Love Feast Planned by Second District Democrats in Bloomington
The Second Indiana Congressional district Democratic committee met at Worthington and unanimously approved a district love feast and banquet to be held at the Masonic hall in Bloomington on Friday January 7. The event aims to celebrate the recent victory and will feature speakers from the old home district.
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Indiana
Williams, House
Worthington
Masonic Hall
Bloomington
Jackson Day
Greenwood
Robert W. Miers
5Ernlent
Sone
Democratic Party
Second District
Old Home
No trace of French rum schooner Arsenee J reported
New Orleans December 2 No trace of the French rum schooner Arsenee J. has been found after it escaped from an American cutter with two agents aboard. Internal Revenue craft assist in the search. Prohibition officials feared for the safety of J. B. Matthews and an assistant who were aboard when the vessel broke for freedom on Wednesday night.
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New Orleans
Arsenee J
Internal Revenue Department
Prohibition
J. B. Matthews
McCarter Attacks Gibson Testimony in Hall Mills Trial
In Somerville New Jersey on December 2 the defense lead counsel Robert H. McCarter denounced the witness testimony of Jane Gibson as theatrical and false. He accused the state of staging illness with doctors and a nurse to confront the jurors and framed the scene as a humbug in the Hall-Mills murder case.
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Frances Stevens Hall
Hall- Mills
Somerville
N. J
Edward Hall
Eleanor Mills
Nwd
Jane Gibson
Robert H. McCarter
Somerset County ‘Court House
McCarter
Frances Stevens-Hall
Willie
Henry
Phillips Farm
Hall-Mills
Clarence Case
Alexander
Simpson
Clarence E. Case
Phil Payne
The
New York Mirror
Cold Wave Spreads From Midwest to Atlantic Coast
Relief from a severe cold wave moving from the Midwest toward the Atlantic states was forecast by the weather bureau. Thermometers had dipped as low as twenty degrees below zero in some areas. The cold air was expected to reach eastern locations tonight.
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United Press. Dispatch
Chicago
Middle-West
Weather Bureau
Atlantic States
Government closes case in Os scandal
Washington reports the government rests its case in the oil scandal trial of Albert Fall and Edward Doheny. The defense portrays Fall as a patriot leasing Elk Hills for national defense and Doheny as acting to avert a broader war, while the prosecution presents a mounting evidence pile from four days of testimony.
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Washington
Albert Fall
Edward Doheny
He Fall
Elk Hills
Doheny
Senate Oil Committee
Thomas J. Walsh
Montana
Wilton J. Lambert
Mall
Courtroom drama cites motive in Simpson case
McCarter argues Senator Simpson failed to prove a motive but stresses motive's importance. He questions who else might have a motive, drawing attention to Jimmy Mills as part of the debate in the case.
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McCarter
Simpson
Jimmy Mills
President Lewis Calls Miners in Constitutional Convention
John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers, orders a constitutional convention to meet in Indianapolis on January 25, 1927. The event aims to set a wage demand for central competitive field miners and appoint a scale committee to meet operators in Miami on February 14, 1927. The Miami wage scale will replace the Jacksonville agreement expiring March 31, 1927.
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Lewis
Indianapolis
United Mine Workers of America
John L. Lewis
Miami
Fla
Jacksonville
Red light laws enforced in Indiana 90 day campaign
Indiana officials launch a 90 day drive against night driving without tail lights. Police and state highway officers will arrest all offenders with minimum fines of 25 dollars, plus costs and possible jail. Vehicles with broken lights or excessive headlight brightness will face fines and checks.
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Secretary of State
Fred Martin
Martin
National Road
Indianapolis
Anderson
Ontario Favors Government Liquor Sales Victory for Ferguson Chose Prohibition End
Ontario voters backed Premier Howard Ferguson and the move to end prohibition in a provincial election. The government will likely set up liquor stores and issue permits for adults over 21. Conservatives led with 76 seats while Liberals and other parties trailed, with results still incomplete.
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Toronto
Ont
Ontario
Howard Ferguson
Canada
Ferguson
Liberal
Labor
Prohibition
Tax reduction plan faces uphill battle in Congress
Washington dispatch reports the administration's tax reduction proposal likely to fail in the winter session as House divisions widen over disposal of an $850 million surplus. Republicans say surplus would reduce the public debt, not grant direct tax cuts, while Democrats prepare their own plan to repeal certain taxes and cut corporate income tax.
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Washington
House
Coolidge
United Press
Ways and Means
Senate
Democrats
Congress
Body found near lover's home in Olson case
Clara Olson missing from Prairie du Chien was found near Albert Olson's home. One thousand legionnaires from Vernon and Crawford counties searched for her after a murder warrant was issued for Erdman Olson, the 18 year old sweetheart, though her fate remains unconfirmed.
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United Press Dispatch
Prairie DU Chien
Wis
Clara Olson
Albert Olson
Erdman Olson
Vernon
Crawford Counties
Olson
Fewer Accidents in Indiana Last Fiscal Year
Indiana's accident prevention program shows 6082 fewer accidents in the last fiscal year. Of 43138 injured workers 265 were killed and 831 lost limbs. Coal mining 4449 injuries 48 deaths. auto industry 2978 accidents, seven deaths. iron and steel 1808 injuries and 48 deaths. Compensation paid $2,862,875.82. total since 1915 $18,795,106.20. Recommends repealing the license for employers with five+ workers and transferring motor boat control to conservation department. Free employment service claims 30 percent efficiency gain.
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Indianapolis
State Industrial Board
Indiana
Iron and Steel Industries
Dixson H. Bynum
Industrial Board
Conservation Department
Indiana Lakes
Perry W. Reeves
Chaplin Separates From 18 Year Old Wife Lita Grey
Charlie Chaplin and his 18 year old wife Lita Grey have separated and she plans to file for divorce. She accuses ill treatment and says he is unfit to be a father, taking their two children Charles Spencer Jr and Sidney Earl to her grandparents. Chaplin acknowledges the separation but doubts divorce is final.
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United Press Dispatch
Los Angeles
Cal
Charlie Chaplin
Lita Grey
Chaplin
Mildred Harris
Charles Spencer, Jr
Sydney Earl
Miss Grey
Bandits Captured After Kidnapping Adams County Sheriff
Two alleged filling station bandits were captured in Fort Wayne after they kidnapped Adams County Sheriff John Baker and one deputy. They forced the officers to drive back to the city before the capture. the car’s tires and gas tank were punctured with bullets.
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FT. Wayne
Ind
John Baker
Adams County
Coal Miner Injured in Mine Fall Near Oakland City
George Fox a machine runner at Somerville mine 1 near Oakland City is in serious condition at Walker hospital Evansville after being crushed under a coal fall. Doctors fear his injuries may prove fatal as details remained uncertain tonight.
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Washington
Ind
George Fox
Somerville
Oakland City
Walker Hospital
Evansville
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