Senate tightens probe into S-4 sinking and ships bill clash
Senate approves a modified inquiry into the submarine S-4 disaster with a Senate House joint committee and a president named commission, while backing the Jones bill to expand government ship operations amid White House opposition. President Coolidge reiterates support for an executive commission and warns over Shipping Board sale hurdles as debate tightens.
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Washington
Senate
Coolidge
House
White House
Congress
Johnson
California
Shipping Board
Senators
Copeland
New York
Bingham
Rep
Conn
Slippery sidewalks spur injuries and snow hints
Two women were injured when they fell on slippery sidewalks. Alice Hovecamp, 39, of 3443 Lylebrun place, broke her left arm in two places near her home, and Anna Suntheimer, 33, of the Court Hotel, was taken to General Hospital after a Fifth and Vine street tumble. Snow arrived with southern winds, closing several streets for coasting if cold weather persists.
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Alice Hovecamp
Lylebrun Place
J. R. Relander
Wood Street
Anna Suntheimer
Court Hotel
Court
Vine Streets
Fifth
General Hospital
Cincinnati
Will Reeves
Public Recreation Commission
Clifton Camp Washington
Riddle Road
Sandheger
McMicken
Corryville
Euclid Avenue
Auburn
Daniels
Price Hill
McPherson
Warsaw
Glenway
Fairbanks
Price
College Hill
Larch
Belmont
Hamilton
Avondale
Windham Avenue
Reading Road
Woodward Park
Walnut Hills
Fulton Street
Nassau
Eden Park
Madisonville
Rowe Avenue
Mathias
Glenshade
Sanity trial for William E Hickman nears juror seating
In Los Angeles on January 27 a jury pool of nine men and three women faced possible permanent seats as the sanity trial of William E. Hickman proceeds amid legal skirmishing. The defense and prosecution sparred over remaining challenges, Judge Trabucco ordered the dispute to be settled Monday, leaving juror status undecided as attorneys argued over the process.
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Los Angeles
William E. Hickman
Asa Keyes
Jerome Walsh
Kansas City
Marian Parker
Keyes
J. J. Trabucco
Walsh
Trabucco
Proce
I Walsh
Withal
Blasco Ibanez Ill in France
Vicente Blasco Ibanez the noted Spanish writer in Mentone France was pronounced slightly better but gravely ill. Doctors after their latest visit said there was no immediate danger and promised another bulletin tomorrow morning.
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Vicente Blasco Ibanez
Mentone
France
Druggist Foertmeyer Injured In River Crash
Eugene Foertmeyer 40 proprietor of a Clifton drug store plunged from a bridge into the Big Miami River near Elizabeth town after his car skidded on ice. A Columbia Power crew rescued him. he was taken to Dr G S Smith in Lawrenceburg where doctors said his condition was hopeless.
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Eugene Foertmeyer
Ludlow Avenue
Clifton
Big Miami River
Elizabethtown
Columbia Power Company
Foertmeyer
G. S. Smith
Lawrenceburg
Body of Ex Husband of Pearl White Found
Wallace McCutcheon 45 ex husband of actress Pearl White was found dead at his Los Angeles home from a self inflicted bullet wound. A note on a liquor bottle label read Have a drink. A small caliber pistol lay near the body and an address book with numerous actor and actress contacts was in his pocket.
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Los Angeles
Wallace McCutcheon
Pearl White
McCutcheon
Long Island
N. Y
British World War Major Wallace McCutcheon Missing in New York
Friends blamed injuries from World War I for the disappearance of Major Wallace McCutcheon of the British army who vanished from the Lambs Club in New York after suffering a skull plate injury. He had been missing for months and fears arose he suffered mental distress.
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New York
Wallace McCutcheon
Lambs Club
Raiders loot 71 safety deposit boxes in Chicago bank
Six men robbed the Joseph Fekete & Son Mortgage Bank overnight injuring Mrs. Fekete who was beaten and bound. They looted $5,000 in currency, jewelry and documents after forcing entry and awaiting the time lock. Fekete freed himself at 6 am and notified police.
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Chicago
Ravenswood National Bank
Joseph Fekete
Fekete
300 Jail Inmates Moved During Cleveland Fire Threat
A fire swept the United States Parcel Post Building in downtown Cleveland near midnight, prompting evacuation of 300 jail inmates as flames menaced adjacent skyscrapers. Fire Chief George Wallace led 22 companies in frantic effort to prevent spread toward the County Jail nearby.
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Cleveland
United States Parcel Post
George Wallace
United States Postal Department
Richmond-Pike
Parcel Post Department
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers Bank
Cuyahoga County Court House
Cleveland Electric Illuminating Company
Lake Erie
Remus Fells Negro in Wild Battle at Lima
Special Dispatch to The Commercial Tribune from Lima Ohio reports George Remus, the former bootlegger, intervened in an asylum fight by striking an insane attacker and detaining him. Authorities say the incident may have saved a guard’s life while Taft's attendance at a forthcoming habeas corpus hearing is mentioned by Remus's lawyers.
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Lima
Cincinnati
George Remus
Remus
Atlanta Penitentiary
Vorbau
Charles P. Taft
Hamilton County
Mr. Taft
Francis W. Durbin
Case of Remus Cited in Plea To Revise Law
Prosecutor Charles P Taft told a Reading Road Temple audience that George Remus pending release after a brief stay in Lima State Hospital for the Criminal Insane underscored the need to tighten state insanity laws. He cited Massachusetts procedures to argue for reforms to protect the public and curb the use of insanity as a cloak for unwritten law.
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Remus
George Remus
Lima State Hospital
Charles P. Taft
Reading Road Temple
Mr. Taft
Massachusetts
Cosgrave Visits Liberty Bell in Philadelphia Tap
Irish Free State leader William T Cosgrave toured Independence Hall in Philadelphia He tapped the Liberty Bell and paid tribute to its historic role in American freedom He was greeted by Mayor Mackay and hosted at City Hall and a luncheon.
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Philadelphia
William T. Cosgrave
Washington
West Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Railroad
Friendly Sons of St. Patrick
First City Troop
Historic Cavalry Organization
City Hall
Mackay
Fire Contained After Tank Blaze in Huntington Beach Oil Field
A fire starting in the town lot oil field at Huntington Beach California burned three oil tanks and threatened further spread to the 500 well field. One worker suffered minor injuries as firefighters brought the blaze under control tonight.
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Huntington Beach
Cal
Town Lot
American heiress Audrey Emery bears Russian royal heir
Princess Anna Llyinsky wife of Grand Duke Dmitri of Russia has a son in London. The child, born to American Audrey Emery, may become a claimant in the Romanoff line though the marriage was morganatic. Dmitri helped remove Rasputin and later lived in exile after his wedding at Biarritz.
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New York World News Service
London
Anna Llyinsky
Dmitri
Russia
Audrey Emery
John Emery
Cincinnati
Miss Emery
Rasputin
Czarina
Prince Youssopoff
Biarritz
N. Y. World News Service
N. Y. World
Press Pub. Co
Acosta Seeks Liberty as Habeas Writ Sought
Bert Acosta, trans Atlantic flyer, held in New Haven County Jail on a New Jersey larceny warrant, fights for release. His counsel obtained a writ of habeas corpus to compel Sheriff Geddes to produce him in court and challenge the validity of the New Jersey warrant.
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New Haven
Conn
Bert Acosta
trans-Atlantic Flyer
New Jersey
Walter M. Pickett
Common Pleas Court
James Geddes
Acosta
Rocco Ierardi
John H. Gimaldi
New York
Naugatuck
Acota
Wasterbury Common Pleas Court
H C. Harper
Bergen County
Mexican Rebels and Federals Clash in Nayarit Bloodshed
American consul reports heavy fighting in Ixtlan Nayarit with 37 rebels and 14 federal soldiers killed. Gen Beltran and Gen Sertusche led federal forces in two engagements near Acaponeta and San Diego. Government deploys thousands to clear bandit region. violence escalates.
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Nogales
Ariz
William P. Blocker
Mazatlan
Mexico
Nogales Herald
Ixtlan
Nayarit
Beltran
Figueroa
Blocker
Sertusche
Acoponeta
San Diego
Durango-Nayarit
Prisoner Scales Wall to Escape at Ohio Penitentiary
Prisoner Thomas R. Morton of Summit County scales a thirty foot wall by climbing a rain pipe at Ohio Penitentiary He reaches the top and descends outside on a rope of spinning tape wearing a black suit The escape ends with a search and Morton at large while authorities pursue him in Columbus Ohio.
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Columbus
Ohio Penitentiary
Thomas R. Morton
Summit County
Morton
State and Church in Mexico Clash Deepens
After a year long flare up the state church conflict in Mexico resurfaces with renewed insurgent activity in Jalisco Michoacan Colima and Aguas Calientes and heavy military measures across regions. Catholics decry arrests as persecution while the government labels detainees as plotters opposing the law especially priest registration. talks between Calles and Archbishop Orozco y Jiminez fail to yield a compromise and neither side signals a de escalation.
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Arthur Constantine
New York World News Service
Mexico City
Mexico
Jalisco
Michoacan
Colima
Aguas Calientes
Calles
Francisco Orozco Y Jiminez
Guadalajara
Millionaire Guilty Of Vote Tampering Gets 123 Year Term
James A. Wallace, Irvine coal and timber magnate and former Kentucky state treasurer, was found guilty in Franklin Circuit Court of vote tampering and sentenced to twelve and a half years in the state penitentiary. He received two and a half years on each of five counts and noted an appeal after a probation motion was overruled. Wallace altered election returns in Fulton Knox Kenton Lincoln and Shelby Counties in the Republican primary race for state auditor, netting about 1500 votes that could have defeated John M. Perkins by 495 votes.
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Frankfort
James A. Wallace
Irvine
Franklin
Wallace
Leslie W. Morris
Ben G. Williams
Morris
Fulton
Knox
Kenton
Lincoln
Shelby
John M. Perkins
Lord Beaverbrook found guilty of grand larceny in jewelry theft
New York reports Robert Whitman alias Lord Beaverbrook convicted of grand larceny for stealing $70,000 in jewelry from Mrs. Rose Burken in 1925. Jury deliberated under an hour. He faces a February 8 sentence up to ten years plus a five-year parole violation warrant and additional warrants from multiple cities.
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New York
Robert Whitman
Lord Beaverbrook
Rose Burken
Whitman
Washington
Detroit
Chicago
St. Louis
Businessman Nabbed in Lancaster Fraud Case
Scott Stammler a 45 year old former Lancaster business man was arrested in Frederics Michigan on a secret Fairfield County Grand Jury indictment charging obtaining money under false pretenses. Nearly $40 000 is alleged to have been lost by Lancaster businessmen in off stock promotion schemes. Sheriff heads to Frederics to bring Stammler back.
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Lancaster, Q
Scott Stammler
Lancaster
Frederics
Mich
Fairfield County Grand Jury
Stammler
Saginaw
Pri Rere
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Asylum
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Cosgrave
Shrine of
Audrey Cmery
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Murray Butler
William H. Lueders
Gilbert Bettman
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Columbia University
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