Porto Rico inquiry demanded over island finances and bonds
A citizens committee petitions President Coolidge and plans to urge Congress to investigate alleged election frauds and misused funds in Porto Rico. The protest claims the island's finances collapsed from a prior favorable trade balance, cites budget increases, debt, and questioned governor's reports while demanding no more bonds until claims are heard.
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Porto Rico
Citizens’ Committee of Natives
Coolidge
Congress
Coll Cuchi
House of Representatives
Cuchi
Island
House
Senate
Tong Chief Arraigned Wearing Armor in Extortion Case
Chin Jack Lem, alleged Hip Sing tong leader, was arraigned in Cleveland after being brought from New York. He pleaded not guilty to two counts of extortion involving about 70 000 dollars of real estate from Wong Sing, president of the On Leong tong. Bond set at 15000 dollars.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Chin Jack Lem
New York
Wong Sing
On Leong Tong
Gompers Disagrees With Wife in Probate Wills
The death of Samuel Gompers prompts probate filings showing two wills. The September 1921 will favored wife Gertrude A. Gompers, while a November 8 supplement cut her bequest and left most of the estate to granddaughters Henr ietta and Ethel Mitchell and his three sons. The second will limits his widow to a minimum share unless she is his lawful wife at death. Capt. Julius J. Peyser represents Gertrude A. Gompers and says the second will was a surprise.
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Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Gertrude Greaves Neuscheler
Samuel J
Henry
Alexander J Gompers
Thirty-fifth Street
Julius J. Peyser
Peyser
U S Missionaries Flee Bandits Amid Chinese Capture News
Special cable dispatch from Peking reports bandits capturing Kaihsien in Henan. Augustana synod missionaries reach Suchow after sackings, including Misses Colberg Johnson Lawson Nyastol and Rev Vikner family. Several others previously held or escaped. American legation monitors growing danger in Honan.
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Kaihsien
Peking
Henan
Augustana Synod
Suchow
Colberg and Johnson
IlLinois
Thyra Lawson
Jamestown
N. Y
Ingeborg Nystol
D. W. Vikner
Meade
Neb
Vikner
Minnie Benson
Red Wing
Mion
Miss Nyastul
Lundeen
Elizabeth Beratuna
Kaihsten
Carl Forsberg
Molin Neill
Anton Lundeen
Honan
Hayes confesses killing on operating table
Denver dispatches report John A. Hayes at Fitzsimmons hospital confessed to killing a man in Hueyville Kentucky during a November 27 operation. He claimed he believed he was dying and urged the doctor not to give more ether, saying he must tell his tale. Hayes cited a wife and child in Hueyaville.
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Denver
John A. Hayes
Fitzsimmons Hospital
Hueysville
R. C. Kirkwood
Doc
Hayes
Hueyaville
Paris
President to Confer on Inaugural Plans
President Cookage will talk tomorrow with the joint congressional committee handling inaugural ceremonies. He is expected to outline his wishes for a dignified yet simple program and may name a chairman for the citizens’ committee. A ceremonial parade from Capitol to the White House appears likely with the president’s approval. The Senate trio includes Curtis, Hale, and Overman. the House members are Griest Hadley and Rouse.
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Cookage
Joint Congressional Committee
Coolidge
Citizens’ Committee
White House
Congressional Committee
Albert B. Cummins
Iowa
Senate
Curtis
Kansas
Hale
Maine
Overmen
North Carolina
House
Griest
Pennsylvania
Hadley
Washington
Rouse
Kentucky
Only 600 Left of 2,000 Sent to Fight Moors
Tetuan Morocco December 20 Six hundred men remain of a regiment of 2,000 rushed to Morocco in the fighting against the Moors. They embarked today to spend Christmas in Spain with their families. Lieut. General Temprano commanded the regiment and was killed. Of the officers only one remains unhurt. the rest are dead or wounded.
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Tetuan
Morocco
Spain
Gol. Temprano
Tree Crashes Bus Killing Five Injuring Two Near Chehalis
Five people died and two were injured when a tree fell across a Norton to Chehalis bus 22 miles east of Chehalis Washington today. The dead include Dean Shuler an unidentified seven year old boy a man named Chapman W M Kiser and Buck Belcher. The injured are Mrs Osborne of Centralia and Ray Belcher. They were taken to a Chehalis hospital.
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Tacoma
Wash
Chehalis
Norton
Chehalie
Dean Shuler
Chapman
W. M. Kiser
Buck Belcher
Osborne
Centralia
Ray Belcher
Statue of Laddie Boy To Be Memorial Here
The statue of Laddie Boy, Harding White House pet, made from pennies donated by newsboys nationwide, will go to the Smithsonian as a memorial to President Harding. Nearly 15,000 pennies have been given, with expected total reaching about 25,060 by April.
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Boston
Laddie Boy
White House
Harding
United States
Smithsonian Institution
Washington
Newsboys
Roosevelt Newsboys' Association
Florida East
West Coast
Seaboard Afr
Aeidth St NW
Malin
Wreck on Chippewa Falls Trestle Kills and Injures
A passenger train derailed on the Chippewa Falls trestle over the Chippewa river. Seven killed, eight injured, three missing as the last coach plunged into icy water. Identified dead include Mrs. Harry Jones and Charles M. Pardoe. Continued report notes unidentified woman among the victims and hospital conditions.
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Chippewa Fails
Wis
Minneapolis, St. Paul
Sault Ste. Marie
Chippewa River
Harry Jones
Sioux City
Iowa
Charles M. Pardoe
Minneapolis
Barbara Spencer
M. L. Spencer
Seattle
Kenneth J. Henderson
Moosejaw
Sask
Florence Higgs
Richard W. Sharp
Toronto
St. Joseph's Hospital
John T. Dunne
Riverside Drive
New York City
Marion Lawson
Wash
Alma Blixt
Fond du Lac
Soo Lina
Sam Curtiss
St. Paul
John Lewis
Spencer
School of Journalism
University of Washington
Chippewa Falls
Congress Adjourns for Holiday Recess Amid Uncertain Program
Congress ends for a holiday recess with a uncertain legislative agenda. The Senate heads into Muscle Shoals debates and the House pushes three of nine annual supply measures including Interior and Agricultural appropriations. A veto vote on the postal pay raise is delayed until January 6.
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Congress
Senate
Muncle Shoals
House
Treasury Post Office
France
Canada
Netherlands
Panama
Isle of Pines
Cuba
Senate Committee On Post Offices
Sterling
Mother Prays for Son’s Life Reprieve by Court Error
In Columbus Ohio on December 20 a mother's prayers spared Joseph Clarence Kane from immediate execution for murder. A mistaken stay tied to Norman G Kendall’s fine led Chief Justice Carrington C Marshall to delay Kane's death by 20 days, granting a reprieve and letting him live until after Christmas. The governor had denied a further request to postpone electrocution.
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Columbus
Ohio
Joseph Clarence Kane
State Penitentiary
Carrington C. Marshall
Ohio Supreme Court
Kane
Paul Prologe
Gov. Donahey
Norman
G. Kenndall
Nemo Theater
Cleveland
Donshey
Midwest Cold Wave Leaves 23 Dead Across States
A deep winter storm grips the middle West with sub zero temperatures and widespread outages. Dozens of fatalities are linked to overheated stoves and accidents, with Milwaukee Detroit Chicago Kansas City and St Louis among hard hit areas. Crews work to clear downed wires and restore rail and communications as forecasters warn of lingering cold through Christmas week.
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Weather Bureau
Washington
Virginia
Middle West
Chicago
Milwaukee
Michigan
Oklahoma
St. Louis
Detroit
Kansas City
Kansas
Ohio
Coolidge Party Fords Potomac Cruise
President and Mrs Coolidge left Washington for an over Sunday cruise down the Potomac aboard the Mayflower. They planned to sail to Quantico and return, then head downstream again, with John Coolidge joining later. Guests included Gore, William Allen White and Mrs White, Col George Harvey and Mrs Harvey, Logan Payne and Mrs Payne, Mr and Mrs David Lawrence, Eugene Meyer Jr and Mrs Meyer.
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England
Seized British Schooner J. Duffy Delayed Hearing
New London Conn Dec 20. Hearing for crew of the British schooner J Duffy seized as a rum runner off Corfield shoals postponed to January 3 to allow legal counsel. Liquors aboard the J Duffy valued at about 860000 dollars, the largest seizure in Connecticut waters.
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New London
Conn
J. Duffy
Coast Guard Yeassl
Corfield
U 3
Earl Mathewson
J. Duity
Connecticut
Mexico City Cancels Large Loan Contract
Mexico City announces cancellation of a 50 million dollar loan contract intended for the Mexican government. Secretary Pain relayed to the Mexican consul general in New York to notify J. L. Arlitt, Austin banker, that the contract is void due to the loan time frame being overdue.
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Mexico City
A. P
J. L. Arlitt
Austin
Texas
Treasury
Pain
New York
Man Struck by Auto Left in Road Near Waldorf Md
Bernard H. Wilson of 1806 Kearney Street Northeast is in critical condition at Emergency Hospital after a car hit him from behind on a State highway. Police say the other auto speed was terrific. Wilson was repairing his car when struck. prognosis is poor. Maryland authorities notified. He was found unconscious and brought to hospital.
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Bernard H. Wilson
Kearney Street
Waldorf
Wilson
Wilton
Maryland
Motorista
Bandits loot New York jeweler in tense hold up
Three robbers seized a New York upper Broadway jewelry store, taking valued goods over 10 000 dollars. They paused to "wait on trade" twice, imprisoned the proprietors a clerk and a man customer in a back room before fleeing.
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New York
Myan
Right to wed foster daughter denied in Iowa case
Special to The Washington Post Cedar Rapids Iowa December 20 The district court refused to compel the county clerk to issue a marriage license to James G Bennett 40 a Jones county farmer and his 18 year old adopted daughter Evah Bennett The clerk refused citing the lack of blood relationship yet legal guardianship A mandamus was denied and Bennett plans to appeal to the state supreme court Evah has lived in the Bennett household since she was ten
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Washington Post
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
James G. Bennett
Jones County
Evah Bennett
District Court
Bennett
Amundanus
Supreme Court
Miss Bennett
Three Men Die From Gas in Michigan Garage
In Flint on December 20 three men were found dead in a garage between Flint and Holly from carbon monoxide poisoning. The deceased are Harold Duberville 21 Fred Wagner 23 and William Brown 20. Duberville’s father discovered the scene and had visited to check on last night’s work progress.
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Flint, Mich
Here
Holly
Harold Duberville
Fred Wagner
William Brown
Duberville
Weeks Approves Bridge Plan for Golden Gate
Secretary of War Weeks approves with conditions a plan to bridge the Golden Gate, the harbor entrance at San Francisco. Estimated cost is $21,000,000. The telegram noting approval was received today.
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Weeks
Golden Gate
San Francisco
San Francisco Harbor
Ibanez Challenged by Editor to a Duel in Open Letter
Regina Varela, director of the royalist weekly Major Quia, challenges Blasco Ibanez to a duel after his revolt remarks against King Alfonso. Varela plans to confront Ibanez in Paris or Mentone, promising public insult or honor in the eyes of his countrymen. Ibanez, resting on the Riviera, is expected to accept if insult moves him to respond.
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Madrid
Regina Varela
Major Quia
V Blasco Ibanez
Englsh
Ibanez
Alfonso Senor Varela
France
Senor Ibanez
Paris
Mentone
Senor Varela
Hving
Blasco Thanez
Riviera
The
Chicago Tribune
Building wage board hikes several navy yard jobs
The navy wage board approved by Assistant Secretary Theodore D. Robinson announces modest boosts for 68 occupations and small cuts for three, with 364 rates unchanged. Local civilians gain in telegraphing, laundry, electricians, woodworkers, and others, while machinists in Washington Navy Yard see a raise to 82 cents an hour. CONTINUED ON SIXTH PAGE.
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Navy Departmental
Secretary of Navy
Theodore Douglas Robinson
Marine Corps Clothing
Philadelphia
Naval Clothing
New York
Washington Navy Yard
N. P Alitag
International Association of Machinists
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