Drastic changes planned to prohibition enforcement under Warren
Washington January 11 A full overhaul of the federal prohibition enforcement system is expected after Charles Beecher Warren becomes Attorney General President Coolidge is said to plan to place enforcement under the Department of Justice A special Senate committee reports failures in the existing system sparking moves to appoint Mrs Mabel Walker Willebrandt as a federal prosecutor in California and to reshuffle leadership including Commissioner Haynes The plan envisions a single federal director in each district working with district attorneys with further changes anticipated on the second page
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New York World News Service
Washington
Charles Beecher Warren
Coolidge
Department of Justice
White House
Senate Committee
Couzens
Rep
Mich
Mabel Walker Willebrandt
California
Willebrandt
Anti-Saloon League
Federal Council of Churches
New Jersey
Walter van Riper
United States
van Riper
Haynes
Gifford Pinchot
Davis pardon sale allegations loom in Topeka
Topeka authorities prepare to file warrants against Governor Jonathan M. Davis and his son Russell G. Davis on charges of soliciting and accepting a $1250 bribe for a pardon. The case stems from a former Linn County Bank president Pullman who handed the money to Russell in a hotel last Friday before returning it. officials say Russell and the governor deny knowledge of the transaction.
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Topeka
Kan
Court of
Jonathan M. Davis
Russell G. Davis
Fred W. Pullman
Tinkham Veale
Shawnee County
Davis
C. B. Griffith
Veale
Pullman
Linn County
LaCygne
Kaw
Russell
Paul Heinz
Pollman
Missouri
Young Davis
Executive Mansion
New 1
Mr. Pullman
Kansas
Véale
Dr David Starr Jordan to receive $25,000 peace prize
Dr David Starr Jordan chancellor emeritus of Stanford University who was named winner of the Raphael Herman $25,000 peace award will formally receive the prize at a public meeting to be held next Friday afternoon in the University of Southern California auditorium officials announced.
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Jordan
Los Angeles
David Starr Jordan
Stanford University
Raphael Herman
University of Southern California
Four Miners Die in Ohio Powder Blast at Powhatan Mine
Four miners were killed late last night at the Cleveland and Western mine in Powhatan Ohio when a powder explosion occurred underground. Two men were believed to have suffocated and the others died from blast injuries. The victims Charles Luxbacker Andy Artor William Payunk and William Bell all resided in Powhatan. Coroner Hardesty and company officials opened an investigation into the accident. There was no damage to the mine.
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Bellaire
Cleveland and Western
Powhatan
Charles Luxbacker
Andy Artor
William Payunk
William Bell
Powhattan
Hardesty
Company
Tragedy on Sled Crash Kills Student at Western Maryland
Lynn F. Gruber a 22 year old divinity student at Western Maryland College was killed when a bobsled he steered collided with a car at Westminster. Six others were injured including math instructor Bertha Hart and chemistry instructor Ruth Warren.
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Associated Press
Baltimore
Lynn F. Gruber
Western Maryland College
Gruber
Westminster
Bertha Hart
Miss Hart
Merrett Wills
Ascension
MD.) College
Wills
Ruth Warren
the Colege
Adelaide Shriver
Taneytown
James Ranck
Frederick Warren, Jr
Warren
Fire damages large furniture building in Chicago blaze
A five hour fire in a downtown Chicago furniture building injured one fireman and affected a dozen others with smoke. Damage estimated from 500000 to 1000000 dollars destroyed oil paintings and antiques from the stock of William H Hoop & Co, who occupied four floors of the eight story structure. Guests at the nearby Congress Hotel were evacuated as firemen fought the blaze from the hotel vantage point.
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Chicago
Congress Hotel
William H. Hoop & Co
Maplewood women launch exchange to fund church altar
In Maplewood New Jersey the Women's Exchange at St George's Church backs a new altar fund by offering services and child care. 30 women led by Mrs Alex M Virgien plan 50 cent babysitting and other crafts to raise 10 000 dollars for a memorial altar while aiding the church's broader revival.
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New York
Willie
Women's Exchange
Exchange
Alex M. Virgien
Maplewood
Aggie
Hester
George
Mamma
Papa
Asbury Park
Virgien
St. George
Perseverance
Kellogg Seen As U.S. Interest Sign At Finance Ministers Meet
Paris reports say Ambassador Kellogg may become Secretary of State and shape U S policy on debt disarmament and Soviet recognition. He notes he will return to Washington by March 4 and declines to discuss state questions. Observers link his Paris presence to possible shifts toward Borah and reparations stance.
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Kellogg
Arno Dosch-Fleurot
New York World News Service
Paris
Finance Ministers
Ambassador Herrick
Washington
Hughes
Finance
Clementel
Herriot
Herrick
England
Winston Churchill
Senator Borah
Foreign Relations Committee
Borah
London
A. B. Houghton
State Department
United States
Germany
iCopyright
N. Y
World News Service
World Presa Pub. Co
Hamburg humorist profiles national traits in column
A Hamburg column compiles observations on national types with quick three part tests. It jokes that Americans drink quietly, Englishmen love contests, Germans brew and wage war, Italians love tragedy and march on Rome, Russians display party variety.
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Hamburg
Rome
Bomb Explodes Near San Francisco Police Officials
A bomb exploded in the Hall of Justice in San Francisco at 10 07 a m damaging the corridor and a telephone booth but causing no injuries Police Chief Daniel J O Brien and other officers were late to their usual Sunday meeting and investigators pursue a possible inside foe familiar with the routine
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San Francisco
Hall of Justice
Daniel J. O’brien
O’brien
Duncan Matheson
William Quinn
Hughes says retirement about private life not politics
Atlanta dispatch reports Charles E. Hughes will retire March 4 to enjoy private life and resume law practice with Hughes Rounds Schurman & Dwight. He rejects resignation due to White House break or Borah’s Senate chair, plans vacation, then return to private firm and legal work.
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New York World News Service
Atlanta
White House
Senator Borah
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Charles E. Hughes
Mr. Hughes
Hughes, Rounds, Schurman & Dwight
Hughes
American Bar Association
Washington
Atlanta Bar Association
The
Frederick E. Walliams
Albany
N. Y
William C. Coleman
Baltimore
Chester I. Long
Witchita
Kan
R. E. L. Saner
Dallas
Tex
A. T. Stovall
Okolona
Miss
Gurney E. Newlin
Los Angeles
Cal
Frederick A. Brown
Chicago
Charles S
Tiger Young as Ever Churchill Declares on Clemenceau
Paris Jan 11 Winston Churchill the British chancellor of exchequer said after a long visit with M. Clemenceau that the French leader remains youthful in spirit. He noted Clemenceau asked him to keep parts of their discussion secret and added he has known the premier since tragic times.
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Paris
Winston Churchill
M. Clemenceau
Rue
Franklin
Churchill
Houghton Slated for Envoy to Britain
Washington January 11 It is pretty well settled that Ambassador Alonson B Houghton will be promoted from Germany to England when Kellogg becomes Secretary of State The question of Houghton’s successor remains unsettled with Senator Medill McCormick and Solicitor General Beck among those mentioned Continued on Sixth Page
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Charles Michelson
New York World News Service
Washington
Alonson B. Houghton
Germany
England
Kellogg
Houghton
Medill McCormick
Beck
Sag
Poison Liquor Kills 239 in Chicago Last Year
Chicago health officials released figures showing 239 deaths from poison liquor in the prior year. The report notes many others were blinded or driven insane by illicit whisky bootleg liquor, known as moonshine, posing a major health danger.
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Chicago
Herman N. Bundesen
Cincinnati of Tomorrow Predicted by Telephone Officials
The Cincinnati and Suburban Telephone Company outlines a twenty year growth plan for Cincinnati with population projections to 575,000 by 1945. Officials cite scientific studies by 40 staffers and executives T C Reed and A D Odell guiding anticipated city development and multi million dollar investments.
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Third Street
Canal
Broadway
Millcreek
Madisonville
College Hill
Price Hill
Cheviot
Cincinnati of
Cincinnati and Suburban Telephone Company
Cincinnati
Commercia Tribune
Sex determination foreseen by Huxley what of it
London Jan 11 Julius Huxley grandson of Thomas Huxley said at Brighton that theoretically sex determination is possible and a method could be found within fifty years. He noted that after achieving it another question arises what will be done with it.
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Huxley
London
Julius Huxley
Thomas H. Huxley
Brighton
Butler wins $15000 race from Honolulu to New York
Edward J. Butler, president of the Peter Breidt Brewing Co. of Elizabeth New Jersey, avoids a $15000 bail forfeiture by arriving in New York in time to face Federal Judge Goddard after being ordered to appear. He had been abroad on a world tour in violation of his bond for alleged prohibition law violations.
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Elizabeth
N. J
Honolulu
New York
Edward J. Butler
Goddard
Butler
Peter Breidt Brewing Company
Cable
Hawaii
Francisco
Thiers Pearls Necklace Sold to an American
Paris reports Cartier's in New York sold the Thiers pearl necklace valued at 1.5 million dollars to an American. The 145-pearl three-row piece, once worn by President Thiers's wife and donated to France, had been shown in the Louvre. The deal leaves the purchaser unnamed and the firm unreachable.
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Arno Dosch-Fleurot
Paris
Thiers
Cartier’s
New York
Louvre
United States
Mystery girl Charlotte McGuire identified in Chicago hospital
Charlotte McGuire, 20, of 5545 Wells Avenue, St Louis, was found unconscious in Chicago and later identified by aunt Mrs George Griffiths and cousin Miss Genevive Sullivan. She had left St Louis November 19 to attend Washington University and recalled nothing since. Her relatives learned of her in Chicago through radio and newspaper reports.
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Chicago
Charlotte ‘‘Norris
County Hospital
Union Station
Charlotte McGuire
Wells Avenue
St. Louis
George Griffiths
Genevive Sullivan
Francis McGuire
Washington University
Miss McGuire
Boy 14 Guilty On Murder Charge In Grandmother Killing
Fourteen-year-old William Cavalier was found guilty of murder in the first degree for killing his grandmother Catherine Cavalier, 62, in July. The jury deliberated about 24 hours before remanding him to prison pending a new trial motion. Prosecutors said he shot her seven times and stole $58. defense claimed moral insanity with doctors testifying to insanity.
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Pottsville
William C. Cavaier
Catherine Cavalier
Cavalier
The
Commonwealth
Funeral of Archbishop Moeller Moves Through Cincinnati
From Mount St. Mary Norwood the body of Archbishop Henry Moeller began its last journey to St. Joseph's Cemetery. Thousands lined the route as the solemn procession to the cathedral drew a vast crowd, with Knights of St. John in regalia and clergy leading the rites.
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Mount St. Mary
Norwood
Henry Moeller
St. Joseph's Cemetery
Price Hill
Cincinnati
Elder
Moeller
Church of St. Peter
Knights of
Mgr
Louis Nau
Mt. St. Mary's Seminary
St. Louis Cauch
Mignth
Walnut Streets
Bernarde
Ferdinand II
Society of Jesus
Nau
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Poliman
Ohio
Divinity
Kid
Frank Sullivan
Bening HT
Oayo Hughes
Britain
ST. Peter’s Cathedral
Middle West
Roger Babson
T. C. Reed
Telephone Company
A. D. Odell
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