Ex-mayor of Merrouge charged with murder jailed
Baltimore police sought Dr. B. M. McKoin former mayor of Merrouge La on murder charges linked to the Merrouge kidnapping. He is at Johns Hopkins Brady urological clinic awaiting arrest by Louisiana authorities. Investigators expect to identify masked mob members through hearings ordered by Gov Parker beginning January 5. A farmer named Gerry Whetstone said to have aided the band is being hidden under government protection in Baton Rouge with possible prosecution.
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BALTIMORE
Baltimore police department
John M. Parker
Louisiana
B. M. McKoin
Merrouge
Johne Hopkins hospital
BASTROP
Dee
Associated Press
Watt Daniels
Thomas Richards
secret service
Oak Ridge Morehouse parish
Meriouge-Bastrop
Mississippi
Gerry Whetstone
Baton Rouge
Guard Fired At On R. R. Tracks
Chicago December 26 guards watchman reported finding loosened tail bolts on Santa Fe tracks near Jokotas as train No 6 bound for Kansas City passed. One shot fired by unseen person prompted railway investigators to probe an attempted wreck or robbery. Valuable cargo and express shipments were reported missing.
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CHICAGO
g at & watchmer
Officer shoots boy. 15 injured in Spokane incident
In Spokane Washington on December 26 twelve year old Keneath Loye was shot in the left eye as two policemen tried to stop Louis Williams who was later arrested on drunkenness charges. The shooting occurred at a downtown corner with the boy nearby. Doctors say Loye's condition is serious.
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SPOKAND
Wash
Keneath Loye
Jiouis Williams
Bank President Robbed as Bandits Attack Pair
Chicago dispatch reports two bandits attacked Alexander Flower, president of Roosevelt State Bank, and his companion Mrs. Evelyn Dreis. Flower lost a $4200 diamond ring and $180. Dreis tried to flee but was overtaken during the assault as one robber brazenly attempted to steal her diamonds.
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CHICAGO
Alexander Flower
Roosevelt State Bank
Evelyn Dreis
Flower
Dreis
pole
Dancers Die In Auto Crash Near Randolph Iowa
In Indiana? No, near Randolph Iowa two young people Vera Jeffers twenty three of Horace Nebraska and Arthur Clark twenty five of Randolph Iowa drowned when the car driven by Clark plunged into a river on the way to a Christmas dance at Glenwood Indiana.
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OMAHA
Neb
Vera Jeffers
Horace
Arthur Clark
Randolph
Iowa
Clark
Glenwood
Burglars Loot LA Restaurant Safe in 4 Ton Heist
Dec 26 burglars forced open a restaurant safe weighing four thousand pounds stealing currency negotiable papers valued at 200. Shortly after, a local shop near the Southern Pacific Station was blown open and 32000 taken in the same district.
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LOS ANGELES
Southern Pacific
Germany Defaults On Wood Says Commission
Paris Dec 26 The Allied Reparations Commission for the first time declares Germany in voluntary default on a reparations obligation. The default concerns wood deliveries for this year. Vote 3 to 1 France Bolgram and Italy for the declaration, Great Britain against it. The decision sets a precedent France has long urged.
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PARIS
Associated Press
Allied reparations commission
Germany
France
Bolgrum
Italy
Great Britain
Tony
Deral Trans Tread Is Though Rainbow Special Derailment
Mumbled OCR reports a derailment near Van Buren Arkansas as a Missouri Pacific freight derailed on an open switch causing an engine and seven cars to plunge into a ditch. Engineer Frank Hedilek and Fireman George Johnson were pinned and severely injured. The Rainbow Special from Hot Springs to Kansas City was five hours late.
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MUBSKOGEE
Ohi
Missouri Pacific
Valn
Oklo
Kansas City
Hot Springs
Aik
Van Buren
Ark
Wagoner
Frank Hedilek
George Johnson
Economy Plan Of Lawmakers In Missouri Legislature
Jefferson City Missouri December 26 A retrenchment push aims to cut state expenses and taxes and reform or abolish several bureaus and commissions as the Missouri legislature convenes January 3 Both houses are Democratic led and Guy Arthur Hyde a Republican leads the Senate education for rural children and child welfare are key topics Missouri’s first women legislators Mrs Edward James of Johnson County seeks chaplaincy in the house potentially becoming the first to hold the post If elected Gov Hyde plans cooperation with both houses to pursue economy and public welfare with no vetoes on productive measures
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JEFFERSON CILY
cayne
Missouri
Johnson county
James
Hyde
Food exports rise sharply in November reports
Washington announces that exports of principal food products for November increased over November 1921 totals with few exceptions. Canned fruit brought 2,875,888 dollars in overseas sales, compared with 1,811,966 dollars in November 1921.
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WASHINGTON
department of com- Tare
Chicago mayor denounced as worse than Tweed by league
The Municipal Voters League accuses Mayor William Hale Thompson and city council allies of massive waste in city lands. It cites $3.74 million paid to five Thompson real estate experts and $3.287 million in three years, comparing the alleged graft to Tweed era schemes. Suits seek recovery. calls for cleaning the council persist.
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CHICAGO
Municipal Voters League
Pablo
William Hale
boning
Tweed Ring
Thompson
eneuy
New York
Gulle
Thompson council
Pennsylvania
New York state
San Francisco
Planes Search Lake for Tug Corneil Disappears
Cleveland December 28 A vigorous search for the tug Corneil missing since last Thursday was pressed today despite low hopes. Governor Washington ordered action as HB Shaver planned to assign at least one airplane to search Lake Erie with the Tennesseee and TC Lutz tugs returning to Ashibula harbor and others ready to resume the hunt. The cause of the disappearance remains a mystery.
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mer
CLEVELAND
Corneil
Washington
HB Shaver
Lake Erie
Tennessee
TC Lutz
Ashibula harbor
Erie
Circuit Judges Confer To Meet In Washington
On December 26 Chief Justice Taft convened the first conference of nine senior circuit judges under the new act to speed federal judicial business. The gathering will address docket congestion, judge assignments, and plans to transfer district judges to circuits or districts needing relief.
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WASHINGTON
aet of congress
Taft
Kaiser Cuts His Coupons On British Bonds In Vain
Brussels reports that a Belgian court decision denies former Emperor William the right to collect interest on British bonds. The Brussels exchange broker was ordered to refund several million francs to a British bank after ownership of the coupons was established amid British protest. The Dutch bank involved was deemed an innocent party in the affair.
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KAISER
BRUSSELS
Associated Press
William
dourt of appeals
Atlantic Tempests Toss Liners Like Cockleshells
Atlantic tempests batter North Atlantic liners in a week of fierce storms described by Cedric Zeeland and United States officers. Vessels like the Manchuria Le Savoie and Niagara faced delays or forced to port, with others arriving late or diverting to Halifax and Falmouth for repairs. captains report unprecedented hurricane conditions and gear damage across major transatlantic lines.
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North Atlantic
NEW YORK
Cedric
Zeeland
United States
sth
Atlantic
Caroma
Halifax
Mount Carrol
Monroe
Landon
nestto
treacher
Metenife
Tylicorin
Indian Ocean
LONDO
Falmouth
Rapare
Line 1
Venuz
London
Portland
Effingham
Elamburg
New
Oijeang
alma
Sierra eoas
St Vincent
Cape Verde islands
Londondier
Plymouth
Norfolk
Queenstown
Irish consul McGrath missing as threat letter surfaced
Washington desk reports Daniel J McGrath, who said he directed Irish affairs here, received a December 14 threat from the Military Authority of the Irish Republican Army and said he had resigned. The Irish Consulate office, not officially recognized, was closed today with officials unsure of his location.
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WASHINGTON
Daniel J McGrath
Dail Tureinn
McGrath
Tish
Republican Army
Rory O'Connor
Joseph Connelly
O'Connor
War on booze follows killing in Jefferson county
A vigorous drive against bootleggers and their sponsors will begin immediately after the midnight slaying of Charley Dixie Bunn, a leader of a group of eight dry agents. Bunn, known as the marked man of bootleggers, operated from Richmond and is the fifth Jefferson county prohibition officer slain by unknown gunmen.
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STEUBENVILLE
spesk
easies
Jefferson county
Lquer
prohibition
Charley “Dixie” Bunn
Blinn
Richmond
Resignation Talk At White House Unheard
Washington December 26 reports said Secretary Wall of the interior might resign from the cabinet. A White House spokesman stated the president had no information about such a move. Other quarters indicated the secretary would likely issue a statement upon his return from vacation in Virginia.
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WASHINGTON
Wall
interior department
White House
Harding
Virginia
Borah disarmament proposal stirs GOP opposition
Washington Dec 26 Republicans hold talks to shape changes to Senator Borah's disarmament amendment attached to the War relief bill. Senate action awaited after the holidays as Lodge opposes the measure in current form. Curtis Smoot and Watson urged language changes while most Republicans back the amendment as written.
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WASHINGTON
Borah
senate
Borch
Hirding
Hughes
Lodge
juader
psa
Curtis
Kansas
Smoot
Utah
Watson
Indiana
Picture cure for drunken men tried by Des Moines police
Des Moines police chief John B Hammond announced that every drunken man brought to headquarters will have his picture taken. After sobering, the man receives a photo to show how he looked when jailed in a bid to curb drunkenness. Eighty intoxicated men spent Christmas in the city jail.
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DES MOINES
John B Hammond
Hammond
Christmay ave
Robbers hunted after Dinuba depot hold up
Visalia December 26 A posse searches for two masked men who robbed the Southern Pacific passenger depot at Dinuba fifteen miles north last night taking 450 dollars from two clerks who offered no resistance.
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VISALIA
Cal
Southern Pacific Company
Dinuba
here
Judge to jail speeders longer under new policy
In Los Angeles on December 26 Judge Chambers announced that starting January 1 he will impose longer jail terms for speeding and traffic violations where convictions result. He argued the accident rate remains high and longer sentences may deter violators. In San Francisco on December 26 the Federal Telegraph Company was authorized to issue 3590 006 par value common stock to fund radio station construction in San Francisco Los Angeles and Portland.
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LOS ANGELES
Judge Chambers
SAN FRANCISCO
Federal Telegisth Company
state railroad commission
Sanfrancisco
Portland
Disappointed in His Love he Kills Three Children
The coroner seeks the history of Emil Neuriter a ferry boat operator who invaded Dr Eregel's home with three pistols as Christmas Day began killing Engel's three children then killed himself. Helen Engel 16 said Neuriter had pursued her last spring shot at her and threatened to kill her family.
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SRATTLE
Emil Neuriter
Eregel
Engel
Helen Engel
Scrugham to Leave for East Tonight for Oath
Governor-elect Scrugham plans travel to the East to take the oath upon departure and may not assume active duties immediately. Col Scrugham and Mrs Scrugham head to Livingston Ky with Mrs T W McCann's body. Sullivan would serve as acting governor if oath delayed.
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SGRUGHAM
EAST
J . Berugham
ei nor-eleek
scrugham
Livington
Mra
T. W. McCamn
Cayson City
bis talang
Tumself
L. B Fawler
Robert Richards
attrorney
Cal. Serug~hun
winnot
Boyle
Val Scrogham
Maurice J. Sullyan
Salter
Susanville
Carson
Reno
lavm
Carson City
Gol. Seyngham
Sullivan
gove
ernor
Greek Patriarch Must Stay There In Constantinople
On December 26 an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Athens quotes Premier Gonalay asserting Greece will not withdraw the patriarch from Constantinople even if the Allies accept Turkey’s Lausanne stance. The government treats the issue as a national matter beyond ministerial concession.
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LONDON
Athena
Premiar Gonalay
Constantinople
Turkey
Knott Kills Father in Self Defense in Maryland Home
Leonardtown Md December 26 Henry Knott nineteen killed his father Lancaster Knott sixty one at their River Springs home in St Marys county Saturday night. Police say the elder attacked the son with a rasa and the boy shot him in the leg causing fatal bleeding before aid arrived. An inquest exonerated Henry. State's Attorney John Briscoe investigated.
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LEONARDTOWN
Mad
Henry Knott
Tleftther
Lancaster Knott
River Springs
St. Mary's county
Sawmill hand dies in apartment fire during holiday revels
In Tuolumne California Joe Keith a sawmill hand was reported drinking heavily to celebrate the holidays. He was burned to death in an apartment fire that consumed his dwelling yesterday morning. The cause is undetermined.
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TUOLUMNE. Cal
Joe Keith
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Farmer
R. R
SAPES
WOOD
DERAL
William Hale Thompson
RISH
W. E. BORAH
United States senate
Democrats
Idaho
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