Mabel Normand Gun Case Involving Denver Man
Los Angeles detectives pursued how and why a .25 pistol linked to actress Mabel Normand reached her chauffeur and was used to shoot Courtland Hines of Denver. Normand, hospitalized after surgery, and Hines both recover as claims about who had the weapon surfaced. Horace Greer, Normand’s chauffeur, faced assault charges with bail set at 10000 dollars while Dines remains hospitalized and a witness.
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Los Angeles
Calif
Mabel Normand
Courtland Hines
Denver
Normand
Greer
Horace A. Greer
Elfm
J. Walter Hanby Ignment
Courtland 8
Dines
Miss Normand
Trea
Haritan
Films barred for Mabel Normand connection in Memphis
John Dean, chairman of the focal board motion picture censors, announced that films featuring Mabel Normand will be barred permanently from focal screens in Memphis. The action stems from the actress connection with the ongoing controversy.
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Madel
Memphis
Tenn
John Dean
Focal Board Motion Picture Censors
Mabel Normand
Focal
Disease Rumors Hit Los Angeles Amid Unclear Illness
AP reports a strange malady in Los Angeles causing nausea and rapid spread that disrupts business and social activity. Physicians are unsure of its cause or nature while Santa Ana residents fear a regional epidemic.
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Santa Ana
Los Angeles Times
The
Times
Lynch Fights Warthur For Bantam Title Defense
Omaha January 4 Joe Lynch world bantamweight champion defends crown against Earl McArthur of Sioux City in a ten round bout. Billy Bhbmie of St Paul and Battling Munroe of Omaha meet in a semi final heavyweight bout.
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Lynch
Warthur
Omaha
Joe Lynch
Chamion
Earl McArthur
Sioux City
Iowa
Billy Bhbmie
St. Paul
Battiling Munroe
Kels Hanged for His Crime in California
Alex A. Kels, once wealthy Lodi resident, was hanged at Folsom Prison for the murder of laborer Edward Meservey. He died smiling after the trap fell at 10:06 am, with prosecutors noting plottings for life insurance proceeds to Mrs. Annie Kels.
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Folsom
Calif
Alex A. Kelis
Lodi
Kels
California
Alex A. Kels
San Joaquin Valley
W. H. Rieceks
San Joaquin County
Thomas L. Bawden
W. H. Riecks
Stockton
Edward Meservey
Meservey
Annie Kels
Congress Takes a New Recess
With Congress in recess until Monday, House and Senate committees move to advance the Mellon tax reduction bill and discuss rules changes. The Ways and Means panel will push tax plan features while the Rules Committee weighs insurgent proposals. priority is set on supply bills and the Russian recognition issue.
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Washington
Congress
Senate
House Committee
House
Ways and Means
Rules
Interior Department
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Borah
Idaho
Callming
Lodge
Massachusetts
Mayfield
Texas
Privileges and Elections Committee
Interstate Commerce Committee
Cummins
House Ways and Means Committee
Treasury
Representative Frear
Wisconsin
Mellon
Rainey
Tiinois
Tomb of Tutankhamun Unearthed After 3000 Years
In Luxor Egypt the sarcophagus of Tutankhamun was revealed after eight millennia in the Valley of the Kings. Howard Carter and Egyptologist Percy E Newberry exposed the fourth shrine and sarcophagus showing a gilded inner casket. The find signals vast wealth yet to be explored in the tomb.
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Luxor
Egypt
Tutenkhamun
Pharoah
Song
Harmshib
Seti I
Boone Museum
London
Percy E. Newberry
Howard Carter
Ov Eries
Amun
Nile Valley
Mexico Needs Supply Guns or Mexico Needs Supply Guns
U S officials weighed a possible sale of war materials to Obregon amid payment method concerns. A cash arrangement was seen as easing political risk though administration authority to proceed faced questions. State Department warned arms sales to Mexican revolutionists would be at sellers own risk.
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Washington
Mexico
Tallo
Auco
Uni United
Weeks
Obregon
State Department
Film Plant Fire Destroys West Stage at Universal
Fire at Universal Film Company grounds in Universal City near Los Angeles started at 1 39 o clock and gutted the west stage including the Von Stroheim set. Damage pegged at about 200000 dollars with the loss affecting the film plant and production facilities.
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Tos Angeles
Universal Film Company
Universal Faty
von Stroheim
Dempsey Delivers Punchline Speech at Club
Jack Dempsey heavyweight champion gave a speech to the Charleston Krebs club, joking that when asked to speak he recalls an Irish din ner guest who would rather fight than talk. He offered to entertain the members in his own style, drawing smiles as he spoke.
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Charleston
S. C
Jack Dempsey
Charleston Kiveris Club
Jack
Hughes Shows Up More Plot of Communists
Washington dispatch reports a translation of a Zinoviev communication published as part of Secretary Hughes defense of not recognizing Soviet Russia. The document from Moscow Pravda dated December 14 1923 praises the Daily Worker launch in 1924 and describes aims to broaden communist influence into peasantry.
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Washington
United States
G. Zinoviev
Hughes
Soviet Russia
Moscow
Pravda
Comrades
Daily
Communist
Daily Worker
New York
Communist Internationale
State Department
Zinoviev
Petrograd Soviet
The
All Russian Central Executive Committees
Federation Central Executive Committee
Workera
Communist Party
Airship Tenders For Expedition Planned By Navy
Washington reports the navy department completed designs for two airship tenders with mooring masts to secure rigid ships like the Shenandoah for an Arctic expedition by air next summer. The Ramapo and Patoka, both fuel oil ships, are chosen for alteration. Patoka is in European waters and will reach an American port in about a month.
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Washington
Navy Department
Majority Party Backs Kiyoura in Cabinet Race
The Kenkyukai majority in the upper house supports Viscount Kiyoura to form a new cabinet after Prince Regent Hirohito summoned him. He resumes efforts with a ministry formed largely from Kenkyukai members, after an earlier failed bid due to lack of party backing.
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Tokio
Kenkyukai
Viscount Kiyoura
Hirohito
Yamamoto
Tenkyukai Party
Nichi Night
Robbers Steal $52,500 Payroll Cash in Centropolis Bank Holdup
In Kansee City on January 4, bandits staged a holdup at the Centropolis State bank on Fifteenth and Belmont, escaping with 52500 in payroll money. Police search for the culprits.
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Ayroll Kansee
Centropolis
Belmont Avenue
George Parker Sentenced to Gallows in Oregon
George Parker, slaver of Linn County Sheriff W J Dunlap, was hanged at the Oregon state penitentiary for a murder linked to a May 20 ambush near Albany. Parker and accomplice Rube Johnson shot at officers as they fled, with Parker later captured and tried in Albany. Sheriff Dunlap died the day after the shooting. Parker and Johnson had previously escaped Linn County jail before recapture.
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Salem
Ore
George Parker
W. J. Dunlap
Linn County
State
Albany
Parker
Rube Johnson
Dunlap
F Ling
Lillard
Johnson
Diggs
Thaw's Release to Be Opposed in Philadelphia Case
Bartholomew B. Coyne plans to have Harry K. Thaw declared sane and released from the Pennsylvania hospital. Coyne was denied access to Thaw and hospital visitors now require approval from Thaw's mother Mrs. Mary Coplay Thaw or her attorney James Gay Gordon. Mrs Thaw and Gordon say any bid for freedom will be vigorously opposed.
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Philadelphia
Bartholomew B. Coyne
New York
Harry K. Thaw
Stanford White
Pennsylvania Hospital
Coyne
Thaw
Mary Coplay Thaw
James Gay Gordon
Gordon
Seine Flood Proves Disastrous As Waters Rise
Paris reports the Seine reaching 7.70 meters at Pont Royal with an 8.66 inch rise in 24 hours. Suburbs already face worsening conditions as thousands lose work. In the Marne valley waters flood areas over a mile wide.
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Paris
Seine
Pont Royal
Marne Valley
Higher Wages for Farm Labor Reported for Last Year
Washington January 4 AP farm labor wages rose to levels not seen since 1920. The average monthly rate with board was 22.50 dollars and 46.91 without board. In 1914 the rates were 21.05 with board and 29.88 without. Daily harvest wages with board averaged 2.45, compared with 1.55 in 1914.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
Coolidge Shifts Government Tonnage Control to Emergency Fleet
President Coolidge has decided to transfer operating control over government owned tonnage from the Shipping Board to the Emergency Fleet Corporation as a principal point of his new merchant marine policy. No new legislation is expected needed to effect the change.
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Washington
Jan
Coolidge
The
Shipping Board
Emergency Fleet Corporation
Last Rites for Billy Miske in St Paul Funeral
Followers and public gathered in St Paul to honor Billy Miske a famed heavyweight boxer. He died New Year’s after a long illness and was interred at Calvary cemetery by lifelong friends after funeral services at Adelbert’s Catholic Church.
Explosion Ends In Mass Casualty At Corn Products Plant
Pekin Illinois January 4 AP More than a score of workers are dead and 2 are seriously injured after an early morning blast at the Corn Products plant in Pekin. Rescue crews face collapsing walls and icy debris as they search for missing men among the wreckage of a 20 acre facility employing 750. Causes cited include a spark from a drive wheel or a dust explosion. Most victims are unidentified and many were Americans with families.
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Pekin
Corn Producta Company
Serwin
John G. Gamber
U S Sells Arms to Obregon Government in Mexico
United States approves sale of 5000 Enfield rifles 1917 model 5 million rounds of .30 cal ammunition and eight DH 4 airplanes to the Obregon government. Terms require half cash and half in thirty days with delivery to San Antonio Fort Bliss Ohio depot and Fairfield. Also reports labor support for Obregon and rebel shipping incidents near Progreso Yucatan Vera Cruz with oilfields now rebel-held.
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Washington
United States
Perernmmens
Obregon
Mexico
Weeks
San Antonio, Tex
Sf Fort Bliss
el Paso
Fairfield
Ohio
Darton
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