Byrd Whaling Boats Reported Crushed in Ice
Wireless dispatches from Wellington New Zealand reported two Antarctic whaling boats crushed in the ice. Captain H H Bailey of the Byrd expedition said no Byrd party whaling ships are known and the Neilson Alonzo carried supplies for the expedition.
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London
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Wellington
New Zealand
Eleanor Bolling
Richard E. Byrd
H. H. Bailey
New York
Byrd Party
Neilson Alonzo
Byrd
Bailey
Ross Sea
Little America
Pilgrims Gather for Power Grave Visit Denied
About 1,000 people flocked to Holy Cross cemetery in Malden on Christmas Day to pray at Rev. Patrick J. Power's grave. Most were refused entry, except mourners decorating and praying at loved ones' graves. Father Power’s body was moved to a new plot in front of All Saints chapel.
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Holy Cross Cemetery
Patrick J. Power
Father Power
All Saints
Mystery for Firemen at Evansville Bank Building
Firemen in Evansville Indiana hunted for the source of thick black smoke pouring from behind marble wall slabs of the National Bank building. An extensive search led to the removal of slabs but failed to reveal a cause. Fire crews kept vigil for hours until the smoke stopped.
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Evansville Bank
United Press
Evansville
Ind
National Bank
Driver rammed into Christmas crowd injuring twenty in Cherry Creek
Twenty persons were hurt when Stanley Rankowski age 55 plowed his car into children waiting for presents at a community celebration in Cherry Creek New York. Mayor G Sheldon Frost fractured his leg. Rankowski jailed in Mayville County jail. Injured taken to Jamestown hospitals.
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United Press
Cherry Creek
N. Y
Stanley Rankowski
G. Sheldon Frost
Rankowski
Mayville
Jamestown
Emperor Hirohito Opens Japan's Fifty Seventh Parliament
Tokyo December 26 The fifty seventh session of the imperial Japanese parliament opened formally with Emperor Hirohito reading the imperial message. Prince Iyesato Tokugawa, president of the house of peers, received the message as the ranking official present.
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United Press
TOKIO
Imperial Japanese Parliament
Teikoku-Gikai
Hirohito
Iyesato Tokugawa
House of Peers
Schurman Sails Jan 3 U S Ambassador to Take Leave
United States Ambassador Jacob Gould Schurman will sail from Berlin to New York on January 3 aboard the Bremen for his annual leave. The move revives talk of a forthcoming new ambassador to Germany. In Indiana, nine dairy men earned certificates for high butter fat and deputy county auditor Charles M. Taylor suffered crushed toes when a heavy record book fell.
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United States
Germany
Jacob Gould Schurman
New York
Bremen
Schurman
Nderson
Ind
National ‘Dairy Association
Madison-Hancock Herd Improvement Association
Claude Jones
Virgil Sears
C. E. Chamberlain
Earl W. Boston
John K. Oelsinger
Joseph D. Skiles
W. C. Wood
Orville C. Oldham
Paul Steele
Anderson
Charles M. Taylor
Actress Sues Rudy Vallee for Breach of Promise
Agnes O Loughlin, a Broadway show girl, sues Rudy Vallee New York bureau chief for 200000 alleging he promised marriage but became the vagabond lover of his songs. Vallee denies the charges.
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New York Bureau
Rudy Vallee
Agnes O'Loughlin
Gales Sweep Coasts Again Amid Fatal Storms
British Isles France and Spain endure renewed gales over Christmas. Beizer Aslaug sinks off Bayona with 22 crew lost. English Channel storms force ships to port. Brest harbor storms dash Soviet cruisers. France enjoys warm spell with 72 degree Paris in snowless Christmas. Dr James R Ball dies of blood poisoning from a nurse’s scissors scratch in Lebanon Indiana. James E Hanley, 90, dies in Connersville Indiana leaving widow, son Dolph, and brother.
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British Isles
France
Spain
Bayona
Beizer Aslaug
Vigo
Iceland
English Channel
Brest
Porspol
Alps
Pyrenees
Paris
All Times
Lebanon
Ind
James R. Ball
Lyric Plans Prosperity MonthKickoff with New Year Shows
The Lyric announces January as Prosperity Month and a big 1930 season start. A New Year's Eve midnight show and a reopening dance ballroom lead to a renovated high class venue with local orchestra. The opening feature is Nixon Dames a Fox Movietone all talking film starring Mae Clarke with two pals in a New York actors boarding house. Britt Wood headlines the stage bill with three more Keith acts.
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Fox Movietone
Maud Fulton
Mae Clarke
Robert Ames
William Harrigan
New York
Miss Clarke
L. Wolfe Gilbert
Abel Baer
Big Christmas fires disrupt Chicago crowds
Two major fires in Chicago on Christmas Eve caused over $100,000 in damage and halted traffic for over an hour. Firemen fought a fourth floor blaze at a vacant West Monroe street building from high pressure towers while crowds watched from downtown theaters. The Munger laundry also burned, suffering nearly $100,000 in losses and injuring five people in lighter city fires.
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United Press
Chicago
West Monroe Street
Munger
REM'S cough medicine praised by Brooklyn barber
Joseph Candreva of 610 6th Ave Brooklyn says REM syrup cured his cough quickly after other remedies failed. He reports his wife also benefited and urges readers to ask their druggist for REM citing its exclusive formula as superior to ordinary syrups.
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Brooklyn
N. Y
Rubin
Cand- Treva
REM
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