Borah Says U S May Demand British Action On Liquor Policy
New York telegram reports Senator Borah chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee declares the United States has right to demand that England stop nationals undermining the Volstead law. At a luncheon for the Committee of One Thousand for Law Enforcement in New York City, Borah urged enforcement of prohibition and noted British and Soviet actions. Mayor Dever of Chicago, Frank Hague, John H. McCooey, Elbert H. Gary, and John D. Rockefeller Jr attended. Rockefeller quoted a father's curse to a son about facing enemies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Committee of One Thousand
United States
William E. Borah
Foreign Relatioéns
England
Soviet Russia
William E. Dever
Chicago
Frank Hague
Jersey City
John H. McCooey
Brooklyn
Elbert H. Gary
United States Steel Corporation
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
Dever
Borah
Senator Borah
Yaity
Broderick Hartwell
Chamberlain
Zinovieff
Wickersham Accepts League of Nations Post
George Wickersham accepted a seat on the League of Nations Committee for codification of international law, bringing members to sixteen with only the Spanish member still unconfirmed. The acceptance was received in Geneva, and officials voiced gratification.
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Commercial Tribune
New York World
Geneva
George Wickersham
League of Nations Committee For Codification
Wickersham
League
N. Y. World News Service
N.Y. World) Press Pub. Co
Snook Named Atlanta Warden by Attorney General
John Snook, Warden of the Idaho State Penitentiary, is appointed to head the Atlanta Federal Prison by the Attorney General. Announcement awaited. Stone previously said staff selection would be at the warden’s discretion. Uncertainty remains about timing and policy after Stone’s reforms and move to the Supreme Court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Idaho
Associated Press
Washington
John Snook
Idaho State Penitentiary
Stone Ag
Atlanta
Nook
Stone
Supreme Court
Snook
Maine
Deys
Chinese Dentist Wah Chin Slain In New York Tong War Probe
In Manhattan's Mott Street a 35 year old Chinese dentist, Wah Chin, was found stabbed with a hunting knife through his neck in his office. Police suspect tong warfare involvement as Chinatown erupts, with detectives investigating and reporting ties to the On Leong Tong and Chin family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commercial Tribune
New York World
New York
Wah Chin
Mott Street
Bebe Daniels
T. Roy Barnes
Wah Far Gow
No. 22
Josephs
Dr. Wah
Chinatown
Carey
Chin San
Wah
Vanderbilt Clinic
Columbia University
First Woman Supreme Court to sit in Texas
The first Woman Supreme Court in the United States will convene in Austin on January 7. Three Texas women named by Governor Neff will hear the Johnson versus Carr case over Woodmen of the World property in El Paso County. They will gather in the consultation room to consider a writ of error if granted, which would move the case to the Supreme Court from the El Paso Court of Appeals. The roster lists Hortense Ward as Chief Justice, Ruth Brazzill, and Hattie Henneberg. Nellie Robertson and Edith Wilmans could not meet qualifications.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Austin
Tex
Supreme Court
United States
Texas
Neff
Johnson
el Paso Court of Appeals
Hortense Ward
Houston
Ruth Brazzill
Galveston
Hattie Henneberg
Dallas
Nellie Robertson
Hood County
Edith Wilmans
Wheat hits postwar high at Minneapolis market
In Minneapolis on January 7, cash wheat rose to a new postwar peak of 2.27 and three quarter dollars per bushel, a premium of 51 cents over the May futures price.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minneapolis
Minn
Denver Kidnapping and Forced Marriage Tied to Klan
Keith Boehm a 19 year old high school student was abducted from the Southard Hotel by six men posing as officers. He was taken to Dr John Galen Locke a Ku Klux Klan leader and forced to marry Mae Nash. The incident links to Klan politics as Colorado readies a Klan governor and legislature. Police provided details of the coercive marriage while the minister stated he performed the ceremony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commercial Tribune
New York World
Denver
Col
Keith
Boehm
Southard Hotel
John Galen Locke
Mae Nash
Evelyn M. Boehm
Locke
Ku Klux Klan
Colorado
Clarence J. Morley
Dr. Locke
J. D. Forsyth
Berkeley Christian Church
Forsyth
W. S. Laird
Charles T. Mahoney
District Attorney’s Office
Mother
Gem
Keith Boehm
Mae
Cincinnati Chosen for Plant Site by New Jersey Firm
The J B Campbell Manufacturing Company plans a Cincinnati branch with an initial investment exceeding 350000. The fourte en acre site at Sixty sixth street and Fairpark avenue Carthage will house 190000 square feet plus a new 50000 square foot building. Produktion will start after remodeling. logistics center benefits Cincinnati’s role as a distribution hub and proximity to Richardson Company’s felt base.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
Western Branch
New Jersey
J. B. Campbel Manufacturing Company, Inc
Salem
N. J
Standard Parts Company
Carthage
Campbell Company
Middle West
The
Chamber of Commerce
George W. Breiel
J.™. Richardson
Richardson Company
Sixty-sixth Street
Fairpark Avenue
Tme
Richardson
Cincinggti
Campbel
Breiel
Mpany
United States
Mr. N
Fourteen-year-old Admits Attack on Elderly Woman in Wyoming
In a bid to stop a robbery, 84 year old Mrs Laura Pfier was beaten and injured when a seven teen-year-old youth broke into her Glendale home on Tuesday afternoon. The assailant fled with two revolvers and a knife after a confrontation with Mrs Pfier, who was taken to Bethesda Hospital in serious condition. Wyatt Hunley, held on assault and battery grand larceny and housebreaking charges, confessed to the attack and to taking the Seebohm home’s weapons. Hunley had recent Juvenile Court releases and hospital detentions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wyoming
Laura Pfter
Dixie Highway
Glendale
Peter
Bethesday Hospital
Wyatt Hunley
Forrest Avenue
Thomas Cutting
Hunley
E. J. Meagher
Albert Seebohm
Hamilton County Juvenile Court
General Hospital
Hamilton
Meagher
Arthur McMasters
Leroy Hammond
Ohi
Ralph McKoy
Old Swimmin Hole to Join Riley Park in Indiana
In Greenfield Indiana the Brandywine Creek site known as the Old Swimmin Hole will become part of Riley Park after the protest period for a $12500 land purchase bond expired. Church revivalists will be baptized there soon, linking local lore to the park plan.
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Riley
Greenfield
Ind
Brandywine Creek
James Whitcomb Riley
Riley Park
Wetherall held on theft charges tied to family trust
Leroy Wetherall, 27, son of the late J F Wetherall of Paris Kentucky, sits in a First District cell facing possible prison time on theft charges including two dollars. He says he is innocent and claims a federal prison term for raising currency, and recounts a troubled upbringing with a sizable trust fund in dispute.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leroy Wetherall
J. F. Wetherall
Paris
First District
Young Wetherall
Weatherall
Wetherall
Southern College
Louisville
First National Bank of
James McClure
McClure
Raymond Studevant
Simmons Dry
Broadway
Oscar Streitenberger
Richmond Street
Ernest Whitson
Rochelle Street
Highland Avenue
Harold Harris
Clarence Weatherall
Louisville, Ky
Cincinnati
Poverty in Hoboken Family Holds Body of Father
In a dilapidated two room shack in Hoboken New Jersey John B Zunino 85 lay dead as his daughter Mary 50 fought three policemen trying to remove the body Personal property valued at over 100000 including gold jewelry deeds bonds and bank deposits was found The daughter was jailed for a mental examination after the struggle and the case highlighted extreme poverty in their four story home
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Associated Press
Hoboken
N. J
John B. Zunino
Mary
Zunino
Polish opera student commits suicide in Cincinnati
Miss Gregoria Pulikowska a seventeen year old opera student from Lemberg Poland, who recently arrived with her mother, took poison after despair over a Polish sweetheart’s silence, died at General Hospital. She had planned to study at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music and be with her father, a violinist in the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. Funeral services are set for Saturday at 10 am in Walnut Hills German Protestant Cemetery.
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Poland
Gregoria Pulikowska
Clifton Avenue
Clifton
Julian Pulikowska
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
Cincinnati
Lemberg
America
University of Kracow
Cincinnati Conservatory of Music
W. C. Schmidter
West
McMillan Street
General Hospital
George Callahan
West Eighth Street
Walnut Hills
Mystery Finnish Naturalist Oxekula Identified in Norfolk
A Finnish naturalist named Oxekula, speaking an almost extinct dialect, was identified in Norfolk after locals heard his radio talk from WTAR. He said he was born in Oxekula, Finland, and joined a Riga crew to sail to America, then wandered ashore near Cape Charles and was turned over to immigration. He has a wife in Beton Russia and three sons abroad, and asks to remain in the Union Mission until deportation arrangements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norfolk
Norfolk Immigration Office
Oxekula
Finland
WTAR
Frederick Falden
Falden
Union
Young Falden
Cape Charles
Br 'Falden
Beton
Russia
Rome
Vinklu
Rhingland
Germany
Riga
Love Spurned Lover Shoots Teacher and Ends His Life
MADISON Wis Jan 7 Spurned by his ex wife and angered by unreturned love F X Bernard of Hibbing Minn shot and fatally wounded Lora Palmer a University of Wisconsin romance languages teacher then killed himself Bernard 32 born Corsica went to the French House and found Miss Palmer alone except for the cook he fired the shots that ended her life and his Bernard had visited his former wife Sunday showed a photo of Miss Palmer and said he was through with his wooing she refused to take him back and he warned he might kill himself later the district attorney said no inquest unless requested by family or new evidence Miss Palmers condition was critical but improving letters were found expressing affection for Miss Palmer and another letter directed money to a brother.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bernard
Hibbing
Minn
Francis X. Bernard
Madison
Juora Palmer
Wis
George
Pan
Palmer
Paris
United States
Germany
Winston Churchill
James A. Logan
Spa
Dawes
Dama
Churchill
Colonel Logan
Otto Niemeyer
Clementel
Theunis
Belgium
England
America
France
Wadsworth
Sverrigs
Y. World News Service
Y. World, Press Pub. Co
F. X. Bernard
Lora Palmer
University of Wisconsin
Corsica
Miss Palmer
Philip LaFollette
General Hospital
J. F. Bernard
Eveleth
Inn
F. X
Berna
Oliver Mining Compane
Three Chicago youths killed by train near Asheville
In Asheville North Carolina three Chicago youths on a pleasure trip were struck and killed by a Southern Railway freight train at Skyland four miles south of Asheville. They had been beating their way aboard a moving freight and were believed to have fallen beneath it.
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Asheville
Chicago
Southern Railway
Skyland
Here
Escape from Death Cut Off by Alienists
Columbus Ohio January reports say Joseph C Kane a Youngstown murderer will be electrocuted at the Ohio penitentiary after alienists appointed by Governor Donahey declared him sane They ruled he is neither feeble minded nor insane and is fully competent to distinguish right from wrong The execution was postponed from December 20 to January due to a Supreme Court case mix up and a Governor reprieve
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Columbus
Van
Joseph C. Kane
Youngstown
Donahey
Kane
Ohio Penitentiary
Paul Prologe
W. H. Pritchard
J. Emerick
F. L. Keiser
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League OF Nations
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Texas Supreme Tribunal
Klan
J. B. Campbell Manufacturing Company
Carthage Tract
Aibe
Neal Campbell
Vic
Wati
Bell
Nivison-Weiskopf Company
William Reehl
Albert Mayer
Cincinark
Mr. Camp
Wyatt’ Hunley
Woodlawn
Symphony Orchestra
Mystery Man
Cae
Him
Leningrad
Romania
Yokohama
Berlin
Arno Dosch-Fleurot
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