Red Grange Signs Record Movie Contract in New York
Red Grange, famed football star, signed a motion picture deal with Arrow Pictures Corp. for a flat three hundred thousand dollars for his first screen appearance. The agreement follows his Chicago Bears game performance, with his share of receipts reported at thirty six thousand dollars and merchandise endorsements totaling forty thousand dollars. He plans to start filming around March first after finishing football duties.
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Insurgents Challenge GOP Leaders at 69th Congress Start
Washington faces a three cornered fight as House insurgents reject party regularity and nominate their own speaker candidate while vowing to oppose the Mellon tax plan and press for farm legislation. Senate plans defer on La Follette and Nye seating amid party tensions.
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Wisconsin
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Tennessee
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Gerald P. Nye
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Shot to Death in His Automobile at Greenville
Greenville Ga December 7 a prominent Meriwether county figure John R Carroll age 65 was shot to death Saturday night while en route to his country home near Woodbury. Sheriff J B Jarrell reports two men fired from opposite sides as an inner tube repair scheme drew a passerby to the scene. A coroner's jury will convene to probe the killing. Carroll was a wealthy farmer merchant and peach grower.
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John R. Carroll
Meriwether County
Woodbury
J. B. Jarrell
Carroll
Fourteen Burglars Arrested At Dublin
Dublin Ga December 7 Sheriff Watson and deputies rounded up an organized gang of burglars arresting two escaped convicts from Dodge county and twelve Laurens county Negroes. Five stolen cars were recovered and $500 worth of goods await owners. Harris and an unnamed partner led the ring, with multiple break ins across Eastman Rhine Ches ter Mount Vernon Soperton and Dublin. Harris was seized in Dublin with others. the spree is described as the most organized in memory.
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Arris
D'Reautt
Harris
Eastman
Rhine
Cheser
Mount Vernon
Soperton
Charles Sikes
Atolen
Coolidge Addresses Dirt Farmers At Chicago Meet
President Coolidge travels by special train to Chicago to address the seventh annual American Farm Bureau Federation convention. He outlines a relief program to be partly farmer led and partly legislative, while signaling limited future campaigning trips during Congress.
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Washington
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Red Cross Roll Call Seeks Members in Thomasville
Thomasville efforts to meet the Red Cross quota continue as canvassers report unseen residents due to prior conditions. Memberships remain open through Mr. S. V. Steyerman with encouragement to join this humane cause.
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Red Cross
Thomasville
S. V. Steyerman
Forty-Seven Die in South from Auto Mishaps
The Associated Press survey across eleven Southern states reports forty-seven deaths and more than 900 injuries from car accidents in the past week. Georgia tallies four deaths and forty-two injuries.
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Michigan State Normal School Fire Destroys Main Building
A blaze of undetermined origin at Central State Normal School in Mount Pleasant Michigan destroyed the main building and library. The Associated Press reports an estimated loss of about half a million dollars.
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Mount Pleasant
Michigan
Central State Normal School
American Tobacco Head Passes Away Suddenly
A sudden death shocks New York as American Tobacco executive Dees Dec. e Porcival passes away, prompting tributes from colleagues and industry observers.
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New York
Porcival
Rum Scandal Spurs Grand Jury Action Across City
Evidence of rum running and government corruption tied to the Dwyer syndicate keeps the grand jury in New York active for a month. Buckner de Heves says twenty gang members remain sought, with William Dwyer among those arrested. The Augusta patrols continue as federal probes expand from last July seizures.
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William Dwyer
Chang Army Routed and Retreating in Manchuria
Peking December 7 The army of Marshal Chang Tso Lin was routed by General Kuo Sung lien who feigned surrender and turned his left flank. Chang plans to leave Mukden and retire to private life.
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Li Ching-Ling
Chili Province
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Tientsin
Kuo Sung-Lien
Chang Tso-Lin
Leagues Fails To Adopt Plan To Aid Attacked Nations
Geneva reports say the disarmament council of the League of Nations did not agree on studying a plan for prompt military aid to nations under aggression. Belgium and France supported the feature. Belgium filed a reservation arguing quick assistance is more effective than disarmament.
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Fitzgerald Man Killed In Automobile Smash
Abbeville Georgia December 7 Robert Boney a prominent naval stores operator of Fitzgerald was killed and J T Smith of Fitzgerald received a crushed skull when an automobile in which they rode skidded into a telephone pole and into a ditch three other occupants escaped injury
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Abbeville, Ga
Robert Boney
Fitzgerald
J. T.smith
Hill, President of American Tobacco, Dies Sud.denly
Hill, president of the American Tobacco Company, died suddenly at his home here today. He led the firm through major tobacco industry developments and was a prominent business figure in the city.
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American Tobacco Company
Thomas Hardy Moved to Tears by Tess Performance
Dorchester England December 7 Thomas Hardy confined by illness shed tears as scenes from Tess Duberville his London success were staged in his drawing room by a full London company. With makeshift lighting and footlights the performance pleased the aging author who had never seen Tess performed before.
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Dorchester
England
Thomas Hardy
Tess Duberville
London
Tess
Doheny Indictments Upheld by Appeals Court
Washington DC December 7. The DC Court of Appeals today ruled the Doheny bribery indictments valid. It upheld two charges: former Interior Secretary Albert Fall accused of accepting a $100000 bribe and Edward L Doheny and his son charged with bribery. Chief Justice George Martin overruled the abatement pleas.
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Washington, D. C
Doheny
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
of the Interior
Albert B. Fall
Edward L. Doheny
Fail
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Dohenys
George Martin
Divorces Rise as Marriages Fall in 1923 United States
The Department of Commerce reports 1923 saw more divorces and fewer marriages in the United States. Divorces reached 178,867 while marriages totaled 1,178,206, a decline of 3.7 percent from the prior year, with a divorce rate near one per ten marriages.
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Department of Commerce
Washington, D. C
United States
Contractor Pierson Dies by Own Hand in Douglas
Charles H. Pierson aged 60 a building contractor committed suicide at his Douglas Georgia home early today. He had been despondent over financial affairs for some time, according to reports. The death was ruled self-inflicted by gunshot.
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Charles H. Pierson
Weather outlook for Georgia South Carolina Tennessee
Mostly cloudy conditions persist tonight across Georgia South Carolina and Tennessee. Tonight should be slightly warmer with scattered showers likely on Tuesday.
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South Carolina
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