Liberal Forces Triumph in Sharp Nicaragua Clash
In Nicaragua's Las Perlas region on December 29 the liberal forces of Dr. Juan Sacasa defeated the conservative government troops led by President Diaz. The liberals seized Escondido river access, captured Fruta De Pan, and advanced toward Monkey Ridge as American interests watch the neutral zone. About 1,500 liberals faced roughly 4,000 conservatives. 400 rear guard were killed or captured, while the main body retreated to a neutral zone to be disarmed by U.S. naval forces.
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Managua
Nicaragua
Las Perlas
Juan Sacasa
Diaz
United States
Ber
Dr. Sacasa
Mavien
E Bluff
Acces
Escondido
Fruta de Pan
Monkey Ridge
Chief seeks resignations as Kew Highway Commission names new head
The chief called for resignations today as the Kew Highway Commission moves to appoint a new head, with a decision expected soon.
Peterman Named Next Chairman Of Louisiana Highway Board
Governor Simpson accepts resignations of W Atkinson Jones Vine and Frank David from the Wisiana Highway Commission and will appoint Wilson T Peterman to fill the six year term. Peterman to be named chairman and return from Rochester Minnesota where the former chairman is recovering. Continuation hinted on page eight.
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Associated Press
Baton Rouge
Wisiana Highway Commission
C. H. Simom
W. Atkinson
Jones Svine
Frank FE. Daid
Vernor Simpson
Mmission
Wilson T. Peterman
Simpson
John M. Parker
Peterman
Eterman
Rochester
Minn
Peteran
Govrnor
J. Peterman
Gover Fuqua
W. F. Coopr
James R.ooten
Cooper
Ion
Three Negroes Drown When Auto Backs Into Bayou Near Wardville
Special to The News-Star Bastrop La Dec 29 George Lowe a negro about 50 and his wife and daughter drowned in Bayou Bartholemew near Wardville after Lowe backed a Ford into the bayou as the car turned on a public road along the bank The rear curtain tore free and hid the bodies despite efforts to recover them
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Bastrop
George Lowe
Bayou Bartholomew
Wardville
Lowe
Pratt Plantation
Padlock Drive Opens in Hurley Wisconsin
Hurley Wisconsin faced a New Year bleak with temporary injunctions targeting 29 of its 54 soft drink parlors under the Volstead act. Federal marshals padlocked business fronts along a main thoroughfare as U S District Attorney Stanley M. Ryan pushes to make the injunctions permanent.
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Hurley
Wis
Hursley
Middle West
United States
Silver Streets
Stanley M. Ryan
U. S
Western District of
Wisconsin
F. A. Geiger
Milwaukee
Lese
The
Milwaukee Sentinel
Optimists Find Consolation in Bears on 1927 Outlook
The Times reports twenty financial community members were asked if they were bulls or bears for 1927 and 13 said they were bears. This cross section shows a bearish sentiment prevailing among market observers.
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New York
the Times
Hooded men in Klan regalia linked to Lyons assault
Reports from Atlanta indicate a Toombs county attack on Wimberly E. Brown near Lyons involved hooded figures in Klan robes. Judge Hardman cited as saying many wore regalia. Nathan Bedford Forrest denied Klan ties. authorities offer a $1,000 reward for a conviction and threaten martial law to curb the violence.
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Ku Klux Klan
E. Brown
Toombs
Lyons
The
Atlanta Constitution
Louisville
Georgia
R. E. Hardman
Nathan Bedford Forrest
Forrest
Judge Hardman
Brown
A. S. Bradley
Toombs County
Waynesboro
Klan
M. P. Employee Fatally Hurt in Rail Accident near Kelly
Oscar Reitzell aged 55 a Missouri Pacific railroad section hand from Kelly died after being thrown beneath a motor car when a local train appeared. Other workers escaped injury and moved the car to the trackside before the train reached them. Reitzell died at Monroe hospital and burial was planned at Bethel cemetery.
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Kelly
Missouri Pacific Railroad
Reitzell
Reiteell
Monroe
Bethel Cemetery
Pursuer of Booth Dies in Minnesota at 88
Captain Carles Farnsworth, commander of the troop that pursued John Wilkes Booth, the Lincoln assassin, died in Albert Lea Minnesota today at age 88.
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Minnesota
Associated Press
Albert Lea
Minn
Carles Farnsworth
John Wilkes Booth
Abraham Lincoln
Declining Chicago Murders Amid Year End Count
Chicago reports 353 murders for December 29, noting a drop to 853 for the year. The figure compares with 394 murders the previous year, signaling improving violence trends in the city.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Seventeen Teens Escape Mississippi Prison Breaks
Seventeen teen prisoners, five white and twelve Negro, who escaped in prison deliveries in Mississippi yesterday apparently stayed free today as posses search the hills. The Rankin prison escape involved nine Negroes breaking out. guards and trustees aided the search. Lofton led a Magnolia jail delivery, with five whites and two Negroes escaping after forcing the jailer to unlock cells. Joe Smith, a Negro prisoner, escaped the Okolona stockade. he is not recaptured. The Magnolia break marked the largest in years since the prison farm system began. Others named Lofton Luther McKnight and Remus Calhoun, both from Kentwood La., are held on auto theft charges.
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Miss
Mississippi
Rankin
State Prison Board
Robert Percy Lofton
Supreme Court
Magnolia
Lofton
Luther McKnight
Remus Calhoun
Kentwood
Ty Cobb Retains Detroit Lawyer as His Counsel
Ty Cobb engages James O. Murphin a prominent Detroit attorney and former county judge as his legal representative. Cobb will confer with Murphin in Detroit on steps to clear Cobb’s name amid the current baseball scandal.
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TY Cobb
Detroit
James 0. Murphin
Sugar magnate Max Crone leaves legacy with cautionary will
New York Dec 29 193? Max Crone, a sugar businessman for six decades, once faced heavy losses in speculation. His will orders his children to refrain from using their inheritances as margin for any speculative trades in stocks bonds securities sugar coffee or other commodities or property.
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New York
Max Crone
GANG LEADER CHARGED IN ILL DEATH
Charles Birger, gang leader, is charged with the murder of Joe Adams mayor of West City Illinois. Birger was arrested after a coroner's jury charged him as an accessory after the fact in Adams death. Adams was shot at his home two weeks earlier in a staged letter delivery ruse.
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Associated Press
Harrisburg
Ills
Joe Adams
West City
Charles Birger
Benton
Franklin County
Saline County
Birger
Adams
German cabinet shift anticipated as Luther may be invited
Hans Luther, former chancellor, is expected to be invited to form the new German cabinet succeeding Chancellor Wilhelm Marx. The Reichstag voted to keep the Marx cabinet in power until after the holidays, with action anticipated afterward.
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Hans Luther
Germany
Wilhelm Marx
Marx
Threat heard says witness in Bunkie case
Alexandria dispatch reports preliminary hearing in Marksville for Dr Haas and two relatives. Mrs Hill Smith, widow of a cotton mill man, listened as witnesses described a disputed mill management and threats during the December shooting.
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R. Hill Smith
Bunkie
W. D. Haas
W. D. Haas, Jr
Franklin T. Mikell
Marksville
Haas
L. P. Gremillon
Alvin Martin
Hill Smith
Dr. Haas
Smith
Martin
A. A. Kellar
Bootleg profits vanish as Florida raids expose costs
Jacksonville December report by deputy prohibition administrator J H Lee finds bootleggers importing whiskey into Florida are going broke. He cites costs of Cuba sourced liquor 22 dollars per case, bribes, confiscations, boats and cars, and bonds totaling tens of thousands of dollars with only about half of contraband liquor reaching America.
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Fla
Florida
J. H. Lee
Cuba
Lee
South Florida
Fatal Fireclaims Two Kentucky Firemen at Drag Co blaze
In Louisville Kentucky two firemen died while fighting a 75000 blaze at the Kentucky Drag Company on Fifth and Main. Capt William A Fisher slipped on an icy ledge on the third floor and died en route to the hospital. Charles A Webb, seconds later, fell from the same spot and perished.
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Kentucky Drag Company
Fifth
Main Streets
William A. Fisher
Charles A. Webb
Charles A. Webb, A Few Minutes Later Fell From the Same Spot Captain Fisher
Nine Face Prison in Cheyenne Train Robbery Case
Sentences ranging from one to 27 years were given eight men and a woman in federal court here for the August robbery of a mail train near Rock Springs Wyoming. Judge T Blake Kennedy presided.
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Cheyenne
Wyo
Rock Springs
T. Blake Kennedy
Cumberland River Faces Historic Flood Crest at Nashville
Government forecasters predicted a 55 to 56 foot crest on the Cumberland River in Nashville as the river climbed beyond a 54.4 foot level. Over 4,000 residents had already evacuated, with hundreds seeking higher refuge in the city.
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Cumberland River
Nashville
Camberland River
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
Tennessee River
Chattanooga
Weather Bureau
Red Cross
Mississippi
Pearl River
Jackson
Yazoo Crest
Yazoo City
Illinois Central
Memphis
Aberdeen
Columbus
Mississippi National Guard
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Cumberland
Eddyville
Burnside
Kattawa
Ede Dyville
Mone
U S Defended by Speaker in Chile Chamber
In Santiago Chile Dec 29 radical deputy Wenceslao Sierra praised the United States for its Nicaragua policy. He said U S actions deserve gratitude for solving the Tacna Arica issue and aiding Chile while opposing unfriendly attacks in the chamber. Deputy Edward Matte countered noting Yankee ships off Nicaragua as protests rose.
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Associated Press
Santiago
Chile
Chamber of Deputies
Wenceslao Sierra
United States
Nicaragua
Ismael Edwards Matte
Senor Sierra
Sierra
Tacna
Arica
Argentina
Brazil
Edward Matte
Ex Slave Aunt Josephine Handley Dies at 115 in Lake Charles
In Lake Charles Louisiana aged about 115 Aunt Josephine Handley, one of the last before the war slaves, died yesterday. Doctors based her age on blood tests and said death came from old age. She had three children at the war's start and recalled life as a slave in New Orleans.
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Lake Charles
Josephine’ Handley
Josephine
New Orleans
New York London Phone Link To Cost 25 Cents Per Minute
New York and London residents will soon talk by ordinary home telephones at 25 dollars per minute. AT&T president Walter Gifford said the service starts publicly in January and will expand nationwide as feasible. A 75 dollar charge covers three minutes with 25 dollars for each extra minute, plus a 10 dollar report fee if the number is reached without the designated party.
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New York
London
Walter
Gifford
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Traffic Rules for U S Airways Take Effect Jan 2
The Commerce Department announced new air navigation rules to safeguard life in the skies. They require license numbers for each airship used for public conveyance and certification of airworthiness, plus strict pilot and mechanic qualifications and in‑flight procedures.
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Washington
United States
Commerce Department
Hoover
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