Egypt and Britain Faced Over Sudan Crisis In League Talks
Egyptian army units are ordered to evacuate Sudan as the fourth battalion departs and the third with artillery will follow. In Geneva a telegram from Egyptian parliament protests British action after Sir Lee Stack’s assassination, while League officials weigh whether to distribute it to world parliaments. London reports quiet in Cairo as a new cabinet forms, with royalist trends and possible dissolution of Parliament debated, and Egyptian students protest by closing schools.
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Khartum
Sudan
Geneva
Lee Stack
League of Nations
League
England
Rome
London
Egypt
Giwar Peabo
Lord Alienb
Cairo
Daily Telegraph
Morning Post
Cairoman
Zegioulasho
Mena
Gizeh
Rumer
Europe
France
Chaplin Bridal Party Reaches Mexican Border at Nogales
Charlie Chaplin and Lita Grey travel by Sonora from Guaymas after their wedding ceremony. The bridal party, including four others, crossed into Nogales early today as the couple’s destination remains unannounced.
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Charlie Chaplin
Bride
Mexican Border
Nogales
Ariz
Charles Chaplin
Sonora
Guaymas
Well Known Justice at Laurel Succumbs From a Heart Attack
J. M. Arnold, 60, Jones County Bar member and circuit judge during Governor Early Brewer’s term, died at his Ellisville home after an acute indigestion attack. A prominent Mason, he was widely known across Mississippi.
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Laurel, Miss
J. M. Arnold
Jones County
Early Brewer
Ellisville
Witchita Conviction of Bank Robbery Link to Notorious Bandit
Mrs Chris Hamey wife of a famous bank robber killed by Illinois police last year is convicted in Wichita Kansas of complicity in the Rock State Bank robbery from last January. She faces a five to ten year term in State prison.
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Chris Hamey
Illinois
Witchita
Kansas
Rock State
Witness recounts Paris hotel extortion plan in court
London November 26 witness Montague Newton testified in a trial against the Midland Bank that a conspiracy to extort a large sum from a wealthy Indian prince was plotted using a Paris hotel scene with Mrs Robinson and an accomplice acting as her husband. He described final instructions given the night before and the staged confrontation in the prince suite. A crowd gathered outside the courts later, with several women waiting nearby.
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London
Paris
Mes
Setire Hievan
Chicagoans Hear English Broadcasts With Ease
Chicago radio fans enjoyed English and French announcers with reports of listening to 5-NO Newcastle England, 2-BD Aberdeen Scotland, PTT Lyons France, 2-LO London Lewis England, and weather from Paris Eiffel Tower. An orchestra with xylophone numbers and selections from operas were noted, with The Marseillais prominent from Lyons.
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Chicago
New Castle
England
Aberdeen Scotland
PTT
Lyons
France
London
Eiffel Tower
Paris
Marseillais
Haynesville or Homer Face Elimination for Louisiana Final
In Shreveport Louisiana on November 26 undefeated Haynesville and Homer meet to determine who advances to the state championship game against undefeated Shreveport. Shreveport will then face Central High School of Houston Texas at Centenary field in the decisive semifinal.
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Shreveport
Haynesville
Homer High School
Homer
Central High School
Houston
Texas
Death by Own Action Claimed in Arkansas Plant Owner Death
Walter H. Paul, owner of a metal plant near Fort Smith Ark, was found dead on the post office lawn with a bullet hole in his temple. Authorities say he committed death by own action.
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Fort Smith, Ark
Walter H. Paul
Fort Smith
Paul
Florida suspect confesses to dual Mississippi murders
George McKee of Magnolia Mississippi, held in a Florida county jail, confessed to the Magnolia sheriff as the man sought for the August 9 murders of Mrs Will Bolian and Harry Tarver and the wounding of Miss Fannie Bolian. He was arrested in Lake Worth while peeling potatoes, and says he will return to Mississippi without extradition. A large reward is offered.
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West Palm Beach
Fla
George McKee
Magnolia
Miss
R. C. Baker
Will Bolian
Harry Tarver
Fannie Bolian
Lakeworth
McKee
Mississippi
R. O. Baker
George McCue
John Dickson
Summit
Baker
Guy
Girls slain in lonely shack tied hands shot in head
In Fos terville New Brunswick 14 year old Cynthia Foster and 10 year old Neetia Foster were found dead in a shack occupied by their uncle Harry Williams. Williams was arrested after an all night search and held by townspeople awaiting the Fredericton sheriff. The girls who had gone to cook for Williams were found slain with hands tied behind their backs.
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Houston
Maine
Cynthia
Neetia Foster
Harry Williams
Fosterville
N. B
Williams
Fredericton
State Farm Men On Program Of No LA Society
The Parish Farm Association held its regular monthly meeting at Calhoun with attendees from Baton Rouge Alexandria Monroe and Ouachita Parish. W F Hines J H McCulley EF Woolman and E R Strahan spoke on seed testing fertilization and next year’s crops. The group favored using acid phosphate and nitrate of soda for profitable fertilization.
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Parish Farm Association
Calhoun
Down State
W. F. Hines
Extension Department
Baton Rouge
J. H. McCulley
Louisiana Farm Bureau
Alexandria
Ef, Woolman
E. R. Strahan
Monroe
School supply executive dies in Mississippi
W. W. Tutwiler of Chicago Union School Supply Company, 56, died in Jackson after a heart attack struck him at a friend's home front door. He expired 86 minutes later.
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Jacksoon
Miss
W. W. Tutwiler
Union School Supply Company of Chicago
Work Resumed at Sterlington After Blowout
Resident Engineer Swift reports the Sterlington power plant crew returned to work this morning after a lay-off since Saturday caused by a gas blowout that required removing machinery. A new site eight hundred feet upriver will host a temporary plant to provide light and power while major construction proceeds on three shifts daily. The gas flow is steadily diminishing and controls are expected to succeed soon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Swift
Sterlington
Young Woman Severely Injured In Bastrop Road Crash
Miss Hattie Brendle 19 and Eugene Gordon 25 from Bastrop were in a Ford roadster that overturned on Bastrop Hill road near a barbecue at Fairbanks around 9 pm. Brendle was admitted to St Francis sanitarium with a broken collar bone and facial injuries while Gordon was thrown from the car. Brendle remained able to talk and doctors said rest and quiet should aid recovery.
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Hattie Brendle
Bastrop
Eugene Gordon
Bastrop Hill
Fairbanks
Miss Brendle
St Francis
Gordon
Morehouse Parish
Smackover Businessman Killed in Ark Auto Crash
El Dorado Ark November 26 Jake Farr 24 a Smackover Ark drug proprietor and automobile dealer died in a car wreck last night near Smackover when his vehicle crashed and crushed him authorities said Farr was the only occupant of the car and injuries were severe confirming the fatal accident occurred late yesterday evening local police reported an investigation is continuing into the crash
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EL Dorado
Ark
Jake Farr
Smackover
Here
Proclamation Declares Thanksgiving Day 1924 in Monroe
The mayor Arnold Bernstein proclaims Thursday November 27, 1924 a legal holiday in Monroe Louisiana. He urges citizens to observe the day with thanks for local industrial growth and national peace. The proclamation, dated November 26, 1924, is sealed at Monroe City Hall.
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Monroe
Uself
Arnold Bernstein
Former banker held in alleged diamond theft
Clark Kuney a former banker from Three Lakes Wisconsin was held to the Cook county grand jury in bonds of 2500 on a larceny complaint by Mrs Cecil Ware of New Orleans. She accuses Kuney of stealing old fashioned diamond rings valued at 8000 in Cook county after convincing her to entrust money and rings to him.
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Chicago
Clark Kuney
Three Lakes
Wisconsin
Cook County
Cecil Ware
New Orleans
Beteen
Kaney
Ground Drops Five to Ten Feet at Wilkesbarre
A mine disturbance at Hudson Coal Company operations caused a plot of land at Larksville near Wilkesbarre to sink five to ten feet. Five properties owned by the company in the area were affected, two beyond repair, with no casualties as families were awakened by the event.
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Wilesbarre
Larksville
Hudson Coal Company
New Mercurochrome Pneumonia Treatment Reported
Dr. Lewis D. Hoppe Jr and Dr. William T. Freeman of Atlanta announced at the Southern Medical Association pediatrics session in New Orleans that mercurochrome treatment for pediatric pneumonia shows an 8.5 percent mortality across eight months versus 39.7 percent with other methods. The average hospital stay was 6.12 days for mercurochrome versus 16 days for other methods.
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New Orleans
Lewis D. Hoppe, Jr
William T. Freeman
Atlanta
Southern Medical Association
Young Woman Dies of Burns from Open Grate in Memphis
Miss Virginia Bierwirth aged 23 died at home in Memphis after clothing caught fire from an open grate. A passerby smothered the flames with a quilt but could not revive her, her screams heard before she succumbed to injuries suffered yesterday morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Memphis
Tenn
Virginia Bierwirth
Secretary Hughes seals tripartite war claims accord
Secretary Hughes concluded a three party agreement with the Russian and Hungarian governments to adjust war claims arising since July 31 1924. The accord aims to settle outstanding claims between the nations and streamline compensation processes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Hughes
Milk inspection urged to standardize grades in South
Dr Leslie C Frank of Montgomery urged a national plan to standardize milk grades and production at the Southern Medical Association meeting in New Orleans. He warned raw milk is never safe and pasteurization not always enough, citing tests showing tubercular milk despite care. Alabama plan centers on graded dairies and cities by the state health department for safe supply.
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New Orleans
Alabama
Leslie C. Frank
Montgomery
Ais
United States Public Health Service
Southern Medical Association
Frank
State Health Department
Charity Hospital
Carville
Edward L. Newell
Chattanooga
EF. Denegre
J. W. Palmer
Riley, Ga
Southern Association of Railway Surgeons
The
Medical Association
Countess Marries Florida Truck Farmer in New Jersey Wedding
Countess Marie von Larisch, 66, famed Bavarian noble, wed W. H. Meyers, a Melbourne Florida truck farmer, in a September ceremony by Mayor John A. Kenahh in Elizabeth New Jersey. The couple then moved to Oklahoma before returning to New York and plan to live on the Meyers farm in Florida.
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New York
Marie von Larisch
Duchess von Wittelsbach
Ludvig of
Bavaria
Empress Elizabeth of Austria
W. H. Meyers
Melbourne
Florida
Austria
Rudolph
Marie Vetsera
Vienna
Meyers
Berlin
Count Karl von Laisch
Elizabeth
N. J
John A. Kenahh
Oklahoma
Outrage Claims From Greek Ship Arrivals in Mobile
Greek steamer Margarita crew reports outrages against Georgians in the Soviet empire after docking in Mobile. They describe famine and executions near Pita, and note Soviet seizure of manganese profits as part of nationalization.
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Mobile
Ala
Pita
Russia
Black Sea
Georgia
Red Rassia
Constantinople
Byzantum
Margarita
Washington battleship hull sinks under Texas fire
The unfinished battleship Washington rests on the Atlantic seabed off Virginia Capes after tests and a planned long-range 14 inch gun firing from the Texas as part of the Washington treaty demolition. The Washington class ship is scrapped under the naval arms agreement with sister ships West Virginia Maryland and Colorado now in service.
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Washington
Atlantic
Virginia Capes
Texas
United States
Navy Department
C. F P. Hughes
Navy Board
Jutland
West Virginia
Maryland
Colorado
Forbes Case Opens Before Jury in Chicago Fraud Trial
Special assistant John W. H. Crim detailed in federal court the alleged conspiracy by Charles R. Forbes and J. W. Thompson to defraud the U S government of funds for veterans hospitalization. The case centers on a $17,000,000 hospital fund from the Langley bill with Black, Cramer deceased and Mortimer described as a paid informant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Charles R. Forbes
J. W. Thompson
United States
Congress
John W. H. Crim
Forbes
Thompson
James W. Black
Charles F. Cramer
Elias H. Mortimer
Crim
Veterans Bureau
Langley
Black
Cramer
Mortimer
STEP TAKEN TO HALT PRINTING OF TAX RETURNS
Washington reports Representative Watson of Pennsylvania announces a bill to remove the tax return amount from public view. The proposal would allow disclosure of names and addresses of taxpayers to Congress, state governors, and large corporate stockholders, but would bar public release of tax amounts.
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Washington
Watson Pennsylvania
Ways and
Dawes Leaves Evanston Hospital for Thanksgiving at Home
CHICAGO Nov 26 General Charles G Dawes vice president elect left Evanston hospital today and was taken to his home where he plans to join family for a Thanksgiving turkey dinner tomorrow. His secretary said the general is feeling well and has looked forward to spending the holiday at home since his operation ten days ago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Charlies G. Dawes
Evanston Hospital
Charter Revoked for Minneapolis Klan Group
North Star Klan No. 2 of Minneapolis had its charter revoked by the national headquarters in Atlanta, ending the local organization. Official notices were sent to all members in Minneapolis confirming the dissolution.
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Minnesota City
Minneapolis
Minn
North Star Klan No. 2
Atlanta
Frue Attacker Held for Grand Jury Action
A. C. Frue of this city was attacked with a knife about two weeks ago. The assailant, A. G. Holt oil worker, was ordered held at El Dorado for grand jury action. Bond set at 1000, not yet posted. Frye slowly recovering at El Dorado sanitarium from the assault with intent charges.
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A. G. Holt
el Dorado
Frue
Bond
Frye
el Dorado Sanitarium
Luis Firpo Faces $175000 Suit in Jersey City Court
Luis Angel Firpo appeared in Jersey City court to answer a $175,000 lawsuit filed by Andrew Maccorkindale. The plaintiff says he financed Firpo’s early training in 1922 and seeks 25 percent of Firpo’s earnings plus the return of a $50,000 advance.
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Jersey City
N. J
Luis Angel Firpo
Andrew Maccorkindale
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Ford
Wilkesbarre
Pennsylvania
Los Angeles
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California
Lone Pine
N. C
Countess
Georgian Republic
U. S
Watson
Bill
Gen. Dawes
Luis Firpo
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