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Newspaper
Laredo Weekly Times
Location
Laredo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1923
Page
6
The cruiser Rochester has been ordered to Amapala Port in Honduras waters. Advance against Vera Cruz under General Martinez has been ordered.
Oklahoma City dispatch reports the anti klan law passed in the recent extraordinary session remains active and will be sent to Governor for signature. Speaker W J McBee and others affirmed the bill’s status despite public doubts raised by Governor Trapp. Washington dispatch notes Rochester cruiser sent to Amapola Honduras as a precaution amid Central American tensions. Mexico dispatch says a Vera Cruz advance from Tehuacan to Apizaco ordered as rebels retreat toward Oaxaca.
A dispatch from Major Fletcher reports thirty-one Moros were slain in a December 16 clash with sixty Philippine constabulary soldiers at Malindu island Mindanao. The despatch reached Manila on December 29.
Disorder among inmates at the Girls Industrial School near Delaware Ohio began with a dinner hour concerted effort and continued into today despite Sheriff Fred Harter and deputies on duty.
Baltimore reports an automobile crash into the harbor results in the death of George Witmer a garage employee and several others feared drowned. Rescue operations continue as authorities investigate the accident with no further details available.
Dallas Texas December 29 Louise Chappelle 22 and Lucille King 19 died in a crash when an automobile struck a freight train standing at a crossing five miles west of Dallas. R L O Connor of Irving injured and hospitalised. driver of the car jailed pending investigation.
Paris reports a sudden explosion as a possible cause for the Dixmude dirigible’s disappearance. Rome advices state no sign among Lieutenant Grenadan’s effects of imminent danger, though Sicilian fishermen recovered his body off Sicily and described flashes at sea when his watch stopped.
The Chippewa Bank, closed by the state finance department last week, faces a shortage of at least $650000. Cashier Joseph Carr has assumed full responsibility and posted collateral valued at more than $700000 to cover the deficit.
Five armed robbers stormed Summit State Bank in Summit AL in wild Western style today. They fired revolvers as they entered and escaped with between 15000 and 18000 dollars, nearly all bank currency. A grocery clerk who fired a shotgun at the suspects accidentally wounded a bystander.
In Houston on December 29 a three cornered shooting at Freemont McCollum’s home left Reserve Officer Turner and another man hospitalized. McCollum was shot six times but faces no serious injuries while Officer Lee escaped unharmed. The motive remains unclear.
Duesseldorf reports the German coal syndicate has decided to reduce coal prices by 10 percent nationwide, with exceptions for areas still occupied. The move announces a broad easing of fuel costs across markets while excluding occupied territories.
Dr McKean Cattell of New York was elected president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science today at Cincinnati, succeeding Prof Charles Walcott of Washington.
Brigadier General Charles Dawes and Owen Young sail today for Europe as members invited by the interallied reparations commission. They will attend the committee meeting set for January 14 in Paris to consider balancing Germany's budget.
A bomb exploded yesterday during a dance at the Jewish Women’s Charity Hall in Chongrad Hungary killing two women and wounding 50. Suspects linked to the Awakening Magyars Association, an anti Semitic group, are being pursued as investigators describe a chaotic panic and trampling in the exit stampede.
Chicago on December 29 reports the case of Verlie Adams a 14 year old negro on trial for murder in connection with the deaths of Miss Bessie Carl of Houston and P A Rial of this city on September 1. The state and defense expect to close their cases this afternoon with a verdict anticipated tonight.
Palermo reports several people killed when a powder magazine at Montello near the city exploded. Enormous damage is also reported.
Peking says E W Schmalz feich, American missionary of the Reformed Church in the United States, kidnapped last November, was released December 20. He was seized on the road to Tung Jen Weichow. no further details provided.
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