Staged Show Not On Screen At Ambassador Theater Heist
An un billed climax to a film thriller ended with a staged armed robbery at the Ambassador Theater in Washington. A well dressed man rose to leave then entered the manager’s office, forced four men against a wall, and escaped with about $2000 in two days’ receipts while threatening a panic. The incident evoked memories of the Knickerbocker disaster on the same site five years earlier.
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Washington
Amassador
1Sth Street
Columbia Road
Goodwill Invasion flight tests border crossing by U S planes
Twelve military pursuit planes from Selfridge Field launch the first leg of a 1000 mile Goodwill Invasion of Canada approved by the United States and Royal Canadian Air Forces. Major Lanphier leads the mission to Ottawa and Montreal with sub Arctic winter conditions tests and a return to Michigan.
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Detroit
Selfridge Field
Ottawa
Canada
United States
Royal Canadian Aiir
Thomas G. Lanphier
Montreal
Buffalo
Michigan
Utah Woolgrowers Convene In 24th Annual Session
Salt Lake City hosts the Utah Woolgrowers association for its 24th annual conven tion with attendees from neighboring states. The session focuses on grazing fees and marketing, criticizing dealer-led postshearing marketing. W S Harvey presided as J Shepperd read the secretary report, committees were formed, and speakers C S Pollock E S Manion and J R Hardin addressed the gathering.
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Salt Lake City
Utah Woolgrowers Association
W. S. Harvey
James Shepperd
C. 8. Pollock
Manion
J. R. Hardin
France Sends Gold to America as Gold Standard Talk Rises
The American Exchange Irving Trust said it received 4.2 million dollars in gold bullion aboard the French liner Rochambeau. The shipment brings France’s total gold on hand to about 20 million dollars and signals a move toward gold standard considerations without a debt settlement or franc revaluation.
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New York
American Exchange
Irving Trust Company
France
United States
Three Children Die In Virginia Home Fire
Steubenville reports three Cross children aged 2, 6, and 9 perished when their Weirton Va home burned early today. Mother Mrs. Cross suffered serious burns while attempting to rescue them.
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Steubenville
Ohio
Joseph Cross
Weirton
Hazel Cross
Marie Cross
Browning Case Adjourned in Carmel Court
Edward Browning and his wife Francis Heenan faced a separation suit that opened at 10:50 A M. in Carmel New York. Justice Bieger ordered the case adjourned to White Plains thirty five minutes later.
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Browning
Carmel
N. Y
Edward Browning
Francis ‘‘Peaches
Heenan
White Plains
Supreme Court
Bieger
Chaplin Lawyers Seek Lift on Income Liens
Attorneys for Charlie Chaplin asked the government to release income liens on money held in banks, asking Washington to lift the government’s levies on the comedian’s funds.
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Washington
Charlie Chaplin
Nomination Rejected for Interstate Commerce Post
Washington reports Cyrus E. ods nomination to the Interstate Commerce Commission was rejected by the Senate today. The action ends his bid for the federal post and reflects Senate scrutiny of the nomination.
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Washington
Cyrus E. ¥Ods
interstate commerce commis#0
Sen Pie
Romanian King Ferdinand Could Abdicate in Favor of Carol
Paris reports say King Ferdinand may abdicate soon with Prince Carol to assume the throne. Romanian Premier Averescu and ex Premier Bratiano met to discuss the king's possible return to Paris seeking rest. If abdication occurs Bratiano's power behind the throne is seen as ending and Carol would lead a younger national group.
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Paris
Ferdinand
Rumania
Carol
Bratiano
Bucharest
Averescu
M. Bratiano
National Asant
Rty
Six Die in Scary Crossing Crash In Rockford Area
A Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul train struck the Knight automobile at a crossing. I F Knight and an eight year old son died, the mother and three children ages four to eleven were killed, Allen aged three survived uninjured after being thrown to the engine pilot.
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Rockford, Jills
Chicago
Milwaukee
St. Paul
I. F. Knight
Knight
Allen
Garibaldi Plans U S Move After Arms Conviction
Paris reports Riccardo Garibaldi and seventeen others were convicted Saturday of arms possession tied to the Catalan plot. Garibaldi says he will go to the United States to join his brother Peppino and has informal assurances of a favorable reception. He faces a two month jail term already served and must leave France within three days.
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Paris
Riccardo Garibaldi
United States
Peppino
Garibaldi
France
Oregon Basin Oil and Gas loses suit over Wyoming claim patent
The Oregon Basin Oil and Gas company failed in the Supreme Court to force the Secretary of the Interior to patent a placer mining claim near Cody Wyoming, claiming discovery of oil justified patent action.
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Washington
Oregon Basin Oil and Gas Company
Supreme Court
Secretary of the Interior
Cody
Wyoming
Army goodwill planes reach Barranquilla crowd greets arrivals
Two United States army goodwill planes arrived in Barranquilla Colombia at 3 50 p m on Sunday after noon. Authorities and the public gave them a hearty welcome marking a notable transit in the goodwill mission.
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Barranquilla
Colombia
Unite States’ Army
Congress in Session for Naval Bill and Wood Nomination
Congress meets at noon to move the naval appropriation bill before the senate and to vote on Cyrus E. Wood's renomination. Democratic lawmakers begin to unlock committee bound tax reduction proposals.
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Congress
Senate
Cyrus E. Wood
Not Conserving in German State Not Conserving in German State
In Leipsic on January 24 a report describes Germany's game as scarce with some fauna mocked as refusing to be driven to guns. A 45 man hunting party in Oberswenthal Saxony returned empty handed after 23 hunters plus 20 helpers failed to bag any game including rabbits.
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Leipsic
Germany
Reich
Oberswenthal
Saxony
Madison Man Confesses to Wife Killing in Dubuque
William Coffey a Madison bond salesman admitted to killing his second wife Hattie Hales Coffey at a camp on the Mississippi in Dubuque Iowa on October 11. He struck her with a baseball bat and disposed of the body in the river after hours of interrogation by District Attorney Robert F. Clark and Sheriff Wright.
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Madison
Wis
William Coffey
Madison Bond
Hattie Hales Coffey
Dubuque
Robert F. Clark
Coffey
Wright
Mississippi River
Five Army goodwill planes separated by heavy seas
In Panama on January 24 US Army goodwill fliers faced separation as five planes on a Central and South American flight were damaged by heavy seas. The New York and San Antonio sustained damage requiring repairs, while the San Antonio nearly sank with pontoon damage and a rescue launch saved the crew on board. Major Herbert A. Dargue led the mission, with the San Francisco Detroit and St. Louis continuing to Colombia.
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France Field
Panama
Canal Zone
United States Army
Central
South American
Federal Troops Clean Up Rebels in Mexico Battles
Twenty eight rebels and one chieftain were killed in clashes with federal forces on Sunday. General Pablo Cabanas led insurgents against Santa Maria in Guererro, ten rebels fell. Bilon Cortes and four followers died after capturing a town section in Michoacan. Six rebels perished at Ahualica and Los Altos, two at Ayo Chico in Jalisco.
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Mexico City
Pablo Cabanas
Santa Maria
Guerrero
Bilon Cortes
Santiguel del Onte
Michoacan
Ahualica
Los Altos
Ayo Chico
Jalisco
Tax Bill On Floor As Democrats Push Garner Plan
Washington January 24 Democrats move to floor with a petition to bring the Garner tax cut bill from the Ways and Means Committee. The measure would cut the corporation tax from 44 to 14 percent and repeal automobile amusements club dues and produce stamp tax. Garner cites a near 383 million dollar treasury surplus and urges relief for consumers, noting 218 signatures needed but only 182 available.
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Washington
House
Garrett
Tennessee
Ways and Means Committee
President Coolidge
Congress
Treasury
Ohio River flood reaches five states from Pittsburgh to Louisville
Residents along nearly 500 miles of the Ohio faced rising floodwaters driven by five days of rain. Crests moved southwest through Ohio Indiana West Virginia and Kentucky with further rises expected in the next 24 hours as water receded in Pittsburgh area. The Allegheny and Monongahela rivers fell to 27.3 feet last midnight and were receding.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Pittsburg
Allegheny
Monongahela
Indiana
West Virginia
Kentucky
Louisville
Kraft Cheese Plant at Pocatello A Major Factory
The Pocatello plant of Kraft Cheese ranks as one of the largest west of Chicago handling and manufacturing packaged cheese. In 1926 it moved about 9.5 million pounds, with 75 percent produced in Idaho and over $1.21 million paid to Idaho farmers. Capacity runs 78 000 pounds daily with about twenty four carloads shipped monthly. The Vocatello facility serves the Pacific coast Intermountain region and export markets to Japan and the Philippines. The company employs fifty two people with payroll over $75 a year.
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Kraft Cheese Company
Pocatello
Chicago
Idaho
Vocatello
Pacific Coast
Intermountain
Orient
Japan
Philippine Islands
Kraft Company
Foreign Powers Move in China Defense Precautions
Shanghai reports say British and Japanese forces use military precautionary moves as anti foreign and anti Christian sentiment grows. Hongkong sends Punjabi troops to Shanghai to defend concessions while Washington says no formal alliance exists and options remain unsettled.
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China
Hankow
Hongkong
Shanghai
United States
France
Japan
International Settlement
Washington
Williams
State Department
Great Britain
Can-Canning Trends Shape Postwar Housekeeping
Census figures released by the commerce department show 1925 output of fruit and vegetable canning and related products valued at 616,067,078 dollars, up 19.6 percent from 1923. The data reflect shifts in domestic food preparation and the rise of labor-saving canned goods for American households.
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Washington
Commerce Department
Trial of Fall Postponed to April after illness
Washington reports the trial of Albert B. Fall and Harry F. Sinclair on Teapot Dome lease charges is pushed to April 20 due to Fall's illness. Mee Fall convalesces in El Paso, Texas. Sinclair’s contempt trial for Senate testimony will start March 13.
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Washington
Albert B. Fall
Secretary of the Interior
Harry F. Sinclair
Teapot Dome
Mee
Fall
el Paso
Texas
Sinclair
Senate
Funeral services for Brigadier General W A McCausland
Funeral services for Brigadier General W A McCausland, 90, Confederate Army, will be held tomorrow morning. Burial will be in Paue's Cemetery at Henderson near Ore. General McCausland died in his sleep at his home in McCausland Saturday night.
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Point Vieasant
W. Va
W. A. McCausland
Paue’s
Henderson
Ore
McCausland
Raising Flowers in Winter Time in Worcester Mines
An underground coal fire at Worcester Mines in England allows gardeners to grow plants and vegetables outdoors at the end of winter. The warm furnace in old mined galleries yields larger vegetables and potatoes than in a hot house, improving yields despite the cold season.
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Worcester
England
Lindsey Out as Juvenile Judge in Denver Court Ruling
Denver January 24 The state supreme court reversed a Denver district court decision in contest proceedings brought by Royal W. Graham Lindsey's opponent in the 1924 election and ordered his ouster from the Denver juvenile court.
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Lindsey Out
Denver
Ben KH. Lindsey
State Supreme Court
High Court
Denver District Court
Royal W. Graham
Lindsey
Graham
Cyanamid bids on Muscle Shoals exceeds Ford offer
Washington reports Representative Madden unveiled a new American Cyanamid bid for Muscle Shoals Alabama praising it as better than Henry Ford's. The proposal would boost fixed nitrogen to at least 48 000 tons annually, waive royalties on patented fertilizer processes, and gain congressional fast tracking after naval bill talks.
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Washington
Henry Ford
American Cyanamid Company of
New York
Muscle Shoals
Alabama
Congress
Madden
Republican
Illinois
Cyanamid
Cyanamid Company
Ford
Lobbyists Roasted Over Boulder Canyon Dam Bill Clash
Chairman Snell of the rules committee condemned lobbyists as an obstacle to Boulder Canyon and Muscle Shoals measures. He plans to push disposal of Muscle Shoals and advance the Boulder Canyon bill, citing President Coolidge’s desire to resolve the two power projects. Representative Leatherwood of Utah proposes amendments to guard water rights in leasing rather than sale.
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Washington
Boulder Canyon Dam
Snell
Rules Committee
White House
Tage
Boulder Dam
Coolidge
Leatherwood
Utah
Boulder Canyon
Reclamation Conference Set In Denver March
Secretary Work will open a conference of federal reclamation project superintendents in Denver March 16 to 18. The meeting aims to study reclamation problems and improve methods. Elwood Mead, reclamation commissioner, will attend.
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Reclamation Confab
Washington
Work
Denver
Elwood Mead
Hong Kong Consul Arrest Reported in Kiukiang Disturbance
Hong Kong dispatch says Kiukiang on the Yangtze river sees rising tensions with the remch consul there arrested. Yangtse ports described as critical as the situation grows more serious.
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Paris
Hong Kong
Indo-Pacific Agency
Kiukiang
Angtse
Remch
Yangtse
Idaho Bars Irrigation Use by Reserving Three Lakes
Idaho's 19th legislature authorized Governor Baldridge to hold Priest, Pend Oreille, and Coeur d Alene lakes in trust for the state. The measure, passed 36 to 6 in the Senate after unanimous House approval, blocks these northern lakes from storage use in the Columbia River basin project and preserves them for scenic beauty health and recreation.
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Boise
Idaho
Priest, Pendos
Coeur d'Alene Lakes
Senate
H. ©. Baldridge
Columbia River Basin
Columbia Basin
Ida
Coeur d'Alene
Priest
Pend O’reille
Columbia River
Washington
House
Taylor
Char Shoor
Boundary
Hiram Severson Jefferson
Maurice M
Coffin
Freemont
Hansen
Teton
Jeppeonham
Newcomb
Bannock
Reyno Camag
Whitten
Sage
House of House
House Revenue and Taxation
State Board of Equalization
State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Charlie Chaplin Improving Rapidly After Divorce Suit
New York January 24 Charlie Chaplin is improving rapidly after his nervous breakdown following his wife’s divorce suit He was seen on a short automobile ride and was said to be feeling splendid He will leave for California to appear for further action with his lawyer Nathan Burkan present
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New York
Charlie Chaplin
Fifth Avenue
Nathan Burkan
Ife
California
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Holdup
Washington D. C
John Philip Sousa
Charles P. Summerall
Frank Damrosch
Military Affairs Committee
House of Representatives
Wisconsin
M’causland
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