French cabinet approves submarine policy amid government crisis
The French cabinet approved actions for the arms delegation amid tensions from the Berthlot resignation and debates over Hughes submarine proposals. Officials say France will protect its undersea fleet while awaiting Washington tonnage limits. Briand was set to present the results to the chamber later today.
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Aris
France
Washington
United Press
M. Berthelot
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Hughes
Briand
Berthelot
Italy Signs Trade Pact With Russia
Rome reports Italy signed a treaty to resume commercial relations with Russia. Soviet minister of foreign affairs Delletoretta and M. Zorowski affixed signatures to restore trade. The Italian Bukranian treaty was signed simultaneously.
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Italy
Russia
Rome
M. Zorowski
Delletoretta
Former Grand Army of the Republic leader dies in Indianapolis
William A. Ketcham former national commander of the Grand Army of the Republic died at his Indianapolis home. Relatives found his body in bed after he failed to come to breakfast.
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Indianapolis
Ind
William A. Ketcham
Grand Army of the Republic
Two arrested in murder of former Mankato legislator
W J McDonough was captured by Sheriff H Pratt in Blue Earth Minnesota in connection with the death of Frank Kelley a former Mankato legislator. Kelley disappeared while traveling with a stranger and was found burned in a Dayton area school ruins identified by a crucifix. It is suspected the motive was Kelley auto and $300. Kelley previously served in the Minnesota legislature in 1909 and 1911.
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Blue Earth
Minn
W. J. McDonough
H. Pratt
Anoka
Frank Kelley
Mankato
McDonough
Pratt
Kelley
Minneapolis
Dayton
Minnesota
Elk River
Murder mystery cleared up by police in Minnesota
Minneapolis report says Frank L. Kelley former Mankato legislator was killed in a robbery attempt. Suspect Earl Slater alias W L McDonough confessed after arrest at Blue Earth. He told of meeting Kelley in Mankato, taking money, firing when Kelley resisted, then burning the schoolhouse and fleeing to Minneapolis.
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Minneapolis
Minn
Frank L. Kelley
Mankato
Blue Earth
Hugh 8. Pratt
Anoka
John McGuire
W. L. McDonough
Earl Slater
Winnebago City
Earl Brown
Hennepin County
Kelley
Slater
Brown
Dayton
Minnesota
Bandits Rob Jeweler of Diamonds
Three bandits robbed Henry Hottis of a jewelry store in St Louis today, taking diamonds valued at 5000 dollars and 700 dollars in cash. Hottis was bound by one thief while the others fled with the loot.
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St. Louis
Henry Hottis
Hottis
Eight Die as Storm Strikes Clarksdale Arkansas
A cyclone wrecked Clarksdale Arkansas killing eight black residents and one white man. Relief workers from nearby towns assist the injured and hunt for missing bodies.
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Arle
Ark
Clarksdale
Arkansas
Debs Predicts Failure for Conference
Socialist leader Eugene V. Debs told United Press the Washington arms conference is futile and will fail. He argued the talks ignore warfare causes and warned disarmament would merely invite a future war with deadlier weapons. Debs spoke after leaving prison, planning to return home to Terre Haute with a welcome awaiting him.
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Washington
Eugene V. Debs
United Press
Debs
Harding
Piqueherty
Egyptian forces revolt against British authorities in Cairo
In Cairo on December 27 Joan of Arc figurehead for Egyptian nationalists leads revolt against British rule. Madam Zaghlul, widow of Zaghlul Pasha deposed by Britain, rallies resistance as officials plan a strike. British troopers show restraint as the unrest looms, with authorities predicting a brief general walkout.
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Cairo
Egypt
Madam Zaghlul
Zaghlul Pasha
Zaghlul
Jeopardy Placed On Senator's Seat In Party Row
Washington reports a new setback in the campaign funds dispute over Michigan Senator T. H. Newberry. Six Republican senators told Senate whip Curtiss they will back a move to unseat Newberry unless he speaks in the chamber to defend the money spent in his campaign against Ford.
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Washington
Senate
T. H. Newberry
Curtiss
Michigan
Ford
Pacific armament talks ease threat of conflict say Japanese premier
Premier Taka Hashi of Japan tells United Press that the Washington conference on armaments limits removes danger of Pacific conflicts. He praises unreserved negotiations and sacrifices by all powers, noting Japan has not lagged.
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Tokio
Pacific
Washington
Bandit Escapes With Loot in Minnesota Robbery
In St. Paul on December 24 police hunted a bandit who, Friday night, robbed Crane & Ordway Company employees R. W. Anderson and Miss N. E. Brownwell of $2,000 in currency. The robber, in an Oakland touring car, seized the cash and fled north. The car bore a license issued to G. Friese of Zumbrata, Minnesota, and was driven by an accomplice.
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St. Paul
Crane & Ordway Company
Oakland
R. W. Anderson
N. E. Brownwell
G. Friese
Zumbrata, Minn
Two Charged With Burning Barn Near Minnewaukan
John B. Chance and John D. DeCouteau were bound over to district court on charges of incendiarism for burning a barn and fourteen cattle on the Chance farm December 5. Chance released on $2,000 bond. DeCouteau allegedly signed a confession implicating Chance. In New Port Kentucky troops deployed to quell steelworker strike disturbances, four guards companies arriving early today.
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Minnewaukan
N. D
John B. Chance
John D. DeCouteau
Here
Chance
Chance Farm
New Port
Two Young Sweethearts Die by Strychnine Poisoning
Passaic New Jersey December 27 Thomas Brands eighteen and Mathilda Rist seventeen took four poison tablets to die together after expressing inability to marry for lack of money. They planned suicide after Christmas, drank water, Mathilda fell ill first, then Thomas. Doctor summoned as both collapsed.
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Passaic
N. J
Thomas Brands
Mathilda Rist
Thomas
Mathilda
John Rist
Turner
Mattie
Howat and Darby Habeas Petition Filed in Kansas
In Kansas City Kansas on December 27 lawyers for the district miners union sought habeas corpus to free Alexander Howat and August Dorehy from Columbus jail. They challenge the Kansas industrial court law used to sentence them for six months for calling a strike as unconstitutional.
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Kansas
City
Kan
Alexander Howat
Miners Union
August Dorehy
Columbus
Kansas Industrial Court
Howat
Darby
Second Arms Parley Believed Probable
Washington reports a second arms limitation conference within the next decade to push deeper cuts in world armaments. Delegates discuss continuing the current talks, with land armaments likely the key issue and submarine plans under review by France and Japan as cabinet discussions shape potential tonnage allotments.
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Washington
Hughes
Five Power Disarmament Committee
Paris
France
Two Unidentified Men Found Shot Dead in St Louis Suburb
In a St Louis suburb two unidentified men were found dead from gunshots on a lonely lane. One is believed to be Everett E Summers of Toledo Ohio, with a draft card found in his pocket. The pair were likely dumped from a car and found within feet of each other, one body wrapped in canvass. Summers is about 30, the other about 25.
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St. Louis
Everett E. Summers
Toledo
Ohio
Summers
Bank Cashier Shot by Watchman in Kansas
Howard M. Hayes 27 cashier of Grenola Kansas State Bank was shot to death by night watchman Lou Downs who mistook him for a robber during an early morning call to the bank to investigate a reported planned robbery.
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Windfield
Kan
Howard M. Hayes
Grenola, Kansas State
Lou Downs
Hayes
Fire Damages Multiple Shops in Madison
An all night blaze in Madison Wisconsin is believed sparked by an overheated furnace. It damaged a candy shop a haberdashery a drug store and a large Sete with losses estimated at a substantial amount.
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Madison
Wis
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