Skeleton of steel falls before wind in Chicago
A steel skeleton on 24th and Prairie in Chicago collapsed during a storm, injuring 12 seriously and possibly killing two. Investigation by Building Commissioner Christ Paschen targets four story height and loose bolts as riveting lagged, workers sheltering in a shanty crushed by a girder, two women injured in a car, and a driver struck by a falling vehicle.
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Associated Press
Chicago
24Th
Prairie Avenue
Christ Paschen
Paschen
Bond Issue To Be Voted December 20 For Monroe Road
The ballot asks voters in wards 3 and 10 to approve a one mill tax to fund a five year bond of about 150000 dollars. The eight and a half mile protection road from Parker dam to the Ouachita river near the Louisiana Training Institute will shorten travel and offer flood backwater protection.
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Parker Dam
Ouachita River
Louisiana Training Institute
Monroe
Mrs Lilliendahl on Trial for Husband Death
In Mays Landing New Jersey on November 29 a court hears testimony about torn stockings worn by Mrs Margaret Lilliendahl after her husband Dr. Lilliendahl was shot. Witnesses describe the scene and the state troopers recount statements by the widow and alleged assailants.
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Associated Press
Mays Landing
Margaret Lilliendahl
Stella Carr
State Police
Carr
Lillienda
Legion to Seek Broad Hospital Treatment for All Veterans
American Legion plans an amendment to the world war veterans act to require the United States veterans bureau to provide hospital treatment for all veterans in need, regardless of disease origin. Watson B. Miller chairing the effort said General Frank T. Hines may back the move, noting current law limits treatment to bed availability and non service connected cases may require more facilities.
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Washington
United States Veterans Bureau
American Legion
Watson B. Miller
Legion
National Rehabilitation Committee
Frank T. Hines
Veterans’ Bureau
Bureau
Byrd Accepts Golf Set for Anaretic Polar Play
In Bristol on November 29 Commander Byrd received a gift of golf clubs with the condition they be used in the Anaretic. The unusual proposal hints at polar golf including the south pole as a future possibility.
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Bristol
South Pole
Byrd
Texas Planter Slays Son in Bloody Highway Duel
Marshall Texas November 29 a father and son met on a lonely highway and fought a fatal duel Roy Killingsworth 80 deputy sheriff of Gregg County died from wounds Ike Killingsworth 54 prominent Harrison County farmer surrendered to the sheriff held on murder charges He claimed Roy fired first and the gun snapped during the exchange with no eyewitnesses The elder Killingsworth recently married a young woman and is reputed wealthy The dead man survived by a widow and a six year old daughter A preliminary hearing is expected Tuesday
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Associated Press
Marshall
Texas
Roy Killingsworth
Longview
Gregg County
Ike Killingsworth
Harrison County
Killings
Worth
Roy
Killingsworth
Remus murder trial unfolds insanity defense testimony
In Cincinnati the Remus uxoricide trial heard that insanity could be explained by diseased mind based on witness accounts. Franklin L. Dodge Jr. and Imogene Remus were named as frequent visitors to the Remus home, with Dodge hiding his identity on two occasions. Witness schedule details Truman Mueller described Dodge's presence at the mansion on August 1, 1926, and later at other times, as the defense questions his credibility.
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Cincinnati
George Remus
Uxorbcide
Chester R. Shook
Remus
Franklin L. Dodge, Jr
Department of Justice
Charles H. Elston
William Mueller
Mueller
Witnes
Elston
Dodge
Mrs. Remus
Young Troubador Cleared After Jail Stay
Clem "Smiles" Alfred, 16, labeled dangerous and suspicious after proposing to two detectives that they steal a car and flee town, was released from Baton Rouge city jail today. He had received a ten day sentence but was freed at the police chief's discretion as charges faded. He headed toward New Orleans after leaving the Alexandria origin.
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Baton Rouge
Clem
Alfred
New Orleans
Alexandria
Now She's Married Now She's Not Legal Tangle
New York report on Izetta Wilson Ross of Baldwin Long Island who seeks to annul her second marriage to Bern ard Ross after learning her first husband Horace W Wilson, thought killed in France, is alive. She plans divorce from Wilson in Memphis Tennessee and then to remarry Ross.
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New York
Izetta Wilson Ross
Baldwin
Long Island
Bernard Ross
War Department
France
Supreme Court
Horace W. Wilson
Memphis
Tenn
Ross
Succeeds Rumania's Premier amid royal restoration debates
Vintila Bratianu becomes Romania's premier after the death of Ion Bratianu the former ruler described as the uncrowned king. His succession may hinder moves to restore Prince Carol as king and fuels European political tensions.
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Ion Bratianu
Rumania
Europe
Carol
Vintilla
Romania
Life term for possessing gin to be appealed
Fred Palm's life sentence for possessing a pint of gin under Michigan's life felony provision will be appealed to the U S district court of appeals at Cincinnati. Louis A. Cuvillier, head of the National Constitutional Liberty League of America, argues the 18th amendment bans such punishment and cites cruel and unusual punishment under the federal constitution.
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Associated Press
Lansing
Mich
Fred Palm
Michigan
United States District Court of Appeals
Cincinnati
Louis A. Cuvillier
New York
National Constitutional Liberty League of America
Harry Hitt
Palm
Cuvillier
Tony LaRose’s Assailant Found Guilty in Court
In district court Tony LaRose an Italian fruit peddler from West Monroe faced Vandy Harris Johnson a Black man charged with shooting with intent to kill. After ten minutes of deliberation the jury returned a guilty verdict Johnson admitted shooting LaRose on October 20 as the two argued over a purchase. The boy who witnessed the event testified that Johnson threw the gun in a ditch after the shot and Judge Percy Sandel adjourned court until 1:30 this afternoon.
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Vandy Harris Johnson
Tony LaRose
West Monroe
LaRose
Fairbanks
Johnson
Percy Sandel
Auto Turns Turtle Injures Three on Dixie Overland Road
Three people were injured near 11 this morning 18 miles west of the city when a car turned turtle on the Dixie Overland highway. Mrs J W H Martin 23 of 300 Layton avenue wife of the railroad division superintendent was cut on arms and limbs. Mr Clark of Little Rock and his daughter in law Mrs Henry Clark 22 suffered face and arm cuts. All were treated at St Francis Sanitarium.
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J. W. H. Martin
Layton Avenue
W. E. Lamb
Missouri Pacific Railroad
Clark
Little Rock
Henry Clark
St. Francis Sanitarium
Third Bomb Hurled at Remus Real Estate Office
A well dressed man with cash found dead by a road near Bensonville Illinois. Police suspect gang ties but deny robbery motive after a head wound. A third bomb wrecked John P Remus’s real estate office and soft drink parlor injuring policeman Vincent Gillespie amid Chicago gang tensions.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Bensonville
Ill
John P. Remus
George Remus
Cincinnati
Remus
Vincent Gillespie
Michael Hughes
Checks Hit Parish Chairmen in November School Fund
Baton Rouge November 29 Checks totaling 684602.10 were mailed by T H Harris state superintendent of education to school board chairmen in parishes as November apportionment of the current school fund. Apportionment rests on 1.05 per educable child. Increase of over 200000 from last year aided by tobacco tax revenues despite flood losses.
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Associated Press
Baton Rouge
T. H. Harris
Harris
Parties urged to state prohibition planks for campaign
Dr. Clarence True Wilson urged that political parties include their attitudes on prohibition enforcement in their platforms for the coming campaign at the annual meeting of the board of temperance prohibition and public morals of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
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Washington
Clarence True Wilson
Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals
The
Methodist Episcopal Church
Two Runaway Girls Escape Travelers' Aid Home
Nellie Holland 18 and Mattie Leovines 17, both from Texas, escaped from the Travelers' Aid home in New Orleans after telling the matron they knew their onions. They had been placed there awaiting their parents from Houston and Beaumont. The girls climbed from a second story window and fled 15 feet to the ground.
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New Orleans
Nellie Holland
Mattie Leovines
Texas
Houston
Beaumont
Gas mains expansion serves Twin Cities with new lines
The Natural Gas company spends about 100000 to lay two large new gas mains from the fields to Monroe. These lines, totaling twelve to fourteen million cubic feet daily, will supplement the existing line. A third pipeline from Sterlington to Monroe is planned, while a Louisiana Arkansas Pipeline line from Sterlington to El Dorado nears completion.
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Twin Cities
Monroe
Sterlington
Louisiana - Arkansas Pipeline Company
S. D. Hunter Interests
el Dorado
Houston Oil Company
Louisiana-Arkansas Pipeline Company
Smackover
Camden
Monroy
Hunter Companies
Gas Field Truck Driver Injured In Road Mishap
R. L. Parker aged 25, driver for Imperial Oil and Gas, was seriously injured when his truck overturned near Fairbanks. He was trapped under wreckage and admitted to Riverside sanitarium in Monroe with hip and leg fractures and other injuries. Condition improved to satisfactory the next day.
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R. L. Parker
Imperial Oil and Gas Company
Fairbanks
Monroe
Riverside Sanitarium
Women to Trade Stocks in Separate Brokerage Room
Toronto reports a brokerage firm plans a dedicated room with ticker tape for women clients allowing them to speculate in stocks independently.
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Toronto
Disorder erupts at Cudahy school meeting over superintendent firing
Milwaukee Nov 29 riot injures more than 20 as Cudahy electors meet to express views on Edward Seifert's dismissal as superintendent. A woman is knocked unconscious, police jail the meeting chair, and 1000 marchers clash after board members take the stage.
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Milwaukee
Cudahy
Edward C. Geifert
Dudshy High
John Schrank
S. B. Ames
Parents’ Committee
Seifert
Ames
C. D. Partridge
State Federation of Nurses
William O’dell
New Industrial District Gains Popularity Fast
A new industrial district near town along Washington Olive Breard streets and Ninth Tenth streets has grown in appeal. Missouri Pacific built a 1600 foot spur to lure major industries including Monroe Pipe and Supply, Ritchie Wholesale Grocer of Camden, and M Kaplan and Son. Ground is planned for the Ritchie building as stock approaches 100000, with additional factories anticipated and more firms expected to move to Monroe.
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Missouri Pacific Railroad
Washington, Olive and Breard Streets
Ninth
Tenth Streets
Missouri Pacific
Monroe Pipe and Supply Company
S. Bender
Shreveport
Monroe
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