Donations Pour In For Times Needy Children Fund
Donations to The Times Needy Children Fund rose to 474.65 by noon and the drive will stay open until tomorrow at noon. C. P. Edwards and J. H. Parrott of the American Legion will disburse funds to aid about two hundred listed children with more names expected.
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Santa Claus
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American Legion Committee
John Parrott
Legion
Walsh Disputes Contentions Of Court Opponent
Senator Walsh of Montana argued in the senate that the world court functions as a separate legal bureau within the League of Nations. He warned the court’s growing prestige could invite disputes between league members and affect U S sovereignty, citing the Monroe Doctrine and arbitration precedents with Great Britain and Venezuela.
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Dec
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Great Britain
Brazil
Venezuela
Guinea
President Coolidge to Youths in Christmas Message
President Coolidge issues a Christmas message to boys and girls nationwide. He praises obedience and self control and addresses members of Boy Scouts Lone Sponges and Vedistubs, calling them representatives of America's youth. He recalls childhood on a farm and experiences with chores and maple sugar.
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Coolidge
Washington
Dee. Ely
Boy Scouts
Lone Spongs
Boys and Girls of America
Death Ends Lawless Career of Bank Robber Keiler
Edward F. Keiler, a central figure in the McNichol trunk mystery, dies of heart failure while fleeing in a taxicab with over $138,000 stolen from the Corn Exchange National Bank. Pardoned a year earlier after serving most of a 10 to 12 year sentence for slaying Daniel McNichol in 1914, he had planned the robbery and is believed to have double crossed his accomplice before death. He came to Philadelphia in 1910 after a six year Sing Sing term for looting funds of the Fire Department association. he had worked at the bank about four years.
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Philadelphia
Edward F. Keiler
McNichol
Corn Exchange National Bank
Mavng
Daniel McNichol
Keller
Sing Sing
New York Fire Department of Association
Corn Exchange Bank
Farm Bill Brought Up In House By Chairman Hagen
The administration co operative marketing bill was introduced in the House today by Chairman Haugen of the agriculture committee. He called for hearings January 11 on the bill and other farm relief proposals. The bill, drawn for Jardine and approved by Coolidge, would create a division to assist co operative groups on request and authorize $225000 to organize the new division.
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House
Haugen
Agriculture Committee
Jardine
Coolidge
Department of Agriculture
Satterwhite Refuses Special Texas House Session
Texas House Speaker Lee Satterwhite declined to call a special session to consider impeachment charges. Governor Miriam Ferguson said political foes seek grounds for impeachment and likewise declined to trigger a session.
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Austin
Tex
Lee Satterwhite
Texas House of Representatives
Miriam Ferguson
Forces of Kyo Sung-Lin Take Sinminfu Near Mukden
Dispatches report General Kyo Sung-Lin and the National Peoples army have occupied Sinminfu, thirty miles northwest of Mukden, after defeating Marshal Chang Tso-Lin of Manchuria. The communique comes from Mukden via vernacular sources dated December 31.
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Gallant Robber Makes Mistake in New York Robbery
Jim Ceadon entered the Greenwich Village home of Mrs. Angelica Doubleday Tropp stealing valuables but returned to chat. He offered money for hunger and left a card with his name and contact details. After a second visit he took more money and was indicted, pleaded guilty, and awaits sentence.
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Jim Ceadon
Jimmy
Angelica Doubleday Tropp
Greenwich Village
Mrs. Troxe
United States May Remain Neutral in Disarmament Plan
Washington reports the official view favors either sending a U S representative to preparations for the League of Nations disarmament conference or staying out of negotiations. No plan for an unofficial observer. If a U S delegate attends the preliminary meeting, no congressional approval will be sought. If the U S enters the conference, Congress will be asked to authorize it.
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League
Congress
Weeklong traffic toll reaches 39 deaths in eleven states
The Associated Press tally shows 39 lives lost and 227 injured in a week of accidents across eleven states led by North Carolina with seven deaths. Georgia reports the most injuries at 49, while Florida and Mississippi each have two deaths and no injuries in Florida.
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Chesapeake and Ohio stockholders attack merger plan
Minority holders file brief with the Interstate Commerce Commission charging the Van Sweringen interests behind the Nickel Plate Chesapeake and Ohio Hocking Valley and other lines have used control to expand power. The brief claims the merger conceived on financial motives serves private interests and harms the public.
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Chesapeake & Ohio Railway
van Sweringen
Interestates Commerce Commission
Chesapeake & Ohio
Hocking Valley
O. P
M. J. van Sweringen
Interstate Commerce Commission
Erie
Pere Marquette
Chesapeake and Ohio
Hocking
Meeting of coal miners called for tomorrow
Scranton and Wilkes Barre Mayors send telegrams inviting miners and operators to resume wage negotiations in Scranton at 3 p m. The aim is to end the anthracite strike while considering Pinchot's peace plan but not binding to it. Major Inglis confirms a conference will proceed only if 168 000 idle miners attend.
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Durkin
Committee of Mayors and Burgesses
Pinchot
Wilkes Barre
Daniel L. Hart
Pla
W. W. Inglis
Inglis
Idel
John Durkin
Mayors and Burgesses
Ambassadors Summoned Over Tacna Arica Issue
Both the Peruvian and Chilean ambassadors were summoned to the State Department by Secretary Kellogg this afternoon. Officials offered no comment on the subject, but indications showed the Tacna Arica dispute was under discussion.
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Washington
State Department
Kellogg
Bootleg Queen Arrested and Freed on Bail in New England
Miss Hilda Stone of Colerain Mass whose alleged leadership role in a New England rum running gang drew police attention was released on 1500 dollar bail. Authorities say a car with secret compartments and multiple state plates was seized after a stop at Lyne. Stone faces a smuggling charge in Newport Vermont as her operations span the region.
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N. H
Hilda Stone
Colerain
Mass
Greenfield
Lyne
R. J. McKinnan
R. J
New Hampshire
McKinnan
Rhode Island
Miss Stone
Franconia Notch
Liberty
Newport
New England
Southern Representation Chosen for Interstate Commerce
President Coolidge announced the nomination of Richard V. Taylor of Alabama to fill the vacancy left by C. C. McChord on the Interstate Commerce Commission. He also re-submitted Thomas F. Woodlock of New York for Senate approval, a recess appointee whose previous nomination was rejected.
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Coolidge
Interstate Commerce Commission
Richard V. Taylor
Alabama
C. C. McChord
Senate
Thomas F. Woodlock
New York
Woodlock
Prohibition Debate in House Resumes with Renewed Vim
In Washington on December 21 AP reports the House reopened its prohibition debate led by Rep. Phillips of Pennsylvania. He blasted enforcement methods as unlawful and underhanded, linking them to crimes shocking public conscience and critiquing recent constitutional amendments as weakening government while calling prohibition an experiment needing time to prove its value.
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Phillips
Pennsylvania
Treasury
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