Ferguson Denies All Charges Amid Texas Board Row
In Fort Worth Texas Technological College chairman Amon G Carter denies Governor Miriam A Ferguson’s demand for his resignation. He says the move aims to divert attention from highway disclosures and affirms his four year term and duty to the college.
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Fort Worth
Texas
A. P
Amon G. Carter
Texas Technological College
Miriam A. Ferguson
Fergusons
Justin
Hderraqvernor
Charze Meenti
Neff
Gov- Jim
Texas University
Jim
Tex
Cire
Technological College
T of Texas
News-Star Christmas Fund Seeks Ouachita Help
The News-Star reports a Christmas fund drive by the Good Fellows and Ouachita parish aims to aid needy families. Donations from individuals and groups, including specific gifts listed, will be collected at 7 Second Street to support toys groceries and other holiday necessities for Christmas.
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H Fellows Fund
Erson
Non Messenger
Ouachita
Louisiana Queen of Golf Tournament Opens at Report Country Club
In Shifting qualifiers at Report Country Club in Baton Rouge four contestants began their bid for the Queen of Louisiana title. The event opens with a schedule of matches, handicaps, and prizes including silver putter and basket awards for flight winners.
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Ieveport
Queen of
Seratch
Forersons
Slayings Stir Amid Youth Booze Party In New York
George Nye a 19 year old was found slain after a party with minors in the Bronx. Gordon Pierie 19 confessed and surrendered after the body was found under a bed. Police say the case highlights troubled home life and risky teen social behavior.
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New York
A. P
George Nye
McGeehan
Gordon Pierie
Pierie
Bronx
Nye
Margaret
Pierre
Violet Schmid
Mr. McGeehan
Muscle Shoals reports made known at capital today
Washington December 1 The Muscle Shoals commission issued its two reports. The majority backs leasing the Shoals property or government operation if a satisfactory lease cannot be obtained. The minority urges leasing Wilson Dam plus nitrate plant No 2 power for up to 50 years under conditions.
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Washington
A. F
Muscle Shoals Commission
Muscle Shoals
Wilson Dam
Nitrate Plant No. 2
McKenzie
Dial
South Carolina
R. F. Bower
Harry A. Curtis
Yale
William McClellan
New York
Congress
Storm Warning Issued for Atlantic Seaboard
Weather Bureau forecasts strong winds and probable gales along the entire Atlantic seaboard within 24 hours. Advisory 9:30 a.m. orders northeast storm warnings north of Jacksonville to Boston as a tropical-origin storm off northeast Florida moves northeastward with increasing intensity.
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Washington
A. P
Atlantic Seaboard
Weather Bureau
Jacksonville
Boston
Mass
Florida
European Powers Sign Locarno Pact and Arbitration Pacts
London reports Germany and neighbors signing the Locarno treaty and collateral arbitration pacts to guarantee peace and submission of frontier disputes. Leaders Luther Briand Chamberlain Browd, Vandervelde Skrzynski Benes signed, with Chamberlain using a gold quill.
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London
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Germany
Europe
Versailles
Luther
Briand
France
Chamberlain
Great Britain
Foreign Office
Italy
Belgium
Poland
Czecho-Slovakia
Baldwin
Locarno
Sir Cecil Hurst
Stresemann
Vandervelde
Signor Scialoia
Count Skrzynsky
Dr. Benes
Slowalda
Czecho Slovakia
Austen Chamberlain
M. Braind
Dr. Stresemann
German Republic
Emil Vanderveld
Regium
Count Stalia
M. Skrzynski
Szocho-Slovakia
Edouard Benes
Bishop Sees Union Vote as Great Victory
Bishop Edwin Holt Hughes calls the Methodist Episcopal Church split vote a great victory as northern and southern branches move toward possible unification. He notes near 95 percent support in the northern church and a projected constitutional two thirds for unification, while the South falls short. The AP reports the bishops' forthcoming official tally on December 11.
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Chicago
A. P
Methodist Episcopal Church, South
Edwin Holt Hughes
Methodist Episcopal Church
Hughes
William F. McDowell
Washington, D. C
The
South
R. J. Wade
General Conference
Associated Press
Nashville, Tenn
College of Bishops
Nine Die When Train Hits Car Near Blytheville Ark
Nine members of two families die instantly when St. Louis-San Francisco Train 801 strikes their automobile at Archill and a flag station near Blytheville Arkansas. Clem Oxford 83 and his son Lawrence Oxford 30 die with seven grandchildren aged 2 to 9. Lawrence’s wife and other children also perish. One Oxford child survives and is hospitalized likely to recover. Lawrence had recently moved from Maiden Missouri.
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St. Louis-San Francisco
St. Louis
Memphis
Here
Clem Oxford
Lawrence Oxford
Clem
Lawrence
Archill
Maiden
Husband Shot While Trying to See Wife in New Orleans
Harry Stevens, 37, was shot and seriously wounded early today as police say he tried to break into a house where his wife lived after she refused to return to him following a separation. William Hunter, 28, tenant in the house, was charged with the shooting and a police bullet deflection narrowly saved a officer. Mrs Stevens said she married Stevens eleven years ago and separated six months ago. A 1925 police report noted Mrs Stevens chasing him to another woman’s house and slashing the woman with a razor.
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New Orleans
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Harry Stevens
Stevens
William Hunter
Satterwhite Calls Special Texas Legislature for January
Texas Speaker Lee Satterwhite declared he will convene the House January 4 to investigate Governor Miriam A Ferguson with a special session. The call will be publicized December 20 as required by law, while Ferguson opposes the move. Further tension arose over Governor Ferguson’s push to oust Fort Worth publisher Amon G. Carter and a $500 reward offer for liquor-law violators. Attorney General Moody’s suit against Hoffman Construction was postponed due to the defendant’s president recovering from illness.
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Austin
Texas
Miriam A
Texas Legi
House
Jamiuson
Yesterda
Stat
Gai
Miram Gon
More Sun
A. P
Miriam A. Ferguson
Lee Satterwhite
Amarillo
Ferguson
Nwspaper
Baltimore Sun
Satterwhite
Amon G. Carter
Fort Worth
Texas Technological College
Atticus Webb
Anti-Saloon League
Moody
Hoffman Construction Company
Wilson Seeks Cotton Acreage Cut for 1926 Meeting
Louisiana agriculture commissioner Harry D. Wilson has invited state agriculture chiefs from southern states plus Missouri to a December 30 meeting in Atlanta or Memphis to discuss methods of reducing the 1926 cotton acreage. Senators and congressmen will be invited as well.
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Atlanta
Memphis
Harry D. Wilson
Louisiana
Wilson
River Stage Readings For Mississippi And Ouachita Regions
River stages show Memphis at 19.0 with a fall of 0.5, Vicksburg 82.2 down 0.5, New Orleans 9.3 down 0.1, Shreveport 10.4 down 0.2, Alexandria 11.9 down 0.5. Ouachita measurements include Camden 10.9 rising 0.8 and Monroe 29.8 with no change.
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Memphis
Vicksburg
New Orleans
Red
Shreveport
Alexandria
Ouachita
Camden
Monroe
Caddo fan guides go cart and babe down busy street
Shreveport, La., Dec. 1. Fred Crowder pushes a baby carriage through the main street as a wager loss celebration after Tulane leads Centenary 14 to 0. In the carriage is Charles Schober Jr., with placards mocking Tulane and predicting Centenary for next year.
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Babe
Shreveport
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Tulane
Centenary
Fred Crowder
Tom Parker
Charles Schober
C. Schober, Jr
Parker
Crowder
Baby Schober
Peggy
Drilling Resumes on Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial
Drilling on the Confederate monument at Stone Mountain resumes after a spring stoppage. Sculptor Augustus Lukeman arrives to direct work, planning to remove excess stone and complete the Hall of Memory model features a 13 column entrance and 13 panels for Southern founders, with a memory figure and grand stairways leading to a lagoon and amphitheatre for 10 000 spectators.
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Atlanta
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Stone Mountain
Augustus Lukeman
Lukeman
Union
McNamara and Georgetti Lead in Six Day Bike Race
In New York at Madison Square Garden the pair McNamara Georgetti led by one lap after 35 hours, covering 623 miles and 8 laps. Linari Benezatto trailed one lap back, with Jockler Stockholm and Wambst Lacquehay three laps behind. The 35th hour record stands at 754 miles and 9 laps set by Cameron Kaiser in 1915.
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New York
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McNamara
Georgeti
New
Madison Square Garden
Linari
Benezatto
Jockler-Stockholm
Wambst-Lacquehay
Cameron
Kaiser
Southern Mills Adopt 55 Hour Week Across South
Reports to Wilson Compton show major lumber operations in the South moving to a 55 hour week with a half day Saturday shutdown. The shift aims to replace the former sixty hour schedule and will soon cover most firms in the region, affecting about 100000 to 150900 workers.
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Washington
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South
Wilson Compton
National Lumber Manufacturers Association
Wall Fire in Lake Charles Destroys Block Trapping Three
A large blaze on Ryan Street Lake Charles Louisiana early today killed Hollis Vincent and Bill Guillotte both city volunteers and seriously wounded Ben Collins a firefighter. The fire damaged the Arcade Moss and Palace Grocery buildings with losses estimated up to 1 million and power and phone service knocked out.
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Hollis Vincent
Bill Guillotte
Ben Collins
Ryan Street
Press Vincent
Yellow Car Company
Bex Collins
Louisiana Electric Company
Geary
Cumberland Company
New Orleans
F. K. Wood
Louisiana
Bob Hawkins
Palace Grocery Company
Hub Kinder
No. 1
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Rigmaiden Hotel
Goosport
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