Roosevelt Jr Opposes Prohibition and Volstead Act
Theodore Roosevelt Jr. denounces the prohibition amendment and the Volstead act as intolerable, calling the lawless mess created by the Volstead act a breakdown of respect for law. He criticizes it for fostering widespread violations and a thriving violator profession, with corruption feeding on both sides.
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Univernel Service
New York
Theodore Roosevelt Jr
Schuyler Patterson
Success Magazine
Biggs
United States
Ahyaye
Halt French Bride From Entry to U.S. at Ellis Island
Captain Marbury Taylor of Richmond, Virginia, barred from landing his French wife in New York after arrival from Paris on the Suffren. An American consul had issued her passport but immigration officials deemed it improper and she was ordered to Ellis Island for a special board inquiry. The ship sailed with the couple aboard.
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Universal Service
New York
Marbury Taylor
Richmond
Taylor
Paris
Suffren
Ellis Island
Captain Taylor
Coor Rm
17 Year Old Girl Killed In Accidental Gun Discharge
Canyon Texas December 12 1947 17 year old Freda Cheatham daughter of Mrs A Cheatham was killed last night when a shotgun discharged by a roomer through a door in her mother's home. Her brother James Cheatham and the roomer had just returned from a hunting trip.
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Canyon
Tex
Freda Cheatham
A. Cheatham
James Cheatham
Night Club Patron Beaten and Robbed in New York
Five men tied to a city night club are jailed after Mellonan Whi comb of East Orange New Jersey complained he was beaten for protesting a 21 dollar bill for three drinks and robbed of his remaining 27 dollars.
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New York
Sre
Mellonan Whicomb
East Orange
N. J
Lassen Peak Emitting Clouds of Smoke Over Crater
Lassen Peak showed signs of volcanic activity as steam and smoke drifted southward from the crater, creating a pronounced spectacle against clear skies. It marked the third reported instance this week. Also an advertisement for Dickes's Old Reliable Eye Water and Wrightens eye clearers priced at 25 cents.
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Redding
Cal
Dee
Lassen Peak
Dickes
San Antonio Radio Studio KGDR Plans Beginnings
Washington approves call letters for KGDR San Antonio new station at 105 West Dewey with Joe McShane Otto Koehler ready to broadcast from the city. Date of first broadcast not set as operators finalize programs while local news includes hunts travels and official notices.
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Washington
Joe McShane
Otto Koehler
San Antonio
KGDR
West
Dewey
Soldier on the Run Charged With Theft at Field Exchange
A soldier who fled from a field near a Southern Pacific passenger train was arrested as he stepped off the train and is accused of stealing 750 from the field exchange and a car from Sergeant Gariand. Military Police officers say he disappeared a month ago with 240 in jewelry entrusted to him and has claimed kidnapping.
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Southern Pacific
Brooks Field
Monday
Field Exchange
GP. Gariand
J. Maloukis
E. A. Berry
Maloukis
Dasa
Robbery suspects sought after Wong Grocery hold up
Police seek two masked bandits who robbed Nick Hussar, a Wong Grocery truck driver, on Concepcion road after his last deliveries. Hussar was knocked unconscious and about $49 taken. Both suspects fled and were still at large.
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Nick Hussar
Wong Grocery Company
Sheriff's Department
Concepcion Road
Hussar
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