American forces ready for Nicaragua elections in 1928
Brigadier General Frank R. McCoy arrives in Corinto aboard the Netro to supervise Nicaragua's 1928 presidential vote. Managua serves as headquarters for the American election party as Marines pursue Sandino forces and reinforce counterinsurgency efforts in the region.
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Managua
Nicaragua
Frank R. McCoy
Coolidge
Corinto
Netro
Quintanigama
Lake Managua
Sandino
Marines
Louis Mason Gulick
Gilbert D. Hatfield
Fifth Regiment
New Mexico
Ocotal
Serum Treatment To Test Crooks
Spokane, January 22. Dr J M Gunning sponsor of twilight sleep serum says it can probe unconscious minds of suspects. He told the Spokane County Bar association that the serum weakens the link between conscious and subconscious and may force a guilty person to confess while an innocent person may fail to answer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spokane
Wash
J. M. Gunning
Spokane County Bar Association
Gunning
Pittsburgh Sunday Symphony Concerts Rule Nod in Blue Law Case
County court judges Kennedy and Miller ruled Sunday morning symphony concerts in Pittsburgh do not violate century old blue laws. They determined the laws target actual interference with rest, not harmless music on the Sabbath. The decision is seen as statewide precedent for legality of Sunday concerts.
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Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh Symphony Society
Alleghany County Sabbath Association
Kennedy
Miller
Taxes Due State Are Well Paid
Idaho shows strong early tax payments as 35 percent of state taxes due July 1 have been paid by January 21. Treasurer Byron Defenbach reports higher than usual collection, with Latah and Madison counties paying in full, Camas County nearly complete, and total collections surpassing one million dollars since January 7.
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Boise
Byron Defenbach
Idaho
Latah
Madison
Camas County
Capone Leaves Miami Beach After Mutual Decision
Al Capone, Chicago gangster, agreed with Mayor Newton Lummus Jr and City Manager C. A. Henshaw to quit Miami Beach for an unannounced destination. He had arrived two weeks earlier and rented a bungalow in an exclusive district, with officials calling him one of the fairest men they had met.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miami Beach
Fra
al Capone
Chicago
Los Angeles
J. Newton Lummus, Jr
Cc. A. Henshaw
Capone
Army seeks temporary generals equal to Navy admirals
Secretary Davis urged Congress to empower the president to appoint four temporary generals and nine temporary lieutenant generals. The move would align Army high commands with Navy admirals and vice admirals, granting full general and lieutenant general ranks to key regional and station commanders. The goal is to reflect responsibilities without adding officers, only temporary higher ranks for designated posts.
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Washington
Congress
Davis
War Department
Army
Navy
Panama
United States
Morin
House
Citrus Growers Alarmed By Potential Frost Threat
Citrus growers and truck gardeners along the west coast were warned to protect crops as a possible temperature drop to near 40 degrees looms. Forecasters said freezing is unlikely due to cloud cover, but frost could damage vegetation.
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Tampa
Pla
Pilorida West Coast
Weather Bureau
Goethals Idolized For Panama Canal Triumph In 1920s
Goethals, famed engineer who oversaw the Panama Canal project, dies at 70 in New York after a lingering illness. He and Major General William Gorgas are credited with creating a navigable waterway and protecting workers from tropical disease. Goethals was born in Brooklyn in 1858 and educated at City College of New York before entering West Point.
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New York
George Washington Goethals
Panama Canal
Goethals
Panama
William Gorgas
Canal Zone
Roosevelt
Isthmus
William Crawford Gorgas
Congress of the
United States
General Goethals
Brooklyn
City College of New York
Pie
United States Military Academy
West
Klan Mask to be Abandoned February 22 Reported
Birmingham paper says Ku Klux Klan will drop the hood from regalia February 22 after a Montgomery meeting with Dr Hiram Evans imperial wizard and Alabama officials. Reasons cited include internal opposition and anti hood legislation. Evans would not comment on Birmingham reports or threats to Klansmen supporting Governor Smith.
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Birmingham
Ala
Birmingham Sunday News and Age Herald
Montgomery
Hiram W. Evans
Atlanta
Order
Alabama
News and Age Herald
James Esdale
Evans
News and Age Heralds
Columbia
8. C
Hiram Evans
Ku Klux Klan
Ale
Governor Smith
New York
Trotzky Protest Sent To Comintern In Berlin
Leon Trotzky and exiled supporters formally protest and appeal to the Communist International for reinstatement. The appeal, published in Vorwaerts, claims they were banished without charges to distant Soviet posts to sever ties with the Sixth Communist International. They vow to reappear in the coming great battle.
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Berlin
Leon Trotzky
Communnists International
Russia
Vorwaets
Trotzky
Soviet Union
Los Angeles Seeks Boulder Canyon Dam Water Supply
Los Angeles engineers warn the city may exhaust its present water supply before Boulder canyon dam can provide a new source. A H Van Norman testifies before the state irrigation committee that the Owens valley aqueduct will be strained and the city must turn to the Colorado river for domestic needs.
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Washington
Los Angeles
Boulder Canyon Dam
s@tate irrigation committee
A. H van Norman
Boulder Dam
van Norman
Owens Valley Aqueduct
Colorado River
Soviet Plan Bypasses U S Policies With Bond Sales
The Soviet government has marketed railway bonds in the United States without policy conflict. Through mail delivery from Russia, over $100,000 in bonds from a $30 million issue were sold to American buyers. Interest and principal payments are wired to investors via New York Chicago and San Francisco banks.
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New York
The
New York Times Today
United States
Russia
Chicago
San Francisco
Search expands for Smith girl in Northampton
The missing Smith College freshman Frances St. John Smith, daughter of a New York broker, remains unrecovered after a week. General Alfred Foote orders searches of woods and fields around Northampton as clues from many cities fail to yield results.
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Northampton
Mass
Frances St. John Smith
Alfred F. Foote
Massachusetts
Smith College
New York
Ten Miles From Crippled Plane Hoyt Found Dead
Fred Hoyt Wichita Kans test pilot and Stearman sales manager was found frozen about ten miles from his crashed Stearman in the Black Pine mountains near Holbrook Idaho. Hoyt vanished last Saturday in a snowstorm while flying from Salt Lake to Boise. A glove recovered in the wreck supports the parachute escape theory.
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Boise
Idaho
Stearman
Fred Hoyt
Wichita Kans
Stearman Aircraft Company
Holbrook
Oneida County
Hoyt
Associated Press
George C. Hoyt
Ocean Park
Calif
Leon Cuddeback
Varney
Black Pine Mountain District
Wichita
Kans
Frank Commons
Commons
Black Pine Mountains
Minidoka National Forest
George Hoyt
Cuddecock
Burley
Skiis
Salt Lake City
C. C. Price
Varney Air Mail
Promontory Point
Utech
Price
Irish Leader Cosgrave Arrives in Chicago Amid Warm Welcome
William T. Cosgrave and Irish Free State cabinet arrive in Chicago for a brief goodwill visit. Crowds in silk hats greet them at La Salle Street Station as a strenuous program unfolds through the day and evening.
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Chicago
William Thomas Cosgrave
Executive Council
The
la Salle Street
Congress Figures Items During the Week End
Washington January 21 AP The halls of congress were dark but busy in the wings with hearings in both chambers. The house lands committee opened a Teapot Dome inquiry while others protested public utilities investigations. Daniel Willard of Baltimore and Ohio spoke on railroad consolidation and Senator-elect Ware denied charges tied to the 1926 law. Senate Democrats backed a merchant marine bill. Kansas Republicans pressed for farm relief with McNary Haugen changes. Senator Walsh urged a Saturday holiday for congress as many work six days.
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Washington
Congress
House
Sensor
Congressional
Senate
House Lands Committee
Interstate Commerce Committee
Daniel Willard
Baltimore and Ohio
Ware
Pennsylvania
Democrats
Jones
Coolidge
Agriculture Committee
Kansas
Walsh
Massachusetts
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Maj
Gengeorge Goethals
King
Miami
Rank Hagenbarth
Phoenix
Convention City
Ogden
Utah
Frank J. Hagenbarth
Spencer
National
Woolgrowers’ Association
Phoenix, Ariz
L. B. Palmer
Ohio Woolgrowers’ Association
National Organization
W. C. Coffee
St. Paul
F. A. Ellenwood
Red Bluff
A. A. Johns
Prescott
Aziz
Harlan Hill
National Wool Marketing Council
Jardine
Wool
Klansmen
J. Hagenbarth
Bolshie
Colorado
Smith Girl
Irish Free State
Conmued
W. B Wilson
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