Kentucky war hero to be housed in local home
Devils Jump Branch, Ky. Dec. 29. Sergeant Willie Sandlin, famed for killing twenty four Germans in a day and wiping out six machine gun nests, after receiving the congressional medal, will be given a comfortable home on Hell-Forsaken Creek. He is unable to work due to wounds and has lived on ten dollars a month from the Veterans' Bureau.
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Associated Presa Devils
Jump Branch
Kentucky
Hell-For-Sartan Creek
Willie Sandlin
Veterans’ Bureau
Prosecutor Buckner Targets Industrial Alcohol Diversion
States Attorney Emory R. Buckner launches a crackdown on bootleg alcohol by seizing warrants aimed at stopping denatured liquor flow. He reported multiple arrests of six men and two women linked to a major city denaturing plant amid a New Year bootleg row.
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Associated Pres
Emory R. Buckner
Rear Admiral Rodgers Dies at Monte Carlo
New York December 29 Rear Admiral Raymond Perry Rodgers United States Navy retired and former president of the Naval War College died yesterday at Monte Carlo He was seventy six years old and had lived abroad with his wife for several years He came from a family with other noted naval officers and served forty years including time as executive officer of the battleship Iowa.
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New York
Raymond Perry Rodgers
United Sates Navy
Naval War College
Monte Carlo
Admiral Rodgers
United States Navy
Admira Christopher Raymond
Perry Rodgers
Charleston
Naval Academy
Thomas Slidell Rodgers
U. S
Iowa
Football Holds First Place Among Universities
Professor W. J. Newlin of Amherst says football leads among American universities while mathematics lags. Speaking at the American Association of College Professors meeting in Chicago he laments campus social life and material success overshadowing scholarship.
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The
Associated Press
Chicago, I
Uni
Florence Wreck Injures Eight as Train Derails
A southbound Atlantic Coast Line passenger train derailed near Florence. Eight people were injured, three seriously, with at least two taken to a local hospital. A broken rail caused by cold weather was blamed for the accident.
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Atlantic Coast
Associated Press
Florence
S. C
Atlantic Coast Line
French Cabinet Backs Doumer Budget Stabilization Plan
The French cabinet agreed to support Finance Minister Doumer’s fiscal measures to balance the budget and stabilize the franc. It is understood Doumer will submit the measures immediately and the finance committee will discuss them during the new year recess.
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Doumer
Chamber of Deputies
M. Doumer
Chamber
Weather Forecast: Mild To Cool With Frost On Coast
The forecast indicates fair weather with near 90s heat not reached and freezing temperatures at night along the coast. Wednesday expects fair skies with a gradual rise in temperature and moderate north and northeast winds.
Naval officer biographical sketch from early service
The narrative notes service off Santiago in the Spanish American War and action in China during the Boxer Rebellion. It records three years as chief intelligence officer with the Navy Department, and in 1909 becoming president of the war college and commandant at the Narragansett Bay naval station.
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Santiago
China
Navy Department
War College
Naval
Narragansett Bay
Charges Against Wheeler Dismissed
The District of Columbia Supreme Court sustained the demurrer to an indictment accusing Senator Wheeler of Montana of conspiracy to defraud the federal government in obtaining oil and gas permits. The ruling dismisses Wheeler’s case along with charges against Edwin Booth and Gordon Campbell, with possible appeals remaining. Senator Walsh argued Wheeler had been acquitted in Montana and should not face another trial.
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Associated Press
Washington , D. C
District of Columbia Supreme Court
Wheeler
Montana
Edwin 8
Booth
Interior Department
Gordon Campbell
Senator Walsh
ICC orders relief routes to ease Florida freight jams
The Interstate Commerce Commission issued a special freight routing order to relieve traffic congestion in Florida. Carriers in the Southeast must divert shipments from normal routes to speed movement, focusing on the Jacksonville gateway. Railroads will report daily reroutings and shippers will be notified of changes. the measure follows a Washington conference with railroads and associations.
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Washington, D. C
Florida
Interstate Commerce Commission
United States
Jacksonville
Wastington
Florida Territory
Commission
American Railway Association
American Railway Express
Florida East Coast
South
Seaboard Air Line
Southern
Atlantic Coast Line
Fhortha
Romanian Floods Claim Hundreds of Lives
Dispatches from Tordo report floods along the Romanian frontier sweeping bodies and debris through city streets. The disaster is described as taking hundreds of lives with waters rising rapidly and inundating towns on the frontier.
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Vienna
Rumania
Tordo
New Year Tipplers Plan Big Time in Chicago
The Chicago Herald notes plans for a high New Year of 1926 with many reservations. More than sixteen thousand bookings are reported in fourteen large hotels. Prohibition chief BR G Yellowley warns that women and men will be arrested for dry law violations.
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Chicago
BR. G. Yellowley
Prohibition
Auto Fatalities Rise in Chicago This Year
Chicago reports show 781 automobile fatalities in 1925, up from 687 in 1924, with two deaths recorded yesterday. The coroner's office notes the year ends with higher road tolls, reflecting a year of increased traffic and danger.
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Chicago
Associated Press
American business conditions viewed as sound by president
The Amended Press reports President Coolidge sees overall business conditions as generally sound with good prospects for 1926. Bankers and industrial leaders forecast continued prosperity, noting improvements in iron and steel, petroleum, and electric sectors amid cautious prices and policy guidance.
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New York
United States
E. H. Gary
United States Steel Corporation
Henry L. Doherty
Sidney Z. Mitchell
Rprealseca
Electric Hand ‘&"Share Co
University of
Moving pictures blamed for undermining Christianity in the orient
George W. Creel, former Globe Trotter correspondent, says American motion pictures and the hypocrisy of Christian nations in wars undermine Christianity among non Christians in the Orient. He argues films create a view of the United States as wealthy, pleasure seeking, and covertly pushing Christianity.
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Globe Trotter
Asia
South Sea Islands
United States
Falls Ten Stories In Elevator Shaft
Joseph S. Vogt of Grand Rapids Michigan died when he plunged ten stories through an elevator shaft in a Birmingham hotel during the Delta Kappa Epsilon convention. Coroner J D Dussom released companion A Q Kuehmated Jr from custody after ruling the death an unavoidable accident.
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Joseph S. Vogt
Grand Rapids
Birmingham
Associated Preas
Ala
Mich
J. D. Dussom
A. Q. Kuehmated, Jr
Vogt
Hoover Warns on Rubber Prices and Supply
Secretary Herbert Hoover urged limited rubber use and strengthening independent supply sources to curb high rubber prices amid probes into alleged British monopoly. He spoke in Washington on December 29 about US strategy and future actions.
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Hoover
Britain
Associated Press
Washington, D. C
United States
Herbert Hoover
Florida Citrus Unlikely to Suffer Frost Damage
Florida’s citrus crop faces little frost danger per meteorologist Walter J. Bergett with warnings of a 30 to 26 degree chill. If 26 degrees holds for two hours, some damage possible. most experts expect minimal impact on citrus while vegetables may suffer in Central Florida. Total value around 68 million dollars, 4.5 million boxes decline in production, oranges averaging 4.50 per box and grapefruit 3.60. shipments show orange boxes near 2.6 million, grapefruit about 1.7 million.
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Tampa
Fla
Florida
Walter J. Bergett
Weather Bureau
Stenographer Killed as Man Shoots Self in Brooklyn
New York dec 29 Harry Cowan described himself as a bad boy fifty four lay seriously wounded in a Brooklyn hospital after being found near the body of Edith Burton a stenographer whom he killed before attempting suicide at her home She was found under a Christmas tree with three bullets in her body police refused his motive
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Associated Press
New York
Harry Cowan
Brooklyn
Edith Burton
Operators Ready to Make Concessions in Anthracite Strike
W. W. Inglish, spokesman for the anthracite operators, said the negotiating committee is ready to yield concessions to miners for a truce. Talks begin this afternoon with a conference between miners and operators.
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W. W. Inglish
Tiation Committee
Memorial coins to sell for two dollars each
Columbia South Carolina December 29 Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial half dollars will be sold for two dollars each after February first predicted by J Wilson Gibbes director of the Harvest Campaign for South Carolina based on knowledge of the association's plans.
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Associated Press
Columbia
S. C
Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial
J. Wilson Gibbes
South Carolina
Gibbes
Motion pictures offer healthy outlet for adventure says doctor
New York on December 29. Dr. George W. Kirchwey former warden of Sing Sing prison argues motion pictures of the higher type provide a safe outlet for excitement and adventure. He says many patrons cannot be harmed by excess and that for the vast majority the mind is broadened by movies.
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Sing Sing Prison
Associated Preas
New York
George W. Kirchwey
British society weighs Princess Astride as Prince of Wales bride
London report from December notes speculation that Princess Astride niece of the King of Sweden may be considered as a potential wife for the Prince of Wales after she is announced as a house guest at Buckingham Palace Astride at twenty displays charm dancing skill fondness for country life and domestic science knowledge.
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Prince OF Wales
Astride of
Sweden
Buckingham Palace
Astride
Wilson Tribute By Caraway In Reading Memorial
Senator Thaddeus Caraway of Arkansas paid a high tribute to Woodrow Wilson at a noon memorial service in Raleigh Temple Reading Pa on December 29. He praised Wilson as idealistic America and contrasted Calvin Coolidge as practical America noting Coolidge’s rising popularity could challenge Democratic control of the presidency in 1928. The gathering included 300 war workers Liberty bond campaigners Red Cross Belgian relief and related groups.
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Reading
Woodrow Wilson
America
Calvin Coolidge
Thaddus H. Caraway
Arkansas
Liberty Bond
Red Cross
Raleigh Temple
Caraway
Coolidm
Wilson
Coolidge
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