World News Digest Highlights Various 1928 Events
A baby girl born to Secretary James J. Davis and his wife in Washington. a 25 percent tax cut proposal for all taxpayers. US Greece diplomatic relations resume after 1920. air service inquiry demanded amid alleged fraud. DC Supreme Court orders trial for Georgia party chairman and others over army supply fraud. prohibition agents spent 205858 dollars on evidence. several political and military figures urged inquiries and appropriations. bank in Missoula closes. fatal railroad crossing crash near Ravenna. ship and aviation losses cited in America.
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Supreme Court of the District of Columbia of Washington
John L. Phillips
Republcan State
Georgia
Jewtraw Wins 1924 Olympic 500 Meter Speed Skating
The United States opened the 1924 Games in Cha Amont France as Charles Jewtraw of Lake Placid New York won the 500 meter speed skating race defeating Gorman of Canada in the fifteenth heat.
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United States
Chamonit
France
Charles Jewtraw
Lake Placid
Jewtraw
Gorman
Canada
Domestic Building Costs Top All West Except Three States
1928 building operations in Chicago totaled 390 million dollars, surpassing all western territories except three west coast states. A Manila dispatch reports Surigao province unrest, while a New York exposition cites 7 billion cigarettes smoked in 1929. Bandits raid Hammond Distilling, stealing whisky valued at 000,000. Pennsylvania reports funds shortage at McKeesport’s People's Bank. First National Bank of Lusk closes due to depleted resources. Willem H. Anderson of the Anti-Saloon League guilty of forgery on first ballot.
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Chicago
New York
Willem H. Anderson
Anti-Salgoon League of
Obituary notes for Johnson Wright and Appleton in Missouri and California
Walter A Johnson fifty four president and organizer of Missouri Life and Accident Insurance died at St Louis after two months illness. Dr Alfred A Wright eighty two preacher author editor and former dean of Wesleyan University died at his home in Sierra Madre California. William Worthen Appleton seventy nine chairman of the board of directors of D Appleton Co publishers died in New York after a monthlong pneumonia illness.
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Walter A. Johnson
Missouri Life and Accident Insurance Company
St. Louis
Alfred A. Wright
Wesleyan University
Connecticut
Sierra Madre
Cal
William Worthen Appleton
D. Appleton & Co
New York
Paris Officials Admit Graft Payments In War Devastation
French officials at Paris admit bil lions in graft have been paid in war devastation settlements. Fifteen thousand people were killed in auto accidents in 1923 per the National Safety council report. Prohibition ends in Turkey as Ismet Pasha’s plan for liquor as a state monopoly passes.
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Paris
National Safety Council
Chicago
Turkey
Constantinople
Ismet Pasha
National Assembly
Britain Now Ruled by First Socialist Government
News Review surveys the transfer of power in Britain as Ramsay MacDonald forms a Labour cabinet after a decisive no confidence vote against the Tory government. The piece notes railway strikes, food transportation, and the new ministers as the era begins. It also touches Lenin’s death and the Soviet leadership questions.
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Sy Edward W. Pickard
Britain
Labor Party
Laboritea
India
Admiralty
MacDonald
Philip Snowden
Arthur Henderson
J.H. Thomas
Thomas Shaw
Viscount Haldine
Sydney Webb
Board of Trade
J. R. Clynes
Privy Seal
House of Commons
Sir Sydney Olivier
G. B. Thompson
Pir
United Kingdom
Trades Union Congress
Io Margaret Boadfield
London
G TM . LHH CHRISTMAS Dies in New Orleans After Revolution Roles
G TM . LHH Christmas, noted as one of the western continent's most picturesque characters, died last week in New Orleans from pernicious anemia. An engineer for a fruit company's railroad in Honduras he joined the 1897 revolution, endured seven imprisonments, and narrowly escaped numerous dangers.
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Christmas
New Orleans
Honduras
Patt
Amagasios
Senate Would Annul Leases and Demand Denby Resignation
Washington reports a Senate vote on Welch’s resolution to urge President to appoint special counsel for alleged misdealings in naval oil reserves. Democratic senators denounce Denby, calling for impeachment if proven guilty, while Lodge defends procedural limits and criticizes the proposed resignation request.
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Washington
Senate
Peradni
Ston
Denby
Moses
New Hampshire
Navy
Interior Départments
Republic
Lodge
Sopitha
Prin
Miners Decide Against Strike in Central Competitive Field
In Indianpolis and Jacksonville, miners vote to authorize a scale committee to seek the best wage contract. The plan calls for a four year agreement with any settlement submitted to a referendum for ratification by membership. Aims to avoid strike with coal operators in the central competitive field.
Street Cars Quit Akron for Good Use Busses Now
Akron street car operations were halted as the Northern Ohio Traction company franchise expired at midnight. Busses are to carry traffic until new plans are set, with street cars not expected to resume service despite night workers relying on them until 2:30 Friday morning.
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Akron
Northern Ohio Traction & Light Company
Gara
Riot in Tokyo Diet Ends Disruption Over Train Attack
Disorder erupts in the Imperial Diet as water flasks are thrown during opposition interpellations about an attempted wrecking of a train carrying opposition leaders to Tokyo. The turbulence halts business at the Tower House and suspends further proceedings.
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Tokyo
Nogoyd
Tower House
Teapot Not Before Cabinet, Hughes Says
Secretary of State Hughes states that the legality or propriety of oil leases under discussion in Congress were never brought to the cabinet for decision. He adds that his opinion on these questions was neither sought nor expressed within or outside the cabinet.
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King
Utah
Russia
Senate
United States
State Department
Hapot Dome
Albert B. Fall
Secretary of the Interior
Harry Sinclair
Coolidge
Department of Justice
Archie Roosevelt
Sinclair Company
G. D. Wahlberg
Sinclair
Fall
New Mexico
Wahlberg
Roosevelt
Europe
Edward Doheny
Naval Oil Reserve
California
Doheny
Walsh
Daugherty
Paris
Harry Stoclair
Congressional Investigation
Senate Committee On Propaganda
League of Nations
Edward Bok
Iiag
Hildy Root
Hae
Esther Lape
Publc
Hughes and Ambay
Fador Gefides
Uquor Search
Ahlo Nquor
Washington
State
Hughes
Congress
Executioner Who Cut 45 Heads Hangs Self
Berlin reports Paul Spethe known as the executioner who decapitated 45 condemned men over eight years killed himself. He went to a chapel near his home and offered 45 candies as he had sent from the world. Grief over his wife's death is believed to have driven the act.
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Berlin
Paul, Spethe
Inheritance Tax Owed By Estate of Sian Batee
Fragmented OCR records show an inheritance tax issue tied to the estate of Sian Batee, with references to Edison birthplace notes and scattered terms like Detroit and hospital. The readable content is incomplete and lacks clear dates or full names.
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Detroit
Sian Batee
Megan Pital
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Los Angeles
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House
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Greece
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Wisconsin
Stiles H. Strawn
Rep
Thomas W. Gregory
Dem
Tex
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Army of Occupation
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Robert M. LaFollette
George B. Christian
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Hase
Ways and Means Committee
American Bank and Trust Company
Missoula
Mont
Ravenna
James North
Andrew Nofeler
Alliance
Lake
William Livingston
Lake Carriers’ Association
Midh
Michaels
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Shoup
Tina
Farrell
George Gerald Rusk
Brookafield
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Manilla
Surigao Province
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Lusk
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Offiginia
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Lewis
Nova
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Eagene Meyer, Jr
War Finance Corporation
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Mayer
Coulter Dian
Agai Sinclair
Senator Lodge
Senata
Akkron
Edison's
Aglow
Asilon
Houba
Orhieh
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