Mexican government closes Laredo consulate amid border tensions
Mexico city reports the closing of the Mexican Consulate at Laredo and rescission of permission for the Laredo Chamber of Commerce to issue tourist cards. The action targets District Attorney John Walls over wartime statements about General Calles. Officials expect traffic to shift to other ports of entry. Walls had named Calles in murder warrants tied to officers killed in 1922 on the Texas side of the Rio Grande.
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Mexico City
Laredo
Texas
John ‘Walls
General Calles
Mexicat
Foreign Office
Department of the Trerror
Mexico
Walls
Calles
Rilo Grande
Foshay Co Failures Cited In Receivership Explanation
W B Foshay in Minneapolis outlines two main reasons for receivership of his three firms. Inability to sustain securities sales volume and maintain bank credit were cited. He offered to stay on as majority stockholder to restore solvency and denied profiting from stockholder losses.
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Minneapolis
Minn
W. B. Foshay Company
Lsted
W. B. Foshay
Foshay
Two Airmen Set New World Flying Record
Capt Dieudonne Coste and Paul Codos landed at Istres Aviation Field after flying 5,062 miles in a closed circuit. They stayed aloft for 62 hours and 34 minutes completing a long endurance flight.
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Manseille
Dieudonne Coste
Paul Codos
Istres
Electrocution Held Not Always Deadly
Berlin reports Dr. Hartmann of Silesia proves electrocution can revive seemingly dead individuals after extended intervals. Monkeys revived after direct heart electrode exposure, prompting sensational medical debate and interest in penal use. Mrs. Walter Bryant Pierce seeks alimony and faces a separate alienation suit against husband Pierce.
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Berlin
Clatand
Hartmann
Jollinck
Viennese Society of Physicians
Germany
Walter Bryant Pierce
Janavinee Kerens
The
Curb Exchange
Pierce
Colonel de Courcy Eoreey
British fliers seek nonstop long distance record to South Africa
A Royal Air Force monoplane piloted by Squadron leader Jones William left Cranwell early today in a bid for a long distance nonstop record to South Africa. The crew crossed the French coast at Marseilles this afternoon and will proceed to Madinia.
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Cranwell
Lincolshire
England
Royal Air Force
Jones William
South Africa
Marseilles
Fliers
Mardinia
Academy Plans Decoding of Science in Des Moines
Scientific discourses for the layman are planned during the American Academy for the Advancement of Science convention in Des Moines from December 27 to January 2. Featured decoders include Dr. Robert A. Millikan of Caltech, Prof. Irving Fisher of Yale, H. Osborn of the American Museum of Natural History, and Dr. Ales Hrdlicka of the Smithsonian.
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Des Moines
Towa
American Academy For the Advancement of Science
Robert Andrews Millikan
California Institute of Technology
Irving Fisher
Yale University
H. Posborn
American Museum of Natural History
Ales Hrdlicka
National Museum
London American Women's Club Fosters Amity of Two Peoples
In London’s West End the American Women's Club, led by Mrs Curtis Brown, brings American and British ties together. Members sew for Royal Free Hospital wards, host charity sales with the Russian Red Cross, and run bridge tournaments for maternity wards. The group also sponsors art and public speaking programs to unite Americans living abroad with British life.
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London
West End
Grosvenor Street
Curtis Brown
Royal Free Hospital
Hus
Sian Red Cross
Albert Ralstead
Ife
Scientific Probe Questioned Bones Near Peiping Discovery
Washington December 17 Dr Ales Hirdlicka a noted Smithsonian anthropologist questions the bones found near Peiping China as being of great age saying outside expert review is needed before claims of vast antiquity. Local scientists defer opinions pending detailed descriptions though some doubt the finds are ancient.
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Washington
Peiping
China
Ales Hirdlicka
Hrdiicka
Alaska Juneau mine and major stocks quoted
New York December 17 Alaska Juneau mine at 7 percent United States Steel 93 percent General Motors 41 percent Bethlehem 93 percent International Harvester 81 percent Kennecott 59 percent Montgomery Ward 50 percent Standard Oil California 62 percent Standard Oil New Jersey 65 percent Texas Corporation 56 1/ The market report lists several other issues with varied quotations.
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New York
Alaska
Juneau
American Ice
Bethlehem Steel
General Motors
Combustion
International Harvester
Kennecott
Magma Montgomery-Ward
National Acme
Standard Oi of
California
Standard Oil of New Jersey
Texas Corporation
Hoover signs $160,000,000 income tax reduction law
President Hoover signed a joint Congressional resolution into law amid a ceremony with his secretaries George Akerson and Lawrence Richey. The measure provides a $160 million reduction in income taxes enacted yesterday afternoon.
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Washington
Hoover
George Akerson
Lawrence Richey
Plead Guilty to Embezzling Bank Funds in Flint
Nine former Union Trust Bank executives and employees in Flint Michigan pleaded guilty to embezzling about 3.5 million dollars. They admitted diverting bank funds to speculative ventures in the wine market. Six others remained mute and chose to stand trial at a later date.
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Flint, Mich
Union
Tndustriss Bank
Chcit
Telal
Skagway burned and run aground off Cape Flattery
Coast Guard cutter Snohomish rushed to the scene after the steam schooner Skagway, en route from San Francisco to Seattle with gasoline oil and alcohol, was set ablaze. The crew of 28 escaped by running the vessel aground near Cape Flattery as fire raged and water flooded the hold. Chief Engineer Cumerford was treated for exposure. Capt. Strandquist and others were evacuated to Port Angeles. A. A. Shonbeck and Mrs. Shonbeck, aboard the Northwestern, plan a Seattle stay before continuing to California.
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Port Angeles
Wash
Coast Guard
Snohomish
Skagway
Cape Flattery
Ragina
E. Strandquist
Cumerford
Missionaries in China Reported Killed in Revolting Way
The Rev. James Keller says three Franciscan missionaries Bishop Jans and Fathers Bruno and Rupert were killed in China in a revolting method, with Bishop Jans hacked to pieces after an attempted seizure by bandits.
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San Francisco
Cal
James Keller
Mary Knoll Junior Seminary
Los Altos
Associated Press
China
Jans
Bruno
Rupert
Keller
Denial of Influenza Germ Isolation Published
Chicago December 17 The American Medical Association through its Journal will declare unwarranted the claim by Dr T B Falk that he isolated the influenza germ. Dr Park of the University of Chicago previously announced isolation and hope for a preventive vaccine.
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Chicago
American Medical Association
Falk
Park
University At Chicago
Bonuses to clerks in brokerage offices to exceed prior year
New York World reports that over 100000 dollars in Christmas bonuses will be paid to clerks and bookkeepers in brokerage firms in the Maan al district. A survey suggests payments will match or exceed 1928 levels, despite stock market declines, with many firms posting record net profits for 1920.
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New York
New York World Today
Maanal
Not Guilty Plea Entered by Slayer in Family Murder Case
Armando Bottares, 24, a Mexican, pleads not guilty by reason of insanity to the murder of a five member family in Los Angeles. A co-defendant Dulores Suiciaga, 32, also pleads not guilty by insanity. Trial set for January 14. Police say Luciano Carol, his wife and three children, were killed in a prior marriage.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Armando Bottares
Iatta
Hls Swendheary
Dulores Suiciaga
Oly
Rodunes
Poice
Luciano Carol
Eee
Fisher Completes 480 Pace UC Spanish Law Summary
Dr. Alan E. B. Fisher finishes a 480 page work at the University of California detailing the old Spanish law used in the United States. The volume draws on archival material and traces legal concepts through colonial and early American periods.
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Berkeley
Cal
Alan EB. Fisher
University of California
United States
Rutledge Pilots Offer Arctic Search Flight
Calgary based Rutledge Airways offers a Curtiss Robin plane to Vilhjalmur Stefansson to search for Col. Carl Ben Bielenberg and mechanic. Wild Rutledge and an unnamed aviator ready to fly Calgary to Vancouver then up the coast toward Fairbanks Nome or Teller as a rescue contingent. Stefansson seeks rapid dispatch to Nome for the missing explorers.
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Edmonton
Rutledge Airways, Ltd
Calgary
Vilhjalmur Stefansson
Northern Explorer
Carl Ben
B.C
Fairbanks
Nome
Teller
Canadian airmen plan speedy search for missing Hielson crew
Seattle dispatch reports Major Howard Deckard of Fairchild Aircraft says three planes and eight fliers will head from Seward toward the Siberian Coast to find Col. Carl Ben Hielson and Earl Borland missing since November 9. The unit will be ferried by the Coast Guard cutter Chelan with planes ready within 24 hours of arrival in Fairbanks.
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Seattle
Carl Ben Hielson
Earl Borland
Siberian
Howard
Deckard
Fairchhild Airplane Manufacturing Corporation
Seward
Alaska
United States Coast Guard
Chelan
Fairbanks
Norn
Mountain Farmers on Jury in Murder Case
Mountain View Arkansas December 17 A jury of mountain farmers has been selected to try four men charged with murdering a Franklin County farm laborer. The men are accused of abducting a man from a girl on their way to marriage, beating him, and turning him over to death.
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Mountain View
Arkansas
Franklin
Prantlig
Child Mind Study Expands to 350 Cities in U S
The United States Children's Bureau reports 500 clinics in 350 cities across 36 states studying and treating childhood inhibitions and inferiority complexes. Grace Abbott notes the field has grown since Chicago opened the first delinquent child clinic 26 years ago and urges expert parental understanding and access to these services.
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Washington
United States Children’s Bureau
Chicago
Grace Abbot
United States
Muri
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Border Town
Interior Department
CASE
W. B. Foshay CO
Mary Crawford
Memphis
Tenn
Flattery
A. A. Shonbeck
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Byrd
South Pole
G Byrd
Little America
Bernt Balchen
Harold June
Ross
Norah
Rutledge
Arctic
Explorer Stefansson
Craft
Vancouver
Peard
Seawile
Airmen
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