Five Fire Deaths Reported in Nationwide Blaze Sweep
A series of fires across the country today left seventeen dead and extensive property damage. In Pennsylvania a wall collapse at a hotel fire killed four firefighters and another died at a Baltimore grain warehouse blaze. Three Buffalo children perished in a fire started by matches. Nine miners suffocated in an Ohio mine after a blaze at Bellaire.
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Nine Miners Dead in Ohio Coal Mine Fire
United Presse reports nine miners perished when a blaze trapped workers at the Webb Coal Bingen Cambria mine near Bellaire Ohio just after midnight. Foreman Jacob Schramm led 68 survivors to a safer exit a mile from the main shaft after a short circuit sparked the fire and smoke filled the mine. Road blockages prevented fire apparatus from reaching the scene.
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Bellaire
Ohio
Webb
Fire Kills Four Firemen in Waynesburg Blaze
A wall collapse during a Downey House fire in Waynesburg Pennsylvania killed four firefighters and seriously injured two. The blaze started in a restaurant, spread to the Grossman department store, and then to the First Presbyterian church. Fifty businesses in the Downey House and Grossman building were destroyed with damage around one million dollars. Fifty Downey House guests fled in night clothes.
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Waynesburg
Downey House
Grossman Department
First Presbyterian Church
Grossman
Downey
Three Weis Children Die in Fire Startled by Matches
A triple funeral is planned for Gertrude 6, Joseph 5, and Rene 3 Weis after they suffocated in a smoke filled room from a fire they started with matches. Their mother left them alone to Christmas shop and firemen found the bodies.
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Times Special
Buffalo
Gertrude Weis
Joseph Weis
Rene Weis
Fire Captain Killed As Grain Warehouse Burns In Baltimore
Fire Captain Harry Jones died and five other firefighters were injured when a wall collapsed during a large grain warehouse fire in Baltimore at Steen & Bros. The blaze destroyed a 100000 bushel storage facility and damaged adjacent structures.
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Baltimore
Harry Jones
Steen & Bros
Jones
Motorist faces drunkenness charge after Belt Line crash
Newton Green of 1165 W Twenty Seventh St was charged with drunkenness and operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated after his car collided with a Belt line train at Harding Street near the Big Four. He was cut about the head.
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Newton Green
W. Twenty: Seventh St
Harding St
Parents Fearful as 6 Year Old Jimmy Hunts Santa
Jimmy Hampton 6 of 123 N Noble St went on a private three hour search for Santa Claus. He told police he almost found Santa and that he saw his snow. His frantic parents Mr and Mrs James Hampton reported a lost alarm after he set out alone and without a hat to tell Santa about a dog with glass eyes. Santa was not found.
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N. Noble St
Santa Claus
Jimmy
James Hampton
Santa
Island of Yap Devastated by Tidal Waves
A Tokio dispatch reported Yap island devastated by tidal waves caused by undersea earthquakes. Every house on Yap is said to be destroyed with grave fear for nearby Carolines. Japan endures cyclonic storms wrecking villages railways and shipping with many lives lost.
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Honolulu
Tokio
Hochi Sha Today
Yap
Carolines
Japan
Youth in Santa Rosa Burned at School Celebration
Cris McLaughlin aged 15 sustained burns while playing Santa Claus at a school celebration near Anderson Indiana. His costume caught fire from a candle on a Christmas tree and was burned from his body before flames were controlled.
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Anderson
Ind
Cris McLaughlin
Teddy
Santa Claus
Here
Prohibition War Claims 32 Lives in Fiscal Year
Washington reports 32 deaths tied to prohibition enforcement and bootlegger violence. 25 agents killed by violators and seven agents slain by bootleggers. Kentucky leads with four fatalities. Virginia, Arkansas, and West Virginia each three.
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United Press
Washington
Kentucky
Virginia
Arkansas
West Virginia
Florida
Oklahoma
Lincoln C. Andrews
Use Discretion Says Andrews Use Discretion Says Andrews
Assistant Treasury Secretary Andrews warned prohibition officers that wasteful spending on evidence would bring dismissal. He cited the Mayflower Hotel case where two agents spent 1500 dollars in a month on dinners and liquor while seeking evidence, yet the arrested employees were acquitted.
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United Press
Washington
Gas fumes blamed in death of 84 year old Indiana woman
Mrs. Aletha Wilds, 84, died from gas fumes inhaled over four weeks earlier at her Frankfort home. She had been in serious condition after being found overcome by coal stove fumes.
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Frankfort
Ind
Aletha Wilds
Forger Blackburn Jailed Over Missed Church Service
Donald Blackburn, 24, a convicted forger, had a suspended sentence revoked by Judge C. E. Pattee of the St. Joseph Circuit Court. Blackburn was ordered to serve two to four teen years in prison after it was learned he had not attended church services as required.
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C. E. Pattee
St. Joseph
Blackburn
Women Cause Men Arrest In City Petty Theft Case
Two Chicago men, M. L. Rankin and John Kelly, both 22, are jailed on fugitives charges after allegedly stealing fur coats in Chicago. Kelly was nabbed in a courtroom while awaiting trial for Miss Edna Wink, who faced petit larceny before Judge Pro Tem Vinson Manifold. her case was continued. Rankin, captured at a downtown hotel, shared Apt 40 at 1530 N Illinois St, the address also tied to Catherine Moore who admitted petit larceny to feed her 2-year-old’s Christmas.
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John Kelly
Chicago
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Kelly
Edna Wink
Vinson Manifold
Rankin
Apt. 40
Illinois St
Catherine Moore
Ogden Nominated for Congress at Columbia Club
James M. Ogden corporation counsel was unofficially named as a congressional candidate at a Columbia Club luncheon by City Attorney William Bosson. Bosson praised Ogden’s service and said many citizens would back his nomination. Ogden declined to discuss entering the race.
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James M. Ogden
Congress
Columbia Club
William Bosson
Bosson
Ogden
City Legal Department
Judge urges bond on poolrooms to curb juvenile crime
Judge Collins told the incoming city administration that poolrooms should be bonded with high license fees to push operators toward enforcement as youths crowd the venues. He cited four youths charged with auto banditry and robbery as reasons for the proposal. Two Kroger stores were hit in daylight, with $130.60 taken.
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Indianapolis
James A. Collins
Collins
New Mark Set at Postoffice in Indianapolis
The Indianapolis postoffice processed 1,654,747 pieces of outgoing mail on Tuesday the largest daily total in the office’s history. Incoming mail is estimated at 55,000, bringing the total to about 2,000,000. Outgoing mail included 1,065,476 letters and 589,000 packages. Parcel post stations will run 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. Thursday, main office closes 10 p.m. Only special delivery letters will be delivered from midnight December 24 to midnight December 25.
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Indianapolis
Robert H. Bryson
Ice Blamed For Injury Of Window Washer Albert Odon
Albert Odon aged 19 of 1250 B Twenty Third Street was injured while washing second floor windows at 1127 E Twenty Fourth Street. He slipped on ice on a platform and fell to the porch roof then to the front steps injuring a broken rib and possibly a fractured vertebra.
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Twenty-Third St St
E. Twenty- Fourth St
Odon
City Hospital
Woman Driver Revealed With Mule Whisky Load
Deputies halted a speeding auto east of Indianapolis on National Road and found a female occupant dressed in breeches. Five gallons of white mule whisky were discovered in the machine. Sam Burnett and Mary White were charged with speeding transporting liquor conspiracy to commit a felony and improper K-4.
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Sam Burnett
Mary White
Two Days Left to Help Needy Families This Christmas
The Tires publish the final stretch of a long list describing needy families who would receive no Christmas without Times readers assistance. Today and Thursday, a last batch of descriptions is printed and a final batch remains to be chosen.
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Felfers
Jim
Santa Claus
Times
Florida frost warning to hit citr us groves
A killing frost is forecast for tomorrow morning threatening extensive damage to gardens and citrus groves in the area. Temperatures varied by city with Tampa at 41 degrees this morning, Jacksonville at 30, and Pensacola at 24 degrees.
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Tampa
Fla
Jacksonville
Mercury
Pensacola
Philadelphia Fires Butler as Public Safety Director
Mayor Kendrick formally dismisses Gen. Smedley D. Butler from the post of director of Public Safety in Philadelphia after accepting his ultimatum. Butler, loaned from the Marines in 1924, had offered to resign from the Marines but stay in the city role, while Kendrick sought to keep him on as a civilian.
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Smedley D. Butler
Kendrick
Butler
Public Safety
George W. Elliott
Marines
Reto Kendrick
Philadelphia
Coolidge
Music at Sunnyside Brightens Sunnyside Sanatorium
A ten piece Colonial Theater orchestra visited Sunnyside Sanatorium and performed a lively program of late music and Christmas numbers for patients, lightening spirits and easing illness with the concert.
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Colonial Theater
Sunnyside Sanatorium
Free Christmas Dinner At Place Of God Mission
A free Christmas dinner will be served to all needy persons at the Place of God Army Rescue Mission located at 609 BE Washington Street. The announcement was made today by Ira Ramsey.
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Place of God Army Rescue Mission
Washington St
Ira Ramsey
Frigid Wave Lifts as Christmas Weather Shifts in Indianapolis
The United States Weather Bureau reported a frigid night with 11 degrees above zero in Indianapolis and a morning low of 15 at 7 am, followed by a warmer trend and freezing threat. Snow possible tonight, with a white Christmas likely though sun may melt it tomorrow. traffic slowed on icy streets with a 10 mph limit in the mile square.
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Indianapolis
United States Weather Bureau
J. H. Armington
Armington
Mile Square
Mercury
Bus Line Makes Through Route Indianapolis to French Lick
The public service commission authorized Blue Goose to offer through transport between Indianapolis and French Lick. The line previously held certificates for Indianapolis to Bedford and Mitchell to French Lick. The new order allows traffic between Bedford and Mitchell but bans local stops between those cities.
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Indianapolis
French Leick
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French Lick
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Firemen Spread Christmas Cheer Efforts Rise
Firemen collected 1497.67 to spread Christmas cheer. Chief John J. O'Brien said 5600 food baskets will aid needy families and coal donations are requested. About 56000 candy oranges and apples will be given to children at the Cable Tabernacle Christmas Eve party.
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O'Brien
Cable Tabernacle
Bound Over to Jury in Hit-and-Run Case
Frank Shirff 21 of 822 Weghurst St was bound over to the Marion County grand jury under 1000 bond for failure to stop after an accident. An assault and battery charge was continued. An automobile driven by Shirff is said to have struck Sebastian Hilgert 70 of 120 E Min jaasetn Sta Oety and left town after the incident.
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Frank Shriff
Weghurst St
Marion County Grand Jury
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Sebastian Hilgert
E. Minjaasetn
Indianapolis Street Railway seeks city bus route along new corridor
The Indianapolis Street Railway Company petitioned the public service commission to run a new city bus line from Monument Circle to Keystone Avenue and Thirty-Eighth Street through districts served by People's Motor Coach. The plan proposes ten to twenty minute rush schedules, a 10.88 mile round trip, six buses, and a January hearing.
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Public Service Commission
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Keystone Ave
Thirty-Eighth St
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Meridian St
Sixteenth St
Pennsylvania St
Nineteenth St
Alabama
Twenty-Fifth
Cornell Ave
Thirtieth St
McPherson
Thirty-Third St
Sutherland Ave
Thirty-Fourth St
Orchard Ave
A. Smith Bowman
Traction Company
Borah Favors Plan On League Invitation For Geneva Talks
Senator Borah, head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said congressional leaders back President Coolidge's decision to accept the League of Nations invitation for U.S. participation in preliminary Geneva arms conference negotiations after meetings with Coolidge and Kellogg.
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Nited Press
Ashington
League of Nations
Geneva
Borah
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Kelloge
Courthouse to stay closed Saturday in Marion County
Marion County commissioners ruled the courthouse will remain closed Saturday. They said Saturday is a half holiday for county employees, making opening offices useless.
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Marion County
Cambia and Indiana railroad extension granted by ICC
The Interstate Commerce Commission today granted the Cambia and Indiana railroad a one year extension to begin proposed construction, starting June 30, 1926. The decision affects timelines for the project and defers planned work.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Cambia and Indiana Railroad
Wild price surge in grain pits ends in heavy losses
Chicago reports a tumultuous session with riotous scenes as wheat, corn, and oats climbed on government crop survey news. December wheat jumped to 1.73 1 4 dollars a bushel, May wheat to 1.31 3, while traders faced large losses amid frantic covering of short positions.
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Chicago
Rich Gifts by Richman Firm
United Arena Cleveland Ohio December 28 The Richman Bros Clothing Company announces its third annual stock distribution as a Christmas gift totaling 600000 dollars for 1700 employees across Cleveland Lorain factories and 13 Ohio stores plus Buffalo Jamestown Indianapolis Pittsburgh Erie St Paul Minneapolis and Lansing locations. The two week paid vacation payroll adds 90000 dollars. Stocks will be offered to employees at 50 dollars per share with market value 180 dollars, excluding those owning more than 100 shares.
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Richman Bros. Clothing Company
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Lansing
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