Bold Robbery At Federal Mint Rocks Denver Scene
A morning holdup in front of the United States Mint in Denver nets $200,000 in five dollar bills. Guard Charles Linton is fatally wounded. bandits escape after loading sacks onto a truck. Police mobilize city force plus sheriffs to pursue suspects. loot reportedly insured. Linton dies later the same day.
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Denver
United States Mint
Charles Linton
Federal Reserve Bank
Mint
Linton
Amundsen Reaches Nome by Dog Team Ahead of Arctic Flight
Roald Amundsen arrives in Nome on December 18 after a month long dog team trek from Wainwright to spend winter. He plans an air crossing of the north pole in May starting from Wainwright Inlet and staying in touch with civilization. His Maud reports the ship 300 miles northeast of Wrangell Island as the drift expedition heads toward a five year voyage.
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Nome
Roald Amundsen
Wainwright
Amundsen
North Pole
Wainwright Inlet
Maud
Wrangell Island
Arctic
Polar Ocean
Committee probes Keller’s refusal to testify in Daugherty case
A House Judiciary sub committee was appointed to investigate actions to be taken over Representative Keller’s refusal to testify before the committee. The inquiry concerns the sources of information behind Keller’s charges calling for Attorney General Daugherty’s impeachment.
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Washington
House Judiciary Today
Representative Keller
Judiciary Committee
Daugherty
American destroyer saves hundreds from burning ship
In the Sea of Marmora the French hospital ship Vina caught fire leading to explosions that likely killed five and left fifteen missing. The American destroyer Bainbridge rescued four hundred patients and crew members. In Chicago two men frozen to death were found as temperatures dropped below zero.
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Constantinople
Vina
Sea of Marmora
Bainbridge
Chicago
Cold Wave Records Across Wide U S Regions
The year’s coldest temperatures were logged last night across the Northwest upper Lake region central valleys of the Middle West Gulf states and southern Rockies. A new cold spell spread today over most of the West of the Appalachians with Chicago recording one degree below zero and Havre Montana hitting 32 below. Other Northwest towns reported from four to 28 degrees below.
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Chicago
Northwest
Upper Lake Region
Middle West
Gulf States
Rocky Mountain
United States
Appalachian Mountains
Mercury
Havre
Montana
Cutter Nabs Rum Runners on Mass Coast
The coast guard seized two vessels off Sandwich Massachusetts after a storm wrecked Salvatrice with two thousand cases of alcohol and the French flag raised as a distress signal, and Star a Boston schooner filled with a year’s supply of canned goods. A pistol fired by the revenue cutter captain forced the Star to stop and haul in.
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Sandwich
Mass
Salvatrice
Star
Coast Guard
Moro Outlaws Attack Soldiers at Outpost
A constabulary detachment on Secubon Island and in the Sulu group repulsed a 15 man Moro attack yesterday. In the engagement two outlaws were killed and five constabulary soldiers wounded. The Moros were forced back and pursued into the mountains.
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Manila
Secuben Isand
Sulu
Fish Prices Reported in Two Cities
Ketchikan and Seattle report halibut prices for December 18. In Ketchikan fresh halibut sells at 11 and 8 cents per pound while Seattle lists halibut at 16 cents.
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Ketchikan
Seattle
President Harding Pledges Bonus Support
Col. C R Forbes presenting a direct message from President Harding to the joint conference of National and State Executives of Veterans of Foreign Wars pledged support for the soldiers bonus bill and a financing plan. Col Forbes directs the Veterans Bureau in Washington.
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Cincinnati
Harding
Joint Conference of
National
State Executives of Veterans of Foreign Wars
Col
C. R. Forbes
Veterans’ Bureau
Washington
Boxer Brigs For Repairs To Serve Alaska Posts
Alterations to the brigantine Boxer will begin soon to fit her as a supply ship for Government schools hospitals and reindeer stations along the Bering Sea coast. The vessel arrived in Seattle after passing through the Panama Canal from Severn River where she trained Annapolis cadets.
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Seattle
Bering Sea Coast
Panama Canal
Severn River
Annapolis Cadets
Insane Artist Fires on Poland’s New President
In Warsaw on December 18, Natrowicz, newly inaugurated as Poland’s radical president, was shot during an opening painting exhibition. The assailant, artist Niewadomski, was captured after a crowd beat him. Speaker Rataj became president pro tem, and General Sborski formed a new cabinet.
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Warsaw
Natrowicz
Poland
Niewadomski
Rataj
General Sborski
Millionaire Porter Found Dead With Bullet Wound
Prominent Colorado financier John B. Porter was found dead near Sedalia after a bullet wound to the head and a revolver nearby. Authorities say ill health precedes the death and no motive for self harm is apparent.
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Denver
John B. Porter
Colorado
Happy Canyon Road
Sedalia
Porter
Big Power Project Planned in Canada for 1.2 Million HP
A transnational corporation formed by American and Canadian interests plans a water power project to generate 1,200,000 horsepower. The scheme would harness Lake St. John and the Saguenay River sources in Quebec to produce the power.
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New York
Lake St. John
Sagoung River
Quebec
Bulgarian Official Escapes Bomb Attack in Sofia
In Sofia on a Saturday night, Interior Minister Daslakott narrowly escaped assassination as two bombs were hurled from a carriage. The devices caused little damage and no injuries were reported.
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Sofia
So‘branje
Daslakott
Coal magnate dies in auto crash in Nashville
Jesse M. Overton fifty nine president of several coal companies was killed when his car struck a streetcar in Nashville Tenn He was brother in law of Henry M Dickenson secretary of war in Taft cabinet and father of Yale athlete Johnny Overton who fell in France with the Marines
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Nashville
Tenn
Jesse M. Overton
Overton
Henry M. Dickenson
Taft
Johnny Overton
Yale
Marines
France
Turkey Grants Equal Rights to Christian Minorities
In Lausanne on December 18 the Turkish government formally pledged before the Near East Conference to extend the same protection of life and liberty to Christian minorities as to Turks. The pledge includes free religious exercise and the right to establish educational, charitable, and religious institutions.
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Lausanne
Turkey
Trapped in Cottage Fire Claims Four Lives in Ohio
Akron Ohio December 18 four men on a Massillon outing were burned to death and four others injured one possibly fatally when a cottage at Little Wadsworth burned overnight from an unknown cause. Three of the dead were prominent Massillon attorneys.
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Akron
Little Wadsworth
Massillon
Fire Levels Keith Vaudeville Theater in Charlotte
A disastrous blaze yesterday in Charlotte destroyed the six story Keith Vaudeville Theater and damaged two adjoining buildings. The theater housed numerous offices and the total loss is estimated at over half a million dollars.
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Charlotte
N. C
Keith Vaudeville Theater
Butler Nomination Ordered Confirmed by Judiciary Committee
Washington December hearings conclude with a formal report to the Senate recommending confirmation of Pierce Butler as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. The Judiciary Committee backs Butler’s appointment as final action looms in the Senate.
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Washington
Judiciary Committee
Senate
Pierce Butler
Supreme Court
Butler
Brother of Dhanamoku May Swim in Chicago Meet
Honolulu December 18 Sam Ka nanmoku brother to the world famed Duke accompanied by Pua Kealoha who tied Johnny Weissmuller in the fifty yard back stroke may compete in Chicago next February in a swimming meet under the Illinois Athletic Club auspices. Announcement made by W. T. Rawlins former A A U official.
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Honolulu
Sam Kananmoku
Duke
Pua Kealoha
Johnny Weissmuller
Chicago
Illinois Athletic Club
W. T. Rawlins
Italian air link plan eyed for major cities
Rome reports Italian authorities study a scheme to connect Italy’s principal cities by air. Big two deck aircraft are proposed if the plan moves forward.
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Rome
Italy
Foreign consuls ordered to leave Vladivostok
Soviet authorities in Vladivostok have ordered the consuls of France and several other nations to close their consulates and depart the district within a week as the city and surrounding country come under new administration.
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Vladivostok
France
Forest Roads Assured in Agricultural Bill
Washington reports the House Appropriations Committee favorably moved the Agricultural bill with total appropriations of 68.78 million dollars. The measure includes 32 thousand dollars for forest roads and rural trails programs and eliminates the existing annual seed distribution program.
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Washington
House Appropriations Committee
Tug Grounds on Rocks in Big Storm
Sault Ste. Marie reports a disaster when the tug Reliance went aground on Lizards Island during a heavy gale Four days ago. Twenty seven crew members were missing with hopes of survival fading. The rescue tug Gray has scoured the area but found no trace. Later reports indicate twenty three of the missing were saved.
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Sault Ste. Marie
Reliance
Lizzard Island
Gray
Mondell Says Harding Needs No Urging On Naval Talks
Washington December 18 Representative Mondell Republican leader in the House declared that President Harding does not need urging from Congress to pursue negotiations with foreign powers on limiting the construction of warships under ten thousand tons. Mondell said the President would act when wiser and practicable.
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Washington
Harding
Congress
Representative Mondell
House
Mondell
N C C Manager Dies In San Francisco
William H. Fairbanks general manager of the Northern Commercial Company until its dissolution died at his San Francisco home. He headed a corporation with business across the Northland and was a well known figure in Alaska commercial circles.
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San Francisco
William H. Fairbanks
Th Northern Commercial Company
Northland
Fairbanks
Aleska
Hughes Re-elected as Australian Premier confirms Parliament vote
London reports Premier Hughes has been re-elected by the Australian Parliament, with advices received yesterday.
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London
Hughes
Sadvices
Walley Reid in Sanitarum Near Death
Wal lace Reid popular silent film star fights for life at a Los Angeles sanitarium after a two month collapse. Doctors say recovery unlikely and condition described as dying, with reports of past alcohol or narcotic indulgence denied by his mother in law.
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Los Angeles
Wallace Reid
Sanitarium
Los Angeles Examiner
Dorothy Davenport
Reli
Reid
Canadian steamer Prospero runs aground on eastern coast
The steamer Prospero with 120 passengers aboard ran aground last night on a small island near Green's Pond on Newfoundland's east coast. Passengers and crew were safely landed this morning.
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ST. John, N. F
Green's Pond
New Foundland
Farmers Form in Protection of Witnesses
Marion Illinois December 18 Farmers in Williamson and Johnson counties have formed an organization to protect witnesses in the Herrin mine massacre trial. They threaten ten lives for every farmer slain and act to shield those testifying against the five men charged with murder.
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Marion, II
Williamson
Johnson
Herrin
Victim Returns for Herrin Trials Under Heavy Guard
Dan O Rourke, one of the Herrin massacre victims, arrives in Marion under heavy guard to testify in the murder trials of five men linked to the riots. He describes being tied with a rope around his neck and left to die after refusing water during the massacre.
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Marion
Eavy
Herrin
Dan O'Rourke
O'Rourke
Courtney Goes to Frisco in Pacific Coast League
Frisco buys Harry Courtney, a left handed pitcher for the Chicago Americans last season, from the Chicago club in a Pacific Coast League transaction.
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Courtney
Frisco
San Francisco
Harry Courtney
Chicago Americans
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