24 Dec 1923
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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Dec 24, 1923
Page
1
Edmonton reports Hon. J R Boyle accuses the Greenfield government of secret law making during a three day U W A caucus. He says the session was closed to the public and aimed to push junior issue decisions behind closed doors.
The French airship Dixmude with fifty crew drifts three days over the Gulf of Gabes and Tunis. Foum Tatahouine authorities prepare a landing site with motor headlights and troops on standby. Italian posts in Tripoli ordered to watch and assist if needed.
Four men were shot during a roundup of alleged moonshiners and bootleggers in Williamson County. One is seriously wounded. Thirteen held in Franklin County jail at Benton. sixty-two at liberty on bonds between 2000 and 5000. All charged with violating the Federal prohibition law.
Rebel forces claim near Mexico City after capturing Cueranavaci forty miles south as Puebla remains under insurgent pressure. The Mexican embassy reports Obregon forces recaptured Puebla after heavy fighting in the central plateau.
In Paris on December 24 L Rappell, who says Thomas Lee Wolwine once sent him to prison in California, offered a pint of blood to Wolwine. Doctors chose a hotel maid instead as a donor, while several volunteers considered giving blood to the man.
D C Coleman vice president CPR Western lines sends holiday greetings to officers and staff. He praises their role in the greatest grain movement in transportation history and wishes a Merry Christmas and a Prosperous New Year to all along with their families.
Wladek Zbyszko, famed wrestler, files for divorce charging his wife with cruel and abusive conduct. He describes Mrs Zbyszko as a short woman of slight build, living in Biddeford Maine.
In Nome Alaska on December 24 a priest Rev E J Ruppert 8J pastor of St Josephs RC church died from exposure while delivering oranges apples and Christmas cards to the Pilgrim River orphanage. His dog Mink guarded the body and had to be captured before removal.
In Washington the capital’s bootleg scandal signals a sweeping inquiry into liquor drinking by high officials. The disappearance of a key customer list from a raid spurs demand for explanations and a possible congressional inquiry after the holidays. Efforts aim to connect prominent banking interests to the bootlegging financing.
In Londonderry on December 24 police raided a machine shop and arrested eighteen people including a Nationalist election agent amid ongoing strikes and interment releases. Four detainees had recently returned from the Free State, and searches at their homes followed. In Dublin the Free State government freed Countess Markievicz and said 481 political prisoners were released between December 15 and 23.
Termian Berth on, a Pariswoman described as a girl anarchist, was acquitted by the jury today of the January murder of Marlins Plateau a reporter for the Royalist LWAction Francaise newspaper.
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