Shake-Up Hinted in Indiana Prohibition Office
In Indianapolis federal prohibition administrator E C Yallowley and deputy A G Jamie discuss possible changes in Indiana with deputy administrator A R Harris likely reassigned. Rumors said lieutenant George Winkler could succeed Harris, a longtime Indiana prohibition group chief, as the new deputy administrator.
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E. C. Yeullowley
Chicago
Prohibition
District of
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Illinois
Wisconsin
A. G. Jamie
Federal
Department
A. R. Harris
Bert Morgan
Yallowley
Jamie
R. C. Minton
Prohibition Department
Harris
George Winkler
Winkler
Dark man sought in multiple slayings across coast
Lincoln R. Toyne chief of detectives issued pick-up orders for a dark strangler suspected of killing several women on the Pacific coast and in Council Bluffs Iowa and in Kansas City. He believes the same killer murdered Mrs. Bonnie Pace and Mrs. Germaine Harpin and Harpin's eight month old baby, with the trio slain in daylight in their homes.
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United Press Dispatch
Kansas City
Pacific Coast
Council Bluffs
Lincoln R. Toyne
Toyne
Bonnie Pace
Germaine Harpin
President Orders Limit to Activities of Marine Forges
President directs new restrictions on Marine Forges in a broad program. The order limits operations amid security and defense concerns. Officials say the measure curbs procurement and production at key facilities.
Nicarguan Mess Forces U S to Tighten Occupation Roles
Washington reports President Coolidge orders occupying forces to confine actions to protecting lives and property on Nicaragua east coast ports. The move aims to avoid disarming liberal rebels or imposing censorship as Lib erals allege. Debate grows over lifting the arms embargo for Diaz while maintaining it against Liberals. The State Department last week issued a permit for an airplane shipment to Diaz, who cannot yet fund arms purchases.
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Washington
United States
Nicarguan
Coolidge
Mexico
State Department
United Press
Diaz
Aimee Semple McPherson Kidnaping Case Faces Fresh Scrutiny
Los Angeles authorities convened a new grand jury as key witness Mrs. Weisman recanted testimony linking Aimee Semple McPherson to a kidnaping hoax. District Attorney Keys said perjured, unsupported evidence makes conviction unlikely and questioned Woolley’s framing claim.
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United Press Dispatch
Los Angeles
Cal
Aimee Semple McPherson
Asa Keys
Weisman
Keyes
Roland Rich Wooley
McPherson
Woolley
Lorraine Wiseman-Silaff
Diaz Government Says Liberal Factions Arm Them With Mexican Weapons
United States officials in Managua, Nicaragua report that the liberal opponents of the Diaz government are armed with weapons bearing Mexican shields, according to a communication to the Washington legation.
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United Press
Mangua
Nicaragua
Mexico
Washington
Indiana Board orders muzzling dogs for rabies control
The state board of health decrees all dogs at large in Indiana must be muzzled for 120 days starting January 10. Only dogs vaccinated against rabies may escape. The move comes after continued rabies spread with 418 people treated for rabies that year.
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Indianapolis
Indiana
State Board of Health
Two Admit Robbery of Stores at Hymera
Two men Cecil T. Denny 36 and Archie Weaver 18 confessed to police they are wanted for a string of Hymera Indiana store robberies. Denny also claims to be sought in Michigan City for parole violation from the Indiana state prison. They are linked to robberies at Hub clothing store C Julian general store and Pearl theatre in Hymera.
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ST. Louis
Cecil T. Denny
Archie Weaver
Hymera
Ind
Denny
Michigan City
Indiana State Prison
Hub
C. Julian
Pearl Theatre
Southern Flood Nears Crest Amid Widespread Destruction
The central south floodwaters threaten crest tonight as waters in five states push toward peak levels. The disaster toll climbs to 17 deaths with thousands displaced and millions in crop and property damage across affected areas.
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UNETD
Memphis
Tenn
Central South
Chicago liquor graft placed at 30 000 000
Chicago district attorney Edwin A Olson reports a graft estimate of 30 million dollars over four years in the nineteen northern Illinois counties. He cites Volstead act enforcement prospects and praises injunctions to padlock illicit liquor operations while noting many padlock orders despite few federal judges.
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Illinois
Edwin A. Olson
Washington
Lex Cal
Prohibition
Olson
Notable Figures Mentioned In The News Update
Professor Michael J. Papin of Columbia University is described as an internationally famous scientist. Martha Attwood, Metropolitan opera singer, was injured in a New York taxi accident. Major General Mason M Patrick, air corps chief, was to be summoned to brief Congress on forces. Professor Kirsopp Lake Winn of Harvard planned a trip to Palestine to photograph rare manuscripts at St. Catherine's Monastery.
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Columbia University
Martha Attwood
New York
Mason M. Patrick
Air Corps
Congress
Kirsopp Lake Winn
Harvard
Palestine
St. Catherine’s Monastery
Arguments Renewed In Stephenson Case
Michigan City Dec 80 Arguments on petition for a writ of habeas corpus for UD C Stephenson were resumed today. It is possible arguments finish tonight. Stephenson former grand dragon of the Indiana Ku Klux Klan says he is unlawfully held since the Marion circuit clerk failed to sign the transcript and venue change to Hamilton circuit. He was sentenced to life on Nov 16 1925. State’s attorneys will contest the writ arguing Stephenson waived jurisdiction by voluntarily going to trial. Attorney General Arthur L Gilliam made a brief statement.
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Madge Oberholtzer
Indianapolis
Stephenson
Hinchal
Arthur L. Gilliam
Two Trainmen Killed In Lehigh Valley Wreck
A fast freight collided with a slow freight near Rumfield causing the deaths of locomotive engineer Johnson and fireman N J Lengan aboard the Lehigh Valley Railroad freight train.
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Sayre
I A
Lehigh Valley
Rummerfield
Johnson
N. J. Lengan
British freighter Clearton adrift off Baltimore with forty aboard
The steam ship Clearton, a British freighter carrying forty crew, is drifting helplessly about five hundred miles east of Baltimore after an SOS message detected by the Independent Radio company this morning.
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New York
Baltimore
Independent Radio Company
Government to remove poison from industrial alcohol
Secretary of the Treasury Mellon announced plans to end poison in industrial alcohol soon. Federal chemists are developing a denaturing formula to render commercial alcohol nauseating and unpalatable but not poisonous.
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United Press Dispatch
Washington
Secretary of the Treasury
Mellon
Congress probes government poisoning of industrial alcohol
Senator Edwards of New Jersey demands full Treasury details on denatured alcohol poisonings after Christmas deaths, seeks to end poisoning and change laws. He accuses the government of sanctioning murder by allowing deadly additives and calls for immediate action to withdraw poisoned liquor from the market.
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Edwards
New Jersey
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Andrews
Congress
Lincoln C. Andrews
Wil
Wayne B. Wheler
Treasury Department
Boy on Sled Killed in Indiana Accident
In Anderson Indiana Billy Morrison a 9 year old son of a wire mill superintendent was fatally injured when struck by a car driven by Mrs. Robert Campbell wife of a lumber mill official. He died at a hospital three hours after the crash while coasting on a sled. He had a broken leg from a similar mishap a year earlier.
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Ind
Billy Morrison
Robert Campbell
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