U S pulls strings as Nicaragua crisis deepens
United States and Mexico clash over recognition of Nicaraguan rebels as Washington weighs justifications for intervention. Senator Borah urges Senate inquiry while U S forces seal ports from Puerto Cabezas to Bluefields guarding the coast against arms flows to Dr Juan Sacasa's Liberal government.
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United Press Dispatch
Washington
Nicaragua
United States
Latin America
T. S. Vica
Diaz
New York
William J. Borah
Idaho
Senate Foreign Affairs Committee
State Department
Senate
State’ ‘Department
Nicaragua Leader Protests U S Marines Landing
Juan Bautista Sacasa, liberal leader of Nicaragua, says fifteen thousand American troops would be needed to quell Nicaragua's revolution and calls U S charges of communism a smoke screen while protesting the landing of marines at Puerto Cabezas in Mexico City.
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Mexico City
Mex
Nicaragua
Juan Bautista Sacasa
Puerto Cabezas
U S Spending Near 9 Billion on Building in 1926
New York dispatch reports nearly 9 billion dollars spent in U S building operations in 1926, a record high. New York City contributed about 1.05 billion, with Texas posting the largest state increase and Chicago Detroit Cincinnati Milwaukee Newark and Albany leading city gains.
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U. S
New York
United States
Buiding Economic Research Bureau
American Bond and Mortgage Company
New York City
Texas
Chicago
Detroit
Cincinnati
Milwaukee
Newark
Albany
Snow Covers Hoosierdom In Heavy Winter Storm
Indiana digs out after the season’s heaviest snow with up to seven inches in some towns. Northern areas report lighter snowfall while traffic remains hindered but not halted as cleanup begins.
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United Press Dispatch
Indianapolis
Indiana
Ty Cobb seeks federal probe into 1919 baseball scandal
Ty Cobb arrives in Washington to push for federal action reviewing charges against him Tris Speaker and Joe Wood in the 1919 alleged scandal. The federal government previously rejected the Agrest charges of throwing games as beyond its jurisdiction.
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Washington
Ty Cobb
Tris Speaker
Joe Wood
Government Jai Fer
First Chicago Policewoman Dies After 17 Years on Force
Chicago mourns Mrs. Alice Clements Faubel the citys first policewoman who died here aged 48. She served over 17 years and earned a notable record by solving many mystery cases.
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Chicago
Alice Clements Aaihel
Faubel
Inquest Planned Into Professor Siff Death by Self Harm
In Indianapolis an inquest is set for today into the death of Professor Louis Siff 72 head of the mathematics department at the University of Louisville who died by self harm in a hotel room. He had more than 29000 in liberty bonds and cash on his person. The only paper found was a Fidelity and Columbia Trust letter certifying 28000 in liberty bonds purchased in 1924. The bonds were sent to the Probate Court for disposition. The body remains at an undertaker pending relatives instructions.
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United Press Dispatch
Indianapolis
Louis Siff
University of Louisville
Fred van Hoen
Fidelity and Columbia Trust Company of Louisville
Prof. Siff
Liberty
Paul Robinson
Ohio Snow Storm Paralyzes Travel Across State
United Press dispatch from Columbus reports a severe sleet and snow storm in Ohio blocking highways with deep drifts and crippling rail and steam roads. Christmas crowds were stormbound and infrastructure suffered widespread damage including thousands of utility poles toppled in central Ohio.
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Columbus
Ohio
Oil Explosions Hit Ventura Plant Injuring Workers
A sequence of blasts at the General Petroleum absorption plant near Ventura California caused fires and multiple injuries. Several gasoline tanks exploded while rescue crews searched for missing workers.
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Ventura
Cal
General Petroleum Company
Justice Morschauser to hear Browning agputation action
Frances Browning sues Edward Browning in agputation action heard by Justice Morschauser. Prince Ludovico Spada Verali Potenziani named mayor of Rome by Premier Mussolini. Senator Hiram Johnson calls for a senatorial inquiry into the alien property custodian. Colonel George Harvey announces plans to write memoirs.
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Justice Morschauser
Frances
Peaches) Browning
Edward W
Daddy) Browning
Prince Ludovico Spada Verali Potenziani
Rome
Mussolini
Hiram Johnson
California
George Harvey
Great Brittain
Flood Threat Lifts As Cumberland River Rises In Tennessee
Nashville Tenn Dec 27 floods threaten rising Cumberland River three feet from peak with more rain forecast. Two thousand people homeless in the urban area as over two hundred homes and several businesses are flooded and water moved to toilet buildings. In surrounding districts over a thousand acres under water with several hundred evacuated. damage estimates unavailable.
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United Prays Dispatch
Nashville
Tenn
Cumberland River
Railroads reach postwar peak in 1926 record
Washington Dec 27 Railroads earned a net operating income of about 1.25 billion dollars in 1926 or roughly 5.21 percent on property investment the highest since private operation began in 1920. Freight loaded totaled about 43 260 000 cars the largest annual volume in railroad history.
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Washington
American Railway Association
United States
Youngest Indiana State Senator From Pike and Gibson
Peters burg Indiana December 27 Carl M Gray Democrat ic senator elect from Pike and Gibson counties son of ex county auditor John D Gray will be the youngest member of the Indiana legislature Gray was born September 8 1895 at Portersville Dubois county He defeated Hovey Kir l of Princeton in the November election Gray supporters push him as a future Democratic congressional nominee in two years
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Petersburg
Ind
Carl M. Gray
Pike
Gibson
John D. Gray
Senator Gray
Portersville
Dubois County
Indiana
Gray
Hovey Kirl
Princeton
Memorial Nancy Hanks Lincoln Committee to Meet This Week
Indiana news notes that the Nancy Hanks Lincoln Union memorial committee chaired by State Conservation Director Richard Lieber will hold an early week meeting in Indianapolis. The date was tentatively moved to the latter part of the week to accommodate Will Hays from New York City who will be in Sullivan for the holidays. Hays serves on the governor appointed committee to plan a Nancy Hanks Lincoln memorial in Spencer County.
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Indianapolis
Nancy Hanks
Lincoln Union Committee
Richard Lieber
Will Hays
New York City
Sullivan
Hays
Ed. Jackson
Nancy Hanks Lincoln
Spencer County
Snow and icy streets claim several lives in Indianapolis
Snow and slippery streets killed Edward Frank 11 who was run over while coasting and Mrs. John A. McGregor 48 in a bus crash. Carl Keepmaker 14 died in hospital from a car accident. Walter Hayes 45 was found dead with a head wound and suspected fall after drinking. An ongoing police investigation noted a possible fall from stairs.
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United Press Dispatch
Indianapolis
Edward Frank
John A. McGregor
Carl Keepmaker
Walter Hayes
Hayes
Oklahoma lad shot as grudge sparks deadly incident
In Ingersoll Oklahoma a night watchman C E Booth shot and killed 14 year old Gilbert Hutchinson and critically wounded his brother Roy after a confrontation in a downtown card game. The boys’ father Guy Hutchinson was wounded and taken to a hospital. Marble confessed a two year grudge over the boys teasing.
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Ingersoll
Okla
C. E. BO
Gilbert Hutchinson
Roy
Guy Hutchinson
Marble
Hutchinsons
Simplify Indiana game laws urged by official in Indianapolis
George N. Mannfield of the state conservation department calls for simplification of Indiana game laws. He says the open season for rabbits is misunderstood and notes the 1913 act restricts hunting most game to Dec 1 to April 1 while allowing rabbits Dec 20 to Jan 10, causing confusion over open seasons for rabbits and waterfowl.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Indiana
George N. Mannfield
Fish and Game Division
State Conservation Department
Mannfield
Death lurks in gift of boys hiking shoes
Reading Pennsylvania December 27 death lurked in a shiny pair of high topped hiking shoes Santa brought to 12 year old Robert Hynemans. He wore them yesterday and while climbing a partly dismantled trolley bridge fell from a girder into the Schuylkill river and drowned after about thirty minutes in icy water. Five playmates watched helplessly as he led them in follow the leader.
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Reading
Penn
Santa Claus
Robert Hynemans
Schuylkill River
Record Wheat Yield Marked at Armour & Brimble Farm
In Letshbrd Alberta on December 27 a ready made irrigated district reports a jaw dropping yield of 72 bushels per acre of turkey red winter wheat on a 37 acre field. The feat was achieved on the Armour and Brumble farm.
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Letshbridge
Alta
Armour & Brimble
Street Duel in Sedalia Ends in Attorney’s Death
In Sedalia Missouri Claud Wilkerson a 38 year old prominent attorney was shot and killed on a downtown street by R K Bardwell 60 who then surrendered to the county jail Bardwell said Wilkerson engineered a bank robbery at Pleasant Green that killed Bardwells son Elbert and Dewey Palmer. Deputy Cecil Jenkins opened fire when the suspects fled and both Palmer and Bardwell were killed.
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United Press Dispatch
Sedalia
Claud Wilkerson
R. K. Bardwell
Bardwell
Wilkerson
Cooper County
Pleasant Green
Elbert
Dewey Palmer
Palmer
Yung Bardwell
Cecil Jenkins
Boys Teased Negro Spark Fatal Oklahoma Shooting
In Ingersoll Oklahoma on December 26 14 year old Gilbert Hutchinson was killed and his brother Roy and their father Guy Hutchinson wounded when C Es Marbel a 70 year old Negro watchman at Ingersoll confessed to the killings saying the boys teased him After entering a garage he opened fire with no warning.
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Wallace ‘Probasco
Robert Hawley Ingersoll
Dollar Watchman
Ingersoll
Okla
Gilbert Hutchinson
Roy Hutchinson
Guy Hutchinson
C. Es Marbel
Hutchinsons
Marbel
Lignite Fields West of Mississippi Tapped by New Carbonizing Process
Washington December 27 The Bureau of Mines has developed a cheap carbonizing method to briquet the lignite from extensive western fields into char fuel. The process promises a viable fuel resource from deposits that currently supply a third of the nation’s solid fuels but lack sufficient heat for wide use.
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Washington
Mississippi
Bureau of Mines
Department of Commerce
Bureau
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