Conference Aims to End Anthracite Strike Tomorrow
William Green of the AFL predicts settlement within ten days as miners reject operator offers and preparations begin for joint talks at the Union League Club. Major Inglis and the operators’ scale committee arrive tonight, with United Mine Workers President Lewis leading the miners tomorrow.
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York
William Green
American Federation of Labor
Green
United States
Union League Club
W. W. Inglis
Lewis
United Mine Workers
Chicago registers seven fatalities in 24 hours
United Press reports a severe cold wave with sub zero readings across the nation. Chicago alone records thirteen deaths in forty eight hours as Central and Midwest states face record lows. Temperatures fall to 26 below in Chicago and extend to Indiana and Iowa with near zero or lower readings elsewhere.
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United Press Dispatch
United States Weather Bureau
Washington
North Atlantic
Middle Western
Chicago
Agheville
Atlanta
Roanoke
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Madison
Wis
Milwaukee
Springfield
Ill
Indiana
Carroll
Iowa
Middle West
Gruneberg Theatre Realty Co Indicted in Large Fraud
Federal indictments target Frederick H. Gruneberg Sr and his son over a mail fraud scheme harming thousands of Hoosiers and Chicago residents. Officials report a 56 000 name sucker list and losses totaling about 3 million dollars from teachers, businessmen, and laborers.
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Chicago
Consolidated Theater and Realty Co
Indianapolis
Frederick H. Gruneberg, Sr
Gruneberg
New Orleans
Indiana
Butler Rejoins Marine Corps Leads San Diego Command
Brigadier General Smedley Butler, once a key Philadelphia figure, today withdrew his resignation and was appointed commander of the Marine base at San Diego California.
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United Press Dispatch
Washington
Smedley Butler
Philadelphia
Marine Corps
Marine
San Diego
Calif
Butler Seeks Return to Brigadier General Rank
General Smedley D. Butler heads to Washington to win back his Marine Corps brigadier general commission, after resigning to serve as Philadelphia public safety director. He intends to return to the Marines for his “comfortable job,” saying it’s no use pretending to be a mendicant.
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Pittsburgh
Smedley D. Butler
Washington
Marine Corps
Philadelphia
Butler
Marines
Labor Federation Chief Warns Against Soviet Trip
President William Green warns AFL affiliated unions against sending a workmen’s committee to Russia to study the Soviet government. He says the plan serves communists, would whitewash Sovietism, and is not representative of the labor movement or in workers’ interest. He urges loyal unionists to oppose the scheme.
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Washington
American Federation of Labor
William Green
Russia
Green
Federation
Atlantic City
United States
Labor Movement
American Labor Movement
Cal S
United Press Dispatch reports in Indianapolis on December 28 that the No Tobacco League of America urged President Coolidge to quit smoking to set a good example for American boys. Charles Fillmore, executive chairman, sent the appeal asking the president to forego his daily cigars.
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United Press Dispatch
Indianapolis
Coolidge
Boys of America
No Tobacco League of America
Charles Fillmore
League
Col John C Coolidge Stricken With Paralysis
Plymouth Vermont December 28 Colonel John C Coolidge father of the president has been stricken with paralysis affecting his right leg and ordered to bed by Dr Albert M Cram. Dr Cram does not deem the condition immediately serious and has informed President Coolidge by long distance call to Major James F Coupal the president's personal physician in Washington.
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United Press Dispatch
Plymouth
John C. Cooldge
Albert M. Cram
Cram
Coolidge
James F. Coupal
Washington
Prohibition Chief urges public sentiment to curb liquor demand
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Andrews on a coast inspection trip said if people keep demanding liquor, the government cannot stop bootlegging. He urged creating anti drinking sentiment and stronger court penalties, blaming judiciary and urging more judges and voter action, especially by women, to enforce the law. He notes smuggling challenges along the Georgia coast and planned to rejoin the cutter Modoc to proceed to Key West and Havana.
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ST. Catherine Island
Andrews
America
Congress
South Georgia
Modoc
Brunswick
Key West
Havana
Sutherland Named Alien Property Custodian
Howard Sutherland formerly WV senator now serves as Alien Property Custodian succeeding General Cavan. Hugh S. Gibson travels to Geneva with U.S. delegation to push world arms limitation talks. Mrs. Thomas J. Preston Jr. joins the board of directors at the Gamp Fire Gilts.
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Howard Sutherland
West Virginia
Cavan
Hugh S. Gibson
Switzerland
United States
Geneva
Thomas J. Preston Jr
Grover Cleveland
Gamp Fire Gilts
McCray in Hospital After Blood Pressure Break
Former Indiana Governor Warren T. McCray, jailed for mail fraud, has been moved to the federal prison hospital in Atlanta after a hypertensive breakdown. He is not seriously ill and will receive lighter duties upon recovery, including removal from editing the prison magazine Good Words and print shop supervision.
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Atlanta
Warren T. McCray
Indiana
Federal
McCray
Automobile crash saves three in Mt. Vernon fire response
In Mt. Vernon Indiana Rev Walter Shaffettr and his Fort Branch wife and C Roeder of Evansville were spared after a fire truck hurtled their car forty feet into a house wall. The vehicle was wrecked but all three occupants escaped injury.
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United Press Dispatch
MT. Vernon
Ind
Walter Shaffettr
Fort Branch
C. Roeder
Evansville
Babe Found in Cold named Below, Zero
Chicago officials name the foundling Esther Below Zero after a baby left in a woman's coat on a Chicago street at dawn Sunday. Physicians estimate birth around Christmas Day. Police seek the mother who could not care for the child.
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Babe
Chicago
Esther
Christmar
Indianapolis man seeks half interest sale in Bedford-Linton bus line
J. W. Belyou of Linton filed a petition with the public service commission on December 28 to obtain authority to sell a one half interest in his Bedford to Linton bus line operation.
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Indianapolis
J. W. Belyou
Linton
Public Service Commission
Bedford
Liton
Refrigerator Plant Planned on Logansport Site
Logansport Indiana December 28 plans completed to convert the former Revere Automobile plant into refrigerator production. The bankrupt auto factory since 1919 has been sold to Universe Manufacturing Company, makers of refrid erators.
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Logansport
Ind
Revere Automobile
The
Auto Company
Universe Manufacturing Co
Problems Now Facing Indiana Rural Schools
United Press report from Indianapolis notes rural Indiana education faces rising issues. State Superintendent Dr H N Sherwood will lead a January 12 conference of county school superintendents at the Lincoln Hotel with speakers such as Dr George Albert Coe of Columbia University. The meeting may yield action plans amid a critical state of educational needs and coordination with township trustees and the state farm bureau.
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Indianapolis
Indiana
H. N. °. Sherwood
George Albert Coe
Columbia University
Sherwod
Lincoln Hotel
Township Trustee’s Association
Sherwood
County Superintendents
State Farm Bureau
Ice Clogs Ohio River Halted Ferry Service Suspended
River traffic on the Ohio is halted as ice floes fill the channel three-quarters. Steam boats moved to Green River or behind locks for protection, and ferry service across the river is discontinued indefinitely.
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Evansville
Ind
Ohio River
Green River
Ohio
Mysterious Gift Reported to Presbyterian Old Ladies Home
In New Albany Indiana on December 28 1928 the board of directors announced a gift of 40000 from a donor identified as RE Bishop. The board and city elders do not recognize the name and none of the oldest residents recall him.
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New Albany
Ind
Presbyterian Old Ladies’ Home
RE. Bishop
Jackson Day Dinner Invites 24 Democratic Governors
Chicago December 28 Democratic governors invited to attend the Jackson Day dinner on January 8. Gov Alfred C. Ritchie of Maryland, named for 1928 presidential nomination, will be principal speaker. Dinner held under the Iroquois Club.
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Chicago
Alfred C. Ritchie
Maryland
Iroquois Club
Deluge of Juvenile Crimes During Holidays
Indianapolis officials report a holiday rise in juvenile crimes as children shop without supervision. In six weeks about 150 youths faced store theft charges, many confessing to detailed knowledge of local shops and using Santa invitations to skip school.
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United Press Dispatch
Indianapolis
Man Scalped by Indians Dies at 109
Henry Mills a former Texas Ranger died in Globe Arizona at age 199 years. He was scalped by Indians near Duncan Prairie Texas half a century earlier, left for dead but revived and escaped. The scar kept him always in a hat, and he avoided public view without headwear.
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Globe, Ariz
Henry Mills
Texas
Duncan Prairie
Tex
Millis
Indiana Faces Severe Cold Wave Across State
Shivering Hoosiers endure the cold as temperatures dip to 10 below zero in Noblesville Marion and Ft Wayne. Indianapolis records seven below with zero pockets in the southwest. Fires tied to the cold number 46 in Indianapolis as aid appeals rise state wide.
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Indianapolis
Indiana
Weather Bureau
Noblesville
Marion
White River
Ft. Wayne
Newcastle
Anderson
Evansville
Washington
Maternity Hospital Fire Forces Mothers to Safety
Fire at the Salvation Army maternity hospital in Jersey City NJ drives 18 mothers and newborns to safety. Sixteen mothers are carried from the third floor via ladders to a narrow ledge and then to the ground by firemen police and hospital staff.
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N J
Salvation Army
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