Advance Upon Shanghai Be Continued in Chinese Civil War
Foreigners forced from outside the foreign settlement are moved inside as Marshal Sun Chuan Fang’s regime falls. Cantonese forces press toward Shanghai while a truce ends nationalist labor strife and recalls workers to work. Li Pao-Chang’s beheadings halt as order returns amid continued conflict.
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Associated Press
Shanghai
China
Sun Chuan Fang
Sung Kiang
Hangchow
Sun Chuan-Fang
Li Pao-Chang
Moving Picture Theatre Manager Dies in Fight
Alfred Foster proprietor of a Violet Louisiana moving picture theatre is dead after a fist fight during a wedding celebration. Jack Mistrop, a Chalmette area farmer, is held in Arab jail after the quarrel over a business deal. Foster died from a blow to the temple at a New Orleans hospital.
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Associated Press
New Orleans
Alfred Foster
Moving Picture
Violet
St. Bernard Parish
Jack Mistrop
Chalmette
Foster
Former Lightweight Champ Nelson Arrested in Montana Warrant
Oscar Battling Nelson, ex lightweight champion, was arrested at his Chicago home on a Montana larceny warrant for theft of film from his fight with Ad Wolgast 17 years ago. Police say ten officers took part in the two round confrontation, ending with Nelson surrendering to detectives.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Oscar
Battling) Nelson
Montana
Nelson
Detective Bureau
Nelson Wert
Angus McLeod
Silver Bow
Ad Wolgast
Phantom bicycle rider captured after string of attacks
Washington police arrest 15 year old Frank Vernon Webb claimed as the city phantom rider known for attacks on white women in the northwest. Webb admitted assaults on Miss Eleanore A. Gillis and Miss Grandm Larson and Mrs Edith Lathrop, with prior confessions tying Phillip Jackson and Phynes Perry to other robberies and a police shooting.
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Associated Press
Washington
Frank Vernon Webb
Eleanore A. Gillis
Webb
Grandm Larsen
Wilson
S Street
Edith Lathrop
Phillip Jackson
Capitol Grounds
Phynes Perry
Printer's devil sets new gum chewing record in Baton Rouge
Leon Jelly Raiford a printer's devil for the State Times claims a gum chewing record after chewing 102 pieces in one sitting in Baton Rouge on February 24. The feat is believed to establish a new championship and draws local attention to the quirky contest.
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Baton Rouge
Leon “Jelly” Raiford
Printer's Devil
State Times
Federal government gains control of U S radio channels
President Coolidge signs a bill placing interstate and foreign radio transmission under federal supervision. The five member commission will be named soon with Senate confirmation. Nominees include Judge E. O. Sykes and Bradford Hearn. The panel earns 10 000 the first year and 30 a day thereafter.
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Coolidge
Fiveman Commission
Senate
E. 0. Sykes
Jackson
Miss
Bradford Hearn
Shreveport
Secretary of Commerce
Britain to dispatch warship to Nicaragua amid dangers to nationals
Washington reports Britain plans to send a warship to the west coast of Nicaragua to protect British subjects amid anarchy and street fighting. Kellogg says Admiral Latimer is ordered to safeguard foreign and American lives and property as U S officials declined to discuss the move further. Borah criticizes the administration’s Nicaraguan policy and notes Britain’s naval presence could reshape the crisis.
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Associated Press
Washington
United States
Great Britain
Nicaragua
Eberhardt
Managua
State Department
Diaz
Mexico
Kellogg
Latimer
Borah
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Congress Meets at Noon as Bills Move Through House and Senate
Congress convenes with the House set to consider a naval bill conference report and Boulder Dam related measures. Senate reviews Lake diversion hearings, Ford tax suit arguments end, and Judge Cooper impeachment procedures are discussed. Senate Foreign Relations reopens Borah resolution on Nicaragua and Mexico.
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Congress
House
Boulder Dam
Senate
Hughes
House Judiciary Committee
Cooper
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Nicaragua
Mexico
Bodies Found in Burned British Tanker Black Sea
In Brooklyn harbor the hulk of the burned tanker Black Sea lies beached at Red Hook flats. A police launch found two bodies on the port side amid continuing heat on the starboard from yesterday’s explosion off Bayonne. Firemen and police seek others in wreckage.
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Associated Press
New York
Black Sea
Red Hook Flats
Brooklyn
Resolute
Bayonne
N. 2
Hunter Interests Break Ground for Sterlington Plant
Louisiana Exploration company initiates a new turpentine making method in Monroe area. S. D. Hunter and W. J. Hunter lead the project with a $25,000 first unit plan to employ 20 to 25 workers. Plant near Sterlington will use natural gas, eight retorts, eight stills to produce turpentine pine oil pine tar and charcoal with Grant parish timber supplies.
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Monroe
Louisiana Exploration Company
Sterlington
S. D. Hunter
W. J. Hunter
Shreveport
Louisiana
Grant Parish
Grant Lumber Company
D. Hunter
United Carbon Company Advances Industrial Reach After Merger
The United Carbon Company formed by a February 14 1925 merger ends two years of merged operation. It consolidates eleven firms to expand carbon black production and export, with over a third of 1926 sales to foreign markets. The firm adds gas supplies and Montana Utah plants to cut freight costs and boost western and Pacific exports, maintaining an in house research lab.
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United Carbon Company
Monroe
Africa
Central Carbon Company
Consolidated Carbon Corporation
Cosmos Carbon Company
Dixie Carbon Company
Gulf Carbon Company
Humphreys Carbon Company
Louisiana Carbon Company
Louisiana Gas Products Corporation
Pelican Carbon Company
Standard Carbon Company
United Oil & Natural Gas Products Corporation
Interstate Pipe Line Company
Baton Rouge
New Orleans
Montana
Utah
United States
Pacific Coast
Far East
Hambones Meditations In The Garden Rant
The piece by J. P. Alley features a blunt performance style with a local voice decrying idle trouble and calling for work. The text presents a rough, rhythmic monologue reflecting urban life and street culture.
Centenary Student Poisoned By Mistake
A. M. Larche a 23 year old Centenary College senior and president of the college Y M C A was rushed to a sanitarium in Shreveport after taking four tablets he mistook for a sedative authorities said he suffered from nervousness. Larche a Pi Kappa Delta member and former college Y M C A president was reported in precarious condition awaiting further treatment.
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Shreveport
A. M. Larche
Centenary College
Larche
Centenary
Pi Kappa Delta
College
Ye M. C. A
Bobby Jones Records First Hole in One at Eastland
Atlanta, Feb 24 Bobbie Jones a world famous golfer made his first hole in one yesterday on the Eastland Country Club course in Atlanta while practicing for the southern golf championship to be held March 23 to 26. The shot came on the eleventh hole with a four iron from about 170 yards.
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Associated Press
Atlanta
Bobby Jones
Stewart Maiden
Eastland Country Club
Bobby
Pressure in Palmer test shows gain at Colvin No 1 gasser
A second gauging of the Colvin No 1 gasser in Richland parish shows pressure rising to 1103 pounds and daily gas flow of 19 146 756 cubic feet. The state conservation department notes this may be the maximum pressure. drillers plan to deepen to seek a bigger oil or gas hit.
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Palmer Corporation
Colvin No. 1
Richland Parish
A. F. Parker
Mineral Division
State Conservation Department
R. P. Webb
Monroe
Captin Webb
Louisiana Petroleum Corporation
Winn Parish
Morehouse
Man Kills Wife and Sheriff in Divorce Case
Ernest Rieker shot and killed his wife and Sheriff Abraham L. Kulp as he was to be served with divorce papers in Doylestown Pennsylvania. He then wounded himself after a confrontation at the home of the wife’s father C D Oakley and fled in a nearby car with a two-year-old child.
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Associated Press
Asbury Park
N. J
Ernest Rieker
Kulp
South Langhorne
Berkeley Carteret Hotel
Doylestown
Abraham L. Kulp
Oakley
Hart Jr Bill Hart Ill With Pneumonia in Los Angeles
William S Hart Jr son of the film star Bill Hart and his divorcee wife Winifred Westover Hart is ill with pneumonia in Los Angeles.
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William S. Hart, Jr
Bill” Hart
Winifred Westover Hart
Los Angeles
President Criticized for Deceptive Budget Policy
Rep Byrns of Tennessee, ranking Democrat on the House appropriations committee, accuses President Coolidge of deceptive budgeting. He cites the army ration increase from 40 to 50.5 cents per man daily, creating a $4.25 million deficiency to be carried in a future bill, while claiming economy.
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Washington
Coolidge
Representative Byrns
Tennessee
House Appropriations Committee
Congress
House
Army and Navy Journal
Appropriations Committee
Senate
Flora Whitney Tower to Wed Cairo Man Miller
New York reports Mrs Flora Whitney Tower daughter of Mr and Mrs Harry Payne Whitney and recently divorced from Roderick Tower is to marry G Maccolloch Miller of New York in Cairo Egypt after a Nile cruise affair confirmed from New York dispatches.
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New York
Flora Whitney Tower
Harry Payne Whitney
Roderick Tower
The
Nile
Cairo
G. Maccolloch Miller
Parish seeks injunction to halt road funds over route dispute
Baton Rouge February 24. The Ruston parish police jury asked district court for an injunction to stop the Louisiana highway commission from spending the remaining 40,000 dollars given for the Jackson Parish route No. 17 project. They allege the location favors Ruston interests and ignores the bond vote and approved path.
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Associated Press
Baton Rouge
Jackson Parish
Ruston
Louisiana Highway Commission
James M. Fourmy
Lonnie
Caldwell Parish
Chatham
Vernon
Jackson Highway
Two Youths Shot by Watchman at Orleans
New Orleans youths Joseph Calascione and Joseph Yoal were shot in the head by a night watchman at the Desterhan Mercantile Store while attempting burglary. Physicians feared both would die as the watchman claimed he fired when they neared the cash register from behind the store.
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Orleans
New Orleans
Desterhan
New Orleans Prepares for Momus Parade Marks Rex Anniversary
New Orleans gears up for the 54th annual Momus parade tonight as Rex enters the final frenzied Mardi Gras round. Secrecy surrounds the event but anticipation runs high for a spectacular procession amid the 100th Rex anniversary, with many visitors expected.
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Rex
Momus
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James Maloney
Dynamite Jim
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Jack Delaney
Nab “Phantom
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J. P. Alley
Bell Syndicate
Palmer
Ernest Reker
Self
Mississippi
Memphis
Vicksburg
Alexandria Yee
Ouachita
Camden Inlets
Momtoo Ereernesenseneere
Bill, Jr., III
Byrns
ON the Nile
Joseph Calascione
Joseph
Yoal
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