Italian salvage ship Artiglio destroyed after explosive detonation
The Italian salvage ship Artiglio, while breaking up a derelict munition ship off Brittany, exploded and sunk along with fourteen crew. Rostro rescued seven injured divers. loot from the Egypt and other wrecks hinted at bullion and valuables, including a diplomatic mail sack recovered from the Egypt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
LORIENT
France
Artiglio
Florence
Houat
Hoedic
raines
Artighio
Egypt
Elizabeth
Brittany
Rostro
Artigio
La Florence
French marine ministry
British foreign office
bany
Tan
Social feud believed over at White House reception
Mrs Gann and Mrs Longworth greeted each other by first names at a White House reception, with Mrs Longworth saying Hello Dolly to Vice President Curtis's sister and hostesses. They clasped hands and friends said any earlier tensions seemed resolved during the event for the diplomatic corps.
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WASHINGTON
Tec
Silk Hats Stolen From Opera Party In Chicago
Three powerful groups join to pursue four thieves who attacked an opera party in Chicago and stole silk hats from four prominent men returning home. The incident occurred on Ritchie Court after the performance. one man lost his shirt front while trying to intervene. The Belden family led the appeal to the Secret Service, the Association of Commerce Citizens Committee for Prevention of Crime, and the Employers Association.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
CINCAGO
Dec
hiv
association of commerce clitezens’ committee for
Employers Association
Joseph Belden
Ritchie Court
Joseph Belden, Jr
William C. Madlend
Herbert McLaughlin
Matron Rosetta Baker Found Dead After Room Robbery
San Francisco December 8. Mrs Rosetta Baker a about sixty year old actress and club woman was strangled in her apartment and apparently robbed. The crime scene showed a struggle indicating a fight during the robbery. She was part owner of an 814 California Street apartment. Walter Middleton and Arthur Beale were detained for questioning. Chinese servant Fook found the body. Baker last appeared on stage at Travers Little Theatre. She previously sued Dr Clarence Clark Baker claiming part of his estate.
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SAN FRANCISCO
Rosetta Baker
California
Walter Middleton
Arthur Beale
hall of justice
Lew Fook
Temperance groups plan bold prohition push nationwide
Delegates to the National Temperance council met in secret to map an aggressive prohi- bition campaign. President Hoover's enforcement commission also conducted a closed session amid hopes to finish the dry law report soon. Dr Ira Landrith urged re educating public opinion against repeal and affirmed the eighteenth amendment cannot be repealed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
WASHINGTON
National Temperance concil
prohibition
Hoover
law enforcement commission
Ira Landrith
Chicago
National Temperance council
Landrith sai
association
council
Landrith
national association of organizations
Wealthy Hanford Goes On Trial In Manslaughter Case
Arthur Hanford Jr., a wealthy Sioux City businessman, went on trial in Omaha charged with manslaughter after a July alley scuffle left Fred Slayden dead as he aided Hanford to his hotel room. Slayden’s widow had received a $22,500 gift from Hanford recently. In Washington, Senate confirmed William N. Doak of Virginia as secretary of labor to succeed Senator Davis, with no opposition or debate.
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OMAHA
Arthur Hansford, Jr
Sioux City
Fred Slayden
Hanford
slay
tten
WASHINGTON
enate today
William N. Doak
Virginia
Davis
Republian
Pennsylvania
Heflin
Alabama
U S Plans to Buy Berlin Embassy Palace
Berlin dispatch reports the United States government reportedly purchasing the Hluecher palace at No 2 Pariser Platz for a joint embassy and consulate building at 62 500 000 dollars. The embassy and Mittag Zeitung dispute the report as premature and potentially jeopardizing the deal.
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BERLIN
Mittag Zeitung today
Hluecher
Pariser plaza
Mittag Zeitung
Man and Mother Die in Farmhouse Tragedy at Manister
In Mich December 8 14 police found Edward Schroeder forty one and his eighty one year old mother dead at their farm near Manister. Police say Schroeder killed his mother then himself with a pistol found beside them an open magazine on the table showed a similar case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
MANISTER
Mich
Edward Schroeder
eghtyone
Schroeder
Keg of Tacks Lost on Highway Causes Widespread Flat Tires
In San Jose California a keg of roofing tacks spilled on the Oakland highway north of town. Tow trucks removed wrecked cars and street sweepers cleared the road. Dozens of motorists reported flat tires color as many as two dozen punctures each. Police traced the tacks to a broken keg from a truck and reopened the highway after cleanup.
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SAN JOSE
Cal
Oakland highway
here
Milpitas
Laval to strive to secure new ministry for France
Paris dispatch reports Senator Pierre Laval placed to form a new French government after President Doumergue gave mandate. Barthou declined leadership when radical Socialists balked at including rightist Marin. Laval, an independent Socialist, noted for social pension and textile strike settlement, seeks a cabinet balancing the religious school question and Republican factions.
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PARIS
Pierre, Laval
Clemenceau
chamber of deputies
Doumeligue
BARTHOU
Louis Barthou
Poincare
Louis Marin
M. Laval
M. Deumergue
senate
chamber
M. Tardieu
M. Briand
Socialit
Louis Lou
wice Republicanism
France
radical Societist party
Jules Ferry
republic
ight
M Marin
Barbour
Court of Russia relents after it condemns plotters
Soviet central executive committee commuted eight death sentences for engineers found guilty of a plot to overthrow the regime. Five condemned to death had their sentences changed to ten years imprisonment with citizenship rights restrictions. Three others received eight years. Trial aired nationwide, with charges of foreign involvement and counter revolutionary leadership. Names cited include Ramsin, Larichev, Chernovsky, Kalinikov, Fedot, Ochkin, Kuprianov, Sitnin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
MOSCOW
Soviet central
Soviet union
Leonid Ramsin
Victor Larichev
Nicolai Chernovsky
Ivan Kalinikov
Alexander Fedot
England
Russia
Reymond Poincare
Aristide Briand
Colonel Laurence
Lod Churchill
Funds Raised for Nevada Indians in Interior Bill
Washington report notes increased appropriations for Nevada Indians including $20000 for a new home economics building at Carson Indian School. The bill lists expenditures for land purchases, irrigation maintenance, Newlands project costs, Carson School operations, health facilities, and Pyramid Lake and Walker River Indian services, with several new appropriations and increases over prior funding.
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Washington Bureau
Tene Evening Gazette
LEGA. McCLATCHY
WASHINGTON
Nevada
Carson
Indian irrigation service
Pyramid lake reservation irrigation service
anl
Pyramid Incans
Newlands project
Carson City
Carson school
Carson school hospital
Pyramid lake sanitarium
Walker river Indian hospital
Pyramid lake
Chinese Held in Drug Plot in Pacific Northwest
Seattle police detain Chinese merchant George Kwan as part of a broad probe into traffic of machine guns used by bandit gangs in Pacific Northwest cities. Capt Kent says Kwan faces thorough inquiry though not tied to specific hold ups. Kwan, a familiar figure, was once accused of bribery in 1924 and wounded in a 1927 road house shooting.
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SEATTLE
George Kwan
Pacific Northwest
Wiliam B. Kent
Kwan
Capone Leaves Florida Home Amid Palm Island Retreat
Chicago Herald and Examiner report Capone, publicly Chicago’s top enemy, is believed in a Palm Island Florida retreat or en route there. His sister Mafalia's wedding to John Mariote is planned there in a few days with Capone expected to attend. The Tribune adds Capone moved from Chicago, detouring to Poughkeepsie, then Brooklyn with three bodyguards.
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CHICAGO
Chieve Herald and Examiner
Alphonse Capone
lst
Palm Island
Florida
Capone
Mafalia
John Mariiete
Chicago Tribune
Poughkeepsie
Brooklyn
Johnny Torrico
The
Tribune
Coolidge criticized by expert over Bras sard nomination
Alfred F Dennis of Maryland testifies before the Senate Finance Committee that President Coolidge ignored his advice on appointing Brassard, Utah Republican, to the tariff commission. Dennis says he warned of a potential handicap due to Brassard’s Utah ties and sugar case expertise. He notes fifty reports from his six years on the commission influenced White House duties and discusses party alignments among commissioners.
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WASHINGTON
Alfred F Dennis
Maryland
tariff commission
senate finance committee
Coolidge
Edgar B. Brassard
Utah
Dennis
Brassard
Harrison
oivision
Brossard
Brossar
Costigans Democrat
Colorado
Warship Bill Wins Approval in Senate
The Senate approved a 30,000,000 battleship modernization bill offered by Senator Reed of Pennsylvania. The plan, to upgrade the New Mexico Mississippi and Idaho, aligns with the London Naval Treaty and advances to the House for action.
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WASHINGTON
senate
house
Reed
Republican
Pennsylvania
New Mexico
Mississippi
Idaho
Warns of Call for Convention
Washington observers report that Robert G Morris, a New York lawyer, distributed a booklet to members of Congress warning of a subtle effort to force a federal constitutional convention. He notes 35 states have filed applications, three over the required number, but says past filings over decades render them ineffective and warns of potential business disruption if a convention is called, regardless of ratification outcomes.
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WASHINGTON
congress
Robert G. Morris
New York
Funds Set Aside to Speed Boulder Canyon Project
Washington, Der. 8. More than 25 million dollars will be spent on the 14 million Boulder Canyon project by the end of the near fiscal year. Fifteen million dollars was set aside today in the interior supply bill to speed up work by six months. Allocation changes aim to cover overruns with leftovers from last year. Reclamation Commissioner Mead outlined plans to award all preliminary contracts by January 1, 1932 and to let the diversion tunnels contract in February for completion by mid 1933. The 15 million carries work to year end, then 1.7 million is needed for tunnels, 2.19 million for coffer dams, 5 million for the spillway and 9.24 million for outlet works.
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WASHINGTON, Der
Boulder Canyon
house appropriations committee
Reclamation
Mead
Brawl in Denver rooming house ends in death
Curtis De Long of Mc Cook Nebraska died after a rooming house fight during an apparent liquor raid attempt. Six men and a woman were arrested for investigation. De Long was stabbed four times, staggered to a drug store, and died despite surgeon efforts. Police had earlier moved De Long and two McCook men to a Denver hotel to register.
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DENVER
Curtis De Long
McCook
De Long
W. J. Bradford
John Ruch
Agnes Snyder
Samuel
Forty Students Die From Snake Poison in Soup
In Bombay the death toll reaches forty at a London mission school in Erode Medias after a midday meal. A snake was found in the soup utensil and the cook was one of the victims as the students collapsed and died shortly after eating.
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BOMBAY
India
London mission school
Erode
Medias
Exchange Telegraph Company
zorty
Judge Lindsey ousted after church disruption in New York
In Manhattan a Denver judge, Ben B. Lindsey, was ejected from the Cathedral of St. John the Divine after interrupting Bishop Manning. He sought a continuance on a charge of disorderly conduct, pled not guilty, and announced possible slander action against Manning. Police, ushers, and parishioners clashed as Lindsey argued his right to speak, with Manning condemning his views on companionate marriage.
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NEW YORK
Ben B. Lindsey
Denver
St. John the Divine
Wiliam T. Manning
West Side court
Dreyer
Lindsey
William F. May
Manning
Arthur Garfield Hays
Clarence Darrow
Bishop Manning
Samuel Untermyer
house of justice
house of God
Hawks Glider to be retired to Smithsonian
A widely traveled glider flown by Captain Frank Hawks last spring was retired today and placed in a Smithsonian Institution archive. The craft, towed 500 feet by J. D. Jernigin, completed a transcontinental journey and covered over four thousand miles before the tow rope was released in the Anacostia River. It will hang in the national museum beside the Spirit of St. Louis.
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WASHINGTON
Frank Hawks
Smithsonian Institution
Hawks
J. D. Jernigin
Frank Tichenor
C. G. Abbott
Smithsonian
Jernigin
Anacostia river
national museum
Charles A. Lindberg
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