Captive Confesses to Kansas Prison Train Killing
Benny Casey alias Arthur Smith, linked to the 1923 Deputy Warden Burns shooting on a train near Alicia, Arkansas, describes a crewed escape and robbery spree. He claims he fired after Burns advanced, with accomplice Charles O Keith aiding in the chaos. Casey faces transfer to Arkansas authorities as details of tunnel escapes and prior prison terms emerge.
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Meridian
Miss
Benny Casey
David W. Burns
Alicia
Arkansas
Kansas Penitentiary
Jackson County
Dave Cottrell
Clay County
Mississippi
Casey
Arthur Smith
Burns
Warden Burns
Newport
Ark
Cottrell
Charles O’keith
Uére
O’keith
Bono
Tucker
Hearn
Texas
Austin
Kansas City
Lucedale
Biloxi
Tennessee Penitentiary
James Beckman
Kansas
Lansing
A. V. Anderson
Gloria Swanson Weds Marquis In Paris Ceremony
Gloria Swanson, American film actress, married the Marquis De La Falaise De La Coudray today in Paris. Witnesses included Hallett Johnson, first secretary of the American embassy, with Baron D Aigny acting for the groom.
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Gloria Swanson
Marquis
Paris
France
Marquis de la Falaise de la Coudray
Hallett Johnson
Baron D’aigny
See No Chance for Amendment on Child Labor
Chicago January 28 The child labor constitutional amendment appears defeated after 13 states rejected ratification and 16 considered the Congress proposal to empower federal regulation of under 18 employment. Only California and Arkansas favored the measure with little prospect for reconsideration amid large opposition votes.
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Chicago
A. P
Congress
North
South Carolina
Georgia
Louisiana
Texas
Oklahoma
South Dakota
Kansas
Ohio
Washington
Delaware
Massachusetts
State
Senate
House
Senate of
Wyoming
California
Arkansas
Vicksburg Herald Suffers Fire Damage at Plant
Fire in the Vicksburg Herald pressroom caused several thousand dollars in damage, reaching the third floor via an elevator shaft before being controlled. An edition may not be issued tomorrow, and the Vicksburg Post offered equipment assistance. Owner G. S. Harmon was away, with losses reportedly insured.
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Vicksburg
Miss
Vicksburg Herald
Keeton Arnet
Vicksburg Post
Herald
G. S. Harmon
Muscle Shoals Lease Bill Moves to Senate Conferees
Senator Underwood announces the Underwood bill authorizing Muscle Shoals lease is before the Senate with a House conference request. He argues that current committee members oppose the measure and proposes Senators McKinley Illinois Keyes New Hampshire and Harrison Mississippi as conferees.
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Washington
Underwood
Alabama
Muscle Shoals
Senate
House
Senate Agriculture
McKinley
Illinois
Keyes
New Hampshire
Harrison
Mississippi
Louisiana Association of Highway Contractors Formed
Baton Rouge January 28. The Louisiana Association of Highway Contractors formed at a meeting of 35 contractors from across the state. W H Smith Jr of Alexandria is president with John F Irvine of Baton Rouge as vice president A M Mittersbaugh Lake Charles treasurer and Jack Harris LaPlace secretary. The board elected Simon Leopold New Orleans Ruhr Wimberly Arcadia House Hawkins Natchitoches A M Fromberg New Orleans and A C Harvey Winnfield as directors. A February 19 Baton Rouge meeting will finalize a constitution and by laws.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana Association of Highway Contractors
W. H. Smith
Alexandria
John F. Irvine
A. M. Mittersbaugh
Lake Charles
Jack Harris
la Place
Simon Leopold
New Orleans
J. Ruhr Wimberly
Arcadia
House Hawkins
Washington today Senate House noon events and hearings
The Senate and House meet at noon as the postal pay and rate increase bill advances in the Senate. A world affairs conference opens with 3,500 delegates. The House commerce committee continues hearings on the banking bill. The Senate foreign relations committee discusses proposals for American adherence to the world court.
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Senate
House
Foreign Missions Conference of North America
House Commerce Committee
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Stone Asked to Appear in Senate Quiz on Wheeler Case
Attorney General Stone was invited to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee about the delay in his confirmation to the Supreme Court. The panel debated whether to hold an open session and discussed the Justice Department seeking a second indictment against Senator Wheeler of Montana, who is already indicted in Montana for taking money for official favors.
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Washington
Stone
Senate Judiciary Committee
Justice Department
Wheeler
Montana
Supreme Court
Government Department
Senate
Department of Justice
Ontana
District of Columbia
Stones
J. Pierpont Morgan
Janes A Ownbey
Colorado
Capitol
Heflin
Alabama
Ownbey
Disappearance of pianist Ethel Leginska sparks speculation
English pianist Ethel Leginska vanished after a Monday night concert in New York. Neighbors recall her leaving with Miss Lucille Oliver, then Leginska turned and ran unsighted by a taxi. Police search continues amid conflicting tips and rumors of a possible refuge with friends.
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New York
Ethel Leginska
London
Charles Roshore
Leginska
Roshore
Lucille Oliver
Herrin to Bury Ku Klux Klan Leader After Gun Duel
In Herrin Illinois S Glenn Young known for a fatal pistol duel with Deputy Sheriff Ora Thomas will be buried tomorrow after a coroner inquest continues. Two other men suspected as klan sympathizers Ed Forbes and Homer Warren died in the incident or later. The coroner expects a verdict that night and witnesses attest Young was ambushed before firing.
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Herrin
Ill
A. P
Glenn Young
Ora Thomas
Klan
Thomas
Ed Forbes
Homer Warren
Dsy
Bell
Young
Ross Lozenbr
Jack Rowe
Rowe
Change of venue granted in penalty case
Baton Rouge Louisiana January 28 Judge W Carruth Jones granted venue change at motion by Missouri Pacific in the suit brought by the Louisiana Public Service Commission for thirty thousand dollars. The penalty arose from discontinuing two trains between Alexandria and Jones Louisiana, with the case moved to the Baton Rouge division of the U S district court for the Eastern District of Louisiana.
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Baton Rouge, la
W. Carruth Jones
Missouri Pacific
Louisiana Public Service Commission
Alexandria
Jones, la
Baton Rouge
United States District Court For
Louisiana
Shreveport Forger, 19, Given Five-Year Term
Gerald Fox, 19, pleaded guilty to nine forgery and nine uttering counts in Shreveport district court. He was sentenced to five to seven years in the Louisiana penitentiary and admitted escaping from a Florida penitentiary with two years remaining on a burglary term.
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Shreveport
Ila
Gerald Fox
Louisiana
Fox
Florida
Louisiana Bar Association to Meet in Baton Rouge
Secretary W W Young announces the executive committee accepted Baton Rouge's invitation to hold the 1925 annual meeting in the city. The dates are Friday and Saturday May 8 and 9.
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State Bar Association
Capital
W. W. Young
Louisiana Bar Association
Baton Rouge
Germany Moves to Offer Security Pact in Central Europe
Paris dispatch reports Berlin plans to offer a three power security post that would guarantee France and Belgium frontiers. The move allegedly hinges on immediate Cologne bridgehead evacuation and Rhineland liberation, with Poland’s fate a non negotiable point. France reportedly prefers the Geneva protocol for security.
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Paris
A. P
Berlin
France
Belgium
Germany
Cologne
Rhineland
Poland
Geneva
Cold Wave Grips Southeast With Snow and Freezing Temps
A rapid cold wave blankets the southeast from Washington to Atlanta with snow and sleet. Virginia reports snowfall while mobile and New Orleans note chilly rains. Norfolk sees a 40 degree drop in 12 hours and Atlanta forecasts 25 after a 59 degree noon yesterday.
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A. P
Atlantic
Washington
Virginia
Carolinas
Georgia
Nashville
Memphis
Chattanooga
Knoxville
Mobile
New Orleans
Birmingham
Richmond
Norfolk
Charlotte
Atlanta Weather Bureau
Winter Blasts New York Area With Snow and Cold
New York report says temperatures will dip to three to five degrees above zero with later rise to about 20 degrees as snow blankets the metropolitan district. Buffalo records one below zero and Worcester one above amid widespread cold and heavy traffic delays from blizzard conditions reported in Philadelphia.
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New York
New York Observer
Middle Atlantic
New England
New York State
Buffalo
Worcester
Philadelphia
French Frontiers Security and Polish Territory Debate
Political circles show sentiment that any accord securing French frontiers should not compromise Polish territorial security. The discussion highlights fears of weakening Poland amid broader European security concerns.
Local man jailed on charge of receiving stolen goods
A Caldwell Parish case links J R Pattison of DeSiard Street to a Texas burglary ring. Police recovered about $250 in clothing from his home and pursue further connections in Olla Kelley Lake Charles and DeRidder. Pattison was released on bond.
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Texas
J. R. “Son
Pattison
DeSiard Street
Young's Bay
Coverdale
Roper
Humble
Cis
Tarver
Grmont
Eighteenth
McClannahan
J. R. Brown
Jasper
L. V. Tarver
MacClannahan
Caldwell Parish
Olin
Kelly
Olia
Lake Charles
DeRidder
Olla
Kelley
Bessmay
Bond
Arkansas
Jackson Rotarians to Entertain Convention
Jackson Mississippi January 28 convention plans for the next annual Rotary Convention in the seventeenth district are complete and preparations are under way. Rotarians and their wives from Louisiana and central Mississippi will meet March 12 and 13 to celebrate a milestone in Rotary progress and study the doctrine of usefulness and unselfishness. More than forty Rotary clubs form the district, each fostering service above self in business and private life.
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Jackson
Miss
Boyd Campbell
Rotary
Hold Negro Suspect for Ax Murder in Miss
Meridian Mississippi January 28 Roen Croft alias Blue a 26 year old Negro has been arrested as a suspect in the December 31 killing of Mrs Eliza Daniel near Meehan in this county The suspect was taken into custody in Jones County and brought to Meridian by attorney J W Gipson serving R H Daniel husband of the victim who is held on a five thousand ninety dollar bond at a preliminary hearing
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Meridian
Miss
Bandits Loot Dentist Doctor Office in Chicago Raid
A trio robbed dentist and doctor offices on Chicago's North West Side taking 35 pounds of coffee a talking machine records surgical bandages and ten gallons of wine but no cash.
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Chicago
Rate Revision In Farm Aid Plan
The report from the agricultural commission proposes a federal cooperative marketing board to foster cooperative development without government domination and calls for higher support for agricultural experiment stations. It also endorses tariff protection for cattle and oil bearing products and urges expeditious congressional action.
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Washington
Coolidge
Congress
Hig Agricultural Commission
Cooperative Marketing Board
Senate
Commission
Coolidge urges liberal policy to aid missions
President Coolidge told an interdenominational gathering of foreign mission groups that Christian societies must ensure the best are shared with others. He said missions fail when Christians act with unChristian motives and urged liberalism, toleration, and brotherhood at home to strengthen overseas work.
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Coolidge
Washington
Foreign Missions Conference of North America
United States
Canada
Almo Smith Captured At Williams Station In Slaying Case
Shreveport Louisiana January 22 Almo Smith a Black man accused of killing Dan Barr a high school student was captured this morning at Williams Red River Parish on the Texas and Pacific Railroad He admitted shooting Barr after a confrontation while riding with another man and three white youths Sheriff Payne of Natchitoches to transport the prisoner and praised local residents for aiding the arrest Williams is about forty miles from the scene of the killing near Campti
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Shreveport
Almo Smith
Dan Barr
Alpha Community
Natchitoches Parish
Williams
Red River Parish
Texas & Pacific Railroad
Coushatts
Payne
Natchitoches
Will Gray
Coushatta
Alma Smith
Howard
Gray, Booth
Minter
Natc Chitoches
Young Barr
Smith
Williams Station
Campti
River Stage Readings Across Mississippi River Ports
The latest river stage report shows St Louis at 8.0 feet up 1.8, Memphis 15.9 up 1.0, Vicksburg 20.0 up 0.2, New Orleans 3.9 up 0.1, Camden on Ouachita 7.9 down 0.5, Monroe 13.5 steady, Shreveport 11.2 steady.
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St. Louis
Memphis
Ieksburg
New Orleans
Ouachita Camden
Monroe
Shreveport
Burned Evidence serial starts in News-Star February
The Blue Ribbon mystery serial Burned Evidence begins next Monday February 2 in The News-Star. Subscribers may call 224 to start home delivery and out of town readers can arrange carrier service via local News-Star representatives for Monroe-style delivery.
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News-Star
Monroe
Louisiana
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