Alaska Juneau to Operate Ebner Property in Alaska
A signing ceremony in San Francisco set Alaska Juneau Mining Company to operate the Ebner mine and mill ore at its works. The two-year period to prepare is noted, though work may begin sooner. locals expect Ebner to be run from Alaska Juneau facilities, effectively uniting the two properties in operation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alaska Juneau Mining Company
United States Smelting and Refining Company
San Francisco
Ebner
Alaska Juneau Company
L. H. Metzgar
Alaska Juneau
Metzgar
Juneau
Mellon urges tax cuts amid debt reduction report
Secretary Mellon in his annual report to Congress highlights Treasury efforts that cut foreign debt by 613,674,343 dollars in fiscal year 1923. He urges deep tax reductions tied to strict economy and opposes new authorized expenditures. He argues surtax cuts to 25 percent would boost revenue and overall economic activity.
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Washington
Vec
Mellon
Congress
Treasury
Brown
House
Ways and Means Committee
Officials Named to Help Coolidge in California
SAN FRANCISCO December 15 Ralph Arnold of Los Angeles is named chairman of the executive committee of the League of Coolidge Clubs of California Edward H Hurlbut of San Francisco is named state campaign Manager
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San Francisco
Ralph Arnold
Los Angeles
League of Coolidge
California
Edward H. Hurlbut
La Follette Praises Coolidge Message as Frank Statement
Senator Robert M. La Follette issued a statement in Madison calling President Coolidge's message able concise and frank from the standpoint of a standout reactionary theory of government.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madison, Vic
Robert M. la Follette
Police Sergeant Clears Hamlet Play of Immorals
New York police sergeant Stewart Dewitt investigated a complaint about naughty lines and an idealized murder in the John Barrymore Hamlet. He found the performance free from immorals and police seek the wag who filed the complaint.
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New York
Stewart Dewitt
Dewitt
John Barrymore
History of Pistol Linked to Plunkett Murder Case
Review of Edward Krause’s crimes revisits the revolver tied to Captain James Plunkett’s killing aboard the Lou. The 38 caliber Colt revolver, later found rusty, passed to Tom Smith and then gunsmith M. H. Truesdell who repaired it and kept it. Krause’s notorious Alaska spree includes Plunkett’s death in 1915 and his subsequent capture, escape, and firing on others before his own death.
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Edward Krause
James Plunkett
Plunkett
William Lott
W. F. Prentice
Lott
Smith & Wesson
Eaderal
M. H. Truesdell
Lou
Krause
Duncan Canal
Tom Smith
Truesdell
Alaska
R. W. Jennings
Arvid Franzen
Doty’s Cove
Admiralty Island
William Christie
Treadwell
Yammamoto
Wrangell
Two Americans Named As Experts on Germany
Paris Dec 15 The Reportions Commission has officially invested Gen Charles G Dawes former Director of the American Budget Bureau and Owen D Young of New York lawyer and banker to be the official representatives of the United States on the expert committee to investigate German financi
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Paris
Reportions Commission
Charles G. Dawes
American Budget Bureau
Owen D. Young
New York
United States
Indictments in Arkansas probe of Free Press cases
STUTTGART Ark Dec 15 Indictments have been returned by the special grand jury investigating the recent attack on the Free Press weekly and the Arkansas Rice Growers Cooperative Association. James McAllister pioneer mining operator on Hunker creek in the Klondike died at Dawson aged 77. native of Scotland. He left the Presbyterian church at Dawson beside his wife who died earlier.
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Stuttgart
Ark
Free Press
Arkansas Rice Growers’ Cooperative Association
James McAllister
Hunker Creek
Klondike
Dawson
Scotland
Presbyterian Church
Daweon
Senator Johnson Opposes New GOP Ruling
Senator Hiram Johnson condemned a GOP rule restoring Southern voting strength at the Republican National Convention as repugnant to fair representation. National Committee Chairman John T. Adams defended the action as just to districts where Republicans can win but Democrats oppose a free ballot and honest count.
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Washington
Hiram Johnson
John T. Adams
National Committee
Johnson campaign to file case for minority Republican ticket
Jack Sutherland announced in South Dakota that Senator Hiram Johnson's case would be filed to lead a minority Republican ticket for the March primaries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Sutherland
Hiram W. Johnson
South Dakota
Johnson
Mail truck driver bound during Rochester robbery
Rochester, Minnesota date line reports two bandits bound the mail truck driver to his wheel and robbed a registered mail pouch containing between 15 000 and 18 000 dollars in currency. The crime occurred December 15 as stated in the dispatch.
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Rochester
Minn
Paymaster Robbed Of Weekly Payroll in Philadelphia
Two bandits bound and gagged the Michael Melody & Son paymaster as he prepared envelopes for employees and fled with 16000 dollars in Philadelphia. The incident occurred December 15 as the warehouse staff prepared payroll.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Michael Melody & Son Company
Nominating Petition For Ford Is Faulty
A petition to place Henry Ford on the Democratic ballot for Michigan presidential preference primaries was filed with 107 signatures but found defective as 25 signers lacked addresses. The petition remains on file for potential补 signatures to be forwarded.
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Lansing
Mich
Henry Ford
Michigan
Steamer Flavel Sinks After Hitting Rocks Off Monterey
Seattle dispatch reports the steamer Flavel bound from Greys Harbor to San Pedro with lumber struck rocks off Monterey early today and is a total loss. No lives were lost according to wireless.
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Seattle
Flavel
Greys Harbor
San Pedro
Monterey
Major Harbord Relieved From Duty Ordered Home
Major R. P. Harbord is relieved of duty in the Graves Registration Division in France and ordered to return to the United States after permitting an army automobile to be used for the kidnaping of draft dodger Grover Bergdoll.
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Washington
Grover Bergdoll
R. P. Harbord
Graves Registration Division
France
United States
Sole Survivor of Arctic Expedition Visis Oregon
Ada Blackjack, sole survivor of a 21 member British Arctic expedition to Wrangell Island, arrived in McMinnville Oregon to visit J L Knight and his wife. She tended Lorne Knight in his final illness and came to provide details on his death at the island. She is a native Alaskan and toured at the Knights invitation seeking information about their son's fate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mcminnville
Ore
Ada Blackjack
Wrangell Island
Arctic
J. L. Knight
Lorne Knight
Indicted Oil Men Enter Guilty Pleas
Four indicted in connection with fraud of the Blue Bird Oil Corporation on 14 counts and four others entered pleas of guilty at the opening of the trial. Sentences were deferred.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Houston, Tex
Blue Bird Oil Corporation
War Time Prisoners Freed By President Order
Washington December 15 President Coolidge ordered all prisoners charged with violating war time laws released from prisons.
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Washington
Coolidge
Flapperism Spreads in South America Says Miss Batty
Chicago reports from Dec 14 quote Miss Jean Batty on a five year South American tour. She notes bobbed hair, heavy makeup, and rising education needs as women seek colleges. Rio de Janeiro has 120000 women and girls employed amid training gaps. cafeterias gain popularity with diverse meat offerings.
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Chicago
Jean Batty
Y. Y
South America
Miss Batty
Rio de Janeiro
Chinese Bandits Sack Town in Southern Hunan Kidnap Officials
A band of about three thousand led by two chiefs seized Chase in Southern Hunan last Wednesday. They burned and looted houses, abducted four officials including the magistrate, and kidnapped over a hundred residents, many women.
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Shanghai
Chase
Hunan
Present Year Golden One for Lynchings
The executive committee of the Federal Council of Churches reports a high lynching toll. Last year over 14 months recorded 14 lynchings while the first six months of this year show 226, compared with 30 for the same period in 1921.
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Columbus
The
Federal Council of Churches
Committee On Race Relations
Nome dredging slows as two pots close down
In Nome on December 15 the closing of two gold dredges of Hammon Consolidated Gold Fields marks an unprecedented late season retreat. The firm plans to push ahead with new developments next season, crews sinking holes to bedrock through winter. Bering Sea is nearly ice thick, snow river frozen, while auto and dog races use the ice as a track.
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Nome
Hammon Consolidated
Hammon
Bering Sea
Snow
Snake River
Los Angeles
San Diego
Oakland
Portland
Seattle
Navy
Signals From Arctic Expedition Heard in Alaska
Hartford Conn Dec 15 The MacMillan Arctic expedition maintains constant radio contact with American Radio Relay League stations. Officials say hundreds of league members in the United States Canada and Alaska regularly hear the Bowdoin signals.
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Hartford
Conn
American Radio Relay League
League
United States
Canada
Alaska
Bowdoin
Tie-up in House Is Perhaps Near an End
Washington December 15 An agreement reached between regular and insurgent Republicans is hoped to end the House tieup over committee assignments. Negotiations continue in the Senate. The House deal places an insurgent on the Rules Committee and denies Democrats extra representation, giving regular Republicans a majority over Democrats and insurgent Republicans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House of Representatives
Senate
House
Damaging Charges Made Against Fox in Trial
In the trial of Philip Fox for the murder of W. Coburn the prosecution charged that Fox was intoxicated for three days at a hotel with a woman up to the time he killed Coburn.
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Fox
Atlanta, Ga
Philip Fox
Coburn
Mexican Forces Advance on Rebel Stronghold At Tepic
Government troops pursue the rebel army after driving them from Tepic. Federal forces penetrate Jalisco and near the revolutionists stronghold. Officials report an imminent clash.
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Nogales
Tepic
Jalisco
Man Found Guilty Of Murdering Three In Aberdeen
Guido Grasse was found guilty of first degree murder for killing three men in Aberdeen on November 10. Sentencing was deferred.
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Montesano
Guido Grasse
Muder
Aberdeen
Profits from British Columbia liquor stores rise
Victoria B C December 15 profits from the sale of liquor in British Columbia government stores for six months ending September 30 totaled 1 402 499 an increase of nearly 200 000 over the prior six months The report notes the rise in profits and attributes it to sales improvements across the province during the period.
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Victoria
B. C
British Columbia
Princess Louise of Saxony in Poverty After Elopement
Princess Louise of Saxony, who fled her husband who became Saxony king, and eloped with her children's tutor, lives in poverty in a Montreux cottage. Her affair ended unhappily, she later married Italian pianist Enrico Toselli, who died recently, leaving her struggles to fund his burial.
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Louise of
Saxony
Montreaux
France
Enrico Toselli
Arrest Girl as Swindler in Chicago Case
Chicago officials arrested Helen Mulone a society swindler who posed as Pauline Lord and Pearl White and cashed drafts exceeding 600 dollars. Once a relief telephone operator at the Chicago Club she allegedly swindled many society people across the Middle West and coasts.
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Chicago
Pauline Lord
Pearl White
Helen Mulone
San Diego
Miss Mulane
Middle West
Atlantic
Pacific
Four Killed in Near Race Riot in South
In Drew Mississippi a racial clash began when planter W T Saunders went to debt collector Joe Pullen s home and was shot dead. Pullen fled to the swamps and was killed by dawn. Nine others were wounded with three in critical condition.
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South
Drew
Miss
Joe Pullen
W. T. Saunders
Pullen
Escaped Convicts Stage Hold-up in Minneapolis
Four escaped convicts cornered after leaving the Minneapolis post office shot and wounded a patrolman and two bystanders. One convict was captured and taken to police headquarters where he gave the name Red Ryan.
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Minneapolis
Red” Ryan
Polish Cabinet Resigns Under Premier Witos
War sa report states the Polish Cabinet led by Premier Witos has resigned. The ruling group facing political pressure steps down as government crisis unfolds in Warsaw on December 15.
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Warsaw
Witos
Navy Yard Wage and Schedule Boost Approved
Washington December 15 Navy yard wages and schedules for the year starting January 1 are slightly increased under the Navy Board of Review report and approved by Assistant Secretary Roosevelt.
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Washington
Navy Yard
Navy Board of Review
Roosevelt
Poland Recognizes Soviet Republic in Accord
WARSAW Dec 15 An exchange of documents between Russia and Poland has been made whereby Poland agrees to recognize the Soviet Republic.
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Warsaw
Russia
Poland
Submarine Z-26 Grounds Near Execution Rock
Submarine Z-26 went aground near Execution Rock 25 miles east of Hell Gate late last evening. The craft floated free undamaged this forenoon and resumed its voyage on the East Coast.
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Washington
Execution Rock
Hell Gate
Final pleas wrap shooting trial over Lott case
Attorneys argued whether Lott acted in self defense in the Prentice shooting. Prosecutor Gore said Lott was armed and ready, urging a verdict of murder or manslaughter rather than self defense. Defense and government summaries followed as the judge prepared to instruct the jury.
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Prentice
Lott
L. O. Gore
U. S
District Court
Billy Prentice
Mr. Gore
Judea Reed
H. L. Faulkner
Shoup
Reed
Gore
Lloyd V. Winter
Winter
Kia
Mr. Shoup
Front Street
Nep
Mrs. Kels Wins Second Sanity Test For Husband
Sacramento dispatch reports Mrs. Alex Ree’s succeeded in securing a second sanity evaluation for her husband, condemned to hang January 4 for murder. The State Board of Prison Directors ordered Warden Smith at Folsom to allow three physicians to conduct tests in three separate laboratories.
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Sacramento
Cal
Alex Ree
State Board of Prison Directors
Smith
Folsom
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Ebner Property
U.S
Senator la Follette
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Germany
Sen. Johnson
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Ford
Major Harbord
Visis
Oregon
America
Arctic Expedition
Princess Louise
Mrs. Kels
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