Hoover urges use of surplus supplies for famine relief
Secretary Hoover asked Congress to authorize donating surplus war supplies to famine areas in the Volga basin and Tsarist Russia. He cited 6 to 10 million starving in Tsarist territories, and Kellogg warned 16 million at risk with potential mass deaths if relief is delayed, noting private relief efforts and a failing government in meeting needs.
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Congressiong
Tlusala
Hoover
Wbvieman Kali
House Military Affairs Committee
Volga
Russia
Oyo Mpany
Congress
Secretary of War
Weeks
Vernon Kellogg
National Research Council
Russa
Tartar Republic
J. P. Gregg
Ralief
Conference Plane All Set For Arms Talks Agenda
Washington reports concrete proposals will meet each problem on the armament limitation and Far Eastern questions agenda. The American delegation has shaped definite proposals for presentation when the conference meets, with State Department assuring progress warranted the forecast.
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Washington
State Department
Missing Seaplane Picked Up In New Orleans
Naval seaplane 893 missing from the local aviation station and both crew members have been picked up by the gunboat Galveston according to a wireless message received here.
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New Orleans
Galveston
Famous Gun Man Bat Masterson Dies in New York
W B Masterson, renowned Colorado frontier gunman, gambler and sportsman, editor at the New York Morning Telegraph, died at his desk from heart disease. His career began in his teens with a string of standup gunfights and rugged exploits emblematic of his era.
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New York
Colorado
Tual
New York Morning Telegraph
W. B
Bat
Bie
Deaths and injuries linked to wood alcohol poisonings
A man identified as B. Doll of 15 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington DC, was found dead in a car in Philadelphia. A second man believed to be Roy Bechtold of Indianapolis is hospitalized. James Wm. Price of Wilmington, Del., and J. P. Broan of Philadelphia were found in the vehicle suffering from wood alcohol effects.
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Philadelphia
B. Doll
Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington, D. C
Roy Bechtold
H . Strohm
Indianapolis
James WM. Price
Wilmington
Del
J. P. Broan
Nine States Get Beer Under New Treasury Rules
B Wheeler, general counsel of the Anti Saloon League, stated that nine states California Connecticut Massachusetts Missouri New Jersey New York Pennsylvania Rhode Island and Wisconsin may allow beer prescriptions under a treasury regulation. The report notes the rule applies to non prohibited areas including parts of Louisiana and Maryland.
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Washington
Treasury Reguilal
Yao B. Wheeler
Anti-Saloon League
California
Connecticut
Massachusetts
Missouri
New Jersey
New York
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
Wisconsin
Louisiana and
Mary
Consuls Report Threats Over Sacco Death
Paris reports a planned revenge against American officials in France if Sacco and Vanzetti are executed. Letters threaten bombing American offices and passports services, with consulates in Marseilles, Bordeaux, and Lyons guarded. Authorities note un signed letters and a large wave of protest, amid suspicions of a broader communist plot.
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Union News Service
Paris
Commini- Inte
France
Sacco
Vianelli
United States
Regntrations Commission
A.M. Thackara
Marseilles
Bordeaux
Lyons
Pace de L'Etoile
Thackara
Lille
Ambassador Herrick
Morse and Miss Penfold Reported in Mexico City
Dr M P Von David, a psychologist, says Edwin F Morse bank teller who fled last August with Ma bel Penfold former comptometer operator at the International Trust Company are living in luxury at the Reels hotel in Mexico City after touring Mexico and speaking with the fugitives.
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Denver
Edwin F. Morse
International Trust Company
Lase August
Mabel Penfold
Reels
Mexico City
Mexico
M. P. von David
Mathewson Receives 30000 Dollar Benefit Check
New York fans sent a 30000 dollar check to Christy Mathewson who is fighting tuberculosis at Saranac Lake. The money came from a benefit game in New York on September 80 and exceeds the 1905 World Series players pool of 27454 dollars, which Mathewson helped win for the Giants.
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New York
Christy Mathewson
Saranac Lake
Giant
Mathewson
Matty
Giants
Athletics
Murder Suspects Burned in Barn Near Orange Virginia
Report states two Black suspects in the double murder of Sheriff W. C. Bond and Sergeant J. B. Boyer were burned to death when surrounded by a posse at a barn near the crime scene. The barn reportedly caught fire from shotgun charges as the two men were trapped. Seven posse members suffered minor wounds in the attack.
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Orange, Vaie
W. C. Bond
J. 2. Boyer
Posye
Four pouches of mail stolen in Broadway holdup
In New York three armed bandits in a green car stopped a moving truck on lower Broadway and took four registered mail pouches valued at 7 000 000. They forced driver Frank Havranick to surrender keys and fled toward Broadway West Leonard Street, leaving with two dozen pouches total, while postal inspectors hunted for the car and questioned the driver.
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New York
Lower Rou
Hostil A
City Bv
Pennsylvan
Leonard Street
Broadway
Frank Havranick
Beach Street
Worth Street
Huvranick
Mrs Cody Dead Cody widow of Buffalo Bill passes at 78
Louisa Frederici Cody widow of Col William F. Cody known as Buffalo Bill died at home after a five month illness from a heart attack. She celebrated her seventy eighth birthday on May 27 and married Cody in March 1866 in Frenchtown near St Louis, as Cody returned from Civil War service.
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Cody
Buffalo Bill
Louisa Frederici Cody
Louisa Frederici
Col
William F. Cody
Old Frenchtown
St. Louis
Alsace-Lorraine
Mrs Duke Wins Divorce From Angier B Duke In Philadelphia
A final decree in divorce was issued to Mrs Cor delian Biddle Duke against Angier B Duke in Common Pleas Court. She charged cruelty. She had married in 1915 at 17 and filed for divorce in October 2010. Duke is heir to a tobacco fortune estimated at 50 million dollars.
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Philadelphia
Cordelian Biddle Duke
Cordelia Biddle
Major
Anthony J. Drexel Biddle
Angier B. Duke
Common Pleas Court
Duke
Ceiling Collapse Hits Senate Chamber in Washington
Part of the ceiling in the President's room off the Senate chamber tore away as the great gold chandelier and glass globes were damaged. Senators Pomerene of Ohio and Swanson of Virginia were showered with debris but unharmed.
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Washington
Senate Chamber
Pomerone
Ohio
Swanson
Virginia
Governors to Meet in December Conference in Charleston
State governors will meet in Charleston, D C, on December 5 for their annual session to discuss national problems. M R Riley, secretary of the conference, announced that unemployment will be one of the principal subjects.
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Madison
Wis
Charleston
D. C
M. ©. Riley
Riley Wild
Morrison Estate Restored After Three Year Fight
Chicago reports EB. W. Morrison an 80 year old millionaire regains control of his estate valued at 3 million dollars after a jury set aside a prior spendthrift order. The case ended three years of litigation and returned the property to the aged man.
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Chicago
EB. W. Morrison
Lynch Mob Kills Suspect in Appleton Train Incident
A Black man named Ed Kirkland, held for the murder of BK. P. Walker of Appleton, was taken by a mob at Allendale and lynched on a train platform as Sheriff Bennett tried to transport him to Columbia. The wounded man was shot during attempted escape and left in an automobile in Appleton.
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Allendale
8. C
Ed Kirkland
BK. P. Walker
Appleton
Bennett
Columbia
Lenin endorses new capitalist turn in Soviet policy
Premier Lenine of soviet us wit returns with admission of defeat and a strategic retreat toward mixed economy. He urges stepping back to reform with capitalist cooperation, arguing the party must reestablish capitalism and involve specialists to rebuild productive power despite harsh costs.
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Unian News Service
Riga
Omintey
Lenine
Congress of Political Workers
Moscow
Rost
Bolsheviat
Communist Party
Beer Allowed As Medicine Regulations Issued
Treasury Department issues rules permitting manufacture and use of beer for medical purposes in a move that surprised city leaders who believed the rules would wait on Senate action to anti beer legislation. The change recalls earlier statements by former Attorney General Palmer that beer could be legal as a medicine under prohibition laws.
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Washington
Treasury Department
Palmer
Treasury
Senate
Teen Confessed Slayer Asks Governor For Death
A 17 year old confessed slayer from Indianapolis petitions Governor McCray to order the electric chair. He writes I want death and asks to be sent to the electric chair instead of life. He is jailed in Terre Haute awaiting trial on first degree murder charges.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Anay Parse
Terre Haute
McCray
Major General Witherspoon Dead In Washington at 71
Major General William W. Witherspoon retired chief of staff of the army and former head of the war college died at his residence in Washington from a heart attack at age 71. He is survived by his widow and son Lieut Alexander S. Witherspoon U S N.
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Witherspoon
Washington
William W. Witherspoon
The
Army
War College
Lieut
Alexander 5. Witherspoon
Posse and Bandits Battle Near Osceola
One man was shot to death and two others will die with a fourth severely wounded in a pistol battle ten miles southwest of Osceola Iowa between bandits and a sheriff s posse after the bandits robbed the post office and three stores at Columbia Iowa
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Omaha
Neb
Osceola
Iowa
Columbia
Towa
Famous Woman Author Dies in Wisconsin Residence
Ursula Newell Gestefeld founder of the Science and Being movement dies at home of nurse Mrs. Adeline Briggs after months of illness. Born in Augusta, Maine, she joined the circle around Dr. Mary Baker Eddy and lectured for years in Boston and Chicago.
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Kenosha
Wis
the Stey
Ursula Newell Gestefeld
Adeline Briggs
Advance Halted in Hungary as Charles Seeks Restoration
Budapest reports say government troops fortified a line near Bickerwich and tore up rails to stop Charles train. Charles gains ground at Komorn while Empress Zita may accompany him. Regent Horthy leads defenses as martial law spreads. Railways to Hungary disrupted. Vienna notes brisk fighting near Budapest and heavy border mobilization. The cabinet vows to fight conspirators amid unclear Allied stance.
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Budapest
Charles
Bickerwich
Komorn
Vienna
Hungary
Budnor
Horthy
Czechoslovakia
Rumania
Alameda swimmer seeks world record in 600 meters
Makes claim for a new 600 meter world record by Lady Langer former UC star. The distance was completed in six minutes fifty eight seconds. The current record is Norman Ross at six minutes fifty five and four fifths seconds. A faster mark of six minutes forty nine and three fifths seconds by Menle Borg of Sweden is pending before the record committee.
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Alameda
Calif
Lady Langer
University of California
Norman Ross
Menle Borg
Sweden
Admiral Beatty Arrives in New York for Welcome
Admiral Earl Beatty lands to a rousing reception in New York as crowds greet him. By his side is Head Admiral Hugh Rodman, honorary aide to the first sea lord, along with Mrs Beatty the Americas wife the couple’s son Peter Beatty aged 12 and Miss Gwendolyn Wield Lady Beatty's niece.
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New York
Earl Beatty
Hugh Rodman
Admiral Rodman
Americas
Peter Beatty
Gwendolyn Wield
Wyoming state news roundup from western paper
Regional events include Adam Rels plea on liquor manufacturing near Douglas with a $400 fine, C B Canfield taking charge of Union Consolidated Oil Company assets, and drilling booming on the Upper Green River. Oil crew derrick accident near Cheyenne kills Thomas Givens. city fire limits set in Casper. Cheyenne Laramie and Tavlins to hire a single city manager. Burlington sugar factory finance pledged. Frank Jordan ordered 15 to 20 years for partner killing. race car crash near Lander injures two. Golden Gate Inn fire blamed on arson. Nathaniel Boswell funeral with Masonic services. Centenial Colongo mine vein yields multi-thousand-dollar ore. two robbers loot Nishi pool room. Casper police shoot case ruled self defense. concealed weapon case in Cheyenne. Union Pacific awards 25000 ties contract for Saratoga line. Burlington adds through car freight schedule Lincoln to Douglas.
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Uolan News Bernice
Adam Rels Las
Robert D. Carey
Douglas
Thomas Givens
Lepage
Cheyenne
Givens
Nunn
Colo
Casper
N. E. Cortell
Laramie
Cheyenne Chamber of Commerce
Tawlins
Burlington
Lincoln Land Company
Burlington Railroad Company
Frank Jordan
Joe Dunn
Glenrock
Rawlins
C. O. Brown
District Court
William Castro
Charles Summers
Dallas
Lander
Golden Gate Inn
Nathaniel Kimball Boswell
Joyae Converse
M. N. Grant
Otto Gramm
A. C. Jones
H. C. Brown
H. L. Stevens
Colongo
Centennial
Kemmerer
W. A. Rogers
Ray Chapman
Rogers
Chapman
Schroeder
Union Pacific
Oseu Nelson
Sirumle
Saratoga
Walcott
Burlington Railroad
Lincoln
Neb
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