Mother's Death Ends Eighteen Years' Search
Mary Martha Parks Arnold, mother of Dorothy Arnold, dies as the probe into her daughter's 1910 disappearance ends. Dorothy, a 26 year old socialite, vanished in New York after a day in Central Park and Fifth Avenue, leaving years of unsolved clues and searches by police and family.
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New York
Mary Martha Parks Arnold
Dorohy Arnold
Police Department
Dorothy Arnold
Francis Arnold
East Seventy-nonth Street
Central Park
Fifth Avenue
Central Park Lake
Fight to dodge penal farm for Anti Saloon League head
E. Schumaker, superintendent of the Indiana Anti-Saloon League, asks federal court for a writ of habeas corpus to suspend sixty day penal farm sentences for contempt of the Indiana Supreme Court. Judge Baltzell issued a temporary stay and set a hearing for Monday. Governor Jackson had ordered Schumaker to the penal farm after October actions by the dry leader.
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Indianapolis
Fhumaker
Indiane Anti-Saloon League
Federal District Court
Indiana Supreme Court
Robert C. Baltzell
Supreme Court
Baltas
Schumaker
Ed Jackson
Schwmeker
Inaugural Plan Moves Forward With Hoover Parade
Washington Dec 29 AP plans call for the Los Angeles dirigible to lead the inaugural parade down Pennsylvania Avenue as Hoover takes office. Secretary Wilbur says the plan is entirely practicable. The two hour, four mile procession will include 20 000 participants with two divisions of military and veteran groups and a nationwide radio hookup for ceremonies and entertainment.
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Washington
Los Les
Pennsylvania Avenue
Herbert Hoover
Scretary Wilbur
Navy Department
Department
Los Angeles
Anton Stephan
Army
Navy
Hoover
District of Columbia
Mary
Marine
National Guard
President Coolidge to speak New Year greeting Monday
President Calvin Coolidge will deliver a coast to coast New Year greeting over National Broadcasting networks at 9 PM E S T. He speaks from Sapelo Island Georgia where he is vacationing.
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New York
National Broadcasting Company
Coolidge
Sapelo Island
Georgia
Smith Grants Early Release to Seven Prisoners
Governor Smith commuted the sentences of seven prisoners, including one convicted of first degree murder and three of second degree murder. The action, part of ongoing clemency, follows earlier releases bringing total commutations to 23. One case involved Timothy Shea, linked to a December 8, 1925 Black Pond brawl. Shea’s body was found near the house and a bloody eye was found in Enright’s residence. Enright claims no knowledge of the crime and is to be released under parole supervision upon judge and district attorney recommendations.
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Albany
N. Y
Smith
Timothy Shea
Black Pond
Shea
Enright
Board of Parole
Atterney
Appointment of former chief to Italy post
A former chief of the realth was appointed as a state director to Italy. The AP report notes the handover occurred today as part of a broader government reshuffle.
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Italy
Gety. i. 2
Realth
Ttaly
Opera Star Marries Doctor After Alimony Pact
Mme Irene Pavloska, soprano with the Chicago Civic Opera, wed Dr Maurice Elias Mesirow after she signed a five year alimony guarantee of 45 dollars weekly to his former wife who had obtained divorce. The judge who released the groom presided as the ceremony took place in his chambers.
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Chicago
Mme
Irene Pavoiska
Chicago Civic Opera Company
Maurice Elias Mesirow
Dr. Mesirow
Harry Fisher
Eda Mesirow
Mme. Pavloska
Woman Burned to Death in Oklahoma Home
Mrs. Sarah Lewis a 72 year old Seneca Indian was burned to death in her home near Turkey Ford about 25 miles southeast of Miami Oklahoma on December 29.
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Miami
Okla
Sarah Lewis
Turkey Ford
Here
Early hearing for Heldman in Canton murder case
Wilbur G. Heldman, 27, Lorain furnace salesman, faces a preliminary hearing Monday in Canton for the death of his wife Margaret 21 years old and the related killing of Vernard E. Fearn 35 a Canton coal dealer. Coroner T C McQuale says the murder affidavit has been filed and the Stark county grand jury will review evidence January 7. More than a dozen witnesses are expected to testify that Heldman threatened his wife and that his conduct drove her to take her own life. McQuaI notes statements attributed to Heldman that she faced the electric chair for Fearn's death and it was unnecessary to bring her to Canton authorities may be used at trial.
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Canton
Ohio
Wilbur G. Heldman
Margaret
Vernard E. Fearn
Frank Sweitzer
Heldman
Stark County Grand Jury
T. C. McQuale
Fearn
McQua‘c
Tragic triple death in Cicero home by gas burners
A Cicero suburb mother Mary Zahradnik aged 30 killed herself and her two children Joseph Jr. four and Otto one by turning on gas burners. The mother had punished and struck young Joseph causing a broken nose. the father left for work last night and returned to find the scene today.
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Chicago
Cicero
Mary Zahradnik
Joseph, Jr
Otto
Joseph
Falls City Journal Under Howe Family Reacquisition
Falls City Nebraska reports the Falls City Journal has been purchased by a newly formed corporation led by Dene Howe of Atchison. The deal returns control to the Howe family, linking back to El Howe who earned early notoriety on Potato Hill more than a century ago.
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Falls City
Neb
Dene Howe
Atchison
Howe
el Howe
Potato Hill
Destitution in Welsh Mining Areas Deepens Across Glamorgan
Two hundred thousand workers in England and Wales face jobless hardship as coal demand falls. In Glamorgan, Merthyr Tydfil reports 10,000 unemployed and Mountain Ash nears 90 percent, with 60,000 on poor relief separate from unemployment benefits. Mothers swap salaries for children’s shoes amid winter snow and destitution.
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Merthyr Tydfil
South Wales
England
Wales
Glamorgan
Mountain Ash
Ows
No Special Move to Enforce Law on New Year's Eve
Chicago dispatch reports Police Commissioner William F. Russell says police will not intensify enforcement of prohibition on New Year’s Eve beyond normal levels. He notes New Year’s is a time for celebration and will rely on federal dry law enforcement while offering assistance if needed.
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Chicago
William F. Russell
Oil profit suit filed against Sinclair and Mammoth firms
The Justice Department filed in U S District Court at Wilmington Delaware to recover gains from selling about 20 million barrels of royalty oil from the Salt Creek Wyoming field. Contracts let to Harry F Sinclair and Mammoth Oil were renewed by A B Fall and later canceled by Secretary West based on Attorney General Sargent opinion.
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Salt Creek
Washington
Department of Justice
Sinclair Crude Oil Purchasing Company
Mammoth Oil Company
United States District Court
Wilmington
Del
Wyo
Harry F. Sinclair
Interior
Albert B. Fall
Work
West
Sargent
Reverend Straton Driver Cited In Speeding Charge
Two motorcycle policemen chasing a speeding car on an outlying road halted the vehicle and found Rev. Dr. John Roach Straton, pastor of Calvary Baptist Church New York, as a passenger with his son John. They paid a 10 fine in traffic court after being stopped for about 50 mph on their way to a religious meeting in Richmond.
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Washington
John Roach Straton
Calvary Baptist Church
New York
John
Stratons
Richmond
Arbitration Is Jurists Hope For Future Pacific Treaties
A draft arbitration treaty prepared for the Pan American conference aims to make arbitration of justiciable disputes obligatory among high contracting parties. It would include similar questions to Article 36 of the world court, allow precedents from conciliation, and exclude domestic or third party interests. A two jurists from the Hague court would select a missing third or fifth member, with reservations possible at signing.
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Washington
Hague
Permanent Court of Arbitration At
The
Committee On Arbitration
Father of eight dies after shortcut across tracks
John A Lowry a 55 year old father of eight was killed near Wichita Union Station when a switch engine on elevated tracks backed into him as he delayed going to work to admire his children's Christmas toys. He was found with severe injuries.
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Wichita. Kans
John A Lowry
Union Station
Bady
Tausig Sentenced 39 Months for Defaming Czech Institutions
In Prague on December 29, Herman Tausig a Communist deputy in parliament received 39 months in prison for defaming Czech public institutions and slandering government officials and others.
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Prague
Cyvechoslovakia
Herman Tausig
Aputy
Hoover Afloat On New Year's Aboard U S S Utah
President elect Hoover and party aboard the U S S Utah plan a New Year’s dinner and reception. They travel near the equator about 700 miles east of the French Guiana coast with hot tropical weather and occasional squalls. Hoover to land at Hampton Roads January 6 and reach Washington that night after a voyage of over 18 200 miles.
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U.S S. Utah
Hoover
Utah
Equator
French Guiana
Equatorial
Hampton Roads
Washington
Pickpocket Steals Prize Letters in Chicago Burglary
Walter Reilly’s wife Betty Anne Ya’e In Baite Creek received 150 letters from him before their marriage. A pickpocket grabbed her handbag containing the letters and epistles. Reilly seeks the letters back while the bag’s recovery is less certain.
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Chicago
Walter Reilly
Betty Anne Ya'e
Baite Creek
Mr. Reilly
Pugh Confesses to Embezzling State Funds
Salt Lake City December 29 five complaints will be filed Monday against David J Pugh chief deputy state treasurer after his confession to embezzling 104541 59 from state funds County Attorney Wallace Beely announced after a conference with State Treasurer John Walker who will sign the complaints Pugh says money went to bookies and gambling but investigators believe much was used by a confederate for non racing expenses He says first embezzlements dated to 1927 and the last money was taken the day before Christmas and returned cash was found in his office drawer
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Salt Lake City
David J. Pugh
Wallace Beely
John Walker
Utah
Pugh
Clifford Patten
Treasury
Capitol
Populist Leader H. L. Loucks Dies in South Dakota
H. L. Loucks, 82, longtime figure in populist and farmers' groups, died in Clear Lake South Dakota today. He had been active in state politics since moving there in 1883.
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Clear Lake
S. D
H. L. Loucks
Populist Party
National Farmers’ Alliance
South Dakota
Partics
Slayer of Girl Still at Large in New Jersey
In southern New Jersey a black suspect known as David Ware eludes a large search by air and land for the slaying of State Trooper Peter Gladges. A blimp from Lakehurst and pursuit planes scoured the area as a man picked up near Fallsington, Pa., was cleared. Gladges lay slain in the trooper’s car, his service revolver and ammo missing.
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Trenton
N. J
Peter Gladges
New Jersey
Naval Air Station
Lakehurst
David Ware
Fallsington
Gladges
Ware
Serv Ce
Suspect Held in Utah Murder Case Identified as Gibson
Salt Lake City dispatch reports Bill Raiser held as suspect in the six year old murder of James Papa costes near Helper Utah. Authorities say he used alias John Martin Bud Stabler and was arrested in Tonopah Nevada on a federal charge.
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Bill Raiser
Salt Lake City
John Gibson
James Papacostes
Helper Utah
Tonopah
Nev
Bias
Carbon County
Nevada
John Martin
Bud Stabler
Bureau of Identification
Ne Contes
Melper
Hayter O. Philton
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Anti-Saloon League
Penal Farm
saeNoe Saunders
Wall Street
Patricia Houston
Tunica
Los Eles
Charles Taylor
Normal
Memphis
Tenn
Taylor
Straton
John W. Langley
Kentucky
President Coolidge
Langley
Jolly
Feles
Gibson
California
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