Aushville Man Shot Ten Times By Federal Officers
Chester L. Adcock died after being shot ten times by federal officers in front of his restaurant near Nashville. Three men involved, Latta Goodwin and Davis, fled to the federal building and posted bond. The sequence leading to the shooting remains undisclosed.
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Chester L. Adcock
City
Mond
Associated Press
Nashville
Tenn
General Hospital
Adcock
Will Latta
Bill Goodwin
United States
McKinley Davis
Gainesville Man Dies After Beating Incident
Gainesville Ga Dec 31 Howard Hall twenty four died today from injuries after a group in front of his home beat him as he asked for quiet. Police say five men were arrested for drunk and disorderly conduct and an inquest will be held.
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Howard Hall
Associatedress
Gainesville
Hall
Firemen on liner Tahiti strike over Christmas gifts
London Dec 31 firemen aboard the liner Tahiti with three hundred passengers bound for San Francisco went on strike at Sydney Australia after not receiving Christmas delicacies they expected.
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Associated Press
London
D. C
Tahiti
San Francisco
Sydney
Evening News
Federal law urged to bar sending pistols through mail
Dr. Frederick L. Hoffman of Babson Institute urged a federal law to stop mailing pistols and curb indeterminate sentences. He said murder profits encourage killings and that 1924 gun deaths, about seventy percent, were linked to shooting.
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Associated Prea
Kansas City
Frederick L. Hoffman
Babson Institute
Babson Park
Mass
United States
Slayers of Prof Wright Granted 30 Day Respite
Ted Coggeshall and Floyd McClelland were resentenced to death for the murder of Professor W C Wright superintendent of Putnam County schools. Governor Clifford Walker ordered thirty day respites to allow appeal.
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Ted Coggeshall
Floyd McClelland
Associated Press
Atlanta, Ga
Eatonton
W. C. Wright
Putnam County
Clifford Walker
Walker
Syrian bandits attack French in Damascus
A Havas dispatch reports a Tuesday night clash in Damascus as forty bandits entered the city. Two gendarmes and a citizen were killed and three gendarmes wounded before French troops pursued and captured several bandits.
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D Treme
Paris
Damascus
Syria
South Carolina Official Dies of Heart Attack
South Carolina commissioner of agriculture died at his home in Pendleton this morning after suffering a heart attack several days earlier. He was 74 years old and had been in Anderson, S. C., for the past period.
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South Carolina
Pendleton
Associated Press
Anderson, S. C
To the New Year Poem by D G Bickers
Verses promise uncertain gifts from the New Year as the speaker hopes for both challenge and rest. The speaker contemplates danger and pleasure, wishing the year to bring what is best, even if it means pain and toil. The tone is reflective and hopeful.
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D. G. Bickers
New Year Revelers Under Close Observation by Prohibition Agents
Federal officers in New York will man 150 posts to enforce liquor laws as revelers in Boston Philadelphia New York and Atlantic City greet the new year with the Liberty Bell breach radio broadcasts and club surveillance. Prohibition police will mix with crowds in Philadelphia and Atlantic City to uphold the Volstead act.
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New York
Liberty Bell
New ‘Ar
Associated Preas
Boston
Philadelphia
Atlantic City
WIP
Pershing Authorized to Return Home for Treatment
Secretary Kellogg announced President Coolidge authorized General Pershing to return to the United States from Chile for medical and dental treatment. Return date not set. Army reports warn of possible permanent health impairment if he stays abroad.
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Coolidge
Kelloge
Associated Press
Washington, D. C
Kellogg
General Pershing
United States
Chile
Army
Pershing
Arica
State Department
Jha
Gen. Pershing
Mexico
Villan
Col
Robert . Oliver
Army Dental
Nickel Plate merger nets eighty million profit claim
Newton D. Baker arguing for the Nickel Plate merger before the Interstate Commerce Commission contends profits by the Van Sweringens were earned fairly. Opponents assert the group profited by eighty six million dollars.
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Nickel Plate
Newton Baker
van Sweringens
Associated Arena
Washington, D. C
Newton D. Baker
O. P
M. J. van Sweringen
Interstate Commerce Commission
van Sweringen
Conference on agricultural surplus set by secretary
Washington December 31. Secretary Jardine called a conference on agricultural surplus to convene in Washington on January 12. It will inaugurate a series of meetings planned by the secretary for this purpose.
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Jardine
Washington
Agricultre Jardine
Governor Walker to Speak Monday in Waycross
Governor Walker will speak in Waycross on Monday and in Covington on Wednesday as part of a state tour to promote his program for an extra legislative session. He plans to advocate the Confederate script good roads and school bills that will be considered by the upcoming legislature.
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Covington
Associated Presa
Atlanta
Gia
Walker
Waycross
Serun Found From Spleen Says Dr Small Page
London reports Dr Small Page an expert on tropical diseases announces the discovery of an anti tuberculosis serum extract from spleen. The dispatch to the Daily Express from Sydney notes the claim as a breakthrough in tuberculosis control.
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Associated Press
London
Small Page
The
Daily Express
Sydney
New South Wales
Mayor Hylan Resigns to Secure Pension in New York
New York reports at midnight the eight year mayoral regime of John F. Hylan ends as he resigns a day before term completion to protect pension rights. Police Commissioner Richard E. Enright also resigns, with Hylan eligible for 4205 dollars annually and Enright for 5000 dollars.
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Rylan
Enright
Associated Press
New York
John F. Hylan
New York City
Hylan
Richard E. Enright
Mr. Hylan
Mr. En
Four Die As Street Car Plunges Into Waterway
In Tacoma Washington last night an eight foot fall of a street car into the municipal waterway killed four and injured four others. The car, out of control, sped through an open drawbridge and broke on impact. Brakes failing were blamed on the operator Clyde Staley.
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Tacoma
Associated Press
Wash
Clyde Staley
Writ of Superseders Sought in Tampa Kennel Club Case
W B Dickenson attorney for the Tampa Kennel Club sought a writ of superseders from the Florida Supreme Court in Tallahassee to allow a continuance of dog races at the club track despite an injunction. The injunction, obtained by County Solicitor R E L Chancey, called the track a public nuisance.
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Tampa Kennel Club
Tampa Club
Associated Prean
Tampa, Fla
W. B. Dickenson
Tallahassee
Florida Supreme Court
Circuit Court
R. E. L. Chancey
Tenant sues landlord over removed radio antenna in Chicago
Norman T. Brenner sues his landlord for one thousand dollars after the landlord removed a radio receiving antenna from the apartment building to allow a roof transmitting aerial. The incident occurred in Chicago, Illinois, on December 31.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Ill
Norman T. Brenner
Mississippi Leads Nation in Lynchings for 1925
Tuskegee Institute figures show Mississippi had six lynchings in 1925, part of a total 16 nationwide. Florida and Georgia had two each, with Alabama Arkansas Louisiana Missouri Utah and Virginia reporting one apiece.
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Associated Press
Tuskegee
Ala
Mississippi
Union
Commonwealth
Tuskegee Institute
Florida
Georgia
Alabama
Arkansas
Louisiana
Missouri
Utah
Virginia
Economic status of intellectual workers declines after the war
Dr William MacDonald of New York told the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Kansas City that the economic position of a great majority of intellectual workers is worse today than before the war when the cost of living is used as a standard.
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Associated Presse
Kansas City
William MacDonald
New York
American Association For the Advancement of Science
Weather Update Forecast for Tonight and Friday
Fair tonight and Friday with a slight drop in temperatures in the southern coast region. Frost is likely along the coast while inland areas see a slow temperature rise. Northwest and north winds remain moderate throughout.
Indian Princess Abida Refuses Betrothal Until Fourteen
London December 31 Princess Abida thirteen year old granddaughter of Begum of Bhopal India’s only woman ruler is betrothed to Nawab Saraway Ali Khan of Kuwai but the Begum states she will not marry until she is fourteen asserting it is early enough for wifely duties.
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London
Abida
Begum of
Bhopal
India
Nawab Saraway Ali Khan
Kuwai
Begum
Thirty Austrian villages endangered by breaking dam
A dispatch from Oedenburg Burgenland Western Hungary says the Kleinraab dam on the Raab river burst last night threatening thirty villages. An unconfirmed report adds that thirty six miners drowned in flooded salt mines at Maros Ujavary and tax collection has been suspended in affected Hungarian districts.
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Saft
Hungary
Associated Press
Vienna
Austria
Oedenburg
Burgenland
Kleinraab
Raab
Maros
Ujavary
Couzens Fights $9 Million Back Tax Claim
Senator Couzens of Michigan formally appeals a $9 million back tax assessment by the Treasury from Ford Motor Company stock transactions. He says he will pursue the claim through all courts.
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Michigan
Board of Tax Appeals
Associated Press
Washington, D. C
Senator Couzens
Treasury Department
Ford Motor Company
Ford planes damaged in Nashville mishap
Three Ford all metal passenger planes en route to Florida were damaged in an accident in Nashville. No injuries occurred. Pilot Lee F. Schoenhair, taking off in Miss Fort Myers, lost control and crashed into Miss Tampa and Miss Miami on the ground. The fourth plane Miss St. Petersburg was not involved. Parts have been ordered for repairs.
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Associated Press
Nashville, Tenn
Florida
Lee F. Schoenhair
Miss Fort Myers
Miss Tampa
Miss Miami
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