West End Cafe Owner Fires On Attempted Break In
L. G. Campbell, owner of the West End Cafe, shot and killed H. D. Alderson as the latter and an accomplice tried to break into the cafe just after 4 a.m. Alderson, 22 or 23, had been living with a brother at 801 English Street since arriving a few days earlier. Campbell, who had barred the door after several prior attempts, said he fired when the men broke a glass to reach inside. Alderson died. Campbell posted $500 bond for an inquest scheduled this afternoon. An ambulance carried Alderson to Sechrest Funeral Home.
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H. D. Alderson
L. G. Campbell
West End
Mr. Campbell
Alderson
High Point
English Street
Campbell
Sechrest
Oscar Davis
Mr. Davis c
Henry Beck
Two Women Found Dead in New York Hotel Room
In New York the bodies of two women were found in a hotel room at the Hotel Pennsylvania. Mrs. Catherine Smith and Mrs. M. A. Dreyfus registered December 19 from Boston. Chemical analysis of tumblers and a bottle was ordered to determine cause.
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New York
Pennsylvania
Catherine Smith
M. A. Dreyfus
Beacon Street
Boston
Smith
Calles May Head School To Teach Beggars a Trade
Mexico City report says General Plutarco Elias Calles, former president, would be offered the presidency of a million dollar industrial school where beggars would be taught a trade. The article notes the offer came from El Universal Grafico.
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Calles
Mexico City
el Universal Grafico Today
Plutarco Elias Calles
Funeral set for Fay Scates slain by twin brother
Spartanburg South Carolina December 28 The funeral services are planned for Fay Scates a three year old girl who was killed while running in front of a rifle being fired at a target by her twin brother The father faced away from the child as he taught the son to shoot the rifle
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Spartanburg
S&s. C
Fay Scates
Garner Seeks Continuation of Coalition in Tariff Row
Representative Garner of Texas asked independent Republicans to join a coalition similar to the Senate tariff coalition to push for the Senate rates in the House. He urged a record vote when the Senate bill returns and said farmers would gain parity with industry through the Senate rates.
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Washington
Garner
Texas
House
Senate
Senate Coalition
Representative Ramseyer
Iowa
Ways and Means Committee
Hawley
Congress
New Land Reported Between Enderby and Coats Lands
Captain Riiser Larsen and Lieut. Luetzow Holm of the Norwegia claimed a new Antarctic landmass after landing on the ice between Enderby Land and Coats Land. They raised the Norwegian flag following official procedure, establishing possession in the name of Norway. The areas are described as at about 50 east 65 south and 20 west 75 south respectively.
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Oslo
Norway
Riiser Larsen
Norwegia
Tidens Tegn
Lieut
Luetzow Holm
Enderby Land
Coats Land
Enderby Quadrant
Antarctica
Enderby
Will Enlarge Giant New British Dirigible
A London dispatch reported the R-161 giant dirigible will be cut in two and a 75 foot section added. The gas bag will hold about 600000 cubic feet, boosting total capacity to 5500000 cubic feet and extending length beyond 800 feet, making it the world’s largest airship.
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New York
London Dispatch
New York Times Today
Geometry Learned by White Rats at Ohio State Experiment
Prof. Paul E. Fields reported 24 white rats trained through hundreds of lessons could distinguish between triangles and other geometric figures. The study, presented to psychologists at a AAAS meeting, suggests rats use a large blurred image for sight and perception.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Paul E. Fields
Ohio State University
American Association For the Advancement of Science
Fights Over Ontario Liquor Trade Draw Federal Scrutiny
Federal investigators probe a Detroit Buffalo liquor war for control of the Ontario outfiat after the shooting death of Eugene Downey Jr and the disappearance of Jeremiah Sullivan. Rival gangs battle across Bridgeburg Port Colborne and Fort Erie amid rising dangers and smuggling risk.
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Buffalo
Detroit
Ontario
M. Gramer
Treasury Department
Bridgeburg
Port Colborne
Fort Erie
Buffalo Gang
Niagara River
Coast Guard
Eugene F. Downey, Jr
Jeremiah Sullivan
Gramer
One Bandit From Bank Killing Moved to Nashville
One of the three bandits who killed J. Robert Kirby bank president at Oakland was captured in Bowling Green and moved by automobile to Nashville for safe keeping. Elmer Grayson, formerly from Indianapolis, was found at Blaine Duff’s home after a five hour stakeout.
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Bowling Green
J. Robert Kirby
Smith’s Grove
Oakland
Nashville
Tenn
Elmer Grayson
Indianapolis
Blaine Duff
French Elrod
Elrod
Iowa Bishop Killed in Davenport Auto Crash
The Right Rev Theodore Nevin Morrison Episcopal Bishop of Iowa died from injuries after being struck by a car driven by Margaret Vola of Davenport early last night in Davenport Iowa. The accident occurred as Morrison was leaving a church event.
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Iowa
Davenport
Theodore Nevin Morrison
Episcopal
Margaret Vola
Prohibition Report Sparks Senate Debate on Open Hearings
The Hoover enforcement commission faces pressure from dry senators, led by Senator Harris of Georgia, to publish a full prohibition report and end secrecy. A prepared report outlines recommendations to ease federal court congestion, centralize border control, unify enforcement, and codify laws, with Mills and Hoover previously backing similar steps.
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Washington
Hoover Law Enforcement, Commission
Bol Siber
ATL eLore
Remaae
Harris
Georgia
Commission
Senate
Treasury Department
White House
Coast Guard, Customs, Narcotics and Immigrations Services
Justice Department
Treasury
Hoover
Mills
Diphtheria and Scarlet Fever Are On Decline
Raleigh reports show diphtheria and scarlet fever down for the week ending December 21 while whooping cough rises to 223 cases. Smallpox up by two to 13, typhoid down to three. Scarlet fever 74 cases, counties Buncombe Mecklenburg New Hanover and Wilson reported none.
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Raleigh
Bureau of Epidemiology
State Board of Health
Buncombe
Mecklenburg
New Hanover
Wilson
Prince of Wales hunts with Belvoir hounds at Melton
The Prince of Wales joined the Belvoir hounds at Melton Mowbray marking his first hunting outing in months. He rode from Sandringham with his brother the Duke of Gloucester after a Christmas reunion with King George VI and Queen Mary.
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H. RK. H. Hunts
Melton Mowbray
England
Prince of Wales
Belvoir
Sandringham
Duke of Gloucester
King George
Queen Mary
Prominent Concord Man Ends Own Life
Concord North Carolina December 28 Allen Gibson 41 a member of a prominent Concord family committed suicide here this morning Despondency over financial reverses over several years is believed to be the cause He went to an old barn he often visited as a boy and where a relative stores machinery He shot himself through the heart with a gun borrowed yesterday for a hunting trip The body was found by a Negro who accompanied Mr Gibson Death was instantaneous
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Concord
N. C
Allen Gibson
Gibson
Chicago
Michael Powers
Tire Workers and Repair Organizers
Powers
Union
William (Dinky) Quan
William Wilson
Walker
John Ryan
Red” Bolton
West Side
Ray Doherty
Doherty
Quan
Wilson
Ryan
Patrick O’connell
William Byrnes
Vigil Held for Slayers of Officer in Western Pa
Fresh guards took up the vigil over highways through the hills of western Pennsylvania as a man hunt continued for two men and a woman who yesterday shot and killed Corporal Brady Paul of the state highway patrol and wounded Private Ernest Moore.
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New Castle
Pennsylvania
Brady Paul
State Highway Patrol
Ernest Moore
Osborn Favors a New Route for Man's Origin
Dr Henry Fairfield Osborn proposed a Darwin compatible view placing human origins on open plateaus rather than tropical forests. He argued brain development required harsh struggles and that Cro Magnon men thrived in tough glacial conditions while Neanderthals flourished in easier times.
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Des Moines
Iowa
American Association For the Advancement of Science
Henry Fairfield Osborn
New York
Association
Europe
Long Count Gives Mesmerist Freedom
Chicago report describes Sergeant Tony Hintz arresting a man who claimed to be a mesmerist at Soldier Field. The prisoner challenged the sergeant to perform tricks and to count to 1000 with eyes closed. After the sergeant completes the count the mesmerist vanishes from sight.
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Chicago
Gene Tunney
Soldier Field
Tony Hintz
Calumet City
Hintz
K. O
Extend search for missing aviators in Arctic
Fairbanks Alaska reports momentum in the hunt for aviators Carlson Rielson and Earl Borland missing near North Cape Siberia. Russia will send three more planes joining three promised, as planes from Seattle prepare to test before flying to Nome or Teller then across the Bering Strait. Pilots Joe Crosson and Harold Gilliam have not communicated for days from Nanuk as Eielson and Borland vanished while closing on the trapped ship.
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Fairbanks
Alaska
Carlson Rielson
Earl Borland
North Cape
Siberia
Pacific
Moscow
Seattle
Coast Guard
Chelan
Nome Or
Teller
Bering Strait
Seward Peninsula
Joe Crosson
Harold Gilliam
Eielson
Borland
Richmond Financier Killed by Host’s Son on Deer Hunt
John C. Easley of Richmond Virginia vice president of the Southern Bond and Mortgage Company and the Title Insurance Company was accidentally shot yesterday on a deer hunt at a game preserve owned by Mrs. Charles A. Harper. Her sixteen year old son William fired the fatal shot hitting Easley in the temple. Easley, aged 67, died after his body was found more than an hour later.
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Mr. Easley
Cotton Corporation Finalizes Charter At Farm Board Meeting
The Chicago scene centers on the pending 830 million dollar cotton corporation as the Farm Board and cotton reps draft a charter and by laws. Key issues include national marketing, stock basis, and whether the agency will act as a sales and stabilization body under the Capper Volstead act.
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Washington
Federal Farm Board and Cotton
Frank Burford
Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
National Organization Committee
Stanley Reed
William
Carl Williams
Agricultural Marketing Act
Stabilization Corporation
Academic Honors For Mexico's President Elect
Pasqual Ortiz Rubio president elect of Mexico received an honorary Doctor of Laws from George Washington University at Memorial Continental Hall in Washington. After the convocation he and his delegation toured to Annapolis as guests of Admiral Robison, superintendent of the Naval Academy.
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Washington
Pascual Ortiz Rubio
Mexico
Southern Republic
George Washington University
Memorial Continental Hall
Annapolis
Robison
Naval Academy
Arizonan Named for I. C. C. Post by Senate
Washington December 28 Amos A Betts of Phoenix Arizona named by Senator Hayden to the president for consideration as a member of the Interstate Commerce Commission to succeed Johnston B Campbell who has tendered his resignation Betts is a member of Arizona state corporation commission and the nomination follows a prior recommendation by Senator Hayden
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Washington
Amos A. Betts
Phoenix
Ariz
Hoover
Hayden
Arizona
Interstate Commerce Commission
Johnston B. Campbell
Betts
State Corporation Commission of
Hoover Sees Bigger Public Works From Governors
President Hoover expects by year end complete reports from 26 states showing public works programs totaling 825 million dollars for the coming year. He views this as a stabilizing measure and notes Commerce Department data that Christmas business was near last year’s level with regional declines offset by gains elsewhere.
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Washington
Hoover
Commerce Department
Burroughs Dies From Icy Crash Near Lumberton
H R Burroughs 51 a New York civil engineer died from injuries after his automobile skidded on an icy highway near Lumberton Sunday and turned over three times. He succumbed today at a local hospital.
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Lumberton
H. R. Burroughs
New York
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President Hoover
State, War and Navy
John J. Pershing
Lincoln
Fignt
Bank Head
Darwin
Arctic
Richmond
Cotton Corporation
Farm Board and Cotton
Wiliams
National Marketing Corporation
Burroughs
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