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Newspaper
Laredo Weekly Times
Location
Laredo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1926
Page
1
Chairman Madeen of the House appropriations committee said Congress would likely approve funds for a delegation to the League of Nations preliminary disarmament conference. He argued the move would not involve the United States in Old World affairs.
Chicago January 2 The United States circuit court of appeals affirms the conviction of Charles Forbes former director of the Veterans Bureau and John Thompson in a conspiracy to defraud the government over hospital contracts for disabled veterans. Each man is sentenced to two years in prison and fined $10 000.
Prof. J. T. Strother age 88 a long time Waco educator died after a three week illness at his home. He came from Georgia and taught at Baylor University briefly then ran a private school in Waco specializing in mathematics for 55 years.
The Texas Fish Dealers Association at Corpus Christi urged $260000 in federal funds to maintain gulf coast passes for the fish oyster and shrimp industries. Judge J R Smith announced the appeal noting many bays lack fresh gulf water and fisheries cannot operate without open channels.
Two investigations launched in Pasadena after the grandstand collapsed during the Tournament of Roses parade killing two and injuring about 200. Victims include Mrs. B. J. Borich of Dallas and Mrs. Carolina Sherman of Los Angeles. owner Paul Mahoney fled police and remains missing.
Sherman Texas January reports Frank Kate 72 a pioneer businessman died at an undertaking parlor after pulling the night bell and shooting himself in the head arriving from Dallas shortly after midnight. The coroner's inquest ruled death a self inflicted wound.
Stephens Bonner aged 48 of Dallas died from burns received while trying to extinguish a fire started by lighting cotton around a Christmas tree. The blaze originated in an apartment occupied by Mrs. Jane Dent aged 61 who was also severely burned.
The frozen body of John Keith aged 53 a laborer from Bayard was found by search parties on Friday in Scotts Bluff Iowa. He had been missing since a December 13 snow storm when his car was stranded in deep drifts and he wandered off. The body was found seated upright on a snowbank.
New York Jan. 2 The morning after New Year's Day saw no arrests for violation of the Volstead act despite 160 prohibition agents on duty at Broadway cabarets and elsewhere Police records show six arrests for intoxication at Bellevue Hospital physicians report ten people brought in for alcohol poisoning compared with 30 last year
Dayton Miller, physics professor at the Cure School of Applied Science in Cleveland, receives the AAAS prize for the most notable scientific contribution. His paper, The Michelgon Morley Ether Drift Experiment, cites Mt. Wilson observations and suggests changes to Einstein relativity theory.
Major General William Hart quartermaster general of the army died early today at Walter Reed hospital following surgery two weeks ago for a suspected cancer. He was 62 years old.
Dorothy Townsley aged five died today as the third victim in the spree by Ruth Townsley. Ruth Townsley is hospitalized with a breast wound but expected to recover. The eight month old infant and a three year old boy were killed instantly. Margaret Townsley, eight, is considered out of danger.
Two unmasked bandits entered the Senate Cafe in Wichita Falls Texas early today and held up employees and patrons at gunpoint escaping with the cash register containing more than 5650 dollars.
London Jan 2 the Romanian legation states Prince Carol renounced his right to succession for private reasons and not due to any misunderstanding with the government.
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