comes as Mexican officials led by Ramon Ross visited the White House.
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Congress
N Y. Republican
Washington
Fairchild
Rep
N. Y
State Department
Mexico
Hughes
Weeks
Coolidge
Ramon Ross
Mexico City
Obregon
United States
White House
Manuel Tellez
Ross
New Year Gift of 60 Million Fir Seeds From U S to Britain
Washington January 3 60 000 000 Douglas fir seeds were presented by Charles Lathrop Pack president of the American Tree Association to the British Forestry Commission to aid reforestation of areas cut over for war. Henry Getts Chilton received the seeds at the British Embassy.
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Washington
Great Britain
Charles Lathrop Pack
American Tree Association
British Forestry Commission
Henry Getts Chilton
Thaw 3 Release Opposed by Mrs Thaw in Philadelphia
Pittsburgh dispatch reports Harry K. Thaw remains confined in a Philadelphia sanitarium as Bartholomew B. Coyne seeks release. Mrs Mary Copely Thaw and trustee Howard Irish say Coyne does not represent the Thaw family and any effort to free Thaw will be opposed.
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Pittsburgh
Harry K. Thaw
Philadelphia
Mary Copely Thaw
Howard Irish
Thaw
Hope 650000 Settlement in Thaw Case Reaches Agreement
Reports say Harry K Thaw will be freed from a Philadelphia asylum to face a 1917 assault charge in New York. Frederick Gump Jr of Kansas City to settle a 650000 civil damage suit with Thaw out of court and let the criminal case lapse. Bartholomew Coyne seeks mental sanity ruling in Pennsylvania while Frank P Walsh represents Gump.
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New York
Harry K. Thaw
Philadelphia
Frederick Gump, Jr
Kansas City
Gump
Thaw
Bartholomew BB. Coyne
Pennsylvania
Frank P. Walsh
Young Gump
Cincinnati unit of Ex-Service Men Anti-Bonus League organized
About fifty World War veterans met in the Citizens National Bank Building and formed a Cincinnati unit of the Ex-Service Men Anti-Bonus League. Donaldson Brown was elected director and Campbell S. Johnston executive secretary. The group aims to oppose a bonus for able bodied veterans while supporting aid for disabled veterans and to inform the public of the cost and tax burden of a universal bonus.
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Citizens’ National Bank
Cincinnati
Donaldson- Brown
147Th Infantry
Campbell S. Johnston
802D Pioneer Infantry
Brown
Johnson Attacks RNC and Administration in Ohio Campaign
Senator Hiram Johnson attacked the Republican National Committee for boosting Southern delegate power and criticized arms shipments to Obregon forces in Mexico. He challenged Ohio GOP leaders over conventions and urged equal nominee rights for Ohio Republicans, labeling the actions a scandal affecting the party nationwide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Cleveland
Republican National Committee
Obregon
Mexico
Ohio Republican State Central Committee
President Coolidge
Hiram Johnson
California
Johnson
Chicago
Mellon
Detroit
Snn O. John
United States
Republican Party
Ohio
South Carolina
Soviet Plans to Win Over American Workers
Washington reports Secretary Hughes released a translation of a December Moscow Pravda note by G Zinoviev praising the coming daily English language Communist paper in New York. Zinoviev, Petrograd Soviet president and Intl. Communist leader, asserts American workers will rally to the new party.
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Washington
Hughes
Russia
United States
State Department
G. Zinoviev
Moscow Pravda
Moscow
Communist
Daily Worker
New York
Zinoviev
Petrograd
Communist Internationale
Central Executive Committee
Federation Central Executive Committee
White House conferees assign merchant ships to Fleet Corporation
At a White House conference President Coolidge and Senate leaders agreed to place operation and control of government owned merchant tonnage under the Emergency Fleet Corporation. Leigh C. Palmer, former Navy Bureau of Navigation chief, is named President. The Shipping Board becomes regulatory and advisory. vacancy from Farley’s resignation to be filled by a Midwestern appointee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
White House
U. S
Fleet Corporation
Leigh C. Palmer
Navy Department
Bureau of Navigation
Shipping Board
Washington
Emergency Fleet Corporation
Coolidge
Jones
Senate Finance Committee
Fletcher
Florida
Senate Commerce Committee
Greene
Massachusetts
Edmunds
Pennsylvania
House Merchant Marine Committee
Farley
Middle West
Palmer
Navy
Rich Canton Manufacturer Questioned In Death Of Girl
Louis E. Griffith Jr a wealthy Canton manufacturer was questioned by police about the death of Ruth Hunter 18. The body was found on a lonely road. Griffith denied knowing her and a liquor possession charge was placed to hold him amid the inquiry.
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Lonely Road
Canton
Louis E. Griffith, Jr
Stele Ruth ‘Hunter
Griffith
B. McClintock
Miss Hunter
C. E. Hunter
T. H. Shorb
Indiana Brewer Paid $18,000 to Stall Prosecution
Michael Schrick, a New Albany brewer, admitted paying about $18,000 to halt U S liquor prosecution. Judge A B Anderson noted the payment and immunity promises, with a six month jail term and $500 fine imposed. the tale includes Washington figures and a bid to settle via taxes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana
U.S
Indianapolis
Michael Schrick
New Albany
Ind
Washington
A. B. Anderson
United States District Court Today
Jerry Matthews
Washington, D. C
Schrick
Matthews
Anderson
Government loses suit to annul sale of 5700 seized German patents
In Wilmington Delaware Judge Morris dismissed the government’s bid to void the 1922 sale by the Alien Property Custodian to the Chemical Foundation of 5700 seized enemy patents later acquired by the private firm. The government plans an appeal. the case traced back to President Wilson and Attorney General actions and questioned authority in the private sale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Private Chemical Corporation
Wilmington
Del
The
Chemical Foundation, Inc
Morris
Federal District Court
Washington
Harding
Foundation
Wilson
Polk
Francis P. Garvan
Chemical Foundation
Henry W. Anderson
Richmond
United States Supreme Court
Fire Ruins Pekin Corn Products Plant After Explosion
Pekin Illinois. January 3. An explosion and ensuing fire at the Corn Products Company plant destroyed two buildings and left 28 injured and between 25 and 30 men dead or missing. Investigations by the Department of Agriculture and company officials were announced as rescue workers braved ice and debris to reach victims.
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Pekin
Ill
Corn Products Company
H. B. Lawton
Peoria
Columbia
Illinois
George M. Moffett
New York City
D. J. Price
Department of Agriculture
Washington
Lawton
R. F. Sherman
Salvation Army
Tiernan
Pekin Corps
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Monster Wave
Oklahoma
Britain
All Mother
National League
Denator
Buckeye
America
Schri
Andrews
Kelso
Corn - Products Company
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