Defender of City Hopes To Hold Out Until British Arrive
Shanghai battle reports show Marshal Sun Chuan Fang defending the city as Cantonese forces press in from the south. Wounded soldiers overwhelm Hangchow and Kinshang hospitals as foreign powers rush warships toward Shanghai to defend the international zone.
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Associated Press
Shanghai
Here
Yangtse
Sun Chuan Fang
Chekiang Province
Marshal Sun
Hangchow
Yenchow
Southern Presbyterian
Kinshang
Chuchow
Great Britain
Chekiang
Natchez Love Pirate Case Set for Feb 19 Trial
The Natchez court moved the trial of Fred Hymel, the so called Love Pirate, to February 19. Judge Patterson denied further delay citing lawyer jockeying in a separate civil bond ownership suit. The charge stems from an affidavit by Catherine McKittrick alleging Hymel obtained 15000 under pretense of love with district attorney Bennett also accusing him of fraudulent breach of trust.
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Iss
Fred Hymel
Love
Djourned
Charles F. Patreon
Hymel
Catherine McKittrick
R. E. Bennett
Patterson
Atchez
Special Service Arrangements For Monroe West Monroe Deliveries
The News-Star offers prompt delivery for subscribers who do not receive their papers. Call Western Union after 6 30 p m to confirm non arrival and arrange delivery starting at 7 p m. Service ensures every subscriber gets the paper daily with minimal delay.
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The
News-Star
Monroe
West Monroe
Western Union
Wisconsin bond salesman gets life sentence
William N. Coffey, 50, a former Madison bond salesman, pleaded guilty to murdering his wife Hattie Sherman Hales and dismembering her body. He was sentenced to life imprisonment in the Waupun penitentiary by Circuit Judge Sherman D. Smalley. Coffey had bigamously married Hales in 1926 after abandoning his wife and three children. He confessed to the crime, citing an infatuation for a widow and the desire to gain her fortune. The slaying occurred in a woods near Platteville with a baseball bat and hammer.
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Associated Press
Lancaster
Wis
William N. Coffey
Wauoon
Sherman D. Smalley
Hattie Hales
R. M. Orchard
Sherman E. Smalley
Hattie Sherman Hales
Riter's Woods
Platteville
Coffey
Hales
Lacrosse
Fog delays shipping in New Orleans harbor today
Fog across the lower Mississippi curtails shipping in New Orleans harbor. Many sea going vessels anchor or wait for clearer weather while ferries between Algiers Gretna and New Orleans run on half time schedules and Canal Street service drops to one boat.
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Associated Press
New Orleans
Mississippi
Algiers
Gretna
Canal Street
Jackson Avenues
Meeting at B R Passes Resolutions on Farm Relief
Baton Rouge conference urges permanent farm relief through a livestock study commission for 1928 legislative recommendations and additional revenue sources to cut agricultural taxes. It backs tax leniency for 1926 property taxes and asks for quarterly tax payments and broader co operation in irrigation and dairy policy.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana
State Board of Health
U S Good Will Planes Reach Lima Peru
Four United States army planes completed another leg of the goodwill flight stopping at Paita Chimborote and arriving in Lima after flying 600 miles farther over Central and South America Major Dargue reported a flock of birds obscuring the water during a day’s journey and the crew dropped a message to Salaverry residents expressing regret for not landing there The San Antonio remained at Tumaco Colombia awaiting a new motor and the group planned to depart for Lomas Peru on Sunday
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Lima
Peru
United States Army
Central
South America
Paita
Chimbote
Lomas
San Antonio
Tumaco
Colombia
Dargue
Saliverry
European nations seek to thrash Uncle Sam says General March
General Peyton C. March says nearly every European nation, possibly excepting Spain, would attack the United States. He notes Spain previously attempted such a move.
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Denver
Europe
Spain
Uncle Sam
Peyton C. March
Jena Prisoner Confesses He Struck El Dorado Man And Threw Him From Car
H D Dade of El Dorado is held in La Salle parish jail after a late night arrest on whisky charges. Deputies say he confessed to knocking Two Gun Shorty Davis unconscious and dumping him from a Ford touring car near Quitman after a dispute during a whisky run from Junction City to Tullos. The man, an electrician for Petroleum Rectifying, claimed the company sent him on the trip.
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Jena
el Dorado
News-Star
L. M. Davis
la Salle Parish
H. D. Dade
Tullos
Charlie Ridgy
Jackson Parish
Shorty
Davis
Quitman
Jonesboro
Dade
Hodward Davis
Sheriff's Office
Shorty” Davis
Junction City
Petroleum Rectifying Company
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Injunction Case Against Irion Heard In Court
In New Orleans on February 4 Attorney General Percy Saint testified in the injunction case against Dr. V K Irion ousted conservation commissioner Major Frank T Payne accompanied deputies forced entry into the conservation department offices Dr Irion described police refusal to remove trespassers and the officials who witnessed the incident also testified Edward Righter represented Dr Irion
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Associated Press
New Orleans
Percy Saint
V. K. Irion
Dr. Irion
Gov. 0. H. Simpson
Frank T. Payne
Saint
Holland
Jules A. Grasset
Major Payne
Commission
Baton Rouge
Edward Righter
Landmark Store Row on South Grand to be Razed for Lieber Building
Old three one store structures at 216 218 and 220 South Grand Street, owned by Ben Lieber, are slated for demolition to make way for a new Lieber building estimated at 100000 dollars. Frontage will be 95 feet, depth 125 feet, with a two story base and potential three or four stories, including a garage showroom cafe and Grand Street store room on the ground level. Construction contract to be let on February 21, with possible lease of the building before then.
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Monroe
South Grand Street
Ben Lieber
Lieber
Grand Street
Gasoline Giveaway Draws Drivers With Cheap Ads
Denver readers vie for four gallons of gasoline per want ad at 25 cents, as newspapers run contests to attract customers. The scheme tips drivers toward cheaper ads in a lively promotional push.
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Denver
Browning in More Hot Water Sued for Libel by Reporter
Edward West Browning real estate operator faced a $10,000 bond and a libel suit for $250,000 filed by Daily Mirror reporter Arthur Lee Mefford. Mefford alleges Browning accused a porter of kidnapping Mary Louise a former Browning ward. The case marks a rare assertion that newspaper reputations deserve sacred protection.
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Browning
Gotham Reporter
Associated Press
New York
Edward West Browning
Deckatialles
Arthur Lee Mefford
Daily Mirror
Bernard H. Sandler
Mefford
Mary Louise
Porter
Foreman Employees Hit in Rail Car and Auto Collision
M. P. Foreman employees, twelve in number, were involved when a rail motor car collided with a passing automobile. The incident prompted local authorities to investigate and assist injured workers.
Collision injures 14 in Missouri Pacific crew
A motor car and trailing push car crashed into a Buick sedan driven by Fred Morgan at Sicard near Rayville. The Missouri Pacific section gang, 17 men, sustained injuries from minor to serious while Morgan and five crewmen escaped unharmed. The 13 others were taken to St Francis sanitarium for treatment.
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Missouri Pacific Extra Section
Fred Morgan
Richland State Bank
Rayville
Sicard
Here
Morgan
Monroe
Mr. Morgan
C. Thompson
Peters
St. Francis Sanitarium
Truck Upset on Sterlington Road Injures Aged Man
N P Cook, 70, of Twenty Fourth and Grammont streets, was injured when his truck rolled over on Sterlington road two miles north of Chauvin bridge near Monroe. A negro driver, Wesley Smith, blinded by oncoming lights, veered toward the curb, the vehicle overturned pinning Cook. He sustained a severe scalp laceration but skull remained intact. recovery expected.
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N. P. Cook
Twenty-fourth
Grammont Streets
St. Francis Sanitarium
Sterlington Road
Chauvin Bridge
Monroe
Cook
Wesley Smith
Rail struggle seen in climb on stock Wheeling and Erie
On the New York Stock Exchange the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad common stock rose amid a rumored struggle among big railroads for control as part of a proposed eastern trunk line. Shorts faced heavy pressure with rates spiking and L F Loree linked to the activity as rivals vie for influence over Wheeling.
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Associated Press
New York
New York Stock Exchange
Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad
L. F. Loree
Delaware and Hudson Railroad
Wall Street
Wheeling
Interstate Commerce Commission
New York Central
Baltinmore
Ohio
Nickel Plate
Pennsylvania
Loree
Eating Under High Pressure Is Reality
Berlin report estimates human chewing energy at 800 pounds of pressure per bite while a dog shows 3200 pounds when biting a bone. Dr. Troska uses a knife-edge test to gauge the effort required to cut meat. The findings illustrate the metabolic cost of eating and animal biting strength.
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Associated Press
Berlin
Dr. Troska
Troska
Mystery Killing In Atlanta Ends In Double Tragedy
In Atlanta on February 4, Mrs Lottie Ingram and her 14 month old child were found slain in bed by husband Barney Ingram on returning from a night shift. She was struck with a flat iron and the infant strangled, with fingerprints on the child's throat and a torn quilt strip tied around its neck. The iron lay on the bed and investigators seek an unidentified man seen near the home at about 3 am. Neighbors reported hearing knocking at about that hour and the Ingrams’ next door.
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Associated Press
Atlanta
Lottie Ingram
Barney Ingram
Ingram
Ingsrams
Burley Ingram
Arrest Knights of Columbus in Mexican drive
Dispatches from Tampico report an anti-government plot linked to the Knights of Columbus with Sixto Rodriguez and 18 members in custody. Authorities in Puebla also order summary court martial as fears of execution rise. Catholic priests Vincente Salas Jose Castillon and Ignacio Gonzalez among others arrested amid claims the group sought conflict.
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Mexico City
Tampico
Puebla
Knights of Columbus
Sixto Rodriguez
Vincente Salas
Jose Castillon
Ignacio Gonzalez
Congress Meets at Noon as Bills Move Through Chambers
Congress convenes at noon as the four department supply bill advances in the Senate. The House completes work on the District of Columbia bill while committees in both chambers continue scrutiny of the second deficiency and appropriations measures amid government actions concerning minority interests.
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Congress
Senate
House
Board of Tax Appeals
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M. P. Foreman
Sterlington RD
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