Chilean quake toll rises to 1230 inTalca and southern towns
President Ibanez directs relief as Talca bears the brunt of the quake 150 miles south of Santiago. Officials report 1230 dead and 400+ injured with only ten percent of Talca’s houses habitable. Relief trains rush in while looting is prevented and food aid is rationed.
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Chile
Ibanez
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Annnal
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Iad
Blanche
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Acon
Bride Wears Queen Gift Veil at Pleasantville Wedding
Miss Estelle Manville of New York marries Count Folke Bernadotte of Wisburg at Pleasantville New York on December 1. The Brussels lace bridal veil was a royal heirloom gifted by Queen Sophia of Sweden to the bridegroom’s family, later kept in the Bernadotte lineage. Count Bernadotte, kingly lineage descendant, serves in the Royal Swedish Horse Guards and has long ties to European nobility. Miss Manville is a Normandy descendant and daughter of H. E. Manville, a asbestos products manufacturer. GUYER NOT A CANDIDATE.
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Folke Bernadotte
Wisburg
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Gustav V of
Europe
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Desiree Clary
Marshal
Ebba Munck
Fulkila
Miss Munck
Count Folke Bernadotte
Royal Swedish Horse Guards
Swedish Jockey Club
Miss Manville
Geoffrey de Magnavil
Normandy
William the Conqueror
England
H. E. Manville
Guyer
Miss Estelle
Manville
Folke Bernadotte of
Wisborg
N. Y
Kansan Congressmen Vie For Curtis Senate Seat
Informal notice from Congressman Guyer of Kansas City states he will not seek the senate seat to replace Charles Curtis. With Anthony and White deemed unfit or uninterested, only Hoch and Strong actively pursue the appointment, Lambertson and Sparks focus on re election, while Sproul and Hope show no intent to run.
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Kansas City
Senate
Charles Curtis
Kansas House
Topeka
Washington
Anthony
Sproul
Hope
White
William P. Lambertson
Fairview
Charles I. Sparks
Goodland
Homer Hoch
Marion
James
Paulen
Reed
Strong
Border Leaks Persist In Smuggling From Canada
Washington reports the 1928 annual DOJ view on liquor smuggling from Canada into the United States. Mrs. Mabel Willebrandt says about $2,000,000 of liquor monthly crosses the border despite federal efforts. Canada exports of whiskey alone reached 1,169,002 gallons valued at $18,883,000, with total liquor exports to the U S reaching $24,397,852 for the year ending June 30, 1928. The illegal flow rose over 75 percent in three years. coast guard and Treasury efforts reduced high seas shipments and vessel activity near coasts.
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Canada
United States
Department of Justice
Congress
Sargieri
Mabel Walker Wille‘Prandt
High Seas
Willebrands
Coast Guard
Prohibition
Treasury Department
Government report cites vast coal lands and pension costs
Washington reports a 15 000 acre coal potential in the United States and Alaska with capacity to yield 200 000 000 000 dollars annually. The Interior Department’s yearbook details pensions totaling 244 222 970 with 22 965 872 to veterans and dependents and 14 761 616 to retired federal workers. It notes 164 708 Spanish War veterans under protection as a sign of shifting orders amid World War veterans.
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Alaska
West
Interior Department
Department
Kansas City Girl Wins Audition Semi Finals
Kansas City coloratura Gladys Morrison Ball and Detroit bari tone Wilfred Engelman were named semi final winners in the Midwestern states division of the national radio audition. They will compete in the grand finals in New York on December 16 with other regional winners. Ball, a bride of under six months, was runner up in the Midwest finals last year. Engelman, 24, studied at Notre Dame and sings with Detroit’s St. Aloysius choir.
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Gladys Morrison
Ball
Kansas City
Wilfred’ A. Engelman
Detroit
WMAQ
Chicago
Maake
New York
Mrs Grace Beck Dead Wife of Chicago Tribune Editor
Grace Redfield Beck wife of Edward Beck managing editor of the Chicago Tribune died in Chicago Sunday morning after illness since April Burial will be in Arlington Cemetery near the Becks country home southwest of Chicago. Will T Beck and Miss Martha Beck her siblings traveled to Chicago for the funeral.
Radio and Theatre Schedule and Local Crime Note
Radio programs listed for WREN include Roxy and His Gang and Neapolitan Nights with times ranging from 6:30 to 9:09 p m plus other shows and cooking lessons. A court excused Ingalls on a traffic charge after he promised to obtain a license plate. Pratt theater in Kansas saw a 2,500 pound safe stolen with Saturday receipts after midnight, police report.
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Roxy
Ingalls
Pratt
Leadville Prohibition Inquiry Targets City Officials
Federal grand jury at Pueblo subpoenas nearly the entire Leadville Colorado city administration over liquor and malfeasance claims. Investigators allege illegal saloon activity since 1916 and note a city known for mining bravado and dry odds. Indictments possible if jurors find grounds amid a dozen officials and saloon owners called as witnesses.
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Leadville
Colo
Federal
Pueblo
Bupmone
United States
Harrison Avenue
la Paul
Revere
Jeadville
Colorado
Pioneer Contractor George C Moses Dies at Home
Junction City AP reports George C Moses pioneer and city builder and businessman died at his home early today after a long career in Junction City. Moses was a longtime figure in local development and civic affairs. The exact time of death was not released and no further details were provided.
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George C. Moses
Pioneer Junction
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