Shipping Bill Divorces Two Main Bodies to End Board Rift
In Washington a pair of measures seeks to separate the Shipping Board from the General Fleet Corporation. One plan would transfer properties to the corporation and turn over fifty million dollars of fleet stock to the president. The other would abolish the board and empower the president to move jurisdiction to the commerce department.
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IGTON
House
Shipping Board
Jones
Commerce Commitee
Merchant Marine
Corporation
Fleet Corporation
Edge
Iw Jersey
Pre-Slavery Case To Be Heard Today In Memphis
In Memphis Tennessee on December 8 a chancery suit before Chancellor Hughes seeks to restore title to sixty acres of land claimed as purchased during Civil War days. Willis Horne, a former enslaved person, seeks re possession of property tied to his father Kit Horne, with complex deeds dating back to 1868 and later transfers.
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Memphis
Tenn
Chancellorman Hughes
Circuit
Willis Horne
Chan
Baal
Kit Ho
Wit
Horne
Horfie
Rne
Kit
White
R. M
C. W. Wellburns
Maneser
Jack Daw's Adventures recounts deadly dance-hall duel
Vinson county officer is seriously wounded with two gunshot wounds after attempting to arrest Will Kelly a Negro desperado on a liquor charge at a negro dance hall Kelly is dead today following the pistol duel In the ensuing fight Vinson says he killed Kelly after being attacked
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Vinson
Will Kelly
U S Delegates Clash Over Disarmament Agenda
The French and British chiefs M Paul Boncour and Lord Cecil clash on linking mutual security guarantees to disarmament. Belgium aligns with Boncour while Cecil cautions that fixing armament scales may impede security. League council discusses harmonizing mutual aid with disarmament aims and broad definitions of wartime power.
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Great Britain
Paul Boncourt
M. Paul
Lord Cacil
League of Nations
M. Paul Boncour
Belgium
Lord Cecil
Commission
Council of the Leagne of Nations
Disarmament Questions Across Military Resources
The text probes limits on war armaments and the impact of defensive versus offensive tools. It asks how naval air forces and commercial ships affect total military power and how regional disarmament might be achieved with regional security. It questions the feasibility of broader plans if regional scopes fail.
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Disarmament Council
France
England
Washington Delays on League Invitation for Disarmament Work
Washington will await a careful study of the invitation text before President Coolidge decides on participation by the United States Russia and Germany in a special commission on international disarmament. The decision to invite these nations was announced by League officials.
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Washington
Dec
League of Nations
United States
Russia
Germany
Commission On International Disarmament
Coolidge
Economic outlook in London improves after Locarno pact
Washington dispatch reports the British government stating the economy has brightened since Locarno and export revival, arguing the warning of financial trouble is unfounded. It cites Sir Esme Howard and a North American Review piece as context, noting restored confidence and European market demand.
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Washington
Great Britain
Betas
Coomera Vat Tm
North American Review
Ayid
Esme Howard
Europe
Suit filed over Kentucky salaries in court action
Frankfort December suit alleges the proposed amendment lifting salary limits for Louisville superintendent and principals was carried by 598 votes and defeated by 3,872. Albert B. Weaver, Louisville Board of Education chairman, seeks a recount and certified returns only. Official totals show 76,893 for and 80,265 against from 109 counties.
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Frankfort
Louisville
Artist Dies After Fall in Manhattan Apartment
New York artist and contributor to humorous magazines died after falling from a Roosevelt Hospital adjacent apartment. Police say he died of injuries in hospital. Officials found a letter addressed to his wife in his studio room. The note’s contents were not disclosed.
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Tevin Hie
Ios Technae Tole Levee
Roosevelt Hospital
Dolores Del Rio Named One of 1926 Baby Stars
Dolores Del Rio, wealthy Mexican actress, is chosen as a 1926 baby star by the Vampups the Western Association of Motion Picture Advertisers. Also named are Mary Astor Mary Brian Joyce Compton Dolores Costello Joan Crawford Marceline Day Janet Gaynor Sally Long Edna Marian Sally ONeill Vera Reynolds and Fay Wray.
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Hollywood
Calif
Dolores del Rio
Western Association of Motion Picture
Mary Astor
Mary Brian
Joyce Compton
Dolores Costello
Joan Crawford
Marceline Day
Janet Gaynor
Sally
Banker Is Guilty Of Embezzlement In Carnegie Trust Case
John A. Bell, banker and coal operator and president of the closed Carnegie Trust Company, was found guilty today of embezzlement and misapplication of more than $600,000 of the firm s funds in Pittsburgh on December 8.
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PITT
Burgh
John A. Bell
Carnegie Trust Company
Bowers Dies From Paralysis Stroke
George Mead Bowers, 63, former representative from West Virginia s second district from 1916 to 1923, died at his Martinsburg home today from a stroke of paralysis.
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Martinsburg
W. Va
George Mead Bowers
Congress
West Virginia
Glen Alden Coal Company Declares Semiannual Dividends
The Glen Alden Coal Company directors in Scranton Pennsylvania today voted to declare their semiannual dividend of eight dollars and fifty cents.
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Coal Company
Ee Ee
Scranton
The
Glen .Alden Coal Company
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Afih Ave
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