Delay at Landis hearing on 1917 White Sox Tigers scandal
The resumed hearing was postponed from 11:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. after Arnold Gandil failed to appear. Bill James and others attended as witnesses while Risberg again did not show, prompting a second postponement in two days. The packed room included players and reporters.
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Chicago
Arnold
Chick) Gandil
Chicago White Sox
Landis
White Sox
Tigers
Bill James
Tiger
Sox
Risberg
Roy Wilson
Bob Hasbrook
Oscar Vitt
Bill Watson
Byrd Linn
Rail union votes on strike issue in southeastern rail lines
Members of the Order of Railroad Conductors and the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen vote on a strike option across 22 railroads and terminals in the southeast. An affirmative result would guide bargaining not immediate walkout, with counting to January 20 and further talks in Washington pending.
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Associated Press
Richmond
Order of Railroad Conductors
Brotherhood of
Southeastern Railway
Washington
Brotherhoods
United States Board of Arbitration
N. Doak
New York
L. E. Sheppard
Parties warned not to weaken law observance
A Citizens' Committee of One Thousand launches an educational push for strict law enforcement nationwide. President Coolidge's message about enforcing public law is cited, urging voters to elect officials who will uphold the constitution and national well being. Senators Borah and Sheppard and Raymond Robins attended the annual meeting and supported the stance.
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Washington
Citizens’ Committee
Coolidge
Borah
Idaho
Sheppard
Texas
Raymond Robins
Chicago
President Coolidge
Congress
Sach
Americans Leaving Hankow Amid Riot Conditions in China
A Hankow dispatch reports Americans are evacuating despite calls from Cantonese foreign minister Eugene Chen to stay and keep business. Chinese authorities claim protection in all concessions while natives show a wary calm with banks and firms closed and telegraph delays up to 18 hours.
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Associated Press
San Francisco
Hankow
Eugene Chen
Chen
Ziegler Marriage Move Sparks Privacy Debate
Frederick G. Pohndorff, business associate, says William Ziegler Jr has right to change plans and prefers privacy over a church ceremony in a hotel. He argues there should be no scandal and that Ziegler was modest in seeking discretion.
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New York
William Ziegler, Jr
Frederick G. Pohndorff
Ziegler
Local Woman Wins Grand Championship Prize With Black Minroca Hen
Mrs. G. N. Mills of 904 South Thirl Street won the Grand Championship at the North Louisiana Poultry Show with a Black Minroca hen. The bird also earned first in its class and best hen overall, awarding Mills a silver loving cup from Foster Jewelry and Music Company. The full list of awards will be detailed in tomorrow's News-Star.
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North Louisiana Poultry Association
North Louisiana
G. N. Mills
South Thirl Street
Foster Jewelry and Music Company
News-Star
Damages Suit Against Irion Heard in New Orleans
In New Orleans on January 7 Judge Porter Parker heard Fred A. Hardin's $50,000 suit against Dr. V K Irion conservation commissioner alleging alienation of his wife's affections. Irion and Mrs. Hardin denied the charges while Edward Righter argued lack of cause. Irion faces another oyster suit by Governor Simson to remove him from the department.
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Associated Press
New Orleans
Porter Parker
Civil District Court Today
Fred A. Hardin
V. K. Irion
Conservation Commissioner
Edward Righter
Irion
Mercer professor offered 100000 for new radio device
Dr. Palmer Craig head of Mercer University physics department received a $100,000 offer from an eastern firm for his electro magnetic detector and amplifier. He describes the device as a stack of about ten thin Bismuth plates with sulphur protection that powers and amplifies radio sets without batteries or vacuum tubes.
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Associated Press
Macon
Palmer Craig
Mercer University
Eastern Electrical Company
Craig
New Epoch Opens As Messages Are Dispatched Today
Commercial radio telephone service between New York and London was inaugurated at 8 44 New York time with greetings exchanged between AT&T President W S Gifford in New York and Sir G Evelyn P Murray secretary of the British General Post Office in London.
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Associated Press
New York
London
W.S. Gifford
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
G. Evelyn P. Murray
British General Post Office
Prince of Wales
Canada
United States
Ottawa
Middlewest
Carl S. Brandeburg
Frank King
Loulton
Maine
King
A. P
Lower Broadway
Gifford
Evelyn Murray
Sir Evelyn
First radiophone link lit with London New York call
The first AP dispatch via the London New York radiophone linked the cities at 10:02 am as Gifford and Sir Evelyn Murray tested the line. Weathered by static, the inaugural 3500 mile call marked a landmark in cross Atlantic communications with a $25 a minute rate.
Launch boom for Al Smith as president
New York reports Alfred E. Smith as a presidential candidate amid a dinner by National Democratic club leaders. Senator-elect Robert F. Wagner praised Smith as a defender of democracy, with Mayor James Walker endorsing the governor’s potential national leadership.
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Associated Press
New York
Alfred E. Smith
Robert F. Wagner
National Democratic Club
Wagner
Thomas Jefferson
State of
Biltmore
James Walker
New York City
George W. Olvaney
Tammany Hall
Hunt for missing Salt Lake Desert rider Mary Cameron
Mary Cameron a 19 year old Salt Lake City girl vanished after renting two horses from a local riding academy. Trackers aided by authorities traced her to a pass fifty miles west of Salt Lake City but she had left the highway into the desert wastes. She was last seen riding one horse and leading the other as officers abandoned automobiles.
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Associated Press
Salt Lake City
Utah
Mary Cameron
Great Salt Lake Desert
Here
Aged Poet and Editor Frank L. Stanton Dies in Atlanta
Frank L. Stanton poet laureate of Georgia and longtime Constitution staffer died at 70 in Atlanta. He authored works including Mighty Lake Rose and Just A Wearin For You. His Christmas day column Just From Georgia appeared as his final piece before illness.
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Atlanta
Frank L. Stanton
Georgia
the Constitution
Lake Rose
Inauguration of NY London Telephone Service Marks Milestone
New York announces the inauguration of direct telephone service to London, a fifty year arc of progress from a 55 foot wire to a winged system spanning thousands of miles across oceans and mountains, with continuation on page eight.
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New York
London
Seven completions and three new locations in local oil areas
This week in Monroe oil fields seven completions and three new locations were announced by R P Webb, inspector of the mineral division. The Hatch No 1 gasser at Richland parish has blown in with an estimated flow of 20 to 25 million cubic feet daily, and remains ungauged due to gas mud and sand. Webb will stay in Richland parish until casing is set in the next days.
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Monroe
Webb
Richland Parish
Stratton Made Knight in Clarke's Supreme Kingdom
Dr John Roach Stratton pastor of Cavalry Baptist Church New York City arrives in Macon to deliver the first of sixty lectures in support of the supreme kingdom aims to remove evolution from public schools He is named director of religious activities and to be paid thirty thousand dollars for the series of talks.
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Associated Press
Macon
John Roach Stratton
Cavalry Baptist Church
New York City
Supreme Kingdom
Kingdom
RE. Y. Clarke
Ku Klux Klan
Stratton
Dynamite
Dr. Stratton
Macon Telegraph
Sev
Debate over naval build up tests White House stance
The House wrestles with funding three new cruisers amid a clash over President Coolidge's navy policy. Republican Tilson says the plan aligns with the president, while Democrat Garrett argues it reflects a break with White House views. Speaker Longworth warns Congress to keep naval strength from dropping below Washington treaty ratios.
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Associated Press
Washington
House
President Coolidge
Tilson
Garrett
Tennessee
Coolidge
White House
Longworth
Congress
St Louis Real Estate Firm in Deep Trouble
In St Louis on January 7 a probe found 75 irregular transactions at Wagner Grant Bell Realty. Missing secretary treasurer Edward W. Grant is wanted on embezzlement and fraud charges after he admitted using lost deeds to secure loans. A grand jury is to hear the case as losses could reach 1.25 million.
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ST. Louis
Wagner-Grant-Bell Realty Company
Recorder of Deeds
Clayton
Edward W. Grant
Grant
Circuit
Howard Sidener
E. A. Wagner
James M. Rohan
Nepotism Act in Mississippi Forces Replacements Statewide
Jackson Mississippi January 7 The nepotism act became law three years after passage in the Mississippi legislature. Employees related in the third degree to a department head institutional head or board of trustees who employed them must seek other positions as new officials take office. Counties statewide are affected with changes noted in the state capitol. If no change is made the employer is liable on his official bond for funds paid to the employee.
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Associated Press
Jackson
Miss
Mississppi
Three Masked Men Rob Bank at Birmingham
In Birmingham Alabama on January 7, three youths robbed the Tarrant City Savings Bank, holding 10 customers and four employees at gunpoint. They rifled the vault for $15,000, locked 14 people in the vault, and fled in a car later found deserted near East Lake.
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Birmingham
Ala
Tarrant City Savings Bank
East Lake
Negro bishops snubbed at Citizens' meeting in Washington
Four Negro bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Zion Church stayed away from a National Citizens Committee gathering in Washington citing objections to dining with attendees. The committee said invitations were not withdrawn and hotel care concerns influenced plans. Bishop E D W Jones said he would raise the issue with his church's bishops in Jacksonville next week.
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Associated Press
Washington
Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
National Citizens Committee
E. D. W. Jones
Carlton N. Sherwood
Sherwood
W. T. Galliher
Galliher
Willard Hotel
Jones
Conference of Bishops of the Church
Jacksonville
Fila
Major Putnam Plans Mississippi River Trip to New Orleans
Major Rufus W. Putnam chief engineer of Chicago harbor program will depart tomorrow for a four day study trip down the Mississippi River to New Orleans. He will observe port operations at New Orleans Vicksburg Baton Rouge and Memphis as part of evaluating freight water transport along the Lakes to Gulf route.
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Chicago
Rufus W. Putnam
New Orleans
Vicksburg
Baton Rouge
Memphis
Putnam
U S Policy in Nicaragua Debated as Marines Deployed
U S Galveston sails from Corinto after gun running report near Cosiguina while Senator Borah attacks Admin policy in Nicaragua. Kellogg defends actions as necessary to halt factional fighting and protect American lives and property. Kellogg notes Latimer’s neutral zones and Marines previously landed.
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Associated Press
Washington
Nicaragua
Borah
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Kellogg
Foreign Relations Committee
White House
Coolidge
Latimer
United States
Mr. Kellogg
Mexi
Sacasa
Diaz
Washington today in focus Congress meets at noon and agendas
Congress opens at noon with the naval bill under House review. The Senate resumes talks on the Lausanne treaty in secret. A farm relief bill goes to the House Agriculture Committee. The Senate elections subcommitee revisits Senator Gould’s case. Cyrus E B Woods nomination to the Interstate Commerce Commission moves forward in the Senate committee.
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Congress
House
Senate
House Agriculture Committee
Senator Gould
Cyrus EB. Woods T
Interstate Commerce Commissioner
Senate Committee
Woman Tortured to Reveal Jewels to Three Bandits
Chicago report details a brutal robbery in a suburban home where Mrs. Henry Everett endured three hours of torture to disclose the location of a wall safe holding jewels and securities valued at about 10 000 dollars. Her husband freed himself later, uncovering burns and injuries. The couple had just returned from a movie when attacked, marking the second such raid in recent days. Mrs. Everett, formerly widow of James W. Rush, had a high society elopement with Dr. Henry Everett’s son in 1923.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Henry Everett
Everett
Everetts
James W. Rush
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