Joffre Death Sparks World Mourning in Paris
Paris mourns Marshal Joseph Joffre with a silent vigil in Saint Jean de Dieu hospital. Widow, daughter, and friend stand watch as guard is posted and plans for transfer to the Ecole Militaire chapel unfold. Ottawa and Canada send condolences to France on the loss of the grand Allied commander.
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Paris
Joseph Jacques Cesaire Joffre
St. Jean de Dieu
the Marne
Mme. Lafflet
Mile. Debaye
Joffre
France
Isgaly
Desmares
de Saint Servin
Ecole Militaire
Ialalque
Marne
Mme. Joffre
Marsh
The
Lindsay
Madame Joffre
Germany
Ottaws
Phillipe Rey
Marshal Joffre
George Perley
R. B. Bennett
Canarga
Canada
Weavers Strike As Miners Seek Arbitration in Burnley
Nine cotton mills in Burnley shut down as 8,500 weavers walked out to oppose the owners demand for higher loan counts. In London, South Wales coal miners urged the Labor Government to appoint an arbitrator to resolve a dispute that has halted mines and left about 140,000 men idle.
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Burnley
Eng
London
Associated
South Wales
Police Court Fines for Rides on GPR
At the police count this morning S Campbell J McDougall and G Kor dse were each fined the costs of the court for stealing rides on the GPR. Charged with sleeping van CLP premises W Cleary was allowed to go with a warning.
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S. Campbell
J. McDougall
G. Kordse
GPR
W. Cleary
Four More Indiana Banks Fail In Openings
Indianapolis news reports four Indiana banks failed to open today as State Banking Commissioner Symons cited deposit losses. The closures affect The First Indiana State Bank of Gary with $100,000 capital, Citizen's Trust and Savings Bank of Indiana Harbor with $100,000, Indiana State Bank of Indiana Harbor with $50,000, and Huntertown Bank of Huntertown with $10,000.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Indiana
Symons
First Indiana State Bank
Gary
Citizen's Trust and Savings Bank
Indiana Harbor
Indiana State Bank
Huntertown Bank
Huntertown
Allen County
Trans Atlantic Flight Delayed by Norfolk Weather
The monoplane Trade Wind awaiting a fresh start for Bermuda failed to depart after weather delays at Norfolk near Hampton Roads naval air station. Owner pilot Mrs Beryl Hart and co pilot Lieut William Maclaren could not raise a $400 deposit for sextant and fuel and canceled an early Bermuda take off. They later landed back at the base after missing Bermuda due to instrument trouble and nearing exhaustion of fuel.
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Norfolk
Bermuda
Beryl Hart
W. S. Maclaren
Associated Press
Atlantic
Hampton Roads Naval Air Station
Mia
William 8. I. Maclaren
Eorts
Maclaren
Hart
Naval Base
United States
Naval Air Station
New York
Beranit
Australian minister calls for world 100 percent pool
Vancouver dispatch reports Parker J Moloney Australian Minister of Markets and Transport argues for total international control by wheat growers. He advocates a one hundred percent pooling system with a representative board to stabilize world market prices and prevent chaotic swings in supply and prices.
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Vancouver
Jan
Parker J. Moloney
Arerirate
Sugar price cut announced by Canada and Dominion Sugar
A ten cent per hundredweight reduction in wholesale sugar prices across all grades is declared by the Canada and Dominion Sugar Company Limited of Chatham. The cut takes effect at noon today. A diverse set of other brief items closes with banking and disaster notes from across North America.
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Chatham, Ont
Canadian Press
Canada and Dominion Sugar Company, Limited
Dredger Aritan Sunk After Collision With City of Montgomery
Fifty seven officers and men were rescued after the dredger Aritan sank in New York Harbor thirty minutes after a collision with the liner City of Montgomery. The steamer struck the dredge during a heavy mist while inbound from Savannah with passengers. the Montgomery docked with bow damage.
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New York
Tifty
Army
Aritan
New York Harbor
City of Montgomery
Savannagh
Montgomery
Natives Rampage in Burma District Uprising
Burmese natives in the amethin district 250 miles north of Rangoon raided a village at jungle edge burned several buses and met police in a brief skirmish. Details are unavailable. The uprising follows a prior revolt in Thorawaddy district quelled last week by British autorities.
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Rangoon
Burma
Assocated Press
Amethin
Thorawaddy
Utonsa
Princess Louise dies in London at age sixty two
Princess Louise Victoria Alexandra Dugdale, elder sister to the King, died in her sleep at Portman Square after years of ill health. Known as Her Royal Shyness she enjoyed democratic outings and theatre connections, married at 22 to the Earl of Fife, and survived a shipwreck near Cape Spartel on the Egypt voyage. The obituary notes a tranquil life with one romance and one big adventure.
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London
Royal
Portmin Square
Princess Arthur of
Connaught
Maude Carnegie
Louise Victoria Alexandra Dugmer
Hild
Atc
Earl of Fife
Queen Victoria
Lord Fife
Exrl
Duke of Fife
Deiui
Egypt
Cape Spartel
Tangier
Mutiny on U S Freighter Ho patcong Subdues Crew
The United States freighter Ho patcong faced a mutiny as the crew deserted at Istanbul after unloading machinery from New York. Captain Bergsten was knifed in his cabin and hospitalized ten days before he and officers brought the ship to Odessa, then to Istanbul and back to the Black Sea port. They later replaced the crew with Turkish sailors and planned to sail to New York.
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Instanbul
Turkey
Associated Press
United States
Odessa
Istanbul
Black Sea
Odcesh
New York
Bergsten
Maniac Kills Two Constables in Sydney
A maniac named John Thomas Kennedy killed two constables in a Sydney suburb and was then shot dead by police. He claimed to be attacking an advancing German patrol and had a history in the Northwest Mounted Police. Kennedy, once a poet and color printer, had long lived in Australia.
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Sydney
Australia
John Thomas Kennedy
Kennedy
America
Canadian Northwest Mounted Police
Sydney Harbor
Axy
Indian self government plan debated at Round Table Conference
London reports outline a tentative cabinet scheme for a future India. Lord Sankey urged practical designs while Sir Tej Bahadur Sapra presented a detailed model of a federal system with ministers responsible to a legislature and reserved posts for army and foreign affairs during a transitional period.
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London
George Hambleton
Canidlin- Priss
Lord Sankey
Lord High Chatteglor
India
Round Table
New India
Delibates
Britain
Taj Bahadur Sapra
Sir Fe
Government of
Canada
Parliament of
Sir Tey
Sir Tej
Simpson Murder Calcutta Case Returns to Court
F A Jackerdon an Anglo Indian resident of South Calcutta was arrested and brought before the Police Magistrate at Alipore on a charge of abetting the murder of Colonel N S Simpson inspector general of prisons who was killed December 8. It was alleged that Jackerdons revolver was used by one of the assailants. Colonel Simpson was shot by three Bengalis in his office.
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Calcutta
India
Associated Press
Alipore
Colorel N. S. Simpson
Jackertson
Crew of H. M. S. Taucia Lodged After Protest Demonstration
At Devonport naval station in England the crew of the H. M. S. Taucia was lodged in naval barracks after a protest demonstration against curtailed Christmas Jenkins. An Admiralty investigation is under way and several officers have replaced crew members as the fleet maneuvers continue. No comment beyond the inquiry.
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Hod. Bate
Admiralty
Wey
Lucia
Fleet Manouevers
Wrets Devonport Naval Station
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Mymouth
Eng
Associatjid Press
Unifie
Nine bodies recovered after Midvale coal mine blast
In Midvale Ohio five men killed in the No 4 drift of the Midvale Coal Company were recovered by federal and state mine rescue crews about nine hours after the blast. The explosion occurred around 10 30 am injuring fifteen others who escaped. The dead were identified as Mark Renniker Clyde Ohler Charles Sormahen Sat Roggianni and Ludi Dealla.
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Midvale
Ohio
Midvale Coal Company
Peccuere
Mark Renniker
Clyde Ohler
Charles Sormahen
Roggianni
Recovey
Bodies Federal
Avalanches Claim Eleven Lives in Alpine France Over Weekend
Alpine avalanches near the Franco-Italian frontier cause eleven French deaths over the weekend. Notables among the victims include Theodore Webaux a Roubaix cotton magnate and his two sons, Henry Bousquet of the French Council of State, and five other climbers near Moutiers and Croix des Frettes pass. Reports say eight thousand feet peaks and heavy snow hinder rescue efforts with no word from several climbers missing.
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Gremobble
France
Associated Press
Briancon
Janetbatlde
Theodore Webaux
Roubaix
Henry Bousquet
French
Council of State
Moutiers
Paris
Croix
Des Freetes Pass
Butterflies Again From Reports Reaching The News
Grasshoppers are not the only insects frolicing out of season. Mr and Mrs weed view Court have held eight days as in repeat for the little creature making sat on the first day.
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Seation
Weef
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