Bank President Killed in Maywood Pay Roll Robbery
Five bandits halted a Maywood State bank pay roll convoy near the town two blocks from the bank. John Soffel, president of the Maywood State bank, was killed instantly. Louis Sweeney chief of police and Arthur Benson a bank messenger were wounded. The robbers fled in a car as guards rode to safety.
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Chicago
John Soffel
Maywood State Bank
Louis Sweeney
Arthur Benson
Maywood
American Can Company
Soffel
Chief Sweeney
Benson
Boffel
Sweenly
Coal miners appeal to President for aid in West Virginia
West Virginia coal miners petition President Harding claiming widespread destitution among about 200 workers. Local unions from Marfork and Mascott assert families are starving after three months of work as mines remain idle, challenging Governor Morgan’s claim of no hunger.
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Washington
West Inia
Harding
Morgan
West Virginia
Marfork
W. Va
Mascott
Flooding Hits Canal Zone Villages Prompt Aid
In Panama's Pinagua district numerous villages are inundated by the Tuira River. Residents face exposure and hunger as cattle and possessions are swept away. The government dispatched a launch with food and medicines to aid the sufferers.
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Panama
Pinagana
Tuira
Official Narrow Escape In Cairo Shooting
Badredine Bey, controller of Egypt's government crimes department, was seriously wounded by a revolver shot in Cairo. He returned fire and pursued the youth, believed to be a student, who fled the scene.
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Cairo
Badredine Bey
Minnesota to face Notre Dame in St Paul hockey date
Minneapolis Minnesota January 5 The Minnesota hockey team will meet the Notre Dame sextette in St Paul either January 24 or 31 as announced today.
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Minneapolis
Minn
Minnesota
Notre Dame
St. Paul
Torpedo Attack Devastates Greek Naval Yard
Athens reports a torpedo strike on the destroyer Leon at Piraeus harbor. Fifty bodies recovered as explosions wreck ships and homes. two Leon officers and two engineers among the dead, with sailors and civilians also killed or injured.
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Athens
Leon
Piraeus
Iver
Burch Trial Highlights Insanity Defense Shift
Dr. Thomas J. Orbison testified about a jail conversation in which Arthur C. Burch preferred insanity trial over murder. Burch said he would rather ten years in an asylum than be hanged, and hoped to return home near Chicago if released. Cross-examination continued.
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Los Angeles
Thomas J. Orbison
Irtrom
Arthur C. Burch
J. Belton Kennedy
Orbison
Bureh
Burch
Chicago
California
Proceedings Filed to Oust Peace Officers in Ardmore
In Ardmore Oklahoma on January 5 an assistant attorney general filed ouster proceedings in district court against Carter County Sheriff Buck Garrett Healdton mayor J H Langston and Healdton chief Lem Bates The charges allege failure to enforce prohibitory and gambling laws and aiding defense funds in a related assault case plus failure to enforce laws prohibiting immoral resorts
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Ardmore
Okla
EB. L. Fulton
Buck Garrett
Carter County
J. H. Langston
sHealdton
Lem Bates
Garrett
Ernest Ford
A. Casey
Langaton Arg Bates
Pneumatic tubes for mail service resume planned
Chicago January 6 reports that transmission for letter mail between postal stations by pneumatic tubes is to be resumed. Details indicate contracts for the service are under consideration by postal authorities.
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Chicago
GAP
Ee Ge Ene
Learn Pielan
Torbe Ander
H Om
Secretive Funeral Shrouds Penrose Burial in Philadelphia
In Philadelphia on January 5 1932 the funeral of Senator Boies Penrose was held with extreme secrecy no religious services announced no press allowed. The burial at Laurel Hill Cemetery followed a private ceremony amid tight guards and minimal details about family or officials attending. Local political leaders from across the state attended without invitation to the bachelor senator’s home.
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Philadelphia
Boies Penrose
South Laurel Hill
Bureau of Vital Statistics
United States
Senator Penrone
Oao
Charles 2B
Richard
Spencer
Spruce Street
Charles Penrose
Famine Rages Across Russia as Death Toll Climbs
In January 1922 Russia faces eight months of famine with millions possibly dead or starving. Typhus spreads, burial trenches fill, and relief efforts grow as the American and British aid networks pledge funds and material support. The Soviet government limits travel while American relief moves 8,000 cars and 500 locomotives to distribute $20,000,000 in aid over forty days.
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Moscow
Russia
Tearitsin
Barateff
Samara
Ufa
Orenburg
Kazan
Farrar
Volga
Turkestan
George Newes
Save the Children Fund
Sartoff
American Relief Administration
United States
London Times writer kidnapped in Dublin
A. B. Kay, London Times correspondent, was kidnapped by three armed men in a Dublin grocery. Reported to have been taken toward Cork, with protests by Dail Eireann and political figures including Michael Collins promising punishment for the kidnapers. Desmond Fitzgerald led a protest against the act and officials indicated Kay's release might come soon.
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Dublin
A. B. Kay
London Times
Dail Eireann
Kay
Cork
Dail
Desmond Fitzgerald
Michael Collins
St Mens
Dan
Amcasaca
Mork
Desmond Itanes
National Vocational Education Society Opens Fifteenth Convention
Kansas City jan five ap reports conferences on agricultural industrial trade and home making education part time and continuation schools and industry rehabilitation marked the opening of the fifteenth annual convention of the National Society for Vocational Education. state directors from over thirty states attend with federal vocational board representatives and industry figures. L H Dennis of Harrisburg Pa elected president and M L Lewis of Boise Idaho named secretary treasurer. A Fullmer of Nebraska and W G Hummell of Washington state elected to the executive committee.
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Kansas City
National Society For Vocational Education
Federal Board of Vocational Education and Manufacturers
L. H. Dennis
Harrisburg
M. & Lewis
Boise
Idaho
National Association
Do. A. Fullmer
Nebraska
W. G. Hummell
Washington State
Patent office salaries blamed for poor conditions
Washington January 5 AP conditions in the United States patent office are blamed on inadequate pay. The American engineering council reports resignation trends among examiners and urges reforms to protect American industry and invention. The panel notes primary examiner salaries dating from 1848 and contrasts them with district judge pay, calling for increases.
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Washington
United States Patent Office
American Engineering Council
Federated American Engineering Societies
Patent Office
Edwin J. Prindle
Council
Congress
United States
Southwest Storm Ravages Oklahoma and Kansas Towns
A severe storm swept through northeastern Oklahoma into southeastern Kansas and southwestern Missouri, causing widespread destruction. Reported damage appeared extensive in towns such as Miami Commerce McAlester Turley Pitcher Muskogee and Baxter Springs though exact totals remained uncertain. No confirmed deaths or injuries were immediately disclosed and communication was severely disrupted across affected areas.
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Tulsa
Okla
Okkahoma
Kansas
Miyaguri
Miami
Commerce
McAlestey
Turley
Pitcher
Muskégems
Gas Aids Pastor To Increase Sunday School Attendance
In North Andover Massachusetts on January 5 Reverend E J Prescott Unitarian pastor invited clergymen to credit gasoline for boosting his Sunday school. He drives a large truck with touring cars to reach parishioners along a seven mile radius each Sunday, turning the devil’s motive into church growth.
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Gas Aids
North Andover
Mass
E. J. Prescott
Prescott
Kansas Stockman Shoots Up Exchange At Livestock Lobby
Larry Bruener of Des Moines Kansas City was shot and killed and Adolph Drahos Cedar Rapids and W B Hall Kansas City were wounded when Frank Thompson a stock dealer of Olathe Kansas opened fire in the crowded lobby of the livestock exchange in Des Moines at noon today according to witnesses.
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Larry Bruener
Des Moines
Kansas City
Adolph Drahos
Cedar Rapidela
W. B. Hall
Frank Thompson
Chinese Plan Agreed Upon at Washington Conference
Nine conference powers meeting as eastern questions committee adopted a plan to raise Chinese revenue to five percent and accepted Senator Underwood’s report. The Far Eastern group endorsed gradual withdrawal of foreign troops from China. Talks include Shantung, submarine rules, and naval limitation as sessions resume with further discussions planned among Chinese Japanese and other powers.
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Washington
Underwood
Far Eastern Committee
China
Peking
Shantung
Siberia
France
Five Powers
Law Extends Eight Years for Veterans Preferences
Senate public lands committee favorably reported House resolution extending the life of the law for eight years. The measure gives former service men preferred rights in entry of government aid and admission to settlement.
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Washington
Senate Public Lands Committee
House
Dail Eireann to Take Vote Late Tonight
Dublin reports that J J Walsh predicts the treaty will be defeated by at least two votes and will take responsibility for the claim. Debate in the Dail continues over De Valera alternative proposals with possible walkouts and a plebiscite path discussed.
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Dail Eireann
London
J. J. Walsh
Dublin
Walsh
Central News
DeValera
Dail
Wm. Cosgrove
Sinn Fein
Cosgrave
de Valera
Dail Eireann Deadlocks After Reconvening
The Dail Eireann remains deadlocked as it reconvenes after 3 PM following a morning adjournment. A joint leaders’ meeting on the Anglo Irish treaty failed to produce an agreement, and the house adjourns again until tomorrow morning to hear the unofficial committee report.
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Dublin
Dail Eireann
Eamon DeValera
Dail
Michael Collins
Daily Éireann
Denver Rio Grande Shops to lay off 525 workers
Denver and Rio Grande workers in Barnum suburb will be temporarily laid off at end of shift tonight. Chief clerk L H Burchfield said the reduction stems from lack of work. The affected trades include smiths boiler makers carpenters and painters among those laid off.
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Denver
Colo
Denver and
Rio Grande
Barnum
L. H. Burchfield
Mae and la Raem
Smith
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Dentagena
Shockey
Clarence Loud
Melrose
James Preeton
Wakefield, Mass
Loud
Boston
National Vocational Society
Prindle
Theresa Duggan
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