02 Dec 1923
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Newspaper
Laredo Weekly Times
Location
Laredo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1923
Page
1
Washington announces that our government will participate in the investigation of finances as part of a reparations commission effort inviting our country to send an expert ten committee to join the inquiry.
Governor Walker asks Texas Governor Neff to help Georgia officials obtain records of Philip Fox, who faces trial December 12 for the murder of Atlanta attorney William Coburn. Ku Klux Klan officials say Texas investigators met with local opposition. Fox lived in Texas before moving to Atlanta.
One man died at St Josephs hospital from wounds after a bootleg gunfight on the Joliet Chicago road. A companion named Egan was critically wounded with multiple bullet holes and lacerations. A second item reports a liquor still operated from a hydrant delivery scheme with a water meter for tracking and one arrest handed to federal authorities.
Three hundred dollars in new ten dollar bills matching money stolen from the Cuba Alabama bank last week was found on J A Covington a sawmill man near Cuba. The bank bandits took seven thousand dollars. In Texas near Childress Ranger Sergeant J W McCormick and Sheriff Jim Crane led nearly a hundred men hunting for the body of J C Stroud missing since Monday night. Charges against two men under arrest were expected today but filed only after Stroud's body is found in the Peace river canebrakes.
In New York on December 1 an alleged plan to rifle mail aboard the American liner Mongolia surfaced as three crew members were brought back from Hamburg aboard the Minnehaha. The theft was detected when opened sacks floated on the Elbe river.
The battleship West Virginia is commissioned at Norfolk, praised as one of the proudest ships afloat. It embodies wartime naval knowledge and protection evolved since Jutland, replacing the scrapped North Dakota under the Washington conference treaty. sister ship to the Maryland and Colorado.
A detachment of Wilson machine gun troops guards Lee Washington a black man charged with attacking a white woman near Moneyer. The trial neared completion in Nashville as officials had moved him to an unannounced destination yesterday to avert trouble. He was returned to Nashville today under military guard.
Washington December 1 A bill by Representative Airfield Republican Indiana proposes to reapportion the house on the 1920 census without changing the total 435. Several states gain or lose seats withTexas set to gain one seat while 11 states would lose. The plan, passed by the house two years ago, failed in the senate when a 483 member body was rejected.
Henry Ward delivered a 15 minute speech in Detroit asserting that English serves as an international language. He argued that shared language between nations enables cooperation and that global peace depends on adopting a common tongue.
Fort Worth Texas December 1 George O Clouch superintendent of public schools of Tyler was elected president of the state teachers association to succeed J C Wilson professor of education in the Sam Houston state teachers college at Huntsville. Clough defeated Lee Clark of Tanneresville by 51 votes 1158 to 1107. The convention made the vote unanimous on motion by Bomer Frizel of Palestine.
Berlin reports potato shortages and rising prices threaten the republic. Frederick William I forced hospital inpatients to eat potatoes and used the army to compel peasants to plant tubers. Chancellor Stresemann struggles to hold the republic as stocks spoil before winter.
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