Mystery Slaying Trial Hinges on Wife’s Fingerprint Evidence
Oklahoma City December report shows Dr. J. G. Duncan testifying that state detective Luther Bishop feared for his life as the Edith Bishop murder trial proceeds. Fingerprint experts say a Browlib? hand print on the bedroom door matches Mrs. Bishop, while prints on the guns belong to J. K. Wright.
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Associated Press
Oklahoma City
Bishop
J. G. Duncan
Edith Bishop
Duncan
Buureau
Carl Stratton
Death by own action alleged in Louisiana deaths
Lena Fontenot, 18, died and Leroy Landreneau, 28, was seriously injured in a reported death by own action plot on a Mamou area highway. Fontenot shot herself twice in Landreneau’s car. after confirming her death he shot himself through the chest. Authorities cite lack of funds to marry as the motive.
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Crowley
Lena Fontenot
Leroy Landreneau
Mamou
Evangeline Parish
Here
Miss Fontenot
Landreneau
Fontenot
Charlotte bank closes amid insolvency woes
The Avdwodysiny bank in Charlotte, with a capital of 50,000 dollars and deposits around 92,000 dollars, shut its doors today signaling financial distress and liquidation actions by authorities.
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Charlotte
Dee
Auvdwodysiny Pus Yxurgejoparyo
Three Masked Men Rob Olympic Auditorium in Los Angeles
Three men armed and wearing masks robbed Olympic Auditorium in Los Angeles today and fled with $15 000 after the event.
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Los Angeles
Olympic Auditorium
Colonel Green Cleared in San Francisco Embezzlement Case
Colonel Ned M. Green was acquitted in San Francisco of charges of embezzling confiscated liquor and ordered reinstated today as prohibition administrator in that city.
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Washington
Ned M. Green
San Francisco
Colonel Green acquitted in liquor embezzlement case
A federal jury in San Francisco freed Col. Ned M. Green after eleven bottles of confiscated liquor were charged as embezzled. The judge had urged conviction, while jurors chose acquittal and later recommended reinstating Green as prohibition administrator for northern California and Nevada. Lincoln Andrews ordered immediate reinstatement.
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San Francisco
Ned M. Green
Prohibition
Lily
Colonel Green
United States
A. F. St. Sure
St. Sure
U. S
Eugene Bennett
Green
Andrews
Mellon forwards five million to Republican campaign claims repeated
Senator Heflin of Alabama told the Senate that Secretary Mellon had not denied the truth of a charge that Mellon advanced five million dollars to the Republican national committee for the Harding campaign of 1920. The assertion was discussed on the Senate floor in Washington.
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Washington
Mellon
Republican National Committee
Harding
Senate
Heflin
Alabama
Mellons
Denver Girl Chooses Domestic Life Over Cinderella Role
Jackie Henley a 19 year old Denver girl rejected becoming the adopted Cinderella daughter of J M Freeman a Phoenix stock broker Freeman abandoned the plan after objections from the girl's mother Denver authorities had been asked to review the case Judge Lindsey found the girl preferred life as a domestic in Denver to pampered status Freeman wished to help her parents in Springfield Nebraska and she had come to Denver last summer to seek work to support six siblings.
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Associated Press
Phoenix
Ariz
Jackie Henley
Denver
J. M. Freeman
Freeman
Ben Lindsey
Denver Juvenile Court
Miss Henley
Barnes
Lindsey
Springfield
Neb
Liquor ring smashed by Florida probe
Federal agents thwart a major Florida liquor conspiracy. Sheriff Joe Knight and 14 others are jailed amid indictments on seven to eleven counts. Nine rum running vessels and 30 000 quarts of whiskey were seized in Lake Worth waters as investigations continue.
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West Palm Beach
Fla
Florida
Joe D. Knight
Indian River County
Lake Worth
Coast Guard
Bahama Islands
Vero
Melbourne
Tampa
United States
Jacksonville
Prohibition Administration
W. M. Simmons
Florida East Coast
J. F. Maxey
Internal Revenue Department
George P. Aldridge
Sheriff Knight
Barney Davis
Governor Signs Pardons for Seventeen Prisoners in Louisiana
Governor O. H. Simpson granted pardons and commutations on the pardon board’s list. Seventeen prisoners will be freed for Christmas, with two more set for full pardons March 1, 1927. Eight sentence commutations, fines remitted, and citizenship restoration also approved.
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Baton Rouge
O. H. Simpson
Tom Evans
Tangipahoa Parish
Sam Brown
Natchitoches Parish
Amedee de Lombre
Orleans Parish
Louis Miller
Jefferson Davis Parish
Hattie Brown
Claiborne Parish
Thad Dorsey
Philip Littleton
Lincoln
Thomas C. Edwards
Jefferson Davis
Tom Howard
DeSoto
Robert W. Carroll
St. Bernard
Marion Jeffrson
Tensas
Will Ashley
Madison
Charles Lee Roddy
Jefferson
Will Watts
St. Tammany
Aubrey Smith
Tangipahoa
J. M. Smith
Cecil Haynes
Ouachita
Adrian Anders
Grant
W. W. Mounger
Ouachi
Alexandria Secretary Claims Bigger Twin Cities Population
Secretary George C. Merkel of the Alexandria Chamber of Commerce contests Monroe and Pineville counts in the city directory. He cites Alexandria at 23 433 and Twin Cities of Ouachita at 26 991, challenging Monroe's 19 045 and alleging no 10 percent allowance for missing names. CONTINUED ON PAGE ELEVEN.
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News-Star
Twin Cities
George C. Merkel
Chamber of Commerce of
Alexandria
Monroe
West Monroe
Pineville
Ouachita
Red River Valley
Louisiana
Monroe Chamber of Commerce
Good Fellows fund tops mark in Christmas giving
The Good Fellows fund has surpassed 1500 dollars ensuring a Christmas for many needy families. The drive rallied after fears of suspension, with numerous local contributors listed and a call for more names and addresses to aid the welfare effort. A reader’s question Is There a Santa Claus? is answered with a firm emphatic yes.
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Good Fellows Fund
News- Star
Monroe Welfare Association
City Hall
News-Star
North Second Street
Parlor City Lumber Co
Baton Rouge
John Reitzell
EAGRE
Busy Bee Club
F. L. Meyer
Baibiasaias
Ei Windes, Jr. Lestighans
Gene Windes
B. Oakland
Joe Eleanor Thorpson vi
Martha Gray Thompson
Lotus Club
Ebrbnnessnere
Santa Claus
Broadway Raids Lock Up 58 Nightspots in Prohibition Sweep
Federal agents served temporary injunctions on seven raiding parties to close 58 clubs from Roaring Forties to Greenwich Village as part of a crackdown before the holidays. The action hit spots such as Texas Guinan's 300 Club and Club Anatole while informants described undercover work across Broadway.
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Associated Press
New York
Broadway
Forties
Greenwich Village
Emory R. Buckner
Texas Guinan
Dinty Moore
Memphis Bank Employee Held in County Jail
Memphis court records show Courtney Glisson, former assistant cashier at the Bank of Commerce and Trust, in the county jail on $100,000 bond after returning from an eight week international search. He faces indictments for embezzlement larceny and breach of trust related to about $465,000 in bank funds.
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Associated Press
Memphis
Courtney Glisson
Bank of Commerce and Trust Company
Glisson
Governor Smith urges abolition of New York boxing commission
Albany December 22 Governor Smith called for the boxing commission to be abolished and proposed placing ring control under a single director whose decisions would be reviewable by the secretary of state Florence Knapp as secretary of state would effectively become boxing czar.
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Albany
King Benjamin arraigned in Benton Harbor court on assault warrants
Benjamin Purnell leader of the House of David colony is carried on a stretcher into Justice Weldon's court for arraignment on the first of two warrants charging criminal assault. Mrs. Bessie Woodworth testified she was 15 when assaulted during blood purifying rites. Hearing adjourned to December 30 for bindover to circuit court.
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Associated Press
Benton Harbor
Mich
Benjamin Purnell
House of David
Justice Weldon
Bessie Woodworth
Benjamin
Mary
H. T. Dewhirst
W. J. Barnard
George H. Bookwalter
Berrien County
Clare Retan
Michigan
Purnell
Elizabeth Fordan
Bridge projects advance in House committee
Washington December 22 The House Interstate Commerce Committee reported ten bills for bridge construction The proposed structures include one across the Red River at Boyce Louisiana and other crossings to aid regional transportation
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Washington
House Interstate Commerce Committee
Red River
Boyce
Span of bridge collapses four workers missing
Four men were reported missing and believed drowned when the center span of the Midland Atlantic bridge over the Big Sandy River at Catlettsburg collapsed during construction. Ten escaped, three hospitalized in critical condition. several others injured in the icy water.
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Huntingdon
W. Va
Big Sandy River
Catlettsburg
Big Sandy
Paul Carter
al Campell
Bud Gorman
Burt Slack
Huntington
Sanders Elders
Slachys
John Swan
Carnegie
Ashland
Swan
Edward Dobst
Columbus
Ohio
Kenova
Heavy Walker Named Captain of L. C. Grid Eleven
Bernard Heavy Walker guard from Pineville was elected captain of the 1927 Louisiana College football team. Robert Morris Fletcher quarterback from Winnfield was named alternate captain after the selection yesterday afternoon in Alexandria.
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Alexandria
Bernard “Heavy” Walker
Pineville
Louisiana College
Robert Morris Fletcher
Winnfield
West Monroe drug clerk held in liquor transport case
E F Craighead a 29 year old pharmacist and prescription clerk for Hodge Drug Company West Monroe is jailed on charges of transporting and possessing liquor. Police tracked his Lincoln car containing 20 gallons of alcohol and 12 quarts of Scotch whiskey after vigil by deputies and a river bridge toll observer. Craighead claims he acted to haul whiskey for the store and earned only salary and expenses from the trip.
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E. F. Craighead
Hodge Drug Company
West Monroe
Filhiol Street
Craighead
Lincoln
Sheriff's Department
River Bridge
David Garrett
Milton Coverdale
News- Star
Hodge Drug Store
New Orleans
Frank
Choudrant Farmer Wins Crop Award in Lincoln
J Mack O Neal of Choudrant won the $50 top prize from Feazel Motor Co and Lincoln Farm Bureau for best all around parish farm in 1926. The 50 acre O Neal lot was once worn out yet he rebuilt terraces, cleared gullies, and used fertilizer under County Agent Parish. He harvested eight and a half bales of cotton on seven acres and earned over $600 from watermelons cantaloupes and peaches plus meat and canned produce.
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Choudrant Farmer
Lincoln
News-Star
Ruston
Feazel Motor Company
Lincoln Farm Bureau
Chamber of Commerce
The
Motor Company
J. Mack O'Neal
Choudrant
W. W. Norris
John
H. H. Parerish
O’neal
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Ned Green
Panion
FLA. Probe
Ouachita Parish
Walter Schmith
Harold Croarkin
Chicago
Loeb-Leopold
C. J. McCarthy
L. J. Sweeney
I. L. Eichenfeld
Croarkin
Crowe
Walker
London
South
Memphis Bank
AL Smith
N. Y
Ask Boyce
L. C
Mississippi
Ate
Vicksburg
Shreveport
Cardena—ueeenine
Ete Monroe
Wncorme
West Side
FE. I. Craighead
Smokey Joe
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