Germany Denies Rearming as Allies Demand Cologne Note
Berlin and Paris report the council of ambassadors unanimously found Germany rearming and directed a note to Berlin stating the Cologne bridgehead will not be evacuated by January 10 under Versailles terms. Developments hinge on the new Reichstag's January 5 assembly and Strausmann era cabinet doubts.
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Berlin
A. P
Allied Council of Ambassadors
Cologne
Ruhr
Paris
Germany
Council of Ambassadors
Marx-Stresemann
Reichstag
Ebert
Wentarp-von Tirpitz
Herriut
Rhineland
London
mMubr
Stresemann
Seaboard
Florida
Washington
Miami
Ady
France omits war debts in treasury balance sheet
Paris reports that France’s war debts to the U S and Britain totaling about 31 billion gold francs are excluded from the liabilities in a finance ministry balance sheet. Interallied debts and Dawes plan annuities appear in assets or are discussed in the inventory, with minister Clementel arguing for France’s special treatment in wartime resource sharing.
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Paris
A. P
France
America
Great Britain
Ministry of Finance
Russia
Dawes
Clementel
Ibanez vows to duel foes over liberty amid Spanish crisis
Mentone France December report quotes Vicente Blasco Ibanez promising to meet in a duel anyone he has personally attacked defending his country’s liberty. Heibanez mentions potential opponents including Alfonso and Primo Rivera while noting no personal battles with substitutes. In Chicago a wealthy importer Gustave Heubach was murdered near his garage, after dinner with his wife and daughter awaiting his return.
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Ibanez
D’ezra
Paris
Thanet
Washington Post
Chicago
Ill
Gustave Heubach
Heubach
Wilkens, Anderson & Co
E. H. Sargent & Co
Downfall of Herriot On Amnesty Averted
Paris reports the premier’s fate avoided as party leaders accept the senate amended amnesty bill. The caucus insists Herriot pledge to reinstate railroad workers dismissed after the 1920 strike and use pardoning power freely. reinstatement remains optional in the bill.
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Paris
A. P
Pecallats
Herriot
Chamber of Deputies
Senate
Socialist Party
Chamber
Premier of Albania Flees to Bari Italy
Rome dispatches report Premier Fan Nolli and most of his cabinet along with Albanian officers have arrived in Bari Italy. Belgrade says Ahmed Zogu has seized Tirana and now dominates the situation as troops backing Noli evacuate Scutari and Elbasan.
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Rome
A. P
Fan
Noll
Albania
Bari
Italy
Belgrade
Tirana
Ahmed Zogu
Fan Noli
Scutari
el Basan
Three year old shoots sister with revolver in Brooklyn
In New York on December 27 a three year old boy, Joseph Picone, found his father's revolver in a bureau top drawer and shot his eight year old sister Beatrice in the abdomen while she searched for him. Beatrice is in critical condition in hospital. The boy's father is a contractor.
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New York
Joseph Picone
Brooklyn
Beatrice
Picone
Joseph
Bob-Haired Bandit Helps In $1600 Bank Hold-Up
A bob-haired young woman and a four man companion aided in holding up and robbing James Butler, a Commercial National Bank messenger, of $1600 today. The money was being taken to the bank from the Cudahy Packing Company.
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Kansas v
Kans
James Butler
Commercial National Bank
Cudahy Packing Company
Belated Honor for Yser Sluice Hero Receives Cross
Brussels report confirms Geerasrts the Belgium sluicekeeper who opened the dike at Yser in 1914 and flooded the battlefield received the Cross of Knight of the Order of Leopold at Bruges hospital on Christmas Day. He revived after the honor and has shown improvement since.
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Brussels
Belgium
Geerasrts
Yser
Order of Leopold
Bruges
Tug Saves Life Crew And Boy On Ice
The crew of a tugboat rescued 17 year old William Lund from an ice cake on Lake Michigan after it broke from shore. Capt. John Anderson and his coast guard crew, whose boat was trapped in floes, helped storm through the ice in frigid conditions and saved Lund despite his frostbitten feet hands and ears.
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Chicago
William Lund
Lake Michigan
Lund
John Anderson
Coast Guard
Coast Guards
Explosive Harbor Blast Kills Fifty in Japan
A dynamite cargo exploded in Otaru harbor, Hokkaido Island, injuring about 300 and killing 50 as 600 cases were transferred from a lighter. One large vessel was damaged, several small boats sunk, and the waterfront wrecked.
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Toyo
A. P
Otaru
Hokkaido Island
Japan
Death mystery near McClintock farm tale unfolds
Chicago dispatch outlines William Nelson McClintock death details as William Shepherd defends actions in Kenilworth home. Shepherd and wife guardianship claim, dispute over typhoid death certificate, and fiancee Isabelle Pope discussed amid coroner notes. Weather shifts and cold wave across Midwest noted on page.
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Chicago
William Nelson McClintock
William Shepherd
Emma Nelson- McClintock
William
Shepherd
George B. Gorman
Joseph P. Bavage
Shepherds
Kenilworth
McClintock
Wifb
Billy
Isabelle Pope
Miss Pope
Oscar Wolff
Young McCintock
State
Chinese Forces Execute 1125 Troops in Kalgan
From Kalgan 120 miles west of Peking comes word of a harsh Christmas era mass execution. About 1126 soldiers were shot for looting over three days by a Christian brigade led by Bris Gen Chang Chih Klang. On Christmas day 359 were executed and 415 yesterday. The men were lined on a railway bridge and shot, then toppled into the water. Chang says only lootters or confessed looters faced death. Hostilities on the Yangtze frontier were dampened by Gen Chi Hsieh Yuan's retreat from Neking.
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Peking
China
Kalgan
Chang Chih-Klang
Yu-Hiang
Chang
Yangtze
Neking
Chi Hsieh-Yuan
Mukden
Shantung-Klingen
Chicago Tribune
Coolidge Plans New Rent Legislation for Washington
President Coolidge prepared to ask Congress to extend and empower the District rent commission. Aimed at regulating rents and resolving disputes between owners and tenants under police power to protect public health and morals. The measure, drafted by Chairman Richard Whaley, mirrors Senator Ball’s earlier bill and seeks constitutionality. Continuous on fourth page.
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Washington
Dtu
Coolidge
Congress
Ball
District of Columbia Committee
Rent Commission
Whaley
Bryan joins pro Darwin society in linked request
William J Bryan applies for membership in the American Association for the Advancement of Science to stay connected with evolution work. A check for the $5 fee arrived but was unsigned, delaying his card until corrected.
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William “J. Bryan
F Army
American Association For the Advancement “of Refence
Bryan
Association
gFam
Darwin
Ruvé
Onto Wesleyan University
Miami
Fla
William I. Bryan
Asso
Advancement of
Science
Mir. Bryan
Fear McCoy Mistrial Declared as Jury Deadlocks
Los Angeles December 27 Apparent deadlock persists in the Kid McCoy murder case jury deliberations. Reported vote stood 7 to 5, judge S Craik warnings that the trial may end in a jury disagreement after costing the county about $25,000.
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Los Angeles
Kid McCoy
Theresa W. Mora
S.craik
Four Dead in Flat From Gas Escape in Brooklyn Home
Four people died from gas in the Brooklyn home of John Harrick. Anna Harrick, 28, and their children Catharine, 9, Jamies, 7, plus Harrick’s brother Allen Berkshire, 40, were found in separate rooms as gas poured from a kitchen fixture. Harrick, unconscious, was taken to a hospital. Neighbors trapped the gas by shutting an appliance valve.
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New York
Brooklyn
John Harrick
Harrick
Anna
Catherine
Jamies
Allen Berkshire
Berkshire
Scotland
Whore Summer Spends The Winter Ad Offer
An odd classified style notice invites readers to write for an illustrated book age and directions. It lists locations such as Aiken, Augusta, Atlanta, and New Orleans, and provides a city ticket window for Southern Railway at 1610 H Street NW with phone numbers Main 6833 and 7063.
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Aiken
Augusta
Atlanta
New Orlans
Southern Railway
H St. A W
Ogden Mills Home Among Four Robbed
Vandals broke into four summer homes in Narragansett Pier Rhode Island last night damaging cedar chests attics and trunks and stealing unknown valuables from the residences of Joachim Heifetz Ogden G Mills S H Valentine and Thomas Dougherty. A secret safe was ripped from the Heifetz home and carried away intact. Caretakers lack inventories and owners were summoned to inspect the damage.
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Narragansett Pier
R. I
Vandala
Joacha Heifetz
Ogden G. Milia
S. H. Valentine
New York
Thomas Dougherty
Philadelphia
Heifetz
France
Buried Under Debris Is Unhurt at KC Building Blast
Aureney Wilkins, 25, colored, survived seven hours trapped beneath debris after a three story building exploded in Kansas City. Rescued by firemen, he described the cold and smiling at his ordeal. Harold Dixon, injured or escaped, said the blast followed Wilkins lighting a cigarette near a gasoline vat as walls began crumbling.
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Kansas City
Aureney Wilkins
Harold Dixon
Wilkins
Lansing Scouts Idea Of Clash With Japan
Lansing comments in Watertown argue Japan cannot wage war on the United States due to lack of money and supplies. He predicts Japan may seize the Philippines but cannot hold them and calls for a stronger navy.
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Lansing
Japan
Watertown
United States
Robert Lansing
Chesen
Philippines
Maryland Electric Rate Cut Ends Impounded Fund
The Potomac Electric Power Company reached a compromise with the Public Utilities Commission ending a seven year dispute over valuation and rates. Effective immediately households pay 7.6 cents per kilowatt hour, up from 6.7 but down 2.4 from 10 cents under prior practice. The impounded 6,000,000 dollars will be partly returned. 3,000,000 dollars to about 70,000 consumers, the rest kept by the company. Distribution begins after a formal decree and is paid with interest from December 21, 1924. The arrangement may extend to Maryland pending authority.
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Public Utilities Commission
Potomac Electric Power Company
Ratea
Commission
Maryland
Virginia
District Supreme Court
Utilities Commission
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