Major Leagues Convene As Season Outlooks Brighten
National and American League owners meet in Chicago with Commissioner Landis receiving praise for steady leadership. Seventeen rule amendments will be considered in joint session while major and minor leagues report deals including Johnny Evers joining the White Sox and Carl Mays moving to Cincinnati. Paul Strand joins Philadelphia Athletics from Salt Lake City as a Pacific Coast League hitting sensation. National League owners reject restoring the draft as Sam Breadon asserts Hornsby is not for sale despite a $275,000 Brooklyn offer.
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Associated Press
Chicago
American Baseball Leagues
K. M.adis
National League
Landis
Johnny Evers
White Sox
Carl Mays
Yanks
Cincinnati
Philadelphia Athletics
Paul Strand
Salt Lake City
Conie Mack
Sam Breadon
St. Louis Cardinals
Hornsby
Brooklyn
Races in Prospect Between Zev and Epinard Discussed
Wertheimer Belmont and Sinclair confer on next year races for Epinard and Zev potentially in the United States or France. Possible inclusion of Papyrus In Memoriam and My Own with a variable distance series and possible International Cup. Tunney may meet Carpentier at Madison Square Garden in late January or February. Gooseman defeats Hauser in first round. Babe Herman and Mike Dundee draw in ten rounds.
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New York
Pierre Wertheimer
August Belmont
Jockey Club
Epinard
Zev
M. Wertheimer
Belmont
Sinclair
Denver
Papyrus
Latonia
Gene Tunney
Georges Carpentier
Madison Square Garden
ST. Louis
Ernie Gooseman
Jack Hauser
Hauser
Babe Herman
Mike Dundee
Rock Island
Ili
Rairden Couple Sentenced for Forgery in Ouachita
Howard and Wilma Rairden were sentenced in district court to from eighteen months to two years for forging a check drawn on J. L. Kaliski and attempted to cash it at Ouachita National Bank. They reportedly came to the city from London Mississippi.
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Howard
Wilma Rairden
Rairdens
J. L. Kaliski
Ouachita National Bank
London
Miss
American Finance Experts to Take Part in Probe
Washington reports that American unofficial aid will assist European allies in a German reparations inquiry. The Reparations Commission will appoint American experts to join two committees examining German finances and related issues, with Charles G. Dawes viewed as a likely member.
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Presa
Washington
Reparations Commission
Charles G. Dawes
Chicago
U S Views With Favor on Uno Reparations Committee
Colonel James A Logan notified Louis Baithen that the U S government favored American experts serving on proposed committees to investigate Germanys finances. The move would value the inquiry and aligns with the United States as a creditor and stakeholder in European economic reparations.
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Associated Press
James A. Logan
Allellet
Louis Baitheu
U. S
Germany
Logan
Europe
Birmingham Police Believe Ax Murderer Has Been Apprehended
Birmingham officials say Fred Glover a identified suspect in the city ax murders as a bloody hatchet and pistol are found in his room and his convict record supports links to the case. Residents remain skeptical after numerous prior arrests in the series of attacks and injuries.
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Birmingham
Birmigham
Fred Glover
Glover
Edwin Sparks
County Bureau of
Dobut
Indicted Tried and Sentenced in Short Time
Indicted, tried and sentenced to 16 years in the state penitentiary within less than an hour marked a Vicksburg record. A. C. Armon, Harry Gordon, and James J. Sullivan were charged in a highway robbery tied to kidnapping of Jonas Stafford, a Vicksburg taxi driver. They bound and robbed Stafford near Greenwood, left him in a schoolhouse, then were arrested in Turnica and brought to Vicksburg, where the grand jury indicted them and the trial lasted about thirty minutes.
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Vicksburg
Mics
A. C. Armon
Harry Gordon
James J. Sullivan
Jonas Stafford
Armon
Gordon
Sullivan
Stafford
Greenwood
Turnica
Miss
Funeral Attendance For H B McEachern In Shreveport
Large crowd attended the funeral of H B McEachern 66 president of Citizens bank of Haynesville La a longtime resident born there and raised in the town The service drew mourners from the local community and region to pay final respects to the banker and towns figure.
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Associated Press
Shreveport
Haynestville
H. B. McEachern
Citizens’ Bank
Crossett Accident Deaths Mount Among Lumber Workers
Ellis Watson of Mississippi died at Crossett hospital from burns after a gasoline cab explosion in a rail car near Crossett last Friday. He was the third fatality in the incident at the Crossett Lumber Company yard in Morehouse parish near the Louisiana Arkansas line. eight to ten other men were badly burned and several bruised.
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Ellis Watson
Crossett Lumber Company
Morehouse Parish
Crossett Hospital
Crossett
Watson
Logging camp blast kills several in Ashley County incident
Reports from Monroe detail a dangerous blaze in a Crossett Lumbers box car in Ashley County Arkansas near Morehouse Parish Louisiana. Fifteen or more men gathered heat when a can of kerosene was replaced by gasoline causing a violent explosion. One man died instantly and others were fatally injured, with two more deaths reported later.
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Monroe
Crossett Lumbers Company
Ashley County
Arkansas
Louisiana
Morehouse Parish
Rose bushes and store ad headline in Phoenix Drug Store
Fragmentary notice advertises roses and a store, with stray dates 15 11 and 7 61. No clear event or named individuals. Indicates a local business misread as a community prompt.
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Rose Bushes
Phoenix Drug Store
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League
Zev and
Johnny Meyers
Chris Jordan
Rairden
Studebaker
Crystal Theatre
West Monroe
Fred Stone
Billy Jim
Dan Mason
Seeburg
Ouachita Mercantile Co., Inc
Dec
L. C. Blan
Southern Hardware Company
Monroe, la
Cadillac
Cleveland
Chevrolet
Franklin
Taylor-Nash Automobile
S. Grand
Saenger Theatre
Coats
Normandy
Bolivia
Arabella
Ormandale
Henry Ensel
Monroe, Lua
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