Navy searches wastes for Dawn rescue after distress call
The naval force and two destroyers hunted the ocean wastes between Cape Cod and Sable Island for the Dawn, an amphibian plane missing since Friday night with three men and a woman aboard. A disturbed Morse-like signal heard by Sable Island and Halifax stations sparked the search, while RCA also picked up an unidentified message.
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New York
Los Angeles
Cape Cod
Sable Island
N. S
Roosevelt Field
N. Y
Harbor Race
New Foundland
Croydton
England
Navy
Marconi Company
Associated Press
Halifax
C. H. Harvey
Marine
Radio Corporation of America
Chatham
Mass
R. L. Morehouse
A. D. Cardwell
Factory Worker Arrested After Assaulting Family
Detroit police arrest Paul Herman 34 after a deadly home invasion in Flint Michigan. Mary A Malloy 68 was slain, Herman's wife and two children were seriously hurt. Investigators say Herman, estranged husband since Thanksgiving, fled to Detroit.
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Associated Press
Detroit
Paul Herman
Mary A. Malloy
Mystery of Unidentified Woman Found Near Mulholland
The unidentified woman was found near Mulholland Street, San Fernando, bound with canvas and twine. She likely died about 20 hours earlier from exposure after being stunned and tied, with a bruise on the forehead suggesting a blow. Police treat the case as homicide or manslaughter until proven otherwise.
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Los Angeles
Mulholland Street
San Fernando
Good Fellows Fund Reaches $1 317 Total for 1927
The Good Fellows fund in Monroe and West Monroe for 1927 reached 1 317 60 in total donations, boosting Christmas cheer for local families. Welfare headquarters sent warm clothing and food to scores of homes on Christmas Eve, aided by the Monroe Furniture Company which donated 18 toys to the Home of the Good Samaritan and 165 to the Louisiana Baptist Children's Home. Cash contributions followed.
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Good Fellows’ Fund
Monroe
West Monroe
Welfare
Twin Cities
Good Fellows
Monroe Furniture Company
Good Fellows Fund
The
Good Samaritan
Louisiana Baptist Children’s Home
Unclear River Stage Donations List Totals 1317 60
A partial OCR of a local donations ledger shows multiple donors and amounts linked to river stage relief. Entries include Mrs W P Stewart family 45.00, W E Reardon family 1.00, Eleanor Colbert 1.00, Mississippi Eby Boys 5.12, Slagle Johnson Lumber Co 30.00, Jimmy Manson 2.59, Betty and Ann Platt 2.00, News Star Carrier Boys 8.75, and others, totaling 1317.60 with several notes about rises and falls in stage conditions.
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W. P. Stewart
Vicksburg
Slagle-Johnson Lumber Co
New Orleans
Jimmy Manson
Ouachita
Betty and
Ann Platt
News-Star Carrier Boys
Monroesia
Ichmasteinevinichvxs
G. LA
B. of L. E
Ohio Cairo
Lindbergh Prepares 675-Mile Guatemala Flight
Lindbergh works through spare moments to finish preparations for a 675 mile hop from Mexico City to Guatemala City. The flight, over rough unsettled terrain, is expected to take about nine hours with head winds. He plans brief stops in Central American capitals and a possible Havana visit during the Pan American Conference.
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Associated Press
Mexico City
Chas. A. Lindbergh
Guatemala City
Guatemala
Lone Eagle
St. Louis
Santa Claus bandit wounded after Cisco bank raid
A robber dressed as Santa Claus, alleged to lead the Cisco National Bank heist, was seriously wounded in a gun battle with Young County officers near South Bend Texas. Four others fled on foot. a posse hunted them. Claude Wylie 23 aided abductors and identified the suspects en route to Cisco.
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South Bend
Texas
Santa Claus
First National Bank
Cisco
Claude Wylie
Putnam
Jim Foster
Tragedy at Sterlington Ferry Victims Laid to Rest
Funeral services were held Sunday for Windsor Pipes 22 cashier of Collinston State Bank and Andy Aaron 26 Sterlington ferryman who drowned early Thursday when the motor boat capsized near the ferry cable. Aaron's body was recovered Saturday evening, Pipes was buried in Christchurch cemetery with Masonic and Eastern Star participation. Aaron's service was brief at Parks cemetery. The boat and cargo were found at the river bottom, with the authorities attributing the accident to entanglement with the operating cable.
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Sterlington
Friends of
Windsor Pipes
Collinston State Bank
First Presbyterian Church
Bastrop
Andy Aaron
Parkie Cemetery
Aaron
Mawry
Christchurch
Masonic Lodge
Collinston
Pipes
Eastern Star
Masons of
Parks
Baby Dies After Stepping Into Hot Water Pan
Mil dred Walters 17 months old of Bogalusa died in a New Orleans hospital from severe burns after stepping into a pan of hot water left on the floor. The scalds led to fatal complications.
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New Orleans
Mildred Walters
Bogalusa
Hickman Admits Plurder Desire Since Tender Age
William Elwood Hickman confessed a long standing desire to plunder and kill Marian Parker. He appeared in Los Angeles Superior Court for arraignment with Judge Carlos Hardy delaying until Thursday for defense counsel. The district attorney said a Kansas City attorney may defend him. Hickman requested a postponement and remained unemotional.
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Hickman
Los Angeles
William E. Hickman
Marian Parker
Carlos Hardy
Superior Court
Hardy
Judge Hardy
Not Quite Dead in Confession via The Evening Express
The Evening Express reports an unofficial confession by William Edward Hickman claiming Marian Parker was alive when he began dismembering her body after strangling her.
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Los Angeles
The
Evening Express
Edward Hickman
Marian Parker
Youth Shackled After Removal From Padre Train
Hickman was taken off the Southern Pacific train Padre at Alameda and Jackson streets in the outer railroad yards district. No crowd was gathered there. The youth was shackled.
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Los Angeles
Hickman
Southern Pacific
Padre
Alameda
Jackson Streets
Fire Captain Seriously Injured In Auto Crash
Fire Captain C. L. Toombs of Fire Company No 4, 21, suffered a fractured hip when his car rolled three times en route to a blaze at Seventh and Grammont in a sold grocery building owned by E. Fu dickar and operated by A. B. Hobson. The fire destroyed the building, estimated loss about $12,000, as Toombs, off duty, rushed to assist.
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Seventh and
Grammont Streets
A. B. Hobson
E. Fudickar
C. L. Toombs
Toombs
Fear Forty Lives Lost Aboard Turkish Steamer
Constantinople dispatch reports the Turkish steamer Sviedi sank at the Gulf of Mudania entrance after colliding with the Mar mara. Of about 130 passengers aboard, forty are feared dead including two teachers from the American school in Broussa and several others from Anatolia.
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Constantinople
Sviedi
Gulf of Mudania
Marmara
Broussa
Anatolia
Borah Ward
Moaned
Mile
Hiller
Switzerand
Long Serving Officer Hugh Biggar Dies at 64
Funeral held at St. Matthew's for Hugh Biggar aged 64 with city officials and police among attendees. A veteran patrolman since 1898 he survived by wife and children Marion Leona Hugh Jr Oswald and Charles. Burial at Bastrop Catholic cemetery. death due to cancer following a prior gunfight injury.
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Hugh Biggar
St. Matthew’s Church
Biggar
Uncle Bob
R. W. Lewis
Lewis
Pine Bluff
Grand
DeSiard
Mr. Biggar
Marion
Leona Hugh, Jr
Oswald
Charles
Bastrop
Four Million Chinese Face Dire Famine Report
A committee of observers reports at least four million people in Shantung and adjacent areas face extreme famine as winter nears. Many subsist on tree bark chaff and grass. 65 of 107 counties are affected with crops under 10 percent in 35 counties. Civil war banditry and heavy taxation blamed alongside drought and locusts.
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Associated Press
Peking
China
Shantung
Chini
Chinese International Famine Relief Commission
American Red Cross
Th Red Cross
Negotiations for Return of Escaped Inmate Roy Dickerson
The Alabama convict department said it is negotiating with Tacoma Washington officials for the return of Roy Dickerson who escaped from the state penitentiary in 1922 while serving a twenty five year sentence for robbery. Hamp Draper of the board of administration announced the move.
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Montgomery
Ala
State Convict Department
Tacoma
Wash
Roy Dickerson
Hamp Draper
Board of Administration
The Victim and Her Letter One of Her Notes
A brief notice discusses a victim and one of her notes found in relation to a case. The item references a letter and potential evidence connected to the incident, with emphasis on the victim’s personal communication as a clue.
Youthful Robbers Hit Missouri Bank With $25,000 Theft
In Springfield on December 27, two unmasked youths robbed People's Bank, forcing eight employees including vice president Julius Seifert to lie down. Customers entering the bank were also ordered to lie down as the pair seized about $25,000 in silver and currency. A Salvation Army worker was struck when he resisted.
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Springfield
People’s Bank
Vics
Julius Seifert
Salvation Army
Spelling Skills Rising with Modern Education
Nashville Tenn December 27 A University of Chicago professor says the modern child is a far better speller than forefathers due to modern educational methods as expressed at a meeting of scientists.
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Associated Press
Nashville, Tenn
Frank N. Freeman
Uiversity of
Chicago
96 Year Old Climbs 50 Foot Signal Tower
Edwin Pye Osbaldeston aged 96 wears a white summer suit in chilly weather and marks his birthday by attempting to climb a fifty foot railroad signal tower in Asbury Park New Jersey.
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Asbury Park
N. J
Dee
Edwin Pye Osbaldeston
Discovery fire boats tragedy near Charleston Mississippi
In Mississippi near Charleston a dredge boat wreck yielded the charred bodies of Lowrey Kishnal 80 and George Spencer 14 ten miles north of town. Investigators think Kishnal was killed before the blaze. Spencer may have died in the flames. A search party had been looking for them since Saturday. Kishnal was the night watchman on the idle boat. intruders had recently visited, and shells were found. Kishnal’s head was severed and not recovered. He invited Spencer to stay with him, and both disappeared after the boat burned.
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Charleston
Miss
Lowrey Kiihnal
George Spencer
Tallahatche
Here
Kishnal
Ben
Young Spencer
Child Fatally Scalded After Fall Into Hot Water
Lillian Thompson aged four of the Loop road died after falling into a tub of boiling water in her home. The accident occurred at 2 30 pm and death followed at 12 30 am at a local hospital Riverside sanitarium. The funeral is at Peters' chapel this afternoon with burial in Calhoun cemetery.
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Lillian Thompson
A. Thompson
Loop Road
Riverside Sanitarium
Peters’ Funeral
Calhoun
Driver Jewell Delivers Holiday Mail in Alaska Blizzard
In Circle Alaska on December 27 the holiday mail arrived on time thanks to an exceptional dog sled driver. Driver Jewell endured 58 below zero and a severe interior Alaska storm on the Chatanika route, delivering mail despite extreme conditions.
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Associated Press
Circle
Alaska
Mercury
Chatanika
Jewell
High School Girl Alma Overgard Dies After 386 Days of Life Support
In Oconto Nebraska on December 27 Alma Overgard a 16-year-old high school student died after a 386 day battle aided by artificial respiration She remained conscious to the end as doctors and family kept up breathing support through paralysis and illness The girl died as relatives and the father and mother Mr and Mrs Peter Overgard watched Steve Overgard an uncle helped with breathing as the child passed away without knowing she was dying Christmas Eve had brought her hope of recovery.
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Associated Press
Ocono, Neb
Alma Overgard
Peter Overgard
Steve Overgard
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