Gas Blast Traps Men At Overton Mine No 2
Rescue crews race to Overton Mine No 2 as 30 to 40 workers feared dead after a gas explosion near Birmingham Alabama. Officials report 70 entombed or missing with many injured while gas and fire hinder escape and rescue efforts.
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Birmingham
Ala
A. P
Overton
Alabama Fuel and Iron Company
Ferney Hess
James Patton
South Highland
United States Bureau of Mines
Overton Mine No
Quake Visits City Kingston No Damage Done
Severe tremors were recorded in Chicago at 8 21 this morning with the quakes peaking at 8 33 and continuing until 8 40 while Jamaica Kingston felt a sharp shock about 11 o clock lasting about two seconds. No damage reported.
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Kingston
Chicago
A. P
United States Weather Bureau Seismograph
University of Chicago
Jamaica
Pec
Joiner Found Guilty of Murdering La. Dentist
Oscar Joiner was found guilty of the murder of Dr. J. A. Cannon a dentist on the Denham Springs road the night of October 11. The idiot carries the death penalty. The jury retired at 7 o clock last night and returned a verdict this morning. The defense was granted seven days to perfect an appeal.
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Centerville
A. P
Oscar Joiner
J. A. Cannon
Denham Springs
Clara Bow to Wed Don Ald Keith This Christmas Day
Actress Clara Bow plans a Christmas Day wedding to leading man Don Ald Keith after a budding romance on screen. The couple’s nuptials were announced as public interest grows in Hollywood cinema pairings.
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Clara Bow
Donald Keith
Air Bureau Recommended to Aid U S Progress
Washington reports the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics urges creation of a bureau of air navigation in the Department of Commerce to regulate and foster commercial aviation. President Coolidge backs continued aeronautical research and stable leadership to advance the industry nationwide.
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Washington
A. P
Bureau of Air Navigation
Department of Commerce
Shenandoah
Congress
National Advisory Committee For Aeronautics
Coolidge
America
Air Board
Ohio University Instructor Sold Liquor Charge
Ohio State University English graduate instructor Dabney Horton freed on a 1000 dollar bond faces liquor making apparatus charges. An order book found at his home shows names with numbers indicating delivery quantities for Christmas. Prohibition commissioner B F McDonald notes penalties likely include fines, not prison.
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Columbus
Ohio
A. P
B. F. McDonald
Dabney Horton
Ohio State University
Liberty
McDonald
Horton
River Stage Readings For Mississippi And Red Rivers
River stage updates report measurements across Mississippi and Red River regions. Memphis shows 17.7 feet with a 0.2 rise, Vicksburg 26.6 with a 0.4 fall, New Orleans 8.1 down 0.3, and Shreveport 8.8 down 0.1. In Louisiana and Arkansas areas Camden 8.9 down 0.2 and Monroe 25.9 down 0.3.
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Mississippi
Memphis
Vicksburg
New Orleans
RED
Shreveport
Lexandria
Uachita
Camden
Monroe
Frank Cox Convicted of Murder After Second Trial
In Bastrop on December 10 1920 Frank Cox was found guilty of murder in the second trial for killing his brother in law Will Pickett at Spyker. The jury rejected capital punishment after 24 hours of deliberation. Cox had surrendered after the Septembers shooting following a long family dispute.
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News-Star
Bastrop
Frank Cox
Will Pickett
Cox
Pickett
Spyker
Picket
Underwood Attacks Federal Inheritance Tax Plan
Senator Underwood denounces the federal inheritance tax portion of the revenue bill as communistic and an unwarranted intrusion on states rights. Speaking before Texas legislators and other state representatives, he questions the 80 percent credit against state taxes and argues against forced state taxation.
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Washington
A. P
Underwood
Alabama
Texas
United States
Florida
Naion
Forty New Names Added to Louisiana Pension List
Baton Rouge action by the pension board adds forty new names to the state rolls. The move partly replaces Confederate veterans who died since the last meeting as more than 100 pensioners have died in the past three months. Eleven Confederate veterans and twenty nine widows were added, with about 350000 dollars estimated for pensions in the last quarter of 1925.
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Baton Rouge
A. P
Pension Board
North Carolina U Bars Dances in Rum Crusade
UNC will suspend all dances until after Easter and bar hold of regular finals based on post Easter conduct. Dr H W Chase announced a university inquiry into alleged drinking at the Thanksgiving dance and said ten students were placed on probation for the rest of the term.
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North Carolina
Chapel Hill
N. C
A. P
University of North Carolina
H. W. Chase
University Council
Judge Carver Near Death at Home in Caddo Parish
Judge M. H. Carver of the third district court of appeals, based in Shreveport, is critically ill at his home. The 1924 appointment by Governor Fuqua marked one year on the circuit bench. Doctors cited a violent coughing spell and possible inhaled tobacco fragment as the cause. He moved to Shreveport from Natchitoches and had just finished a day’s work before falling ill.
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Shrevepport
M. H. Carver
Third District Court of Appeals
Louisiana
Natchitoches
Carver
Charles Vernon Porter
Christmas Holiday Fund Totals $240 for Today
The 1925 Good Fellows Club reports slow donations but affirms continued need for holiday aid. The fund total stands at 217.50 previously acknowledged plus 20.00 from Modern Woodmen of America and 2.50 from Mrs. O. W. Douglass.
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Good Fellows Club
Good Fellows Fund
Good Fellows
Woodmen of America
O. W. Douglass
Claims He Can Turn Self Into Buzzard Is Jailed
In Richmond Virginia Sam Washington a black man was jailed after a woman alleged he offered to turn himself into a turkey buzzard to fly out of jail in exchange for $15. The judge pressed him to prove the claim but he admitted he could not transform and was held for further action.
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Buzzard
Richmond
A. P
Sam Washington
Sam
Maurice
Jedge
Oman
Massacre claims in Mosul region spark League dispute
Esthenian Agent accuses Turkish soldiers of massacres and deportations of Christians along the Mosul frontier in northern Mesopotamia. Turkish foreign minister refuses League talks as Laidoner reports villages occupied, arms confiscated, and civilians abandoned, with many deaths and survivors in dire condition.
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Geneva
A. P
Tewfikrushi Bey
Associated Press
Council of the League of Nations
Mosul
Mesopotamia
M. Laidoner
Esthénia
League of Nations
League Council
Angora
League
Great Britain
Laidoner
Brussels
Baton Rouge Dock Plan Aims to Speed Mississippi Traffic
A conference among Gulf Coast line officials and city representatives reached tentative agreements to make Baton Rouge an interchange point for steel and other goods moving from Mississippi barges to rail. The plan includes a city owned track barge, transfer operations, and rail car loading with costs backed by a $50,000 grant and a crane totaling $20,000, plus about $90,600 in borrowing.
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Baton Rouge
A.P
Mississippi River
Gulf Coast Lines
Y. and M, V. Railroad
Theodore Brent
Mississippi Barge Service
Southern Pacific
Y. and M. V
L. R and N
North Baton Rouge
J. F. Walker
Illinois Central Railroad
Southern Railway declares quarterly dividend raise
The Southern Railway company announces a quarterly dividend of 1.75 dollars on common stock, up 50 cents. The stock basis rises to seven dollars from five, with dividends payable February 1 to shareholders of record January 5.
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Southern Railway
New York
A. P
Southern Railway Company
Roberson Hears Death Sentence Read In Court
Howard Roberson was read his execution warrant this morning in a police court room. Sheriff Coverdale said the governor must act by January 15 to stay the sentence. Roberson asked to see his attorney’s petition and to consult a pastor while awaiting the hanging.
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Howard Roberson
Epstein
Roberson
Howard
Coverdale
Board of Pardons
Sheriff Roper
Caddo Parish
Luther Hays
Shreveport
Hays
Bastrop
Morehouse Capitol
Thought It Was Her Husband Says Wife Who Threw Tomatoes
Berlin court heard Mrs. Wuschek claim she threw a package of tomatoes from a third story window believing it was her husband returning from a skat tournament. Carl Fischer, a famed Berlin skat player, survived the toss and quipped that he was not her husband. The court fined Mrs. Wuschek seven dollars and fifty cents plus costs.
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Berlin
A. P
Carl Fischer
Fischer
Missouri Pacific to open office in Virginia Hotel
Missouri Pacific Railroad will open a ticket office on the first floor of the Virginia Hotel facing St John street with interior hotel access. The move follows discussions with the Chamber of Commerce and local officials to support anticipated industrial growth in Monroe and Twin Cities of the Ouachita.
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Missouri-Pacific Railroad Company
New Virginia
C. E. Perkins
Mr. Perkins
A. D. Bell
B. 5. Betts
C. W. Mitchell
Chamber of Commerce
Railway
L. W. Baldwin
D. F. Walker
Chamber
Mr. Baldwin
Monroe
Baldwin
Perkins
St. John Street
Missouri Pacific Railway
Ouachita
Missouri Pacific
Monro
Witness Assault Strikes LA District Attorney in LaCaze Trial
In Lake Charles Louisiana Earl Diefendorf a federal prisoner struck Assistant District Attorney Sam H Jones during the Wilbur Dutch LaCaze motor vehicle theft trial. Judge Dawkins postponed further action on Diefendorf who said he hit out of defense of his people. Contempt fines were levied against two men connected to witnesses for speaking in court.
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Lake Charles
A. P
Sam H. Jones
Fuuireteenth Judicial District
Wilbur
LaCaze
Jones
Diefendorf
J. D. Frazer
Beauregard Parish
United States
Ben C. Dawkins
W. J. Diefendorf
DeRidder
Earl
Lloyd Gibson
Earl Diefendorf
C. L. Ellis
Beaumont
Texas
Mr. Jones
Missing witness finally appears in Louisiana motor theft trial
Wilbur LaCaze former DeRidder police chief faces charges of violation and conspiracy to violate the national motor vehicle theft act in federal court at Lake Charles. Harvey Slaydon's appearance as a missing defense witness delayed proceedings as jurors were selected and opening statements were heard.
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Lake Charles
A. P
Wilbur
LaCaze
DeRidder
Harvey Slaydon
Washington lawmakers and industry groups meet at noon
The Senate and House convene at noon as the American Mining Congress holds its annual convention. The House debates the tax reduction bill while industrial leaders open a conference on government in industry. The House Republican committee on committees meets to assign posts. The Mitchell court martial continues Army rebuttal evidence.
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Senate
House
American Mining Congress
Industrial
House Republican Committee On Committees
Mitchell
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MO Pacific
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