Oil ship in peril after gale off New Jersey coast
A crippled oil tank steamer drifting about 40 miles south of Ambrose light faced uncertain fate as a Spanish vessel Manuel Calvo stood by unable to launch a boat. Reports varied on tow status and loss of life remained unconfirmed amid fierce surf. Beach towns across New Jersey and Long Island suffered extensive damage with hotels, cottages, piers and boardwalks washed away.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Ambrose Channel
Manuel Calvo
Ofd
Sandy , Hook
Proubtang
Here
Calvo
Waseca 7
Caribbean
Bermuda
Deleaware
Pennod
Sandard Oil
New Jersey
Long Island
Seahight
Coney Island
Seabright
Shrewsbury River
Longport
Margate City
Ventnor City
Cape May
Atlanc City
Coney Islaurd
Hockaway Beach
Othe Long Island
Hammels
Edgemere
Great South Bay
Atlantic Ocean
Amityville
New York Harbor
Atlantic
Taken off marooned train
Nine passengers reached San Francisco after being cut off since Monday when a Western Pacific overland bound for the city was stalled in the Feather River Canyon. The storm caused landslides blocking tracks, with aged passengers and children carried from debris over a quarter mile. Cars were dark for two nights and meals were scarce as relief trains began arriving.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Western Pacific Overland
Feather River Canyon
Mayor Joins Hoboes of America Local No 23
Tacoma January 4 Mayor W W Seymour stood with about 50 unemployed men in an abandoned school building and took the oath of allegiance to become a charter member of Local No 23 Hoboes of America. He praised the movement saying any may become mayor one day and that any of them may rise to office. The union defines its members as men unable to find work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tacoma
Wash
W. W. Seymour
Hoboes of America
Seymour
President Wilson Makes Surprise Stop at Biloxi Church
President Wilson visits First Presbyterian Church in Biloxi Miss while on vacation at Pass Christian. The crowd outside cheers as he leaves. the sermon contains no references to the president. His health is reported normal and his golf and vigor indicate renewed strength.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Wilson
Wilson
Bilox
First Presbyterian Church
Presi
Wiliam Megginson
Biloxi
Pasa Christian
Mississippi Sound
Varandas
Pastor Enacts Sex Play in Drama Sermon
Cambridge Massachusetts January 4 Rev Araton T Kempton of Broadway Baptist Church staged a "drama sermon" titled A Wight for Life to teach sex hygiene. The darkened platform featured a physician’s reception and operating rooms with Kempton portraying a doctor and three patients including a blind boy who is the minister’s son.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cambridge
Mais
Araton T. Kempton
Broadway Baptist Church
Kempton
London passenger Alice Rely arrested in Leicester murder case
At Queenstown the Luajtenia halted for mails to New York when Alice Rely alias Clarke of Leicester England was arrested in connection with a child murder case in Leicester.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Luajtenia
Queenstown
Liverpool
New York
Alice Rely
Clarke
Leicester
England
Seven Lost With Schooner Jonia Off Halifax
A wireless from Sable Island reports the Nova Scotian schooner Jonia wrecked near Halifax with its captain and six crew members lost. Debris from the ship has washed ashore, indicating a total loss of the vessel and crew.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Halifax
N.S
Sable Island
Jonia
District Heads Seek Conference On Washington Reserve Bank
District leaders push Washington as a Federal reserve bank site. Siddons and Harding pledge support if the plan proves Washington qualifies, while Newman declines comment. Clearing House Committee to present arguments to the organization next week and Treasury officials McAdoo and Houston prepare to hear bankers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Siddons
Col. Harding
Reserve Institution
Washington
Newman
Mankers’ Clearing House Committee
Public hearings in New York and Boston on bank location
A committee, accompanied by two private secretaries and a stenographer, holds hearings at the chamber of commerce in New York the first four days of the week, hearing arguments from New York bankers and officials, plus delegates from Jersey City, Newark, Albany, Buffalo and upstate New York. The last two days are in Boston to hear New England claims for and against a bank location. The panel will return to Washington to choose two Federal districts and two Federal reserve cities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Clearing House Association
Washington
Federal Reserve Banks
Siddons
Harding
White
Gettle
Treasury Department
Newman
Clearing House Committee
Commercial National Bank
Organization Committee
Tha
Witte
Federal Reserve Board
McAdoo
Houston
Bankera
Reserve Bank Organization Committee
New York
Federal Reserve
Chamber of Commerce
New ‘York
Jersey City
Newark
Albany
Lluffal
Boston
Hoston
Mrs La Follette Speaks Against Segregation in DC
Mrs. La Follette wife of Senator La Follette Wisconsin addressed about ending segregation in street cars and public departments before 1,080 attendees at the Twelfth Street YMCA urging Negroes to persist in protest and insisting public places must ride all lines without caste. She cited her magazine articles and argued civil service should not endorse unequal treatment, contrasting with Southern resistance. Albert Shoemaker followed on saloons in the District noting most police court prisoners are colored.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Me Case la Follette
Senator la Follette
Wisconsin
Twelfth Street
Aia
U. S
Civic Service
Congress
Shoemaker
William ‘Knowles| Cooper
la Follette
Nevai Thomas
Porch Thieves Take $15,000 in Jewels at Ackerman Home
Special to The Washington Post reports porch climbers raided the Plainfield New Jersey residence of Ernest R. Ackerman, once a New Jersey state senator, stealing jewelry valued at $15,000. A watcher alerted Ackerman who phoned police. intruders fled before officers arrived.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Post
New York
Ernest R. Ackerman
Plainfield
N. J
Ackerman
National Jewish Hospital Trustees Meet in Cleveland
Final session of the National Jewish Hospital trustees in Cleveland closed with a gift of 350000 for a new medical building from President Samuel Grabfelder of Philadelphia. The board reelected Grabfelder and all incumbent officers as he urged a million-dollar endowment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Jewish Hospitalees
Cleveland
National Jewish Hospital For Consuim
Denver
Samuel Grabfelder
Philadelphia
Gratfelder
Board of Trustees
Grabfelder
Mother Jones deported from Trinidad Colorado
Mary Jones a famed labor leader was deported from Trinidad by militia orders. A guard met her at the depot and escorted her back to the train then to Walisenburg the zone limit. She planned to return to Denver vowing resistance. Colorado National Guard unit ordered to Ori Creek to handle the coal strike.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colorado
Trinidad
Colo
Mary Jones
Adjt
Chase
Jones
Andr
Walisenburg
Denver
Cola
John McLennon
Colorado State Federation of Labor
Ori Creek
Portrait startles Newport in private showing
William Homer Leavitt, former husband of Ruth Bryan, displayed a striking painting titled The picture of my wife by myself to friends in Newport. Leavitt and his wife, now visiting his parents in Pelham arrest, plan a lecture tour of the Southern States after leaving Newport. Leavitt’s wife is a doctor of music with Oberlin credentials. her father is a Baptist clergyman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leavitt
Ruth Bryan
Newport
William Homer Leavitt
William J. Bryan
Aston L. Leavitt
Pelham
Oberlin
Headless Horseman Stunt Ends In Injury In Town
An employee of John J. Rockefeller, Jenn William Baj Jay, attempted a heads.down carriage ride after reading Irving. At 2 AM he rode a horse through village streets with head down. The horse stumbled on brick pavement, threw him, dislocating his hip and inflicting a deep cut to the head. He is hospitalized.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rockefeller
Washington
Watrytown
John J. Rosketeter
Irving
Bailey
Tragic Castle Is Plundered After Murders
In Berlin on January 4, burglars broke into the sealed chamber of the murdered countess at Dagowymokre castle. They ransacked the bedroom, stole jewelry and money, left their tools behind, and are believed to seek hidden documents connected to the Mielzynski murders. Police seal remains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Post
Berlin
Dagowymokre
Mielzynski
Sea Rate War Is Started Between Hamburg and Baltimore
North German Lloyd and Hamburg American lines clash over steerage passenger shares sparking a transatlantic pool dispute. Hamburg American lowers immigrant fare to 27 from 33 to Baltimore, with Schumacher & Co confirming the same rate for North German Lloyd’s immigrant travel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North German Lloyd Company
Hamburg
Baltimore
Washington
New York
Lloyd Lines
Hnes
Hne
New Orleans
Rubens Adoration of the Kings Stolen from Nova lesa Church
A Rubens painting titled Adoration of the Kings has been stolen from the Church of Nova lesa near Suga. The artwork, once part of a Napoleon collection, is unaccounted for with no trace of the thieves found.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Napoleon L
Turin
Rubens
Novalesa
Suga
Napoleon
West Virginia martial law condemned in Borah report
Senator Borah issues a scathing statement as the West Virginia Cabin Creek and Paint Creek strike era is reviewed. He asserts military courts superseded civil courts from 1917 to 1918, with arrests and trials without grand jury indictments or state law guidance, while civil courts remained open. The report accuses court martial proceedings of ignoring constitutional rights and enforcing punishments beyond statutory limits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cabin
Paint Creek
West Virginia
Cabin Creek
Borah
Senate
Swanson
Shields Martin
Wenyon
Drenarailargé de Ortien
Uhpheaie
Iy Aero “Ee Tks
Recommendat Ong
Fedarad
Special Committee
Martine
Kenyon
United States
Auc
Page wide index of today’s issue with varied items
A dense index lists stories and features across pages, including politics, social issues, obituaries, court actions, races, and international notes. It mentions J-Shiur’s fate, church leaders, segregation debates, suffrage, deaths, reorganizations, strikes, battles near Vera Cruz, prizes, Berlin, London, and other items, all framed as a catalog of contents for the issue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J—Shiur
Reserve Bank
la Folletta
Jessie McCann
New Haven
Mme. Chermont
Jease R. Grant
R. H. Hamilton
Weir Mitchell
Malla Colossal
Vera Cruz
Princesa Cecelie Enlivans
Berlin
London
Holland
News of Alexandria
Daniels Sage
Blind boys play hockey at Perkins Institution
Blind boys at the Perkins Institution for the Blind in Watertown have taken up ice hockey. A Dell is attached to the puck and, guided by heightened senses, they follow the puck keenly and avoid accidents as they play.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Perkins Institute
Watertown
Boston
Perkins Institution For the Blind
Missing Brooklyn woman found near Coney Island
The body of Jesse E. McCann, a Brooklyn settlement worker missing since December 4, was found washed ashore at Coney Island during a storm. A signet ring with initials J H M and her clothing aided identification. Police report no signs of violence and lack a clear cause of death. A witness story places her near a bathing pavilion the day after her disappearance. Her father offered a $1,000 reward and publicized her photo in theatres.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Jesse E. McCann
Brooklym
Coney* Island
Aliss McCann
Poice
Misa McCann
Coney Island
Miss McCann
Bryan Prays to Avert War With Mexico
Secretary Bryan, in Lincoln, urges the peace movement to prevent war with Mexico. He expresses a wish for soldiers to live rather than die for their country. He plans to Topeka for a talk and will speak in Lincoln on the New Era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico
Lincoln
Neb
Bryan
Topeka
Kan
Tomarrow
Chamber of Commerce of
Linleon
Sulzer Returns to Albany in Quiet Reentry
William Sulzer arrives in Albany as a backslapped assemblyman, greeted by baggageman Frank Robbina who salutes him as Mr Governor. In Brussels, Capt. Paul Kreibohm earns the Order of the Crown for rescuing Volturno passengers after last October’s fire at sea.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Albany
Nwn
William Sulzer
Frank Robbina
Mr. Sulzer
Volturno
Brussels
Albert
Paul Kreibohm
Kroowand
the Crown
Wvery
Pagsengers
Midocean
Railroad Chief to Meet Mac Reynolds in Washington
New Haven Railroad chairman Hiifott travels to Washington tomorrow to discuss possible reorganization aimed at ending the antitrust dispute. Attorney General McReynolds is expected to demand more concessions, including competition on Rhode Island service and potential sale moves involving Boston and Maine and Boston and Albany routes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rhode Island
Haag
Boston
Maine
New York Central
Hiifott
New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company
Washington
New Haven
Department of Justice
Elliott
Ellicott
Telephone Trust
Boston and Albany
Bee
Outelda Steamship Lines
New Yo
West
South
New England
Boston and Maine
Fitchbag
Massachusetts
New Hampshire
Vermonts
Fitchburg
Troy
New York
Philadelphia
Albany
Long Island Sound
Old
New England Railroad
Connecticut
McReynolds
Headless Body in Surf Believed to Be Aviator Jewell
The torso found at Holgemere Long Island is thought by police to be aviator Albert J. Jewell who disappeared after departing Hempstead Plains on October 13 to fly around Manhattan. Identification is uncertain. clothing shows unusual fabric and a brain buckle belt. He was last seen above Edgemere being swept out to sea by a strong wind.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Albert J. Jewell
Holgemere
L. I
Jewell
Hempstead Plaina
Staten Island
Mahattan Island
Edgemere
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Ocean
Atlantic City
Delaware Resorts Surfer
Withineton
Del
Rehoboth
Dewey Beach
Bay End
Cape Henlopen
Norfolk Va
Hampton Roads
Lynnhaven Bay
Fuller Palmer
Grace A. Martin
Rebecca Palmer
Prescott Palmer
Dorothy Farmer
Edward J. Lawrence
Eleanor A. Percy
Mayor
Hobo Union
Board of Commissioners
George W. White
Special Clearing House
Pyowa
Sidgers
Ses Tailer
Brown Prince
Germany
Zaborn
Frederick
von Reuter
Peterman Woldieta
Frankfurter Zeitung
la Foliette
Jersey
Militia
Sulzer
Elliott IS
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