Albert abandons effort to form German ministry
Dr Heinrich F Albert ends attempts to form a cabinet at President Eberts request due to lack of reichstag support. Ebert shifts to negotiating a five party bloc excluding socialists, aiming for a center nationalist coalition while facing opposition from Kommunists and Socialists.
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Associated Press
Berlin
Germany
Heinrich F. Albert
Ebert
German Peoples Party
Sj Calllets
Democrats
Kentucky Governor Named as Member Railway Labor Board
Governor Edwin P. Morrow of Kentucky has been appointed by President Coolidge to join the public group of the railroad labor board, succeeding R. M. Barton. Morrow will assume duties after his term ends next month, following a recess appointment previously held by Judge Barton under Harding.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
Edwin P. Morrow
Kentucky
Collidge
R. M. Barton
Railroad Labor Board
Harding
Morrow
Judge Barton
White House
Rovertnor
Northern Pacific Plans Three Year Improvement Program
President Donnelly testified before the Interstate Commerce Commission in Minneapolis detailing a speculative three year plan by the Northern Pacific railway with a projected expenditure of 56 million dollars. He described how rail rate reductions could boost efficiency of grain and hay transport.
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Associated Press
Minneapolis
Minn
Northern Pacific Railway
Donnelly
Interstate Commerce Commission
Northwestern Railroad
Deficit Wiped Out For Republican National Committee
The 1926 deficit of about 1.5 million dollars for the Republican National Committee was announced as cleared. C H Huston of Tennessee stated the news at a Republican regional conference. London reports indicate widespread three cornered contests in party nominations with about 240 such contests.
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Associated
Trenton
New Jersey
Republican National Committee
C. H. Huston
Tennessee
Associated Press
London
Brothers Charged In Bank Slayings In Brooklyn
Morris Diamond and his brother Joseph were charged with homic ide in the November 14 holdup and murder of two bank employees in Brooklyn. After police grilling they were booked at the Brooklyn station. Morris was arrested in Cleveland and Joseph surrendered here. The robbery yielded forty three thousand dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
New York
Morris Diamond
Joseph
West End
Brooklyn
Morris
Cleveland
Los Angeles Man Shot by Bandits Dies Hours Later
Charles A. Chapman a 25 year old insurance salesman was shot and killed by three automobile bandits after they stopped his car and forced him and a female companion from the vehicle He offered no resistance and died an hour later Three men are being held in connection with the shooting Assistant Press report from Los Angeles California dated November 27 1927.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Associated Press
Calif
Charles A. Chapman
Chine
Chapman
Cockburn Ordered Returned to Iowa After Habeas Ruling
Russel J. Cockburn, sought in Des Moines on an indictment for complicity in an $80,000 city payroll shortage, was denied a writ of habeas corpus by the St. Louis court of appeals. He will be remanded to Des Moines sheriff for return to Iowa, with plans to seek state supreme court review to block removal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
ST. Louis
Russel J. Cockburn
Des Moines
Iowa
Hollywood Attorney Pleads Not Guilty in Hush Money Case
Hollywood attorney Her man L. Roth pleaded not guilty to the charge of attempted extortion. His trial is set for January 22. He is accused of pressuring the manager of Barbara LaMarr to obtain hush money by threatening to file a divorce suit naming LaMarr and thirty seven Hollywood motion picture colony members as co respondents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Herman L. Roth
Hollywood
Roth
Barbara LaMarr
Film Recevers
Hollywood Motion Pictures Colony
Johnson Opens Presidential Campaign in Chicago
Hiram Johnson announced from Chicago that he will open his campaign for the presidential nomination with Frank Hitchcock of New York as campaign manager. Hitchcock said Chicago would be the central headquarters, with Johnson planning to return east briefly before coming back to establish the campaign center. Johnson is expected to outline general platforms including foreign exchange and taxation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Hiram Johnson
Frank Hitchcock
New York
California
Hitchcock
Johnson
Funeral for Clifford Thorne Draws Statewide Notables
Prominent men from across the state attend the funeral of Clifford Thorne. Attendees likely include A. Sykes of Ida Grove, longtime Corn Belt Meat Producers attorney, and Henry A Wallace of Des Moines, publisher of Wallace's Farmer. Service at the Methodist church begins at two o clock with a brief, simple ceremony. The body lay in state at Jones & McElhinney funeral home and the casket will not be opened at the church.
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Clifford Thorne
A. Sykes
Ida Grove
Corn Belt Meat Producers Association
Mr. Thorne
Henry A Wallace
Des Moines
Wallace’s Farmer
Methodist
Jones & McElhinney Funeral Home
Iowan Wins Husking Boat Iowa State Title Match
John Rickleman of Mt Hamill Iowa won the Iowa Illinois interstate corn husking title at the Newlin farm near Des Moines He husked 44.6 bushels in two hours twenty minutes, beating H D Paul of Ipawn who husked 40.5 in the same time Rickleman received a $50 prize from Wallace’s Farmer and a corn husking machine company The contest was billed as the first interstate husking event in the United States and organizers hope to continue it next year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Tress
Des Moines
H. Db. Paul
Ipawn
Diber
John Rickleman
Mt. Hamill
Iowa
Newlin Farm
Rickleman
Wallace
United States
Capture of Foreign Rum Runner Tomako
The Tomako, a British-flagged rum runner, was seized off the New Jersey coast. Coast guard officials see the action as expanding treasury regulations on smugglers beyond the three mile limit while treasury officials insist the seizure followed existing rules and will continue where evidence shows contact with shore creating a nuisance in American waters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Tomako
New Jersey
Coast Guard
Treasury
Mrs W N White of Crawtfords ville Wes visitor
Mrs. W N White of Crawfordsville Wes is visiting today, staying with local friends and touring nearby sites.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. N. White
Crawtfordsville
Annual multi-state competition expands reach
The event grows this year with more states joining the annual competition. Rickleman, age 28, resides on a farm in Lee County, highlighting the rural participation in the event's broadened scope.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rickleman
Lee County
Stormy Time in Oklahoma
Rebuked by leaders for insincerity in anti-Ku Klux Klan measures members of both houses of the legislature convened to renew discussion of proposed legislation. A bitter fight is foreseen as opposition holds the whip and the controversy spreads to the lower house amid plans to regulate secret organizations in Oklahoma.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
Condition of German Masses Pictured as Pathetic
Berlin reports hunger and fuel shortages amid unemployment and rations. Municipal kitchens operate. free fuel limited by cards. Riots attract non German youth. Moscow influence debated. Despite bumper crops, currency collapse and transport failures block distribution. public anger at Reichstag leaders grows. Continued discussion of Ruhr resistance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thy
Associated Press
Berlin
Hartley and McCoy Headlines From Shipping and Rum Stories
New York reports Herbert Hartley, once shipmates with William McCoy, now captain of the Leavithan sailing into dock after a record western Atlantic crossing. Meanwhile McCoy, captain of the Tamarko, spent twenty thousand dollars to pay two liquor smuggling charges, joking that both have made their mark as leaders in their fields.
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Associated Press
New York
Herbert Hartley
William McCoy
Saratoga
Leaviathan
Atlantic Ocean
Hartley
Iowa Senator Cummins Weighs Roles In Senate Leadership
Iowa Senator Cummins faces a leadership decision as he weighs whether to stay as president pro tempore and chairman of the Interstate Commerce Committee or relinquish one post. Republican and progressive factions debate organization and railroad legislation ahead of the 68th Congress. Senator Lodge of Massachusetts and President Coolidge discuss Senate and House futures as party lines form.
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Associated Press
Washington
Cummins
Iowa
Senate
Interstate Commerce Committee
Lodge
Massachusetts
House
Washington, D. C
LaFollette
Wisconsin
Congress
Senator Lodge
Coolidge
D. C
Brookhart Claim Questioned at Kansas City Meet
In Kansas City on November 27 1929 George G Bordman secretary of the western railway presidents committee on public relations challenged Senator Brookhart to confirm whether he would support legislation to pay railroads more than one billion dollars the government had recommended over three years in earnings and rates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bres
Kansas City
United States
Brookhart
George G. Bordman
Western Railway
Kansas City Bar Association
Doctors Quit Connecticut to Avoid Lawsuit
Hartford reports several physicians fled Connecticut as an extraordinary grand jury probes Missouri fake diploma mills used to grant medical licenses. Process servers struggle to locate some doctors for questioning as Dr. George Sutcliffe denies confessing to governor Pinkleton after a patient died during an ether anesthesia and finger amputation.
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Associated Preas
Hartford
Conn
Connecticut
Missouri
George FE. Sutcliffe
Ben
Pinkleton
Filipinos Pass Bill Over Veto of General Wood
In Manila on November 27 the Philippine legislature unanimously overrode Governor General Wood's veto on a delinquent land tax remittance bill. The measure moves to Washington for President Coolidge's approval.
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General Wood
Coolidge
Associated Press
Manilla
Wood
Phillipine
Washington
Collidge
Coolidge Seeks Philippine Self Rule Based on Readiness
President Coolidge expresses a stance that the United States should withdraw from the Philippines when local people are capable of self government. He notes the goal is to ensure responsible independence and cites ongoing progress toward that end.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Coolidge
United States
Petit jurors excused in Boyd case to return Monday
Jurors not called in the Boyd trial were excused and ordered to report next Monday at 1 39 PM. The brief postponement delays the proceedings as legal teams prepare further.
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Petit
Boyd
Hanrahan to be returned to South Dakota
John Hanrahan, held at Fort Dodge Iowa, will be shipped to Huron South Dakota to face charges of shooting two policemen. Governor Kendall approved a requisition for the prisoner as announced. Hanrahan is linked to an alleged jail delivery on September 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Des Moines
John HanrAhan
Fort Dodge
Iowa
Huron
South Dakota
Kendall
Hanrahan
Ford Men Called to Meet in Des Moines
Francis G. Cutler announces a December 3 meeting in Des Moines for Iowa Ford For President supporters to choose delegates for a national Ford For President gathering in Detroit on December 12. He says both major parties betrayed the people and Ford’s nomination is needed to save the country from bankruptcy.
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Associated Press
Des Moines
Iowa
Henry Ford
Francis G. Cutler
Joone
Ford
Detroit
Cutler
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Philippines
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