Walsenburg Strikers Clash With Police Prompt Martial Law
In Walsenburg Colorado on January 12 a shootout left one dead and three wounded as state police clash with 750 miners and supporters. Martial law is declared with machine guns, guard patrols, and curfews as I W W coal strike protests are halted.
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Walsenburg
Col
I. W. Wimmers
Main Street
Kelmentz Chavez
Max Lovedman
Asi
Salistino Martinez
Petér Verlich
Woman Declared Dead After Seven Year Disappearance
After seven years, Mrs. Helen Proctor Crain filed in Probate Court to administer the estate of her mother Cordelia Sadler Proctor, who vanished February 20 1920 believed to drowned. Estate valued at 147000 with 114500 in personal property. Cordelia was inmate at Gandview Sanitarium Price Hill mentally deranged after illness. Her hat was found on the Ohio River bank and husband searched for years. Probate Judge Lueders ruled her dead and Crain may administer the estate. Attorney George Katterhon represented Crain.
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Helen Proctor Crain
Belmont Avenue
Cordelia Sadler Proctor
Proctor
Richard W. Proctor
W.S. Merrell Chemical Company
Gandview
Price Hill
Democrats Pick Houston for 1928 National Convention
In a Jackson Day dinner the party agreed to move its national convention into the Solid South for the first time, selecting Houston Texas after a five ballot contest with San Francisco and Detroit. The decision aims to harmonize party differences and honor Southern Democratic service.
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Washington
Madison Square Garden
Houston
Texas
San Francisco
Detroit
William G. McAdoo
Alfred E. Smith
New York
McAdoo
Smith
Jackson
Jefferson
White House
Friends of
Gov. Smith
National Committee
Commiteemen
Clem L. Shaver
West Virginia
John W. Davis
Harmony
Democracy of
South
Far South
Transit plan moves closer amid council talks
Public Utilities Committee of Cincinnati City Council, led by Tyler Field, prepared a motion to open negotiations with the Street Railway Company for rapid transit operation. The measure merges Beeler report feedback with a request to confer with Rapid Transit Commissioners and semi public bodies, aiming to report progress in three months and prepare for a bond issue next November. Mayor Seasongood opposes the plan but observers expect passage at the next meeting.
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Seasongood
Public Utilities Committee
City Council
Tyler Field
C. O. Rose
Fred Schneller
Stanley Matthews
Street Railway Company
Beeler
Rapid Transit Commissioners
Cincinnati Street Railway Company
Vetere
Mt. Morris Child Kidnapping and Slaying Sparks Statewide Hunt
The mutilated body of 5 year old Dorothy Schneider was found in a creek near Mt. Morris after an abduction witnessed by her mother. A wide manhunt deployed with Michigan state police cordons, a Dodge sedan description, and a farmer who aided the car’s removal from mud. Citizens’ posse recovered clothing remnants as authorities push to trap the suspected kidnapper described as about 50 with a light suit and dark overcoat.
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Flint, Mich
Dorothy Schneider
Mt. Morris
Schneider
R. Braste
Enila
Mabel Schneider
Archie Bacon
Caesar S. Scavarda
Flint
Oscar G. Olander
Murder at an Exclusive Chicago Apartment Shocks City
The body of a young blonde woman known as Mrs Betty Chambers was found in a North Side Chicago apartment with a cord around her neck and a deep neck wound. Police believe murder and a quarrel with Gordon Chambers prompted the killing as an unfinished revenge note and prior gunshots are noted. A second incident in Brooklyn reports Mrs Rose Licata shot in her Bath Beach kitchen.
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Chicago
Betty Chambers
G. Andrews
Gordon Chambers
Andrews
Gordie
Chambers
Florence Hauptman
Mrs. Chambers
New York
Bath Beach
Brooklyn
Rose Licata
Licatare
Radical party split as arrests rock French chamber
Paris January 12. Communist Deputies Marcel Cachin and Paul Vaillant-Duturier were arrested on government orders as they left the Chamber. The move follows their earlier conviction for propaganda to provoke disobedience among soldiers and sailors. The incident sparks talk of April elections and signals a government victory as the Radical party fractures with a reduced majority.
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Paris
Marcel Cachin
Paul Vaillant-Duturier
Chamber of Deputies
Cachin
M. Deladier
Radical Party
Mey
Jury values life worth 25000 gives widow two thirds
A New York jury valued Frank W Bascom's life at 25000 dollars and awarded two thirds to his widow after a fall on the Sudans steamer between San Francisco and Seattle caused his drowning. The negligence cited was in the platform's condition. The widow sured on behalf of her three children.
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New York
Frank W
Bascom
Kellogg renews Franco-American antiwar pact invitation
The United States renews an invitation to France for a treaty declaring war illegal. Kellogg objects to Briand’s aggressive-war limit and urges negotiations on the full renunciation of all war and multilateral participation. He proposes joint communications with Britain, Germany, Italy, and Japan.
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France
Washington
United States
Kellogg
Briand
M. Briand
Mr. Briand
Thomas Hardy to Rest in Westminster Abbey
London January 12 Thomas Hardy England's noted writer died at his Dorchester home yesterday The burial in Westminster Abbey will take place Monday afternoon The honor reflects the nation's respect for the dead poet and novelist Hardy reportedly preferred a simple grave in Stinsford near Dorchester Mellstock of his Wessex tales
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London
Westminster Abbey
Thomas Hardy
England
Dorchester
Dorset
Stinsford
Babe Ruth Tobacco Chewing Bans Film in Highland Park
Highland Park censor barred the First National picture Babe Comes Home after Babe Ruth chews tobacco and spits on screen. The censor cited tasteless scenes and urged the public not to expose children to such behavior. First National filed suit at Waukegan to lift the ban.
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Babe Ruth
Chicago
Babe
Highland Park
First National Pictures Corporation
Waukegan
Albert L. Stevenson
Nau
Ohio Flapper Wife Indicted for First Degree Murder
Velma West a 21 year old wife and nursery worker is indicted by the Lake County Grand Jury on a first degree murder charge for killing her husband Thomas Edward West with a hammer. Prosecutor Seth Paulin had pressed for the extreme penalty and arraignment is expected Saturday. The jury revealed testimony detailing the couple's courtship and marriage. A confession reportedly signed in the prosecutor and sheriff's presence is cited as principal evidence. The case moves toward trial in Lake County Court.
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Ohio
Painesville, O
Velma West
Hammer
Thomas Edward West
Lake County
West
Perry (O
Richard Bostwick
Francis W. Poulson
Seth Paulin
Mrs. West
Common Pleas
Arlington G. Reynolds
Cleveland
Paulin
Ed Rasmussen
Cham berlin and Williams circle Long Island for endurance record
Clarence Cham berlin and Roger Q. Williams circled above Roosevelt Field Long Island seeking a new world duration record in a Bellanca monoplane loaded with 471 gallons of fuel. Weather warnings and earlier fuel pump trouble shadowed the attempt as they aimed to beat the 52 hour 22 minute 31 second mark.
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Roosevelt Field
N. Y
Clarence Chamberlin
New York
Bellanca
Chamberlin
Williams
Johann Risticz
Cornelius Erzard
A. R. Marren
G. M. Bellanca
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